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The Year Ahead,
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Last month's column was mostly about the planet Uranus and its entry into Pisces later this year. The other slow-moving planet to change signs in 2003 will be Saturn, the planet of form and structure. Saturn has a twenty-nine year cycle. That's how long it takes to go around the Sun and to move through the twelve signs of the zodiac. Traditional astrology wasn't very kind to Saturn, as it was called the Greater Malefic, the major planetary bad guy. It was associated with limitations and loss, restrictions and reversals. Fortunately, modern astrology has a more balanced view of Saturn, recognizing its positive potentials as a planet of form, structure, order and discipline.
Saturn has spent the last two years in Gemini and will remain there until June 3 when it enters the sign of Cancer. Gemini is an adaptable air sign, one associated with the mind, perception and communication. Cancer is a cardinal water sign, connected with emotional roots and foundations. A good way to understand Saturn is to think of the principle of crystallization or taking form. In a negative sense, this is about getting stuck, it's the frozen force of fear keeping us from moving on in our lives. It's also guilt, the deformed sense of responsibility that doesn't build character, but limits its development through punishing self-judgment. Yet we also need form, we need to crystallize ideas to turn them into reality, which is Saturn's gift. Manifestation is about forming energies into coherent units. It is about building substance and sustaining identity.
I describe Saturn as the planet that says "no," but means "yes." When it challenges planets in our charts we often encounter obstacles, both internal and external. But these doubts and barriers help us define the tasks we must accomplish to reach our goals. Saturn is usually responsive to a plan that is enacted with commitment and focus. It rewards intelligent effort with measurable results.
Saturn in Gemini, then, is a period in which we are meeting the limits of this sign so that we can find new structures to support its higher purpose. Gemini's limits include duplicity, a short attention span and language as a means to hinder communication, rather than to support it. Perhaps we're all encountering our duality with Saturn in the sign of the Twins. Don't we all have mixed motivations, as well as elements of courage and fear? The painful separation of Saturn, though, can place a barrier between our various contradictions, a disconnect that keeps us from synthesizing the pieces of our reality into a coherent whole. The potential, however, is to honor the multiplicity of life by acknowledging that reality can be seen differently depending upon where one stands. Truth is not an absolute, because there is no one place from which to see it. Walt Whitman, the great poet, was a Gemini who wrote, "Contradict myself. Of course, I contain multitudes." It is this embrace of our multitudinous selves that gives power and meaning-through connection-where previously one part was in denial about the other. Seeing the many pieces, not as a shattered psyche or schizophrenic world, but as a colorful collage of human expression, splits the beams of prejudice through the prism of multiplicity.
Saturn's entry into Cancer adds a new set of challenges and opportunities. Traditionally, Saturn is not comfortable in Cancer, the sign of its detriment (opposite its home sign of Capricorn). The difficulty is in blending the structuring forces of earthy Saturn with the fluid nature of watery Cancer. Saturn can repress emotions in Cancer, cutting off the instinctive senses of need and nurturing that are essential to growth and development. Not knowing what one needs often leads to selfishness rather than fulfillment. The fear of not having enough is a logical outgrowth of being disconnected from sources of nurturance. A baby who whose mother isn't responsive compensates by creating patterns of self-care that are rooted in distrust, not only of the world, but of oneself.
Collectively, Saturn and Cancer can manifest as heightened nationalism in an attempt to seal borders against external dangers. This, of course, does not increase security or safety since what is missing is what we cannot give ourselves, rather than something that can be taken from us by others. The "no" of Saturn in Cancer is a refusal to feel inside, to acknowledge the natural ebb and flow of human emotions. The internal danger is externalized against the enemies "out there."
The United States, born on the Fourth of July, is a Cancer, as is its president. The transit of Saturn through Cancer, then, is particularly important to its identity. The last time Saturn entered Cancer was when the word "Watergate" became famous in 1973. Prior to that Saturn hit Cancer in June 1944 as American troops landed in Normandy. In August 1914 World War I was heating up when Saturn entered this sign. Noble defense of nation and ignoble defense of power have both been part of this planetary transit. We now face another round of individual and collective choices.
The "yes" of Saturn in Cancer is a healthy awareness of our own emotions. It is an honoring of our own subjectivity, the unique set of conditions that colors all of our thoughts and feelings. The acknowledgment of individual experience places us in a historical context that offers perspective on the past, present and future. Owning our feelings doesn't mean that we give ourselves license to act on every one of them. With Saturn's sense of responsibility we are able to acknowledge what we feel in a way that recognizes the difference between healthy needs and neurotic habits. The way to do this in not stand in judgment, ready to repress the enemy of emotion. It is to watch the river flow like a caring mother able to balance her desire to protect her child with a greater interest in helping it grow.
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Jeff Jawer,
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Jeff Jawer is well known in the astrological community as an innovative and dynamic teacher, writer and counselor. He is the CEO and co-founder of StarIQ.com.
Jeff holds a B.A. in "The History and Science of Astrology" from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and lectures at astrology conferences throughout the world.
His scores of articles have appeared in astrology journals in over a dozen countries and in five books.
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