Life is a series of checks and balances (
to use my old banker jargon).
We create, we review, we keep what works, we tear down what doesn't or what is finished and we move on to create again.
This never stops.
When I was in banking I would often sneak a peek at clients' charts before looking at large investments or commitments to see whether they were more motivated by safety or growth, any significant financial or work related pitfalls ahead, etc - but I haven't looked at charts in a decade plus.
Last week I put out a call for some
guinea pigs volunteers to help me get my feet wet again and was grateful to find a few takers. I am going to look at each chart's Saturn, 10th house and North and South Nodes first and then see where my favorite female goddesses rear their heads (next month) - all of this geared to our maker businesses.
During times of transition it can be a clearing exercise to check out what Saturn is doing in our charts. Saturn moves every couple years bringing changes to whatever part of our chart he is hitting and every seven years he creates some hard aspects to shake things up.
The incredibly rich narrative of Saturn in Roman and Greek (
Cronus) mythology is too important for me to do it justice here in a paragraph - astrologer Liz Greene has a wonderful book on Saturn and of course the web has lots of info if you are drawn to finding out more.
In astrology Saturn is an aspect of the father/authority figure - it's the 2nd largest planet, it's the planet of contraction (
Jupiter, the largest planet, is the planet of expansion so we expand a little more than we contract) - it's about boundaries, responsibilities, karma, commitments, self-control - the stuff that
defines (meaning
= outlines) us.
Some of Saturn's harder tests are our first Saturn return
(
Saturn takes 28 -29 years to come full circle back to the place he occupied at our birth)
in our late 20's and our second Saturn return in our late 50's.
(
there are also other aspects like the Neptune Square Neptune at about the age of 41 and the Uranus/Uranus opposition at about the age of 43 - one or both of which throws pretty much every one of us into a mid-life crisis, Chiron return 48-50, Pluto trines Pluto at 58, Uranus Squares Uranus at 63 - both new beginnings)
First up is Faith (
names changed to protect the innocent).
When Faith was born Saturn was in Libra and since Saturn was again in Libra from late 2009 until just a couple months ago, I knew at a glance that Faith has just been through her 2nd Saturn return.
This is like our own little (
often not so little) personal earthquake- allowing us to shake off anything that is not really us (
note- this shaking off may feel kind of like being water-boarded at times and in a partnership house like Libra might lead us through some loneliness and depression).
It can create dramatic change!
