Hi there and welcome this is Amanda the founder of astrology hub and you're listening

to our week ahead snapshot with world-class astrologer, historian, and author of the cosmic calendar, Christopher Renstrom.

This show is designed to give you a quick overview of the Week ahead, enabling you the gift of choice in how you navigate

and weave these energies into your daily life.

Enjoy. pre-Pl planet and astrology, except for the sun and the moon turns retrograde.

And it's during that period of time that a planet is retrograde, that is moving backwards in the sky,

that it's said to act contrary to when the planet is moving forward.

For instance, Mercury, the planet of buying and selling, becomes the planet of bought deals

when it's moving backwards in the sky and Venus. The planet of love and beauty becomes the planet

of breakups and sows the seeds of discontent when she is retrograde.

So if you kind of keep that formula in mind, kind of stands to reason that maybe Saturn, the planet of trials and tribulations, might kind of give you a break or cut you some slack when it's turning retrograde? Well, we are talking about

Saturn and no such luck. Hello, my name is Christopher Wrenstrom, and I'm your weekly horoscope columnist here on

astrology hub, and I wanted to talk to you this week about Saturn turning retrograde on May 23rd. Now, when Saturn turns retrograde on May 23rd. Now when Saturn turns retrograde what happens is basically things

that were already taking a long time take even longer to happen. Okay, so something that was already of sort of

hard or sustained or deliberate effort becomes more so when Saturn is

retrograde. If you think of Saturn as being the tortoise in the race between the tortoise and the hair, then Saturn retrograde is kind of that tortoise on Valium.

It meanders, it wanders, it stops and stairs into space,

absently and blankly, but there's a little bit more to a Saturn retrograde

than that. Now typically Saturn makes you stronger by introducing obstacles or difficulties in your life, all right?

And when you face these obstacles and difficulties, you're thrown back on your own resources or your ingenuity inventiveness even or or maybe just

dedication to a purpose or a commitment to a cause to get to to get your way through to the end to maybe master a situation that you feel has mastered you.

However, when Saturn is retrograde, it will actively work against your progress.

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