personal blog: saturn in pisces retrospective

this transit will always be famous to me

Over the summer of 2024, I was staying at my grandma’s studio in Tucson, Arizona. I had put my queen mattress that I bought to furnish a Flagstaff apartment two years earlier on the floor against the wall. The sun would flood in through the window, finding me asleep to the sound of the swamp cooler, stir me awake. I would walk over the terracotta tiles to the kitchen, cook a 2-hour, Michelin star breakfast, send in some job applications on Indeed to satisfy unemployment requirements, make a resume meant to actually get me a restaurant job. And then, make an intricate lunch.

Few months before, I had lamented over whether or not I should quit my public health non-profit job. I had decided that yes, I would put in my one month notice, and scheduled an 11 o’clock meeting to do so on my bosses’ calendar. I got laid off at 9:30 am, a kind of blessing that expedited the overdue change. I was over the non-profit sector, didn’t know where to take my Public Health degree, and I was contemplating if I could be an astrologer. I had been an enthusiast since I was ten years old, been reading charts for my friends since I was fourteen, and was often told that I should sell readings. I decided to start trying, making a Substack, and Instagram account, and business cards. Here began a Saturn in Pisces lesson that I cherish, that I am holding close as Saturn makes his ingress into Aries; dreams and ideas are not promised, their existence must be pulled out of the ether and down into the physical. You have no idea how something will go until you start trying.

So, perfectly competent at answering a casual “Can you tell me what my birth chart means?” with a ten minute spiel, I started trying to translate that into something worth buying. There was the quick lesson that amateur and professional astrology are worlds apart; that accurate and interesting does not equate to valuable; that I had a ways to go in my ability to create valuable readings in a time frame that made selling them practical, in understanding how to use astrology in a way that is valuable and helpful to others.

I did get a summer job at a resort, and then moved to Madrid to begin teaching English, and remained dedicated to astrological pursuits; naming an interest in working with people through malefic transits, a love of timing techniques, and interest in astrological magic. I started with a commitment to publish a Substack article every other week, and now focus on slower production of higher quality content. I signed up for Austin Coppock’s Fundamentals of Astrology course, and it’s been a wonderful way to deepen my knowledge and learn from colleagues and experts. I started monthly transit readings with my friends, to really study their charts, and find what can be useful to them. My question of if I could be an astrologer actually has evolved into a confidence that it is in some way, absolutely meant for me, and the details are taking form. My average day now includes hours with astrology, something I could not say two years ago, and I would not have found the gaps in my practice that I’m now filling without just starting.

Moving to Spain was the other dream I managed to pull out of the ether. My Neptune-Midheaven line goes through Madrid, supporting the astrology focus I’ve built into my life here. Pisces lives in the third house of my chart, and (with the help of Jupiter in Cancer trine) I have found a neighborhood and community that I love, developed a new understanding of community and what it is to live alongside others. Of course Saturn required effort, but the results have truly exceeded anything I could have imagined. With the Aries ingress, I am committing this feeling to memory, carrying forward the sentiment. I am expecting a more challenging Saturn in Aries transit because of my chart, but ready to see what it brings. I would love to hear about your Saturn in Pisces (March 2023-Present, with a brief Aries intermission last summer) experiences in my messages or comments.