I get really happy when I look at someone’s chart and see a well-aspected Saturn because it means they can do the work, they can rise to the occasion. Not that you can’t, if your Saturn is less than gracious to your chart but… the well-aspected Saturn peeps have a leg up. Of course you can look for how Capricorn planets are or aren’t aspected in your chart. Your 10th House situation is another way to explore how Saturn does his thing in your natal.
But back to the happiness part. When I see a well-aspected Saturn in someone’s chart, I feel “GOOD GOOD GOOD.” It’s similar to when I look at someone’s chart and see a Moon taking hits. I want to hold the person (damn that Cancer Sun of mine).
No bad aspect is a “death sentence” but yeah it fucking makes things harder. Just as certain aspects make things easier. Anyone with a helping of Sagittarius or Jupiter (esp well aspected) is no doubt grateful for it and it’s more than a case of just taking what you can get.
Still on the topic of outer planets, a word about Pluto: today in an email reading, I wrote to someone about her recent Pluto transit: “Pluto gives us pain before he heals us. Poison to get well.” Is this consolation? I don’t know but I think it’s true… and helpful if we think of ALL the outer planet transits as… ways we’re going to get well but damn it I just hate getting skinned alive, don’t you?
I have no wisdom today about breathing through the pain and meditation but I can tell you this, what I know for sure, if you can SIT with whatever comes up and I mean EVERY feeling, and SING at the same time? Try it. You’ll see what I mean.
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“Use your powers for good” – very interesting…
Elisei13, great question. First thing that came to mind is that I wld tell that person: use your powers for good.
Can’t write at length sadly having computer ptoblens and commenting from my phone but I love this question.
What would your first reaction be if you saw a chart with a natally bad aspected Pluto?
Would you consider Saturn in Libra in 11th house conjunct Jupiter well-aspected?
I find Saturn/Jupiter together really interesting. Hard work + belief = you can do anything. Some might say they cancel each other out but…. no.. I think Saturn sobers up Jupiter so …. cuts down on any Jupiter indulgence in some people….. Depends too how the chart aspects the conjunction. 11th House is a fine place to have it… if you are a leader of some kind or teacher or have SOMETHING TO SAY. Something big and important to say 🙂
My highly personal and very subjective view: no, they do not cancel each other out, that’s not possible. It might work in Maths – you add up 3 and -3 and you get zero but this is not the case with Saturn and Jupiter. My theory is that it depends on the sign and house – there’s always one of the pair that’s a bit stronger than the other, and this planets “wins.” In my case, since Saturn is exalted in Libra and in the 11th house (which is co-rules), this makes Saturn slightly stronger than Jupiter. Might be the other way around with other signs and houses. Anyway, this means that Saturn wins and Jupiter has no other choice but to try to support Saturn, so he enlarges Saturnian tendencies. Which makes me even more Saturnian, in a way, than if they would not be conjunct. Sometimes Jupiter tries to act up of course and rebel but he can’t escape Saturn’s iron fist. And the end results is that yes, if I work hard, I will have a little luck too, and I will start to believe in myself. But I will never have purely dumb luck, no, I always gotta work for anything.
/end of amateur theory rant 😀
Great analysis, SMG! Far from amateur-theory. Very sound.
Thanks, glad it wasn’t completely and utterly crazy!
As the “someone” who had the email reading about her Pluto transit, the “Pluto gives us pain before he heals us. Poison to get well” was for me, and I have to say, over a year later, that my Pluto transit was the greatest gift I could have ever received. My common-law partner left and so I ate Dairy Queen ice cream cake for every meal until my co-workers held an intervention. I wish I was kidding. And I wish that had been the worst of it. :-S
But I got through it, my life changed totally for the better and it was because of the pain I went through. I found out I was stronger than I thought and I reclaimed mySELF again.
Just putting a little hope out there for anyone going through a Pluto transit.Hurts like hell, but wow, is It ever amazing when you get yourself on the other side!
Hi Anita! I love your diary queen story 🙂 hilarious and so true/bittersweet/sad and true but here you are………… not eating Dairy Queen cake everyday . You are such a wonderful Sag spirit!