Saturn in Pisces sextile Uranus in Taurus

Who were you before the Internet?

© Frisken - original artwork, please don’t reproduce though of course I can’t stop you from doing anything

‘The difficulty in making something happen, I have found, is often directly correlated to its importance: things that come easy aren’t worth doing.’

- Ai Weiwei, from his memoir 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows

Saturn at 19° Pisces and Uranus at 23° Taurus are currently sextile, a transit that will reach exactitude at the end of March 2025. I’ve been thinking about these two planets a lot lately; their astrological energy is hard to miss. Saturn and Uranus in aspect together presents a provocation: Saturn represents form and structure and predictability of process; Uranus represents the desire to break that structure into pieces in order to find freedom from rigidity and a sterile existence. Pisces is ambivalent, emotional, confusing, and ruthless, all at once. Taurus is lackadaisical, methodical, pleasure-seeking, and quite often very, very naive.

Humanistic astrologers Leyla Rael and Dane Rudhyar describe the sextile as a creative impulse, providing the environmental opportunities for growth and development with greater focus and usefulness.¹ While viewing this sextile between Saturn in Pisces and Uranus in Taurus as providing environmental opportunities, we need to think beyond the obvious (climate emergencies and breakdowns), though that’s certainly a critical part of it. Who were we before the Internet?