Saturn is traditionally considered a malefic planet, or, in ordinary
language, the planet that is associated with the experiences of
restriction, delays, and limitation of pleasure and even life, in some cases, while at the same time
being a great teacher of moderation, concentration, responsibility, and
hard work. People have different experiences with Saturn depending on how much of Saturn's energy one has in the chart. For someone with a strongly placed
Saturn, ambition, responsibility, ability to focus and work with
concentration are easy. Still, Saturn inclines to solitude and
isolation from others, it is cold and dry by nature and does not incline
to warm exchange or expansion, like Venus or Jupiter would. This year, I experienced a transiting opposition of Saturn in Libra
to my natal Sun. This transit coincided with a completion of my
dissertation and the 6-year-long journey through a graduate program
in psychology. The following is the summary of the themes I experienced
during the Saturn transit: * Needing to rely on myself, while longing for emotional support and warmth which were frequently not available. * Having to redo, refine and improve my work multiple times, which
felt at times excessive and unnecessary, but in the long run made my work
much more solid and in-depth. * Coming to a conflict between my desires and aspirations of how my work
should be done and expressed (Sun in Aries) and the demands and visions of others
(Saturn in Libra). * Feeling pressure to refine and complete my work, not as a
pleasurable activity (which in in itself it was) but as a serious and extremely detail laden project that required all my ability to
concentrate and focus on one task at hand. While these themes are specific to my process of dissertation writing
and completion, I feel they are worth sharing because they represent
more general experience of Saturn, which is some serious professional or
personal accomplishment resulting not without frustration from
repetitious hard work, and enormous attention to details while often feeling restricted or unsupported or even pressured. The metaphoric image that came to mind in regards to Saturn Sun opposition was of a cold iron just going back and forth over me (as Saturn went 3 times over my Sun due to retrograde motion), cold and heavy, but ultimately "straightening" my work. I would be interested in hearing from others how they understand and experience Saturn transits, so I welcome posts or personal e-mail in response to this blog. |
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