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Since entering Aries for the first time in 26 years in April, Saturn has been a conduit of profound change in our cosmos. We are standing upon a precipice, peering into what is yet to come while also bringing our current chapter to a close. As with any transition, the space to understand, integrate, and realign is an essential part of the process. Saturn retrograde offers us that space.
When is Saturn Retrograde?
Saturn begins its retrograde on July 12 or 13, 2025, depending on your location in the world, and continues until November 27, 2025. It initially retrogrades in Aries before shifting back into Pisces on August 31, 2025, where it will remain for the remainder of its backward spin, much like Neptune’s current retrograde.
What Does Saturn Retrograde Mean?
A planet in retrograde appears to move backward from our vantage on Earth. From a more expanded perspective, the planet is still moving forward yet seem to reverse course due to varying orbits. From that same expanded perspective, what may seem like a step backward is, in actuality, the very thing that allows us to move forward with greater intention, purpose, and truth.
Saturn rules time, responsibility, and commitments. A practical and success-driven planet, it focuses on authority, tangible action, and legacy. It is the catalyst for our desire to build something tangible and meaningful with the limited time that we have on Earth.
With Saturn in retrograde, we have space to reflect on how we relate to these areas of ourselves—and, more importantly, how we desire to relate to them. How much of our relationship with success, responsibility, and authority is rooted from within and how much have we outsourced to external validation? How much of our relationship with achievement and legacy comes from dedication to purpose and how much of it stems from fear, a sense of not enoughness, and a need to earn or prove our worth?
What Saturn Retrograde in Aries and Pisces Means for You
Saturn in Aries invites self-mastery and dedication to creating our desires and dreams. It’s where we learn how to channel our inspiration, vision, and life force in a way that is intentional. It brings a chance to begin again.
As Saturn retrogrades in Aries, we remember, recenter, and clarify our truest desires. We discern what exists beneath the noise of the world. We understand that boundaries are required so that we can move in a manner that is on purpose, in alignment with our truth, and sustainable in the long term.
As Saturn shifts back into Pisces on August 31, 2025, we experience a final immersion in its previous cycle. It’s a review of themes we have been working with since 2023, including emotional boundaries, energetic hygiene, spiritual discipline, faith in the unseen, and commitment to creativity. It’s a time to compassionately and honestly look at what remains unfinished within this realm.
The medicine of the latter half of Saturn’s retrograde takes place through boundaries and structures that support our commitment to the sacred and spiritual, imagination, self-love, and creativity. Read for your rising sign.
Aries Rising
This retrograde invites you to reflect on who you are becoming. Clear the noise as you take a step back and look within. What exists within the quiet truth of your soul? Who do you desire to be in this world? As Saturn shifts into Pisces, consider your answers and which commitments feel sacred and real to you.
Taurus Rising
Where do your desires come from? As you follow the threads of your wants back to their origins, consider what feels true to you and what was picked up from the world around you. This retrograde is a space to reconnect with the sacred nature of your desires, your dreams, and your purpose.
Gemini Rising
How much of your relationship with desire, worthiness, and success arise from societal thinking rather than your own? This retrograde invites you to clear the noise of the world so you can reconnect with yourself. It’s a space to reclaim your inner authority as the builder of your story, long-term vision, and legacy.
Cancer Rising
A new chapter awaits on the other side of this retrograde. A chapter in which you stand in your empowered authority. In between there is space to review everything that holds you back. Space to release, realign, and anchor into your sense of belonging, truth, and purpose. Your lasting legacy awaits.
Leo Rising
This retrograde invites intimate conversation with yourself and life itself. It brings looking within and exploring your innermost beliefs and perspectives through which you understand life, including your conscious and unconscious narratives relating to empowerment, success, finances, intimacy, and connection to the sacred. Once Saturn finishes its retrograde, this is what informs your direction forward.
Virgo Rising
This retrograde holds space for an intimate reconnection with yourself. Not just the identities or concepts you have come to know yourself by but the underlying truths and layers beneath the surface. It is an invitation to review your connection with authority, empowerment, and safety. It is also a chance to rethink your trust in self, others, and love.
Libra Rising
Saturn retrograde offers the medicine of empowered boundaries and balanced relational dynamics. It brings restructuring and realigning of who you are in connection and what desires you hold for your relationships. As Saturn shifts into Pisces during the latter part of its backward spin, it invites supportive structures to your days through the habits and routines that honor you on all levels—emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually.
Scorpio Rising
This retrograde brings realignment. You’re asked to look longterm and reflect on the sustainability of your output. Your energy is sacred. How can you remain connected to the wellspring of creativity, vitality, inspiration, and ability while also working within the framework of your responsibility? Reorganize your everyday rhythm in alignment with that.
Sagittarius Rising
This is a time to learn any pressures, expectations, and narratives you may have surrounding creativity, being seen, and worthiness of success. Your creativity wants to flow abundantly into your actions and your life. Let it support you both tangibly and otherwise. As Saturn retrogrades back into Pisces, inner reflection calls your name with inner child tending, emotional repatterning, and implementing boundaries.
Capricorn Rising
This retrograde invites a restructuring of the very foundations that hold you, resource you, and nurture you. What is your guiding truth and emotional longing for who you are in this world? As Saturn reenters Pisces, it allows for greater discernment, intention, and a framework of discipline within this sacred realm of your mind.
Aquarius Rising
Mind is power, thought is creation, and word is manifestation. This retrograde invites you to understand this truth by reorienting the way you use your mind and voice in the creation of your life. Themes of desire, worthiness, responsibility, and money may also arise as you become ready for an empowering, aligned, and resourceful relationship with these areas of yourself.
Pisces Rising
Saturn retrograde is a space to clear any noise that tries to tell you who you are and who you need to be. Your truth waits underneath, ready to be committed to, anchored in, and manifest into being. As you follow this trajectory of remembering, releasing, and becoming, you are asked to explore your identity, desires, security, worthiness, and ability to trust yourself in this world.
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