These are hard times. The 24 hour news cycle keeps us up with the relentless death and despair in the Middle East. Innocent Lebanese citizens driven from their homes, Israelis hiding from a barrage of rockets in their bunkers — and Saturn has a role to play.
Israel is currently experiencing its second Saturn Return, and it’s a doozy. Created on the eve of May 14th, 1948, the nation is having a seriously dark mid-life crisis. In the country’s natal chart, Saturn lives in the tenth house of worldly affairs, in the constellation of Leo. Thirty years ago, during Israel’s first Saturn Return, it strived to resolve the issues it continues to struggle with today. In the chart of a nation or an individual, if you don’t get your Saturn Return right the first time and cleanse your karma properly, it comes back around to haunt you close to your 60th birthday. Syria invaded Lebanon thirty years ago, and soon after Israel followed. Much death and destruction has ensued over the last thirty years, despite peace treaties, despite retreats, the Middle East has continued to burn. The hisotry goes back thousands of years, but until Israel resolves its Saturn in Leo issues, we’re stuck in the mire that precedes what feels like WWIII. We don’t mean to suggest that the other Middle Easterm countries lack difficult charts and transits. Israel’s Saturn Return is exact in mid-August, when Saturn returns to 16 degrees of Leo. Watch for the news to get particularly difficult around that date (as if it could get worse). It’s time for a breakdown or a breakthrough, and we hope for the latter.
Collectively, we’re all dealing wtih issures of ego, power, domination, self-preservation, and at the core, self-love. Every indivdual born with Saturn in Leo is experiencing a war of the worlds at the micro-level. You’re not just watching Anderson Cooper on the border of Israel and Lebanon, bombs exploding behind him. The bombs are exploding in your heart, and if you don’t want to be at war with yourself in thirty years, we hope you heed Saturn’s lessons.
