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..

Saturn Retro 2025: 02: Saturn Neptune conjunction

I saw that last time I posted about Saturn retrograde was in 2018..!!! SEVEN years back! Shame Shame! So this time, to make up, I'll put LOTS of Retrograde posts. Looking backwards in time. Mulling. Contemplating. Making up for Lost time... Hence two posts in one evening...
I saw a lot of posts on the ongoing Saturn + Neptune conjunction. So decided to put a long pending Saturn + Neptune music video which consistently haunted me over the last five years. Reminding me of adolescent events leading to becoming lost from the track. For a practicing Astrologer/ occultist..It doesn't get MORE RETROGRADE RETROSPECTIVE and PERSONAL than this.. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼.. Enjoy..

Lost Boy - The Midnight (link)

Saturn Retro 2025: 01: Pharmakon, Resurrection

Dear friends, I have not blogged for quite sometime. But on occasion of Annual Saturn Retrograde 2025, have restarted.. BECAUSE.. blogging/ writing/ posting is a HIGHLY RETROGRADE activity for me. Times change, evolution happens.. BUT NOT during Annual Saturn Retrograde, especially in its Gravitas, Rising Retro and Ultra Retro phases. ( check in Saturn Retrograde PAGE of blog).

Ultimately Saturn Retrograde activity is for my OWN redemption/ PURGATION/ retrospection as an Astrologer/ observer of metaphysical phenomenon.

I NOTICED that QUITE a FEW YEARS I forgot to write/ report/ blog during Saturn Retrograde. Tch! Tch! Sigh!

At least this year I'm going to do the math, do the process of redemption writing DURING Saturn Retrograde. Why? Because it's at centre of my soul as a being. It's the Holy Pharmakon which perpetuates Resurrection after every fall in my life. Felix Culpa. The mandatory Fall leading to rebirth. So at the end.. Jai Shani Dev!! Jai Shani Dev!! Jai Shani Dev!! Jai Shani Dev!!

Sade Sati 02: Remedies and Prayers

Yesterday's Saturn blog post on my first day of Sade Sati, the first day of 86 MONTHS, or 2,580 DAYS, as Saturn crosses through Pisces, Aries, Taurus and finally exits on 1st June, 2032 became so heavy/ overloaded that I deleted it from threads and decided to do this 2nd post.. On REMEDIAL measures of Sade Sati. After all I'm a REMEDIAL Vedic Astrologer and have never posted about remedies before today.

Remedies for Sade Sati 

1. Donate Oil, black sesame seed, sweets to Shani mandir on Saturday 

2. Recite Ten names of Shanidev regularly 

3. Prayers to Nakshatra Lord and Nakshatra Ganesha of your Moon daily

4. Empowering Moon in your chart by chanting Om Namah Bhagavatey Vasudevaya 

5. Serving poor, underprivileged people, especially people in duress

6. Watching / listening / reading stories about Shanidev (abundantly available)

7. Doing voluntary service to others

8. Doing grounding meditation/ exercises

9. MOST IMPORTANT: Do any activity, practice, prayer with CONSISTENCY. By Lord Shanidev's blessings the most mundane regular practices turn into GOLD. So REPETITION is of importance.

Prayers/ Meditations

1. Acknowledging known/ unknown sins and asking forgiveness for them. The repetition of this simplest prayer..

..I am Sorry. Please forgive me.. 

2. .. to be continued.. updated ..

Sade Sati 01: Day 01 of 86 Months!!

 

Hi friends, yesterday Saturn entered Pisces. I'm Tula Lagna BUT Mesha/ Aries Rashi (Moon in 7th house) so today is the first day of my 7 years 2 months of Sade Sati as Saturn crosses through Pisces, Aries, Taurus and ultimately into Gemini on 1st June 2032. That is EXACTLY 86 months of Sade Sati before me. And today is the FIRST day FIRST show of next 86 months, i.e., approximately 2,580 days.

So I thought of narrating this LONG, meandering astrological journey of next 86 months in this Sade Sati series in this, my Saturnine blog. To give honest narratives from the ground about the 86 months, 2,580 days of Sade Sati journey. THAT would be a commendable, true SATURNINE journey indeed. Through probably the darkest swamps of dark and light ahead. Jai Shanidev 🙏🏼🙏🏼⭐⭐🙏🏼

Today: Feeling bit woozy, weak, disoriented. Last few days Tinnitus problem has resurrected a bit. Two hot clients have bit dried up. Post Eclipse, and 6 planet congestion in Pisces, and Sade Sati beginning, today's bit of a swamp after a long time. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

So today I've taken the PERFECT appropriate time to begin this looong narrative/ series. Cheers🙏🏼🙏🏼Jai Shanidev 🙏🏼🙏🏼