Saturn’s enters Sagittarius at 11:34 am EST (16:34 UT) Tuesday, less than 48 hours after Sunday’s Capricorn solstice and New Moon. That’s arguably close enough timing to make Saturn’s first of two forays into Sagittarius a solstice occurrence rather than taking it separately.
Additionally, if you compare Saturn’s impending ingress to Sagittarius with Amanda’s analysis of the Capricorn solstice and New Moon published here on Planet Waves yesterday, it makes sense, and takes nothing away from either event to interpret both in the same terms.
For example, if you consider Saturn’s limiting nature along with Saturn about to end two continuous years of slogging through Scorpio, the issue of “how much you let the past define you” (as Amanda put it) will implicitly come up.
By the same token, to have Saturn’s correspondence with structure move from a fixed water sign (Scorpio) to a mutable fire sign (Sagittarius) evokes Amanda’s encouragement towards “re-framing your narratives.”
If you are open to the possibility of re-framing your personal stories, it’s sort of like being open to seeing Saturn’s impending ingress to Sagittarius as part of this year’s Capricorn solstice.
Framing Saturn’s first entrance to Saturn as a solstice event makes a useful and mutually reinforcing connection. Similarly, restructuring your perception of yourself makes new and potentially fortifying connections between you and a world and a life you might make more of.
The question is what to make of a new personal story. At least one way to begin answering that question is to examine to what extent you have heretofore taken on your identity from others.
It’s not necessarily wrong to use your surname, or to identify yourself by your nationality, or to live a narrative that you took on from somebody else. It is, however, appropriate to be consciously aware of when, where and how you take — as well as the potential for you to make.
Equipped with such an awareness, you can see options. Knowing your options clarifies your choices. Making choices always shapes your character, and making different choices shapes your character differently. Finally, re-shaping your character is the surest way to make a different life, and contribute to remaking the world.
Unless you feel the world is okay the way it is, Saturn is going to provide you with plenty of time to answer the question of what to make (or remake) of a new personal story. That’s because Saturn will not behave as it did after entering Scorpio on Oct. 5, 2012.
When Saturn entered Scorpio more than two years ago, it didn’t look back. It was the beginning of a long and winding road of continuous and uninterrupted Scorpio tenure. Saturn will begin its traversal of Sagittarius in a very different way.
Saturn will enter Sagittarius twice. After its initial ingress on Tuesday, Saturn will station retrograde about 5 degrees into its new territory in the middle of March 2015. It will return to Scorpio in the middle of June.
After stationing direct at 28+ Scorpio to begin August 2015, Saturn will enter Sagittarius a second time in the middle of September. Implicit in all of that entering, exiting and entering Sagittarius again is a chance for you to review how much the past (especially the recent past) has defined you, and an opportunity to evaluate what making some different connections might yield.
Also indicated by making Saturn’s first exquisitely timed ingress to Sagittarius one with the Capricorn solstice and New Moon is that you can make yourself one with the cosmos.
For you are part of the same system as the Sun, Moon and Saturn — the solar system. Hence, movements of the Sun, Moon and planets are by definition somehow correlated with your movements through life.
Since you are a sentient being with apparently free will, it’s possible for you first to apprehend the correlations through the timeframes and symbols astrology provides, and then to make some choices of your own. That’s a whole lot better fate than simply taking what life gives you.
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Great Read!! I m wondering how uranus heading forward will impact this all-dressed Sunday+ ? Can t wait to find out 🙂 Thanks so much Team!!
Absolutely stellar interpretation! Thank you! Maybe this is a pluto capricorn theme going on with me (not sure); as a chronic A.D.D. stricken person, I have a dozen e-mails for different categories in my life, and instead of helping, it’s become chaotic to manage! Yesterday, I decided enough is enough, I’m going to set-up two e-mails only, one for shopping and one for business. I set-up my last name in the from field: Catherine Shopping and Catherine Money.
I proud of my last name!
puma pink: Thank you.for your kind words and a very good question. Please allow me to answer one step at a time. Please remember that the apparent motion of Uranus around the zodiac is slow. About 84 years for a complete circuit of all the signs. That’s about seven years to traverse a single sign. That in turn averages out to less than five degrees of progress in a year. For about five months of every year, Uranus is in apparent retrograde motion. Each annual retrograde tracks back over about half of the prior year’s progress in a symbolic review. Even though Uranus is (as you put it) presently “heading forward” it is doing so slowly. Next year’s Uranus retrograde (from about July 25 to December 25) will conclude only about four degrees “ahead” of where it is now by the time it ends. So, please consider the motion of Uranus to be a process. During that process (no matter where it falls as a transit to your natal chart) you are provided with seven years to become aware of the choices you face during any one sign tenure and a chance to choose carefully. We are all aproaching halfway through the Uranus tenure of Aries now. In holistic context with the rest of the astrology (and in the context of our time), it’s an appropriate moment to evaluate where you are. Please let me know if my answer was not satisfactory.
Cathering: Congratulations or managing your correspondence chaos and re-organizing your electronic missives. Please remember to be flexible enough to fine tune your organizational structure next year as Saturn retrogrades back an forth. You have every reason to be proud. Thank you for sharing those reasons here.
Around & around we go, stepping forward into new territories in several domains at once. I find this interesting, how we can experience so much activity at this still point of the year, especially when for those of us to the North of the equator the days are at their shortest. A time that seems to invited a deep pause and rest is filled with the activity of change.
As always Len your words offer a depth of opportunity, thank you!
chief niwot’s son: Thank you for going to the heart of the matter as you so reliably do. Yes, it is a paradox, how the shorter days in the Northern Hemisphere are so often perceived as a rapid succession of days. It is something Eric has repeatedly noted in the past. It is not the same for everybody. For some, life seems to slow to a crawl. For nearly all of us in the Northern Hemisphere, however, the period between the beginning of November does appear to resemble the ancient characterization of this time as “time out of time”. Once another week has passed, we will be well on our way back into time again. May your turn with the wheel find you on top with a good view of where you are going.
I just have to say people :)) the depth of cameraderie and sharing of reverence towards one another here at planetwaves.net surely must sweet-tickle-pink all our lovely sibling stars up above. Truly i for one am heart-warmed by all your daily comments and exchanges.
I wish to add my sincere thanks to PW’s entire family, sending you all my cheerios and as they say… AS ABOVE SO BELOW :)) WE sure are shining and rippling warm & bright on our StarNations!
p.s. Len; greatly appreciate your response :))
puma pink: Thank you for as touching and beautiful an expression of the spirit “Cosmophilia” as we are ever likely to see.
Woohoo Len… sheesh :)) gift of the changing of the guards a few days early ((: i embrace i embrace i embrace!!! (My sunchart has me morphed into a soccer ball – you have no idea how sweet your comment feels. Merci Beaucoup!)
Such a wise and gracious teacher and writer. Thank you, Len.
As Saturn’s ingress squares my Sun, and am less than ‘Saturn Ready’ (I was, once!) am A) talking like a mo’fo to the Lord of the Rings, asking for grace and guidance in the midst of the demands, and B) taking heart that Jupiter in Leo seems to have an honorary position in this dynamic, as Saturn will be in Jupiter’s sign, and Leo’s ruler, Sol, is in Saturn’s sign.. AKA Silver-Linings Playbook #Excelsior <3
Sara Victoria: Thank you for being so kind in your appraisal. Of transiting Saturn square natal Sun, Robert Hand says: “Concentrate on the successful areas of your life so as to bring them to a successful climax.” Implicitly, look for that climax to come while Saturn is next in Pisces. Also, adhere to a healthy lifestyle so that Saturn’s ingress to Pisces (about the same time Pluto is winding up its long tour of Capricorn) will be a moment to enjoy, And yes, Jupiter in Leo is good news so long as you do not indulge excess.
Indeed. <3
Thanks Len, I’ve no problem linking Saturn’s ingress into Sagittarius with the Solstice, and appreciate your noting Saturn’s station direct at 28+ Scorpio, because.. . . . . . . . . .
I believe we can link together the October 23rd Solar Eclipse (with the Sun, Moon, Venus at 0+ Scorpio and Pallas at 1+ Scorpio) with the Taurus Full Moon on November 6 and get a good idea of how this whole Cuban -U.S. agreement came about.
I heard today that the (secret) discussions regarding the agreement began on November 6th, the same day as the Full Moon at 14+ Taurus (which was quincunx the U.S. Saturn at 14- Libra, both signs ruled by Venus). That full Moon had Mars (action) at 8+ Capricorn sextile Pallas (strategy) at 8+ Scorpio and together they formed a yod to the U.S. Uranus (breakthrough, unexpected) at 8+ Gemini. The Full Moon chart also had Mercury at 27+ Libra.
The solar eclipse of October 23 had Mars (action) at 28+ Sagittarius and Ceres (daughter taken prisoner) at 28 Scorpio (the same degree as Pres. Obama’s MC). By combining the SE Mars in Sagittarius with the FM Mercury in Libra you get a sextile and that sextile forms a yod with Obama’s IC (not public) at 28 Taurus, which opposes his MC (public) at 28+ Scorpio (secretive), which is where transiting Saturn (make manifest) will station direct next August and where Ceres (daughter returned) was in the Solar Eclipse! And that’s what I would call a Boomerang look-alike.
I would surmise that President Obama is not letting the Past define him, wouldn’t you agree? Talk about re-making the World! 🙂
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Just learned that Cuba’s Independence chart, 5/20/1902, has the Sun at 28+ Taurus conjunct the MC!
Barbara: Thank you for once again broadening and adding depth to our perspective. Wow, that is some amazing synchronicity regarding the solar position on Cuba’s 1902 chart. Also, the Taurus Full Moon correlation (immediately following the eclipses) fits like a glove as far as moving on from being defined by the past. Thank goodness for The President being willing to move on as well. Most of all, thank goodness for you!
Hey Len!
Solstice blessings and hugs all round.
Love, Nilou