Sarah, Plain and Tall is the story of learning to love someone over time (Saturn).
As a general rule, we don’t see Saturn as having anything to do with love, especially “True Love”—that belongs to lovely Venus and oh-so-romantic Neptune. However Saturn in Libra, the sign of partnerships and one-on-one relationships, can move beyond the legalities and into the arena of love.
A Saturn kind of love starts with commitment and is built upon a foundation of common interests and needs rather than soulful looks and candlelit dinners for two. In the film Sarah, Plain and Tall, Sarah travels from New England to the Midwest to marry a widowed farmer with two children. It is the story of learning to love someone over time. Sarah (Glenn Glose) was a spinster who answers an ad placed in a newspaper by Jacob (Christopher Walken), who is looking for a new wife to look after his children and take care of their home. Since this is just a story, the two people come to love each other after undergoing many trials and tribulations, and all ends well.
If you think this story has no relevance to today, think about all those folks who meet online in various and sundry matchmaking sites and end up arranging to meet in real life. The key is being as honest and open as is humanly possible with yourself and your potential partner … no rose-colored glasses allowed! Another thing to keep in mind is one of Saturn in Libra’s favorite solutions, and that is compromise.
With Saturn, there is always the danger of rigidity and behaving in a cold, authoritarian manner—a manner which is often used to disguise underlying feelings of insecurity and fear of rejection. As a means of sabotaging budding relationships, both tactics are quite effective. Moving past our fears and allowing ourselves to be vulnerable opens the door to unconditional love, Saturn-style.
Saturn does encourage us to learn to accept ourselves warts and all, but it does take effort to get there. The beauty of learning to accept ourselves with unflinching honesty and an open heart is that we become far, far better potential partners. No doubt this is part of why Saturn is exalted in Libra.
When we grow to deeply love first ourselves and then another under Saturn’s tutelage, it is often after our first Saturn Return, when hopefully we have gained a measure of maturity. Please bear in mind the old adage, “the stars incline, not compel,” and that we always have free will to choose to either pass on Saturn’s lessons or learn from them.
For now, we can contemplate the possibility that there is another path to love, strewn with boulders but ultimately rewarding. So set aside the Twilight series and watch Sarah, Plain and Tall instead, and entertain the idea of living for love instead of dying for it. Hey, Saturn will be in Libra until October 2012, so we have time (also a Saturn thing)!
This post is republished by permission of the author and originally appeared at Libra Seeking Balance.
About the Author
Diane Lang (a.k.a. Neith) has been a student of astrology for more years than she cares to think about. With Libra being the sign of both her Sun and Moon, her main area of interest is the astrology of relationships. Chiron conjuncting her Sun has been instrumental in learning through relating, too. She is happily self-employed as a full-time astrologer, and blogs at Libra Seeking Balance.