Meeting the path of most resistance
Meeting the path of most resistance
Saturn rx wants you to focus and prioritise, peel back the layers.
Saturn Retrograde
18th of June - 4th of November
Saturn 🪐 is the planet of material reality, he deals with restriction, hard work and delays. He represents time, rules, limitations and what you came here to master in this lifetime.
Saturn grounds things in reality and asks you to honor commitment, duty, responsibility and maturity by having awareness of your actions and owning your decisions and your life trajectory.
His annual retrograde cycle brings this already slow planet, to a grinding halt and where he stands is where the important lesson and the “work” lies.
Expect: roadblock, delays, resistance and required effort.
This purposeful to make you pay attention and have you stand still enough to notice the world around you and what’s really important to you AKA what are you willing to work HARD for.
I’ve been going through something and I’m going to be completely honest, things have changed.. I’m having a bit of a existential crisis of how I show up right now because parts of my identity are shifting and changing (I feel this is a collective theme rn for a lot of us)
I value honestly and transparency and because I’m still a bit uncertain (twelfth house things) I haven't said anything (classic avoidance behaviour.)
But I’m here to face the music and fill you in about the quickly approaching Saturn Retrograde cycle which is FITTING because it’s about doing just that.. facing the thing your avoiding, doing the hard things, focusing, prioritising and just getting clear on the path to the big goal (or just working out what you’re working so damn hard for!)
My friend Ayla of
recaps her recent experience of doing “Super Effort” which is the process of intentionally choosing new action to get a new outcome.. (I call this archetype embodiment and collapsing a timelines)Read about it here ⬇
But it got my thinking about the things I’ve achieved in my life that have really shaped me as a person, have mostly required a big effort or a prolonged stretch pass my comfort zone.. like pregnancy, creating a business, renovating a house, selling and buying a house or even the study that I’m currently undertaking (which btw I just found out I passed my massive assessment, which was a huge 3 week push to get done👏🏼🤠).. the effort required for these things is A LOT and honestly the process on paper is kind of overwhelming.. but broken into little bits it becomes a manageable effort.
Taking it day by day, task by task.
You can do hard (or BIG) things by braking them into smaller steps.
I was recently chatting with a friend who I was in a mentoring container with when I was preparing to launch Soma Tide as it exists today..
It was mid 2020, I was very lost and in the very early day of my Saturn return.
Together we shared some lols and personal jokes, talking to how much we’ve changed and grown (who were those girls) and how we’ve almost come full circle on the “projects” and intentions we set within that container.. we both thought about why we are in such different places now and it makes sense really, you are always growing and evolving.. your intentions aren’t forever, they grow and evolve with you too!!
Which makes me think how this reflects Saturn’s movements in that time (Saturn moved into home sign of Sidereal Capricorn in January 2020 just as the Panie B started to go global!) How quickly the simple things that we all took for granted became really valuable, like going out to eat at restaurants, meeting friends irl, working in a coffee shop, taking your kids to the playground (mind blowing🤯 that they were closed)
But now that Saturn has moved into its other sign of rulership (Sidereal Aquarius - Read about that here) we’re now heading towards big picture vision and working for a better tomorrow (putting one foot in front of the other) and we’re a week and a bit away from Saturn’s annual retrograde cycle.
This is a reality check to where your real priorities lie and demands you to work out what big goals you’re working towards and how you’re actually getting there.
This may be really uncomfortable.
The truth can be.. but it can also be medicine to set you free.
You will also be hearing a lot of talk about fear, security, scarcity and lack.. times are uncertain with war, inflation and the recession..
With the snowball effect, it’s easy to fall into the lens of life happening to you instead of with you.. but you have agency and ability to react with grace so you can find a way to navigate through whatever roadblock is currently in your way.
You cannot control the external factors [insert current life stress or world event] but you can control your own reactions, internal stories and can create a strong personal foundation so you aren’t thrown for a 6 every time an event takes place.
This process comes from within.
Peel back the layers 🍊
When your coming up against a wall of resistance over and over.. the obvious thought would be to try and find the path of least resistance (this is the theory of taking easiest effort or action toward something) BUT what if simply acknowledging being in the hard place and the big effort that is required is the first step needed to do something super..
Sometimes calmly navigating the situation itself is enough set the tone for something powerful on the other side of the challenging time..
Things like:
Reframing the obstacle
Breaking the big thing into smaller more manageable tasks
Doing more with less
Getting scrappy and making something out of nothing
Frugal life hacks (Grandmas are the ultimate Saturnian role models)
Noticing where you are already feeling abundant in life
The retrograde lesson we are working moves backwards from experiencing a worldly crisis (as mentioned I’m experiencing one) and then there is a effort to seek help and healing > this then allows you to focus on the path to success and abundance.
Once you process the lesson, you can shift the lesson loop (the lesson will always keep repeating until you master it) and this is the perfect time to do it.
This is the catalyst for getting in and honing your focus and priorities especially when it comes to going after your goals in life.
Face the resistance you are feeling by focusing on one single step at a time..
Just focus on the next right step for you.. it’s impossible to know the destination or outcome. Let go of the outcome.
Then before you know it you’ll be on your way to success!
Note: There is focus on time and timelines, a lot of mid nineties themes and please please don’t buy new tech, phones, computers or cars in this retrograde - the likelihood you’ll have major issues are high, so just wait!
