Letting go, Detoxing and Making Space with Saturn

What are you detoxing, and what are you re-building with Saturn transits

The past few weeks I have come across an overwhelming amount of people and posts committing to detoxing, cleansing, and, making space - including me. Of course it was Virgo season and Mercury in Virgo was hyping us all to clean up real good. It’s important to remember however that not all clean-ups look physical. While a physical clean-up adds to the flavor, the truth is, that we are all on our specific assignments of detoxing atm.

Listen, Saturn entered the watery sign of Pisces last year in March (2023). Saturn is a heavy and dense planet, so when it enters the ocean, there’s heavy chaos and disruption. Imagine a huge celestial body falling into a vast water body - thudd! Spillage, tsunami, overflow - yes, exactly that. I can speak for myself, someone with Sun and Mercury, both in Pisces 7th house, it shook me physically and mentally. Sun rules our identity and Mercury our communication and thinking - both of which have gone through a wringer in the last one and a half years. I talked about my identity crisis (shift) in this article, my expression journey on socials, and some more of my experience with saturn in this one back in the pisces season earlier this year.

Throughout Saturn in Pisces, my anxiety has been through the roof and my inner critic has been at its loudest. I drew the curtain on my old business Instagram account and my identity as the founder of dream life lounge’, one I had nurtured for 6 years. My website domain changed to shivanib.co. I committed to expressing myself through Substack just last September. Lately, I have also paused 1:1 sessions to make way for something more satisfying to my soul. Saturn transiting through the 7th house has made me super aware about my personal relationship needs and how every bit of that energy I threw around in connections and bonds that didn’t nurture me back all my life has left me empty. During this transit, I also struggled a lot with the most personal relationships of my life and critically questioned each one of them, yes, including my Mom, Dad and my sister! Wherever Saturn cruises, it gives you a pair of critical lens to look at things so that you can decipher and dissect the truth. Saturn wants to shake things up for you so that only the truth, the long-lasting solid committed truth, and legacy remains.

What leaves, leaves. What stays, stays.

Saturn will break it (you) and then it will rebuild it (you). But this time, on something much stronger, committed and long-lasting.

If you deeply desire to invite something in life, you have to make space for it.

Since my Saturn return days, my Capricorn mentor and sister from another part of the world have been whispering in my ears “If you deeply desire to invite something in life, you have to make space for it.”

When our systems are full to the brim, overwhelmed, and plugged into one thing - we do not have space for another. Those who have an undefined spleen in their Human design would correlate to this even more since we have a knack for holding onto things that have expired their time and before we know it, our energy is zapped out. What is Human design if not a tool for energy management? (Hit this, to get your beginner’s friendly HD reading inbox’d!).

Saturn is here to clear everything that clogs this energy. Saturn is here to make space in your life, one area at a time. Time, ha! Saturn is here to remind you that life is too short to waste your sacred energy on things, people, and situations that don’t feel true to your heart and soul.

Socially, we have a very notorious association with Saturn seeing it as a planet of delay, obstruction, limitations, and well, a planet too brooding, too serious. But guess what? Sometimes we humans need humbling help from the planets to come back to our tracks. After all, this earth is one giant amusement park filled with temptations and distractions. To be honest, there is no one who doesn’t thank Saturn everytime its transit gets over in one of their signs. You know the times we say, ‘Thank God it didn’t work out”. “Thank God for those big lessons!” “Thank God, dodged a bullet!!”

That’s Saturn delaying, obstructing, and limiting you for a brief moment, very much like how we see a black cat crossing our paths as a sign from the gods to pause for a moment to delay an accident or an unfortunate incident. Neither the black cat nor the Saturn are bad, unlucky, or misfortunate. On the contrary, they are saving you when you look at the bigger picture.

Saturn looks at the bigger picture. This is why Saturn correlates to karmic ties, karmic legacy, and karmic debts. Imagine yourself zoomed at a particular juncture of your timeline but Saturn is standing back to look at your timeline across past, present, and future. It sees what our limited minds cannot comprehend logically. This is why trust is such a key when we work with Saturn placements or Saturn transits.

Let’s have a breakdown of what Saturn transit detoxes and cleanses throughout the houses.

Saturn transits are all about detoxing stagnant, old, outdated habits and building new, healthy, and updated ones. It asks us to eliminate what is no longer useful, forcing us to face reality and make the needed adjustments. This is how you become committed, responsible, and mature in the process. After this detox, Saturn helps us rebuild those areas of life in a stronger, and more sustainable way.

Have a peek at your chart for this - if you don’t already have your astrology chart, go to astro.com, generate your free natal chart (I prefer whole house system), click on +transits. Locate the blue Saturn ♄ symbol on the outside of your chart circle. See which house (slice of the pie) number it is in.

Read the following for that house-

1. Saturn transit in your 1st House: detoxing your body and identity

2. Saturn transit in 2nd House: detoxing your bad money habits and outdated ways of making money

3. Saturn transit in 3rd House: detoxing your environment - office environment, class environment, anywhere where you spend your day-to-day life

4. Saturn transit in 4th House: detoxing your home and childhood hurts

5. Saturn transit in Pisces in 5th House: detoxing your temporary love interests and addictions that siphon your sexual energy

6. Saturn transit in 6th House: detoxing your bad routines, for some bad jobs too

7. Saturn transit in 7th House: detoxing and urging you to let go of personal connections or blocks to personal connections that clog your needs/desires in personal relationships

8. Saturn transit in 8th house: detoxing your blocks to intimacy, sex, sharing resources, etc.

9. Saturn transit in 9th House: detoxing your outdated belief systems and outlook on the world

10. Saturn transit in 10th house: detoxing outdated timelines and options of your career

11. Saturn transit 11th house: detoxing outdated communities, circles, networks, goals, and visions

12. Saturn transit in 12th house: detoxing past life karmic debts, psychological pain, and subconscious trauma

Most probably you might have already gone through this breaking point up until this point - and for many of us, it’s the re-building phase as Saturn gets ready to go direct in November.

So what are we making space for, what are we re-building with Saturn transits?

1. Saturn transit in 1st House: rebuilding a new identity in the world along with a newly reformed relationship with your body and appearance, one where your physical vessel blooms, glows, and blossoms like a glorious lily in summer.

2. Saturn transit in 2nd House: rebuilding your financial foundations with healthy money ethics, habits and systems in place, one where your material world feels safe and grounded and your self-worth feels valued and treasured.

3. Saturn transit in 3rd House: rebuilding the trust on your environment and learning to relax and fall into ease with it. For many, rebuilding a whole environment altogether.

4. Saturn transit in 4th House: rebuilding your relationship to your child parts, healing attachment styles, rebuilding home or concepts of what home means for you

5. Saturn transit in 5th House: rebuilding your relationship to pleasure, sex and creativity, one that is unhinged, beautiful, and expressive max.

6. Saturn transit in 6th house: rebuilding healthier routines, daily habits, and diets

7. Saturn transit in 7th house: rebuilding connection, communication, and commitment in your most personal relationships

8. Saturn transit in 8th house: rebuilding trust and intimacy in connections you share resources with - investors, partnership, marriage, inheritance etc.

9. Saturn transit in 9th house: rebuilding character, new belief systems and conceptualizing a whole new world view

10. Saturn transit in 10th house: rebuilding a new foundation of your career, one based on ethics, long term commitment, and discipline.

11. Saturn transit in 11th house: rebuilding a new circle of friendships, network or community - one which is in alignment to your values, to your ethics and one on which you can lean on when times get rough

12. Saturn transit in 12th house: rebuilding a new fertile ground for your psyche and subconscious, safe and healthy ground for your new identity and ideas to thrive and flourish on, healthier relationship with your spirituality

When Saturn transits through your personal planets, that is, the house or sign you have Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars in, the Saturn transits can feel extra rough. After all, Saturn is sky daddy and it does nothing less than tough love. Saturn will teach us and give lessons on what our Dads probably missed out on with respect to the themes of these planets.

As Saturn is currently transiting Pisces (March 2023 to May 2025 and then again Aug ’2025 to February 13, 2026), so if you or someone you know has these planets in the sign of Pisces right now, especially planets in the later degrees, please be extra gentle with them. (Read this article if you want to learn how to support your people). Saturn truly doesn’t bulls**t and can very potently turn your life upside down. There can be feelings of anxiety, stress, and burdened during these times. Many can also experience this manifesting in the physical through cardiovascular issues, bone and joint issues, as well as skin problems. Of course, while the transit will take its own time to do what it is here to do, please stay open to consult a physical, mental health or spiritual practitioner of your choice to support the process. I shared my experience through this Saturnian process since last year in an Instagram post recently.

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Here’s a planet-wise breakdown of how Saturn detoxes and rebuilds as it transits through each of the planets:

1. Saturn Transiting the Sun

Detoxing: Ego, self-identity, and self-expression.

Rebuilding: A more mature, disciplined sense of self.

Saturn strips away superficial aspects of your identity, forcing you to redefine yourself with authenticity and purpose.

2. Saturn Transiting the Moon

Detoxing: Emotional security, comfort zones, and habitual reactions.

Rebuilding: Emotional resilience and stability.

Saturn helps you let go of unhealthy attachments and emotional dependencies, encouraging you to build a foundation of emotional self-reliance.

3. Saturn Transiting Mercury

Detoxing: Thought patterns, communication habits, and mental clutter.

Rebuilding: Clear, structured thinking and effective communication.

Saturn forces you to re-evaluate how you think and communicate, detoxing confusion and disorganization, and replacing it with logical and focused thought processes.

4. Saturn Transiting Venus

Detoxing: Relationships, values, and material desires.

Rebuilding: More meaningful connections and aligned values.

Saturn exposes weaknesses in relationships or superficial desires, encouraging you to prioritize quality over quantity and invest in relationships and things that have long-term value.

5. Saturn Transiting Mars

Detoxing: Impulsiveness, reckless ambition, and misdirected energy.

Rebuilding: Disciplined action and focused energy.

Saturn tempers impulsive behaviors, teaching you to take calculated and patient steps toward your goals. It helps you refine your ambition and use your energy efficiently.

6. Saturn Transiting Jupiter

Detoxing: Over-expansion, over-optimism, and unrealistic expectations.

Rebuilding: Grounded growth and realistic optimism and expansive mindset

Saturn curbs excessive risk-taking and forces you to focus on sustainable growth. You learn to expand your horizons cautiously and pragmatically, building a solid foundation for future success.

7. Saturn Transiting Saturn (Saturn Return)

Detoxing: Immaturity, lack of direction, and outdated life structures.

Rebuilding: A stronger sense of responsibility, purpose and legacy

Saturn strips away anything that no longer supports your growth, helping you rebuild your life around what truly matters and aligning with your personal and professional goals.

8. Saturn Transiting Uranus

Detoxing: Erratic behaviors, rebellion, and disruptive tendencies.

Rebuilding: A balance between freedom and structure to express your individuality and

Saturn detoxes chaotic or disruptive tendencies, guiding you to find responsible ways to express your individuality and unconventional ideas while maintaining stability.

9. Saturn Transiting Neptune

Detoxing: Illusions, escapism, and spiritual confusion

Rebuilding: Grounded spirituality and realistic dreams

Saturn brings clarity to areas clouded by fantasy, helping you manifest your dreams in tangible ways. It forces you to release unrealistic aspirations and build a more practical, grounded spiritual or creative practice.

10. Saturn Transiting Pluto

Detoxing: Power struggles, control issues, and destructive habits.

Rebuilding: Empowerment through transformation and spiritual rebirth

Saturn helps you purge toxic power dynamics and confront deep-rooted fears. After the detox, it encourages you to build a stronger, more empowered sense of self, transforming your relationship with power and control.

11. Saturn Transiting North Node

Detoxing: Misalignment with life’s purpose, procrastination on destiny. -

Rebuilding: Alignment with your soul’s path and destiny

Saturn forces you to release distractions and commitments that pull you away from your life’s mission, helping you rebuild a more focused, purposeful trajectory.

12. Saturn Transiting South Node

Detoxing: Past life patterns, karmic baggage, and outdated habits.

Rebuilding: Freedom from past limitations + reclaiming your past life gifts

Saturn detoxes limiting patterns or unresolved karma, encouraging you to let go of old cycles. This allows you to rebuild a new path free from the influence of past baggage.

I am curious, where are you at the moment? Is Saturn breaking something right now, or re-building? Maybe it is something happening simultaneously. I can speak for myself how every day of Saturn transiting my 7th house feels like both happening at the same time. I go from, “relationships are too much” to “relationships are exactly what I live for” all on the same day, same week. So far, Saturn has successfully reminded me how sacred these personal connections, deep real communication and authenticity in them are for me and that when I avoid or run away from these, I am avoiding my own self, and my own heart. What about you? What is Saturn clearing up —- and making space for what?

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