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My Saturn Return is great.

All my life, there wasn’t much good going on. I was depressed for years. When my Saturn Return started last year, it hit me hard at first. It felt like there was just so much going on.

Then I left a career I had never been able to quit. I stopped people-pleasing and became more confident, with this feeling of, “I know what I’m doing.” I had never felt that way before.

I left behind friends who couldn’t accept my changes, and I’m still learning how to build healthy relationships. The road isn’t easy, but it’s better than anything I’ve experienced before.

It was a much-needed change.

Look at where you feel the most uneasiness and where you get triggered. That’s where the problem is, but it can also be where you find your way toward a better life.

It’s not easy to break patterns that have been there since childhood. But once you walk away from them, you can see how much better life can feel.

My biggest suggestion is: try the opposite.

Try something you wouldn’t naturally do. Something you don’t like. Something you might even hate.

And about the people you like the least with more clarity, you start to realize that no one is simply “good” or “bad.” Sometimes, I was just seeing people who were like me as good and people who weren’t like me as bad.

The moment you understand that, there’s no turning back.

I came from a shitty life, and now I feel like I can see things more clearly.

I left my career. I stopped talking to my controlling father for a year. I confronted the things that had hurt me for years and gave my friends a choice: if you want to stay in my life and accept this new version of me, come with me. If not, I don’t want this anymore.

Some understood. Some didn’t.

I started my own business, and instead of expecting some overnight miracle, I’m slowly building it.

I can’t show you some dramatic Saturn Return story and say, “Look what Saturn did!”

The changes are actually very basic but they are huge to me.

If I want to talk about the bad things, I have those too.

My grandmother died. I left my job. I lost so many friends.

But I’m also building better relationships.

Life is still shit sometimes.

But I’m not.

I have a roof over my head, food on the table, a few people who will be there for me, and most importantly, I have myself.

I haven’t felt like this in years.

And dude, I’m still under 30. 😂

Maybe all those difficult years are behind me, because now I feel like I still have so many years ahead of me that are going to be awesome.

I genuinely thought my life would somehow end at 30. But for me, it feels like my life is actually starting at 30.

I still have some years left in my Saturn Return. I know it’s going to be hard, but I genuinely can’t wait to see what it brings into my life.

I just wish more people shared their positive Saturn Return experiences, instead of coming here only looking for sad stories.

That’s why I’m here. ❤️

Visited a famous Shiva temple near Bangalore recently, known for having koti lingams (almost 1 crore Shiva statues).

Honestly, I came back more disturbed than peaceful.

From the entrance itself it felt more like business than devotion. Everywhere people forcing malas, pujas, special rituals, prasadam, asking money at every step. One pujari literally asked me “don’t you want to get married?” when I refused a paid abhishekam.

Even inside the temple, everything felt transactional. Blessings, flowers, rituals all connected to money somehow.

I’m not against donations. Temples need money to run. But this felt different. Aggressive. Emotional pressure everywhere.

I usually love small local temples because they still feel peaceful and genuine.

Maybe people will say “this is normal.”

But honestly… I don’t think this should be normal.

As an Indian, this genuinely hurt me. Temples are supposed to make people feel equal before God, not feel like customers.

And if this is what I felt as someone born here, I can only imagine what foreigners visiting India for spirituality must be thinking.