Saturn Return in Sagittarius: The Pursuit of Authenticity

Saturn, also known as the Father of Karma, comes back to its original position twice, or if you are lucky enough to live longer, it will return to you for the third time. The first Saturn Return happens during our late 20s, between the ages of 27-30, and right before we enter middle adulthood. The first return is like our rite of passage to growing up. It's about owning our past life choices and approaching life with maturity and a sense of responsibility.

Saturn Return will make us face the decisions and choices we made in the past to evaluate if we have been living in authenticity with ourselves. As a taskmaster, Saturn will give us many problems and challenges so that we'll grow in maturity and wisdom. 

Saturn demands us to take responsibility for every action and inaction we committed in the past. Saturn Return is like a parent checking if we have done our assignment correctly, and if we did, we would be greatly rewarded. If we failed to do so, we would face many obstacles to finish what Saturn asked of us.

When Saturn returns, he will force us to move on from our past and reflect on what is truly important in our life. Some might face difficulties with their relationship, often leading to a breakup, so they will learn to love themselves more. Others might face career changes that they never expected. This is all about facing our limitations and fears as we continue our journey in life.

What kind of lessons, limitations, and obstacles Saturn will give depends on its position in our birth chart. It can affect people in various ways, so it is important to know where our Saturn is positioned when we were born. If you have Saturn in Sagittarius, this article might prove helpful. This may give you insights into how to deal with your Saturn Return.

Read further to understand what it means when your Saturn returns for the first time.

Saturn in Sagittarius Overview

How does Saturn affect your Sagittarius sign? Does Sagittarius affect Saturn? What does it all mean? Saturn in Sagittarius suggests that you seek adventures and new things. As someone who belongs under the Sagittarius sign, you are a pursuer of higher knowledge. With your strong morals and ethics, you aspire to help society become better. 

Because Jupiter rules Sagittarius, Sagittarian individuals live by their own rules and take great pleasure in breaking limits. However, Saturn is all about restrictions, limitations, and responsibilities. Saturn in Sagittarius can be good or bad, depending on how the natives manage these two opposing forces.

It is instinctual for Sagittarius individuals, like those who were born on November 28, to be travelers and explorers of the world. With Saturn as its guide and teacher, Sagittarius natives are tasked to properly set boundaries in their thirst for knowledge and sense of adventure. Saturn will demand Sagittarius natives to be accountable and responsible for their choices and decisions. Because you are under this placement, you will build strong ethics and beliefs through explorations and experiences. 

According to your own philosophy, you are someone who continually pursues higher knowledge and wants to build a society with proper laws and rules. Saturn will test these beliefs and ethics so that you can remain authentic to yourself. Saturn aims to help you live in sincerity and authenticity, acknowledging that living a simpler life is more fulfilling.

When Saturn Returns in Sagittarius sign

Saturn's first return happens during your late 20s, right before you leave your youthful and naïve self and become the responsible adult that Saturn demands from you. As someone with the Sagittarius sign, your Saturn Return is associated with your beliefs and outlook in life. Saturn Return encourages you to expand your horizon so you can establish more global connections to others.

As a taskmaster and teacher, Saturn demands you to take the time and reflect on your past actions and decisions. Saturn will ask: how committed are you to your relationships and career? Are you honoring your obligations to yourself and others? This is like your coming-of-age rite where you are forced to grow up and be held responsible for your decisions and life choices.

As someone with the Sagittarius sign, you crave adventure, freedom, and meaning. You are a traveler of this world, always seeking higher knowledge and never bound to one place in a long time. 

Natives of Saturn in Sagittarius are noble and disciplined humanitarian, upholding ethics above everything else while helping other people. In your early years, you faced many setbacks, from your relationships to career choices. You had firsthand experience on how the world can be cruel and unfair, but you remain optimistic and face all your problems head-on. 

As you continue to mature and live your life, you develop and expand your beliefs and ethics. You choose to travel the world and experience it with yourself and come to your own conclusion rather than listen to other's opinions and experiences. When Saturn returns to its original spot, you are pushed to reflect on your beliefs and ethics. The belief system you have established will be tested, and you are asked to release any limiting perspective you have about yourself and others. 

During this period, you will always ask yourself, “With whom can I put my faith?”. Saturn will demand that you take proper action and be held responsible for any stereotyping you have done in the past. You are pushed to reexamine yourself, your principles, and your understanding of the world so that you can remain authentic and true to yourself.

Your faith will be tested in this time of transition. You will be asked to learn to let go of any self-defeating notions you have about yourself and recognize bad behavioral patterns that have been holding you back. 

Saturn will teach you that abiding by the rules and accepting imitations can also be freeing. To learn commitment and structure without losing your sense of freedom, you need to face your life difficulties with responsibility. Your Saturn Return is all about simplicity and authenticity– to find a healthier way to remain true to yourself and be contented with a simpler but fulfilling life.

How to Get Through Your Saturn Return as a Sagittarius Native?

Each zodiac signs have their own way of dealing with their Saturn Return. Natives of the Sagittarius sign overcome their Saturn Return through journeying and exploring the world by living independently. 

In this way, they can truly reflect on their beliefs and principles. Natives of this sign need to experience firsthand whatever is happening to the world to recognize their flawed beliefs and views. It is also great for these natives to ask for guidance from their elders. 

Sagittarius Natives during this time are also asked to live with simplicity, sincerity, and authenticity.

Practice Self-Control

As a native of the Sagittarius sign, you are naturally blunt and frank with your words. You also have a rigid belief system. 

With the effect of Saturn in your sign, you may have the desire to control and impose ideas and beliefs on others, which always leads to problems and confrontations. This kind of attitude is wrong as you are forcing your self-ideology on others when they can also form their own.

So practice self-control with your thoughts, actions, and words. No matter how much you want to control others, you can only control yourself.

Let Go of Your Rigid Belief System

Saturn Return in Sagittarius has strong ethics and will not easily accept other people's ideas and beliefs. 

You uphold your own ethics above everyone else that sometimes you fail to see that there are flaws in your view or that you are not authentic to yourself anymore. With Saturn returning to its original place, you are challenged to let go of this rigidity and take personal responsibility and reexamine yourself.

Be More Realistic

You can be a noble humanitarian and help establish a society with proper laws and regulations. But you are also prone to create unrealistic expectations with yourself to achieve what you want. 

As a Sagittarian, you gain confidence in managing the bigger picture, but with Saturn, you are asked to fill in the small details, leading you to have a messy way to expand your horizon. In your grandiose plan to achieve higher knowledge and help your society, you set overwhelming expectations and face them with optimism. 

This kind of expectation often leads you to disappointment. Saturn encourages you to be more realistic with your expectations and cut back on too much idealism to expand your horizon and beliefs.

Ask for Help and Guidance 

Do not be afraid to ask for help or guidance from your elders or any authoritative adult in your life. If you have acknowledged that your ethics is flawed and needs adjustment, seek wisdom from people older than you, for they already have so much experience in life. 

If you feel like you are being restricted with rules and limitations, your Saturn Return will make sure that freedom doesn't mean escaping from your responsibilities and breaking the rules. Being committed to the rules and structures can be liberating to you. So learn to accept them. 

Through the forms of parents, elders, and authoritative figures, Saturn Return will teach you that you need to accept the responsibilities and be accountable in order to remain authentic to yourself.

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Karen Hyman

Karen is a Psychic Medium, a Professional Astrologer, a Spiritual Advisor, and a Life Coach who has been in this career for 19+ years. She specializes in numerology, tarot and oracle cards, twin flames, love & relationships, zodiac, horoscope, dreams interpretation, and astrology. She aims to provide comfort and assurance using her abilities to offer answers to those who seek professional guidance. Read More About Karen Here.