Saturn & Neptune Retrograde In Pisces, 2023: Here’s What Your Zodiac Sign Can Expect

Planets

26 Jun

An uncomfortable yet necessary cycle of growth and evaluation has arrived

Summer 2023 serves up intense retrograde action as Saturn and Neptune begin their backspin through sensitive Pisces (which is just an optical illusion, the planets aren’t actually moving in reverse). Both Saturn and Neptune retrograde are annual occurrences — so this isn’t a transition that you’re unfamiliar with. However, this year both planets will retreat through the same zodiac sign, doubling their intense impact on a unique area of your life (read your horoscope for personalized insight).

Your mental fog is clearing, offering opportunities to give more attention to healing your mentality and relationship with your faith, beliefs, and spirituality. Saturn and Neptune retrograde are here to teach you that being spiritual isn’t about avoiding your reality; it isn’t denying your humanness or living for the aesthetic. Spirituality is a committed embodiment of truth and loving-kindness. Brace yourself for a tremendous push from the universe to grow in the light of the truth and be present in reality, no matter how painful it may be.

Saturn retrograde brings new karmic lessons

Despite its bad reputation, Saturn retrograde will support the development of your wisdom as you embark on a new cycle of growth and maturity. Ruling over your self-limitations and sense of responsibility, stoic Saturn is the often feared planet of karma, challenges, and time. When retrograde from July 17 to November 4, 2023, Saturn urges you to make grounded and realistic self-assessments of your boundaries, mental well-being, and where you’ve become distracted or evasive. You won't be able to avoid the consequences of previous actions during Saturn's backspin. This means you’ll experience ease in areas where you’ve put in diligent and disciplined work efforts and challenges where you’ve avoided your responsibility.

Neptune retrograde unveils the truth

Well-needed reality checks are heading your way as Neptune embarks on its illusory change of direction from June 30 or July 1 to December 6, 2023. The universe invites you to come back down to earth in the area of your life where you are most untethered and ungrounded. Neptune — the planet of dreams, delusion, fantasy, and deception — urges you to heal without seeking false comforts and security in illusions and escapism. When retrograde, Neptune strips away the haziness of your vision and beliefs, forcing you to confront the untruths you’ve upheld through idealism, blind faith, and unconscious deception.

As an outer planet (one that is further away from the Sun in our solar system), Neptune unleashes its greatest influence over us as a collective, issuing global wake-up calls and moments of disillusionment. We may realize that we’ve lacked power in cultivating our faith and beliefs — especially relating to religion and spirituality. We’ll realize that our empathy has become unconstructive, causing us to affirm harmful behaviors in society in an attempt to express unconditional love. As we react from a place of fear of repeating history, we’ll soon realize that recent decisions made don’t have a positive influence and that we’ve overlooked more important problems.

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Aries

Be kind to yourself as you explore your subconscious mind, mental health, and the deeper motivations behind your avoidance or substance use (i.e., what you’re avoiding, subduing, or trying to access outside of yourself). Tend to your mental well-being and develop a conscious awareness of how your fears distort your perception of your capabilities and what’s actually unfolding in reality.

Taurus

Your dreams and manifestations are under serious review as the universe highlights where you’ve been unrealistic with your expectations. An overemphasis of your belief may have caused you to set unachievable goals on an ungrounded timeline which has only amplified your stress. Through careful observations, the universe calls you to acknowledge how you have disempowered yourself by becoming too emotionally reliant on your friends and community.

Gemini

Have you become overwhelmed by your ambitions and the people you're trying to compete with? A longing for greater fulfillment but a lack of clarity and awareness of why you’re chasing a career goal may have resulted in inconsistency, poor timekeeping, distractions, naïevity, and a lack of self-discipline. Saturn and Neptune retrograde invite you to explore how poor boundaries have caused you to over-absorb energy and information from others in social settings.

Cancer

It’s time to acknowledge how unconscious spiritual avoidance has influenced you to deny your human nature and truth. You may have sought to confirm your emotional bias by over-searching for signs and symbols (like angel numbers), and now, Saturn and Neptune retrograde call you to cultivate self-trust by being honest about the realities you’ve created in your mind and the ideals you’ve projected onto the world.

Leo

Saturn and Neptune retrograde encourage you to heal and readjust your karmic qualities (such as being a martyr). Hard-hitting truths about how you’ve evaded your feelings while proclaiming to have moved on will force you to allocate time to work through your struggles with care. Don’t live in denial, Leo. Work toward accepting the past and finding peace in your power to cultivate a more fruitful future.

Virgo

The scales of giving and receiving in your relationships have tipped unfavorably. This may be due to an inability to give yourself fully and unconditionally to your significant other or an unconscious pattern of over-compromising your needs to make your partner happy. As reality sets in, the universe calls you to re-explore the realism of your standards in love and whether you’re able to meet your own expectations.

Libra

Avoiding your responsibilities may have fueled your excessive worrying. And now, you might have become trapped in a cycle as your obligations mount up, causing you to stress even more. Slow down, Libra, and observe how your emotional troubles are fronting in your physical reality. You’ll no longer be able to overlook signs that your health needs closer attention. Observe the impacts of your avoidant routines and take better care of your well-being.

Scorpio

Have you gotten caught up in fantasies, dreams, and illusions? Saturn and Neptune call you to see the truth of how lowering your boundaries has contributed to your hurt and disappointment in your dating life. Yearning for a love story may have influenced you to force a connection by presenting yourself as the person of your crush’s dreams rather than expressing yourself authentically. As you wise up, you’ll learn to stop relying on external sources to sustain your happiness.

Sagittarius

Karmic lessons will call you to reflect on where you’ve been living in the future and search externally for matters that will offer you peace. Moments of introspection will allow you to retreat to your center and discover the freedom that lies within. Consider how you’ve gotten lost in external pursuits to expand outwardly and absent-minded daydreams about where you’re longing to be instead of living in a state of presence.

Capricorn

Capricorn, if you don’t make decisions, life will make them for you. As you anchor deeper into this realization, you’ll re-evaluate where you’ve been lying to yourself, resisting your truth, and allowing others to call the shots. Your insecurities and anxiousness will no longer go ignored. If you’re courageous enough to face them, clarity will set in, and you’ll see how your deeper feelings have skewed your judgment and caused you to overthink.

Aquarius

Soon, you’ll realize the material and financial goals you’ve been working toward aren’t going to provide you with lasting emotional fulfillment. Rather than stirring in regret, embrace this learning opportunity by peeling back the emotional attachments, beliefs, and fears relating to your resources (money, time, and material possessions), that are fuelling your dissatisfaction. You’re about to re-learn what it means to support yourself.

Pisces

Feeling like you’ve lost your way is a sign that the universe is directing you toward a deeper truth: you’re trying too hard to control the direction of your life path. Surrender to life’s flow and expect humbling experiences that teach you to cultivate acceptance around where you are right now in your life. Deconstruct your false beliefs that have fuelled your insecurities, self-doubt, and inferiority.