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Father Saturn Slow
Dancing with Mother Earth
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by Diana Stone |
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Dateline March 2004. This column is being written in early January 2004 for publication in March. Why is that? Because it will take that long for my eyelashes to defrost and if you were to read this during the winter months you would contract debilitating frostbite. Outside my house a fierce winter storm punches its time clock for the ninth straight day. An inch layer of ice is frosting over the multi-layered snow cake. Between typing the heading and this paragraph, my computer screen went black as the power, heat, lights and phones succumbed to nature's assault. Saturn is making its closest pass to the Sun and Earth. And Saturn rules over cold, ice and snow. Hell is reputed to be hot but now I know it is COLD.
Astrologically speaking
Saturn entered the sign Cancer in June 2003 and will exit in July 2005. Planets can behave like a car, racing forward at top speed or hitting the brakes, shifting into reverse and driving backwards. Backwards motion is referred to as retrograde motion in astrological jargon. Saturn is doing its backwards thing from October 2003 until March 8, 2004. Saturn rules over structure, organizing and reorganizing and putting things in order. That is what we should be about during the retrograde cycle and as it moves forward as you read this, projects should proceed with less teeth gnashing. You may have experienced frustrating delays for the past several months, which is typical of these periods. It has affected my life. It is like walking through tar to get anything off dead center.
Saturn is always about work, career, and responsibility and as a consequence of that…MONEY. You may think that since Saturn is in Cancer only the natives of that sign will deal with this cycle. You would be wrong. The dance with Saturn will waltz across many other horoscopes as well. You may not know what the old boy is up to in your own personal horoscope unless you ask your local astrologer. However, read on and see if any of these themes sound only too familiar.
Here is a technical point. All the twelve signs have their complementary opposite sign. They function in pairs like a North and South pole. Cancer and Capricorn are one of the pairs, so astrological goats take heed; any planets transiting Cancer arouses the energies of Capricorn along with it. Chiron, discovered in 1977, is making its passage through Capricorn, further energizing the teeter-totter between this pair.. Chiron is where we heal our deepest wounds. Altogether, this combination sets in motion some of the most dominant themes throughout this cycle.
Mommie Dearest and Company
Cancer and Capricorn are signs that relate to parents and our early family relationships. During this cycle many people have decisions to make about sometimes long standing family problems. This will be a time when these issues may come up for resolution and we either successfully heal them or decide that we have suffered enough and go on with our lives. The families that we have created in our adult life with partners and children may also come up for review if there are problems there as well. Remember, this does not apply only to people with Sun signs in Cancer and Capricorn.
Vocationally and Financially Speaking
Deciding about career and money is a very big deal in Saturn's domain. Pair it up with Cancer and Capricorn and that equals security, security and security. Many people are wrestling with loss of employment, disenchantment with their present employment and trying to decide what other options may be available. There is also a transit of the asteroid Vesta that conjoined Chiron ( a combination of spiritual healing) and I have a spate of clients who have an urge to do "energy healing" work or "spiritual" work.
Unless the person is established in some sort of healing practice I am usually fairly discouraging. This idea that somehow healing is spiritual work and other pursuits are not, is evidence of how much this culture is cut off from its fundamental spiritual roots. Everything is connected to Spirit. As for supporting oneself by "energy healing" or extremely alternative therapies with no background, no credentials and no network of possible clients, it is irrelevant how gifted one may be; the odds for financial success are very low. I have a widespread healing ministry myself and I know only too well what it takes to get established.
Saturn is not about waiting several years with no income to speak of while someone pursues a totally unrealistic healing vocation. Yes, the time is now. Get a day job and do something else as an avocation if you must. For this cycle, it really is a matter of "follow the money." Saturn is Mr. Practical Reality.
Psychologically Speaking
If you are unemployed and strapped for cash, I do a lot of my counseling work around the role models from childhood and subconscious messages that drive the outer life circumstances. It is not what the planets are doing after all; the dynamics of your inner life must be brought into light and dealt with if there is any hope of fundamentally changing you situation.
Saturn refers to the Father principle. First I ask my clients about their fathers, his career
experiences and family attitudes about money and work. A sharp counseling astrologer (think moi) will spot the patterns. Even if they don't, the most valuable service to clients is to carefully reorient them to the true source of the problem that being almost certainly coming from a belief that the subconscious is holding onto from childhood. They will often make the connections themselves.
A True Story From My Files
When I met Lanny as a first-time client, he was married with two children and a fairly successful architect at age 35. He had everything going for him, yet was in a deep depression, at times suicidal. His father had also been an architect, quite prominent in his field. The father committed suicide when he was 45 years old.
Lanny had two opposing themes in his chart. One was a strong Saturn/Capricorn emphasizing work, duty, responsibility and also the signature of depression. Obviously, this described the father as well. The other theme concerned a strong individuality, some rebelliousness against traditional values and decidedly strong freedom needs. Lanny spent some years as a young man generally rambling around the world. He picked up enough work here and there to finance his hippie lifestyle. It was later that he split off, went to college and followed the traditional route.
The problem here is that these two themes were mutually exclusive. It had to be freedom and no money or money, tradition, depression and death. The subconscious was seeing his overwhelming career and family obligations as a death threat. Fortunately, there was a happy ending. To his credit, Lanny worked through these issues with a therapist and passed the so-called cursed age of 45, demonstrating that things can change with some insight at the conscious level and realizing that the problem is not "out there."
Biblically Speaking
or
I Don't Think God Likes Poverty
I have some clients who are ambivalent about prosperity because of religious convictions. This is because of the biblical admonition about it being harder for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the gates of Heaven. To accept the entire English Bible as absolutely literally accurate is ludicrous. It was never written originally in English but in ancient languages and passed through many translations, mistranslations, deliberate alterations and so on. (I'll get bashed for this one.)
A university professor of Classical Languages whom I consult explains that the original passage more accurately translates to, "It is easier for a rope to pass through the eye of a needle than for a man with a materialistic attitude to enter the gates of Heaven." (My italics.) However, if you think that poverty is somehow a spiritual practice, go for it. As for me, I think having money is better than not having money. So I happily engage in pursuits in that direction.
Metaphysically Speaking
If you are not metaphysically inclined you may want to skip this part.
I do a great deal of shamanic work on a regular basis serving a clientele as a healer. I worked with a Spirit Teacher, Thomas, for about thirteen years until the early '90s. He left me to my own devices either because I had progressed to that point or because I was a hopeless case and he just gave up. I was not sure which. Some of you may be aware of the November 8, 2003 eclipse that came to be known as Harmonic Concordance, a day when high beings opened huge energy portals to Earth. For this momentous occasion, Thomas returned. He delivered a message on New Year's Day. He did not mention Saturn by name but it was unmistakably about Saturnian themes.
Thomas's message was a call to all light beings that it is now time to ground and demonstrate that we can utilize all of our experience and knowledge to demonstrate mastery on the physical plane.
This includes physical health, career decisions, prosperity and management of our time. If something isn't working, we are advised to stop in our tracks and work out a system and a solution. He talked about plugging energy leaks in our lives. He emphasized order in our home and work environments ala Feng Shui.
That is the challenge now and in the coming months at whatever level we want to accept it.
Next month Diana will begin a series of articles on the patterns and behaviors of the signs. The material will emphasize early childhood experiences that function on the subconscious level and project specific patterns into adult life situations. It may be disgustingly conventional, but the series starts with Aries in April. See if you recognize anyone YOU know.
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Diana Stone,
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& Huna Shaman
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Diana Stone began astrological studies in the 1960s under the tutelage of Charles Luntz, author of Vocational Guidance by Astrology.
In 1973, she established a private practice in Portland, OR. She serves a clientele that includes an extensive network of telephone clients.
Her book on the U.S. horoscope was published in 1976. In the early 90s she contributed to three anthologies published by Llewellyn Publishers and edited by Noel Tyl.
Diana has lectured extensively and is a popular keynote speaker. She delivered the keynote address at the United Astrology Conference in Orlando in July 2002.
She has been a student for over 30 years of Huna shamanism, the system practiced by ancient Polynesian kahuna. Huna Research, Inc. certified her as a teacher of the ancient lore.
Diana serves an extensive international clientele as a shaman specializing in soul retrieval. She and her brother formed a publishing company, Crystal Triangle Publishing, and the book they co-authored, The Lightbody Activation Manual, will be released in February 2003. Diana now resides in Vancouver, WA.
Diana Stone
12005 NW 14th Avenue
Vancouver, WA 98685
dianas@spiritone.com
www.DianaStone.com
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