I was out walking early this morning, taking in the calm before the city wakes up. It’s been raining here for a good few days and the lilac’s which usually fade so quickly are still fresh and fragrant and lovely. Even spring can be prolonged, it seems. Of course, spring is a re-occurring thing, something we take for granted but which most of us enjoy.
In the same way our lives have cycles and they are often directly related to the returns in our charts. Saturn comes around every 12 years or so, and makes us take stock, ask tough questions. How did the road I chose to walk every day and the responsibilities that came with it, effect me and my life? Is it still going in the direction I want to? Also, if we have been negligent Saturn will hold us responsible. Take for example Arnold Schwarzenegger. His Sun/Saturn parallel (in the declinations) magnifies any mistakes he makes exponentially. Even worse for him it seems his son was the conceived when he was in the midst of a Uranus opposition to his natal Sun. A guarantee that the liaison would become public and the damage to his reputation is the opposition of Saturn to Uranus.
The grim reaper was not happy with his lack of control and would sooner or later hold him accountable. Add Pluto to the mixture (secrets, obsessions, risk-taking) and you just know it would not end well. Seems we really have to watch what we do with our seven year itch, which is of course the length of time is takes Uranus to make hard transits to it’s birth position.
Being honest can be really difficult because sometimes the truth hurts, even devastates, like when you’re told the one you love wants to be free again. But being told the truth is also being shown respect and being given the opportunity to retain your dignity.
Being lied to is much more damaging. Truth fosters trust, closeness and an honest chance at making important choices about our lives. And life changes. So do our feeling, because we change. Sometimes relationships reach a natural end and we enter into a fall and a winter in our lives. Spring returns, though, every year.
In our lives, the one thing we can always count on is change. Change is hard, but I’ve found that by making responsible decisions, even the most trying times can end on a good note. And you don’t have to believe in spring for it to come around. You do, how-ever, have to open your senses in order to be able to take it in. Don’t live in the sun wearing a heavy winter jacket just because life changed. Adapt to the season. Life can still be way beyond awesome if you give it a chance.
