Our planets have many keywords, many associations. Saturn is death. Saturn is the Teacher. Death teaches us, oh yes, it teaches us.
The other day on my Facebook Page was chatting with a young woman who reads my blog and she offered her sympathies when I mentioned, as I sometimes do, my mother, who died when I was in my 20s.
It wasn’t a pity piece though. I write about these things and forget it may stir the emotions of others.
Since that time, since my 20s, I felt I was the keeper of uncommon knowledge, wisdom. It was a tragedy. It was a privilege. I know death. Death came home. I know death.
Like in the Bible: and Adam knew Eve. Death and I were on intimate terms. Moon conjunct Pluto in my chart. Conjunctions are marriages. Can’t get more intimate than that.
Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I feel sad, often because of a dream that I can’t remember and work to pull myself out of it.
I sit at the computer, I get to work. I go for a walk. I get back into my body (we are out of our bodies during sleep) and pet the cats. I make coffee. I eat. Precision. I like precision when I start my day. I rarely linger in bed unless I am sleeping or sick. Virgo Rising. Let’s go, let’s get up. Let’s outrun sadness.
Mars conjunct Saturn is not a sad aspect but Saturn can bring pessimism, depression. And as I’ve been writing, Mars is the faster moving planet here so I don’t consider it as frustrating as Saturn passing over Mars which would be a giant stop sign.
Instead we have the football player crashing into the brick wall. Ouch.
But imagine this football player is also a magician because he keeps moving. He may crash but he keeps moving, the ball in his arms, he’s running, running, running, running, running, running.
Mars is running towards Saturn now. He hasn’t crashed yet. Tomorrow morning (Big City time) is the crash.
And the conclusion?
Where Mars and Saturn are transiting in your chart is where you… will truly move forward once Saturn is out of Libra. Your relationships. Possibly your money. The area of life that Libra covers in your chart. Saturn has been a brick wall in that part of YOU no matter how many strides you’ve made. It has been WORK.
Our little private discussion group has begun. Latecomers and lurkers are welcome. But the more you put in, and engage, the more you will get out of it, that’s for certain 🙂
Love, MP
5 thoughts on “Outrunning Sadness: Mars Conjunct Saturn”
Exactly opposite my Ceres/Chiron/Sun.
I haven’t been allowed to enjoy my Summer, everyone else seems to be pairing up, I’ve been fighting with my mother (I think this conjunction is conjunct her Moon/Neptune/Jupiter and Chiron, and square her Saturn). I’m trying to live in the moment, but I’m not getting that much out of the moment – except reminders of how happy almost everyone else is.
How does one find where Mars and Saturn are transiting? Where in the birth chart can the be found? Thank you in advance!
24 degrees Libra
they are battling away over my 2nd house conjuncting my uranus there…it is my self-worth that is being challenged, has been challenged for an age, an age…a slow steady saturnian forming…moulding and shaping my eccentric uranus, and I have a sense that after this conjunction, when mars passes on and the new moon goes pop! it will be done, never to be undone.
we’ll see.
the timing IS interesting, given that i’ll be getting some news about a project as saturn/mars head into my natal fifth. as it is they are smack-dab on my mercury, having just passed over my venus.
work indeed.
sometimes it feels and even looks like it’s all coming to a head, and the planets are roadmap-like indicators; highway signs speaking of the distance to the next town or gas station.
natally, saturn and mars are sextile. fun plus work equals…