Now is the time for you to come to terms with the way you work with Saturn in your life. Do you tacitly accept Saturn’s responsibilities? Or do you reject them and loathe things that are slow-moving in favour of quick action and immediate gratification? This will depend on where Saturn is located in your own natal chart, but I’m willing to bet that you tend to operate more from the latter point of view.

Saturn through your first will test the limits of your patience and might force you to slow down and deal with things more slowly than you’d prefer. Saturn in the first is often a time of introversion and introspection, possibly even depression. This might be particularly disorienting if you’re an extroverted person, as you might find yourself drawing inward.

Lean into this opportunity for self-reflection. You have a chance to review all the ways you structure your own approach to life, and make some changes to address the things that aren’t working (or are straight-up dysfunctional). In particular, this might focus around your relationship with anger, aggression, conflict and action.

Saturn through your first is an invitation to a cosmic anger-management course. You might resent having to leash your inner fire, but you have a chance to temper it into something more stable and productive.

Watch out for mental health challenges and your personal self-sabotaging tendencies during this transit. These might be particular challenges for the next two years, especially with Saturn in the sign of its fall. Impulse control, especially around anger and aggression, must be confronted.

You might find yourself withdrawing or even going full hermit mode during this time. There’s a tendency to brood and even despair, particularly over past failures and missed opportunities. It’s easy to start obsessing; the key is to allow these feelings and thoughts to bubble up, hold and observe them, and then release. Don’t get caught up in a sunk-cost fallacy: cut your losses and prepare to move on.

Take stock of what you accomplished over the last several years, as well as what you haven’t. You will have an opportunity to start over and build some new self-structures in a couple of years, but now isn’t the time to forge ahead on a new path – much as that Aries energy might have you wanting to.

This period of isolation and seclusion can become quite literal for some, as the twelfth house corresponds to illness, confinement and incarceration. Take extra care of your health during this time. It may be a good time to undertake some form of therapy – and you might be forced into this if circumstances spiral beyond your control.

Saturn through your eleventh will have you feeling a lot of heaviness and work coming up in the groups and communities that you’re a part of. While you might volunteer to take on new responsibilities related to groups and communities during this time, by the end of the transit these responsibilities might feel overwhelming and oppressive.

You might start to feel like people are getting in your way more than they are helping you: coworkers, acquaintances and friends might start to chafe and annoy.

You are invited to step up or step out – either you’ll shoulder more responsibilities than ever, or you’ll decide you’ve had enough and ditch. At the end of this transit, Saturn will enter your twelfth house, which is a period of isolation and withdrawal, so the next two years will bring events and changes leading you up to that point.

You might also be re-evaluating all of your desires and objectives. The things you thought you wanted start to feel restrictive or heavy. Again, you might decide to accept these and soldier on, or you may realize you need to re-examine and restructure your hopes and wishes.

Work is going to take on even more weight under this transit. Saturn is work, literally, and so your professional life is likely to be the focus during these two years. You’ll be forced to take on more responsibility whether you want to or not. This can be used productively to advance your career – though it’s probably going to feel like quite a slog – but sometimes it can also just be a lot of extra work for little to no gain.

But while promotions are on the table during this transit, Saturn through your tenth can also bring career endings. Your work life may become so oppressive that you can’t stand it any longer and quit, or external factors may cause this to happen despite your best efforts.

There’s a baleful spotlight on your public self during this time, so watch out for threats to your reputation. This is also a time period where your personal life might be in shambles, particularly if you’ve been neglecting it in favour of your professional life. You’ll have to figure out a way to balance the two, which might feel difficult, if not impossible.

You may find yourself drawn to enrol in school or otherwise take up some kind of more formal education during this time. It’s a good time to get serious about your studies, whatever they might be. If you’re a student, lean into it – but know that you’ll need to do more studying and less partying over the next two years, if you want to maximize this transit.

If you’re not a student but have been interested in learning something new, Saturn invites you to put some structure and formality around these studies. Rather than just dabbling here and there, you’ll be most successful if you put your nose to the grindstone. This is particularly true for studying subjects like spirituality/religion, the occult, philosophy and law.

You might also find yourself having to travel more, particularly for work. Saturn in the ninth isn’t that great for leisure trips abroad, but it can certainly mean travelling for work, school, or other duties/obligations.

And of course, Saturn is great at bringing endings to these things. You might find yourself dropping out of school or ditching an area of study that you had previously engaged in eagerly, because it has come to feel oppressive and restrictive.

Looking to buy a house, take out a big loan or go into business for yourself? Saturn through your eighth will focus on work and responsibility around your shared resources with other people – particularly your spouse, but also business partners.

The eighth house signifies “other people’s money” which corresponds to debts and loans of all kinds, as well as taxes, inheritances and investments. Saturn is testing all of these things – you might find yourself having to take on more debt or pay more tax. It could also signify coming into some money, but there will be strings attached and/or things may not be what they seem. Be especially careful with any speculative investments during this time. This is especially true while Saturn is close to Neptune in 2025 and 2026.

This is also a time where you might have extra stress, fear and tension around debt and money owed. If you’ve been behind in paying taxes or have made other similar irresponsible financial blunders in the past, Saturn may be coming to collect – but sometimes this won’t manifest in anything more than fear itself.

Your marriage, business partnership, and/or other close partnerships are going to be put to the test for the next two years. While this could be a time of stepping into more responsibility with a partner – like getting married or starting a business with someone – it’s more likely that this transit will bring an end to a relationship.

Your partner, whether it’s a spouse, business partner, coworker, or close friend, will likely be the biggest source of stress for you during the next couple of years. Your relationship will feel weighty and oppressive and the next two years will test your resolve as a couple. How you navigate the burdens and difficulties together will determine if you’re going to make it in the long-term – or whether one or both of you will end the relationship and leave.

This is a time where you’ll struggle to find balance between your relationships and the rest of your life. You’re moving into a period where your responsibilities and focus is shifting to more external factors and people, which will bring stress to your closest relationships. This will seem doubly hard because of Saturn’s debility in this sign. Libra rising people are likely to find this transit particularly difficult.

Take care of all aspects of your health over the next two years, much more carefully than you usually would. Saturn transiting your sixth house often corresponds to new health concerns, or exacerbations of existing health concerns. Issues related to inflammation and/or your bones could be particularly troublesome during this time.

Saturn in your sixth will demand that you practice disciplined routines of all kinds, particularly health routines. Diet, exercise, sleep – these are going to be things that you can’t take for granted or neglect. There are likely to be new or increased responsibilities around these areas. For example, a health condition demands that you cut out certain foods, or add other foods to your diet.

The sixth house also represents drudgery work, like daily chores and other tasks that are a real slog. The next couple of years might feel like a constant uphill battle against a never-ending laundry list of labour, with little to no recognition for your toil. Hopefully you can see some kind of end goal with all this work, but it’s also easy to get caught up in a sense of all work and no play.

Saturn will show you the creative things you could put a lot of work into, but it will also come with a lot of soul-searching around what you even like to do. You’ll be evaluating the things you do for fun, and/or the things you used to do for fun might suddenly feel like a lot of work.

You might retreat from the things that you used to take solace in, because they no longer offer the escape that they used to. If you work in a creative field, expect to have to work extra hard for things to turn out well.

Alternatively, you may also experience increased burdens or hardships with your children. Children may become a source of restriction and/or increased responsibility under this transit. This could correspond to having children, or your children’s needs shifting and becoming more demanding.

You might find yourself doing very literal, physical restructuring of your environment during this transit, like renovating a house. At best, this will be due to a choice you make – just know it will take a lot of hard work and probably last longer than planned. At worst, these renovations will happen out of necessity because some external factor forces them – like flood, fire or other damage to your home that you can’t avoid fixing.

This time period could also represent a lot of responsibility and burden around caring for your parents, grandparents or other close family members. It can be a time where you have to step into a parental role. Parents and family might also become particularly restrictive and oppressive.

There may be a lot of issues related to your home and family life that are murky and hard to navigate during the first part of this transit, which should clear up later in 2026 and into 2027. That doesn’t make them easier to deal with, necessarily, but you should at least be able to name the issues clearly by then.

During this time, you’re laying the foundation for future success, but unfortunately for this particularly transit, the first part of the cycle is especially confusing. It’s not clear what you should actually focus on and what proper foundation you should build upon. Again, try not to rush into anything and be prepared to review and revise things that you have previously built.

Saturn invites you to restructure your relationship with your siblings, family (mainly extended family, as opposed to parents), friends and neighbours. There may be stresses or extra responsibilities arising from these individuals, but there’s also an opportunity to rebuild this area of your life with proper boundaries. Often, when we start erecting or enforcing boundaries that were previously flimsy (or non-existent), others will react poorly. This is part of the process; the key is trying to navigate it with grace and finesse (which might be a struggle – so give yourself room to make mistakes, too).

Communications of all kinds will become weighty and potentially strained under this transit. This will tie into your relations with the aforementioned third-house people. You might feel like no matter what you say, you make things worse instead of better. You could find yourself changing the way you communicate and interact with others on a daily basis. This is another form of Saturnian boundary setting and testing, and there’s likely to be pushback from others in response.

You might also find yourself building literal third house boundaries, like a new fence. Watch out for car trouble too. The third house signifies your daily commute and Saturn transiting here can cause challenges in this area; it often indicates problem with your car or main mode of transportation.

Prepare for a period of strained finances. This is often a pretty literal transit, where Saturn in the second corresponds to financial loss, restriction and hardship. Sudden expenses might crop up that have to be dealt with, and money is likely to be your biggest source of stress for quite a while. This is a good time to make a budget and try to stick to it – though Saturn might force you to do that anyway by taking away your ability to spend money like you want to.

Even if your finances are generally OK, you might feel stressed about them anyway. Insecurity and fear around money is a classic expression of Saturn transiting your second house. It should become obvious if you need to make some serious changes to your money situation. If that’s the case, do it. If not, try to not let money worries take over your mind.

This could also be a period where you quit or lose your job, which usually corresponds to a negative impact on your finances – even if just temporarily.

It can also be a period of reevaluating all the resources that you have, monetary and otherwise. Recall that Saturn is all about boundaries and Saturn’s transit through a house will test the boundaries in that particular area of life. So, you might find yourself needing new resources – often literal physical “stuff” – or discarding old ones.