Blog Post Eleven: 90’s Nostalgia
Today I was inspired. In a way that sent me down memory lane. The nostalgia of my 90’s teenage-hood. When the world was full of possibility, unknown potential, and fabulous female singer-songwriters. These women’s songs gave me much solace during the great upheavals of that time, and visceral memories of moments shared with friends as we listened, danced, and chatted, to the undercurrent of the music.
It was a time on the cusp where baggy clothes were in before the low rise, thong out, blatant objectification of women was in.
I have had many conversations with my best friend regarding this period and how unsafe we felt to embrace our femineity. As I have matured, I have started to unpack the societal conditioning… it’s a work in progress. I hated low rise jeans, the limited range of motion, the restriction, and how some men thought it was completely ok to throw a pencil down your pants when you bent over. I shudder now. And what about all those rom coms (I loved at the time) that always pandered to the male audience and portrayed the female lead as some victim that couldn’t survive without her male counterpart. Yuck!
I digress…
I watched CBC’s documentary, Lilith Fair: The story behind the iconic ‘90s music festival. I was blown away by the magnitude of it. How it grew organically. Seeded from the idea of having more than one woman headline a show. At the time that was unheard of. Sarah McLachlan was/is a pioneer.
And of course, being an astrology geek, I wanted to see what was going on in the sky at the time. From 1996-1999 Saturn was in Aries. Lilith Fair ran from 1997-1999.
Saturn in Aries is like carrying a fire inside a cage. There’s this relentless drive to move forward, to assert yourself, to carve your own path, but Saturn reminds you that the fire can’t burn recklessly. It asks for patience, discipline, and strategy. You feel a tension between your impulse to leap and the reality that timing matters.
This placement teaches that true courage isn’t impulsive; it’s deliberate. Every step forward must be earned, tested, and refined. You may wrestle with self-doubt, impatience, or the fear that your energy isn’t enough, but Saturn whispers that mastery comes through repetition, persistence, and facing your own inner resistance.
In life, it manifests as a lesson in self-reliance: learning to lead without forcing, to act without arrogance, and to build something lasting from your natural courage. The fire of Aries gives initiative; Saturn gives structure. Together, they forge strength that’s quiet, disciplined, and profoundly resilient.
In short, if Lilith Fair were an astrological expression, it’s like Saturn in Aries saying: “We will pioneer change, but responsibly, with structure and strategy, so it lasts”.
Sarah McLachlan said it best in the doc: “Do I think we still need a sisterhood? Do I think we need to fix the broken systems that have been created by men for men? Hell Yes! If we want to change things, we have to continue building new systems for us”.
I wonder if Sarah McLachlan consulted an astrologer regarding the name of Lilith Fair? Lilith in astrology refers to the Black Moon Lilith, a point representing raw feminine power, independence, rebellion, and reclaiming autonomy. In essence, the festival was a real-world embodiment of Lilith energy: fierce, unapologetic, and boundary breaking.
Music is essentially organized vibration. Every note has a frequency. This is similar to astrology: planets, signs, and houses are energetic frequencies, each with a unique vibration that resonates with aspects of life, personality, or consciousness. Music and astrology are two languages of frequency and vibration, one expressed through sound, the other through archetypal energy. Together, they can align mood, emotion, and consciousness with the cosmic rhythm.
Erykah Badu expressed this beautifully in the doc: “The encore was always the best part. That’s when we could totally exhale. We had done it. Every night we had done it. We had changed the frequency of the whole room. It was just a village of very intelligent, very powerful, very creative, very mission-oriented, very strong women on stage together”.
In 2010, there was an attempt to revive Lilith Fair, but it was not well received. The astrology of 2010 was not friendly to nostalgia, it was revolutionary, disruptive, and future-oriented. The Lilith Fair revival was out of sync with the zeitgeist: trying to resurrect a 90’s feminine archetype in a cultural moment that was demanding innovation, digital community, and new models of empowerment.
It’s almost poetic: the original Lilith Fair in the late' 90’s launched under Uranus in Aquarius (pioneering, progressive, community-focused) and succeeded because it was ahead of its time. But in 2010, Uranus in Aries demanded something brand new, so a revival couldn’t land.
Is this the time now? Music critic Ann Powers said: “What was condemned about Lilith in the 90’s, is now embraced widely as this beautiful turn of the wheel, where women are at the center of our culture”. A Lilith Fair revival now would succeed because the astrology supports rebellious feminine empowerment (Pluto in Aquarius), revolution in music and voices (Uranus in Gemini), dreams made real and new cultural movements (Saturn-Neptune in Aries), destiny through music, healing, and art (North Node in Pisces), and expansion of the feminine (Jupiter in Cancer). It wouldn’t just be a nostalgic revival, it would feel like a reactivation of the Lilith archetype for a new generation.
I have few regrets in life, as I mostly think that’s a futile exercise. But if I had one, it would be that I didn’t attend Lilith Fair in person. So, who wants to rally and help Sarah McLachlan revive Lilith Fair while Aries is in Saturn again from February 13, 2026, to April 12, 2028?
Watch the doc and let me know your thoughts!
With light & love & your fav 90’s tune,
Tamara