It’s a Saturday in mid-summer 2023 and the moon will renew in the sign of Gemini at 26 degrees. Saturn is also about to start its first retrograde period. Which is why I came back to revisit these horoscopes.
The years spent with Saturn moving through the constellation of Pisces tell us about looking inside the walls of our own perception, the interior friction related to events that appear bigger than us, that we are part of, but that we just don’t – yet – know about. It’s about tending the ear to what’s going on inside. The quiet unseen.
This saturnian transit will last three years, starting 7-8 March 2023 (depending on your time zone) until mid – February 2026. As Saturn moves in the sky, it will make contact with different parts of the zodiac, which means it will make contact with different parts of you.
As we move through the elements Saturn has been in contact with, from air to water, from bearing the flow to releasing the tides, we are also asked move the gaze from browsing and mapping dots through the structure of the mind, to a more internal stillness of sensations. To dreams. To daydreaming.
Moving with Saturn in Pisces means seeing, but not just with the eyes. It’s seeing through imagination.
You have 2 years and 8 months to understand how Saturn is showing up in a particular area of your life and where you can meet yourself with renewed perspective. You don’t need to know everything right now, but to stay in observation. Confusion is a thing, too. And when it gets overwhelming, remember you can always rely on your water and earth peers. That’s why astrology is here for.
Pisces risings
This is the time where you find yourself dealing with a new reality. You’re literally just unspiraling from a long night rest and dealing with the suddenness of a new day. Without coffee. Can you remember your dreams? What was the dreamscape like before reaching to your phone? Antidote: Time yourself before time does it. Start timing yourself in the kitchen, in the bathroom, in the store, on the phone, even on the internet. You’re being asked about how you’re spending your time. You’re moving with time. And changing with it and being changed by it. In a world that doesn’t know how to exist without numbers. Thank you for showing us how time changes as you change.
Now read all this paragraph again substituting the word time with the word flow.
Aries risings
You have one last shift left. It’ll be revealed in your night dreams. In the past, perhaps. Or handed by previous generations of yourself. You’ll meet those missing pieces in person. Through wandering and traveling and more wandering and erratic spins. It might not make any sense. Sailing deep seas without knowing how to and meeting new creatures. You will be forever changed, and you’ll bring change with it. Bring us with you. Your battles are not to conquer, but to rediscover.
And let us know the name of your battleship.
Taurus risings
Time to flourish at your own pace. And then show us how. Send us the updated version of your new lifestyle.
Gemini risings
Time to go public about your dreams. One outcome at a time. How would you like to be seen? What is a vision and an identity that supports you, as well? What is your story of visibility
What name did you pick for yourself?
Cancer risings
Show us how to dream worlds and then show us how to pray for those worlds. Show us the way to speak into structures. Show us the places to wander against what’s holding our intimate and recreational time. Who’s deciding on our time? Show us the questions and the spaces where sleep and dreams merge and where true meaning hides. Show us how a new structure is possible. Show us how to move with the body, with bodies. On earth. In the galaxy. Let us seek inside those mysteries that hold knowledge withheld over a time that is not our time.
Antidote: make copies of keys that gatekeep that knowledge
Leo risings
Time to find a new way to perceive yourself. Then tell us how.
Virgo risings
Time to push against time. Or pull it towards you. Then send your lovers and ex lovers a letter. Lawyers, included.
Libra risings
Time to make mistakes and make them beautiful.
Scorpio risings
This time is for perception. Bodily sensations. Change of perspective. It’s a time for pulling yourself out of other peoples’ dictation on time. It’s deciding to go back to the shore instead of looking down into deep waters. It’s entering the sublunary at your own time. Naming those deep waters for what they are. Wonder? Euphoria? Frustration? While knowing that you can resort to air and be held by it, even if hanging onto air doesn’t make much sense. Which makes it even better to play with. If the only way you can breathe in deep waters is through imagination, maybe it’s time to re-create your own time. Your own ocean floor of wonder and play. Use your pulsing energy for that.
Prompt: Pick yourself a name for your new avatar.
Sagittarius risings
Time to start feeling how sharp the aim can be. Testing yourself and your tools.
Capricorn risings
Time to look at pictures from your past and bring back new trends.
Aquarius risings
Time to pull away from where you just came from. Leap into that blind spot.