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Now, more than ever, it is important to be grounded in reality. Not held down, as with a ball and chain, but rather free to move about a stable center. Saturn was such an anchor in recent years. The anchor symbolism will continue when the ringed one enters Scorpio in October. It is a role for which Saturn is well suited.<\/p>\n
Saturn, like Pluto and Mars, has a bad reputation which is not entirely deserved. Of all the planets commonly acknowledged as visible to the naked eye, distinguished from stars by unique movement and steady light, inferred by the ancients to have deity and consciousness, Saturn is the most dim and slowest moving. Hence, a remote and deliberate identity was conferred onto Saturn by human beings all over the world who saw it as a universal teacher of responsibility, anchoring your life to the consequences of your actions.<\/p>\n
Robert Hand, a tropical (western) astrologer, avers that “Saturn represents the way you program your universe at the deepest, most fundamental level.” Komilla Sutton, a sidereal, Vedic astrologer, has written that Saturn “brings up karmic issues you have to deal with, things you cannot avoid.” From two different systems, the same perspective. Saturn is about responsibility and its archetype is commonly experienced through consequences. Consequences are usually no fun, but they are instructive, and dealing with them shapes your consciousness — and ultimately, your life.<\/p>\n
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When another object opposes the Sun, Earth is by definition literally in between them, pulled by opposing gravitational fields which contribute to the shape of its orbital path. When the Sun’s archetype of consciousness illuminates the face of Saturn this weekend, you will be figuratively in the middle with an opportunity to see in reflection how, during over two years of Saturn in Libra, your actions and those of others in your relationships have, between them, shaped your life’s path. That’s because Libra is largely about relationship.<\/p>\n
Represented by the glyph of balance-beam scales, the energy of Libra is experienced in the exchange that relationship entails. When Saturn moves through Libra, its instructive and realistic archetype is thus focused out into the social world. During this particular trip through the sign of the scales, the intrinsic exchanges of responsibility and sharing of consequences have been concurrently experienced in an evolutionary tension with Pluto’s transformational effect on structure, while in a revolutionary confrontation to identity through Uranus. As world politics and the personal lives of individuals have faced rapid and uncertain revision, Saturn’s tenure in Libra has represented both our anchor to reality and our teacher with and through others. It will be missed, but less so if we take the time this weekend to recall and consciously integrate what we have learned.<\/p>\n
Assuming we are aware of them, the teachings of shared experience and common consequence that transpired during Saturn’s eventful trip through Libra will be transferable. Providing that we have allowed ourselves to be guided by those experiences and shaped through those consequences we will be prepared to participate in and contribute to the events that will guide and shape the entire world for a long time. From having restraint imposed upon us by circumstances of our own making, the next step will be to impose restraint upon ourselves so as to better make circumstances. From being held to account by others, our next task is to hold ourselves to account for others. From being held in check by reality, our next, highest potential purpose is to be the check that guides, shapes and underwrites the reality to come. It all starts with a little reflection.<\/p>\n
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This weekend, an Aries Sun will oppose Saturn for the last time until 2040. That’s because Saturn is not long for Libra, the sign opposing Aries. The past few years have seen Saturn make history from Libra. From squaring Pluto in Capricorn to opposing Uranus on the Aries Point, Saturn has seen us prepare to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1714],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}