Dark energies and total confusion reign supreme when stern Saturn comes to a sharp angle in its dance with mysterious Neptune. Tensions between this cosmic pairing can bring some of the greatest hardships you’ll face all year, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t dig something beautiful out of something really rotten.
These two mind-bending planets can shatter old realities and give you the vision to create whole new ones. There’s an artist in us all, and in these troubled times, your creative energies are at their peak—so let them shine on and light your way through even your darkest days.
1. Challenges during this time make for incredible art. Nobody likes feeling down in the dumps, but all the pressure that Saturn-square-Neptune brings can be harnessed to create powerful poetry and provocative photography that normally we don’t have the intensity or drive to create.
2. Your unfulfilled creative passions are getting yanked into being. If you’ve been feeling heavy about your place in the universe lately, this pairing might be why. You latent desires manifest strongly when dreamy Neptune is in play, and pushy Saturn only tugs them closer to the surface. The sense that you’re unfulfilled during this time might just mean it’s time to get back to your roots. Exploring creative passions that you’ve given up on or forgotten is exactly what this alignment is driving you towards.
3. You’ll feel a major drive to bring your dreams into reality. Neptune likes to play around with the abstract, while Saturn is way more grounded in real life. Tensions between these two planets can build disastrously—but giving yourself permission to create can resolve those tensions beautifully. Painting, writing, or even just going wild with your makeup under these skies puts Saturn’s love of realistic action at ease with Neptune’s dreamy nature for a more comfortable balance.
4. You’re being freed from old projects. Saturn-square-Neptune can shatter a lot of illusions, so don’t be surprised if you’re finding a lot of your former dreams and projects crumbling in your hands under this alignment. Letting go might be hard to do, but this is actually great news for your creative spirit. Allowing yourself to abandon projects that just weren’t working opens your creative energies up for a fresh start: new designs and fresh ventures that you can pour yourself into driving forward.
5. You have a nagging need to see your creative pursuits through. The sheer amount of dissatisfied energies coursing through you during Saturn-square-Neptune can be totally maddening, but in reality, it totally makes sense. Neptune’s tendency to get all caught up in daydreams is naturally at odds with Saturn’s do-or-die lifestyle! Paired together in this conflicting alignment, you might feel like the universe is seriously on your case to make big things happen. Don’t just push past any feelings of fear or doubt during Saturn-square-Neptune—use them. Creative forces like Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Rod Stewart and even Marilyn Monroe were born under this alignment! Saturn-square-Neptune is a driving force to propel you into a full-on creative awakening, not something that’s trying to hold you back.
Irene Gaudet
June 23, 2016 at 6:07 AM
Love this.