This turning was commented upon in my 2013 General Forecast:
Saturn
Retrograde (February 18 until July 7)
Saturn
turns your attention inwards to consider the nature of Union in your
world…You have been delving deeply with Saturn in Scorpio, into how you can
overcome your pains of separation and join with one another more completely.
Now you need to look within to see what is there, what you hold to, or what
holds you back from the deeper experiences you profess to desire. The shadows
of the past, your fears about rejection or loss have to be faced and released
here within yourself, for only then will you find your joy out there.
During any retrograde you are given an
opportunity to draw closer to the tests and opportunities your planetary
companions offer as their gifts to you. There is no greater teacher than
Saturn, and no greater test or opportunity than what he will show you in
Scorpio.
Your greatest longing is to be found here,
to draw closer to and become one with one another…and there is no greater
fear or pain than this, nothing is more painful than to experience the loss of
your union…it is almost unbearable. But this is part of your journey as you
move from the lesser to the Greater Understanding, from the realms of shadows
and half-truths and draw that much closer to your true Self…You can only grow
by letting go of what brings you pain and so you will come closer and closer to the
Crossing Point…and you will leave behind the darkness and fears as you move into the Light.
Let Saturn help you to face your fears,
which are your self-made reflections, formed by those aches and pains of what
was but is now lost, or what might have been and yet was not to be…
Understand that these painful laments that
echo into your present circumstance can be easily misunderstood and foster
hopelessness, loneliness and despair, and so you might turn from the prospect
of union, to give up on yourself…but this is not who you are and this is not
the message these echoes are meant to carry for you.
Instead you will eventually see and understand that
these laments contain the mirrored reminders of the Love that Was, Is and Will
always be. That the One True Reality that binds all as one is Love, and it is
this fundamental Force which holds all of Creation together in Love.
You will come to understand
that the pain or loss you feel from time to time is equally and more truly to
be understood as the measure of the Love that was, is and will always be there
for you, for this Love is within you as much as it surrounds you too…and so you will eventually live in acceptance, peace and understanding.
Let Saturn teach you to let go of the
Illusion that comes from your Mortal Frame, let go of this Maya of Separation…
For all are ones of the One and you are
never, ever alone…not ever.
For with you always, forever and ever, forever you walk with your beloved, your own higher Self…
Who wishes only for you to realize the
Greatness that awaits you, that lies within you…
That is You, your Self.