Saturn in Pisces

Saturn moves into Pisces on 3/7/23, right along with a Full Moon in Virgo

Pisces is the end of the Zodiac, and thus ushers in endings and integration, supporting movement towards wholeness and completion.  Pisces is the third water sign, known for its depth, sensitivity, empathic qualities and mutability.  Mutable energies are about change and transformation.  Pisces is known as the most spiritual and mystical of all of the signs.

Saturn is about discipline, structure, motivation and limits.  When Saturn comes into an area of our lives, he comes in as a mentor, a teacher.  Saturn will illuminate whatever area of your life he enters with lessons, stories, support and instruction.  

Saturn in Pisces supports integration of lessons of a spiritual or emotional nature… lessons of the heart-mind-matrix.  Perhaps lessons you’ve been consciously learning, bringing them into their next stage of mastery, integration, or a higher form.  Or sometimes there are lessons that have been trying to get your attention, but have remained in the subconscious.  As Saturn enters this new sign (Pisces), these niggling shards of awareness may become increasingly clear, bringing light to areas of your life where it’s time to restructure.  It’s time for a change.

When Saturn moves into the deep watery realm of Pisces, he is bringing the light of discipline and structure to this sensitive, spiritual realm for the collective as well as for each of us personally.  

One of the things I’ve been noticing folks discover of late, that feels connected to this particular energy of Saturn moving into Pisces, is about self versus selflessness.

The higher energies of Pisces move us towards selflessness…. but not through spiritual bypass (that would be the lower energies of Pisces).  In spiritual bypass you may want to take short cuts and act as though you’re living from the end game, as though you are a benevolent being without feelings, wants or needs.  This doesn’t work.  Feigned benevolence brings resentment, feelings of isolation, and loneliness rather than connection.  First you have to HAVE a SELF. 

Connection to self comes either as a gift given during childhood through secure attachment, or,  for many of us, a journey of healing.  When consciously on a healing journey, doing the work of learning to love and care for yourself, we discover an alternative means of building secure attachment.  In lieu of a safe and loving parent, you build secure attachment within the self, between the observing, conscious part of the self (loving parent) and the parts of the self holding the wound, the hurt and the pain, the most vulnerable part of the self (child). 

This is a journey of getting to know yourself through the practice of turning towards your emotions, shame and vulnerability rather than away.  A journey of fostering curiosity where there was shame.  Bringing curiosity to shed light on your wants, needs and feelings; and then rather than pushing these vulnerable inner cues away, you gradually learn to foster gentleness towards these aspects of self.  Experiencing needs, wants and feelings is ultimately nothing to be ashamed of, it’s simply part of being human.  In this way you learn to understand and know yourself, learn to bring love to yourself, and thus build a secure connection within yourself.  

With Pisces we talk about connection with all that is.  But first we have to have a connection with ourselves.  

Saturn is an outlier planet, further out than all the other personal planets, and not as far out as the transpersonal (spiritual) planets.  As Saturn moves into Pisces, there are higher energies supporting healing in the way we relate to ourselves, and a dawning awareness that the way we relate to ourselves is a significant part of our spiritual path.  What’s getting in the way of your personal / spiritual transformation?  How are you relating to yourself in ways that are blocking rather than supporting your growth.  Spiritual awakening is the easy part.  Spiritual transformation requires self development; and the foundation for self development is self love.  

Universally, our job is not to be benevolent, our job is to be who we are here to be, how we are here to be.  As we allow ourselves to become ever more genuine, benevolence grows.  The spiritual path calls us to be unfailingly ourselves, so that we may hone our unique gifts; both of which require massive amounts of self worth which is fed through the spring of self love.