We Are Nowhere And It’s Now

Saturn enters Aries on May 24, 2025, 11:36 pm est, a new orientation to time.

It all comes back to time. Time is everything and nothing. The zodiacal wheel is one large clock moving in perfect rhythm, and the planets are hands to the clock, each dancing to its own revolution. This dance creates a mathematical harmony, ordering the seemingly chaotic universe. Each planet tells a time, sets a tone, possesses a quality. In astrology, the quality of the time, or kairos, is interpreted through the zodiacal sign the planet is moving through. 

Time itself has many faces and astrology is one specific tool to understand the different fabrics of how the concept of time plays out in our universe. Hellenistic astrology specifically gets us closer to the ancient gods of time, and it is the ancient Greek language that sought to put words to the various visages of time.

Time Is of The Essence

There is the God Chronos or chronic time, and this is often associated with the planet Saturn. Chronic time focuses on quantity and linear, conventional measurement. Saturn’s own revolution is 29.4 years. This complete revolution marks the Saturn return timing in ones own birth chart, and denotes a period for the native where they are hyperaware of their own mortal toils here on earth. Saturn returns have a tendency to isolate individuals into their own wrestling with the hands of time. This is quite regularly a period where an individual is making great commitments and sacrifices, pushing them towards a more rooted commitment to the mortal play of the ego and their relationship with rational time.

All Things In Time

There is also Kairos time, and this is less focused on the quantity face of time and more focused on the qualitative nature of time. Associated with the God Kairos/Caerus, this is the Greek god of opportunity. Rooted in the practice of ancient Greek archery, kairos is when the bow is released at the perfect, opportune time to hit the bullseye. All elements are perfectly aligned, air is still, the moment is ripe. Kairos has us looking at the mood and symbolism of time, associated with our inner world or subconscious. This is the texture of time and speaks to how the soul keeps track of time.

God Aion, centered in the zodiacal wheel, representing the cyclical nature of the universe.

The All is One

The third face of time is Aion time, translated from Greek as “long period of time”. This is perpetual time, there is no past, present or future, but one unbounded, cyclical wheel. Aion is the god of cyclic ages, and the cycle of the zodiac. This is time eternal sacred time, and is said to be the space where the archetypes dwell. Aion time is an ouroboros, no beginning and no end, just infinitely existing, death and birth in perfect alignment. Aion is the time of Self, with the capital Jungian “S”.

I imagine if the archetypes dwell in Aion time, they descend down towards the earthly realm and intertwine into our subconscious in the form of Kairos time, and from there we mortal humans pull them into the conscious, linear realm as Chronos time. The archetypes are at play and they have come to play with us.

Sands of Chronic Time

If you are still with me, this is why Saturn is also called “Father Time” or the “Old Man”, and has associations with death. Chronos time begins when we take our first conscious breath and exhale, and the hands begin to move and count down to our last breath. Chronos keeps watch and where ever he has moved in our own birth chart, there is a heavy shadow keeping score. Birth, growth, harvest, death, this is the quanitative nature of Chronos, the lord of the sickle. Anything we dedicate our minutes too, should reach a peak period, a maturation. From there we pick the fruit of the harvest, and that signals a release to let go and let it essentially die off. This is the nature of our world.

Major Saturn transits in our own chart can track such cycles, whether it be growing in a career, a relationship, or a personal goal. 

Seawalls to Firewalls

This brings us to why we are here today. Saturn is leaving the sign of Pisces, where he has transited since March of 2023. Saturn will retrograde back to the sea of fish one last time from Aug 31, 2025 through Feb 13, 2026. 

Saturn just spent nearly three years in the mutable water temple often associated with intuitive insight, the unconscious realm, and our sea of emotions and inner worlds. Saturn in Pisces taught us to filter out what we allow in, but also to better contain what we may emotionally spill out. We may have repaired many seawalls in our own inner worlds. These last few years called to us to run a tighter ship in the Piscean house, whether it was establishing firmer boundaries in relationships (love or work) and not allowing the emotional response to always lead first. We learned to tamper our response and to access another way into the heart, with wiser discretion and discernment.

May 24, 2025, 11:36 pm est, the hands of chronic time will strike the hour marker of 0° Aries, Chronos will cast a long shadow over the fiery temple of Mars. 0° Aries, the vernal equinox, is symbolic for the initiation of new ideas, new leadership, embarking on a new journey.  This is an absolute tonal shift from boundless, spiritual water to hot tempered Aries. This is less about our inner world, and more about the world we are creating externally.

Saturn is a planet to ask why, and if the answer is not sufficient, firewalls will certainly go up. Aries by nature does not like the word NO and certainly does not like momentum impeded by delay. This is the push-pull that will certainly be present when Saturn moves into Aries. Often planets that are in Aries by nature want to move fast and without delay; action first, question last. Saturn by its nature is cold, slow and doubting and a firewall is positioned to be discerning.  Saturn wants to constrict and constrain, and the roadblock may be necessary to keep at bay unchecked power.

The landscape of Aries is seeded for bold, exciting and risky adventures. We can start to see why Saturn’s planetary dignity is fallen in the sign of Aries. Both Mars and the Sun, two hot and bright planets have rulership in Aries. Both encourage growth, competition and life. Aries is the sign that signals spring in the northern hemisphere. Saturn’s cold shadow, which oversees the winter solstice, can stall such growth, and at best will require greater resources of energy to push agendas forward.

Saturn transits can signal endings and death, and in a cardinal sign like Aries that wants to initiate, we may be required to sacrifice an aspect of our own self that we have outgrown so we can move forward in a fresh, new direction. This may require a real heavy dose of reality or prompt us to mature in an area of our life that still rests in a stage of adolescence. Saturn in Aries can signal new leadership, but also the death or retirement of a solar figure. One must step down, for a new king to be crowned, there is not room for two kings in Aries. Saturn in Aries can help build the confidence to lead, but it will require self-dedication and hardwork.

If you have a tendency in this area of life to move too quickly and recklessly, Saturn has a good chance at containing you and slowing you down. Saturn is still Saturn, and the lesson may only be learned through earned struggle. Hot-headed, determined Aries sometimes needs a wrecking ball to grok the point.

A Marathon, Not A Sprint

Saturn in Aries could be quite productive if you are receiving immediate feedback in your goals or actions. Aries likes to sprint forward never checking the pace, Saturn will be the pacer, signaling when to slow it down so you can finish the race successfully. Get too far ahead of the pacer, there is a good chance you will blow up. This is the warning of Saturn in Aries, his presence requires patience, steadiness, kairos.

Wherever Saturn drags his anchor in our natal chart, it is a call to engage in our here and now and nowhere. It is a call to push past the quantifiable tendencies and deepen into the kairos, the quality, the meaning. Saturn transits ask us to meet the Aion, the age of our life, and for each of us this will be profound in its own individual purpose. It will bring us back to timelessness, an existence without time, and time without existence. 

Leaving this meditation with one of my favorite Bright Eyes lyrics, 

“Why are you scared to dream of God? When it’s salvation that you want.

See stars that clear have been dead for years, but the idea just lives on.

In our wheels that roll around, as we move over the ground.

And all day it seems we’ve been in between a past and future town.

We are nowhere and it’s now.”

Curious where Saturn is traveling in your own birth chart? Reach out for a private consultation. Together we will navigate the stars to orient your life.