Saturn and Neptune Turn Retrograde in Pisces

Are you feeling held back yet?

Hello reader! Every Thursday, I post the notes from this week’s episode of Maria Luz’s Conscious Curiosities. This week’s post is shorter than usual because it is one of the episodes with a hypnotic track. This one is to explore how Neptune asks us to dissolve while also inspiring us. If you haven’t tried hypnosis at home, head on over to the podcast on your favorite podcast player. If you want to personally work with me, please visit my website. Use and share code ASTROHYP for 20% off your first service. I also want to be sensitive to those who may be short on money but wish to tap into astrology, so please email me if that’s you!

Last week’s podcast episode was about Neptune, so I thought it would be nice to build a hypnotic track around this energy. Neptune is about as Neptunian as it can get sitting at the very last degree of the zodiac, at 29 degrees Pisces, which Neptune rules (in modern astrology), and Saturn is sitting in Pisces and about to go retrograde, bringing in some heaviness and an even greater sense that we are running out of time. And Neptune itself will move retrograde a few days after Saturn, which may be the cause of the feeling that I am inhabiting a sort of watery liminal space. I mean, I can’t complain because I am in a really good place in my life, but in some situations, it may feel like being held back or checked (this would be Saturn’s influence). When planets are in retrograde, it is often a call to review our beliefs and actions. How did we get to where we are and is there something we missed that now needs attention?

I had a preview of this myself very recently, and it felt punitory, as though my daily Tarot cards where punishing me with the more despairing or cornered-feeling cards or reverses. What have I missed? I asked myself. In my case, what I think was at the heart of it was that I was still not living with integrity, despite having upturned my life completely, even leaving my job and embracing my psychic abilities. I was still denying myself complete freedom and happiness because I was afraid I would look bad. 

I sound like a terribly shallow person, but it was complicated because it was about accepting my mom’s narcissism and rejecting my role as the ‘good’ daughter, including the accolades from others for all my good deeds and time spent in her service. 

I have always had trouble with being not good enough, and I realized I was compensating for this by playing that role rather than dealing with my worthiness issues and standing up for myself to claim my freedom.

I share this because maybe you have something similar going on in your life, and this may help you start to make a needed adjustment.

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