I’ve been following the tireless and brilliant Huffington Post blog tended to by one Nico Pitney all weekend. Of all the raw sources (Twitter, YouTube) I have found that Pitney’s edits are spot-on, always gripping, and full of empathy.
Tonight he posted a photograph from AP of protestors during the 1979 Revolution, again evoking the wildly uncanny astrology of this unfolding event. (Scroll down to 6 PM ET on June 16th). Saturn forces us to face our demons by shoving them into our face thirty years after our birth (and again thirty years later, if we didn’t get the message the first time). Watching Iranian youth spill into the streets of Tehran, screaming, shouting, pumping their fists, using their voices, demanding to be heard — I think of you who are now between 27 and 30 and how much you wish you could do the same. These brave souls are expressing and manifesting the absolute truth of the Saturn Return.
In Surviving Saturn’s Return, we quoted Carl Jung: “That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.” Right now that quote, writ large, is resonating on every corner of the globe. Even though the tyrannical regime in Iran is doing everything in their power to stop the revolution, they simply can’t win. They may have silenced all international media, but they have not been able to stop the protestors thus far.
What scares me most is that they’ll be tempted to bring down the black boot of Saturn (a planet not unfamiliar with fascism) in order to end this breakthrough moment during which the voiceless have found their collective voice. One video on Youtube showed masked soldiers in black uniforms beating protestors. We know at least seven have been shot. Hopefully that number will not grow larger. Eerily, seven is Saturn’s number.
Saturn’s most important lesson for all of us, at any age, is to be in the moment. It’s striking to see a nation under the influence of an intense Saturn return experiencing this phenomenon en masse. May their journey be safe and may their transformation be powerful.
