Q&A: Kira McSpice Enters Her Saturn Return in ‘The House’
INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW
☆ BY KIMBERLY KAPELA ☆
Steph Alexis
A SATURN RETURN BECOMES A RETURN TO HERSELF — In astrology, a Saturn return is known as a period of reckoning. Occurring roughly every 29 years, it marks Saturn’s return to the same position it occupied at the time of a person’s birth. It’s a time of endings and beginnings, forcing buried questions to the surface: What are you carrying with you? What no longer belongs? And who do you want to become?
For gothic folk singer-songwriter Kira McSpice, those questions became the foundation for a much more surreal journey. As she prepared for her Saturn return, McSpice sought out a breathwork facilitator and hypnotherapist, who guided her through a trance intended to help her revisit the past and find the tools to navigate the next chapter of her life. What emerged was an expansive creative world that would eventually become A Return in 4 Parts — a four-album series exploring grief, childhood and transformation.
The third and latest installment, The House, finds McSpice arriving at the emotional center of that journey. Her third full-length release of 2026, the album follows Saturnism and The Desert and takes place within a surreal desert landscape where McSpice encounters a recreation of her childhood home in Harlem, Georgia.
The journey began during her trance, when McSpice found herself traveling toward the desert. The experience became a way of revisiting memories she had carried into adulthood.
What followed was four albums' worth of material, moving through gothic folk and alternative rock.
At the center of the third chapter is “Return,” the first song McSpice has shared from The House. The track finds her standing at the threshold of her childhood home.
“In this song, I sing about arriving at my childhood home and reflecting on the memories I had there, as well as where I live now and how that house holds so much too,” McSpice says.
The song also brings back the voice of her father, whose words became deeply embedded in her understanding of leaving. “I remembered my dad told me, ‘You leave you can never come back!’ so many times when he was yelling at me and I would tell him I was going to run away,” she recalls.
“I guess he was right,” McSpice says. “I couldn’t really ever come back once I left. It’s very different now, and it is not my home, but it felt important to be standing there in front of the house feeling how much it held inside its walls.”
The Saturn return gave McSpice an opportunity to ask what happens after you acknowledge the past. Rather than trying to erase her childhood or sever herself from the person she once was, she began separating the experiences that shaped her from the experiences that continued to weigh her down.
“By exploring my childhood home in my mind, this allowed me to parse out all of these different parts of myself from that time and go forward with what I wanted to keep from then,” McSpice says. The trance gave her a new perspective on the qualities of her younger self that remain important to her, as well as the traumas that she can now find the strength to close the chapter on. “In a way, it [helped me] compartmentalize [those traumas]. All of these things are in the house, and I can leave them here now; it's safe to do so.”
Steph Alexis
LUNA: Thank you for talking to Luna. Our readers would love to get to know you and your music more. For any readers who aren’t familiar with you yet, what inspires your artistic style and sound?
KIRA: Nature, spirituality, the spiritual realm, and connecting with the spiritual realm within myself.
LUNA: You’ve described A Return in 4 Parts as documenting a trance-like journey through the desert to a recreation of your childhood home. Where did the initial idea for this four-part journey come from, and when did you realize it would become such a large body of work?
KIRA: My Saturn return started. I was doing breath work with this breathwork facilitator, Trina Merz, who also does trance work, and she had me go into a trance, and in the trance, I had this whole journey happen where I walked through the desert, and in the desert there was a house, and the house there was a ghost, and I experienced this very real thing. It made a huge impression on me. This journey, walking through the desert and then in the house exploring all the rooms. When I came out of the trance, I knew that I wanted to write about it and put my experiences of the Saturn return into the different parts of the story, and work through things that I had been working through in my breathwork sessions, therapy and just in life in general.
LUNA: Can you talk more on your Saturn return and how it’s impacted you?
KIRA: When Saturn returns to the place that it was at the time of your birth, and since Saturn's transit is around almost 30 years, that's how long it takes to go back to the place that it was when you were born. When that happens, since Saturn is the planet of time and rules and hard work and all of that good stuff, gritty, difficult stuff. It really whips you into shape. It's a very serious planet, and it can really have a big impact on a lot of people during that time period that it is in, like that it goes back into the sign that it was at the time of your birth. It really hit me pretty hard, which is why I wanted to write about it.
LUNA: The House is the third installment of the series and your third full-length release of 2026. How does this album move the larger story of A Return in 4 Parts forward?
KIRA: I started writing this album after I physically went back to my childhood home in Harlem, Georgia. I think when a lot of people experience a Saturn return, they're parsing out what they want to take with them and what they want to leave behind from different aspects of their lives. You're leaving the room of childhood, entering into the room of adulthood, and so you have to determine what you want to take with you in terms of your values, and maybe even stop being a victim to different traumas and whatnot. You are the person in control of your life, so you're getting this agency. I started writing The House when I went back to my childhood home to really immerse myself in that space, and revisit this place that had meant so much to me. I left it with my family. We moved away when I was 13, so I hadn't been back. There's a lot that happened there that I wanted to work through, and so that started this whole process of working through it.
LUNA: You worked with a breathwork facilitator and hypnotherapist preparing for your Saturn return. What did that trance experience unlock creatively or emotionally that you weren’t able to access before?
KIRA: I highly recommend breathwork to anyone, everyone. The biggest thing that it did for me was allow me to release a lot of old tension, trauma, things I had been holding on to, and in that release, I was able to access these parts of me that maybe weren't accessible before. It was really great for creativity and for art. I think it's great for everyone.
LUNA: Do you have a personal favorite song on The House — one that feels closest to your heart or most revealing of who Kira McSpice is right now?
KIRA: “Return” is my favorite because it really feels like the thesis of the four albums. I mention my childhood home in it, but I also mention the home that I was presently in while I was writing it, and that evolution, what home meant, and also just memories and the past intertwining with that, really encapsulated so many of the ideas in the four parts.
LUNA: Your latest single “Return” seems to ask whether we can ever truly return to who or where we were. Do you think revisiting the past is ultimately about reclaiming it, understanding it, or accepting that it’s gone?
KIRA: I think both. In accepting that it's gone, you reclaim it. You can make your own narrative and determine how you want to think of it and how you want to move forward. In the song, I talk about how I am back at my old house. That's one of the lines, and I think at the time I was being sassy because my dad would always tell me, like, “Well, if you run away, you can't come back,” and I was like, “Well, here I am. I'm back. I did it.” But of course, when you go back, even if you can physically go back, you can't go back. You can't really go back ever, so it's a way to reclaim that power.
LUNA: As the third chapter of A Return in 4 Parts, what do you hope listeners carry with them after entering The House — and what should they be listening for beneath the surface of the story?
KIRA: When they listen in a quiet space and try to connect with that feeling of what it feels like to lose a home. Everyone, in some capacity, I feel like has had to move on and lose that in some form. And in sitting with that feeling, being able to transform it into something beautiful and hopeful, and something that gives you agency and strength. That would be my hope for anyone listening.
LUNA: What is fueling your fire right now that’s pushing you into this new era of your career?
KIRA: Always spiritual growth. Just trying to grow so that I can be in the world as a better person, as a better spiritual force for those who might need it.
LUNA: How are you feeling in this current era of your career and what does the rest of the year look like that you would like to share with Luna?
KIRA: This year's been really crazy, so it's hard to even put into words how I'm feeling, But with each release of each album, it's put a lot of things into perspective. I'm starting to hear what I was saying to myself when I couldn't hear it back then, but I hear it now, and in hearing them as they come out, it's helping me move forward in this year that's been very hard. Knowing that I can be resilient and I can keep moving forward. I'm feeling strong, and just hoping to get to a place where I can perform some of these songs and share them with people.
