With four planets in the sign of the taskmaster: it’s time to get serious about time. The Devil will find work for idle hands — don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today — these are all quotes straight from Saturn. The more you procrastinate, the more you’re begging for depression to set in. We beat ourselves up for actions not taken only adding to the weight of the learned helplessness response of “what’s the point?” Depression is Saturn’s domain: anger turned inward. We’re often hardest on ourselves, and that is not the way to make constructive change. Saturn rules perfectionism. We want to get it right and cut out all the time-wasting, superfluous, superficial nonsense. If we can accept what is no longer working in our behavior patterns and have the faith and patience in ourselves to work towards making the correction, we can turn Saturn into our ally. Perfectionism can be a form of self-hatred and self-sabotage. Masochism is unconscious Capricorn and Saturn. It’s all about intention and focus. We must be true to our own path — this is also dharma. Time is in our mind. It is an illusion. It expands or contracts depending on our level of consciousness. When we are present and focused — time expands. When we structure our time — it expands. When set an intention — time expands. When we space out — time contracts.
Last fall, Saturn briefly left the constellation of Virgo and moved into Libra, where it stayed until the spring. Then it retrograded back into Virgo, once again reminding us of Big Daddy Saturn’s lessons of the last few years. Today, Saturn returns to Libra, where it will stay until 2012. We’re revisiting two blog entries we posted last fall to review the themes we’re leaving behind and those we’re about to encounter….
RIP: Saturn in Virgo 2007-2009
Bet you’re more than ready to say goodbye already, aren’t you? Especially those of you born with Saturn in Virgo. Pull out your party hats because this little sucka is leaving on October 29th and turning out the lights on his way out. It’s now time for the Saturn In Libra folks to step up to the plate and deal with their karma. (Note that Saturn will briefly return to Virgo in a retrograde phase next March; more on that in a few months.) […]
Shortly after Saturn’s return to Libra on July 21st, the Saturn/Pluto square comes back around this August. We thought it might be nice to revisit a post from last fall, when the square first hit. Expect more of the same in the coming months, complicated by the Cardinal Cross, the most important astrological event of the century. We’ll be talking a lot about that in posts to come…
In these tough times that seem to be getting tougher every moment, it’s hard to see the light peaking through the cracks of our dark Platonic/Plutonian cave. In an era marked by Pluto in Capricorn, the American Pluto Return, and its 8th Saturn Return, it feels like we’re living on a constant diet of fear, panic, and rage. Our corporate/religious monoliths are threatening to swallow us whole. We are finally figuring out that we’re humans, not merely consumers, and we’re all moving through this massive and chaotic birth canal together. No wonder we’re scared shitless. […]
In these tough times that seem to be getting tougher every moment, it’s hard to see the light peaking through the cracks of our dark Platonic/Plutonian cave. In an era marked by Pluto in Capricorn, the American Pluto Return, and its 8th Saturn Return, it feels like we’re living on a constant diet of fear, panic, and rage. Our corporate/religious monoliths are threatening to swallow us whole. We are finally figuring out that we’re humans, not merely consumers, and we’re all moving through this massive and chaotic birth canal together. No wonder we’re scared shitless. […]
During a recent trip to the theater to see the exquisitely inspiring This Is It, I was a subjected to a promo for the upcoming destruction-porn flick 2012. (I am intentionally not linking to it, because I don’t want to promote this meme in the collective unconscious.) This film, opening within days of the exact Saturn/Pluto square on November 15th, stars John Cusack as an action hero in the midst of massive chaos and upheaval on planet earth. Imagine constant tsunamis, earthquakes, collapsing bridges, exploding ships, and other hysterical sequences of doom. I sometimes wonder if film studios hire astrologers, because they seem to have timed this to tap directly into the fear that is rising in all of us as a consequence of Saturn and Pluto’s upcoming clash.
Saturn may not be going into Libra until October 29th, but we’re already getting a taste of what the next few years might be like. Libra is the sign of sweet things, including sugar. Sugar prices have been at an all time high and it looks like they’re going to stay that way. An early…
Libra is a sign long associated with justice; most think this has to do with the traditional scales that represent this balance-loving sign. But if you listen for a while to the poetry that is the voice of Dr. Cornel West, Princeton Professor, philosopher, writer, civil rights activist, speaker and self-proclaimed “blues man”, you get…
This is just a preview of coming attractions. Saturn enters Libra on October 30th, 2009. The Cosmic Taskmaster hasn’t visited this region of the zodiac since the early 1980s. Before we look forward, let’s review some of the historical events and cultural themes we experienced back then. The last Saturn in Libra era saw worldwide…
Michael Moore’s latest film is called Capitalism: A Love Story. With Pluto moving back to direct motion on September 11th, 2009, the October release will come just in time for us to properly analyze the full measure of the current moment in history. “Green shoots” or not, oligarchy must loosen its grip in the next decade, or…
More Dispatches From the Pluto in Capricorn Era: Could the Global Meltdown Spark a Great Revolution?
Just another example of life imitating astrology here (via Alternet). If you’ve been following this blog since late 2007, you know that we’ve been talking about such issues since before the economy went bust. Everyday there are new memes in the universe and on the web, ones that support our hypothesis. As America experiences its 8th…
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