Saturn is the main planet in my birth chart. As an astrologer told me, “your life path isn’t easy. The principle of your life is constant growing up. It’s a very slow path of development - you have to learn to be responsible, patient, serious, and thorough.”
Using this archetype, everything in me started becoming structured: my actions, words, and decisions. The chaos is gone. I now understand that every step I take has weight and meaning. More and more, I do things for a reason and with a purpose, not just randomly.
Imagine you’re putting together a big puzzle. You have a thousand or ten thousand pieces. But you’ve imagined the final picture (like the picture on the box). Now you understand how it should look and what the final structure will be. You know what you need to do, which pieces to put together, what actions to take daily, what qualities to develop, what to learn - everything that leads to results. You have this picture in your mind, and you just start doing the actions without getting distracted.
Of course, I still get distracted sometimes - I’m not a machine. But my attitude has changed completely. Here’s a good comparison: it’s like a train that moves slowly but goes far. Sometimes it breaks down or goes off the tracks, but it knows exactly where it needs to go and what it needs to keep running smoothly. It knows what to repair, how to maintain everything, so it can keep moving forward confidently.
That’s exactly how I feel now. And I’m more and more aware that I’m only doing actions that help my train stay on track - without long stops, accidents, or derailments.
Another difficult planet in my chart is Neptune, which created many illusions and blurred my direction. But now, my fantasies, spiritual ideals, and inspiration are turning into clear, step-by-step plans. Mystical insights are becoming practical methods. Chaos has turned into a journal of observations and realizations. I created a Google Doc where I write where I’m going, why, what I’m doing, what I want, what I need - and I look at it every day.
I also got my finances in order. I organized my spending into categories, wrote down all my goals and desires (big and small), and turned them into numbers. I’m taking control of my money. I know how much I spend each month and how much I need to earn to make all my wishes happen within one year and three years. All my fantasies are becoming concrete numbers. This will keep improving, and it’s already turning into action and projects. This has removed my anxiety and rushing.
Now I have plans and tasks. Big ambitious goals have become projects with clear steps. This has really lowered my stress - you know, that panic when you don’t know what to do.
More key changes from working with this archetype
I finally dealt with all my unfinished paperwork (contracts, issues with utility services) that I’d been ignoring for years. These things were draining my energy. Now everything is out in the open and I’m organizing it. Because Saturn loves order. If you don’t like paperwork, agreements, you have issues with Saturn.
I started feeling time differently. This began even before working with Saturn, but now I’m much more aware of it. Just like there’s winter, spring, summer, fall - each with its own energy - I now understand the cycles of planting, growing, and harvesting in my life and projects. You make a push, then build stability, then stay at that level for a while, then push again, and build stability at a new level.
Rush and hurry have disappeared. My over-analyzing mind has calmed down. I have more endurance for the long run.
Interesting that Saturn-type people have started appearing in my life - or maybe I just notice them now. Serious, structured people who value Saturn qualities.
People react differently to me now. It’s like I’ve become bigger, more mature. I radiate stability. People feel it and listen to my opinion - it carries more weight. I could always communicate clearly, but now it’s stronger, even when I’m not trying to influence anyone.
Other people’s children now see me as a father figure - they listen and do what I say. It’s funny: when friends visit with kids, I used to adapt to them. Now they adapt to my seriousness and fatherly energy. Like, “you can’t disobey him.”
I stopped being afraid of power - afraid to show my personal power. I started noticing this after working with ancestors’ patterns related to power, but with Saturn it reached a whole new level.
I want to be clear - balance is important. I don’t want to stay in this strict, demanding, “adult” Saturn state all the time. Just like with Mars energy. Everything has cycles, and we need to switch between them to avoid imbalance. Ideally, we need both seriousness and structure and lightness, joy, and spontaneity.
Basically, I understand more and more why we need the Shapeshifter archetype - the ability to switch quickly between different energies, using the right one at t...
