{"id":7806,"date":"2008-12-13T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=7806"},"modified":"2008-12-12T11:40:06","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T16:40:06","slug":"saturday-sun-square-saturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/saturday-sun-square-saturn\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday: Sun square Saturn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader,<\/p>\n

I have a love-hate relationship with goats and sheep. They are sort of like little people who speak an entirely different language than I do, yet when they fall under my responsibility, I’ve got to feed them, tend anything wrong or broken, watch them closely and keep them safe and warm. They do not say thank you. They do not say please. If they are goats, they are insouciant, merciless bawlers. If they are sheep they are seemingly thoughtless, gentle incarnations of various hillsides. I cannot reach either of these creatures, and switch between an awe-like disdain for them and a dutiful attachment. Their reactions to me never change.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Danielle Voirin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But every so often, I get inspired by my inner Pan, and play a game with the goats and sheep. You see, one of the ways they communicate with each other is by butting heads. Between their eyes is a very, very hard layer of bone which has evolved over many generations of head banging. They can barely feel you touching them there, unless you apply some pressure. Sometimes, I make a fist and push against this bone plate in the middle of the forehead. They push back. We play like that.<\/p>\n

I bring this little factoid up because I feel that it relates to the aspect of the day: the Sun is square Saturn. Vitality and the will to be, the need to be appreciated is creating a bit of tension with authority, discipline, age old patterns. It’s like a young ram versus an old ram. Or me versus a stubborn ewe.<\/p>\n

Robert Hand explains this transit very succinctly like this: “The two questions you must resolve are: how much self-gratification do you owe yourself, and what duties and responsibilities to you owe others? Today will be characterized by conflict between these two poles, duty and self-gratification.”<\/p>\n

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Another source suggests this transit has to do with confronting certain values and beliefs that may not be working as well as they did in the past, if at all. This is a situation in which you may be able to begin to understand the hold the past has over your life by knocking against the structure it upholds. Where is your nourishment derived from? Where are your emotional attachments coming from? A sense of pride and power is also inherent in this aspect. Personally, I find nothing wrong with a bit of pride here and there, but if I were to find myself in a hostage situation with my own ego, I might ask myself whether or not I am trying to substitute arrogance for pride itself.<\/p>\n

How did that ram get so stubborn? Genetics? Upbringing? Bellyache?<\/p>\n

Anything that has to do with work is worth considering under this aspect. For example, if, deep down, I do appreciate being in charge of these animals and taking their wool and milk for my nourishment even if there is no warm fuzzy attachment, is the work not as bad? Sometimes you can even substitute the word “work” for “activity” and the heaviness is lifted. But this doesn’t always work. When this happens, we may come to the conclusion that the work we do is not giving us any pleasure. If ever we come to this conclusion, the next logical question to ask is something like: why am I doing this?<\/p>\n

Moon enters Cancer at 1:40 am EDT.<\/p>\n

Merry Met,<\/p>\n

Genevieve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader, I have a love-hate relationship with goats and sheep. They are sort of like little people who speak an entirely different language than I do, yet when they fall under my responsibility, I’ve got to feed them, tend anything wrong or broken, watch them closely and keep them safe and warm. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[456,1],"tags":[36,1792,52,181,117,790],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806"}],"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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}