I can feel life slow down. And I can feel life speed up. And over the last day or so I felt this shift and today while waiting for my train I became conscious of my Life in the Big City. Do you know that feeling? You become aware of… wherever you are and your small place in the world.
There was a musician playing the cello and singing — it was really sweet music and I remembered the first time I became conscious of my life. I was 12. Saturn was in Libra then too. It sucked.
Finally. On the train. A woman spills her gigantic coffee drink on the floor and it makes a pretty spill pattern.
Saturn is our Reality Check, like the girl with her spilled drink. She could pretend she still had a full cup but that wouldn’t get her anywhere. It wouldn’t quench her thirst or increase her energy.
As I often say here, something I learned from a therapist 15 years ago: Accepting reality is not the same as judging it good.
But do this, remember this, and you have a greater chance of staying sane no matter what you go through.
And I never was one of these people who goes around in pollyanna-denial singing the praises of their brutal transits… but I’ve also realized that everyone is different. Person A may very well experience their cancer diagnosis (God forbid) with a good attitude. I’ve seen it. I know a woman cured of cancer who the whole time she was in treatment kept reassuring everyone that she didn’t have it so bad.
Was this denial? Or the truth? Reality? Her natal Jupiter in the 1st House reality, by the way.
The house that Saturn is transiting for you now is where you really um should face reality. And think about that figure of speech. To face it. Turn towards it. With your body. Make it physical. Do the work. Identify and define the problem. Do the work.
Saturn opposes Jupiter in the sky now so really the more we move towards what is real… the greater the chance we have of… a life that is not only ours, authentically ours, but… possibly… one filled with… the stuff that makes you more than merely content. Joy-stuff. Awe-stuff.
Saturn goes retrograde in February and your time to learn the lessons of the house he’s in are limited, so…
xo
9 thoughts on “Are You Waiting? What Are You Waiting For? Saturn In Transit”
12th house. I developed social anxiety issues and depression thanks to PTSD, not long after saturn was in Libra the last time. I have in some ways dealt with it, but it’s taken so long. I feel sad that I lost so much time and confidence to what is an actual disorder (someone seemed to be referring to me as spineless last year – I’m not spineless, but dealing with this, and have been for years).
Trying to see a point to sticking around. Taking it day by day, just as I was a year ago. It will move back to oppose my Ceres/Chiron/Sun.
I know that Saturn often sounds hard and nasty, but it can help you to rebuild by getting rid of what’s no longer working, by focusing (limiting), and setting down a brand new, better foundation. With Chiron, that focus can be on healing your wounds and with Sun in there, that can be about your self – maybe you will essentially be able to heal your self.
Whomever called you spineless just has no idea what PTSD is like. They would be more compassionate if they took the time to understand that the things that cause PTSD are not pretty!
? no one called me spineless
I was responding to Angela. 😛
well that explains it! haha
Are you doing readings for Saturn retrograde?
Dear, I do readings for any transit you are having 🙂 Perhaps I should make a blog post for that…
Saturn has been transiting my 6th house since right around the economy taking its dive…the reality is that I really should not expect rewards/appreciation/benefits/high pay at my jobs. The only appreciation I can get from them is in a job well done. It’s a hard lesson that I’m still learning even though Saturn will enter my 7th in October.
Limited to learn while he’s direct or limited to learn when he’s retrograde?
When do we learn the lessons of the house he’s in?