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073-saturn-girlSaturn Girl

I love the basic description of Saturn Girl as “a talented telepath from the 30th Century.”

I am so totally loving Saturn, even though the planet is opposing my Venus right now. As you can read in Saturn Crashes The Uranus-Venus Club and the Saturn-Venusian Transits Bad Boys Thingie if you are having a Uranus transit to any point in your chart in the next month, Saturn is along for the smackdown. But this is a GOOD thing.

It need not be Venus of course – whatever is betweeen 20 to 26 degrees of any sign but especially the Mutable signs (Virgo, Pisces, Gemini, Saggo) is being affected. In fact, more than that, it’s been caught between Saturn and Uranus.  My mind is on this at the moment partly because i am doing the Saturn-Uranus-Mercury Retro mini-astro-queries but also because i have this Saturn opposing my Venus thing going on & I have decided TWO MAJOR THINGS;

Thing One; Saturn is not boring. Yes i often link the planetary influence with mortality, taxes blah de blah. But the other night, when i turfed out the Uranian, it felt fabulous. Like having an inner suave life coach – setting boundaries seemed suddenly SO simple & easy. And just because he’d turned up out sans warning, i didn’t let my Venus-Neptunian goo-goo urges take over and render the whole thing “passionate” or (worse) fated. Quite frankly it is that sort of sentiment that leads to an awful lot of women snivelling into the cracked tea-mug they’re drinking warm gin out of as they gaze out of their rusty window frame at the railway tracks. Not that the U would have taken me there, but you get my point. Channel Saturn to prize your health, wealth & wisdom. Saturn is cool. And given that the pantheon is overwhelmingly male, i am visualising Saturn as Saturn-Girl for the moment. It works for me and it might work for you too.

Thing Two; Yes, Saturn and Uranus are moving into an opposition at the moment (and it’s back next April so how you do September’s one determines 2010 a LOT) but it need not be a battle between the two. What if they get along really well & help one another? The other night with the U is not just me being an indulgent confessional blogger – it works as an example because Venus was trining Uranus and sextiling Saturn. So it was an actual Saturn-Uranus opposition test/issue. Okay so Saturn works by setting boundaries & saying this isn’t good enough and so on – Uranus was simply bored by the whole thing. I seriously felt like it was a groundhog situation. Almost like we had been scripted and were just revving up for take 57 of the same stupid scene. Not good. Uranus on its own might grok the boredom and attempt to liven things up via a dash of chaos or acting out but Saturn kicks in and says ‘kill it’ – no dramas, no worries & now pixter your teeth, bung on some antioxidant serum & go happily to a rejuvenatory sleep.

So far as boundaries go, Saturn-Girl is set and forget. No agonising. No insomnia. No Neptunian musings re karma drama.

AND: One of my fave astro books – The Gods Of Change, by Howard Sasportas -  makes the point that Neptune always benefits from a little Saturn. So if you’re Venus in Pisces, Venus in 12th House or Venus aspecting Neptune (a la me) then you will love a good Saturn transit to your Venus, you truly will.

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Yes, you can indulge yourself during a Saturn transit but it will be on something like this – an alarm clock. So Saturn, so apt. I have been getting up most mornings at 5.30am to get everything done & i had this awful old bitch of an alarm clock that i’d gotten from the newsagency, thoughtlessly. It had an alarm noise that actually was alarming & was woefully inaccurate.  My Saturn revelation was along the lines of why not keep time (remember Saturn is aka Chronos/Kronos the God of Time) with something beautiful, accurate and maybe even spiritual.

Enter my new Now & Zen alarm clock.  Guys these things are amazing. And no they’re not paying me to say that, I ordered mine the other day and it arrived within a few days. It is said to aid in dream recall and proper brainwaves upon awakening by progressively chiming the Pythagoros endorsed E note and the ten minute cycle of increasingly frequent beautiful chimings equates to the Golden Mean.

“…The interval between chime strikes thus diminishes from within itself according to the Golden Mean. The self-accumulating growth which is the essence of the Golden Mean finds its most elegant natural expression in a golden spiral. A golden spiral is on which grows narrower as it turns inward. Nautilus shells, galaxies, whirlpools and even your fist are examples of golden spirals. The progession of the Zen Alarm Clock chime forms an audible golden spiral. The clock thus echoes nature’s expression of divine harmony as it provides for a progressive awakening.”

It is heaven & though this is the first morning i have used it, the dream recall & morning mood situation is already way enhanced. I love how it is at the haute end of Saturn in Virgo…all that cosmic precision.

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Oh well, at least the planet LOOKS good…But guess what? If you are a member of the Uranus-Venus Club - that is, your Venus is between 22 and 29 degrees of ANYTHING but especially a Mutable Sign such as Virgo, Pisces, Gemini, Saggo – you are having a Saturn-Venus transit as WELL as Uranus Venus.

Uranus-Venus is weird yet emancipating & youthifying- see the above link for a rant re THAT. Saturn-Venus is a tad more sombre, obviously. I am having it at the moment and there is an infuriating nostalgia. Not the wisteria infused nostalgia of Neptune nor even the oh-my-godding of a Uranian flash. It’s just Saturn so more like a forensic analysis – totally unbidden – and recognition of long term patterns or themes in all relationships. Saturn telling Venus to shape up, be mature etc. Yick!

But Saturn is trundling along quite quickly now & so if Saturn has crashed your Uranus-Venus club, the ’stock-taking’ sober-socks phase of your love life is done by November & you are left with just Uranus zinging about.

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Saturn…such a Spunk! Who knew? Maybe i should change my description of him to “time-stud Saturn…”????  Would that mean he’d leave off for half an hour?  Saturn opposite Venus is up there with Saturn square Moon. Hard Saturn aspects (squares, oppositions) to squishy planets/Moon are tricky.  Whereas Saturn & Mars (sort of) can get along. I mention that because Mars is now squaring Saturn until next Tuesday…

I was actually trying to find a really cool pic of Saturn and Mars together. Or, as the Greeks say, Chronos and Ares…but there aren’t any…I think they would have mostly communicated by interpreter.

Mars: We go now and we go in hard.

Saturn: Shut up, clean your house, floss your teeth and it’s great that you can do  a thousand chin ups but have you had a shower today? Would it kill you to polish your armour?

Mars: Fuq that shit man, go hard or go home. Ain’t nobody disses with me and I am gonna…W.T.F?

Saturn: Do you have a strategy? The horse of enthusiasm requires the bridle of sobriety and…

Mars: Fuq yeah! My strategy is to hit ‘em hard. Semper Fi and to the brink dude. We’ll have a drink after the fight, you and me, you will…

You get the idea. Anyway I could not find a pic of them together though i now know that an awful lot of wizardy-computer-roleplay game thingies love Saturn/Chronos as a character & so do heavy metal bands. Would you want a guitar shaped like a scythe? Me neither.

Chronos is also where we get the words chronometer, chronological and crone…IN case you did not know.  BTW, the Piscean Moon – for most of the weekend – is often a fab one for dipsomania but don’t forget Monday morning is hardcore Mars-Saturn. ie; you will want to be up early, clean, gleaming, alert & liver-toned.

Who likes Time-Stud Saturn???