After a long cosmic retrograde, Saturn’s back! Since July, the planet of tough love, structure, and duty has retrograded which has left us in a reflective state about what responsibilities we carry, for ourselves and others, and what our real life priorities are. Saturn is the sky’s taskmaster, Saturn always makes us listen, show and grow up.
As Saturn stations direct again around 27-28th November, we feel clarity and certainty about what we want to build, invest in, prioritise, and make happen in our lives, and for others. We see how we make a difference, what we bring, where we matter, and what we owe. Winter is typically a time of rest and rumination, so we have around three weeks (before the Solstice and start of Winter) to get busy, plant new seeds, make a commitment, apply or pitch for that next level, and bring our material ideas into real life.
Let the cards guide you towards your key step out of this Saturn Retrograde and into your next chapter of growth…
Aries
Five of Swords, Nine of Wands, The World
You have been wrestling with your self talk and inner voice this year. Although usually an upbeat person, you can talk down to yourself and pick at your insecurities. However, you’ve done it so much that you’ve noticed it, that you’ve rejected doing it, and started to consciously encourage and reassure yourself, and this is all going to lead to you making a really bold leap this December.
You know your goal, your ambition, your purpose, and you finally feel confident enough to make that commitment to it. The real climb starts here. You’re engaged, invested, and ready. Time to back yourself, Aries.
Taurus
Four of Swords, Knight of Coins, Ace of Cups
Your retrograde reflections have led you to the realisation that you need more balance in your life. You have incredible stamina and can get through a lot of hard work, but you need deep rest and regular rewards too, and that all needs to be organised and scheduled, it doesn’t happen by itself. So, you’re getting much more pro-active and considered about your to-do lists and weekly schedules.
They’re not just about chores or tasks, they include the time you have to unwind, play, and really rest, as well as fun and rewarding events or evenings that you know you can look forward to when the hard work is done. This is THE way of living, you feel it changing your mood. Stick with it.
Gemini
Ten of Wands, Ace of Cups, The Hanged Man
Things haven’t gone as you thought they would this year, nor since the retrograde began in July, and you’ve felt tired of many things that once lit your fire. You have changed, Gemini. There is a new 2.0 version of you in town and you can rebuild, refine and redo your habits, choices, priorities, activities, and goals accordingly. Take a clean sheet of paper and write a new plan.
Think out the box, think about your feelings, needs and wants in the here and now. The past is irrelevant. The past has somehow washed away in 2025, and left you feeling empty sometimes, but also purged. You are ready for the rebuild, the comeback, the new empire you’re going to create to serve this magical 2.0 version of you who has emerged at last!
Cancer
Five of Wands, The Chariot, The Moon
You take responsibility very seriously because you crave certainty and stability in life. Saturn is a good friend of yours (indeed, Capricorn is your sister sign) so you’re glad the retrograde is over and you can get your claws back into your prey again! You have a long list of stuff you want to address in your realm, all of which forms your emerging 2025-6 purpose.
It’s like you’re refining your foundations, repairing the breaches, setting new pathways leading to successes you want to enjoy. This Winter is a time of research and planning. You know the end game, now you need to know the best way to achieve it. Use December and January for this phase, and then, come February, launch the plan and activate the game!
Leo
Knight of Coins, The Tower, Page of Coins
There’s a strong sense of renewal and rebirth around you as you come out of this retrograde phase. You are ready to kick something down, let an old structure, role, habit or relationship collapse (it already partially has) and this will clear space for something new. Feels like this relates to career and wealth, to how you make a living.
You know you might need to learn new skills, refine existing ones, and learn a new area… but that feels exciting and inspiring. You enjoy expanding and broadening your options and this retrograde has instilled the appetite to go through this process once more. You are going to acquire new knowledge and use it to build lasting wealth.
Virgo
Eight of Wands, Temperance, Six of Coins
You looked all of your responsibilities in the eye this Saturn Retrograde and discovered that some of them do not really truly belong to you. Once more, you have carried the load belonging to others, and it’s not fair or right. It’s time to redress that balance. It’s time to put down what is not yours to carry, for others to pick up and deal with, and so you can focus on what sits with you alone.
Imagine how much extra time, energy and resource you will have once this is done. I know it’s hard to push back but it’s the right thing to do for everyone, this current situation is not sustainable, and deep down you do know this.
Be brave. Say no more. Set a new and lasting boundary that protects your precious self.
Libra
The Wheel of Fortune, The High Priestess, Queen of Cups
Big changes lie ahead, you are ready to make power moves that come from deep within your psyche, maybe even feel like a reconnection back to your inner child and original nature! All of this transformation is internal, it started in your heart and mind.
Now it’s time to start moving external pieces around and impacting your environment. Now it’s time to be the catalyst for transformation in your realm in the areas you see as being your responsibility and your task to improve, work on, strengthen, and make into a success. You feel aligned with your mind, body and spirit over this. It feels like a culmination of a long phase of reflection, worry, and analysis. Clarity has been hard won, so use it shrewdly.
Scorpio
King of Coins, The Lovers, Two of Coins
Scorpio’s instincts are often protective and defensive, secretive and guarded. You have wondered, through this retrograde, how much good that really does you when it stops and blocks new ideas, energies, openings and faces reaching you. And you’ve resolved to do life differently!
This looks like being more open, welcoming, and even vulnerable. Letting people know how you feel, what you really want, and maybe even letting a few things in that were uninvited or unprepared for – shock, horror! In short, a more risk-taking version of you has emerged from the retrograde because you see that nothing ventured = nothing gained. You have to speculate to accumulate and you’re ready to.
Sagittarius
Nine of Coins, Two of Swords, King of Swords
You are struck by the empowering notion that decisions are your key, and personal, tool for designing and shaping the life YOU want to lead. It can be as easy as that. As long as you’re making smart choices and taking responsibility for managing the outcomes, Saturn will smile on you.
It doesn’t have to be any harder than that, to live with purpose and intent. So you’re entering a three-week burst of power moves, key decisions, and option creation. You are ruled by Jupiter so you always get lucky anyway, even when you don’t really try hard. Imagine how much you can achieve when you do! This could be a turning point in your whole trajectory for the future!
Capricorn
Three of Swords, Ten of Coins, Ace of Swords
You’re ruled by Saturn and know his demands and patterns well. You live your life responsibly and know what is expected of you Goal-setting and over achieving is FUN in Capricorn’s realm. So, seeing your planet come out of retrograde gives you a real energy boost. It also unlocks the confidence to be honest with folk about stuff that needs to be said, understood, and addressed.
Some of this is negative and your task is to call it out, put a stop or block to it, and reset a boundary. Some of it is positive and your task is to build on a shared success, result, or insight. Collaboration beckons you.
Speak your mind, own your opinions, be accountable and hold others to account too. You have more control and influence than you realise – go prove that to yourself now.
Aquarius
Justice, The Hermit, Page of Cups
Saturn Retrograde has opened your eyes to the ways in which you can do what feels like the right thing in your realm, rather than what is easy or on offer or others wish for you. You have explored your own needs and desires, noticed where you feel you’re under duress or even faking it to please someone else.
You realise you have power to make changes here and shift the emphasis or even the whole intent of what you do, with who, how often and when. You can make fresh choices and set a new plan out. Some of this feels like a reconnection with your inner child, your natural likes and talents, your original idea of what adult life would feel like. Don’t push that down. Embrace it. Use it. Time to be authentically who you are.
Pisces
Seven of Cups, The Magician, Eight of Swords
You carry so many unique and imagination ideas around in your head but self doubt, imposter syndrome, and worry often cloud your confidence to share or invest in them. This Saturn Retrograde has given you some tough love. If you don’t back yourself then who will? It’s time to have faith in your powerful mind and creativity, it’s time to unleash it and express it and start creating!
We all have a duty and Pisceans are the creators of the zodiac- the writers, actors, musicians, inventors, and artists. Even if it’s not your career, you can still use your leisure time to pursue your artistic leanings. Believe in your ability. Bring it out into the world
