Everyone who made the leap through from late twenties and early thirties are familiar with the difficult growing pains associated with that tragic time. It is usually a time when you are assessing – reevaluating certain aspects of your life, determining who or what you want to commit to. Lucky, there is an astrological term for this strange life stage: the Saturn Return — it is experiencing a cultural renaissance. On Ariana Grande’s latest album is 🪐 on a track called “Saturn Returns Interlude”. Kacey Musgraves promoted her next album on social media with the phrase “My Saturn has returned,” although it was quoted as one of her first singles “Deeper Well.” Additionally, SZA recently released a single called “Saturn” and Adele remarked on her struggle through her own "SR" on “30,” her 2021.
Why Is It Such a Big Topic?
When you were born the Ringed Planet in a particular constellation — it takes about 29 years for him to circle through all 12 zodiac signs and then return to the same constellation it was in at the beginning of your life. At that point, it’s identified as your "SR". Right now, Cronus (greek name) is in Pisces from March 23 to February 26, 1976 of the following year; 🪐 was last seen in Pisces from 1994 to 1996, so those born during those years are presumably mid-S Return.
While the exact S-Return takes place at the age of 29, the feeling, ideas usually cover this whole age period of 27 till 30. Let me remind you that you also get a second Cronus Return in his late fifties and third in your eighties. Those who were born between February 6, 1991, & May 20, 1993, as well as June 29, 1993, and January 28, 1994, passed through their first Saturn Return. At the same time, the ones from the early sixties, born between January 3, 1962, & March 23, 1964, – particularly, September 16, 1964, and December 15, 1964, passed through their second one.
So, What Happens During a SR Exactly?
Our lives are a construct of externalities before it happens. It’s the life our parents, teachers, friends, bosses, society, etc. shove onto us. But when the Ringed Planet returns back to the home base in its charts, the gas giant asks us to question every single aspect of our existence to make sure we’re living our best life. In general, this period can be metaphorically labeled as “powerful growing pains,” which means it’s a time of radical transformations. When it is done with its turn, we are 100% ready to live our best life, whatever it means for us personally.
It is also a time of getting clear about who you really want to be as an individual. You may realize that you’ve not been truthful to yourself and that you’re the only one who has to lose that self-imposed limitation. Cronus is also a planet of time – commitment, which implies that things or people who are not supposed to be with you in the future may go away during your SR. Moreover, you might feel pressured to figure your entire life out. It creates this feeling that there’s no time but also makes everything feel like it’s taking forever. There are no shortcuts with the Ringed Planet, so it means you’re going to put in the work only to see the payoff in three years.
We cannot claim that 🪐 isn’t one dramatic planet, with its rings, shining like ice, diamond rain. Malevolent, evil in nature, it is reputed to bring calamity & negativity. Still, this is not entirely true. Saturn’s Saturnine Cherish deeds are hard to obtain anywhere else. Cronus represents 2024 might be an exciting year for us, as from January into when the year ends, the entire time it will remain in Aquarius; as well as from June into November it will go retrograde in Pisces. The year 2024 amounts to 8 numerology number conveyed as 2023 adds to eight 2+0+2+4 equals 8 which we call SR's number. Let me show you this mysterious planet beyond much of the popular anxiety, myths about it.
Middle Adulthoodlet’s See Who’s Going Through Their Saturn Return Next!
After finishing with Pisces on February 13, 2026, it will first move into Aries, which is the initial member of the horoscope and is in power & firepower. Therefore, a unique band of men will try its SR. The first S-Return will include persons born between April 7, 1996 to June 9, 1998, as well as those born between October 25, 1998 – February 28, 1999.
It Can Show up in Several Areas of Your Life
Many people experience a significant career pivot during their 🪐 Return, while others find their niche at work. Some discover who they genuinely value in your life. Perhaps your friends are moving in various ways, or you are contemplating ending a relationship / committing more fully to one or the other. The Ringed Planet come backs typically coincide with the ages at which people have children, marry, either enter a legally binding partnership. You could be questioning whether to pack up and relocate to a new city. Perhaps you find yourself immersed in deep healing about your past & your family. How did you grow up, does it fit who you are now? During your SR, you look backward to emerge forward.
Claire Comstock-Gay was The Cut’s horoscope columnist says: “It was a great time where there was a lot of chaos. I moved cities, I had a big breakup — all these things were happening to me. But I was empowered by it, I felt purposeful in life.”
Ms. Comstock-Gay continued, referring to a Saturn return as a time when you feel a sense of loss of the failures of youth and come fully into adulthood. She claims that converting the grief that comes with shifting into the art is a fantastic approach to narrate a difficult but terrific story.
Since the Ringed Planet is in Aquarius this year, you are going to reimagine your purpose, vision of life.
Combine the force & grit of 🪐 with the visionary expressions of Aquarius energy, you have the ideal filtration that is your heart’s desire when it comes to purpose. The retrograde in Pisces sprinkles in a little stardust to prepare the groundwork for your dream life and reveals the adjustments you require to make as you soar through it swiftly.
How Does Saturn Return Influence the Different Signs?
The following chart shows how your it would manifest in the chart, along with what to expect for each zodiac sign.
- in Aries, then the lesson is likely to revolve around competition, autonomy.
- in Taurus is likely to teach about finance & stability.
- in Gemini will have lessons on communication, peers.
- in Cancer is likely to teach people about security & vulnerability.
- in Leo is a lesson on pride, ego.
- in Virgo is likely to be a lesson on perfection & control.
- in Libra is likely to test partnership, compromise.
- in Scorpio is likely to offer lessons on intimacy & trust.
- in Sagittarius is a lesson on expansion, growth.
- in Capricorn is a lesson on success, legacy.
- n Aquarius is a lesson on innovation & community.
- in Pisces is a lesson on spirituality, boundaries.
Life's Cycles: Are They Connected?
If you remember, at the beginning we discussed that Saturn returns to the Sun in about 29.5 of Earth years, it is overall a cycle. So the first time it come back in your life happens is between late 20s to early 30s. The classical interpretation is that this is the time when a person truly grows up – many experience it as needing to face themselves for the first time, accept responsibility for who that is. In other words, you need to grow up. This is very conventional to the phases people go through in their life, the first two happen just within the 30-60 age marks. Here is what these look like:
Adulthood – Middle Age: Early Adulthood (From Ages 21 to 35)
Adulthood also has its 3 similar stages: childhood with ages from 0 to 12, adolescence with ages between 13–20. The early stage is defined by complete independence.
It is also a time of highest individuality when you find yourself in society and search for personal success. Many professionals choose what to do for the rest of their lives at this phase because they have managed to excel at at least one skill that society values. You can either go to university or college, try apprenticeships, either start at an entry-level position.
It is also foundational to mature relationships, which has the hardest times throughout adulthood. Because now you start from scratch: the PC reaches relationships from their peers to something with furthermost intentions. Thus, this is a period of most of the human lifetime crucially responsible for eating the product of society. Rinse & repeat.
Key characteristics Adulthood – Middle age: maturity, role in society, personal growth, learning phase, relationships, pitfall (isolation).

Middle Adulthood (ages 36-50)
- Transition to interdependence. Most people still strive to achieve personal success, but this time around it’s more fun if success can be achieved in a group or as a team. People are generally looking to have a big impact on others.
- Most powerful position. People have generally mastered their field, knows what he wants to do and how. From there, a simple transition into leadership occurs in all sectors of life: career & family, primarily. I’m afraid…
- The pitfall? Many people are concerned that the best time they have long passed – despite the fact that it is not so… there is clearly less opportunity at this age, but it is quite possible to get stuck & give up already in middle adulthood.
Key Characteristics for Middle Adulthood
- Maturity: transition from personal independence to mutual dependence;
- Society role: leading one;
- Personal growth: summarizes, hard-earned wisdom & painting, a lot of things, come to acceptance;
- Learning: mastering leadership;
- Relationships: their own loved ones.
Any More Stellar Songs for the Saturn Return?
As mentioned earlier, the second most novelty song is the first song of Kacey Musgraves’s new album “Deeper Well” Groove Catalog. The lyrics are quite unambiguous. She begins with “My Saturn has returned”, then sings about how she is ultimately abandoning the people, habits that are wasting her time and dragging her down, like “Roll out of bed, hit the gravity bong that I made” :
The “Saturn Return playlist” can be expanded with the 2000 album “Return of Saturn” by No Doubt, R.E.M., Hayley Williams and Stevie Wonder. Or Katy Perry’s saturnine ballad “By the Grace of God”.