Saturn North Node Cycle: Reaping What We Sow

On April 21, 2025, Saturn and the North Node meet up at 26° Pisces. Saturn and the Nodes meet up approximately every six and half years. In 2019, Saturn met up with the South Node at 20° Capricorn.  The South Node and North Node cycles are related and you can also see these themes thread from cycle to cycle. For example, the themes related to this current administration seeded in 2013, another Saturn-North Node conjunction. But zooming out even further and inclusive of other cycles, it also has its roots in the North Node cycle of 1774. This cycle began two years prior to the Declaration of Independence. In this video presentation, I review a few charts to illustrate some high-level observations in an attempt to better understand these cycles. 

Saturn on the Nodes has to do with issues related to karma, morality, right vs. wrong, and themes related to justice and fairness. It’s a time of re-alignment, balancing the scales, a karmic debt needing to be purged. In Pisces, Saturn’s themes can surface as a conflict between man-made laws and spiritual laws, between man-made truth and spiritual truth, between materiality and spirituality. 

The evolutionary purpose of deceptive propaganda, the widespread acceptance of conspiracy theories and misinformation, is to teach us that the truth is not man-made. The experience of fraud and financial loss is to deepen our understanding that the ultimate reference is not in the material world. During these times, we are called to a higher purpose, a need to find a spiritual morality, a spiritual sense of order beyond what can be manipulated by man.

During this time, we have the opportunity to get in touch and prioritize our own inner truth, our own inner moral compass. Despite what is going on in the outer world. We have a choice to lead from our own center rather than blindly acquiesce to man made laws that contradict our moral convictions of what is right and wrong.

“To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.” Martin Luther King

What is considered moral has to do with one’s value system and that can be culturally specific, something we might blindly follow because we’ve been conditioned by our society, our family, and our peers. If we haven’t done the inner work, we may not even know where our values and beliefs originate. For example, there are those whose values uphold the rights and dignities of human beings regardless of their immigration status. There are some who don’t think it’s right to take people off the street and send them to jail in a third-world country with or without due process. These people might not think borders should determine the sanctity of life for another human being. Their values are humanistic, not nationalistic. If we want to compare this to Christian values, these values relate to the teachings of Christ in the New Testament. The New Testament speaks to the number one commandment which is to “love thy neighbor as thyself”. If you think about this commandment for a minute, you might recognize this as a universal truth. Because if we were forced with this same decision in order to survive, we might want similar treatment.

On the other hand, there are those who think that anyone who comes into a country illegally deserves to be punished by any means necessary. This is similar to the Old Testament laws that depict an angry God who smites his enemies. This God upholds vengeance in the form of “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”  They might think that this is the best way to teach people right vs. wrong. No matter if they call themselves Christian, Christ’s example is “too soft” and “too socialist” . It's similar to the evangelical pastors, like Pat Robertson, who used national tragedies as a way to pronounce God’s punishment for those parts of society he thought were immoral. With his Sun in early Aries, he’s a great case study of a shadow aspect of Neptune in Aries. It’s a religious self-righteous zeal that pure Aries energy can channel in a destructive way. 

There are many gradations in-between, but this is a good time for each of us to explore our own values. What values do you uphold and why? Have you stopped to think about how you arrived at these values ? Which values would you fight to uphold at any cost? Do you have any that are that dear to you? What would it take for you to fight for these values?

Learn more about the Saturn and North Node cycle as I highlight the themes of these cycles through a few chart examples: