| Though naturally there are other elements and factors emphasised along the way, the biggest news in any astrological overview of your year ahead must be the return of Saturn to your sign. With its initial arrival on October 29, 2009 and with a complete cycle from beginning to end of something under thirty years around the complete zodiac, this will be first time Saturn has been in your constellation since August 1983. It stays to set the background theme for the coming years in your horoscope, remaining with a few months away through to October 2012… For some idea of what this means, you could cast your mind back to the early eighties and to the first part of that decade especially. Don’t look for precise correlations, more the sort of occurrences that were happening at around the same time, because it’s these that’ll see their symbolism echoed during the weeks and months ahead. Saturn has often wrongly had a fearsome press from many less well informed students of the stars, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be this way if you’re working with the issues highlighted and embracing a wiser perspective that covers a longer period of time. Typically this planet works well with the principles of your constellation and is said to be exalted in this position, while its transit suggests a positive and constructive outcome with a little forethought and application on your behalf. |
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| Nonetheless, it’s important to recognise this very significant juncture, not necessarily marked by one event especially, but more in terms of the ongoing scenario and the accumulated symbolism of the portents surrounding it. This is one of only a handful of times you’ll ever experience this intensely, so while related changes can appear threatening and like something you don’t need, this period constitutes a major opportunity to be grasped and also welcomed. What you start now and the structures that you put in place, will set the basic framework for the next cycle of Saturn around your entire birthchart, so have at their core your motivations for advancement and achievement on a whole range of levels over the next thirty years or so. It is vital therefore to be ready to question and assess almost everything before you even start, to strip your life down to its fundamental constituents and move forward only with those factors and criteria that definitely maintain relevance, that after careful and frank consideration have proven still capable of playing their part. Saturn has often been described as pruning out the dead wood from the tree of your life, apparently quite drastically in the first instance, but with spectacular consequences over the longer term. You’ll be able to look back eventually and to appreciate with hindsight, what has since been able to flourish and to develop unhindered in place of those things leaving the frame now, with whatever comes along subsequently unfettered by any useless and ineffectual reminders of the past, that nowadays only burden and hold you back. It’s a process you won’t see the benefit of straight away, until maybe as many as fifteen or so years later in some cases, with a point of culmination at the halfway peak of the next Saturn circuit. Meanwhile Saturn only directs its full eliminative force at those things that have previously been badly weakened or that maybe have ceased existing in anything but name or principle. |
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| Much of this process you’ve already needed to come to terms with, as Saturn in Virgo helped to clear away the backlog of the failed, outworn and irrelevant since the last quarter of 2007. Interests, friendships, closer relationships, career concerns, hopes, ambitions and ways of life all benefit in one way or another from Saturn’s attention, so while initially it seems alarming, disorientating and regrettable to discover the extent of the winding up process this planet has in store for you, anything strong and firm enough to survive a period of trial with sufficient vigour and substance continues onwards and upwards, simply proving more effective, efficient and solid as a consequence of the ordeal. Life from here assumes the feeling of a completely fresh start, minus the detritus that nowadays you no longer require. Do what you can over the next year to move this process along, consciously deciding on the areas, interests and people you’d still like to focus on going forward. To begin with there might seem little on the horizon to take the place of what is currently moving out of your everyday experience, but this is only temporary and not a situation that’s going to persist. Especially where your closest and most intimate relationships are concerned, you can expect the coming years to bring enormously transformative and influential encounters your way, but only once there is room for them and you are truly looking forward to a fitting and satisfactory future, not around you at where you are already, or back from where you came… |
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