Saturn in Scorpio went into retrograde motion on February 18th, 2013, and began giving all of us some lessons about how we create systems to manage power and influence both in our personal lives and in collective society.
Scorpio is an all-or-nothing energy. It likes things decisive and clear. It also likes to delve into the deepest darkness and the brightest Light of any matter, but especially emotional and spiritual matters – it wants to know everything because it won’t trust easily if at all until it knows everything.
Saturn is the Great Father of the Zodiac. This energy lends itself to discipline, focus, and is often associated with authority figures. It is very influential in getting things done – goals accomplished and ambitions fulfilled. It primarily oversees careers, professions, and social status, and the social structures that define what is or isn’t acceptable in those areas. However, its disciplinary presence can be felt in any area of your life, depending on where Saturn resides or transits in your personal chart.
When Saturn is direct in Scorpio, it seeks out the darkest dark and brightest Light of the structures and conventions in place throughout our society. But when Saturn in Scorpio goes retrograde, this excavation process gets personal – this journey of emotional-spiritual focus and discipline is applied to our own inner motivations. This Saturn Retrograde in Scorpio is about facing your emotional depths and awakening to the darkest dark and brightest Light of your own emotional-spiritual expression. You new have opportunities to discover how you really feel about yourself and express your personal power within the conventions of society.
On a personal level, Saturn Retrograde in Scorpio will push you to see how you affect or are affected by power. It gives you a chance to take responsibility for the structures you use to manage matters of power and influence in the various areas of your life. You’ll be presented with opportunities to face up to the systems you’ve established in your own life in order to wield your own power and influence over others…or in order to give your power away to others by letting them overly influence you. Your mode of operation in matters of power and influence will be revealed to you during this time. If you haven’t begun a journey within your own inner workings before now, it is very likely you will be encouraged to do so over these next 4.5 months. If you’ve had a tendency to avoid facing and/or dealing with your own power and influence behaviors, this retrograde period could prove very challenging for you.
On a collective level, Saturn Retrograde in Scorpio will confront us with the rules and structures we’ve put in place to manage power and influence on a larger scale. Laws we’ve voted for, systems that have been implemented, rules and regulations that are being enforced – they may begin to impact us on an individual basis in ways that either focus our energies for the better or create obstacles or challenges for us in moving forward or upward. As we experience the actual–factual-practical results of our choices – both the Light and the darkness – we may begin to recognize revisions that need to be made or need to be scrapped yet again in order to serve and achieve our collective goals and ambitions on a societal level.
This won’t be an easy retrograde experience. Facing inner self-reflection by allowing yourself to really see all of who you are and all you have the potential to be in darkness and in Light can be a very distressing experience, especially if you’ve avoided it or been in denial about these aspects of yourself and your life. If you find yourself very upset by what you are awakening to, don’t be afraid to ask for help or support as this can be a very intense and profound journey into your True self on a soul level whether you are dealing with it by choice or “by force”.
Yet this journey into the depths of your soul that Saturn Retrograde in Scorpio provides is well worth the outcome, and you may find that if you embrace this process rather than resisting it, afterward you may be knowing and trusting of yourself and others in ways you never imagined possible. As result, you may transform your life for the better in ways you never could have imagined.
Saturn in Scorpio will be retrograde motion now through July 7th/8th 2013. Make the most of this of inner reflection by allowing yourself to really see all of who you are and all you have the potential to be in darkness and in Light. And again – if you find yourself very upset by what you are awakening to, don’t be afraid to ask for help or support as this can be a very intense and profound journey into your True self on a soul level.
Thank you for reading and sharing. Until next post…
~ Light, Love, and Blessings,
Grace
