When Sara Maliki turned 27 in 2020, her life seemed♋ to be coming together — but she was miserable. So, she looked to the stars.
“I said, ‘Why am I so unhappy?’ I was engaged, living in Los Angeles, everything was perfect,” Maliki, who was working as an interior🅷 d♏esigner at the time, told The Post.
The Capricorn started digging deeper into her astrology chart while leaning into her traits as a hardworking overachie🅰ver with empathy on o♏verdrive.
She sought out read🔯ings from Sebastian Tribbie, who runs the astrology Instagram account with nearly 135,000 followers༺.
What Maliki learned was that she was experiencing what’s known as a Saturn return, the astrological transit occurring when the planet Saturn returns to the same longitude it was in when an individual was born.
While itꦍ happens more than once in the average lifetime, the first occurrence is said to mark the transition from y🦩outh into adulthood and typically occurs when someone is age 27 to 30.
She ultimately broke off her engagement, left Los Angeles ♍and committed to pursuing a career as a screenwriter.
It was, she says, the hardest year of her life.
“I had to try to figure out how to make money, how to get a job — I had to completely restart. I went to live in a s–ty New York apartment with my 22-year-old sister. I was taking a huge risk because I felt like something was missing. I was so depressed,” she said.
But it paid off. The stars in her cosmic turbulence eventually aligned. Now, she’s a proud New Yorker with an agent and a movie project she’s excited about.
“I’m 30 now and everything just fell into place,” she said.
While some dismiss a♔strology as silly hocus-pocus, others say the Satur🍨n return is very real.
“Harry Potter” actress and proud Aries Emma Watson made headlines earlier this week when she credited her own Saturn retur꧅n for catapulting her self-growth.
“Holy moly,” she wrote in an Instagram post celebrating her 33rd birthday, before going into laundry list of changes she made in her life. “I learned more about love and being a woman.”
Bianca Williams, 37, and a Cancer sun, can relaℱte.
Williams, who lives in Brooklyn and works in tech, says sh𒈔e e♊xperienced a Saturn return of her own in her love life in her late 20s.
At that point, she found herself mired in one toxic relationship after another with a str🐽ing of Aquarius men.
“I was really looking for direction and really looking for more consistency romantically,” Williams told The Post.
After years of bad dates, she’s getting married in July — to a Virgo.
“[Virgo] apparently is a grounded match for a water sign. An Aquarius, absolutely not. I’ve blocked every Aquarius match I’ve ever known, even on a friendship level,” she said.
“I’m very big on flowing. I want to flow with the energy that’s naturally accessible,” Williams continued.
F🏅or some, 💛a big breakthrough can come later in life.
꧟Lex DeClet, 53, and a Pisces, said his Saturn return moment came when he was nearly 50 and the hardships piled🐠 up.
Betweeꦉn 2017 and 2019, the Prospect Heights resident, who works in entertainment, was lai🔯d off and lost his mother and his aunt.
“It kind𒐪 of stuns you,” DeCletꦿ told the Post.
Long passionate about astrology, he believes the planets and stars have🔴 been෴ integral to various key life events.
In 1999, he timed bꦏuying a home to his astrological reading — a🎀nd was successful.
“My ascendant is Leo and my moon is in Virgo. During that time, I showed a lot of initiative and I was assertive and meticulous, which are not characteristics of Pisces,” DeClet said.
“I used what I learned in astrology to basically get the house that I wanted, when I wanted. You start searching for homes, all of the hard work you have to do yourself obviously, but if you’re watching planetary influences things may go a little easier — you can do certain things in your favor. I said, ‘This is the day I’m going to look for a brownstone I wanted.'”
DeClet also avoids traveling or giving presentations f🃏or work when Mercury is in retrograde and will even plan travel a yearඣ in advance based on the zodiac calendar.
“I usually take my trips when the planetary influen𝔉ces are in my favor,” he said. “I usually tend to have a wonderful transformative time.”
With Danica Daniel
