Rising Sign Horoscopes for Saturn in Pisces and Pluto in Aquarius, March 2023*

Hey star-gazers! Consider this my deliberate take on the light side of the dark lords — a mea culpa post for my sometimes glass-half-empty astrological take on malefic transits.

While I’m all for dishing about the significance of the sky sans sugar-coating, I don’t want the positive, albeit hard-won benefits of Saturn in Pisces and Pluto in Aquarius to be given short shrift.

In the spirit of balanced portrayals of heavenly sky-gods, this post will cover the lighter side of their archetypal significations before offering a more positive spin on the transits for each rising sign. (You can read for your Sun and Moon signs, but I tend to find rising signs to be the most accurate!)

With that, let’s dig in!

As the archetypal lords of karma, Saturn and Pluto can bring tremendous changes to whatever houses these two planets transit.

The timelines for Saturn’s transformative effects are far shorter when compared to Pluto’s.

Saturn takes about two-and-a-half years to transit a sign, and roughly 29.5 years to circumnavigate the zodiac, while Pluto’s more irregular movements lead to the time it spends in a sign to vary dramatically. It spends as little as twelve years in Scorpio, and as much as 30…