Star Struck Style

Saturn turns direct this evening at 25°09″ Pisces. It turned retrograde back in July and reentered the sign at the beginning of September. It spent about three months in Aries during the warmer months of the year, and it will return to that sign around Valentine’s Day next year. “Café Astrology” offers this interpretation of the ringed planet’s station:

“This change of direction serves as a potent reminder to handle our responsibilities and bring our goals down to earth. With Saturn’s direct turn, our responsibilities, and perhaps our limitations, magnify. Gradually, our longer-term goals and plans become clearer.”

My “longer term goals” actually took a back seat to my short-term happiness when Saturn moved back into Pisces. I kept telling myself that I would find something else to do professionally this past autumn. However, when autumn arrived I spent most of the season second-guessing whether or not a new full-time job would be the thing that would make me happy. I was perfectly content doing what I was doing.

I’m still content — even more than ever, to be perfectly honest. I actually feel as if I’ve got my feet on the ground at the moment. I’m not sure if that will change in between now and February, though. Is Saturn in Pisces facilitating my delusions? Am I going to get to the grand finale of this current cycle and ask myself “What was I thinking?”

I do have stationary Mercury hovering over my natal Neptune as I write this post, so maybe I’m just paranoid. I do feel as if this is the happiest I’ve been in years. I might be underemployed, but I feel terrific. I don’t get out of bed in the morning dreading the day ahead like I did last February when I came to the conclusion that I hated where my life was going.

Maybe that will all change once Saturn returns to Aries in the new year, but I doubt it. I really do feel as if my feet are on solid ground, even if that ground is a little wet while Saturn makes its final stand in the wateriest of water signs. Perhaps Saturn in Pisces has taught me that accepting my feelings is more important than putting on a brave face and suffering through something that makes me miserable. Even though my natal Saturn is in Pisces, I’ve become less-Saturnine than I’ve ever been over this past year. And I haven’t been this happy with the direction of my life in as long as I can remember. Who could have seen that coming?