Astrology and Anthroposophy

18 January 2008

Saturn Return

Recently a friend dropped in and said she needed to talk. She said that she felt that she has not been expressing who she really is and wants now to make some changes to her life. She described how she had led a gypsy-like existence when she was young and lived mostly in a caravan or other transitory domicile. When she got married and had children, she conformed more to usual conventions, living in a regular house etc. With these considerations in mind, we took a look at what the stars had to say.

Her birth chart shows the sign of Aquarius on the cusp of the fourth house and this would certainly fit with the unconventional home life that she preferred and had when she was younger.

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Current transit shows a Saturn return, which is when the planet Saturn returns to the place it occupied at her birth. Rudolf Steiner pointed out that during the life between birth and re-birth, a person goes through the various planetary spheres. It is when one is in the Saturn sphere, that one makes the decision to return to Earth. Then one condenses down through the spheres of Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury and finally Moon before being born. Saturn has to do with our karma and with our intentions for this life and this is indicated by its position at birth. The sign or constellation is important as well as the house position.

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A Saturn return is a time for a person to realign themselves with their pre-birth intentions. It is not surprising that our friend would, at this time, experience that she was not really being herself and want to make changes.


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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

in my solar system, we would just say she stopped being true to herself.

Adrian hall said...

So what should she do exactly?

Finbarr said...

King Leo: My friend would agree with you.

Adrian Hall: It is not for me to say what she should do and I think she knows herself what changes she wants to make.

Adrian hall said...

So, what was the point of doing an analysis if your not going to predict anything?

Finbarr said...

Adrian: I know astrologers are expected to do predictions but I am opposed to this. I like to use astrology as a help towards self-knowledge.

Adrian hall said...

I was under the impression that astrology had been shown to make correlation based predictions. I didn't see you make add any kind of knowledge in that analysis...

Finbarr said...

Adrian: You are right but that is not what I do. In this case it was sufficient for my friend that I could confirm that there was a synchronicity between what she was experiencing and what the stars had to say. People often need assurance that their experiences are real.

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