After being on this planet for 30 years since last week, I’ve realized that I am on the tail-end of my Saturn return.
And let’s just say these last few years have been quite….. eventful.
The thing is: EVERYONE will be going through their Saturn Return at some point in their lives.
In fact, one of them is around ages 27-30 (sometimes to 31) and the other two are in their 50s and 80s.
Now, the things you will be going through on your Saturn return is different for everyone, depending on the zodiac and house your Saturn falls under.
Let’s first go over what a Saturn return is and what this means in astrology terms.
Energy under the planet Saturn is all about discipline and judgment.
It’s the major turning point of our lives based off of the consequences of your actions. This is a period where you learn a lot of life lessons and experience growth the most.
What can make this energy so intense is when people aren’t taking full, radical responsibility for themselves or their actions. Therefore, people will have different levels of difficulty when it comes to their Saturn return based off of how willing they are to change.
So, if you are someone that avoids accountability like the plague, you may find the periods of your Saturn return to have quite a bit of hardships.
One of the best things to do during your Saturn return is to learn the lessons and be open-minded to change and grow. Because personally, I would rather I learn the lessons now then make it harder on myself later on in life.
I’ll share my experiences with my own Saturn return to give you an idea of what you are up against if you haven’t gone through your first Saturn return yet.
My Saturn is in Pisces in the 8th house, which represents areas in taxes, secrets, intimacy, sex, shared finances, joint ventures, and inheritance. It’s also the house of HUGE transformation.
Here’s the thing: when I turned 27, sh*t was already hitting the fan for me.
I had gotten married the month prior and my husband and I were long-distanced for most of the years we’ve been in a relationship due to his blue-collar, traveling job.
So, you can say that many of those years, I was living alone and only saw him whenever he was back in our home state.
I was working at a warehouse job that I had been working at for almost four years already while we were long-distance and I just had a feeling that once we got married, I was supposed to leave my job.
Now, I had HUGE resistance to this because prior to many years before, I had quit the jobs that I had and tried to go after a career I was more passionate with, which at the time, I REALLY wanted to work-from-home. This was before Covid EVER came around and more remote jobs popped up during that time.
I just really wanted to make my own time, be my own boss, and not work in places that didn’t appreciate my value or worth.
However, when I quit my previous job to go freelancing (I used to do graphic design), I got the most hate I have ever in my life. I mean I’m talking massive bullying from people.
I was accused of using my boyfriend (now husband) for money, that I was just being lazy, and that I would never make good money doing what I love. And this was back before he was even making good money and way before minimal wage even increased back when we first got together.
And this was bullying from people who were twice my age, which I won’t go too deep into who these people are because they aren’t relevant to my life anymore; however, I mention this because it stifled me to ever try to take the entrepreneur route ever again.
I eventually did go back to a “normal” job and that was the warehouse job because I was being overworked and underpaid as a freelancer.
So, when my intuition was basically telling me to quit my job after we got married, I was terrified to try again at the time. I knew my warehouse job wasn’t forever and I still wanted to go after my dreams, but I was terrified to quit my job and feel like a failure again.
I told myself, at the time, that I would wait until holidays were over because that was the busiest season at my workplace and I didn’t want to just leave my coworkers high and dry with less help.
Therefore, I worked through the holidays and then that’s when sh*t got worse for me because I didn’t learn my lesson.
I say this because, one day, I was at the gym literally doing some light squats for my warm up. I wasn’t lifting heavy at all and I even had a belt on which helps stabilize your back while doing squats, so that I didn’t injure myself.
Now, I had already been working out for like, five years at this point, so I knew what I was doing. However, on this particular day, I went to squat with a simple barbell and light weights and I suddenly felt some tears in my lower back even though I HAD THE BELT ON.
I didn’t really understand WHAT had happened, but my lower back was feeling tingly and immediately, I stopped with my workout. I didn’t realize how bad my injury was until the next day, I felt completely paralyzed and unable to bend my lower back at all.
I went to a chiropractor, thinking maybe I sprain my back or something and behold, I was told I had micro tears in my lower back which has literally never happened in my life. I had to not be doing any heavy lifting at the gym and not to lift anything heavy at work for a few weeks, which I had a doctor’s note for.
When I gave my boss the note, instead of allowing me to do light work or even the paperwork for a few weeks (since I was the only one doing a lot of the heavy lifting at work), I was sent home for a week as if I was just useless and had to live off of no paycheck for like a week or so….
So yeah, that day made me feel so p*ssed off.
I was crying to my husband feeling bad for NO REASON looking back and I was literally just thrown to the side like all I was good for was to do the dirty work that no one else wanted to do.
It was that moment that I took the leap of faith to leave my job, which my husband was all aboard for.
And doing that meant my husband and I shared finances and had to work together on communicating with money.
To make that long story short, we ended up not renewing our lease and began to travel around together in a motorhome, so that we could finally be together again.
And hey, it worked out in the end!
We got to be together as a married couple now and I got to continue going back into the entrepreneur route with no financial repercussions, since we minimalized our living situation and got rid of our expensive rent.
Because of this experience, I had to really work together with my husband on this joint venture of ours and it was difficult at first because I was always taught to be this independent bad*ss who didn’t rely on a man mentality.
But honestly, it worked out waaaay better than I could have ever imagined.
It’s funny because our financial situation actually got significantly BETTER after I quit my job and started traveling around with my husband.
With my placement in Pisces, there have been many other emotional rollercoasters that I went through throughout the years, but it has truly made me stronger, taught me to set boundaries, and learn a lot of emotional awareness along the way.
This is just one of the big parts of my life that has changed and how I wanted to showcase to you an idea of changes that might happen in your Saturn return.
So, I wanted to share with you five lessons you will learn from your Saturn return.
Instead of running away and avoiding this energy like the plague, lean into change, instead of denying it.
I promise you that things will get a lot harder for you if you aren’t willing to strive towards the lesson.
I mean, I can’t imagine what would have happened if I didn’t leave my job yet. I could have gotten so injured to the point of no return, I could have landed in the hospital and racked up medical debt, or maybe my job could have just fired me anyways.
Who freaking knows… and I honestly didn’t want to find out after what happened when I ignored my intuition the last time.
Even though it may seem painful, scary, or frustrating, LEAN into the change and just allow yourself to receive the lessons gracefully.
I mean, I’ve personally been on this spiritual and self-discovery journey for years already and because of that, I felt like I’ve been rewarded for all the hard work I’ve put into myself.
And I totally get when it seems like you are putting in so much work and don’t feel like you are getting the results you want, but trust me, you’re going through it for a reason.
For me, I can look back in my life and see how all my hard work paid off and how much the Universe supported me. I also feel like that’s why when I quit my job, the transition to full-time travel with my husband was so seamless, easy, and just felt like the right choice.
Discipline DOES get rewarded, but only if you are willing to keep up with it.
A resilient mindset is the key to becoming one of the successful people in this world.
Again, when you’re going through the trenches, learn the lessons as fast as possible and shift what you need to shift.
Luckily, our Higher Self gives us some grace before really putting us through it if we aren’t listening.
My warehouse job was already going to sh*t before the back injury even happened, so I should have known better than to overstay my welcome.
When it comes to any Saturn Return, ask yourself, “What is this teaching me? And what do I need to do to shift this?”
I would rather learn the lessons NOW and not let things blow up in my face later on and I’m sure you feel the same as well.
Yes, I know….
Going through your first Saturn return in your late 20s-early 30s is going to make you feel like your world is falling apart, but I promise that it’s working for you and not against you.
This time period is going to feel like one of the biggest shifts in your life. But the thing is, the biggest growth comes through hardships and that’s why there’s not a lot of people in this world who are really living a fulfilling life.
It’s because they don’t want to go through the hardships.
And here’s the thing: how are you going to heal it if you can’t feel it?
I mean, my experiences really made me have to throw aside people’s opinion of me for taking a different career path.
Nowadays, the same people who told me I was using my husband for money have stopped harassing me now.
Actually, funny enough, those same people who were accusing me of doing this to my husband were doing it to their spouse or at least, have ran into massive financial issues (like credit card debt or financial infidelity) while I was actually thriving from my leap of faith.
And this isn’t a comparison of who is doing better and who is doing worse, but it goes to show that if I didn’t listen to myself, I would have never changed my life so drastically.
I could have stayed in the same place, being sad, miserable, worried about what people thought of me, and still never lived with my husband full-time.
It’s so important to remember this: that following your intuition and navigating the obstacles that will come in your path is well worth it.
At the end of your first Saturn return (and even when all the other ones come along in your lifetime), you come out of it stronger in the end, which is what our Higher Power wants us to go through.
These types of experience are supposed to help us grow both spiritually and mentally.
Because doing so will make us learn the ultimate lessons in life, which is learning to live authentically ourself, to trust ourself, and to unconditionally love every stage of our life.
So, remember that with every rainstorm that comes your way, there is always going to be a pretty, colorful rainbow at the end of the storm.
You’ll realize why everything happen for you and see how it was the best thing that life could have thrown at you!
Are you going through your Saturn return? If so, how has your experience been? Share in the comment section below!
