Romance and the Falling Star: Previewing Saturn into Pisces

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today we are going to sneak preview the entrance of Saturn into the sign of Pisces. Why do this now? Because this month of October 2022, Saturn is getting ready to station and turn direct in the sign of Aquarius, at which point it will then be on a trajectory to move into the sign of Pisces by early March. So that is what we are going to look at today and tomorrow as well. So, kind of rounding out the week with a couple of videos to preview Saturn's entrance into Pisces.

First of all, Saturn will enter the sign of Pisces on March 7, 2023. And so it will then stay in the sign of Pisces all the way until 2025, When it dips into Aries a little bit, then Retrogrades back into Pisces, and finally leaves the sign of Pisces completely in 2026. So it is quite a long stay for Saturn in Pisces. It's interesting because Saturn is going to be getting out of the sign of Aquarius, and prior to that, the sign of Capricorn, Saturn ruled signs. So going into a Jupiter sign just gonna get a really different look and feel from Saturn, which we just haven't had for a really long time. So I think all of that together makes it worthwhile to take a look at.

Tomorrow what we will be doing is we will be looking at horoscopes and taking Saturn through all of the 12 sun and rising signs to give you a sense of where Saturn is going to land in your chart and then closer to the time of Saturn's entrance into Pisces in the spring of 2023 or close to the Spring Equinox right around that time when Saturn enters Pisces. We'll actually look at some of the history and famous people with Saturn in Pisces and previous periods and what they've coincided with in terms of collective events and stuff like that. So for now, just a little bit of a sneak preview on the archetypal combination of Saturn in the water sign of Jupiter, Jupiter's feminine water sign of Pisces, and then tomorrow, we'll do some horoscopes.

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Now what I'm going to do is pull up the real-time clock, and I want us to take a look at Saturn's entrance into Pisces before we get into it today. Here you can see Saturn's entrance into Pisces depicted on the screen; this is on March 7. You can see there Saturn having just entered the sign of Pisces. There'll be a lineup of planets in Pisces at that time, so it ought to be interesting. We're also just days away from Pluto switching over into the sign of Aquarius. So we're actually going to spend a lot of time talking about what it might mean that Pluto is entering Aquarius at the same time that Saturn is entering Pisces. We'll be talking a lot about that closer to the time of these ingresses in March.

For now, I want to talk today about what it means that Saturn is entering Pisces and what you might expect. So the first thing to say about this is that Saturn is moving into Jupiter's home sign. And in ancient astrology, one of the primary ways in which you understand any planetary transit is according to the planet's own nature but then filtered through the lens of its host. So, for example, when Saturn is in Aries, it's going to be Saturn, but it's also going to have to do Saturn things in a Mars-like way, or it's sort of it's Saturn, but with Mars-colored glasses on. So similarly, when you're in Aries, if Saturn were in Aries, it would also be filtering its expression through the lens of fire and through the lens of a tropical sign in terms of the science modality and also in terms of it being masculine and also in terms of being the home temple of Mars. That's the primary consideration, in fact, and then maybe a secondary consideration would be the fact that Aries is also the exultation of the sun. So in signs where there are two different rulers of both the domicile and an exultation ruler. It is as though the sign itself feels like a combination of those two planets.

For example, Pisces, the sign that Saturn will be moving into in March 2023, Is the domicile of Jupiter, a feminine double-bodied water sign, the Home Temple of Jupiter but also the exultation of Venus. And so when Saturn enters Pisces, Saturn starts behaving in a feminine, watery, double-bodied, Jupiterian, and Venusian manner. Now, that's a lot. It's a lot to take on. And so what I tried to do today, which is to capture several archetypal themes that I can that can capture sort of all of that at once. It's hard to do, but I will, so I'll explain the theme and then try to show you how each of those levels or layers of the sign of Pisces is expressing itself within the three themes that I picked.

So three things to watch for a Saturn interest Pisces and spend several years there, and tomorrow we'll take a look at what it might mean by a house in your birth chart through the horoscopes. Number one is the theme of the falling star. You know, a great card for this in the taro would be that literally the star card but reverse it or turn it upside down or something like that. The falling star could be like, for example, some of the celebrities will visit later in the spring. Kurt Cobain, and Jeff Buckley, just to name a few. Another celebrity right now who has that Saturn in Pisces motif that's pretty popular is Post Malone. Actually, I'm pretty sure that's true. But like, let me like, let me double check that, yeah, I'm like 99% Sure. But anyway, yeah. So, it is a theme, generally speaking, that. Yes, it is Post Malone; I wasn't wrong; I got it. So the falling star would speak to someone who has all of the uplifting, romantic sensibilities of a feminine sign in which Jupiter, a planet of coherence and beauty, it's when you think of Jupiter's rulership and Pisces, unlike Sagittarius, a lot more masculine. You think of the sense of like if you've ever been out in nature, and you've had an experience of the sublime, you know, says a word that was often used in to describe, you know, romantic literature that the romantic literature captures the spirit of the world insofar as the world is a sublime place. So sublime would you know its beauty. It's awe-inspiring and gives you a sense of the cosmos is complete and wild and beautiful, but complete and whole and arranged well even in its wild beauty.

That's the feminine wholeness and beauty of Jupiter's rulership and Pisces. It's, it's the dove in, and you get a sense that the world is a moving menagerie of beauty and wildness. But it's a; it's a well-ordered whole. And Piscean people can be so inspiring because they see that it's romantic. And it's sort of philosophical at the same time.

Well, but you also have to add in the exultation of Venus; when you talk about the sublime, you're talking about that which is beautiful and can only be captured by things like poetry. So where contemplatives and mystics and poets meet, you have, for example, a poet that I think captures the sublime romantic sort of spirit of Neptune in modern astrology and is often associated with Pisces. In ancient astrology. Of course, the rulership scheme is so complicated that you wouldn't; a lot of traditional astrologers would not necessarily give the outer planets rulerships. But regardless, Neptune is a little bit like it as well.

And it is like Mary Oliver or Rumi, where there's a sense of the philosophical but the artistic and the beautiful could almost carry the philosophical off at times. But then it's so beautiful that at times it becomes philosophical poetry that could easily turn into an essay, essay into poetry. You're starting to get a feel for what Pisces is all about. So now take those qualities of Pisces and put Saturn in it. Saturn, the God of melancholy of depression and winter and death, remoteness, alienation, loneliness, but also, Saturn is a planet that belongs to the monastic life as well as asceticism and, you know, renunciation but not just for the purpose of being strict for the purpose of communing with the beloved in mystical union. You know, Saturn is a planet that was associated by ancient astrologers with states of, you know, ecstasy that were found through being utterly alone and sort of in love with the divine like, or like the kind of person who, you know, what am I thinking of the kind of person who could who completely is completely happy, lost in a library at the stack of books in a, you know, in a coffee or something like that.

So Saturn can be like that. Saturn can actually be not long for that like Saturn does not necessarily love the world at times. And Saturn definitely has kind of put potentially a stern, strict, sectarian, divisive side because Saturn Saturn is also associated with the category of opposition in ancient astrology, which I've said many, many times on this channel. So you guys are used to me saying that by now, but Saturn in Pisces, when it enters that sign, brings that kind of you know that it has a similar melancholy, which Saturn was associated with 1000s of years ago, is one of the primary moods or themes or characteristics of romantics.

And so when you put Saturn into Pisces, you get all of the kind of the qualities of the sublime that properly belong to the sort of double-bodied, watery, Jupiter exalted Venus stuff. But then you're taking Saturn, and in a sense, you've got rather than the sense of being in a starry, you know, beautiful cosmos that's filled with wonder and poetry and so rich and fertile and filled with beautiful longing and so forth. Now you get it as a little bit more tragic. So rather than the rising star or the shooting star, which could be associated with, say, an exalted Venus, or Jupiter in the sign of Pisces, now you get the fallen star, where those beautiful themes are paired with sometimes more tragic ones. A little bit more of a darkness, a little tinge of suffering.

And some of this falling star can get really melodramatic; it can be sort of like, you know, what's that thing that people would do? Like? What is this? It's the world's smallest record player playing Cry me a river; you know what I mean? Was that the world the world's tiniest violin, playing my heart bleeds for you, you know? It's like Saturn in Pisces can almost like like ham it up. Because the romantic and emotive side of Jupiter and an exalted Venus in Pisces can just be operatic and, you know, sort of epic in its romantic scale, you know. And so, when you put Saturn in there, the idea of like, deep heartfelt burning, loneliness or deep tragic, beautiful, you know, like, like some of the most beautiful songs in the world are like heart achy songs, and you get that kind of a feeling.

So, you know, if you think, for example, another tarot card that comes to mind is the knight of cups. You guys know the knight of cups in the tarot. He's sort of like a sort of the romantic, chivalrous type of card. If you reverse the knight of cups, one of the things that he can be is sort of like the angsty emo band lead singer that maybe dies of an overdose. So you get that kind of vibe. And frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if, during Saturn's stay in Pisces, we see a young star or two that, for many people, is considered to be just brilliant and dazzling. To have a downfall, whether it's through drugs or death, or suicide. I'm not predicting that exactly. I'm just saying archetypically; it's the kind of thing that you would maybe expect from Saturn in Pisces. So watch for the romantic, all these big, romantic, beautiful sort of philosophical qualities of Pisces to be blended with the sort of melancholic themes of Saturn.

Number two is when we love what we carry. What I mean by this is that, like, if you think of their, The Passion of the Christ, or the idea of like, Herculean labors, maybe that's not quite the best one, or even like the Odyssey, which is essentially this huge, you know, a mission that is, you know, in some ways, it boils down to love and a woman. You know, you can, obviously, debate that; I'm not trying to make a case about what exactly the Odyssey's relevance is, but I'm trying to think of more examples. Help me out here; throw something in the chat box if you've got one for sure. But I mean, what I'm getting at is that there is a sense of noble, beautiful, romantic suffering in an act of service. You know, it's like, I love doing astrology every day. Right? I just, I love it.

Well, I have Saturn, and Jupiter conjoined. It's, it's very much like Saturn and Jupiter ruled sign. So I have this crazy daily rhythm. And people are always like, you have such discipline. And I'm like, you know, I'm sure it looks like that from the outside. But at an earlier point in my life, I think there was like, more of a harsh, stern voice telling, like, kind of driving me to, like, you know, you know, I don't know, do your due, you know, kind of practice makes perfect. And in a strict sense, like, if you've ever seen that movie, Whiplash, with the drummer, who has the teacher and I forget his name, but he's, he's a famous actor, and both of them are famous actors, and he's just driven. He's tormented and, and it's like, discipline if you just keep practicing, you know? And like that. It's so saturnine, you know? But there's, it's weird how in the lives like, I was listening to Kobe Bryant as an athlete, not as a person. I'm talking about him right now because I, you know, there's he has a whole story. But as an athlete, what I loved about Kobe Bryant was when he said, what drives you? Is it discipline? And he was like, No, man; it's love. He was like, Alright, I love basketball, and all the great people who are really good at something, and they had everyone else that looks like, oh, they just practice all the time. They're, they're, you know, they're monsters in the gym, or they're like, you know, that their drill sergeants with their craft or something like that.

Saturn in Pisces is where discipline starts to blur, like, like, dissolve into devotion. It's a beautiful sign for checking and seeing does this work that I am bleeding for? Give me joy. Like there's a lot of blood mixed in with good things. You know, childbirth. I remember I was like, this is a lot bloodier than I thought, like, than I was imagining. Do you know what I mean? There's a lot of blood in life. And like Saturn, Pisces has this feeling of loving what you carry, you know, where you're, you're proud of like the scar that you have, you know, you're proud of like, bleeding a little for something. There's there. In other words, you're able to romanticize what you're carrying, and that romance is what makes life worthwhile. I mean, life itself is a kind of burden. Life itself, as so many traditions have taught us, is so it's so filled with suffering. Well, do you find it beautiful? Do you find that the mystery of it all so profound that you wouldn't trade the heart for anything?

You know, there's a song that I love by a band called Sleeping, at last, it's called Saturn. And they actually made a song for, like, all the planets. But that song about Saturn couldn't be more Saturn in Pisces, like just throwing it out there. Go listen to it; if you've never listened to it, it's called Saturn by sleeping at last. And he's, and he's talking about how good it is and how beautiful it is that we even exist. But it's a sad song. It's kind of beautiful and uplifting but in a like the like, like the blues. You know what I mean? When I think of Saturn in Pisces, I think of the blues, doesn't it feel good to carry it when it hurts? Do you know what I mean? So that's what we there's a nice opportunity with Saturn and Pisces over the next few years to look and say, am I carrying this out of some false sense of duty? Am I becoming a martyr? Am I, you know, am I breaking my back? Am I harming myself? Or do I love this? And can the pain be part of what transfigures me? Can it can the pain be something that somehow, you know, it's like, there's no substitute for blood when you got, you know, you got to put a little blood into the palate, and there's no substitute for that color. It's so rich, so beautiful, so deep.

You know, so now I'm not don't please don't get me wrong. And I'm not saying everyone go out and be a martyr because that's the dark side of this is the same transit can be about becoming a victim or becoming a martyr. But the other thing that can be there is recognizing that it is not only normal for us for life to feel like suffering, but if we embrace it, and how we embrace it while taking care of ourselves, is what makes it so freakin beautiful. You know, so these are Saturn in Pisces lessons that I've observed in the lives of my clients and so forth. How do we love what we carry? You know, because we carry things. I remember there was a book that I read in graduate school by Tim O'Brien; I think it was called The Things They Carried. It was about soldiers in Vietnam if I remember correctly. I remember a lot of that book was just about the things that soldiers carried that they loved. You know, and it's somehow they carry those things into battle with them. And it made the sacrifice and the overwhelm of not even knowing why some of them were there or carrying or wasn't even good that they were there Right. But they had these pictures or they, you know, these things that they carried. This is life, you know; what do you carry? What's on your shelf? Fill your shelf with beautiful things. That's what Saturn in Pisces tells us because it makes it worthwhile. It's silly. Some people say oh, you collect trinkets. People have told me that before, and they see my house you collect trinkets. We encourage our girls to pick up rocks and things. It's because when you pick up things, and you place them on your shelf, and you remember things, you know, you remember that's then the life that you carry starts to carry, you know.

So anyway, number three is making the right sacrifice. How do we make the right sacrifice? How do we know what sacrifice is the right sacrifice to be made? Saturn in Pisces will call into question. You know that things, things that we have to let go of, put on the altar, giveaway. And Saturn can be the killer of joy, the killer of spring. It has a feeling of robbing us of innocence, sometimes Saturn in a spring Jupiter romantic sign. That's why it's also associated with taking, say, the life of a young rock star. But we can also preempt the sacrificial nature of this transit and lay things on our altar. I think one of the best exercises that I ever used to do back in the day when I was; I was a youth minister for a little bit when I was out of college, but that did not last long. Like I was not a very good one. But I loved working with the kids that I worked with for about a year and a half that I was there before I went back to graduate school, and mostly the reason that I had to leave was because I was interested in, you know, trying things that you know, we're just not fit for, like, you know, like a youth minister should not be smoking pot on the side. Well, maybe you had a cool youth minister that did, but I felt too guilty for it. So I left and then, you know, then, but those adventures then led me to ayahuasca, and this whole other world opened up, so I've always considered that time a very interesting time in my life. I digress.

Saturn, in the sign of Pisces, I used to do this exercise with the youth group. We did it a few times where we would, you know, almost like a vision board, but everyone would use this one big Use of like tag board, and we'd have magazines and stuff. And in our youth room in the church, everyone would have to put things on to this tag board with, you know, like glue or rubber cement or whatever. And the pictures would be of things that they would willingly sacrifice. And by sacrifice, I mean, like, not like, I'm giving this up because it's bad or materialistic or something. But I mean, like, what happened, what would happen if you lost your bike, it's your favorite thing, you ride it everywhere, what would happen? Right, or, you know, what would happen, God forbid, if your dog died, or you know what I mean. So I would have them like, just, you know, find an image of something that would be really hard to lose, you know, that would be really hard to let go of.

And I would say, Now, the exercise is not to put it on this board with the wish, hope, desire or fear, you know, that it will go, but merely to just look and see all of the things that we hold so dearly. And just the practice and exercise of symbolically saying, I put them on this altar. I can't hold on to them. They're not actually mine; they may be taken at any point from me; my bike could be taken; I remember, you know, kids going through all sorts of funny stuff. Like at that time, you know, still a big deal to have, like, a really nice stereo with a CD player on the top, you know, the sleeve, stuff like that, that was on the board. And the reason for this, for doing this, it's a good exercise that we can do, too, is that if you get into the mindset that, like, look, at any point, anything could be emptied or taken from me, you know, God forbid, but like, my kids, my house, my wife, my job, my career as an astrologer, my body, my own life, you know, I'm not in control of nearly as much as I think I am in any of it could be gone at any point.

And, you don't want to do it all the time. Because you don't want to be morbid, you know, and you don't want to be sort of like, well, I'm just gonna push everything away from me, you know, you don't want to push things or people away out of the fear of losing them. So this is not like a, get ahead of the Grim Reaper exercise or something like that. But just this little practice of letting go. What that does in return is it makes us hold things more lightly. It makes us serve the things that we hold, and it makes us appreciate the times, you know, maintaining the things that we have sometimes burns us, but you would take that rather than losing a lot of things, you know, it's an easy thing to remind myself as a parent, well, would I rather not be a dad or deal with this bedtime routine problem? Do you know what I mean? So it's like that, with Saturn in Pisces Saturn. In this Jupiter-ruled Venusian sign, it can kind of feel at times, like in that sign, like there's a bit of romantic tragedy; there probably will be some things that will be taken or that we let go of that it's hard to let go of, it's not easy to let go of.

So getting ourselves in the mindset of that emptying and that offering, placing things on the altar, does not also mean that they will be taken as a psychic or psychological act. It means that we're available. Means that what I have is at your disposal, universe, you know, I'm because I trust that my soul is eternal, that I'm a part of this eternal dance, use what I have, you know, when we open ourselves like that, it just shifts everything in the way that we're holding everything.

So I say making the right sacrifice. But I think this I could phrase it as the spirit of service and sacrifice in the right spirit, not a spirit that's like, let me try to get attention by giving everything away. Or let me build up my ego by being so sacrificial or something like that. Most of the time, the things that we have to sacrifice are small and almost imperceptible, and they're persistent. They are everyday small things in the cracks of life that we're being asked to give up, loosen our grip on, try not to control so much, and make a little sacrifice out of love and service and care and tenderness. And you do that over a long period of time. And it is what changes your heart. It's like water washing away the rough edges of the stone. And that's what we have with Saturn in the water sign. It's about making the right sacrifice, or we could say making timely sacrifices entering into a sacrificial season in life. But by sacrificial, we don't mean big, epic, dramatic give your life type of thing, which almost always just serves the ego. We mean the small imperceptible things, the things that we can do in an everyday sense.

All right, well, these are my opening thoughts on Saturn into Pisces, and I hope that you find them of service to you today. And I would love to hear your thoughts. So please do share in the comments section. Were you born with Saturn in Pisces? That would be a cool thing to hear about. If so, use the hashtag grabbed or email us grabbed a nightlight astrology.com or come back to this video when Saturn ingresses into Pisces and tell us what you think. Tomorrow we'll be doing horoscopes; we will take a look at Saturn through all 12 whole sign houses according to your rising sign, or sun sign if you follow sun sign horoscopes. And that should give you a sense of where these energies might start to show up in terms of the different topical domains of life that the birth chart indicates. All right, you guys have a great rest of your day. Take it easy, everyone. Bye