Saturn Return Can Bite Me

Planet Waves for August

Well, that got disturbing towards the end...

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22)

For the past year, your professional life has felt like a minefield. Everything you plan seems to turn into something different. Relationships with companies and government entities have a way of becoming unnecessarily complicated.

I wouldn't use "minefield" so much as "DDR game."

Your goals seem to slip and slide around, and you’re more subject than ever to seemingly unconscious motives that come out when you least expect it. It’s time to take a new approach that begins with mindfulness rather than action. The wisdom of this may not be clear yet, and in many ways your charts are calling you toward some big quest, goal or adventure.

Yeah, but not for at least a year or three as far as I can tell.

Yet subtler aspects are saying slow down and meditate. You can, if you want, get to the bottom of this situation. While it seems to dramatize itself in the aspects of your life where you reach for achievement, in reality it has more to do with your internal psychology: deep-seated fears, resentment, guilt, and your relationship to the unknown. There is something about the fear of losing it all or being swallowed by a tidal wave. You seem to be walking a razor’s edge of fear that you might abuse your power, then you keep running into people who do precisely that. This is why I suggest you back off from active goal seeking, life planning and attempts to orchestrate the future, and instead take a psychological and emotional approach to your situation. Start with figuring out the ways in which your parents are still running your life.

Hah, very funny.

Saturn Return-related chat

This astrologer is writing a epistolary novel online, between a young and older astrologer. Both are in Saturn Return periods. Y'all might find this interesting...

Depressing August horoscope

Ugh!

Let’s start with job and career. Jupiter and Uranus start the month in your 6th house of jobs, and then Uranus moves back into your 5th house of love life, children, and creative projects by the 14th.  Meanwhile, Jupiter is challenged by Pluto, Saturn, Mars, and Venus all by 16th of the month. Put bluntly, your beliefs about jobs, and work and employment are scheduled to be challenged.

Meanwhile, your career and professional projects get a boost from the sun in Leo until the 23rd. The time around the new moon on the 9th provides a good time to initiate a new important creative, intellectual, or career endeavor.

Pluto in Capricorn may have an impact on your professional choices as well, as he hammers at Jupiter in your job sector. For some reason, research or gaining more knowledge seem to be key. With Pluto in your 3rd house and Jupiter in your 6th house, a profession like teaching seems to fit the bill astrologically. Yet, Venus, Mars, and Saturn in your 12th house of the subconscious seem to disagree or resist your long-term direction regarding your job or vocation. It is possible that momentary feelings of laziness are discouraging you from pursuing the knowledge you need to succeed. If that’s the case, the doldrums should subside relatively early next month when planets start moving into your own sign.

The most difficult clash comes from Pluto square Saturn. This aspect becomes exact on the 21st but builds before then. Both of these planets are concerned with reputation by nature, and they don’t seem to agree on what yours should be. Possible outcome: a secret is outed.

Aw shit.

Today's Michael Lutin

Gotta wonder what draws people together.
Is it random chance that you happen to be in the super market
and pushing your cart down the cereal aisle
while some stranger who has just bought
a half kilo of ham, a baguette and and three tomatoes
is coming the other way?
Or is something else at work here?
And all of a sudden
you're together,
Forever.
Period.

Conversely,
how sad it is.
People who were once
pulled toward so powerfully and inexorably toward each other
by the mysterious, magical magnet of attraction,
so deeply and eternally committed
in love or business,
end up
not holding hands in old age
but instead
end up

Saturn is entering the sign of Libra.
This is a new era in relationships.
Partnerships of all kinds will go through
their own form of crisis and transformation.
This is the time to go deeper
or get out.
This is the time when if you meet new people
go slow
search for compatibility and loyalty
not a blindly hot time
This is Saturn in Libra.
Of course it all depends on the Venus placement in your horoscope and all that,
but Saturn in Libra will affect all kinds of relationships
depending on what solar or whole sign ascendant it falls in....
money, work, career, love, etc.
During Saturn in Libra
(oh what a lesson about attachment)
nobody likes to sleep alone.

Very poetic, there.
On the one hand, I'm pleased that I am not going into this attached for fear of it getting broken up. On the other hand, I strongly suspect that as usual, I'll be passing this one by without getting involved.

Huh, who woulda thought I had this much in common with Nicole Kidman

Venus Saturn aspects roundup.

Two pairs of lovers

Very good read on Mars/Venus synastry.

Today's Michael Lutin

Don't rush anything
despite the fact that you think you have to
do it all
have it all
and make it all happen
by yesterday.
You don't.
Let the urgency motivate you
and make you mindful
 so you won't  trip over yourself
on the way to the bathroom.
This process of change
could take months
and probably should
since you have to work out
a whole adjustment
 between  what you thought was going to happen
and what did happen
and remember
the Universe NEVER works against you
It just reminds you to consult
your personal GPS

You have to kind of split your head
hopefully not open
but you have to divide  mentally your attention now
between looking ahead to the future
with enthusiasm and courage
while dealing  with some very  present realities
that will of course lead you directly TO that future
if you don't let the current situations
drag you down.
It's a rehab thing
where you have to go slowly to
reteach yourself how to live in a new way
That's the deal with UranusJupiter in Aries
and Saturn at the tail end of Virgo.
It would be easy to just say,
"O screw it,"
and not pay attention to the
boring, menial, drudgery
of
coping
but doing so
will  lead you
to where you are dreaming
you'd like to be
that's a promise

But before you can go flying off into your new life
there are some irritating
menial
grimy
mind-numbing
details to handle
and that's probably why people are on edge
easily annoyed
easily offended
touchy and uncomfortable
as if
their hemorrhoids were acting and getting all itchy
This is the time when you have to be
go slowly
don't rush
do the boring stuff
without screaming
moon and venus in Virgo should ease
the itch today

Seventh house Sun article

Good one.

Social work and public relations could be an area where you shine, but you have to be careful that you don’t live your life through others. You are at your best when working with people and helping them find their strengths, however, you must learn to value the development of your own creative expression and not ’give away’ your identity. You may choose a partner who is important and notable in some way, and perhaps they raise your public profile. However, relationships work best when there is equality and shared focus on achieving individual goals. Success may come through partnerships and relationships can be life sustaining. The seventh house is where we seek to reinforce our sense of self and we may project our own qualities on to others. Others may make you feel whole and complete and often the identity is weak in the first half of life and then in the second half you recognise the importance of developing as an individual.

Here are a couple of quotes by Liz Greene on the seventh house Sun: “Jung had the Sun placed at the Descendent in his birth chart. This means that he found his sense of meaning in life through working for the welfare of others. The Descendant of 7th house cusp symbolizes ones interaction with others, and many people involved with teaching and healing have this placement. Freud also had it. On a deeper level the Sun in the 7th house means that one’s individual creative efforts may have a powerful effect on others. There may also be the need to found some school, group or organization to carry the “message” or ideas to a larger audience. The 7th house is a rather public house, and people with the Sun placed here do not tend to hide their light under the proverbial bushel” - Nostradamus the Millennium and Beyond

Why astrology shouldn't work

The fact that the signs work when they are hokum needs to be faced, because it tells us a lot about the nature of astrology and indeed all divination systems, which is that we are dealing primarily in symbols. We may need to be able to put the meanings of these symbols in a rationally coherent form, but their fundamental function is not rational: their function is to awaken the imagination, our sense of an expanded and meaningful universe; and to awaken the intuition, our sense of knowing that precedes sense-based evidence.

It is the same with Tarot. There is no ‘reason’ a bunch of symbols picked out blind should tell us anything useful. But they do, and they are the ‘right’ symbols; you can easily imagine cards that would not have been appropriate for that person. Why the 'right' symbols should turn up, whether in astrology or tarot, is a mystery to be lived with and to be awed by. We could of course call it the Law of Attraction or something, but that just beguiles us into thinking we have an explanation when all we have is a name and a description.

This week's Aquarium Age

TAURUS Maybe it's time to rethink the meaning of "service," particularly if you are equating helping others with personal sacrifice. Sacrifice isn't always about loss; its original meaning is "to make sacred."

SCORPIO Contemplate the relationship between thought and action, and you'll not only gain insight into the power of intention; you'll also increase your skill at manifestation.

Hmmm.