Using Planetary Cycles as Turning Points for Planning Life After Retirement

The Late 50s to 60s Are a Time When Cycle Break Points Tend to Overlap

Among planetary cycles, Saturn's and Jupiter's cycles are easy to read in connection with plans for life after retirement. Saturn goes around once in about 29 years, and Jupiter in about 12 years. Because these two cycles have different lengths, as you age, their respective break points can overlap in a close period.

In general, the late 50s to 60s can be read as a period when that overlap tends to occur. Seen by Saturn, it is around the time when the second circuit counted from younger years approaches its end, and seen by Jupiter, it is around the time that falls on a break point of one of its many circuits. It is also an age when system break points overlap in working style itself, such as retirement age, re-employment, and changes in the form of work.

Of course, just because a cycle break point has come does not mean something changes automatically. The reading here is to use the overlap of cycles as a marker for reviewing plans. You gather checking work you have been putting off and do it at this turning point. It is a way of thinking that uses planetary cycles as an opportunity for that.

What You Review at a Saturn Break Point Is the Form of What You Continue

Saturn is a planet read in connection with position and responsibility. If you apply its cycle break point to plans for life after retirement, the center of the review becomes the point of in what form you will continue, after retirement, the roles you have continued so far, or where you will end them.

For example, regarding work assignments you have continued for a long time, or roles in the community and family, this is the work of separating what can be continued without strain across the boundary of retirement from what you will put a break point on. You do not need to decide everything at once, but if you meet the day of retirement without separating them, judgments concentrate after retirement. Separating in advance what you will continue from what you will end is how to use a Saturn break point.

Handover is also included in this review. If you decide, in order starting from work and roles that would cause trouble after you leave, the person to hand over to and the form, the period before and after retirement settles down.

What You Review at a Jupiter Break Point Is the Range You Will Expand From Here

Jupiter is a planet read in connection with expansion. Its cycle break point can be used as a marker for thinking about the range you will newly expand after retirement. Time after retirement increases, but you do not need to fill all of the increased time with new things.

In general, what tends to cause strain in plans for life after retirement is increasing too many things to start at once. If you think in terms of Jupiter's break point of about 12 years, a guide is to keep the range you expand to a size that can be continued in units of several years. Choose what you newly start not by number, but by a form that can be continued. This placement makes plans last longer.

Conversely, if there is something you have put off for the sake of work so far and want to spend time on precisely after retirement, you can also use this break point as a marker to start. The key point is to put into words, at the turning point, what you will start and the range you will expand.

For Money, Keep It to the Range of Confirming Reserve Numbers

What you cannot avoid in plans for life after retirement is checking money. What this article handles is limited to this range: confirming reserve numbers and reviewing the breakdown of expenses.

Concretely, this means confirming with the latest numbers to what extent your current reserves are, looking at what your monthly expenses are spent on and to what extent in a breakdown, and roughly lining up how the form of expenses will change after retirement. When you look at the breakdown, expenses specific to the period when you are working and expenses that continue regardless of the period become visible separately.

Regarding pensions and systems, because systems change, we do not state specific amounts or procedures definitively here. As a general matter, it is important to confirm the content of systems that apply to you in their latest state through official guidance. For points you do not understand, a form where you check with a counter or a specialist is reliable. Please use planetary cycles only as a marker for the timing to do such checking work.

Turning a Turning Point into the Work of Making a Plan

Just using a cycle break point as a marker does not make it a plan. You need to decide concretely the work you will do at the turning point period.

As a way forward, first you do an inventory of roles and separate what you will continue from what you will end. Next, for money, you confirm reserve numbers and the breakdown of expenses. Finally, you decide the range of what you will newly start after retirement at a size without strain. If you do these three once at the turning point period, you will have less to think about in a rush as retirement approaches.

Planetary cycles are not for predicting life events. They are markers for placing in advance, within a long break point, what should be confirmed. Precisely because the late 50s to 60s are a period when break points tend to overlap, using those markers to turn plans into concrete work is how to use this reading.