This Week’s Tarot Reading
MIND: The Sun
BODY: Ace of Swords
SPIRIT: The High Priestess
You’re feeling yourself this week. It’s like suddenly life looks E X P A N S I V E and alive again. There’s ample energy available and you know that it's time to take hold of it and witness what’s really possible. You’re still balancing the “old you” with the “new you” but that juggling act feels less cumbersome than it did before- because your intuition is louder than ever. Expect clarity to come through this week and you will have it…just know that it might require reading between the lines.
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This Week’s Astrology
Sunday, March 6th: Venus + Mars conjunction 0° Aquarius
Wednesday, March 9th: Mercury enters Pisces
We’re coming off the Jupiter Cazimi moment yesterday (a “Cazimi” is when a planet crosses exact paths with or through the heart of the Sun) and echoing this week’s Tarot reading, it injected a LOT of hope into our lives over the weekend. Venus and Mars also connected and are now sitting at the same degree of the Great Conjunction back in December 2020. You might find yourself reflecting on wishes you made back then and with Mercury entering Pisces this week, there’s plenty of meandering conversations that will lead you towards your soul’s ultimate desires once again.
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Beginning in 2020, like millions if not billions of others, many of the foundational aspects of my life began to shift.
Some of them, like leaving my 9-5 job to work for myself from home, felt like really big wins. Others, like the dissolution of longtime friendships and romantic relationships, felt like heartbreak.
At the time, I mostly believed life was happening to me, rather than for me. I had moments of deep longing to go back to the way things had been, to erase the way my future had ultimately unfolded. I would come to learn, as we all would, that hindsight is 2020.
Coinciding with the personal breakdowns (and blessedly, lately, breakthroughs) I’ve been experiencing the past few years, is of course, a global pandemic. The common denominator of both? Saturn in Aquarius.
The March 2020 lockdowns in the U.S. arrived just days apart from Saturn entering Aquarius, and for my fellow early 90’s babies… the beginning of our first Saturn Return.
In a nutshell, the Saturn Return* is a pivotal period in your late twenties/early thirties (and again every 29.5 years later, yay!) when there’s no other choice but to reconcile how your life has been built up until that moment, and to confront how it’s going to be shaped moving forward.
*If you’re under age 27, I’m sorry, but it’s going to be impossible for you to fully grasp these concepts right now. I know how annoying it is to be patted on the head and told “you’ll understand one day” by your elders but…this is one of those moments. Some things are truly only possible to learn in time.
This is not to say that if you’re young you’re just SOL and can’t do some research.** I read everything I could get my hands on about Saturn before entering my first return and have since been noticing Saturnian stories all around me that feel like helpful archetypes for the journey…
**I highly recommend Liz Greene’s book “Saturn: A New Look At An Old Devil”. While it won’t save you from Saturnian woes, it will at least help you feel less alone riding them out.
While transiting Saturn is technically only at the exact degree found in your birth chart for a number of weeks, the entire time it occupies the sign of your natal Saturn marks the entirety of the astrological rite of passage- about a 3 year period landing between ages 28-31.
During these defining years, people get married, people buy houses, people have babies. People also get divorced, move away, and maybe start taking care of their own inner child for the first time in their lives. Rather than a game, life feels like a serious responsibility.
Enter Anna Delvey- a woman who knows a thing or two about the curses and blessings of a Saturn Return.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately, you’ve heard about the Netflix show “Inventing Anna”. I binged it several weeks ago and was practically salivating realizing the insanity just HAD to have been unfolding during the real Anna Delvey’s Saturn Return.
I pulled up her birth chart and unsurprisingly learned she was born in early 1991, so she has Saturn in a very late degree of Capricorn. She navigated her Saturn Return from late 2017 through 2020.
The show is worth watching so without giving everything away…a young girl has her past actions catch up with her, legally, in a huge way in her late twenties. The kicker is, with all the drama she goes through…now, in the present, more people know her name than ever before. While she lost pretty much everything during her ordeal, after her Saturn Return, she has what she always wanted from the beginning: FAME.
Saturn will give you everything you desire, but only by taking everything else away.
Saturn is about time. It’s quite literally about being forced to learn when the time comes. And while I believe the entire birth chart, the entire person, embodies its karma…Saturn transits have an especially karmic flair. The Saturn Return journey is something that unfolds only when it’s ready, only when you’re old enough to confront it.
A little good news? If you have Saturn in Aquarius (born 1991-1994ish), as of tomorrow, THERE IS LESS THAN 1 YEAR REMAINING OF YOUR FIRST SATURN RETURN!!!!!
I might be biased, but I would venture to say that us Saturn in Aquarius kids have had one of the most difficult collective returns in recent history. But, we’re closer than ever to being on the other side of this “grow or die” gauntlet (great/wild new show and learned Kalanick founded Uber freshly post Saturn Return…go figure) and that’s something worth celebrating.
The Saturnian lesson for all of us, perhaps, is knowing that you can’t always get what you want…but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need. What have you been learning in painstakingly sweet, sweet time?
Until next week’s magic,
Erin River Sunday