Saturn conjunct Moon transit is a test of your emotional strength. Your feelings will likely be hurt, and you will probably cry. If you have been emotionally mature and responsible in the past, you will still be subject to the cold, hard hand of Saturn. However, you will suffer less emotional pain and bounce back quickly.

Transiting Saturn does not inhibit your emotions or make you uncaring. Saturn burdens your emotions with responsibility, guilt, shame, loss, separation, loneliness and depression. Your partner, mother, children, family, and even your home may somehow be involved in a cosmic conspiracy to make your life hard for a few weeks.

As an example, during my last Saturn conjunct Moon transit, I broke up with my partner and then was accused of domestic violence. I had to leave my home and was separated from my children. During the weeks of transiting Saturn conjunct natal Moon, I did not even know if I would see my kids again. I was so depressed and alone, but at some stage, I realized I had to take responsibility. Making the phone calls and talking to a lawyer was hard.

I also had Pluto square Sun transit that year, so my case is an extreme example. I eventually won full custody of my children, but I always remember how sad and hopeless I felt for those three or four weeks when Saturn conjunct Moon transit was strongest. Time seemed to go so slowly.

You may feel guilty and somehow responsible for any emotional hardship you suffer. You mustn’t be hard on yourself because there are probably enough people doing that already. Bad things happen to good people. I expect this most often occurs during Saturn conjunct Moon transits. Sometimes in life, it is OK to keep to yourself and feel sad. As the young, heartbroken John Keats wrote:

A partner in your sorrow’s mysteries;

       For shade to shade will come too drowsily,

               And drown the wakeful anguish of the soul.