Saturn Return Can Bite Me

Another Saturn return in fiction

The book Laced With Magic by Barbara Bretton has a very LITERAL Saturn return. I don't know when Chloe's birthday is exactly (I don't recall it being mentioned in the books?), but she's around thirty and Saturn cycles feature in PROMINENTLY in the tale.

Just wanted to point that out.

This week's Michael Lutin

Part of you is so full of love and romanticism, you want to go out on that stage and pour your heart out to a global audience. Your public persona is complicated at the moment, however. Not only are there factions and political plots foiling your plans for world domination, but the Full Moon in your twelfth house indicates that there is still a part of you that for now is choosing to stay under the radar.

True dat last bit.

Astrology of Harlan Ellison

"The one thing I know about love for sure is that it's the only game in town and that you must keep going back to bat again and again. I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to abrogate one's responsibility as a human being." -from A Curmudgeon's Garden of Love

So, kind of in preparation for Elsa's next class, I was looking at my analysis from the previous one, which pretty much reiterates that I am a total bitch and a half when it comes to relationships and I suspect it would take an act of God to get me involved again. I can't help but think that if I was a professional and saw my chart, I'd tell me something like, "Look, you're gonna be miserable without a relationship, but you're also gonna have tons of issues within one, plus making the dude miserable. Considering that you can't win either way, I'd say to do lifelong singledom because at least this way you're not torturing someone else too."

Since I think this way, you can imagine how I find the above quote to be irritating as fuckall.

Now, I happen to own a much-treasured copy of A Curmudgeon's Garden of Love (if you can dig it up in a used bookstore, I HIGHLY recommend it. Any of the Curmudgeon books, for that matter), and it features an interview with Harlan Ellison, who got married four times before finally sticking with wife #5. Now, I don't have my copy in front of me and I can't find the direct quote I'm thinking of online, but he says something along the lines of, "If I, of all people, can finally find lasting love, it could happen to anybody." Well, maybe that's the case. I hear he's...interesting...to deal with in real life. But the interview itself is pretty entertaining to read, what with his worst date ever, how he can't go into details about losing his virginity but it was like a docking maneuver in 2001, etc. And if you read the link above, there's another quote about WHY he's had so many women split on him. But presumably Susan doesn't find him irritating. Go figure.

So I figured I'd check the guy's chart to see how much of a hard nut he is to crack. And he's got the usual suspects of difficulty in there: Mars Saturn square, Moon Saturn square, and Venus Saturn sextile. Venus Uranus loose-ish conjunction in seventh for all those sudden relationships squaring Pluto, and the Moon trines Pluto. UH-OH TEH DRAMA KABOOMBAH comes to mind seeing that. And oh, look, sun conjunct Chiron. So, yeah, me and Harlan Ellison are real goddamned lulus in relationship. That's...fun to know.

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Psychic Dream Astrology

TAURUS Don't be surprised if an urge to break free from a restrictive professional situation motivates the need for sudden action. While I'm not advising you to act impetuously, I am suggesting you honor our need for change.

 

SCORPIO As you see it, the tension between what is possible and what is probable is overwhelming. What you're not figuring into the equation is your ability to transform the situation.

How not to be Kanye

Lesson #1: If you’ve got Saturn in Leo, keep your ego in check. Saturn in Leo can mean all kinds of things, but one of the things it can mean is you gotta keep that ego in check. Because Saturn in the sign that rules the egomaniac in all of us indicates that the ego can become a burden, a hindrance, an obstacle and a general source of bad moodness all around if it’s not turned into discipline and self-control.That’s partly because West having Saturn in this sign indicates it’s not exactly ego in the positive sense of self-confidence, but an ego born out of Saturn’s specialties: fear, insecurity, and a driving sense of need. And that just doesn’t work all that well, as things so frequently don’t when Saturn’s got the reins.
Lesson #2: If your Jupiter and sun in Gemini are opposite your Neptune in Sagittarius, somehow you gotta teach yourself how to keep your lips zipped sometimes. It’s great to have Jupiter conjunct sun usually, although it does have a tendency to inflate the sense of self. But when you’ve got a blabbermouth sun and a blabbermouth Jupiter opposing a blabbermouth Neptune, things can occasionally get out of control. Sagittarius is known for its blunt willingness to speak its mind, even when other people wish it wouldn’t. It’s an impulsive sign as well. This honesty can be all well and good, or at least useful on occasion. But Neptune is also the planet that will get itself all tangled up in delusions, and Neptune in Sagittarius will happily spout those delusions given an eighth of a chance.

Living in the Uranus/Saturn opposition era

"So to recap, Congressman Joe Redneck goes bugfuck crazy, suffers some momentary bad pub, but rebounds with additional political contributions and name recognition up the wazzoo. Tennis player Serena "Racket Abuse" Williams goes bugfuck crazy in losing a tournament she wasn't going to win anyhow, penalized chump change and acquires a reputation as a troubled superstar (and possibly more money for her next contract). The ever volatile rap star Kanye West went bugfuck crazy by continuing his career arc of shooting his mouth off, garnering a bit of disrespect from people he doesn't care about in the first place, and likely insures his latest "artistic" offering goes platinum with a motherfucking bullet. So, pray tell me, is going bugfuck crazy about to become a viable method for getting things done?"

Taurus and Aquarius

If you're born with both, what are you gonna do?

Pluto transit in seventh house

How does it work if you don't HAVE a relationship to transform?

Pluto in Libra in 1st

More interesting analysis.