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<\/dt>\nAny solar tour of a fixed modality (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or Aquarius) places you fully in the season at hand. It’s the gift of being in the moment, but moments always pass.<\/p>\n
Perspective helps you put what must pass in its place, as part of a longer, larger cycle of events. That does not mean the moment is devoid of value. The ephemeral is precious precisely because it does not last. <\/p>\n
Grasping that concept rather than attempting to grasp onto what must pass allows you to become what you now are not. It prepares your place in what is yet to be. That’s how Saturn works.<\/p>\n
Saturn brings structure with its long cycles. When it returns to where it was long before, it favors restructuring to suit what has come to be in the interim.<\/p>\n
Implicit in Saturn’s return to the simultaneously fixed and fluid field of Scorpio is the opportunity to participate in reshaping not only your life for years to come, but also history for decades to come. A comparatively brief, but long deferred, opposition from the Taurus Sun only asks that you begin the process by consciously considering your moment, the options it offers, and the consequences that come with each one.<\/p>\n
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When objects oppose across the zodiac, you nearly always have options. Conflict, for many synonymous with opposing, is only one of them. Among other choices indicated by astrology’s oppositions are creativity, continuity and compromise. When an opposition is along an axis of fixed signs, the trick is to see all the alternatives. Unfortunately, conflict is nearly always the easiest to see.<\/p>\n
There are times when conflict is appropriate. Choosing that option, however, even when the cause is just, is to choose loss. That’s how conflict works: even those who gain from it must accept the loss that goes with it. The last time that Saturn was opposed by a Taurus Sun provides a historical perspective.<\/p>\n
In 1985 Nelson Mandela chose to continue in conflict with a South African apartheid regime that would not renounce violence. With that choice came five more years of imprisonment, during which time his health suffered permanent damage.<\/p>\n
While an eventual release from captivity after Saturn had nearly completed a full cycle of the zodiac did result in the restructuring to which Mr. Mandela devoted his life, there is also no denying the loss that came with it. There is also no second guessing what he did. Rather there is a turn to be taken, informed both by the present, and the perspective conferred by those who have gone before, and what they have done.<\/p>\n
Now, it’s your turn. The first of the Sun’s oppositions to Saturn along the Taurus-Scorpio axis in this century will find you fully in the solar season. Simultaneously, this opposition confers the perspective of Saturn’s cycles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Your role, passing in between, is to begin with the faster moving Sun and be conscious of your moment and all of the options it holds. Then, for the longer term of years (or even decades) to follow, you will be called to emulate Saturn and become what your choices will make you, preparing your place in history as you do. In the meantime, the prospect of a month’s worth of eclipses will find its appropriate place as well. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Offered In Service <\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Taurus Sun will oppose Saturn’s sail through Scorpio this weekend for the first time since April 1985. Admittedly, the annual event of Earth passing between Saturn and the Sun doesn’t match the majesty of the eclipse cycle we enter today. Nevertheless, 28 years have transpired since Saturn last faced the Sun across the zodiac … 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\/66439"}],"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=66439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}