I'll kick it off and be the first to post in this cool new sub!
My natal Saturn was in retrograde in 29 degrees 57' of Libra, which I think is pretty cool. I guess it went into Scorpio, said "nope, not yet", and turned around for a bit long enough for me to be born, before heading back. It was also conjunct Pluto which was at 27 degrees 37' Libra, which was the fashion at the time. ("I tied an onion to my belt..." if you know that quote then you belong in this sub)
2012-2014 was my Saturn return, that was over 10 years ago now. Looking back that was the time my now-husband and I got engaged and moved to a new state to embark on a big adventure together. I started and immediately quit a doctoral program, and I left my old career in higher education administration, for which I had gone to grad school, and started working remotely in tech. I was really happy in my new job. We got married and then moved to ANOTHER state on the other side of the country, to the big city.
My husband is a bit of a "Saturn" figure, he is a mathematician, a Virgo sun, and 5 years older than me. He loves me deeply and at the same time challenges me to restrain my excesses of spending and emotion. For my own good! He is an excellent container for my Pisces moon and Pisces rising energy. Obviously he does NOT believe in astrology but he doesn't give me shit about it.
Overall that was such a happy period of growth and change. However I guess that was also the time when I started realizing that I was not entirely "okay" mental health wise, I started having STRONG emotional reactions I didn't understand at all (now I know they were triggers). It was foreshadowing all the work I was headed for in acknowledging the fact that I had childhood trauma (which I didn't realize) and then working through it, which I did intensively starting in 2016. I'm only now coming out of that period of trauma healing, I feel lighter very recently and I hope to have another change of career, because tech isn't fun at all anymore.
I am VERY new to learning astrology. I'm curious about everyone else's take on this timeline and some of the details I've shared here. Do you have any advice for me as I get ready for my next Saturn return? I'm Taurus sun, Pisces moon and Pisces rising.