Thirteen Things I Have Just Learned About The Return Of Saturn 1. I have been having something of a freak out the past 2 months (well longer, but it has been intensifying the past 2 months), a love hate relationship with my job, right down to the realization that I am going to be 30 in just 2 years. While ranting to a friend she told me I better get it cleared up as my Saturn’s Return was just around the corner, if not here already. So the first thing I learned about Saturn’s return is its name, which means just that, the return of Saturn.
2. I demanded to know more so she told me to google it to find it out for myself. I have to admit to not being a big believer in Astrology, but everything I read on this particular topic just fit - including that when Saturn enters into its original place in your birth chart your whole world turns upside down, right about when your 30. So I dug into it a little more. 
3. It takes Saturn around 29.5 years to make its way back to its original position when you were born.
4. But Saturn stays in each house around 2 years, so the years between 28 - 30 is when you experience your Saturn’s return. AKA your first life crisis. 
Or at least mine, I was so freaking confident in everything I did up until now!
5. This is the time when you finally get to be an “adult” not 19 or 21. Which means I was right when I told everyone to stop freaking out at 24, we were still more or less teenagers. (I figured university delayed true adulthood, and so my age group at 23 or 24 were where our parents were at 19, 2 years out of school, Nothing!)
6. Each return is different based upon the house you were born under (so though I am a Leo I share a return of Saturn with anyone born roughly between 1978 - 1980. (You can find out exactly by checking out http://saturnreturn.net/where_is.html)
7. Even if the astronomy part is all crap, the timing is perfect. Right down to the fact that all of a sudden I find myself a workaholic obsessed with lists as the be all and end all to all my life’s problems. I bought Surviving Saturn’s Return as it was 12 Euros and I figured how can it hurt. If nothing else it will be fun. It was a little too fun as it all just fit a little too well, right down to the stress really kicking in September 3rd of this year, days before the Eastern Europe Motorcycle tour, which was awesome but tumultuous to begin.
8. It happens again when we are nearing 60, as this is the second time Saturn makes his way around to his original location.
9. More importantly if you do not deal with it the first time around, the second time is harder.
10. The return of Saturn is a clock demanding that you do your inner work and get your life on track the way it should be for you, not the way others think it should be.
11. The lessons astrologers talk about in preparing you for your Saturn’s return are important for everyone all the time, as a believer or not. At the risk of sounding like a nut job I decided to do this Thursday 13 because I loved the book. but I would have loved it if it had been called “Common Crisis for Nearing 30 Women” or “Freak outs of the average 30 year old.”
12. These lessons could be summed up as do your own inner work, be honest to yourself and others, love and trust yourself, and don’t surrender the power for any of your decisions to anyone else. Relationships and money are not the bandaids we are brought up to believe they are.
13. If you love and respect yourself things work out. The further you step away from that (staying with your partner because your afraid to be alone, not writing that book because it means everyone will laugh at you for giving up your job as a top exec, worshiping at the feet of the great dollar instead of the divinity that is inside all of us) the further you work yourself into varying degrees of unhappy states.
And so as a believer or not, it fits right now.
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(although I do really want this stamp anyway). But I have purchased a book aimed at adults, in particular women, as I have bought my first romance novel period. As a teen I loved horror novels in the Kinglet style like Dean Koontz and comics (the closest I got was V.C. Andrews in grade 6 and 7, and that shit is just f*&ked up),then in univeristy I was introduced to Canadian and Russian lit, and so I missed out on the romance genre. Actually I read Gone With The Wind and loved it, but I dont see myself venturing that way in German any time soon!