5 Reasons To Be Excited Rather than Afraid of the Sun Conjunct Saturn

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today we're going to take a look at this week's Sun Saturn conjunction, which is happening in the late degrees of the sign of Aquarius. It's interesting to note that this conjunction is also happening, just as Saturn is about to change signs into Pisces, which will happen next month. But one of the reasons that's especially interesting is because Sun Saturn conjunctions represent the starting point of a new synodic cycle. And so, as this new synodic cycle between the Sun and Saturn begins, it's also happening just as Saturn is about to change signs, that makes this, I think, worthy of a little deeper investigation this week.

But I wanted to approach this from the angle that we're taking sort of further all the transits this week, which is how can I welcome imagining that this planet is a houseguest? You know, how can I welcome this planet into my life, into my psychic home, assuming and expecting the best out of this planet, out of this God, out of this archetype, out of this experience?

In doing that, I don't think we need to deny the possibility of there being difficulties or challenges. But I think that if you take a minute to really focus on the most positive dimensions of any archetypal combination of planets when they are in the process of appearing in your life, even if they do deliver some of the shadows or they bring about or reflect difficult events, you will be that much more ready and able to perceive the benefits of the transit and the most constructive elements of the transit.

So we're going to look today at five reasons you have to be excited, and not just afraid of the Sun Saturn conjunction. I kind of have my pulse on social media on astrology and was kind of like checking what people are saying. I've noticed that a lot of people are writing like this is going to be a hard week, but we're gonna get through it with Sun Saturday. It's an interesting week because we've also got Venus Neptune, you know, in the air this week. So there are some people writing about that, although a lot of that has been all about just don't get diluted; watch out for the illusion. Now, I find that there are a lot of astrologers who have really constructive, beautiful, uplifting things to say, so don't get me wrong.

But I think it's interesting that one of the things astrologers tend to do is to feed into it something like the news cycle, but its astrology equivalent of the news cycle, where it's all about what kind of stress or big dynamic change is coming, and how can you ride with it, and it, it keeps us looped into like I don't know, like, seems like it's spiking our cortisol or it's a set the stress hormone, or whatever. I think that's what it's called cortisol. But anyway, it's spiking our stress levels. And it's keeping us sort of addicted to drama.

And I just think that one of the ways to counter that is to talk, whenever any given transit is coming through, spend a minute and talk about the most amazing aspects of that planetary pairing that you have to look forward to. And in doing that, it's not that you want to ignore or deny the dark side; again, it's that you're trying to welcome and train your eyes to see the blessing and the gift of the transit as well.

Life is stressful enough, right? We don't need something else to bang us over the head with the obvious, the obvious level of things. So you know, I think that it just strikes me lately as important to spend time looking at what is the most constructive thing that this planetary pairing has to offer. And I've been doing that for myself to make sure that I'm not getting too stressed out by the transits.

For example, let me just give you one that since it's a Saturn transit, I've had Saturn squaring my ascendant recently, and I've been like, you know what I'm going to, think of this positively. And I started this ritual as Saturn was squaring my ascendant because I was feeling really heavy. Starting to go for evening walks, and it's been very, very cold here in Minnesota; the past couple of weeks just got warmer a little bit, but it's been like it was like negative 20, negative 23, with the windchill like just crazy cold. I got like a facemask and all the gear, and so I would go out walking in it every night and really let the coal like come into my soul.

And it was a kind of medicine. I feel like I communed with Saturn, the spirit of winter, and the spirit of, you know, the vast, cold, distant planet. And there's a remoteness in the night with the winter and the cold. And I went out into it and assuming the best of Saturn; I feel like it was medicine rather than punishing me with exhaustion; I made a proactive choice to think of Saturn as offering me an opportunity. It really flipped the script for me. And that's not the first time I've done something like that, to kind of work with the transit. But I think that in light of that, I just had this thought which was like, I need to do more of this. I need to talk deliberately when especially when there are phrases coming in that people have these tag lines that they freak out about. We're going to talk a little bit more positively. Anyway, that was a long rambling intro.

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Let's take a look at the real-time clock to entrain ourselves a little bit to this upcoming transit. So here, you will see the conjunction of the Sun and Saturn. Let me back this up just a bit. You'll see it's coming through Thursday, February 16. And it is crossing over between the 16th and 17th. If you give it a couple of days of separation, you have all the way till Sunday, February 19. When the Sun has, by that point, change signs into Pisces about three degrees out. You could also feel this approaching from February 13. Monday all the way really through the end of the week. So it's a week-long transit. Interesting that it's happening alongside of Venus and Neptune simultaneously conjoining in the sign of Pisces, which I did a separate video on.

So we are going to talk about this conjunction between these two planets in the sign of Aquarius today. And why there are five reasons why you have to be excited rather than scared or freaked out. And again, why do this? I've seen, and honestly, I know that it can be a difficult transit. And so I know all the reasons people are usually afraid of the transit, and I know what a lot of astrologers are saying about it. You know, so here are some of the positive dimensions that you have this transit that I think you have to be to look forward to. So let's get into it five reasons to be excited, not afraid of the Sun, Saturn conjunction number one, it's a reset.

So this is a really important piece of news, and information is that especially when the Sun and Saturn can join, that means that the Sun and Saturn are resetting their synodic cycle; the Sun moves faster than Saturn. And so it is the Sun conjoining Saturn by its body moving across the body of Saturn and then pushing forward beyond it. That means that Saturn has been invisible from our eyesight in the sky for a while because it's traveling so close to the Sun that you cannot see it. So it is effectively in the process of being reborn. Now as that rebirth happens and the Sun gains its separation, what you'll have is very gradually; you'll have Saturn appearing as a morning star. Just interesting. It's like the birth of Saturn.

And in ancient astrology, when planets are getting burnt up by the Sun, it's like they're doing a hard reset. It's like an old Saturn that's dying and ready to be reborn. You could look at the whole sign house of Aquarius in your birth chart. And notice especially since Saturn is also about to pass out of the sign, which we'll talk about next. That you're reaching the end of something and that Saturn being reborn is really not a bad thing.

So the first most positive thing we can say about this is that this is a Saturn that's dying and being reborn, and even though it's Saturn and I think it's easy to be afraid of Saturn to think of Saturn as just a tough old bird you know, that loves to peck at you like, and you feel a little bit beat up by or exhausted by Saturn is also a planet that guides us along as a teacher and a guide and puts us in touch with the realities of life and the experiences by means of which we grow more mature, more complete, more whole, more ability to have healthy boundaries. So for Saturn to be reset right now, that's not a bad thing. It's a good thing. A rebirth of Saturn means that we've reached the end and we're ready for a new beginning. Look at that whole sign house of Aquarius in your chart; look at the topics of that house. That's where you could say the reset is occurring. So, first of all, the first reason to be excited it's a reset. What's bad about a reset?

Number two, Saturn is about to change signs. So right after this reset happens around March 7, Saturn will enter the sign of Pisces, where it is now out of its own domicile and into Jupiter's domicile on the exultation of Venus. So it's as though this death of Saturn is also leading to not only the rebirth of Saturn, a little reset rising Saturn as a Morningstar, all of which have a feeling of like Saturn as like, the birth of you know, like when you hit a chapter change in life, you've kind of leveled up, you've grown more mature, you've gone through some hard times, but you're better for it. And now it's ready to you're ready to start that next leg of the journey a little bit like what it feels like, you know, right after your Saturn Return when it's all done.

You're feeling like you've dusted yourself off; you're ready to reset. It's like where Saturn is at right now. And also, you know, Saturn moving into Pisces out of five years' worth of being in Saturn's own domicile should lighten the load, at least lighten the mood of Saturn significantly. So the fact that there's a reset and that Saturn is about to move into the sign of Jupiter, a feminine sign, a water sign, a sign that exalts Venus, you just get the feeling that there's a little bit of like a mood and theme, thematic shift for Saturn coming up that I think we have reasons to be excited about.

If you go back, you can hear me talk about some of the recently I did a video on five ways that Saturn will cloak itself and Pisces and listened to those reasons that I give for the way that Saturn could hide in Pisces. All of those reasons are all the same reasons we have to be excited about Saturn entering Pisces, like the romantic, mystical, dreamy, melancholic dimensions of Saturn, and Pisces, for most people, are kind of invigorating. There are still lessons to be learned. There's still, you know, Saturn, still Saturn. But I think that people are probably not underestimating how different it's going to feel with Saturn out of Saturn-ruled signs for the last five years. So those are two reasons why this synodic conjunction between the Sun and Saturn is not just any conjunction, and you have to read those little nuances carefully into the meaning of the transit. This is a Sun Saturn that represents some kind of shift for Saturn.

It represents the culmination of wisdom, and that's number three. It's about completing something. This Sun Saturn conjunction, along with the fact that it's, again, the synodic reset, that Saturn is about to change signs and get out of its own rulership and into the sign of the benefics, Jupiter and Venus. But it also means that we're we've completed something that there's a sense of closure. Sometimes closures are bittersweet. Sometimes they can even be a little bit painful. But there's a sense of transition completion and resolution in the air with the sun Saturn moment, a little bit like the finishing of a great work.

I'll never forget when I was like done with my book; I wrote a book. And you know, once all the revisions had been done, and I knew that there was absolutely nothing more that I would do with the book, it was in the hands of the publisher, and there was zero that I would do. There was a weird feeling; I would almost call it a writerly version of postpartum depression. And not that I know what that's, you know that that's like personally just, it just felt like a crash or a collapse of mood in the wake of having completed a great creative effort.

There's a great work going on wherever Saturn is traveling in our charts, and it's slow, and you can overlook it because it's so mundane and it happens so day by day. But if you pay attention to what you've learned over the past, you know, since about 2020, I think like late 2020, especially around December when Jupiter and Saturn got together and the early degrees of Aquarius, What have you been working on since then? What is your life, and like what is the quality of time felt like to you? How has time been dragging on or marching on, or how quickly has it been moving? What kinds of lessons have you learned? What kind of limits Have you hit?

This is a moment of culmination and completion for that deeper, harder maturing work that Saturn gives us. Grow up, that Saturn crabby, just grow up already. But you know, the thing is, is that we do grow up, and by growing up, I don't mean age. I mean, soulfully, our soul grows it, our Sold becomes more refined it becomes, we become hopefully in time like, like the perfect vintage of ourselves. And that maturation, you know, it's filled with pain and complexity. But there how you have to have moments where you recognize, I've done something, I've finished something, this leg is done this, there's an aura of completion in the air. And that's what I think is one of the main things we have to be excited about. It's a reset. Saturn is about to change signs, and this is a moment of completion. So just, if you look at it that way, I'm not saying there won't be elements of Sun Saturn and difficulty this week. But you may notice these things and be able to appreciate the kind of chapter change that we're in the midst of.

Number four, it's a moment of maturation. I've said this word a few times already. But there's a weird way in which something that has been in the process of development for a long time is reaching; it's a little different than completion, where you finish something or you're done with something. It's a moment where something is ready to go.

For example, it's that realization; I'm ready to offer readings to other people. I'm ready to teach astrology, I've developed a curriculum, and I'm ready to go and present it. I'm ready to launch a YouTube channel. It's like something that has been in the process, maybe you've been gaining confidence or resources, or you've been developing something, and now it's like it's ready to be offered, or it's ready to change forms or go out into the world. So there's a Sun Saturn is like a creative crystallization. That's a phrase that you'll often hear astrologers use, and it's a good one. It's a moment of something reaching its potential but then needing to, like, go forth from that point, and Sun Saturn, it's amazing how things will take form and shape around the Sun and Saturn that have been in the process of gestation.

In that sense, there's a kind of restrictive or constrictive feeling around these transits, sometimes like a birth canal and like some creative contractions that are a part of it. But it's a moment of something. Reaching maturation is almost like I almost want to use the word it's a moment of birthing something, but I don't know; that word feels so beat up to me sometimes, so I just avoid it.

Number five, you'll be able to comprehend something more completely. Now this to me is like psychological or intellectual or even spiritual son. Saturn represents not just the crystallization of something you've been working on; say, I've been developing my skills as an astrologer. And now I'm ready to offer readings that would be a great example of Sun Saturn coming together. This is more like I've reached an understanding something about something that I have had a hard time grasping or understanding now I've come into complete realization of, for example, I would say one of the most interesting things for me while I had Saturn opposing my Sun when it was back in Capricorn. And I had this moment of understanding how certain behaviors in my day to day work life were impacting and influencing my physical health.

And so there were modifications that needed to be made. But it was amazing how the Saturn Sun moment for me even though mine was an opposition, so it was a little bit harder. I think the conjunctions are much smoother and sort of more crystalline and brilliant. But either way, Sun Saturn moments can be like, Oh, I see. There's something that I didn't see that was occluded from my sight and something in the unconscious that's been working on me. And something that I've been doing, you know, has been sort of out of sync with the unconscious, and so there's been some kind of tug of war.

Now I get it; I suddenly comprehend how something is, how something has been at work, or how something works. And with that understanding, I can move forward in a healthier way. So yeah, the idea is that you'll be able to see, comprehend, and understand something more completely it usually, Sun Saturn is like a moment of Noetic crystallization. So you have creative crystallization with something maybe more external or something you're working on or creating. But then there's the sense of, like, the light of knowledge, sort of rising up and helping you crystallize an understanding or insight of some kind.

These are some of my favorite aspects of the Sun Saturn in this particular Sun Saturn conjunction; I hope they give you some positive things to think about. The only other thing I'll add to this list, which I feel is a legitimate thing that every time you talk about the Sun Saturn, you should talk about is the anytime the Sun and Saturn come together. There's sort have like themes of the death of the father of the hero, the heroic, or the egoic. And the relinquishing of some kind of heroic, you know, quest or mission that you've been on. And maybe the pressure is it's, it's just too much, or it's exhausting, and you have to let it go.

That can be an extremely difficult thing to do. But a really relieving thing to experience under Sun Saturn, sometimes you'll see the health of fathers or grandfathers or bosses or any kind of solar figures; with Sun Saturn, like a boss retiring or a grandfather passing away, you'll see stuff like that. And I feel like, you know, it wouldn't be. I feel like I have to mention some of those because they're sort of so textbook that you really shouldn't talk about the sunset. And without at least mentioning Father karma, karma of leaders, that sense of heroic, wherever there's a heroic sense of mission or purpose, I love how the Sun Saturn will come together at times and be like, you just can't do it. So take the pressure off yourself, or it'll make you it'll just make you aware of your own limitations on a level of ego or ambition. And most of the time, if you can accept that, although it can be frustrating, then one of the hidden blessings or benefits is the relief you feel. So yeah, just a few things to mention; I thought I could throw that one in at the end, it didn't make the list of five, but you know, we're talking about that's what I have for today. I hope you guys have some stories to add.

Don't forget, if you ever have a story about a transit, use the hashtag grabbed one of the names for the planets in ancient astrology or grace, which means grabber to grab or to grasp. And there's a difference between living your life in some kind of relationship with the unconscious versus having none at all. When you do have a relationship with the unconscious, you know, there's a way in which, as the unconscious comes up, it will grab you, but you will also grasp something you'll understand or see something, and it will have a beneficial effect on your life. Whereas if you, you know, if you just kind of walk along and you have no relationship with the unconscious, that planets have a way of grabbing and possessing you that feels a little crazy and honestly more destructive and usually more painful. So part of the series that we do is to hear your stories to share your stories about the transits. So that we can all learn more about the planets and all share in the path of learning how to develop a healthier relationship with the unconscious with those primal forces of the psyche that live in us and that are reflected in the stars. So yeah, it's a great storytelling project. And I would love to hear from you guys about this transit or any of the transits of the week. So if you want to email us, it's grabbed@nightlightastrology.com.

If you prefer to share a story through email rather than putting it in the hashtag in the comments section. Just don't share anything that you don't want us to use in a potential storytelling episode. Alright, that's all we've got for today. I hope you guys are doing well and that you will have a fantastic week and get the best out of this transit. We will talk to you again tomorrow. Bye