The return of Saturn occurs between the ages of 28 and 30. It marks the official end of childhood and “past lives”: the two are psychologically and even psychologically similar. Perhaps it could be said that when we come into this life, we recreate the conditions of our past lives, whether they are “good” or “bad”, that carry us into our 30s. After that, we are on our own! Officially in the new life, through a “difficult birth” in the Saturn Return, we now create from our own life force. The Universe asks us to find out (actually, “remember” would be a better word) what it was we came here to do and move on.
If you are in the habit of listening to people older than you, you may have noticed the dramatic changes people make in their lives around 30. I can’t think of anything more valuable to young people in their 30s and 40s that I read. biographies of famous people. Here you will learn that no life is without difficulties and that many overcome difficulties to be successful. Biographies are some of the most inspiring things you can read.
On a personal note, at the times when I need inspiration the most, I found more inspiration from reading biographies than even meditation … it is as if biographies are the answer to my prayer when I choose the ones that appear to be. relevant to the problem I’m struggling with.
Here are some examples of important things that people did on their Saturn Return, drawn from the lives of many different people at different times and places so that you can see how universal this principle is:
o A 29 YEAR OLD WOMAN who had married an abusive man when she was only 17 finally found the courage to leave him. She took her three children to another state to live with a nice older man.
o ANOTHER MAN ended his career as a successful rock concert promoter (in the 1970s), married, had a child, and began selling real estate for a living; Unfortunately he hadn’t saved any of the money he made during the wild days!
o ECKART TOLLE, author of “The Power of Now” had a conversion experience at age 30 and began his life as a spiritual teacher.
o GWYNETH PALTROW’s father died just as she was beginning to work on the film about the life and suicide of Sylvia Plath. Afterward, he decided to take at least a year off and said, ‘I worked a lot in my 20s, and I really burned the candle out at both ends and wasn’t too picky about what I was doing,’ he said. ‘I think the combination of losing my father, turning 30, taking a year off has completely changed everything.’ She recently announced that she will be a mother.
o At just 30 years old, WINSTON CHURCHILL followed in his father’s footsteps, crossing the floor of Parliament to the Liberals (on tariff reform), a fact that would have lasting repercussions on his life.
o FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE did the unheard of at 30. She went off to the Crimean War, beginning one of the most influential lives of the early 20th century.
o STANLEY KUBRICK, turning 30, made his first major studio movie, the powerful anti-war movie “Paths of Glory” starring Kirk Douglas.
o At 30, MARILYN MONROE filmed “Bus Stop,” starring Lee Strasberg and Arthur Miller; and married Miller within a year.
or JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. (“A Beautiful Mind”) got married, had a child and experienced the onset of his mental illness around 30.
o At age 31, PRINCESS DIANA got her formal separation from Charles. Andrew Morton’s damaging book “Diana: Her True Story” came out the previous year, revealing that the princess suffered from bouts of depression and bulimia, even attempting suicide.
o ORENTHAL J. SIMPSON ended his career with the Buffalo Bills (1969-77), briefly going to the San Francisco 49ers for two years after that.
o BEETHOVEN was aware of his impending deafness when he released his first symphony in 1800, at the age of 30 (his deafness was the onset of syphilis, so it had an impact on many layers).
o At 30, LEO TOLSTOY ends a life of gambling, fornication and murder (his own words) to start a peasant school on his farm. This is the man whose book The Kingdom of God Is Within You influenced Gandhi to begin his movement of passive resistance. Tolstoy also tries at this time to free his servants and give them his land, but they are suspicious and refuse. Thirty years later, on his second return from Saturn, Tolstoy tries to transfer his goods and properties to his servants, but his wife and children rebel.
o Between the ages of 27 and 32, OSAMA BIN LADEN began spending more time in Afghanistan than in Saudi Arabia. He would spend a total of eight months a year or more in Afghanistan. [Afghanistan is where he found the personal and material resources for Al Quaeda]
o World War I ended and ADOLF HITLER turned 30 years old. Having nowhere to go, he returned to Munich and joined the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP). Two years later he was elected party president or “Führer”.
o The UNITED NATIONS has undergone its second Saturn Return last year and the next … what a beating! Will it reaffirm and grow or … transform into something else?
o ROY HORN (Siegfried & Roy) was mutilated right in the middle of his second Saturn return
o FREDERICK ENGELS was 28 and Carl Marx 30 when they published The Communist Manifesto
o ANGELINA JOLIE had the Mother of all Saturn Returns. Do I need to say more?
You now have a better idea of the extent of this transit and the kinds of changes that real people make in their lives around their 30s. If you are having a difficult time, I recommend a full astrology reading.
Your astrological chart reveals the patterns you chose to live in this life. When you focus on them, everything on your chart is designed to support this. When you forget who you are and why you are here, when you focus on something else, nothing works right. You may have noticed this lately.
For some, it will mean leaving behind a lifestyle that they are used to but have begun to realize they are outgrowing. Others will find that they are a square peg trying to fit into a round hole and that they will never succeed until they start on their own to find out who they are. Some may leave behind what seems to others to be a perfectly successful job, marriage, or other arrangement. But deep down they know they are living a lie and this is the time to find out and do something about it.
If you make a move for more authenticity at 28-30, the whole universe supports you. Usually people find it to be the most stressful time of their life. Never before or again will it be as stressful as it is for some of you right now. But believe it or not, it’s also easier to take an important step in life now than it will ever be again, for another 30 years.
Personally, I have helped several people make their transitions and I can tell you that the only thing you don’t want to say on your deathbed is that you never lived. Any mistake you may make in life cannot be worse than the feeling that you did not try your best. And I’m not talking about a spotlessly clean kitchen floor, either.
The most precious gift you can give yourself, and the gift you return to God in gratitude for the gift of life, is finding yourself and doing everything you can to become yourself, your authentic self. This is a good time to review the hierarchy of needs roughly based on Maslow’s pyramid. The idea is that you cannot move to higher levels, unless you have satisfied the needs of the lower levels. Anyone with the time and resources to read this article will likely make it to the top; however, many are called and few are chosen.
