Saturn Retro 2025: 09: Sun Saturn Teamwork

Today's my 9th post on annual Saturn retrograde 2025. I announced earlier on Instagram Threads, that I'm taking a break from this Retro post Marathon. Especially on this Ekadashi/ Sunday. But thankfully the inertia of my process. Compels me to open the note on my phone and type. Keeping up the Retrograde spirit.

The illness of past week help jump start the process. And now with some minimum effort from my side I can keep it going through the critical phases of Retrograde. Just keep the Gravitas flowing. 

And also I notice, from the previous posts, the writing, narrative has become pretty ordinary. Describing mundane things. Keeping it ordinary. The true essence of Retrograde. Trying to reconnect with the regular/ rigorous process of blogging about Saturn Retrograde from 2010- 2011. Making up for the discontinuity / discontinued blogging from 2018 - 2024. 

As mentioned in details in👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Main Saturn Retrograde Page  👈🏼👈🏼... Main Saturn Retrograde PAGE/ NOT POST, the Saturn Retrograde period is great for Sun, Mars, Pluto, Rajasic, Fiery, Malefic Saturn people, people with Retro Saturn in their charts.. To start something New, take the leap, Quantum jump/ leap.!!!
But for Saturnine like me.. Just let go. Ebb, regress, chill out, do older, retrograde stuff.  RETROGRESS 🔥🔥🔥✅

And now, that I have RECONNECTED with the retrograde process, now my job is to RETROGRESS as much as possible!! At this time I have MOST people around me having Retrograde Saturn in their birth chart!! 

Like I told many of you.. Let's do this RETROGRADE Marathon Run. You become the rocket that TRANSCENDS GRAVITY! And i become the exhaust flame, propulsion that FLAMES DOWNWARD!!  SPECIFICALLY according to your chart!! You Make Hay While The Sun Shines. And we Dive Deep into Gravitas. 

Yo.. Upward Triangle 🔼🔼
Me.. Downward Triangle🔽🔽

I have seen this annual teamwork see me through Uncountable Retrograde seasons.. 

Saturn Retro 2025: 08: Karmic Chronicles

Today's my 8th post on annual Saturn retrograde 2025. Today being the EIGHT/ Saturn ruled post, has to be REALLY Saturnine, Heavy, layered, loaded. It's simply a requisite. I would even be strangely/ ironically relieved if readers don't even proceed further...

 
These past days of illness kept me bound at home. Immersed in Gravitas. Immersed in uncountable layers gathered together in the course of two decades of Saturn retrograde experience and research. But then, THIS is the perfect annual time for Saturn ruled people to effortlessly sink to great depths. . implode Inwards, like a white dwarf star collapsing into a black hole.

And for Rajasic, Sun ruled people to shine.. 

 
Recently, every post gradually saw a great build up in Gravitas. Even though, OUTSIDE of Retrograde I'm NOT a writer. But WITHIN the schedule of Retrograde, thoughts and words flow.. like a FLOODTIDE, a Tsunami. WITHIN the schedule of Saturn retrograde, I get to ramble on, meandering in serpentine coils.. flowing all over the place.

 
Looking back at 20 years of Saturn Retrograde accounts, I'm compelled to wonder, what's the purpose/ significance of my astrological existence, at least from planetary perspective. 

I have two separate blogs.. this one on Saturn/ Shanidev, and one on Ketu. Is direct result of Saturn conjunction conjunct Ketu at the SAME degree 10° 26' in Ardra, Gemini. I was BORN at the exact degree Saturn and Ketu exactly OVERLAPPED. IN THE NINTH HOUSE. Showing a birth with extreme Karma. And the Dharma of which was DEFINED by Saturn Ketu conjunction. Where the soul takes birth to clear loads of prarabdh/ pending karma of ancestors. In fact, while swiping through some random reels I found a post saying this exact thing on Instagram reels.

Especially during Saturn Retrograde, this effect is manifold magnified because Ketu is permanently retrograde. And Ketu is the gateway of past Karma. A direct dispositor of the past. Also in Vedic parlance, the overlord of Saturn/ Shanidev is Yama, the God of Death, and overlord of Ketu is Chitragupta, the cosmic karmic accountant who narrates the karmic accounts before the soul is cast into heaven/ hell, and ecleriences the next rebirth according to his karmic roster of good/ bad deeds.

 

From 2008, after having 24 hr internet access at home, I think slowly I started the religious/ rigorous process of blogging about Saturn Retrograde from 2010- 2011 , LOTS of stuff happened then. But I'm thinking more about the years I discontinued blogging from 2018 - 2024, and the events that happened to me. In the true tradition of Retrograde.

 Also, comes to my notice that most close people around me have Retrograde Saturn in their charts. So that entails that I guide them during this phase to avail of various opportunities that arise for them SPECIFICALLY during this period. For them.. It's this adage.. Make Hay While The Sun Shines. But for us, Saturnine it's a period of Dissemination..
.. A sowing that bears no fruit. A scattering, dispersion of energies. Hence the imperative hibernation and regression that we experience. 

But fir Rajasic, Fiery, Sun ruled, mslefic Saturn people, this can be a time of great breakthrough.. 

At the end, remember, Shanidev/ Saturn is not the dreaded dark Lord as distorted by superstition. Understand the divine energy of Shanidev.. 

..and you shall never feel alone.. 

Saturn Retro 2025: 07: Ketu + Mars in Leo

Today's my 7th post on annual Saturn retrograde 2025 and topic is the current fiery Ketu + Mars in fiery Leo🔥🔥 Why is a ongoing volcanic transit like this SO significant for the ongoing Saturn retrograde???

BECAUSE it's occuring in Leo which is 6th house from Pisces, where retro is happening. Also from Leo, the sign Pisces falls in the 8th house. I don't have to explain the negative impact of 6th and 8th house. Moreover, in Graha Maitri system of planets, planets falling in 6th and 8th house from each other become temporary enemies. And this accentuated by the fact that Mars is permanently opposed to Saturn. All in all.. a deadly hot sauce mix🔥🔥🔥!

Question arises, how can this extra volcanic sauce can be positive/ gainful during Saturn Retro?? Because it perpetuates, accentuated, and AMPLIFIES the extreme catharsis of the first two phases of Saturn Retro, namely, Gravitas and Red Hot Rising Retro. All in all.. An extremely Hot, volcanic July. To burn away a LOT of your pending karmas and issues 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

BUT if Saturn is Malefic for you, Mars, Ketu, Rahi, Sun are benefic, and you're a Fire sign, Rajasic person, this July will see you roar like a fiery Tiger.. See AI pic i created at bottom of this blog.. 👇🏼👇🏼

Peripheral transits can be either productive, or counter productive towards the annual Saturn retro schedule/ process. We have to correlate it with the sign/ house placement of the sign Saturn is retrograde in. In this case, an extra cauldron of volcanic energy is being added to the already boiling cauldron of Saturn retro.

 
Personally, today i stepped out of the house yo visit a friend/ client whose mum had passed away. The simple metro, rapid metro ride to sec 51 Gurgaon seemed so long due to my weakness. After giving the mantras etc for the departed soul, suddenly I felt so weak. Dropped in on a couple on the verge of divorce. With great difficulty and PAIN, asked them to postpone their decisions by at least 3 months. 

 Both these cheerful home visits drained me completely. Returned home early to blog and complete today's heavy duty post... 

 
Now that I'm home, I'm glad today's day went the way it did. In the stagnant swampland of utter Gravitas. And NOT in a joyful celebratory way. There's a time for joy, and a time for tears. 

In fact, today, as I healed much more, I could ironically feel the standard Tsunami / FLOODTIDE of words prevalent through the past entire week.. reduce/ebb/drop QUITE A BIT.

But, as my friend, Goat Head, (mentioned in the previous post) had said yesterday..after reading the post about him.. "Finish EIGHT Retrograde posts by Saturday!! " Aptly time prediction, I must say!! Finally.. enjoy the AI image I generated on the current Saturn retro in Pisces plus Mars + Ketu in fiery Leo. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Saturn Retro 2025: 06: Shrapit Dosh

Today's my 6th post on Saturn Retrograde 2025. Through the medium of these posts I have been able to negotiate and transit through the sheer Gravitas phase of this retrograde (check post 1: scheduled dates). The posts have sprouted spontaneously because I'm lying at home, recovering from my ailment.

 
Gravity/ Gravity pulling us down to the Mooladhara chakra at the base of spine. The foundation of our being/ existence. Beneath the software of personality. Below the Operating system of character. Down to the primal machine language of our hardware.

 
I'm now giving a pause of few hours, going to temple to pray, etc. So that today's post topic automatically comes to me... from Shanidev 🙏🏼🙏🏼

5:20 pm. I got the topic for the Day: Shrapit Dosh. When I was in hometown Guwahati 3 months back for a long, long time, I had many occasions to visit Maa Kamakhya for prayers and worship. Trouble started when my friend Goat Head 👇🏼👇🏼a stubborn sulky goat, 

yet full of capricious eccentricities told me to perform a Chinnamasta Yagna to absolve my Rahu issues. I was full of doubt, BUT STILL, overcome by my friends constant insistence, I completed the Chinnamasta Yagna. But for 1.5 months thereafter, I was yet to see ANY positive symptoms. I forgot all about it.

But lately, after I resurrected Saturn Retrograde blogging after a gap of Seven years, I often found myself looking at the last post 👇🏼👇🏼 on 18 June, 2018, 

I casually found myself wondering WHY had I discontinued. Today casually while talking to my friend Egg Head, the topic was raised. I did the chart for that time and this is what came out 👇🏼👇🏼

Saturn was transiting dreaded Moola nakshatra where my NATAL Rahu was located. In my natal chart it was Saturn + Ketu in Ardra in 9th, a opposite Shrapit Yog. And this, this opposite Transit was forming a super toxic Shrapit Yog because of this DEADLY combination. And SEVEN years later, ONLY after I did the Chinnamasta Yagna, this Dosha was Overcome and I could COMMENCE my annual Tapasya/ Sadhana of meditation, contemplation, blogging during annual Saturn retrograde. 

While browsing through some other topic I also found this 👇🏼👇🏼.. randomly..

So I offer my salutations to Ma Chinnamasta, and thanks to the suggestions of my friend Goat Head.. for enabling me to overcome the toxic effects of Shrapit Yog.. And to commence my annual practice of writing, reporting, blogging, for years and years.. This eternal/ necessary/ mandatory practice of mine who hath Saturn + Ketu in 9th house.. 

..This observation and tapasya of.. Annual Saturn Retrograde.. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Saturn Retro 2025: 05: Difference and Repetition

My 5th post on Saturn Retro 2025. After a few days of illness perfectly coincident to the Gravitas phase, today's the first day I stepped out of home in the evening. For a brief while. Due to weakness everything was blurry, shaky. I was woozy...

I could feel time stopping, even moving backwards. A thousand, million images of the past flashing through my mind's eyes. 20 years of recorded journaling, blogging, research of Saturn retrograde since 2005!!

👆🏼👆🏼 The above passage in italics was copied/ pasted from my previous post: 04
Why? Because the magnitude of songs, music, movies that bombarded me from THE PAST since past two days. Everything was in auto flashback mode. And in every singular retrograde movement, perception, lyric, melody, chord, nuance.. I found relief and healing. From the prevailing illness. From the prevailing alienation and despondency...

Just adJUST yourselves, surrender yourselves freely to the Saturn retrograde current of this time. For Shanidev/ Saturn rules over time itself. Just stay Retrograde. Retro. Voluntary backwards fall. Drown yourselves in existential RETROSPECTION. So easy to access such language specifically during Retrograde. 9th House: Saturn + Ketu conjunction in Gemini.

Through a erratic, haywire, haphazard, lifetime... the seasons of retrograde have remained constant. providing it's steady constant through variations of life. Binding it all together. In a coiling mesh of meaningless-ness, and meaning..Difference and Repetition by Deleuze finally made practical, physical, tangible sense. The sheer gravity of Gravitas clawing, and dragging the lofty metaphysical into the soiled mud of the physical. Into tangible experience. Into the ground reality far outside the academic theoretical hallways.

Theory, memory, intangible, fleeting memories condensated into mud, flesh.. The sinews of the tangible.

Today I used what's app AI, for the first to generate these images below 👇🏼👇🏼 of the The Hanged Man, card 12 of the Tarot Deck.. for my Ketu Currents blog. The 4th image, I then colour adjusted it, and added to my blog.. 

This card represents the necessary stillness, pause, retrospective mood characteristic of Annual Saturn Retrograde. I think that's enough for today 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Saturn Retro 2025: 04: Gravity's Apples

My 4th post on Saturn Retro 2025. Lying at home, recovering from stomach cramps, infections arising from wild abuse, and erratic, haywire, haphazard drinking/ diet of months. Luckily, the Ayurvedic remedy by my doctor yesterday has considerably reduced the symptoms/ conditions.

 
For me, Libra/ Swati ascendant, ruled by Lord Vayu, God of Winds.. to lie down flat at home, unless for a serious illness is true blasphemy. Especially home alone. So I ended watching endless movies on Apple TV, most of which turned out to be really, and surprisingly great. I am an Android user, PC user, and have always stayed far away from the ultimate status symbol brand of almost EVERYONE I know. But Apple TV proved to be really, juicy, satisfying, in every bite, in my days of cathartic illness.

 
But that was conditionaI to my lying flat and still and not moving. Surrendering to the sheer Gravitas of this ongoing phase (earlier posts). Letting go of my natural restlessness, my impatience. Surrendering to the exact requirement and schedule. Of the Gravitas phase. Of annual Saturn retrograde.

 
I also refrained from my daily cathartic Ketu rituals (too weak). Just surrendering to the phenomenon of Gravitas. In space, Gravity around Black Holes is infinite, even light cannot escape from it. Theoretically even Time stops. As an analogy, lying here, on terra firma, I could feel time stopping, even moving backwards. A thousand, million images of the past flashing through my mind's eyes. 20 years of recorded journaling, blogging, research of Saturn retrograde since 2005!! 

So many memories, events, incidents, all entwined through annual Saturn retrograde seasons. Through a erratic, haywire, haphazard, lifetime... the seasons of retrograde have remained constant, providing steady tempo. Like a jazz band where everyone played psychedelic diverse notes, but the bass or drums keeping steady tempo. Holding it all together. Binding it all together. Like a coiling mesh of serpentine coils entwined together...

Coincidentally 👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼 my bro is working on an art piece EXACTLY depicting THAT..next to me. As I try to wrap up this loong meandering serpentine post.
A lingering taste of Gravity's Apples, in my mouth..

Saturn Retro 2025: 03: Punishment and Rewards

This is my third post on Saturn retrograde 2025. From 4 days even before the Gravitas phase started (check post 1: schedule), the churning effects were in full swing. I was down with Gravitas, stomach cramps, work issues and a wave of depression out of nowhere. And when I checked the stars.. Voila! it was Retro effect in full swing. I found two Insta posts reminding me of my experience of decades.. the intensity of two weeks before Saturn Retro begins (Gravitas phase), and the first two weeks (Red Hot Rising phase) of Saturn retrograde.. brings an immense TSUNAMI of churning and purging.. for THOSE who Lord Shanidev chose. If you Accept, and Allowed this natural process... the rewards of Saturn are immense. And unlike other planets.. Consistent/ persistent. JUST SOMEHOW bear up & go through your pending karmas during these two phases. Forget what Dasha, transit, situation you're going through. Embrace the churning like Kurma Avatara. And from the churning,.. once Halhala is over.. Amrita shall emerge..