Saturn ~ Thinking Outside the Rings

Our good friend Saturn will soon be turning retrograde at 29° Libra and back peddling through the sign of balanced effort from February 8th through June 25th. He’ll trace his steps back to 22.46° Libra before turning direct again.

A few months of “think it over” are looming large.

Saturn represents structure and limitation. We can think of Saturn’s rings as the boundaries he uses to protect us. They are fences built not to keep us in, but to keep the seemingly dangerous and harmful out. The closer those rings are to the planet, the smaller our world becomes. In order to broaden our view and our ability to perform, we need to think outside the rings. The retrograde period is a very good time to do just that.

What do you stand to gain by moving your fences out a bit? Will unnecessary inhibitions allow you more freedom if you think beyond the rings? If you have difficulties with boundaries that are too loose, how might you benefit by moving the rings in?

What you are being asked to think over is dependent upon the house of your chart that Saturn is now transiting. Briefly,

1	Physical being, personality
2	You money and possession
3	Communication and education
4	Home and family
5	Pleasure, romance and family
6	Work, hygiene, service and routines
7	“Marriage,” long time relationships and enemies
8	Sex, debt, and “death”
9	Personal philosophy, religion, extensive travel
10	Career and authority
11	Friends, networks, your future
12	Illness, martyr or savior, spirituality

 For more meanings of the houses, click here.

If transiting Saturn is aspecting any planets in your chart, he is pointing them out to you. How does having that planet fenced in feel? Safe, too close for comfort, completely bound? The retrograde period is a good time to think over that planet’s function in your chart. How’s it working for you now that Saturn has visited? Do you need to move the rings out or bring them in? Maybe you’ve passed Saturn’s little pop quiz in Libra, are satisfied with your results, and can move forward contentedly. I certainly hope so. I know I have more work to do and will use the retrograde to think carefully and wisely. (See 2011 in Review ~ Rate Your Planets to help evaluate your efforts so far.)

On October 6th, Saturn will leave the balancing scales of Libra for the intense waters of Scorpio. The conclusions we draw while Saturn is retrograde and the actions we take as Saturn returns to forward motion will impact our life for a long while.

Perhaps the most important thing to remember with Saturn is that he really doesn’t want to punish us. He wants to reward us. He wants us to be the very best we can be and he sees great potential in all of us. We can accomplish a lot in the next nine months while Saturn remains in Libra. We have plenty of time to set the posts straight in our fences and think over just how improved life can be outside the rings.

The Devil’s Finger

I’d like to experiment a little with a two-card reading using the tarot Devil (Saturn) and one other card from The Victorian Flower Oracle. I’ll choose three questions to be reprinted in posts with your comments. If you’re a subscriber to Auntie Moon via FeedBurner or WordPress, you can submit your question for a possible reading. I’ll select questions that I think other readers can relate to as Saturn makes its last retrograde through Libra.

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