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This essay continues my\u00a0series of my Saturn transiting through the houses, which is, so far the twelfth<\/a>, first<\/a>, second<\/a> and now third. I’m\u00a0about\u00a01\/3 of the way through, and this is my current report.<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n My second house Saturn<\/a> journey appeared straightforward at first, but in hindsight not at all. The second house holds our gifts, talents and skills; these are the resources we have – material, spiritual and emotional – and these can be liabilities when they are under developmental tension,<\/em>\u00a0receiving hard aspects in our natal chart. I have natal Neptune in my second house quincunx my Cancer Sun.<\/p>\n Within a month of Saturn\u00a0entering my third house, which also coincided with my Uranus opposition, a Pluto-Moon transit (and transiting Saturn was also being squared by Neptune), I went from being highly sensitive to a\u00a0full-on\u00a0Empath<\/a>. I have no idea why or how this happened, just that I became overwhelmed\u00a0by emotions that weren’t mine. Saturated by external environmental energies I didn\u2019t know how to manage, this\u00a0created a lot of anxiety, uncertainty and at times, terror. Because I didn’t know how to deal with other energies in\u00a0my energy body, all kinds of emotional and spiritual crises ensued. Surviving adversity is a transiting second house Saturn theme.<\/p>\n With\u00a0new survival needs, helpers and guides often appear during our Saturn second transit and this can necessarily extend into the third house time. Which brings me to today. I’ve had to develop new skills<\/strong>, to understand my environment<\/strong>, to work with my mind<\/strong>, and to learn<\/strong> – the subject of Saturn\u2019s transit through the third house.<\/p>\n Traveling in New Third House Territory<\/strong><\/p>\n Imagine an 80 mph car ride on a three lane highway; you are driving, navigating, sometimes moving\u00a0too quickly to think about what you\u2019re seeing. That’s the third house:\u00a0Quick. Adaptive. New information and data.<\/em>\u00a0Questions. Improvisation.<\/em> But now\u00a0Saturn’s sitting shotgun, going\u00a0“Slow down. Did you see that!<\/em>? Why did you turn there??, forever\u00a0offering\u00a0instructive advice, in the way Saturn does- by giving you hard reality-check\u00a0experiences, like\u00a0seeing\u00a0where you’ve\u00a0taken a wrong turn into a bad neighborhood.<\/p>\n With transiting Saturn now in the third house, our mental, spiritual or physical environment is being made brand new. As\u00a0with any new environment in which we find our self, we\u2019ve got to understand the lay of the land, how things work here, to get any mastery. Imagine your first day of school, you\u00a0know you’re expected in\u00a0first period but you have no idea how to get there.\u00a0How to\u00a0orient yourself? During Saturn’s transit here it becomes ultra important to figure things out.<\/p>\n \u201cIf we must travel beyond our known territory, then a guide or at least a map is necessary. Instinctive survival in an unknown land is unreliable at best, so we often find that when Saturn is transiting the third house we become obsessed with detail. It is necessary to develop one\u2019s mind so that it becomes more capable of making subtle distinctions…\u201d – Erin Sullivan, Saturn In Transit<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Anxiety is a common third house experience. We feel uncertain as we reach out into a\u00a0new environment. Even if we’re in the same place,\u00a0feel we’ve never been “here”, before\u00a0– not exactly. One way through the fear\/anxiety of a third house Saturn transit is by getting intimately specific and discerning about our concrete experience,\u00a0examine\u00a0how our mind is interacting with what is happening in the here and now.\u00a0Saturn\u00a0asks us to deliberately slow down to examine our mental perceptions, thoughts, awareness, to focus on how we relate to mind, itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n For instance, I\u2019ve noticed my tendency to doubt, to\u00a0question things without examination. A doubt or fear comes up, and I swat away at it like a fly, dismissively saying, \u201cOoh, that\u2019s not true…\u201d yet when I dismiss my concerns I lose center, get\u00a0conflicted, and my energy field becomes vulnerable to picking up others\u2019 energetic junk. Instead, if I sink into the mental doubt and ask: Okay, what\u2019s my question? Is this the right approach to take? Do I really believe this? etc… let me feel into this. Then I’m free to answer from a deeper place of knowing.<\/p>\n Getting An Education<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cOne could consider the third house transit an education, no matter how it presents itself in events, circumstances, feelings. This education might be obvious, or subtle.\u201d – Erin Sullivan, Saturn in Transit<\/em><\/p>\n Since Saturn casts a stark, sometimes unwelcome light on our mind, self-defeating mental habits, negative thoughts can happen.\u00a0You don\u2019t want to take this so seriously that it paralyzes you, but use it to inform you about areas that you can take action on. For instance, I’ve\u00a0had periodic insecurity\/fear about my knowledge. In my childhood home, there was only room for one person\u2019s knowledge and enlightenment- my father – and yet understanding this,\u00a0energetically, during this time has\u00a0freed me up to separate my energy from his, to clear it.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve also been working with a helper who is literally teaching me how to work with my mind and the energy of my environment. I’m\u00a0in elementary school again.\u00a0I’m\u00a0mentally training\u00a0myself to\u00a0notice how my\u00a0environment and perceptions interact, and I have to be super-conscious, because a slip in thinking, or lapse of unawareness, can leave my energy body open to gunky environmental energies. As my\u00a0environment challenges me, I receive direct feedback (either I\u00a0feel bad, or I feel good) on how I’m doing with my\u00a0learning. The\u00a0third house throws new stuff at us, calling\u00a0on our\u00a0improvisational abilities.\u00a0Saturn offers fairly instant\u00a0feedback, letting us know where we stand.<\/strong>\u00a0It’s\u00a0all very in-the-moment that way.<\/p>\n As\u00a0Rob Hand says of this transit, in his\u00a0Planets In Transit<\/em>, \u201cThe main issue you will confront at this time is the actual structuring of your mind and how it operates on a day-to-day level, in other words, your everyday mental patterns, attitudes, habits, styles of speaking and ways of listening to others. Normally you take these issues for granted…They are very important in structuring your world.\u201d<\/p>\n Siblings, Your Neighborhood and Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cYou may have trouble with people in your immediate environment, especially relatives and close neighbors.\u201d -Rob Hand<\/p>\n Environment has been a huge theme for me so far Since my relationship with my sibling is private, I\u2019m not going to go into much detail with this but to say that this transit can bring up sides of your relationship that you\u2019d pushed aside, or not thoroughly examined till now. Saturn shines a cold, hard, ultimately clarifying light on all third house matters, so naturally our sibling relationships are under his scrutiny. Saturn’s\u00a0sober clarity gives invites us\u00a0to drop any unrealistic expectations or wishes we\u2019ve had for our siblings\u00a0to be anything other than what they are.<\/strong> It\u2019s tough. Siblings always bring up our shadow side, as they often carry\u00a0the self-parts we wish we\u2019d been (we\u2019re the smart one; they\u2019re the beautiful one, etc.), or we dump our shadow onto them (they\u2019re the materialistic one; we\u2019re the spiritual one, etc.). If we want them to be someone other than who they actually are, we will face that now, maybe in unpleasant ways, or perhaps in more subtle ways that draw this realization out.<\/p>\n Thinking & Knowing<\/strong><\/p>\n The promise of the Saturn third house transit may be the acquisition of new skills, new forms of self-expression, new ways of perceiving the world and interacting with it, but as Saturn functions as a structural funnel, a focused, dedicated container for interfacing practical information about\u00a0the here and now with our mind,\u00a0it’s not light and\u00a0easy.\u00a0At times, we may feel bored, our natural curiosity (a third house resource) stymied, frustrated by the limited, concrete nature of our immediate reality, question whether we\u2019re learning anything, or wonder,\u00a0what’s the point of this task that has no end in sight? That\u2019s Saturn. Yet, in a pinch, we always have the\u00a0ability to tap into our intuitive knowing.<\/p>\n Erin Sullivan\u00a0spoke about Theseus’ labyrinth. It’s an apt metaphor.\u00a0The third house presents an unfamiliar\u00a0new world, and it feels a lot like a maze, a task with no real logic or order to it. We may not know which way to turn, but we have our intuition. I’ve noticed that as long as I take my intuition on the journey, the\u00a0concrete walls of the labyrinth aren’t so solid, so formidable.\u00a0And it helps to have a thread to follow-\u00a0a guide, someone who has walked\u00a0these same steps we now travel.<\/p>\n The third house is the part of the chart where we reach out into the world,\u00a0interact, learn. It’s a place of\u00a0surprises and\u00a0new discoveries\u00a0and\u00a0Saturn makes these more tangible, real, necessary\u00a0to our growth.\u00a0It can be a very uncertain time, in my experience, but in moments of third house uncertainty, we may be surprised to discover we\u00a0know <\/em>much more than we\u00a0thought. <\/em>And that’s exciting, magical\u00a0–and likely\u00a0the booty of the Saturn third house journey.<\/p>\n The post Saturn Transits the Third House: What Do You Know?<\/a> appeared first on Moonkissd by Jessica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This essay continues my series of my Saturn transiting through the houses, which is, so far the twelfth, first, second and now third. I’m about 1\/3 of the way through, and this is my current report. My second house Saturn journey appeared straightforward at first, but in hindsight not at all. 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