We’ve endured two-and-a-half years of Saturn’s celebrity-obsessed transit through Leo, the sign of divas and drama-queens. Enough about Britney, Paris and Lindsay, says Big Daddy Saturn: let’s get serious. The hyper-superficiality of recent times is on the wane. At the personal and collective level, Saturn in Virgo gets us pure, or tries to. As with any Saturn transit, the more you fight it, the more it holds firm and forces you to deal with its lessons and truths.
Revelations to come are all about using discrimination; no more painting broad strokes like we did under big-picture Leo. The nitty-gritty is here to stay for the next two-and-a-half years. Our leaders will be forced to do their due-diligence, or hit the road. Same for us; especially those of us born between approximately 1978 and 1981, or the early 1950s. The first reverberations of your Saturn Return kick up in the next few weeks. (Stay tuned for more details on what to expect in the coming months.)
Al Gore has been sounding the alarm on the fate of our planet for years, but he’ll be pleased to see how Saturn in Virgo finally gets the populace to serious work on cleaning our air, dealing with climate change, and going organic. Virgo is the sign of the body, of health and healing; when Saturn moves into this constellation our awareness turns toward purification at a personal and global level. Thus, all the recent talk about health care programs is astrologically appropriate. People will begin to grow and buy local, or Saturn will force a reckoning. Michael Moore’s smash hit Sicko, about the ills of the health care industry, is just the beginning of the exposure of the dirt and grime beneath our collective fingernails. Ditto for lead paint in Chinese toys, poison in pet food (Virgo rules domestic animals, also why the Michael Vick story is getting so much attention), and the recent coal mining story in Utah. That industry is yet another underbelly about to be scrutinized, and hopefully drawn, quartered and regulated by the Democratic congress. If they fail to act, they’ll be Saturnized right out of office. The public is going to demand a clean bill of health.
There are plenty of things to get neurotic about in the coming years. (Woody Allen doesn’t have a thing on anxiety-ridden, nervous-Nelly Virgo). Start with all forms of bio-terror and get your knickers in a twist about toxic waste and nuclear accidents. The good news? Saturn is much more at home in Virgo than it was in Leo — he has less to complain about. He just wants us to read the fine print.
Leo rules the heart — and Katrina, the major event of our Saturn in Leo journey, broke many. When Saturn enters Virgo on September 2nd, we’ll find thousands still suffering, still sick, and in need of deephealing. When Saturn last transited Virgo, “No Nukes” activism began in earnest, and started getting major media attention. Peak oil is about to become the new cultural buzzword, no longer the most censoredstory. The oil industry, the dirtiest of them all, is about to face its final battle. The last gas crisis, under Saturn’s transit through Leo and Virgo in the late 70s, was nothing compared with what’s to come. SUV’s are over; I wish I could say the same thing for war.
**Also unnerving is the fact that the Shah of Iran was deposed during the last Saturn in Virgo transit — the Islamic Revolution is about to go through its first Saturn Return. Um, yikes?
