Transformed Lives: The Impact of Saturn’s Return

It turns out that Emma Watson is a huge fan of astrology. In an Instagram post marking her 33rd birthday, the actress said she had “learned more about love and being a woman” thanks to her show, “Saturn Return.”

She used her first social media post of the year to tell the world how her life has changed over the past four years: learning to ride and surf, making her own gin, creating a women’s environmental investment fund, adopting a dog and doing therapy. .

She wrote about “Farewell to my Grandma and Grandpa” and other life events: “I’m eating green things now” and “Directed my first commercial”.

“Before ’29 I hadn’t even heard of Saturn Return as a concept,” she added. Let’s just say that I am now well versed.

But what is Saturn Return? And what does Emma’s extensive list of thirty-something accomplishments have to do with it?

In a recent Instagram post, the actress said she had “learned more about love and being a woman” over the past year.

Saturn returns happen to all of us, and if you’re lucky, you’ll live through three of them. It refers to those times in your life when Saturn returns to the position it was in the moment you were born.

Saturn’s Return marks the end of one life cycle and the beginning of the next, and occurs at approximately 29, 58, and 84 years (exact years will vary for all of us, as the planets don’t always move the Sun at the same rate).

It often brings with it a massive shift in your maturity level or lifestyle, with effects lasting years afterward.

Emma’s post sums up all those life changes that Saturn Return brought her for the first time.

Because Saturn is not a happy planet. Just the opposite. It’s a tough task manager and for us mere mortals, that usually means stepping forward and taking a long, merciless look at ourselves in the mirror.

This Saturn return is a period when you come to terms with who you really are, flaws and all, and often begin to see the world in harsher, more pointed terms.

But it’s not all bad! If Saturn keeps score in our lives, then handing over that scorecard when it returns can mean learning deep lessons, with the potential to change our lives for the better. Have we lived up to our potential? If not, how can we be sure we do? This could be of your own making.

Astrologers like myself help people make the most of Saturn’s return by determining the timing. By throwing over your birth chart, or a map of the sky at the time of your birth, we can see which of the 360 ​​degrees of the zodiac Saturn was in at the time. Divide that 360 degrees by the 12 signs of the zodiac and you get 30 degrees for each sign.

Caroline Creel (pictured) says she went through two very important Saturnian processes

When you were born, Saturn was probably at 3 degrees of Aquarius, let’s say, or 12 degrees of Gemini. It will take between 29 and 31 years for him to return to this exact position once he has moved a full circle through the zodiac. Bang: Saturn is back.

Saturn is the planet that tests our resilience. As it spins around our scheme, we are tested in every aspect of life: love, money, work, and so on. Saturn Return is the day of results.

For me, the first full circle marks the moment we become adults. It’s our late twenties that really represents our maturity.

Emma Watson says she did a lot of therapy during Saturn Return, and it’s the perfect response. It’s about understanding who you are, feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders, and then working on problems to lighten the burden.

Saturn’s second return, in your late fifties, is just as significant.

At this point, we may really start to feel our years so it’s “now or never.” Saturn Return opens our eyes to the passage of time and encourages us to do what we really want to do. It can be a realistic account but it can also be compelling, even exhilarating.

By the time of our third return, around the ages of 84 to 90, well, hopefully, we’ll have accomplished the hard yards and accomplished things we can be proud of and can now take up our position as an elder in our family and alongside our friends. We are experts in the ways of the world – and we can rate Saturn.

• To find out when Saturn will return, go to astrocal.co.uk/saturn-return-calculator/

On my second Saturn return, I gave up my day job for a new life

Author and spiritual coach Caroline Creel, 57, lives near Leeds, and has a daughter, Chloe, 29, and a granddaughter, eight months. Caroline says:

I went through two very important Saturn returns.

In my twenties I worked as a district manager in a cleaning company. But as I approached my 30s, I had my “moment of rebellion” when Saturn returned to my chart.

I met a man, quit my job, and lived in a caravan for the summer. It was completely out of character – I always did as I was told – and my father was so terrified he refused to speak to me for a month. However, I used that year to re-evaluate my life and have my wonderful daughter. I bounced back, in my early 30s, started my own cleaning company and, within a decade, was running millions.

Not long ago, the same thing happened again. My company was running brilliantly: I had the car, the house, the vacations, but I knew something deep was missing. Saturn is back!

I decided to go on a ladies-only retreat in Bali to take a long, hard look at myself again.

By the end of doing all the hard work Saturn required, I knew I didn’t want to keep running on the company’s treadmill. Just like Emma Watson, I needed to take a step back from my life.

When I got back to the UK, I held back until I got a clear message to stop, when I was diagnosed with diverticulitis. I gave up the day job and started walking a much more spiritual path. I have just published my second book, The Clear Way, which looks at organizing your life from a spiritual perspective.

This second Saturn return taught me that life is too short to hold a bull by the horns, learn lessons from years past and do what you really want.

At 29, I set my old existence on fire

Appearance coach and writer Esther McCann, 34, lives with her daughter, 10, in Bristol. Esther says:

I hadn’t heard of Saturn Return until after I had gone through it, but when I looked at my natal chart and did the math, I was blown away.

All this happened when I was twenty-nine years old. I was married but it wasn’t a healthy relationship for me. I was in finance but felt soulless and unhappy; I lost myself. This is when I started receiving signals from the universe. I found a therapist who helped me bring up the topic of divorce with my husband.

I’ve been left in a much happier place, says Esther McCann, appearance coach and author (pictured).

Three months later, I met someone new through a friend and a month after that, I moved into my new home.

Then, at work, you fail an important exam. It was an awakening moment, as Saturn forced me to take a hard look at what I’ve accomplished so far in life and figure out what I really want.

Feeling time pass me by, I decided to take a leap of faith and started training to become a trainer. I completed the course in a year – and my body also underwent a seismic transformation, when I decided to get fit and run my first ever 10k.

Even though the changes were messy at times, they taught me what love really looks like.

Making the decisions that set my old life on fire has led me to a happier place.

I stopped pleasing people

Writer Alice Wilkinson, 31, lives with her partner in South East London. Alice says:

I spent most of my twenties people-pleasing and putting myself last in my personal and professional life.

As a writer, I would work faster and later than anyone else, all to please my boss.

And outside the office, I’d bend over backwards to see friends every night. I was the one who replied to WhatsApp messages right away, and never refused a request for a favor, no matter how annoying it was. Life was hectic and my needs were always at the back of the queue.

My Saturn Return, at 28, was like a wave washing over me. I had this overwhelming feeling that if I didn’t act now, I never would.

I look back now and wonder where the courage to change things so drastically as I did came from.

Writer Alice Wilkinson, 31, says 28-year-old Saturn Return was a wave washing over her

First, I underwent a digital detox and deleted my Instagram account to stop me wasting so much time and emotional energy online. I have muted everyone on WhatsApp except close friends and family to help eliminate the habit of replying right away.

I longed for a hobby – something completely different from my stressful work and would help me relax. With massage therapy there is no choice but to live in the present moment. I signed up for a year course, studying evenings and weekends while working full time.

Now I don’t have time for all that people-pleasing. Instead, I’m starting to crave alone time, which feels like an important and necessary shift in priority for me.

At the end of Saturn Return, I met my engineer friend.

I definitely relate to what Emma Watson says about learning more about love and being a woman during this time.

My Saturn Return made me confront what wasn’t working in my life, then helped me change it.

When I did, I was finally ready to share it with someone special.

I can pinpoint the moment my life changed

Holistic interior designer and color therapy practitioner Emily Smith, 33, lives in West Oxfordshire.

Before my Saturn came back, Emily says, I was a senior interior designer for a well-known brand. I was ticking professional boxes but I found London to be less glamorous than I had expected.

I was doing the same boring commute every day and increasingly found myself wondering, “What’s the point of all this?” I can pinpoint the exact moment when everything changed.

I was feeling discouraged after returning from holiday, and one Saturday I heard a strong voice in my head telling me to go to Richmond in south-west London.

There, I was drawn to a store called The Organic Mind. I ended up reading with a psychic who kept talking about color therapy. I didn’t know what that meant, but I couldn’t get her words out of my mind.

Holistic interior designer and color therapy practitioner Emily Smith, 33, says she’s “so grateful for the power of Saturn.”

I started training in color therapy at the beginning of 2018 and by the end of the year I took a huge risk leaving the corporate world to work in therapy full time.

It has changed a lot but today life is happy. My days are not dictated by my work and I am much happier now that I feel supported by the universe. I met my partner at a color therapy workshop, too. I am very grateful to the power of Saturn.

Interviews conducted by Samantha Brake