Saturn at the Anaretic Degree in Pisces — Horoscopes for all 12 Signs

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/].

Today we're going to take a look at Saturn transiting the very last degree of Pisces prior to entering the sign of Aries. This 29th degree we sometimes call the anaretic degree.

We're going to talk about what that means, why we should pay attention to planets at the 29th degree, and in particular, what this transit of Saturn at the 29th degree of Pisces may bring for you based on your horoscopes.

I'll be doing horoscopes for all 12 signs. I'll tell you a little bit more about which sign I recommend listening to. You could do your sun or your rising sign. I'll say a little bit about that, and then I'm just going to give you some brief thoughts about how we could frame or think about Saturn at the last degree for everyone before diving into those specific horoscopes.

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Anyhow. So thank you for listening to that. Let's turn our attention to the real time clock where we will look at what Saturn is doing.

So here you can see that on May 13 that is coming up. It's not yet here, but it's close at hand. On May 13, Saturn will enter this 29th degree of Pisces.

29th degree is sometimes referred to as the anaretic degree. Anaretic degree means the killing degree, which is not like a, you know, it's not like a super comforting way of thinking about what Saturn or any planet, is doing at the 29th degree of a sign, the last degrees of all of the signs are ruled in the dignity scheme that is called the bounds, or the terms the last degrees of the signs are usually ruled by Mars or Saturn.

This makes those last degrees from, you know, 2000 years all the way up to modern astrology, the last degrees are usually thought of as critical. Multiple terminal degrees, where a number of very typical manifestations of the symbolism occur.

So I want to talk about what those are, and then we're going to roll through some horoscopes. So there are three things that I would watch for while Saturn is at this 29th degree.

And let's just take a look before I dive into those actually, let's take a look at how long it's going to be there. So if we go forward about two weeks from May 13, we're going to see that it's on about May 25 that Saturn enters Aries.

So may 13 through the 25th we're right at about two weeks so with Saturn spending two weeks at an anaretic degree, that's going to be a noticeable experience for many people.

The way that that is experienced is most likely going to be connected to the themes and topics of the house that Saturn is traveling through in your natal chart, which is why we're going to do some brief horoscopes today.

But there are three things I think anyone could watch for, and this could really apply to any planet at a critical degree, that, let's say 27 through 30 of a sign, but specifically that 29th degree in particular, the first theme to watch for, broadly speaking.

And again, we're going to apply this to specific house topics based on your natal chart. Is culmination. So to culminate, like, what does that? What does that mean? It's the feeling that something that has some momentum, some history, a story arc, behind it is reaching that critical moment of culmination, maybe catharsis, where everything is building up toward an energetic peak moment of expression.

The karmic tree is ripe and the fruits are ready to fall off and be harvested. So you could think about it as culmination harvest, an accumulated moment of catharsis that is quite typical for a slow moving planet, especially at the last degree of a sign.

And the reason for that is that the slower the planet is moving, the longer it has taken it to do its karmic work in that temple of the zodiac. So in this case, it's Pisces for Saturn.

Saturn's been in Pisces for a couple of years. It's going to retrograde back into the sign of Pisces and go back over that critical degree. So this is not the final, final moment of Saturn in Pisces, but it is one of them, and anytime the planet Saturn moves across a 29th degree as well as a zero degree marker in Aries, which we'll be talking about when that comes up on the 25th of May.

We'll be spending a little bit of time on that, because that critical first degree of a sign has slightly different meanings, also very potent. But the transition between 29 and zero is something that astrologers have talked about for a long time, and one of the ways to think about that 29th degree is in terms of culmination and catharsis.

Number two is in terms of completion or expiration. When Saturn is at that 29th degree, it brings closure, resolution, completions, endings or expirations.

So you can think of it as a moment of death at the most in the most kind of extreme, ominous way. Sometimes it's like that, but other times it's more about something just finishing or expiring, or the end of a process, or the end of a relationship, or the end of a theme that you've been struggling with.

Somehow an insight comes and you're no longer struggling with it, the expiration of old karma, the completion of a project or a process. Again, thinking of it as a place of endings.

And then number three, are distinct transitions. So when we talk about a distinct transition, we're talking about one thing ending, and then shortly after, when Saturn transits into the zero degree of the next sign something beginning.

And so you can think of it as a threshold, or a kind of gateway that Saturn is passing through from 29 to one, which makes the 29th degree really noticeable when it comes to something that is transforming and distinctly transitioning.

It's, uh, for example, when you move into a new home, and you first get in that new home, you're setting everything up. You're in a transitional space when you're in the process of moving and, you know, packing up an apartment and moving to another one transitional space.

They could even be described in some ways as a liminal space. But transitions occur around the 29th to zero degrees of signs, especially because the planet will also move into a new whole sign house and activate new topics.

So when we get closer to may 25 on my channel, we will be looking at the transition. Into the whole sign house of Aries, where we've done a number of horoscopic explorations already, but we'll review that again.

So in review, culmination, completion and expiration and distinct transitions. Now, the key to understanding what that might mean. More specifically, first and foremost is to just pay attention.

May 13 to the 25th what is transitioning? What's culminating? Where is closure? Resolution, completion, the exhaustion of a process taking place in your life.

Sometimes it's easier to just look and notice, look for and notice that. Then to try to anticipate exactly what will occur, it's better to just watch reflect. Take the astrology as the means by which you are viewing the experience, a lens through which you're reflecting upon it, rather than something you're trying to completely figure out in advance.

I think for most of us who live as with astrology as a spiritual practice in day to day life, this actually works better than trying to anticipate exactly what's going to happen.

Now, there's also a level at which it helps to know timelines, themes and topics, and so that's what we're going to do next. Let's put the real time clock up and let's roll through all 12 signs.

Now I would recommend listening to this for your rising sign. You can also listen to any horoscope for your sun sign. The reason we recommend the rising sign is because all horoscopes are written in in or created through a whole sign house format, since Hellenistic astrology utilizes whole sign houses.

In general, the whole sign house version of your birth chart will always mirror the rising sign horoscope, and so you're going to get the transits in your rising sign horoscope identical to where they are transiting your natal chart through the whole sign house lens.

Again, because this is a Hellenistic channel, so to speak. That's the preferred house system anyway, so I always recommend the rising sign, but feel free to listen to whatever you like.

Now we're going to start with Aries, and what I'm going to do is let me just back this up. Here we go. And I want to start by saying that again, part of this is going to be about tracking the entrance of Saturn into the new house.

I'm going to focus today on a process of Completion taking place in the whole sign house of Pisces. But I do encourage you, if you know your houses, to think about the transition between Pisces and Aries as well, and I'll be helping you guys with that again later in the month.

Now, with starting off with Aries, we can see that the critical culmination of Saturn is taking place in the 12th house. For me, this typically means that a process that has been taking place in the unconscious realm is about to complete itself, and that process is ready to be more consciously integrated or adapted, or seen, recognized, dealt with in the light of conscious awareness.

That's because Saturn is transitioning from the 12th to the first. So to me, this is one of the culminations of Saturn that you almost cannot talk about without talking about the entrance into the first because that transition is so clearly connected to things becoming conscious that have been working in the unconscious for several years.

I would also look at if you have taken time over the past few years as an Aries for more solitude or contemplation or meditation or prayer, time away from the world that you may be ready to harvest a process of introspection or interiority that you've been working to create the past few years, like you're ready to really receive the fruits of that interior work, which the 12th house so clearly focuses us on.

So let's go forward now to Taurus. For Taurus is the process of culmination, resolution, Completion, distinct transitions are happening within the realm of friends and allies, groups and community.

What are the most meaningful social collectives that you are a part of? And there's been a process of refining, shaping, redirecting your sense of connection to community over the past few years.

Where is that process reaching a distinct moment of closure or resolution? In what way are groups and communities and a process related? And to them reaching a moment of finality integration, the completion and realization of insights and the maturity of that process, kind of crystallizing.

This could also mean that final transitions or endings, or the resolution of some difficult karma around friends groups allies, is taking place. So consider that if you're a Taurus, over the next couple of weeks, again, this is may 13 to about the 25th so for Geminis, the process that Saturn has been involved with has been a professional process, or vocational or public, or forward, public, outward facing dimensions of life.

How do you show up in the world? What are your gifts, your strengths, your talents? Where do you feel to what do you feel called professionally or more publicly?

Has there been difficulty for you in the career arena? So to speak, Saturn, over the past few years may have been uh, feelings of boredom or tediousness or hard work or exhaustion, but what have you learned?

What insights have you gathered around that more social, public, collective dimension of life and your role as a person who has a job or work in the world, that process may be about reaping rewards and benefits from hard work.

It may be about a place of exhaustion or that something's ready to expire that has been slowly building. But consider Saturn, culminating in your career house for cancers.

We look at this in the ninth house, which is fascinating, because really, over the past few years for cancers, there's been a process of refining your faith, your beliefs, your outlook on life, your philosophy, a process of learning and exploring what your understanding of something is, or the limits of your understanding, the process of faith and doubt, Skeptical Inquiry and the development of a healthy sense of doubt versus, you know, maybe a healthy sense of belief.

Saturn in the ninth house has been about elders and wisdom and maybe even the passing of a torch from one generation to the next with respect to things like teaching and learning.

I wonder for cancers right now, what insights are really crystallizing for you around the direction you want to take your life in as it is shaped and guided by what you're learning or what you believe.

So watch for a moment of culmination and transition with respect to beliefs and how they may now carry right over into your work in the world. For Leo's, the Saturn culmination is taking place in the eighth house.

So this anaretic degree in the eighth house has a powerful effect when it comes to bringing completion to karmic or soul contracts with other people.

The eighth house speaks to the natural way in which we are obligated to, indebted to and bound or bonded to one another. And we exchange value with each other in our relationships.

We exchange goods and services, of course, but we also exchange deeper karmic soul lessons, Saturn, culminating in this house, may be about bringing a period of deeper reflection on the bonds of your relationships and the learning process of those bonds to a place of resolution or completion, if It's been harder, deeper, more serious work in relationships, you might be ready to let some of that go and say, Thank you.

I've been to school, you know, and maybe I'm ready to move on. Certain soul contracts may be ending, the benefits or blessings or the limitations within relationships and the exchange within them may be in some ways, peaking or culminating right now and again, a transition is ready to occur, some new establishment of value and what is needed, what can be given, what cannot be given in relationships, might be experienced as the fruit of this Saturn passage.

Let's move on to Virgo. When we look at Virgo rising, we place Saturn into your seventh house. So what comes to mind is the culminating, the transitioning, the completing of karmic conditions relative to relationships, marriage, intimacy, sexuality, any kind of interpersonal partnership or dynamic your relationship with pleasure and intimacy with other beings, and the dichotomy between self love, self development, self respect and that which binds and bonds.

Us to other beings, because most of us cannot evolve and grow without the deeper mirroring of meaningful relationships. What does it mean to be alone for a meaningful period of time?

What does it mean to be with someone but feel alone? What does it mean to get more serious, committed, to grow and mature through our relationships. These are the kinds of things that Virgos have maybe been working with for the past couple of years, and now we're reaching a critical point of integration or realization with respect to that process.

All right, so for Libras, we look at Saturn reaching this anaretic degree in your sixth house. And for the past couple of years, Saturn in the sixth is not a walk in the park for most people, this transit involves themes of work, duty, labor, sickness, service, sacrifice.

The Sixth house refers to the work, the blood, sweat and tears and the sacrifice that is a necessary part of cultivating things like material, resources, security, pleasure, comfort.

The sixth can be a place where we experience the difficulties and hardships of building a job, of building a career, of building crafts and skills that require a lot of work and effort and sacrifice.

It's the daily grind. It's the sicknesses and the misfortunes and the challenges that come up and make us feel like it's really hard at times to exist in a secure, comfortable, easy way on the material plane.

At the same time, Saturn says in the sixth house, what is worth your time, energy, effort and sacrifice? What have you been pouring yourself into that you really believe in, that is that represents a meaningful effort, and what have you been pouring yourself into that isn't meaningful or that doesn't have some kind of built in reciprocity?

It's like things that we pour ourselves into should turn into things that we value and enjoy, or that create greater security and ease in life. It's an art to house in the Indian tradition, that means it's associated with the pursuit for material, comfort, pleasure, security and so forth.

So Saturn in this house. Maybe it's been hard, maybe there's been uncertainties. Maybe you've been battling health issues while having to pour a lot of work in at the job.

That period of time is now coming to a place of completion or resolution, which may be a very good thing. And it's also, what lessons can you take moving forward? Having learned what you have with Scorpio, we see Saturn coming into the fifth house.

This is a house that was called The Joy of Venus, in the house of good fortune. And for Scorpios, Saturn has been in this house for several years asking you to explore your relationship with pleasure.

The Fifth house is truly about what makes life enjoyable on a soul level. So we talk about this house as a place of creativity, but what we really mean is there should be some level of creative, sensual and personal enjoyment and delight in the process of being alive.

It's a Dharma house, which means it's connected to pleasure, but it's also connected to selfhood. So where self and happiness meet, we feel a level of satisfaction.

Saturn, working in this house, may be asking you to refine or further clarify or define what it means to experience joy in the right measure, in the right people in the right places, what it means to feel creatively satisfied.

It can also bring up things like childbirth, pregnancy, children, raising children, and maybe some of the duties involved with those things that sometimes make it hard to feel like life is really enjoyable.

If there have been themes of creative sacrifice, or the sacrifice of pleasure, or the repression of pleasure, or learning to control appetites and desires a little bit more. That would all be par for the course.

But that whole process around what brings me creative satisfaction as a being, what brings me joy and happiness and fulfillment as a being, has been the target you could say, of this transit for a couple of years right now?

How is that culminating? For Sagittarians, we look at Saturn culminating in the fourth house, which is really the interior space, as opposed to the 10th house, which is very exterior and public.

So first and foremost, over the past several years, how have you been developing within the interior of your soul, the private sphere, the inner life? This is a place that we typically share with fewer people, close, people, family, the people we live with.

That interiority, Saturn can be a real aid. Or ally in developing so it wouldn't be surprising to me if Sagittarians, over the past few years have felt like a richer, deeper, more satisfying inner life that's slowly coming forward, but also born with having to look very born out of having to look very seriously at what lies within that maybe you don't show to the world, or isn't as visible the other part of the fourth house would be just a meaningful exploration of family karma, historic ancestral karma, also explorations of home and living environment and what makes you feel connected, safe, secure at home in life, but also in the actual living environment.

How is that process reaching a point of culmination right now? What karmic insights are being harvested, and which of those are sort of crystallizing right now?

Let me just change one thing on my screen. Let's move along now to the next sign in order get my screen back up here, which is Capricorn. So for Capricorn, we're looking at Saturn in the third house, and for several years now, Saturn in the third for Capricorns may, may have been about a process of learning.

I like to think of the third house as a space that is much like the ninth, but where the ninth, sort of points us toward larger, universal systems and theories of truth.

I think the third is more like the intelligence gained when you're out in the woods and the trees and the water are speaking to you. The third house is called the joy of the moon, and it has to do with the intelligible material, natural world around us.

It's the ecosystem that we live in. It's the village, it's the community, it's the town, it's the neighborhood, and it is a place of learning and wisdom, but it's a place of learning and wisdom through experience and through natural connections to other beings within the local environment.

And this makes it a place that's connected to the development of skills and crafts and abilities that have a tangible meaning or place in the in the environment that we live in.

And so a lot of learning here for Capricorns, a lot of maybe looking at your immediate impact in the world around you, and also looking at who and what you're connected to most meaningfully in a more immediate everyday sense, like refining friendships, refining social connections.

There can also be an emphasis on the topic of siblings or peers, the development of skills and intellect, a kind of development of better street smarts, or maybe even emotional intellectual relating capacity, like you're perhaps more intelligent in how you communicate, or both emotionally and intellectually.

I like this process for Capricorns, culminating right now, and the transition taking you into a deeper interiority, a deeper focus on home and family.

The other thing that I would watch for in the third third house with Saturn, are limiting ideas and beliefs and a process of refining or changing ideas, perceptions, outlooks, thoughts, thought patterns, and maybe growing more mature, emotionally and intellectually somehow.

Let's go ahead and move on to Aquarius. This process of Saturn in the second house is now reaching its culminating point, a place that has to do with values, assets, resources.

It's an art to house like the sixth and the 10th in Indian astrology, which means it's connected to the pursuit of things like material pleasure, comfort and security.

These are basic if you think of Maslow's hierarchy, it's hard to focus on spiritual things or psychological growth if you don't feel a very basic level, on a survival level, that everything's stable and better than that, comfortable, enjoyable, pleasurable Saturn in the second house for Aquarians, has been about the deeper process of refining your material resources, the felt sense of security, as well as the tangible ways in which you secure a life, the resources available to you, those that you've been developing or cultivating, those that you're in possession of your relationship to things like food or diet, what you have at your disposal that can support your life, your life force, and some measure of pleasure or happiness.

Mm. Um, excuse me, not surprising that Saturn's culmination here could be a relief in so far as Saturn in the second can sometimes bring themes of, um, almost like deprivation or privation or limitation.

Uh, sometimes that's in our head more than it is a real thing. And so even just getting through this period and feeling not as worried or concerned about things like money, finances and security, that that period of maybe deeper angst or worry is coming to a place of resolution or closure.

Maybe you've learned some lessons about trusting more, but also, if there have been literal hardships, it wouldn't be surprising to see them, sort of lift as Saturn's leaving the second house.

Finally, for Pisceans, Boy, you've had several years worth of a very personal, psychological, existential transit. Who am I? Where are my limits? What are my yeses and my nose?

What are my commitments? How is my health? What is what is the nature of my physical body? How do I nourish it? What are its capacities and its limits?

Saturn, in the first can also be very clearly defining what you are, what you're doing, where you're going, in terms of showing you what isn't working, or where your nose have been.

So it's a kind of via negativo with Saturn always, but this process so existential, typically pretty heavy while Saturn's in the first house, should be a relief, or a feeling of a load being lifted for Pisceans.

So we like to see that. But also like, what are you learning at the culminating part of this process that's been so personal. Now I want to remind everybody of this.

Let's take a look at the fact that Saturn has one more little time that it's going to spend in Pisces. So it re enters Pisces, and it's going to do so here we go.

So around September 1, 2025 it's Saturn will re enter that anaretic degree, and it will spend from September 1 all the way to about the 15th, another two weeks at the beginning of September, where we will revisit all of this.

Then through its retrograde, it will station at the 27th degree of Pisces, if I've got that right, no, 26 Yeah. Well, it goes all the way down to 25 My bad.

And then it's going to turn direct again. And let's go forward. We'll have it coming back through that anaretic degree one last time, and that will take place.

Here we go right around February 5 of 2026 all the way till about february 14. The last period is a little shorter even, but so this will be one of several passes.

That's the point that we'll see from this anaretic Saturn, 29 Pisces. So on that note, you know, I hope that this is something. This might be the first of several points of culmination around the exact same themes and topics that we've covered in today's horoscope.

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