Saturn return stories

[Radu]

Anyone here willing to share a Saturn return story... ?

I'm kind of "collecting" such stories until I'll come up with my own, which will not be far, a few months/years from now.

[MidnightDevil]

I'll let u know when I get to 28 ;)

God should choose a faster planet for Karma...

[AquariusMoon]

This was several years ago, but I bought my first house, got married about 6 months later, moved again, then started a new job when I got back from my honeymoon. It was a very stressful time because right after I bought my house my income was lowered, but the new job I eventually got was much better than the previous one in so many ways. I would have stayed at the old job forever and I really wasn't happy there, so it was a good thing that my income was lowered so that it inspired me to look for something better. Everything looked so bad, and then it all worked out very well in the end. The marriage proposal came very suddenly and unexpectedly.

My H12 Saturn aspected H3 Mars and H8 Jupiter, Pluto and Uranus.

I had t Jupiter (my chart ruler) cj the IC.

t Uranus and t Neptune were in H1.

[Radu]

Thanks for your post. I'm gonna get married too, as for the job - God knows what surprises are in store for me...

[Anonymous]

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[Ihatelawschool]

Saturn returned and is now transiting my first house (where my sun, ascendant and venus lie)...and ive been struggling w/confidence, school work, finding a summer internship..and when saturn returned recently, ive been feeling rejuvenated, and I got an offer today for the summer to intern at Queens Legal Services! Im excited!!

[Kite]

Got married, bought a condo and decided on a career path.

[blumen]

My radical Saturn is at 27 Cancer, in the eleventh house. It trines the Moon and is in a T-Square with Jupiter (9/Aries) and Uranus (3/Scorpio).

During my Saturn return I obtained a doctoral degree (given that Saturn is in Cancer, you can easily guess the subject). All the powerful and older people in what used to be my network withdrew their support for no apparent reason, and I found myself unemployed. After a few months I was offered a rather prestigious position abroad, so I moved to Northern Europe.

Blumen

[Radu]

Thank you guys for the stories, in the meantime I entered this period and the most significative event during this time was that I had to enroll to postgraduate studies (masters' degree) which aren't easy, but in the end are likely to have a beneficial effect on my life and career.

[Elianah]

I spent all 1987 in Saturn return land, thanks to my natal Moon being conjunct my natal Saturn. My conjunction is in my first house and some might consider my ASC to be conjunct the Moon-Saturn since it is about 8° from my Moon, but I don't consider it conjunct.

During that time I received my MA in Mass Communications, watched the slow decline of my mother towards death (she died the following year on her mother's birthday) and began my first full-time public relations job. The job was offered to me through an instructor from my undergraduate days and was in a university setting.

Elianah

[lilllybelle]

So Radu, How are you enjoying your saturn return? So you and your child's saturn will conjunct each other. I just finished my saturn return, 11' Leo. It wasn't that bad. I finally figured out what I want to do career wise. Lots of drama initially, but then it became a really quite transit. It certainally wasn't the be all end all transit that people make it out to be. I thought pluto passing over my IC was a lot more tramatic and growth oriented. Lilllybelle

[Radu]

So Radu, How are you enjoying your saturn return? So you and your child's saturn will conjunct each other. I just finished my saturn return, 11' Leo. It wasn't that bad. I finally figured out what I want to do career wise. Lots of drama initially, but then it became a really quite transit. It certainally wasn't the be all end all transit that people make it out to be. I thought pluto passing over my IC was a lot more tramatic and growth oriented. Lilllybelle
I'm quite well, thank you. I had my share of drama regarding some tasks I had to complete, but in the end it was for my own good. And yes, the baby will represent an added responsability, but I'm ready to do whatever it takes about that.

[lilllybelle]

I just finished up with my saturn return. My saturn is at 11 degrees in the 12th house. In a lot of ways not much happened with my saturn return. It was mostly feelings that I had inside. I got a job that was lower in staus than what I previously had, but I was making more money. I hated the job though and I didn't really fit in with the people that I worked with. I felt like I was working with a bunch of backstabbers. Sometimes I would feel very spacey and I didn't have much sense of self. I dated many foreigners during this time. I spent a lot of time with one in perticular, and we would argue because we didn't speak each others languages very well.
At first I felt very scared. I felt like I was being attacked in every direction, and I was very very scared, but I couldn't say what I was really scared about. Layter I would feel these deep feelings of fullness, like I was being held in the arms of a million people. Near the end I had a couple days of really intense sudden depression come on. I got my first college degree. I also finally figured out what I wanted to study in school during the last week or two of the transit. I wasted a lot of time during the transit studying things that weren't fitting to my true personality, because I couldn't think of anything better to do, and I honestly couln't figure out what I liked. I also had some intense drame related to men during the first month or two of the transit. I threw a fit in a bar because the guy I was with was flirting with some girl. I broke up with him that night. About a month layter I went on a date with another guy. We drove seperate cars to a friends house. When I opened the door he had some girl in his lap. I came to realise that there are some bad people in this world and I had to distance myself from them and be very selective about who I spend my time with. I received a lot of rejection in the love arena during my SR. It really did start to feel like no one loved me. I'm still trying to sort through some of these feelings.
I think I might have to give a follow up in a couple of weeks about the job situation. I'm currently looking into a job that presented itself during the last pass of saturn. I also quit talking to my father for about 4 months during the SR. That was a first. I told him that he could no longer talk to me like I was a dog. I can't honestly say things are that much better between us. Well maybe, he doesn't seem to vent on me as much as he youst to. I also got closer to my mama during this transit. My yoga practice became less important to me during this transit. I've been practicing yoga for about 10 years. I think I became more grounded about money during this period. Overall I had a lot more money during this transit, and I got to where I truely didn't care as much about status. Funny saturn likes to give me jobs that pay good money, but have very little prestige. My attitude has become just give me the money, forget the image. Now that's a little bit of freedom for me, because I've always been so focused on my career image (sun in the 10th). I also had to learn to do work that I hated because it payed enough money for me to enjoy my life. That seems to be the opposite of what most people have to learn. Most people have to learn that their happiness is more important than money. I had to learn to comprimise and do work that I hated so that I could have financial security in my life( moon in libra in the 2nd). Well that's enough. Lilllybelle

[FlyAway]

My Saturn returned 5 years ago.
But 5 years ago I wasn't yet into astrology so I didn't pay close attention.
My personal and emotional life always have been pretty intense,
and since I keep a journal I try to see if certain transits and my emotional life show any synchronicity.
I keep an eye now on Mercury retrogrades and transiting Pluto squaring my natal Pluto,
which seems to be a pretty hard transit, I've heard.

2001 was a good year for me.
My health improved, I felt lighter and brighter than ever.
I was full of new energy and new plans.
I've got Saturn in Gemini in the 7th house.
And I indeed felt very flirty and I was interested in meeting new people.
I just realize that I already met my (now ex) boyfriend in 2000.
It was an intense but rocky relationship, we have been together for 4 years.
We had plans to get married, to buy a house and to work together, but none of it worked out.
There was a lack of trust and stability.
When the relationship was over it had ruined my health and my finances.
But emotionally I felt much stronger and more independent.
If Saturn stands for responsibility, I started to feel responsible for myself and my own life.

I never have been very interested in getting married, starting a family or having a carreer.
That's why I'm not disappointed that I didn't get married or that I still don't have a proper job.

Was 2001 a year of importance?
Well, no, not really.
The first half was good, the second half was full of relationship troubles.
And only recently I found out what I want and don't want in relationships.
It seems that the Saturn and I still have some karma to work out.

Still I think that it's up to us what we do with our lives and what direction we take.
Astrology can only help us to gain insight and show us what might be the right time for the right decisions.
Living our life we have to do ourselves.

[Summery Joy]

I know Saturn returns are the times when transiting Saturn moves to conjunct the natal Saturn. I think I will have a tough time pointing out the effects of my Saturn return because in order for transiting Saturn to conjunct my natal Saturn in Virgo it has to pass by my natal stellium in Leo then my NN in Virgo first (in this sequence Mercury, IC, Venus, Jupiter, Sun, NN and some asteroid in between). Thanks to the reecent Rx motion of transiting Saturn, some of my natal points are being "saturnized" for the second time. When Saturn does the actual return, I don't think I'll be able to tell the difference. I will have been there for a couple of years already.

[23]

I had mine last year, but I think the effect of it might have started before the exact SR; I got married, finished work in Jun 04 and then after that, started in a life of moving around. I left my home town and since then, I have lived in 4 different places in 3 different states.

At the exact time of SR (late 05), I was feeling depressed and confused about life. I lost my self-esteem, mostly caused by not finding work and not knowing many people where I was living at the time. I felt frustated and punished. These feelings have kind of lingered on but not as bad in recent times. I also tried to set up my own private business, which has pretty much been abandoned since then (but which I could resurrect when I want to). I also was considering a serious career change and going to university. I also felt quite bad about leaving my parents by themselves in my hometown. I still feel bad about this.

I suppose this was caused by the fact that when saturn returned, it opposed my sun/mercury and had a wide square to saturn.

[lilllybelle]

O.K. So now that my saturn return has been over for a week strange and miraculous things are starting to happen in my life. I'm originally from the southern part of America. Today I found a job where I get to travel for a full month in the south with travel, lodging, etc. covered. Plus the pay is pretty good. The dates of the tour happen to be at the same time that I will be on brake from school. I was planning on going home for a visit anyway, now I'll get to be paid for the visit. I also had just recently put in my two week notice at my job with only a faint idea of what I was going to do next. I feel like god is throwing some blessings my way. Which leads me to a idea of mine. Have any of you noticed that life seems to get really interesting after a saturn transit is over. In 2004 and 2005 saturn made several t-squares to my moon, venus, mars, and nodes. The first two passes were stressful but positive. They were getting me in the right direction. The last pass was completely different from the first two passes. I got layed off from my job, I was flat broke, and I got evicted from my house. I belive in retrospect life was laying the groundwork for my approaching saturn return. I ended up homeless at this time. I had payed rent, but my roomate decided to keep the money I gave him and not pay the rent. For a long time I was resentful about this. I felt like I had been unduefully punished. Here recently a friend of mine pointed out to me that it was irresponsible of me to have such a irresponsible roommate. That's when I finally started to understand why some of those things had happened to me. I ended up homeless at that time. The few friends I had here in the NW seemed put out that I needed to sleep at their house for a few(3 to be exact) days. That was a big cultural shock for me, because that not the way I was raised to treat people when they need help. I had to take a minimum wage paying job. This was the beginning of me loosing some of that big ego of mine and realising that I am never better than anyone else. Things didn't start to shift until a little before my first pass of saturn return. The final pass of my saturn t-square seemed worse than my whole saturn return. I will never forget those days. I will never foget the value of a dollar and I will try to always be humble and not judge those less fortunate than me because I've been in the shoes of the less unfortunate. Anyway it seems that saturn often saves its best punch till the last pass. Life seems to take on a different hue after the last pass is over. The month or so after the last pass of a saturn transit almost seems like a transit in and of itself. O.K I've talke a lot, but that was really therapuetic to share those pieces of my life. Lilllybelle