Saturn Return Can Bite Me

Michael Lutin on the eclipse cycle

TO ALL PEOPLE ON THE PLANET WEEK OF 29 APRIL AND BEYOND ECLIPSE PATTERN 2013 UH- OH THERE’S GOTTA BE MORE THAN THIS

Money and sex sex and money money and sex sex and money

There’s got to be more than that even if the eclipses are taking place in Taurus and Scorpio. Everybody gets the joke no matter what sign you were born under.
Money and Sex?—that’s too crass, too low consciousness, too crude, too vulgar.

What about the higher vibration, like creativity and manifestation and rebirth and transformation and all that good stuff people who wear Birkenstocks talk about?

Actually, it is all those things, all to be found in the same package at the moment, so we have to understand that until we have all experienced a common worldwide apotheosis and simultaneously become gods and goddesses, we are all evolving at different rates.

Some of us are already eating organic vegetables and seeking transcendental Tantric unions. Others, believe it or not, are still robbing the poor and exploiting the weak. And, get this! Some still talk about eating other human beings.

Sounds icky, but the Taurus Scorpio axis operates on many levels at once.

Rarely does all of humanity embrace the higher vibrations at the same moment. There are still greedy rascals out there and seductive skunks still skulking about. It’‘s hard sometimes to know whom to trust, since EVERYTHING seems to be a transaction lately.

With Saturn and the North Node of the Moon vying for supremacy, is sex always behind the sale of EVERYTHING?

Is human desire and appetite the driving force of our plane of existence?

Of course you don’t have to act out your baser desires, but magnetic attraction is at the heart of every connection between two consenting adults. At least right now.

We are currently experiencing each of us in our own way a personal kidnapping. We are being wrenched from a place we have found comfortable, but one that is no longer useful or satisfactory.

Think about that.

A force is moving us away from what we know as familiar toward the unfamiliar.

We are but prey in the paws of the predatory Inevitability of Change.

We EITHER EMBRACE IT OR ARE DRAGGED AWAY BY IT.

To embrace the unknown is to overcome the terror of death of course, but also of looking into our own unconscious drives and wishes.
It is the only way to release the fire of creativity that smolders within us all.

Creative inspiration is born in passion and curiosity, both of which can be liberated only when we respect without judgment or fear the deep needs and wishes and attractions and repulsions we often secretly harbor.

These are primitive, instinctual, ravenous hungers emerging from our most primal and anti-social selves.

To live in a civilized society we are asked to control some of our impulses and restrain ourselves from seeking mindless satisfaction to our hungers and thirsts.

This cu rrent eclipse pattern of 2013 demands that we release our hold on the more mundane aspects of our security, detach from the known in the search for a more meaningful and sincere form of happiness and fulfillment.

Way more to come.

Saturn's opposition to Taurus

"Saturn’s transit of Scorpio will focus Taurus’ attention on any or all of the following issues:

• Holding on versus letting go
• Surviving versus thriving
• Playing it safe versus diving in

Saturn’s opposition works by presenting a set of limits. The limits force you to adjust your focus, or get real about what you’re doing. Anyone with planets in Taurus should look at the house opposite those planets, and ask themselves the following questions:

• how are the current (or approaching ) limits going to help me take the energy of my Taurus planet(s) to a deeper level?
• what am I afraid of losing?

Saturn oppositions can feel harsh at first, especially if you keep banging your head against the wall with a routine that doesn’t work. You will have to adjust your trajectory, or re-dedicate yourself to something you’ve let slide. Whatever it is will take you a bit deeper (Scorpio) than you’re used to. The good news? You’re ready for it (Saturn says so). Keep this in mind: Taurus is the sign of survival, Scorpio the sign of death, but they hold the potential for birth (Taurus) and re-birth (Scorpio). 

Those with planets between 0-9 degrees Taurus will feel the Saturn opposition this year. In 2013, those with planets between 4-20 degrees Taurus will experience the opposition."

That is how today has been going...I consciously wanted to spend a lot of time outside today while the weather was still nice and the sun was still out and warm about it, but now that I'm home, I've been winterizing the bed and moving all of the nice summer clothes into the other closet and going through my yarn stash for a "fiber rehoming" event tomorrow. I am still keeping a lot of the one-ball-of-leftover-yarn stuff because I have a project idea that can use those as stripes, but I think I"ll get rid of the various boring cream yarns someone else gave me, and the thread/lace yarns I never use because they are so tiny, and the free itchy yarn, stuff like that. It's a backpack and bag full of that already...and hah, I'll probably bring home the equivalent of that from other people's stashes.

I keep looking around the junk pit that is my place--I have piles of projects everywhere, not to mention clothes that won't fit into a drawer or closet or I just go through that stash so much there's no point in putting it away and out of sight-- and thinking that I need to start doing some purging. Or at least start doing that on a day where I'm rained indoors and don't want to be out doing other things. I have so much to have to deal with, one way or another. I feel like I need a day off just to tackle that shit on a day when I won't have anything more awesome to do--except well, I usually have something more awesome to do. Like oh, buy stuff for another project.

Scorpio transits this year

Forecast for the year ahead:

• "Jupiter has been in Gemini (your eighth house of reincarnation) since early June; it will remain in that sign until June of 2013, when it moves into Cancer, your ninth house of philosophy and learning. Jupiter in your ninth house is a good time to take classes, travel, and expand your horizons.
• Saturn advances in your sign, until December of 2014. This could be a time of reflection, and possibly regret. You may feel the urge to begin something new, or return to a project that was once left unfinished.
• Uranus continues its long tour of Aries, your sixth house of career. This means that for the next eight years or so you can expect changes in your work life; these changes and shifts can be both positive and negative, so be sure you consider all signs of each situation before making a decision.
• Pluto continues in Capricorn, your third house, where it brings about a desire to discover your inner self, whether through study or creative pursuit. Your third house is also associated with family and neighbors, so you may become more involved with these individuals as well."

Today's Michael Lutin

"DAILY FIX 15 october
SPECIAL MESSAGE TO SCORPIOS SCORPIO RISINGS
AND ANYBODY WHO HAS EVER DEALT WITH ONE
I so wish I could tell you it's all over. It's all behind you. The insane Full Moon, Saturn departure from Libra
trauma of the last few weeks, the whole 1982-84 thing, the entire
flip and move from one life to another, not to mention the
impossible past life or high school love event
the Venus transit of last May and June hit you with.
It just isn't over.
You still have a few things to iron out.

The New Moon in the last decan of Libra happens to be void.
So the cosmic message is... we must all spend MORE time and effort
assessing what has happened,
hashing and rehashing it over for the trillionth time
in the hopes of getting closer to a resolution,
which probably still won't be fully possible for months.

Just as you are putting the dishes back on the shelves the shaking starts all over again. An emotional earthquake
such as this one is bound to cause aftershocks.
It's the normal course of events and you have to deal with it.
They are also called consequences for your actions."

Saturn goes into Scorpio today, holy shit time for me starts

Susan Miller for Scorpios in October:

Saturn will move into Scorpio this month on October 5, and that's good news for you. For some reason, Saturn has received a bad name among people who have not studied astrology closely. If you were to do so, you would see that Saturn conjunct the Sun, as you will have in the coming three years, could help you materialize a dream dear to you in the way no other planet can do as effectively as he can do. When I look back on all my successes in life, Saturn was prominent in all of them. This planet's job is to show you that you can materialize any dream if you put your mind to it. Saturn can be a tough taskmaster, but he gets solid results. By the time this visit of Saturn is over in September 2015, you will have gained an attractive patina of maturity and seasoning those others will find mighty attractive, too.

So while it is true that Saturn will make you work hard, you can be sure that you will be proud of all that you accomplish during this phase. You only get two or three visits of Saturn to your sign in a lifetime, as it takes 29 years for Saturn to make a complete revolution around the Sun and all 12 houses of the horoscope. Saturn's job will be to ready you for bigger life achievements, ones that you always assumed to be far beyond your ability to handle. Ventures started and finished during this phase will last a very long time - possibly forever.

You have literally hundreds of possible choices of a challenge you'd like to tackle, but I will give you a few ideas of how Saturn might affect you now.

You may sign up for an advanced degree, start a business, or relocate across the country. You may get married or have a baby. Whatever you choose to do will be something you cannot undo or "bring back" later, which will be why you will be attracted to this goal in the first place. It will create the very cornerstone of your life, and by late 2015, you will reap benefits from all that you put into your goal now.

Big Sky Astrology:

The good news is that Saturn in Scorpio encourages us to form intimate, sharing, and supportive relationships; to trust our own judgment; and to learn to let others give to us. The bad news is, Saturn’s particular form of “encouragement” tends to be a little rough. “Just how badly do you want to form intimate, sharing, and supportive relationships?,” he asks. “Let’s throw every possible impediment in your path and see if you still want them.” Or the ever popular, “How’s about you make a real whopper of a bad decision – trust somebody you really shouldn’t – and see if you’re still able to trust your own judgment?”

To use a peculiarly Scorpionic phrase: When outer planets transit Scorpio, shit gets real. There’s no use sugar-coating it. But each sign has its blessings as well as its curse, and Scorpio blesses us with the kind of strength that comes from knowing the truth – about ourselves, about others, and about the way the world works. From there, we’ll eventually move forward into Saturn in Sagittarius and construct a belief system that helps put it all in a larger perspective.

The Saturn in Scorpio road will typically be bumpiest - or should I say, “the opportunities for personal growth will be most abundant” (yeah, that sounds better) for those with lots of planets in fixed signs: Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius. Bonus points if one of those planets is the Sun, Moon, or Saturn. When the ride gets especially bumpy, take the advice of a recent client with tough Saturn aspects in her birth chart, who said, “When things have gotten so hard that I don’t think I can take another step, I just keep walking. Eventually I get through to the other side, and then I have a story to tell.”

Victoria Bazeley:

When Saturn moves into your sign, the motto of the next couple of years becomes “try.” Saturn is not like Yoda who says ” do or do not….there is no try.” Saturn recognizes the real possibility of trying and failing, but he thinks you ought to try anyway. Saturn says ‘make the effort.’

In short, pick something to accomplish and try to accomplish it. It doesn’t have to be something earthshaking. You could try to learn how to ski after all these years. The important thing is to keep trying, to not give up until you are thoroughly satisfied that you have explored every possible means of making the effort to master something to your standards. Other examples include getting a more stimulating job (your chart wants more stimulating job tasks), or moving to a livelier neighborhood or bigger city (your chart wants a more challenging environment for you).

Other examples include trying your hand at performing (Neptune in your solar 5th house would like that) or pulling off some business deals (Sagittarius energy this month would like that). Even meeting more people would fit the bill, as long as the goal to be accomplished is a bit scary for you.

Finally, the month has a bit of a religious or prophetic tone to it. At its best, this could make you feel a bit divinely inspired as the month progresses.

Moonkissd:

Want to do that life-changing thing you’ve been putting off for so long? Are you ready for transformation– and deathly afraid of it? Want a deeper relationship to your self, your body, the people you love -to life itself? They say to truly live, we’ve got to be willing to die; to claim our power we must look at what we reject, fear, call “bad” or “wrong” in our self. To befriend our wholeness in totality, we need to bring the darkness in our Self, to light. Welcome Saturn’s entry into Scorpio (10/5/12 -9/17/15, with 12/23/14-6/16/15 in Sagittarius).

The Irresistible Pull Of Transformation

Change and transformation – how to do it, what’s keeping us from achieving the transformation we soul desire, holds a special magnetism while Saturn transits Scorpio. Like reaching the promised final layer of an onion, many of us will want to address that thing holding us back from full-on transformation. Once we sing that battle cry for change, we will also likely instantly run into our own defenses and resistance to letting go into change.  As one women said to me recently, “I want to change – but on my own terms!” Of course Life will not oblige that request. We cannot give Life a list of our conditions and terms for our change and transformation any more than we can ask for a money back guarantee on a potentially rewarding/risky investment. During Saturn’s transit through Scorpio we may feel afraid to change, of death, loss, yet the pull of transformation is irresistible and related to our maturity. We need to clearly see death, change, loss, psychological awareness as apart of a leading a whole life. No more deceiving our self, or others -God of Karma, Saturn, won’t let us get away with it.  If Saturn in Libra left us with a legacy, it’s this: the full truth is far more satisfying than half-truths.

Good luck with that...

What Happens When Saturn Transits Over Your Scorpio Ascendent?

"Increased responsibility may be foisted on you (via a job, relationship or status change). Or you may just feel “heavier” as you decide to shed your skin and transform your image. You’ll probably want to withdraw for a bit, and that’s fine. Necessary, even. This may be your journey through the valley, but you’ve got stalwart Saturn as your guide;  stick to the path he’s laid out for you and you’ll be fine. And if you’re asking “How will I find that path?” Don’t you worry…Saturn makes it damn obvious what you’re supposed to do and where you’re supposed to go."

This will be kicking off for me come the fall. I definitely wonder what's going to happen there. If I'll ever do anything different.

You know, Jupiter in Taurus wasn't THAT big of a giant bonanza for me.

I got a few stray hundred bucks here and there (thanks unions and tax refund), I went on some cool trips and did some shopping, but other than the stray hundred bucks, it wasn't like, Miracle Year the way that the astrologers in general go on about the whopping bonanza that is Jupiter in your sun sign.

(And yeah, COULDA USED SOMETHING TO GO WITH THE SEVENTH HOUSE, JUST SAYING)

And now it's time to get our asses kicked by Saturn in Scorpio in a few months too. Whoopetydoo!

Jupiter’s transit of Taurus formed an opposition to Scorpio and squared Leo/Aquarius. So between June 2011 and today, all of you with planets or angles in these signs were hit with an increase of opportunities, perspective, possibilities or chutzpah. And it was a big increase…impossible to miss. Check out the area(s) of your chart occupied by those signs; growth occurred, guaranteed.

I hope you guys enjoyed it and made use of it. Seriously. Because as of October 5th, Saturn’s transit of Scorpio will be cracking the whip over all your heads. Saturn will oppose Taurus and square Leo/Aquarius. Your gains will be trimmed, tidied and strengthened as Saturn moves over the same degrees that Jupiter did. This does not mean that everything you gained will be taken away. It does mean that your growth will be tested.

New job courtesy of Jupiter? Saturn will make you work to prove your mettle. Pay increase? Figure out ways to trim your budget; Saturn will throw some serious expenses your way. New relationship? Saturn’s transit could introduce your first major challenge as a couple. All this is just a way to ensure that what you’ve got is worth hanging on to.

Saturn in Scorpio: this one worries me

As well it should, I suppose.

• Be prepared to lose something, even if it’s just your sense of control. Saturn will confront you with fears of loss, abandonment, powerlessness and betrayal. Note that the anticipation may be greater than the actual loss.
• Focus on what’s left. What can you do to heal yourself? How can you make the situation work for you? Hint: it will not involve obsessing over what you no longer have.
• Confront what scares you. This could involve deep intimacy, sharing and merging your resources (financial and emotional).
• Identify energy that you’ve directed towards stalking, controlling, manipulating or holding grudges.  Take all that energy and point it in a direction that is brand new and does not involve control over someone else.

New Moon in Scorpio

It seems like everyone is posting very good articles on this topic this week. So many I'm not even gonna try to round up all of the links (just go look at Astro Dispatch anyway).

But it's gonna be a real lulu for me because it's RIGHT on my ascendant. Hoo boy. The last time anything astrologically kicked my ascendant it was an eclipse on my ascendant for my birthday in 2005... and that led to my dad going into the hospital for the rest of his life. FUN TIMES. So I wonder what kick is gonna happen now.

So far today I went to a class in interviewing for jobs this morning, where I ended up having to announce to the class (including my poor career counselor who had no idea, gulp-- I haven't seen her one-on-one since the spring) about my moving plans. I felt bad saying it, plus it does sound kind of bad to say "Yeah, I plan on giving up a stable job, if I still have it by then, to move to do...uh, I have no idea what." I also have three classes back to back tonight, so I wonder how THOSE are going to go if today is supposed to be zooey.

My intention for this mostly revolves around money, because while I still have it steadily coming in, I need to stop shopping so damn much and save more of it. I upped how much I put into savings each month, but really I should be trying to live on total austerity...which is extremely fucking difficult for me, especially during my last year when I want to be able to buy stuff while I still can. My main hurdle is that the stuff I buy is usually of the "now or never" variety because I am at a craft fair or in a town I don't regularly go to and probably can't return to, so I can't sit and wait and think on it and change my mind later. So I usually end up with "now." I don't regret very many of my purchases and god knows I do think it out beforehand to see if I can live without, but I still shop a lot anyway and I don't know how to stop myself without acting like a dieter who beats herself up mercillessly if she looks at a cookie.  And dear god, I don't want to do that. But guilting myself with "You need the money to move!" hasn't stopped me whatsoever either.

I did, however, see an idea about taxing yourself a few bucks every time you buy something. I actually kind of like this idea. Keeping track of the math may be a problem, but in a way it's kinda like spending...which obviously I'm a fan of.

Mostly I don't worry about money on a day to day basis because maintaining my lifestyle as is on my salary goes just fine, thanks. But then again, I don't have a car. And at the very least, even if I don't move but do get a car, I'll be a LOT BROKER due to insurance, maintenance, gas, etc., etc. even if I don't drive the car except on weekends or something. God knows I'm not gonna be used to that. Or for that matter, being unemployed. *gulp*

Even more fun is that the next eclipse (Thanksgiving-- oh goody, let's amplify everyone's family drama in America) is gonna be on my moon in the second house.  So I'm gonna get hammered on money no matter what... plus there's always Uranus hitting my sixth house to dread. Right now it's still hanging out at the tail end of my fifth, but...

I always have to remind myself of that Uranus transit coming: that even if I changed my mind and decided to stay here and keep my stable job, odds are I'll get booted out of it somehow in 2012, whether it's layoffs or they finally figure out a way to make technology do it all instead of me. This is not a job I can maintain until retirement age when technology WILL get good enough to replace me, and my skill set here is so rarified that I haven't been able to get into another job in the last 9 years (you really can't get a job here now unless you've already done that job before) anyway. So one way or another, I'll have to deal with The Boot From Stability.

And in the meantime, enjoy having a regular income...but stop actively enjoying it by spending money.

Argh.

TV Astrology: Switched At Birth

So I'm a big fan of Switched At Birth, which is rather ridiculously good for a family show. People are sympathetic and mostly sensible and you feel for everybody and it's awesome. I highly recommend it (go look on Hulu, the pilot's online).

Anyway, the recent episode "The Persistence of Memory" was just plain excellent. AND it also featured one of the switched-at-birth characters finding her birth certificate. Of course, Daphne's real birth certificate is actually for Bay, so... it's Bay's birth time and information. The show has stated the two girls have the same birthday, so I'm interested in looking at their birthday. Alas, Daphne's actual birth time hasn't been mentioned yet, so I'll have to guess.

For those who haven't seen the show: Bay Kennish is a brunette teenage artist type. She's tempestuous, dabbles in getting into trouble, and seems to move quickly when it comes to men. She's the one that got raised in a wealthy family but originally came from a poorer one. She's the one whose birth time we'll be looking at. Her birthday twin, Daphne, is the strawberry blonde athletic type. She's generally sweet and more of a people pleaser than Bay, a wee bit of a showoff herself at times, and has been deaf since the age of 3. She was the one born to the rich people, but got raised by a poorer mom.

I totally guessed that Bay must be a Leo rising, and by god, she is! The drama is very obvious with her. (Plus she loves Frida Kahlo. Both she and her biological mom Regina are really into bright colors.) I'd guess Daphne is probably born around 6 a.m., making her a TRIPLE Libra. Both of them are at least double Libras (sun and moon), but Daphne is clearly the one more interested in making sure everyone gets along.

Both of them have a lot of planets in Libra, with a Libra Moon/Chiron conjunction. That says "mommy issues and pain" like nothing else, which totally fits with the swappage. They both have Sun conjunct their Libra North Nodes, which I think bodes well for them learning Libra issues of partnership and cooperation. Certainly both of them pick up love interests left and right and are very attractive girls! Passionate too with Venus in Scorpio. They also have a Mars/Pluto conjunction, which I find kind of nervewracking. That does tend to bring on... well, physical accidents, maybe being a bit of an anger/violence magnet. That hasn't played out yet on the show, but it's a TV show and you never know when a show might resort to something crazy. I think it bodes a bit better for Daphne (rather than the uninterested Bay) that she is into sports, so she's got an outlet for physicality. (Bay, on the other hand, does graffiti and fake ID's.) They both have Mars in Sagittarius, which in my experience tends to mean that they're both going to be SUPER interested in travel. They both have Jupiter in Sagittarius, which should be pretty lucky. They also have a Neptune/Uranus conjunction. Saturn is in Pisces.

Looking at the placement of the houses in Bay's chart for certain, most of them are below the horizon. Nothing in the first or second houses, but the Libra stellium is in her third house of communication and siblings. I find this funny considering that she biologically has no siblings, but by adoption she has a brother and Daphne is probably more or less an honorary sibling. The Moon/Pluto conjunction lands in her fourth house-- trouble in the family, indeed. Jupiter is in her fifth house, so she has luck with creativity. The Neptune-Uranus conjunction is in her sixth house, so I'd imagine that could be ... interesting... in her work life. The planet of dreaminess and imagination combined with unusual events should mean she has an interesting art career, even if I doubt she'd get massively famous for it what with most of her planets not as on display as her Leo rising. Saturn is in her eighth house of other people's money. Maybe that's an indicator that the money she grew up with wasn't hers, after all.


I'm going to do an imaginary house placement for Daphne with a Libra rising to see how that plays out. It'd give her the stellium of planets in her twelfth and first house, so she is more publicly prominent than Bay despite Bay's Leo rising. (Indeed, her deafness may make her more noticeable in public.) Venus and the Mars/Pluto conjunction fall into her second house. Maybe the Venus in second means that she'll get money via love-- or that she was the one destined to be a rich girl. Except for the Mars/Pluto kaboom. Jupiter falls into her third house = luck with communication and siblings. Hm. Communication is an issue with her, being deaf and all, but for the most part she seems very skilled at all of the methods she uses to do it. The Neptune-Uranus conjunction would fall in her fourth house, and Saturn would fall into her sixth. I'd imagine Daphne will have a harder time getting a job. As for dreamy + unusual, maybe that describes the home life she grew up in, or the unexpected windfall of turning out to be from rich people?

Anyway, this may all be a lot of bull, but it's kind of fun to think about.