My Incredible Second Saturn Return: Lesson 10
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Lesson 9 of my 2025 Saturn return reflections explores why returning to old ideas wasn’t regression, but readiness. Clearing space made it possible to reclaim work that had been waiting for the right moment.
My Top 10 Lessons of 2025
In the final days of 2025, I’m sharing ten lessons this year taught me — not as a highlight reel, but as a reflection on what actually shifted beneath the surface. 2025 has been a significant astrological year for me, marked by a second Saturn return and a fifth Jupiter return, and it’s been a year of recalibration: learning where my energy truly belongs, what deserves commitment, and what needed to be released. Each of these lessons played a role in shaping how the year unfolded, often in ways I only understood in hindsight.
Much of what I share — both here and in my work — comes from the belief that astrology is most powerful when it helps us make conscious, practical choices. If you’re interested in learning how to work with cycles like Saturn and Jupiter in your own life, or in developing astrology as a tool for growth, education, and ethical practice, you’ll find links throughout this series to my classes and consultations. These lessons aren’t abstract; they’re lived, tested, and offered in the spirit of helping others navigate their own turning points with greater clarity.
Lesson 9: Never Throw the Baby Out with the Bath Water
With my good friend Robert Currey who I met with at a research conference in early 2025. Truly Inspirational!
One of the quieter lessons of 2025 was learning that not everything from the past needed to be discarded. After a period of clearing space — physically, professionally, and emotionally — I began to notice how many ideas I’d assumed were “over” were simply waiting for room. They hadn’t failed. They’d been crowded out by noise, obligation, and a lack of capacity.
This became especially clear through my research work. I found myself circling back to material I’d begun nearly a decade ago, particularly my research into behaviour in the classroom. For years, it had sat unfinished — not because it lacked value, but because I never had the space to complete it properly. Returning to that work in 2025, I realised it still had relevance, clarity, and real-world application. In fact, I could see more clearly than ever how it might be made accessible and useful beyond the circles it originally lived in. Returning to old ideas gave me a sense of more than potential accomplishment, it gave me a sense of being able to start new chapters.
No Such Thing As Old Friends
At the same time, I found inspiration again through people I hadn’t seen in a while — friends whose presence reminded me who I am when I’m not firefighting or constantly managing other people’s needs. Reconnecting with people from my past brought a sense of continuity rather than nostalgia. These weren’t relationships I needed to rebuild from scratch; they were reminders of creative and intellectual threads that had never truly been lost. Being with them reawakened conversations, ideas, and ambitions that had been quietly waiting their turn.
This theme of return showed up again and again. Even projects that seemed new on the surface were, in truth, very old ideas finally given the right conditions to grow. Zeus on the Loose, for example, came together quickly in 2025 — but only because it had been forming in my mind for nearly ten years. I’d joked for a long time that I was worried someone else would steal the title before I ever got round to writing it. When the book finally emerged, it didn’t feel rushed or forced. It felt inevitable. The idea was ready long before my life was.
Returning to Old Ideas
The same was true for Astrology and Cinema in Reel Life. The concept had been with me for years, as had the idea of working more closely with Steve Judd — an old friend whose presence had drifted in and out of my life over time. Our reconnection–what would become a highly productive one at that–reminded me that I’m not always someone so on the go, in and out of classrooms saying quick hellos and goodbyes that I don’t have roots.
What changed in 2025 wasn’t inspiration, but capacity. Once the constant background mess was cleared — the overextension, the distractions, the sense of being pulled in too many directions — these ideas finally had space to become real. What followed later in the year was extraordinary, but it began with quietly making room, first by giving my website a major overhaul and reorganizing the ample material that already existed. I found some absolute gems (and a bit of old crap too). It was a bit like having guests over after clearing out a hoard! Like gutting my bedroom and redecorating, everything felt cleaner and lighter–and of course presentable.
Here’s an excerpt from my first podcast starring Mr Steve Judd:
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Rohini Academy also entered a new phase during this time. Rather than abandoning its original vision, I found myself re-firing it — holding on to what mattered while letting go of assumptions that no longer fit. It started as a strictly online project and blossomed into. . .something I’ll leave room to announce a bit later. In the meantime, the work feels clearer, more focused, and more aligned with where I’m heading next. Plans for 2026 began to take shape, not as a reaction to burnout, but as a deliberate evolution. Some of that remains under wraps for now, but the direction itself felt steady and right.
Hunching Over the Laptop Again
Even my writing habits reflected this lesson. After a period where long-form blog writing had slipped away, I found myself returning to it with ease and pleasure. The voice was still there. The ideas were still there. What had been missing wasn’t ability, but space. I hadn’t come anywhere close to filling that space–and thus there was room for a book. Or three.
Lesson 9 taught me that discernment isn’t about wiping the slate clean. It’s about knowing what to carry forward. Clearing my life didn’t mean erasing my past — it meant rescuing the parts of it that still mattered. Some ideas don’t disappear when you step away from them. They wait. And when the time is right, they return — not as leftovers, but as foundations.
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