Hello everyone, if indeed there is anyone still out there after my 2 year silence…my apologies if you were enjoying my scribbling’s and lucky you, if not. 🙂
Well, I am just mopping up after my second Saturn Return which was an experience and a half and then some. But I have Saturn in crisis orientated SCORPIO anyway – so no surprises there.
But I will back up a moment and give a quick recap for any of you that may not be familiar with the ‘famous’ Saturn return or even, for that matter, the planet Saturn.
How about if we strip everything away and just say that SATURN is astro code for the principle of contraction. Open your hand – that’s Jupiter, close your hand – that is Saturn. That makes Saturn the ‘reality maker’ in each of us. We close or contract our field of energy around a thought/feeling form and make it real to ourselves. That is one of the reasons that Saturn exalts (works most positively) in the sign of Libra. The SCALES can represent legal contracts and closings – we shake hands and say it is now done, it’s real, it will have consequences…
The astronomers have discovered that Saturn is not alone in having rings but Saturn’s rings are certainly the most dense and obvious to the naked eye. But the symbolism is beautiful, eh? The symbol of contraction surrounded by dense rings made up of rock and ice.
Now, I am afraid that I must diverge here for a moment to air a point that I think is missed over and over in these ‘rationed’ times of scientific materialism. What if, when ASTROLOGY was being formulated, the people at the time did not experience the material world the way we do now. What if they understood something completely different about the phenomenal world around us. For a start, they called it phenomena. The word phenomena from the Greek phainomenon means “that which appears or is seen. Continue reading →