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Recent Examples of self-mastery Just in time for the taskmaster planet (Capricorn’s celestial ruler) to stand on business, Saturn will station retrograde in Aries on July 13, challenging our sense of authority while testing our commitment to themes surrounding autonomy and self-mastery. Valerie Mesa, People.com, 8 July 2025 The Ed Mylett Show Ed Mylett interviews leaders, athletes and innovators about peak performance, mindset and the art of self-mastery. Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025 These being an in-depth understanding of ADHD, self-acceptance, acceptance of disability, self-compassion, and skills and compensatory strategies that support self-mastery. New Atlas, 19 Dec. 2024 Those who mastered these high summits did so by first achieving self-mastery, reaching through prayer and meditation a higher realm of almost superhuman awareness and power. Chandrahas Choudhury, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 July 2024 Set intentions for self-mastery under today’s Capricorn new moon. USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024 Another camp — call it the dissident center — has produced swaggering figures like Joe Rogan, whose version of masculinity revolves around transgressive speech and macho self-mastery through martial arts. Joseph Bernstein, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-mastery
restraint
Noun
  • Americans for Prosperity ― Ogles' former employer and that of many of his congressional staff ― is a political special interest group that advocates for limited government, free markets and fiscal restraint.
    Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Enyedi has often made meditative cinema, but here her restraint in some sequences verges on suffocating.
    Leila Latif, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Self-mastery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-mastery. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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