Surviving Your Saturn ReturnIf so, you might be experiencing your Saturn Return! The Saturn Return is an astrological event that occurs approximately every 29 years, when the karmic ringed planet returns to where it was in the sky at the time when you were born. Depending on your birth chart, the period lasts about two years. It has a reputation for being a difficult or even gruelling time, when major life changes abound as the shifts in the universe reveal shifts in oneself.