Taoist Thunder Divination

Remember? That transit is hard to forget! And lingering! I’m still in the aftermath trying to rebuild, tho finding it hard to know what as, and with what… I think i ranted about my experience on another post with you, using words like “tumultuous”, “upheaval”, “uprooting”, and “endless crying”… tho to be fair, my moon is part of a T-square so the massive pulling-out-of-the-rug was also due to my natal Uranus opposition and multiple squares, including to Saturn & IC… And inconveniently, coincident with my Saturn opposition and also at the onset of peri-menopause – which i wasn’t aware of at the time. My Moon is Taurus 3′ in the 6th house (which explains the rest of my ramble about health & hormone craziness, tho the “unexpected occurrences” at the time were the uprooting of my Taurus Grandmother, and the sale/loss of her lovely home-sanctuary of 65 years, which i housesat on & off for the year-long duration of this transit. It was sold a week to the day of the third exact transit – and i’m still bitter about it! 😔).

A thought for another post (yet, here i am writing it on this one…🤔):

The Saturn opposition occurs at 43-44ish; the Uranus opposition around 43ish – both are crises, culminations, or challenges to how we have lived our lives in society thus far (as an over-simplification). I don’t think it’s a cosmic joke on women that this is also the average age of peri-menopause; i do think it’s a reflection of the big shifts in our sense of who we are in relations to society and womanhood, fertility, and our reasons for being. When i listen to women describe the symptoms & effects of peri-menopause on their mental & emotional wellbeing, their jobs, their relationships, self-esteem – everything – i am also listening through the lens of “Saturn opposition/Uranus opposition” – which in no way is to suggest that it’s not “real” (i’m living it and its very real), because Saturn is a very real planet. And yet, symptoms like hot flashes, sensations of ‘electrical shocks’ do seem very ‘Uranus opposition’, as well as the fact that it seems to come out-of-the-blue for many women (this is largely a failing of medical research & communication within patriarchal societies – also very Saturn/Uranus themes). Withdrawal from public view and professional life is very ‘Saturn opposition’, as are symptoms like hair loss, brittle nails & loss of bone density – and the onset of osteoporosis… For myself, i’ve dubbed this particular phase of my life “The Crumbling”… ahh sigh. I do feel like a block of old feta… (I am also now taking calcium, zinc, magnesium, Vit D3 & K2 supplements, among other things to delay the inevitable deterioration, and going against the grain – Uranus again – by increasing my dairy & seafood intake, after being vegetarian/mostly vegan since my first Saturn opposition).

Anyway, my point: as both a woman and an eternal student of astrology, i’m finding it very difficult – impossible perhaps – to separate the peri-menopausal transition from the Saturn/Uranus oppositions… In some ways it is comforting, and informing, to frame it this way. Where & how this plays out for women will vary depending on what houses are affected – for me it’s the 6th/12, and the IC/MC axis (in the 3rd/9th using equal house system).

The average age of menopause is 51 – roughly 7 years after the disruption & crumbing of the Uranus/Saturn oppositions, and the peri phase, which is both at the Saturn square, and… the Chiron return! Chiron is of course the ‘bridge’ between Saturn & Uranus (along with consort Chariklo), representing the integration of these two distinct planetary energies, and opening the gates to liberation. Many menopausal women speak of feeling ‘liberated’ post-menopause… another coincidence? I think not. Something to hold on to to look forward to at the end of this slog anyway…!

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Anyway, that’s my essay/journal/therapy session for the day! Probably shouldn’t have had that second coffee… 😏 😆⚡️⚡️🤐