Saturn Returns roll the dice of Life

My friend Eileen (of Titanic Astrology fame; see the previous post in archives) is celebrating her 2nd Saturn return by letting the gray come out in her hair color.  She's accepting the fact that age and time (Saturn) come to us all--and that honoring it (along with the wisdom that experience can bestow) is worth showing to the world.  "You've come a long way" says a Saturn return, "and now let's see what you do with it."

 **Remember that your first Saturn return comes @29 years of age and lasts for @2.5 years. It is a reminder: you need to learn this character-soul lesson now because you are in real adulthood time. It is a new lesson you never realized was important.

 If you do NOT accept the challenge, it will reappear @58-59, and last another 2.5 years. It will be much harder to resolve. If you DO accept the first Saturn return experience, you will face similar challenges—but there is a reward waiting for you upon “graduation”. By reference: I have a 3^rd house Saturn: I first had to learn public speaking, and I was terrified of it—and in a sales career. By the 2^nd, I was teaching at an overseas university and had to learn how to better become a professor again. I ended up as Director of Teaching.

 1st - Personal stress, personality testing, problems with bones, teeth, or skeletal system, establishing perimeters, self-confidence under trial or challenges.

 2.  Cash flow restrictions, budget pressure, learning to do a lot with less, doubts and worries about self-worth.

 3.  Mental powers tested, knowledge of career field stretched to the limit; difficulties with siblings.

 4.  Home and personal belongings/security become limited; loss of parent(s), burdens from family or home environment.

 5.  Creativity crisis--how to channel it and substitute other skills; romantic or sexual depression; fated love affairs that create stress; difficulties with children.

 6.  Hard, heavy-and-boring work; tending to details on job matters; stressful workload; health issues, especially digestion.

 7.  Resolving business and personal relationship issues and partnerships; getting rid of failed or finished companions; finalizing or commitments to good partners.

 8.  Troubles with partner's finances and resources; learning to handle monies for others; sexual difficulties or limitations; setbacks from inheritances.

 9.  Dedication and pursuit of education; religious or spiritual regeneration and undertaking; travel and long-distance trips that take time to resolve and manage.

 10.  Working hard to gain career status attention and recognition; extra responsibilities in job or occupation of choice; failures or demotion at the workplace from disreputable behaviors.

 11.  Karmic bonding with groups and friends; estrangement from close friends and associates; forced independence.

 12.  Treacherous ground: backstabbing from friends who become enemies, doubts and fears prey upon failures in life, depression and abuse of substances and indulgences.