How To Know If You're In Your Saturn Return

I looked up from my desk the other day and realized my life was entirely different than it was just a couple of years ago. New job, new apartment, single, two cats. I’ve broken my own heart in a way too personal and sad to mine for content, gotten hit by an E-bike while walking through Grand Army Plaza and broke my elbow so badly it required surgery, lost relationships and completely reconfigured others. Some might say I’ve had some shitty luck, others might say the culprit is ‘Saturn Return’ — a term even those of us (me) who are not versed in astrology have probably heard.

If you haven’t heard: Saturn return happens every 29.5 years and it literally means Saturn has made a (roughly) full orbit around the sun and has landed in the same position in the sky it was in when you were born. So those in their late 20’s, late 50’s, and god willing, late 80’s are experiencing their “Saturn return” years, years that are notoriously transitional and rocky. More information can be found in thousands upon thousands of TikToks telling those of us born between 1993 and 1996 to “buckle up,” with relatable comments like: “Idk what any of this means. Will I or will I not continue to be miserable?”