By June 2023, different pressures in our lives won't ease up until late 2025. Astrologically, this is partly due to SATURN. When the planet of karma, restriction and hardship changes signs, everyone will feel it; some more so than others.
Saturn is a taskmaster, a strict disciplinarian! To see how we overcome roadblocks, Saturn puts us through challenges specific to the house it's transiting for 2+ years. Based on Western Astrology, Saturn will enter Pisces on March 7, 2023, and stay there until May 24, 2025. Based on Vedic Astrology, Saturn will enter Aquarius on January 17, 2023, and stay there until March 29, 2025.
Regardless of the Western Tropical or Vedic Sidereal sign, the astrological house being influenced by Saturn for 2+ years is the same.
Similar to the astrological Saturn's Return, Numerology Life Cycles are a transition from one phase of life to the next.
Springtime of life/Formative Years to Productive Years
Prime of life/Productive Years to the Winter of life/Harvest Years
Chaninicholas.com writes, "The ancients believed that Saturn brought more challenges for night babies. That means your Saturn return might feel crunchier — though ultimately transformative for the better — if you were born at night."
The first and second Saturn Return coincides with the transitioning into one's Productive Year and Harvest Year cycles. For this reason, starting in 2023, there's a major change for some of you aged 28-30 or 58-60; constant changes that might last a couple of years. And because 2023 is a Universal Year 7, the transition into your Productive or Harvest Cycles is accompanied by months of emotions, confusion, insecurity, depression, fear, anxiety, or even disclosure of shameful secrets. Some will have a midlife crisis; therefore, learn to slow down to self-reflect.
We are on this life journey to work on ourselves and to gain mastery of some specific areas in our lives.
Whatever it is you haven't mastered during your Formative and Productive Years, will color your life. As you transition into your Productive and Harvest Years, the behavior or mindset will stick out like a sore thumb; hence, encouraging you to rework the specific behavior or mindset. To some degree, there's a common thread that you experienced in the transition into your Productive and will experience once again in your Harvest Years. If you are transitioning into your Harvest Years, think back to the decisions you made between ages 28-32.
For those of you who have your Saturn Return in 2023, this means stop playing "innocent victim," or feeling sorry for yourself and learn to accept full responsibility for your actions and choices — if you desire your life to be better, quit unjustly blaming someone or something for your problems and admit when you're wrong.
Frequently, about three years before and two years after you transitioned into your Productive or Harvest Cycle, a single miscalculated decision can set off a chain of events that ends in disaster. Don't lose sight of the fact that these are two major phases in your life intended to force you to be more realistic and practical, keep both feet on the ground and have a more mature mindset about life.
For some of you, this major transformation can bring about a mental or physical health crisis in 2023.
If you are having your Saturn Return, numerically by July 2023 you will feel as if you are at a critical crossroads in your life. Until about October 2024, the pressures are unrelenting. For many, there might be a sickness, job loss, loss of a home due to a natural disaster or divorce that for two years imparts valuable lessons about money and unfortunately, there's likely to be higher expenses. For many people, transitioning into one's Productive or Harvest Cycles will feel as if you are passing wearily through a dark tunnel unprepared! Try focusing on the rays of light at the end of the tunnel instead of the temporary darkness.
Laying it on the line, pulling no punches!
Remember at some point, every living Soul must pass through this dark tunnel. What you’ve been avoiding or continuously doing wrong from childhood to about age 59, eventually catches up with you!
Be assured that although the changes feel like a non-stop gnawing away at the old self, the wear and tear of becoming someone different only takes a short while. Your Productive and Second Pinnacle or Harvest Cycle and Final Pinnacle can help you understand what area of life you will eventually feel the most discomfort.
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