by Robert Wilkinson
On November 15, Saturn goes stationary direct at 13 Pisces. The global Dharma again moves forward after our time of review. This is a platform from which all Saturn affairs move forward for the next 8 months until it goes stationary retrograde at 2 Aries in July 2025. 13 Pisces features the quality of focusing our spiritual will with faith and courage to demonstrate our spiritual mastery at the end of the end of a long cycle.
Lessons of this part of the Zodiac
Now that Saturn is again in forward motion, it will re-trace ground it covered since it went stationary retrograde in June at 20 Pisces. In 2024, its shadow zone is between 13 and 20 Pisces. You can find out more about recent months when Saturn was retrograde in this crucial time period by taking a new look at Saturn Stationary Retrograde in June 2024 at 20 Pisces – Preparing for the Feastl.
The area between 13 and 20 Pisces spans the last three degrees of the “Scene of Federation” on the individual spiritual level of life and the first 5 degrees of the “Scene of Perpetuation” which deal with the actional-material activities. We got our first look at this span of experience between March and June, and now have gotten a new look at that material since June. We now get to move forward a third time across this span, demonstrating we’ve learned the lessons our inner Saturn wanted us to learn. Because it’s Saturn, it all relates to our ability to demonstrate maturity, organization, and patience in taking command of our life trajectory.
Saturn has occupied its stationary direct degree at 13 Pisces since October 27, and will continue until December 4. We now begin our anew of Saturn’s expression in the sign of Pisces, testing our ability to find “forms of effective action in the fog” and “not fear the confusion.” Find the balance between compassion and clarity around boundaries. Definitely do NOT play into the fear in the collective atmosphere. Be firm at every turn that you will not give the illusion any more power than it deserves, which is none at all.
This is Saturn teaching us about collective consciousness and the need to demonstrate a mature compassion and forgiveness when something must end. We now get a third look at how empathic or intuitive we are or aren’t, and will get new understanding of the collective field. From here it transits 13 Pisces to 2 Aries, helping bring structure and form to what Jupiter opened between late February 2022 through late May 2022, and revisited again from mid-October 2022 through early January 2023.
In 2021 Jupiter’s SRX began an acceleration of our evolution so that “new mutations from Cosmos” could come forth after October 2021. We then wound up in a time of learning to use spiritual energy effectively beginning Summer 2022, being led to the need to rise to some occasion between October 2022 and June of 2023, when we began the recent period of “hearing the call to renewal.”
Last year we learned life is a marketplace, and this year have been preparing for our “feast at the end of the day,” promised by Saturn’s SRX degree in June. We now more forward quickly as Jupiter begins to finish its time in Gemini, preparing to enter Cancer in June 2025, promising us all new allegiances, a new orientation, and decisions which will secure our safety.
It is helpful to regard 2020 as a training period for our “Group Performance” related to our current and future group work, with the December 2020 Jupiter conjunct Saturn “Grand Mutation” at 1 Aquarius, marking a point at which past and future separated. That conjunction set a 20 year Aquarian pulse into play, as well as a 200 year era of Air sign dominance. Humanity and the Earth are evolving out of a 200 year era of being stuck in materialism into a 200 year era of relatedness and movement.
Saturn will be in its 2024 “shadow zone” until it again moves across 20 Pisces between February 14 and February 23, after which it begins its transit of the last decan of Pisces and first 2 degrees of Aries. Having finished its work structuring our lives wherever we have Aquarius in 2021-2022, since early March 2023 we’ve been learning to structure how we flow through the collective field wherever we have the first two decans of Pisces in our charts.
The Dance of Saturn and Uranus
Saturn is now in its closing (waning) phase with Uranus, and as it goes direct, it makes an exact quintile in play from now through the beginning of January 2025. After that Saturn will close in on a long term sextile through May 2026. We have now experienced a long term influence of Saturn specializing Uranus and Uranus specializing Saturn.
These two planets play a huge part in how we fulfill our individual destiny, since Saturn’s mastery of the visible world gives structure to Uranian genius. We have all been experiencing a revolution wherever we have Taurus in our charts; while Saturn taught us through the square in 2021 and 2022, we’ve now moved into a long term set of spiritual understandings about the dance of individuality with the need for structure. We now are able to express our unique talents and purpose as a Spirit in the material world.
This is the closing phase in the dance of individualization we have been doing with these two spiritual heavyweights. The square required “right action” either to correct something, turn a corner on something, or block something which needed to move in a different direction. We had to focus on permanent patterns while catabolic forces broke down old structures, rules, and limitations. We saw what was important and left the unimportant behind while finding our parts in our larger spiritual group work.
Looking Back, Looking Forward
This long wave cycle began in 1988 with three conjunctions between Saturn and Uranus. The first was in February at 30 Sagittarius, the second was in June at 29 Sagittarius, and the third was in October at 28 Sagittarius. That began a “structuring of awakening” or “the boundaries of individuality” which came to fulfillment in the dynamic waning squares from Saturn in Aquarius to Uranus in Taurus in 2021. The first was in February at the 8th degree of those signs, the second was in June at the 14th degree of those signs, and the third was in December at the 12th degree of those signs.
Saturn and Uranus were in a beneficial waning trine between late 2016 and late 2018, bringing new ways of blending the old with the new, as well as ways to innovate life structures so they allowed us more freedom and individuality. In 2019-2020 they made a tredecile and biseptile. The first biseptile from Saturn to Uranus was January through May 2019, which began the crystallization by Saturn of the seeds of the Uranus biseptile Pluto already planted. These biseptiles marked major forks in the road of destiny, as Saturn has made these visible in the world. While Pluto’s influence is invisible, Saturn’s is highly visible.
Between October 2019 and mid-June 2020 Saturn brought form and structure to the “invisible seeds of radical transformation” generated by the Uranus/Pluto biseptiles. That was an exremely volatile period in world events, as well as a time of crucial choices and changes in our lives related to Capricorn and Taurus sectors. Interestingly, Uranus and Pluto were in tredecile between June and early November 2020, made another biseptile between November 2020 and May 2021, with the final iteration of that phase of “The Grand Irrationality” between late Dec 2021 and mid-April 2022.
These Plutonic seeds were next given form by the biseptile between Saturn and Uranus in December 2019 and early January 2020. The final biseptile occurred non-stop between July and November 2020, and it’s easy to see that was a major “turning point in the road of destiny,” where the future of the world was on the line as the irrationality of our times set the tone for the extraordinary conflicts of 2021 and 2022.
In 2023 we got the realizations of the waning binovile, and the high specialization and unique gifts and blessings of the quintile in 2024, and will eventually landing on the sextile between these two spiritual powerhouses by 2025. The opportunities to blend the old and the new, the established and the innovative, the predictable with the unexpected, haven’t been this numerous for more than 20 years, so have fun as your Pisces sector works productively with your Taurus sector.
Overlapping Capricorn and Aquarius Cycles
Saturn’s many conjunctions of January and March 2020 set the stage for all that will come over the rest of the first half of the 21st century. That was a very intense period of multiple conjunctions between Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto, all in the last decan of Capricorn, with Jupiter making three conjunctions with Pluto at 23 and 25 Capricorn throughout 2020! The longer wave cycles will last 12 and 33 years, and so they set the structures which will dominate the world stage for many years to come.
Saturn in its home signs of Capricorn and Aquarius was extraordinarily important in our lives between 2019 and 2023. We had our Capricorn lessons in 2019-2020, and had our Saturn dominated Aquarius lessons from 2021 through March 2023 when it entered Pisces. At this point, keep going deeper into your connections with your spiritual Brothers and Sisters as you prepare for an entirely new experience of your purpose in 2025.
For now, we’ll close with something we all learn about making friends with the Saturn power within us so we can fulfill our purpose on Earth.
Saturn symbolizes the universal binding force in Nature, the “Ring Pass Not” of Dharma. Dharma is our “true function,” that overarching Truth of Self that permits all things if they serve Dharma and no thing if it does not serve Dharma. Saturn is our “skin of personality,” the boundaries of what we are able to master, found through the ten thousand things that temporarily enslave us through various types of mental, emotional, or material inertia.Uranus is the Higher Law, Saturn is the worldly law. Uranus helps us break free, break out, and break through the binding force Saturn represents. Saturn helps us give structure through discipline to our eternal discoveries along our Path to Truth. In one esoteric system, Saturn is Divine Understanding, whereas Uranus is Divine Wisdom. Both serve each other in the Great Work each of us is here to do.
As I mentioned before, my book Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend addresses these important evolutionary issues we all deal with throughout our lives. It explores how Saturn relates to Dharma, the “Ring Pass Not,” and various types of Karma, and how we can make friends with our inner Saturn to claim our spiritual individuality. The second part of the work examines the important changes we go through as Saturn conjuncts, squares, and opposes all the planets in our charts as it moves through the houses throughout our lives.
For now, take a look back at what you first encountered between March and June 2023, and see how the review since then has helped you get ready for the adventure promised now that Saturn is again direct in motion. This is the Cosmic Timekeeper about to reverse course again and get back on the move, so it’s also time for us to move!
I’ll publish part 2 on this important moment in Cosmic Time this week, with Sabian symbols, aspects, and more.
© Copyright 2024 Robert Wilkinson
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