Saturn, which stays in each sign for around two and a half years, indicates the rules, regulations, and traditions that are very likely to affect the people born during this period. It can also indicate the most important things that help us grow into who we are meant to be.
It is often said that while Jupiter expands, Saturn constricts, and it can be an indication of the most important challenges that you will need to overcome in life.
If you are born under Saturn in Leo, you grew up in a time when aspirations for the future for big, but life was also highly competitive. As a result, you tend to believe that you are more and greater than your current circumstances and that you deserve more than you have.
You tend to feel entitled and consider yourself a diamond in the rough just waiting for the world to realize your potential and what you deserve. Learning that no one is coming along to discover you and that you will need to do the work is an important life lesson for you.
Your competitive nature means that you tend to constantly compare yourself to others and often seesaw between feeling superior and inferior. Learning that the only person you are competing against is yourself can be highly liberating.
Saturn in Leo Transit
While the position of Saturn in our natal chart affects us on an individual level, the planet’s continual transit through the signs impacts us all with its overarching influence. Saturn takes two to two and a half years to transit through each sign.
When Saturn transits through Leo we find that the cold forces of Saturn mix with the hot power of Leo. This tends to expose harsh realities, but at the same time, create a melting pot for personal growth and change.
Rude awakenings often appear to show us that perhaps we aren’t quite a superior as we imagine. We often realize that there is a big difference between the way we see ourselves and the way that others see us.
This often forces us to revaluate the importance that we place in the way that other people perceive us. We are forced to question whether we are acting for recognition, or for our own happiness and well-being.
This causes us to rethink our approach to many things, which often releases creative juices. We realize that rules are made to be broken and that the boundaries that we want to push against are far from solid.
Saturn in Leo Retrograde
During each of its transits, Saturn also retrogrades in the same sign for around 140 days. During any retrograde of Saturn, we tend to find ourselves feeling restricted and the urge to make changes.
When Saturn retrogrades through Leo, we often realize that we have been trying to fit into a mould to please others, and that the suit that we are wearing might not fit us as well as we imagine.
We often find ourselves confronting questions about what it is that we really want from life and how to get it. This often involves passing through a time of extreme disappointment in ourselves. But rather than resulting in depression, this tends to manifest in a period of growth.
Saturn in Leo Rules and Traditions
People born under Saturn in Leo tend to have big expectations about what they are going to do with their lives. You probably grew up in an environment where the sky was the limit and you were encouraged to dream big, and feel like you deserved to achieve those dreams.
This may have given you a sense of entitlement. You know that you are destined for more than the life that you have, and you are just waiting for the world to wake up and realize. This can mean that you often expect things to fall into your lap without too much work, and you can be resentful when you don’t get what you want.
Your response to this can often be to ignore reality and insist that you version of the truth is real. You block out the voices of others and try to overcome life through a sheer sense of will.
Saturn in Leo Growth
While you certainly feel entitled to success, you know that life is a competition and that you need to play to win. When you start to play, you often stay within the rules and try to create a version of yourself that meets what you think are the expectations of the people around you.
However, you will often discover that the way that you think you are being perceived and the way that people actually see you are very different. This tends to teach you that trying to be what other people want you to be is a losing game. This tends to be a moment of extreme growth and clarity.
When you realize that the game has no rules, you tend to break out of your shell and find genuine creativity that sets you out from the pack.
Saturn in Leo Challenges
One of your biggest challenges is that you can’t help but compare yourself to other people, and that you also aren’t very good at it! You tend to drastically over or underestimate yourself in relation to others.
This can leave you vacillating between having an unjustifiably inflated ego or feeling completely inadequate for no good reason. You can become confused about when to put yourself forward, and when you need to do more work before throwing your hat in the ring.
When you learn that the only person you really need to compete against is yourself, you will gain a clearer view of your strengths and weaknesses and what is really required to transform.
Saturn in Leo Life Lessons
The energy of Saturn in Leo has important life lessons to teach us all, and not only those who are born with this astrological combination in their natal chart.
Dream big.
Saturn in Leo teaches us that it is good to dream big and have big expectations for ourselves. Believing that we are capable of achieving is the first step to getting there. Having big scary dreams drive us forward. And even if we don’t make it all the way, we’ll do more than if we settled for less.
Do for yourself.
Many people believe that they deserve success in life, and so they wait for it to come along. But very few things in life “just happen”. If you want something, you need to take responsibility for making it a reality. A real plan coupled with determination is the surest way to get “what you deserve”.
Avoid comparisons.
It has often been said that when you start comparing yourself to others you have already lost. Whether your view yourself in a favourable or a negative light, if you are comparing, you haven’t understood the rules of the game. The only person you are competing against is yourself, and the only person you should be comparing yourself to is who you were yesterday, and who you could be tomorrow.
Pleasing stifles creativity.
If you are bury trying to guess what other people want and will like, you are boxing in your creativity, as you are limited by what already exists and what you have already seen. Only when you create to please and stretch yourself will you find that you can access the deeper pools of your creative juices.
Use setbacks as opportunities to grow.
It is not uncommon for our egos to get knocked back, and people generally have one of two responses. Either we see that we aren’t good enough, and we give up, or we are determined to win next time and drive forward. These are learned responses, and you can choose which one will be yours.
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