Master astrologer Steven Forrest discusses the 2nd Saturn return that arrives between age 59-60 and heralds the end of mid-life and the lessons ahead. This is a vital part of the Life Cycle and a very significant story to hear.
Showing posts with label Saturn Return. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saturn Return. Show all posts
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Thursday, January 6, 2011
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 3rd house Saturn: I first had to learn public speaking, and I was terrified of it—and in a sales career. By the 2nd, 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.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Saturn Return and the 29-year-cycle of Time
Saturn transits are often looked upon as a time of difficulty, obstructions, delays, and other forms of restriction. The 29-year-cycle of a Saturn return is often looked upon as a marker point of oppression and burdens. A Saturn transit to the 1st house of the physical body can bring pains and complications to the skeletal system or bones.
However, like all other transits, Saturn is here to teach us to go back and review what we need to accomplish. Robert Hand, in Planets in Transit, says this:
Saturn is one of the most important planets to examine in transits (or movement of activity in the chart that emphasizes change and current conditions): it represents the way we see and experience the Universe as we have structured it on an individual level. The location of transiting Saturn in a chart indicates the part of life that is being examined and tested at this time. The house (or realm of experience relating to that area of life) indicates the area of greatest tension to which the individual must direct his or her closest attention. The planets that Saturn brings up for testing and examination of mastery during a transit represent energies in our lives that are being challenged and behavior patterns that require strengthening and correction.
Most people experience Saturn transits as if Saturn were an external force that was utterly out of control. Frequently a Saturn transit seems like the product of fate, usually an unpleasant fate. However, we must understand that Saturn represents the way we program our personal universe at the deepest, most fundamental level. Consequently, the energy of a Saturn transit is never truly external. But our conscious mind avoids responsibility for what is happening, so the unconscious mind takes over by programming the event unconsciously. We do not experience its effects until the outer world reacts and a “fated” event occurs, which is nothing more than the universe responding to our own actions.
No matter how unpleasant a Saturn transit seems at the time, it represents what we truly want in life and is helping us to get it. Most people are out of touch with what they truly want. If we thoroughly understand our wants and needs, we will find that Saturn simply brings out their manifestation. The “losses” that Saturn brings are of things that we do not want or need, no matter how much we think otherwise. Let them go, especially relationships that Saturn may end.
When Saturn transits a house (wedge of the chart) through its 2.5 year cycle, pay great attention to the affairs of that house. It is not a sign that everything in that house realm is going wrong, but direct your consciousness there and find out how to relate to those affairs. If one is in a good position—that is, one that is appropriate at this time in life, the transit will firm up and structure that house experience. If an individual is not in a good position and insecure, Saturn will bring great changes that will be unpleasant insofar as the person resists the Master Teacher’s lessons.
Depression, sadness, physical and emotional loss are all signs that one is not well adjusted to the issues of the house and sign ruled by Saturn as well as the house being transited. Do not be dismayed, however, if one experiences these feelings. They are normal responses. Very few people are so in touch with themselves that they can react to Saturn positively. In a very real sense, Saturn is the Teacher of what we are asked to prove we have learned until the next cycle brings it back again to that respective house in 29+ years.
Most people experience Saturn transits as if Saturn were an external force that was utterly out of control. Frequently a Saturn transit seems like the product of fate, usually an unpleasant fate. However, we must understand that Saturn represents the way we program our personal universe at the deepest, most fundamental level. Consequently, the energy of a Saturn transit is never truly external. But our conscious mind avoids responsibility for what is happening, so the unconscious mind takes over by programming the event unconsciously. We do not experience its effects until the outer world reacts and a “fated” event occurs, which is nothing more than the universe responding to our own actions.
No matter how unpleasant a Saturn transit seems at the time, it represents what we truly want in life and is helping us to get it. Most people are out of touch with what they truly want. If we thoroughly understand our wants and needs, we will find that Saturn simply brings out their manifestation. The “losses” that Saturn brings are of things that we do not want or need, no matter how much we think otherwise. Let them go, especially relationships that Saturn may end.
When Saturn transits a house (wedge of the chart) through its 2.5 year cycle, pay great attention to the affairs of that house. It is not a sign that everything in that house realm is going wrong, but direct your consciousness there and find out how to relate to those affairs. If one is in a good position—that is, one that is appropriate at this time in life, the transit will firm up and structure that house experience. If an individual is not in a good position and insecure, Saturn will bring great changes that will be unpleasant insofar as the person resists the Master Teacher’s lessons.
Depression, sadness, physical and emotional loss are all signs that one is not well adjusted to the issues of the house and sign ruled by Saturn as well as the house being transited. Do not be dismayed, however, if one experiences these feelings. They are normal responses. Very few people are so in touch with themselves that they can react to Saturn positively. In a very real sense, Saturn is the Teacher of what we are asked to prove we have learned until the next cycle brings it back again to that respective house in 29+ years.
Rob Tillett, astrologer from New South Wales, Australia, says this:
The Saturn Return
Each twenty-nine years naturally presents us with the challenge to rise to new levels of awareness, or face the consequences of having failed to gain the wisdom required so to do. When Saturn in the heavens returns to the zodiacal degree where he was placed in your birth chart, you are said to be experiencing what astrologers call your Saturn Return – one of the most important times of your life. It only happens once every 29 years, so at around age 28-30, 57-59, and (if you live long enough) 86-88, you have a Saturn Return. This signifies a time of transformation, an emotional transition from one life-phase to the next.
The first Saturn return (around age 28-30) marks the transition from the Phase of Youth to the Phase of Maturity; the second from the Phase of Maturity to the Phase of Wisdom. The last one, if reached, seems usually to mark the transition either to the next world or else back to a second childhood!
As the Saturn return approaches, often our lives seem to speed up, as if hurrying to clear out old baggage from the past, to lighten the load for the next stage. Important things that either finalize old issues, or prepare the ground for new developments tend to occur with increasing frequency. For those who are unprepared, this is often a time of severe suffering, as we struggle to understand the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune that seem to be aimed squarely at our hearts. Indeed, relationships and major life-decisions are all too often the focal points for this clearing out of karmic baggage.
Each twenty-nine years naturally presents us with the challenge to rise to new levels of awareness, or face the consequences of having failed to gain the wisdom required so to do. When Saturn in the heavens returns to the zodiacal degree where he was placed in your birth chart, you are said to be experiencing what astrologers call your Saturn Return – one of the most important times of your life. It only happens once every 29 years, so at around age 28-30, 57-59, and (if you live long enough) 86-88, you have a Saturn Return. This signifies a time of transformation, an emotional transition from one life-phase to the next.
The first Saturn return (around age 28-30) marks the transition from the Phase of Youth to the Phase of Maturity; the second from the Phase of Maturity to the Phase of Wisdom. The last one, if reached, seems usually to mark the transition either to the next world or else back to a second childhood!
As the Saturn return approaches, often our lives seem to speed up, as if hurrying to clear out old baggage from the past, to lighten the load for the next stage. Important things that either finalize old issues, or prepare the ground for new developments tend to occur with increasing frequency. For those who are unprepared, this is often a time of severe suffering, as we struggle to understand the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune that seem to be aimed squarely at our hearts. Indeed, relationships and major life-decisions are all too often the focal points for this clearing out of karmic baggage.
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