by Robert Wilkinson
Today, February 2, 2023, Saturn leaves its “Shadow Zone” and moves into the future. What does this mean?
First, for those who don’t know the term, a planet’s “Shadow Zone” is the span of degrees between the point it goes stationary retrograde back to where it goes stationary direct. When a planet which was retrograde goes direct, it moves across the same span of degrees it did when retrograde, and then a third time when direct again. That is the Shadow Zone.
Saturn went SRX at 26 Aquarius on June 4, 2022, and retrograded back to 19 Aquarius, where it went direct October 22/23. It’s now in forward motion and is leaving the boundary of its shadow zone at 26 Aquarius. As Saturn, our "Spiritual Master and Spiritual Friend” who teaches us the virtues of Self-mastery is now speeding up, we can expect all things related to Saturn to speed up as well for the next few months.
As Saturn moves through its “unknown zone” between 27 Aquarius and its SRX degree at 8 Pisces in mid-June, it will bring crystallized forms of whatever Jupiter promised when it moved through that degree span, first between late April and late August 2021, and again in December 2021 and January 2022. As Saturn leaves its Shadow Zone, it now can bring us a sense of authorship based in that “management of an individual spiritual vision” we glimpsed in 2021 so we can crystallize new Aquarian structures promised then.
During the time Saturn is direct between now and June, it’ll be conjuncted by the Sun at 27 Aquarius, followed by Mercury conjunct Saturn at 30 Aquarius in the Transfiguration Zone on March 2. Of course, we’re still within the Mars/Saturn cycle which began at their conjunction at 23 Aquarius, the same degree Jupiter went SD in October 2021. That implies the two year cycle set into motion at the Mars conjunction with Saturn will in some way bring forth the promise of late 2021 and 2022!
As noted, once Saturn enters Pisces en route to its SRX degree at 8 Pisces, it will make the first of three “crystallizations” of what Jupiter awakened between May and July 2021 and set into motion in January 2022. We’ll get a second look at those Piscean structures between mid-June and early November while Saturn is retrograde, and then a third “expert” crystallization when it is direct and transits those points again in November and December 2023. It will remain in its Pisces shadow zone until it launches into the unknown in mid-February 2024.
So enjoy the new territory Saturn is leading us into, which should help us learn how to manage many different types of energy over the next 4+ weeks. Having gotten the Aquarian promise when Jupiter was in Aquarius, now we get to use our Saturn skills and virtues to make that late Aquarius promise of Transfiguration real. This year will bring the fulfillment of the Aquarian structures and attitudes of the past two years, and the introduction of the Piscean structures and attitude of the next two.
Saturn Stationary Retrograde in June 2022 at 26 Aquarius – Training to Utilize Spiritual Power
Evolutionary Astrology in Autumn 2022 - Saturn Stationary Direct at 19 Aquarius Pt. 1
Evolutionary Astrology in Autumn 2022 - Saturn Stationary Direct at 19 Aquarius Pt. 2
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