Auntie Moon

Have you ever stumbled while walking down the sidewalk because you weren’t watching what you were doing? Maybe you stepped right into a big gaping hole?

If you’ve been keeping up with the news about Saturn’s entry into Libra and the current Pluto in Cap square Saturn, you’ve been alerted to the strength of these placements and the caution you need to take to make them work for you instead of against you.

Pluto square Saturn

To err on the side of caution, this is to alarm you to watch where you’re going! There’s an open manhole with your name on it. The manhole pictured here looks a little too much like an open toilet seat to me, and that’s exactly where we don’t want to end up ~ down the toilet!

I hope you’ve kept up with Donna Cunningham’s incredible 3-part series, The Pluto-Saturn Preparedness Kit on Skywriter. You can see the whole list of articles in the series by clicking here. Read them. They’ll really help you get the cover back on that manhole.

If you read this blog regularly, you know I’m a huge fan of astrological symbolism. You can find an abundance of it just by looking around the very room you’re sitting in right now. Sometimes we need factual information to understand what’s happening in our lives. The cold hard facts are necessary to get a clear perspective on the all too obvious pitfalls that surround us. Being a lunar type, I automatically hone in on the feelings that accompany an issue or situation. Symbolism and metaphors help me process the facts and feelings as a whole.

Portia Nelson is the author of a poem that really seems to symbolize the Pluto/Saturn square, as well as Saturn’s transit through any house or by its contact with any of our natal planets. This poem is a warning based on life experience, and I’d bet all of us can recognize ourselves in her words.

There’s a Hole in My Sidewalk:
Autobiography in Five Short Chapters
by Portia Nelson

Chapter 1:
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost…
I am helpless.
It is not my fault.
It takes forever to find my way out.

Chapter 2:
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don’t see it.
I fall in.
I can’t believe I am in the same place.
But it isn’t my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.

Chapter 3:
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it there.
I still fall in…It’s a habit.
My eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.

Chapter 4:
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.

Chapter 5:
I walk down another street.

As observers, we stand back and watch people fall into holes over and over again. Sometimes it’s hysterical and we just stand back and laugh. The hole was so obvious! How could they miss it? Other times, we might try to warn someone ~ Watch out! ~ but our warning is too late or they don’t hear us, and in they go.

Sometimes it’s us that takes the fall. It was never on purpose, was it? That doesn’t really matter. The key is to learn from those pitfall experiences so that we don’t continue to make the same mistakes again and again. We walk down another street. But we’ve still got to keep our eyes open.

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Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.