{"id":63072,"date":"2014-04-05T18:22:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T18:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theinnerwheel.com\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2014-04-05T18:22:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T18:22:44","slug":"mastery-and-the-art-of-saturn-part-four-the-second-saturn-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?p=63072","title":{"rendered":"Mastery and the Art of Saturn: Part Four, the Second Saturn Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just after we are challenged to sort out our internal direction once and for all (and to understand what we are here to learn in our lives, what we need to grow into), life throws another hurdle in our path.\u00a0 Hooray, another Saturn Return.\u00a0 Yippee.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, most of us have made friends with Saturn by now.\u00a0 Or at least, friendly acquaintances.\u00a0 Saturn is no longer the oppressor or authority figure.\u00a0 He is no longer the daddy who takes care of us or the responsibilities that we dread to shoulder.\u00a0 If all goes well, Saturn represents the duties that we perform willingly, the care we wish to give, the guidance that forms not only our own lives but the lives of others.\u00a0 Saturn represents what we have learned to do, and struggled to do, very well.<\/p>\n

At this point, Saturn can reward us.\u00a0 This transit can bring accolades, gifts and rewards for work well done.\u00a0 Work that we have honed over time.\u00a0 No one ever thinks of Saturn as a gift-giver, but I have seen more awards passed out during Saturn-dominant times than Jupiter phases.\u00a0 Saturn has been watching us over long years, and when he nods his approval it is often accompanied by something good for us in material terms.<\/p>\n

As always with Saturn, we are haunted by the tallying up of what we have achieved and what we have not.\u00a0 One of the big issues around this Saturn return, and one no one likes to talk about, is the notion of being resolved to the fate of where we are now.\u00a0 At this age we will most likely not become the DJ we wanted to be so much in our youth.\u00a0 We may never be an Olympic athlete or the CEO of a major corporation.\u00a0 We are unlikely to become a television celebrity or a rap artist.\u00a0 We need to breathe out now and say, “OK, let it go.”\u00a0 Part of the maturity of Saturn is knowing our limits, and no longer pushing ourselves to achieve what is unlikely.\u00a0 No one likes to admit it, especially in this culture and especially in America, but sometimes we have to let certain dreams go.\u00a0\u00a0 We have to learn that it’s okay to say, “All right, a certain part of my life is completed.\u00a0 Maybe next time.”\u00a0 A better question is “What did this mean to me and why?”\u00a0 And that can be the beginning of peeling off some very dead notions that allow the soul to breathe again.<\/p>\n

Now, after real examination, if we are still haunted, if there are notions and dreams we cannot give up, try as we might, then they need to be embraced, and that takes a lot more courage and gumption than letting go.<\/p>\n

The second Saturn return can be a shot in the arm for determination.\u00a0 We feel time pressing down on us and the clock is ticking.\u00a0 We may have a reawakening of ambition at this time, and become much more clear about what we can, can’t, or needn’t accomplish.\u00a0 Although the general thrust of this period (including the other major aspects that occur in our 50′s, which I have written about previously in this series) is about giving back and service, the second Saturn return is rather personal.\u00a0 What do I want to do, what do I need to do?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong>Saturn is always about the real human being and the real lives we lead.\u00a0 If we have needs unmet, or personal goals unaccomplished (whether or not they serve humanity in general) Saturn will tell us about them.\u00a0 Many planets and configurations are about getting beyond the “I.”\u00a0 Saturn is not one of them.<\/p>\n

On the whole, Saturn is about mastery.\u00a0 He wants us to be accomplished, he wants us to be wise, he wants us to be an authority on something.\u00a0 By the time of our second Saturn return, we should be experts on the sign and house Saturn is in, and the aspects to Saturn that give us the details of the story.\u00a0\u00a0 We can never spend\u00a0too much\u00a0time on Saturn in this lifetime–the more we know about the way Saturn works in our charts, the more liberated we become.\u00a0 If we have Saturn in the third, for example, our early life would not have been easy, we may have been repressed in our ability to communicate, yet as we mature we understand the importance of communicating what we know to be true.\u00a0 If Saturn has a square to Pluto from the 12th, part of that Saturn journey would be learning and communicating the fact that our ordinary lives are divine and that there is a divine, manifesting energy behind our thoughts.\u00a0 We would learn that we have much more influence over our environment than we initially thought.\u00a0 Pluto square Saturn would have insured that our lives and thought patterns would be periodically broken down and rebuilt in order to align the soul’s needs (Pluto) with the ego needs (Saturn).\u00a0 Not an easy task, but by the time of our Saturn return we should be effective in all these areas.\u00a0 We should have enough experience and wisdom\u00a0to make it of value to others.<\/p>\n

The good news about this Saturn return is that it is not, on the whole, the dreaded experience of the first return.\u00a0 Our first Saturn return bumps and bruises us because we are unexperienced in the world.\u00a0 The bumps and bruises of the second return come when we are too entrenched in it.\u00a0 If the day to day workings of our world swallow us up, and we cling to the past as if it were a life raft, then we are doomed to dwindle to nothingness in our later years.\u00a0 The key phrase\u00a0for the second Saturn return is, “Use it!”\u00a0 Work with what you know, pass it on, take your old knowledge and go down a new road with it, open up new vistas to master.\u00a0 If you need to, cut it down and cut it out. Saturn rewards the brave, the wise and the ambitious.\u00a0 The purest expression of Saturn combines all three.<\/p>\n

If we take this new beginning, if we refresh our souls by starting over in some way, we can reap great rewards during the next and last major aspect of the Renaissance decade–the progressed Sun in sextile to natal Sun. More on that next time.<\/p>\n

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  Just after we are challenged to sort out our internal direction once and for all (and to understand what we are here to learn in our lives, what we need to grow into), life throws another hurdle in our path.\u00a0 Hooray, another Saturn Return.\u00a0 Yippee. Fortunately, most of us have made friends with Saturn […]<\/p>\n

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