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Saturn Retrograde: Belonging from Within as the New Normal

The new developmental ask: from shared judgment as identity to structures of support for emergent individuation

Hi Everyone,

In this video, I explore the Saturn retrograde chart for July 13, 2025 at 12:05 a.m. EDT. Two interwoven themes stood out:

  1. A call to temper our baser, brutish tendencies

  2. The ongoing call to individuate and for the larger collective to support that process

The energies, I feel, have already decided the matter. It’s just a matter of time before these old energies lose their saliency and fall away. But it’s not enough for old patterns to fall away. We also have to build the new ones within ourselves so that, when the old does fall away, we are able to maintain our equilibrium and grounding.


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Because of time constraints due to delays caused by technical glitches when editing the video, I wasn’t able give attention to editing the transcript and include it here.


🔮 What’s Ahead

For the rest of July:

  • Leo New Moon reading - airing on or around July 24.

  • Mercury retrograde forecast - diving into its chart and implications.

    • With Virgo eclipses bookending the year, Mercury’s upcoming retrograde, unfolding in this context, feels particularly important to look at.

Looking toward August:
Readings should be back to normal next month - one video for the Full Moon and one for the New Moon - with no additional transit videos.



Saturn Retrograde Chart

Astrology chart titled “Saturn Retrograde,” set for July 13, 2025 at 12:05 a.m. EDT. The central wheel shows planetary placements including Saturn retrograde in Aries and a “developmental triangle” aspect pattern involving Mars in Virgo at the focal point.  Chiron in Aries and Pluto in Aquarius, both sesquiquadrate Mars, complete the pattern, with Chiron and Pluto square one another. Surrounding the chart are smaller stat wheels showing summaries: three wheels on the left tracking modality (Cardinal, Fixed, Mutable) and three wheels on the right tracking elements (Fire, Earth, Air, Water), decans, and aspects.
Saturn Retrograde Chart, July 13, 2025 12:05 a.m. EDT. Chart design and calculations by Ellen Mangan

Updates

July 13, 2025

  • I corrected two glaring mistakes in the show notes.

    • In the section on Mercury retrograde forecast, I changed “eclipses bookending Virgo’s domain” to “Virgo eclipses bookending the year”.

    • In the Looking Forward To August section, I changed “one video for the Full Moon and one video for the Full Moon” to “one video for the Full Moon and one video for the New Moon”.


Symbols

Sabian Symbols

My reading on the Sabian symbols is based on the symbols provided by others and my synthesis (and sometimes diversion) from the interpretations of others, including:

Tarot

Tarot card images and quoted text are from:

  • A.E. Waite’s book, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910, public domain)


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Cover Image Credit

Two images side-by-side. On the left, a bouquet of roses arranged in a decorative bucket marked “Lavender,” with vines trailing along the ground. On the right, a single pink heirloom rose viewed from above, revealing its spiral center against a blurred green background.
Image of rose bouquet in bucket by マサコ アーント from Pixabay (left). Image of pink heirloom rose by nina4art from Pixabay (right)

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