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The Sun-Saturn Conjunction: Balancing Dreams and Reality in Pisces
The Sun-Saturn conjunction occurring on March 12th initiates a new 378-day cycle of conscious awareness around our long-term goals, responsibilities, and limitations in the spiritual realm of Pisces. This alignment creates a powerful opportunity to merge practical planning with spiritual vision while confronting reality checks about what truly inspires us.
• Saturn in Pisces creates tension between structure and boundlessness, challenging us to apply realism to visionary creativity
• The Sun illuminates Saturn's energy, bringing clarity to limitations, challenges, and areas needing discipline
• Taking time to quiet the mind and meditate on March 12th may reveal solutions through direct experience rather than analysis
• The Lunar Eclipse following this conjunction supports releasing perfectionism and overthinking that blocks progress
• Looking at where Pisces falls in your birth chart (using whole sign houses) reveals which life area is receiving restructuring
• Collective themes may include revelations about health issues, particularly for leaders or in maritime/water-related contexts
• Different signs will experience this energy uniquely—Pisces may need rest, Libras may face health realizations, Virgos need emotional release
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Hey, there, it's Evan Nathaniel Grimm, and welcome to Astrology Unbound, and today we're going to discuss the Sun-Saturn conjunction that's happening on March 12th. The Sun-Saturn conjunction only happens once every 378 days, and it does plant a seed and set a new tone for Saturn in our conscious awareness, so I'm going to discuss that today. Before I do, though, definitely check out my Substack newsletter. It does give you in-depth insight also into every new and full moon, the key retrogrades. I also provide manifestation guides, intention-setting rubrics, journal prompts, and you can also attend the occasional webinar. And you also get 30% off every course or video on my website by becoming a paid Substack subscriber and you can also by becoming a Substack subscriber, you can join a group of like-minded people, and in those webinars, you can engage with other subscribers and ask me questions, and it's definitely worth your while. Also, my 2025 horoscopes are still available on my website. Definitely check those out, because those will give you an advanced notice about the impact of every new and full moon on your sun, moon and rising sign throughout 2025. So I've already laid out the meanings of each new and full moon for the entire year ahead through those videos. So I've already laid out the meanings of each new and full moon for the entire year ahead through those videos. So you can still access those through my website now.
Speaker 1:So let's dive into this week's subject the Sun-Saturn conjunction, the Sun-Saturn alignment, and we have a lunar eclipse this week. That's a big deal. However, I'm saving that for my Substack newsletter, so another reason to subscribe. There is a post about that coming in the next few days. But the Sun-Saturn alignment is also critical to understand because this again is planting a new seed regarding the planet Saturn. And Saturn will now, over the next 378 days, play a new role in our conscious awareness and we will start to work with that planet's energy differently and factor it into our long-term goals differently, factor it into again, our conscious almost expression of our identity differently. And this is very critical because Saturn does pertain to our long-term goals. Actually, it also pertains to, you know, our responsibilities, our commitments, but also highlights where we face challenge and delays.
Speaker 1:But before I start to break that down, understand why we're talking about the alignment with the sun. This is because it is the beginning of what's called a synodic cycle for the planet Saturn, and every planet has a synodic cycle. Now, when it comes to the superior planets, which are the planets from Mars outward to Pluto, meaning the planets that are beyond Earth's orbit. These planets follow a specific sequence where they align with the Sun and that conjunction marks the beginning of the synodic cycle and then those planets oppose the Sun, which marks the halfway point of that planet's retrograde phase. It's the halfway point of the synodic cycle. That opposition can be conceived of as almost a full moon moment for that planet, where we fully realize the impact that that planet is having in this synodic cycle. We understand the impact the planet is having on our expression. We get a better sense of how to tweak and optimize that planet's expression through our identity and we can make adjustments thereafter. But the synodic cycle can be thought of as like a lunation cycle for a planet. So the beginning of the synodic cycle is almost like a new moon. So when saturn and the sun align every 378 days, so basically every year almost, that is again the genesis of a new expression of that planet, both in the collective and individually, and with Saturn.
Speaker 1:Again, it's critical to study this and track this, because the Sun and Saturn in combination speaks to how we would like to express ourselves in a social, societal context. Saturn and Jupiter are the social planets and together those planets really pertain to the ways in which we contextualize our identity in a society. In a society, I always think about Jupiter and Saturn as kind of forming, with Jupiter almost like the messaging, the culture, and then Saturn the norms, the rules, the regulations and the boundaries of that society. I think about Jupiter as the dissemination of a message or media message or what's on the billboards in that society. And then saturn is like the actual, like rules of the road or whatever, and, and saturn in particular has to do with you know, the laws and also, again, the regulations. But in many ways it kind of pertains to like what goes on our name tag, so to speak. So anytime you go to like a conference or a function and you're asked to kind of put on your name tag, like what you do for a living quote unquote. That's very Saturnian. It's about how we define ourselves socially. So, are you so-and-so's spouse? Are you working at such-and-such company spouse? Are you working at such and such company? Are you, you know, working? Are you striving to become the best musician or whatever? Do you belong to this membership club?
Speaker 1:Saturn definitely confers some type of status, but for this episode I want to focus on Saturn, I think, in the most intuitive way, which is really well. With Saturn, it's really about committing. It's about committing to something consistently and for the long term, so that we can stabilize around that thing. So again, so that we can achieve something that maybe defines us in the eyes of others and not in a bad way. But as we sort of strive for that peak or that success or that achievement, we do face a lot of pressure, either from the outside, or we face delays. And Saturn is also a reality check. Think about Saturn as the planet that comes around every 27 to 29 years to basically hand down this reality check. And it is the lord of time, lord of karma. Saturn returns our reality checks. They can be forks in the road where we have to commit to something in a sort of a binary sense. Do we get married to this person or not, do we take this job or not, do we move across the country or not?
Speaker 1:So the Sun-Saturn alignment every year, every 378 days, is an opportunity to express the energy of Saturn, though which is so complex in a different way, and to become aware of a new aspect, almost, of that planet, individually, I mean because we already know all the meanings of saturn. Like an astrologer can lay out the 30, 40, 50, however many keywords we could apply to saturn, right, and there are many, but we can like lay those all out. However an individual level, that planet will reveal itself to us in myriad ways each time, and in this case it's aligning in the sign of Pisces. So track where you have Pisces in your chart, what house is it in. Definitely is a whole sign house system for that, by the way, and so if you're a Cancer rising, it's in your ninth house, if you're a Gemini rising, it's in your tenth house, and so on, and so I'm going to explain again what this means and then how you can actually use it to your advantage. So, with the Sun-Saturn alignment, you are setting a new tone, setting a new course regarding your long-term goals, regarding your commitments, and in the sign of Pisces, you are establishing some kind of well, some kind of plan that doesn't have to initiate overnight, but you are conceiving of a new way to stabilize the Pisces area of your birth chart.
Speaker 1:Again, and with Saturn in Pisces, it is sort of ironic, because Saturn craves stability, order, hierarchy, structure, and it does remind us that we only have so much time to accomplish our objectives and we have to apply a certain diligence and focus towards something. But in Pisces, pisces is daring Saturn to play a different game. Pisces is daring Saturn to keep its options open, to be open to energy outside of it. It's asking us to surrender to something, to sacrifice. Well, actually, saturn is a lot about sacrifice, but more so to apply some amount of faith to something and to not be so caught up in again the rules of how things are supposed to be, but also to believe that maybe there is something limitless or something inexplicable about our reality, whereas Saturn really shows us the line in the sand, shows us the limitations and again it can even show us our karma in a kind of a brutal way.
Speaker 1:You know, the Saturn return can often, for example, be this really harsh reality check, where the veneer is ripped off and people realize the consequences of their actions. Or Saturn can be this urgency to achieve the long-term thing, such that we delay gratification, we sacrifice pleasures in order to ensure that we're on the right path. It's that energy of not going to the party so that we can finish the newsletter or whatever, which I've experienced many times. But with the Sun-Saturn alignment in Pisces, we are birthing a new vision, a new long-term vision that is Piscean, and with the North Node in Pisces, neptune in Pisces and an eclipse in Virgo coming up this week, we are ideally some kind of concrete plan that, nevertheless, is in the ballpark of something that is incredibly profound or divine, ineluctable, inexplicable, abstract, visionary, creative, right. And along the way to that, we are currently in the balsamic as I'm recording this balsamic phase of Saturn, where we're closing out the previous cyanotic cycle that kicked off February 28th of last year, which, by the way, featured a Mercury-Saturn-Sun conjunction, essentially. So think back to February 28th of last year. What sort of goals and visions were you trying to establish then, or what sort of somberness or heaviness or depression was setting in at that time?
Speaker 1:The reason I'm going that route is because we're talking about the sign of Pisces, and not only does Saturn have this kind of heavy tone to it because it has the ring around it, it has a lot to do with boundaries. But in the sign of Pisces we're talking about energetic health, mental health, spirituality, mindfulness. We're talking about addiction, we're talking about toxicity, we're talking about the immune system. We're talking about sleep and dreams and past lives, and it goes on and on. We're talking about endings and letting go and healing.
Speaker 1:So the Sun-Saturn alignment in Pisces, specifically for some people and for many people, can be not an initiation immediately. It can be a time of hibernation, of being a hermit you know being a hermit. It can be a time where we go into a cocoon and we meditate and we simply exist, we simply be and we simply stand inside of this just energetic space where we quiet the mind, especially with the South Node in Virgo. We quiet the thoughts, especially the critical thoughts in Virgo, and we just finally give ourselves time and space to just accept energy, to welcome it and let it flow through us so that we can hopefully in the ensuing days, start to arrive at a new way to master the energy of Pisces and the house of our chart that is ruled by Pisces. So again, definitely refer to your chart throughout this podcast.
Speaker 1:Make sure that you use a whole sign system. Do not use Placidus. Placidus does not work. At the far northern latitudes, for example. I mean, if I see a client from like Scandinavia or Estonia, the house system does not make any sense. Placidus is again not going to be accurate, and this is something I've proven through doing global forecasts and horoscopes, but also doing readings for clients. You definitely want to use whole sign houses. Simple explanation would be that Leo is the seventh sign after Aquarius. Therefore, leo takes the seventh house, whether it's through derived houses or in an actual birth chart, with someone having an Aquarius rising. So the whole concept of derived houses depends on a whole sign system, by the way, and again, I use derived houses to make horoscopes and global forecasts for, like your sun sign and your moon sign, anyways.
Speaker 1:So the sun-saturn conjunction is happening March 12th at 3.28 am Pacific time, and during that alignment with the sun, we are highlighting the energy of Saturn in Pisces, which is again kind of in a give and take with Pisces. We are, you could argue, applying a realism to the visionary sort of creativity and divinity of Pisces, but we are also being asked to apply that realism again to something that demands some degree of faith and trust in an energy outside of us. So you know the sun is, you know, light, right, it's a, is a bringer. Well, it's a provider of light. Right, the sun, when it's in the sky, helps you think more clearly, see more clearly. You can literally see more easily, and I always use this example, like if you take an exam at 2 pm or 2 am, most people would score higher at the 2 pm exam because the sun is out right, like that is illuminating, it's enlightening, it is providing that rationality. So the sun's going to highlight something and it's going to highlight Saturn here. And you can think about this like almost like Kazemi, you know, when Mercury and the sun line up and there's a Kazemi, mercury-kazemi, it enhances our cognition.
Speaker 1:Briefly, especially if it's an inferior conjunction during a retrograde, that is a point of clarity. But in the case of a Saturn-Sun conjunction, it is specifically clarity around Saturnian themes. So for you this week it could be an illumination of your limits or your delays or your challenges. It could be an illumination of your fears, your worries, which can be Saturn, your sources of self-consciousness. It could highlight your need to isolate for a bit and meditate. It could highlight your need to attend to any mental health challenges. It could call you to restore your faith in something spiritual.
Speaker 1:So for some people it's actually a very heavy time because it can really, with the Sun and Saturn and Pisces, highlight even health challenges depletion, exhaustion, weakness. I mean just in terms of weakness, in terms of just feeling weak and feeling like we're down, and so for some people, it is that reality check that they have to take a break, they have to just take time away from the daily grind. For others, it's an opportunity to map out some kind of plan of action for accomplishing something that, again, is creative or spiritual or visionary, or almost like a dream. So you're making that dream a reality, starting then. But Saturn is about the long term. So it's like what do you have to do to reach those things long term, or at least even just to reach it over the next 378 days until the next synodic cycle, and the next cycle is going to happen when Saturn is in Aries. So if I go to the next one, march 25th of 2026, we have Saturn in the sun at four degrees of Aries, and that's going to take on a completely different tone right before this massive Aries stellium in April 2026, which is like the most warlike stellium I've ever seen, and that will have a lot more to do with like the glorification of, you know, being a hero in some kind of conflict or war, and I think that there will be. There will just be like events in 2026 that you know potentially short sort of show people the reality of like again a plan towards achieving that goal.
Speaker 1:That dream that is very Piscean or in Pisces. It could also be something that's more so healing, or it's humanitarian, it's selfless, and Saturn might show you the work that needs to be done so that you can serve others and sacrifice something to help someone else, to heal someone else, to save someone else. But for some of you, if you've been swimming in the Neptunian aspects of Pisces for too long, since 2011 when that planet entered Pisces, this might help ground you actually and provide you with a good template for evaluating a situation and determining if it is too good to be true. And it could be that guardrail reminding you not to idealize someone or something too heavily, to not get too carried away with these delusions of grandeur, to again merge the dream with the plan and that just depends on where you're at, depends on the exact components of your birth chart. So the answer is it could be either or Some of you, it's going to ground you, provide you with the reality check to put you back on track.
Speaker 1:For others, it's a time where you know, you realize that you do have to dream a little bit bigger. Have to dream a little bit bigger because maybe, with the South Node and Virgo, you've been too caught up in the useless details or you've allowed perfectionism to get in the way, and part of this eclipse, which is very close to this Kazemi of Saturn and the Sun, it's actually happening about a day after you know that alignment of Saturn and the Sun with the eclipse. You know we can't leave that out of the equation today. Perfectionism, any kind of like neurotically high standards that impede action, and so we are ideally doing something very nuanced here, where we're taking time to quiet the mind, to re-enter the garden, so to speak, the garden before we bit from the apple, from the tree of knowledge, before we started thinking so much Like there is a sense in which thinking is the enemy.
Speaker 1:There is a sense in which the hyper-analysis of everything is deleterious to our or even paralyzing us, and most of the time when we have to make an important decision, there are equal sets of pros and cons, and so analysis eventually fails. So oftentimes, when we make the most important decisions in our life, we actually have to meditate on it. We have to have this experience of gnosis or experiential knowledge, not necessarily knowledge that was gathered from, you know again, books or sources of information. We just return to the garden precognition in a way or whatever, however you want to cast it, but like we return to this place where we just experience the energy that is everywhere, the pervasive energy, the infinite, the inexplicable again, the ineluctable, the mystifying. We just have a direct experience with it, we directly know it and we arrive at the answer. And maybe we take this sun-saturn conjunction to meditate and then, after we arrive at that decision through the meditation, then we can go out there and lay out the plan. Or maybe we just decide to go off of intuition.
Speaker 1:At that point, and I think the honest answer is for most people it will be a mixture of separating the wheat from the chaff and realizing there are certain things in our life that we've been delusional about. There are other things in our life that we haven't been dreaming big enough about. So you just have to apply a really good sort of thermometer or take the temperature of all these things. Just get an accurate read on the state of your dreams or your life and what is inspiring to you at this point? What's inspiring you? Because the more that something inspires you, the more effortless it will be. I mean to attain and to work through it'll feel effortless, and the more uninspiring something is, the more depleting it will be. The more inspiring something is, the more energizing it will be. So, even though the Sun-Saturn conjunction itself is a time to get really serious, actually, either about the dream or about grounding ourselves from the delusion, in either case we should be able to come out of this with a high degree of inspiration.
Speaker 1:So every sign, of course, will be affected differently, and you again want to look up the house where you have Pisces and then look up the meaning of that house. But what I would do is, you know, on March 12th, just set some time aside to not think, like literally, just don't think for a bit. On March 12th, allow energy to course through you. Don't try to chase after something, don't try to attach to anything. Practice a healthy detachment from thoughts, from thinking, see what emerges and reveals itself to you, just kind of put that in your back pocket or decide to map out a plan and then the very next day in the evening, march 13th into 14th, we have the lunar eclipse in virgo which is going to ask you to suspend and let go of certain you know, either neurotic tendencies or over analysis or repetitive cycles, to let go of work that's not inspiring, to let go of patterns that have kept us in the same loop for a long time vis-a-vis our daily habits, to make adjustments to our health practices, fitness practices and so on. Health practices, fitness practices and so on. And you know, let that go, let that be a purge that helps you progress towards these Piscean dreams.
Speaker 1:I also do think, though, for many of you it will be a time to reflect on health, though I think for many people this is about deciphering and decoding. Maybe just a health issue that you've maybe had for a long time, that's been hard to explain or diagnose. Maybe you just arrive at some revelation about that, or you suddenly realize that you have to organize your day differently to master your health. So for some of you, you're shuffling around your schedule as well to support that good health. I also think, in the collective, we might find out some kind of somber news about either a religious figure or executive, or a leader or prime minister or president. We also might experience some news about Piscean storms, but that might also happen during the sun. Neptune Kazemi a couple days later.
Speaker 1:We also might discover some water quality related things, air quality related things, pollution, toxins, gas and oil-related things. There could be some kind of bottleneck in a maritime context shipping delays, something with seaports, complications at seaports. We also could discover something about a healthcare executive and there could be some kind of medical malpractice or medical study in the news. I think actually that has already kind of been underway with the RFK Jr announcement about a study that's going to or there's going to be some kind of research or study commissioned about whether or not there's a link between vaccines and autism, and I think that does fit the between vaccines and autism and I think that does fit the energy of that. You know, lunar eclipse in virgo, and I kind of talked about that in my youtube video predicting march, but anyways, there's a whole range of themes like this that the collective could be experiencing. But I I actually do think there will be some heavy news about the health of either a celebrity or a religious leader or a president or executive. And you know again, even somebody you know will get back to you about a health concern, not necessarily a concern about you, but someone might just tell you like, oh hey, I have to deal with this thing now Because with Saturn, we're dealing with chronic conditions in Pisces.
Speaker 1:Saturn and Pisces, with the Sun there can sometimes highlight chronic health issues or long-term health issues that have to be dealt with. So for some people, the reality check is to take a different approach to health and for some it's about mental health and some people might just take a week off or a day off or a month off and tend to that. Or some people maybe have been working super hard through a health issue and they finally just take a day to recover finally, or take a little bit more time to recover. The South Node in Virgo is telling us to get out of repetitive habits that have been corrosive to our health. And you know, Pisces, I think, and Cancers and Libras probably need the most love right now, and maybe even Virgos. But like Libras, you've been really trying to deal with a lot of master health issues right now.
Speaker 1:A lot of Libras have been going through it. I mean that actress Michelle, what's her name? You know that actress Michelle, what's her name? Michelle Trachtenberg, I think is her name right. I'm totally blanking right now, but I think it's Michelle. Yeah, michelle Trachtenberg, you know she was a Libra. She passed away recently and I was talking on a TikTok live recently today.
Speaker 1:You know that Libras I feel like you know, not to scare people, but like I know, I feel like I mean I know more Libras who have passed away in the past year, since Saturn's been in Pisces than any other zodiac sign. And then people on my TikTok live show were like, yeah, I know people. I just like someone was like. People on my TikTok live show were like, yeah, I know people. Someone was like I know Libras who have passed away as well. And that's not to say that any Libra listening to this should be worried. But Saturn is in a 6,000 aspect to Libra sun and moon and in the 6,000 for Libra rising. That is a lot about mastering health. I had Saturn in my 6,000 in 2015, 16, 17.
Speaker 1:Obviously, I didn't pass away, but it was a reality check for me with my health. I had to address lingering fatigue and it turned out to be low vitamin D and just a lack of exercise. But during those times I doubled down on new routines that promoted better health and ever since then I have been healthier. Like that was a low point for me. You know, pisces right now also might be dealing with some strange health issues, but and just fatigue. So, pisces, you also want to use this alignment with the sun to either get clarity on your exhaustion or to just take time to relax and reassess your goals. Cancer is you've still have Mars in your first house or in your sign, so you've been really stressed. So you also definitely want to take some time to recuperate. And Virgos, I mean you have the eclipse in your first house, so emotions are running high, but you want to let those emotions out, to really experience that cathartic release.
Speaker 1:Anyways, that's all I'm going to address for today, a quick episode, but definitely subscribe to the Substack. Get the insights about the eclipse coming up through the newsletter I'll be posting that newsletter in the next day. Or two Clips coming up through the newsletter I'll be posting that newsletter in the next day or two. Get the 2025 horoscopes to get an advanced notice about every new and full moon this year. And, by the way, you're going to hear it here first I am going to be launching an astrology course very soon about planetary retrogrades no-transcript, this is going to be hours of content just about retrogrades, so it's actually going to be the most in-depth I've gone on any topic.
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