Astrology and Love: Never Mind Saturn’s Transit Through Virgo - What Did You Learn From Saturn’s Transit Through Leo?
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It’s pal and astrologer extraordinare, cf perez and I on the phone:
“How are you? How’s your love life going?” she asked.
“Love life? It’s good. My love life is grand, I’m happy. But then again, I always am. I have figured this out.”
“What, dog? What have you figured out?”
That’s cf, right there. She always knows what to ask.
“That I’m happy in relationship. No matter what I am doing, who or how I do them, I seem to be completely happy and satisfied with it. Apparently a Venus Mars sextile should not be underestimated,” I said. “Nobody pays attention to these things yet look what they can do.”
“No. A Venus Mars sextile should not be underestimated at all.”
“Right. So this is what I’ve learned. It’s my recent learning. It seems to make no difference what I do or who I am with when it comes to relationship. I’m happy anyway. So how’s that for a Saturn transit through the 7th house? It’s supposed to be hell and deprivation. But I find out I am naturally happy and satisfied in relationship so I am never going to worry about this again.”
“You’re already happy.”
“Yes. So people can go or stay as they please. Oh, I can be miserable in a relationship but I have to work to manage it. What comes naturally is happiness, so there you go. I’m never going to complain about a relationship again simply because I have nothing to complain about. I love, love. Whatever I have, I like so I have no intention of ever worrying about this again.”
What did you learn from Saturn’s transit through Leo?
14 Responses to “Astrology and Love: Never Mind Saturn’s Transit Through Virgo - What Did You Learn From Saturn’s Transit Through Leo?”
Elsa, that is so awesome. My SR is happening in Leo right now, also in the 7th house. You’ve defiantely given me food for thought, thank you! I think I am definately more comfortable in relationships than I was before.
I learned that I need to have a better relationship with myself before I try and have one with someone else. Seventh house in Leo sun in the first house. I always felt like I was weird because i was not in a relationship and I would enter them thinking it was the right thing, but it wasn’t right for me. So I learned that you don’t always need a relationship with another person to be happy but a sound and healthy relationship with myself. =)
Let me see . . . oh yeah, how to share all kinds of personal astrological info as a way to help others understand how it works! (Saturn in Leo in 9th) And something that may sound really trite but is true for me . . . a loving heart always has room for another to love - truly bottomless.
This has nothing to do with Saturn but I too have realized I am far better off in relationship than as a solitary person (Libra/NN in Gemini in 7th) Do not do well alone . . .
I’ve been having my Saturn Return through all this, so the first thing I learned is that Saturn is a wicked evil planet that should be smited for naughtiness. At first I tried to plot a way to blow it up (ala Marvin the Martian) so it would just go away, but obviously that didn’t work… (And my Aries had a tantrum over it, really.)
And then I sorta surrendered. I got out of an amazingly BAD relationship. I got some therapy, figured out who my real friends are, and formed closer bonds with them. I met a truly good man and had the sense to hold onto him even though my heart was being tugged at by another guy. (Who would’ve been a profoundly bad choice.)
I didn’t get everything done, but I have figured out what I want, where I want to go, and who I want to take with me. Bit by bit I’ve lessened and ALMOST completely shaken off my ex’s hold on me, while continuing to co-parent our son.
It was hell and I’m glad I’ve got another 27+ years before I have to do it again!! But it was definitely good for me, and in the end, good to me. Saturn is still evil, but now I get to watch it wreak havoc on my (slightly) younger friends who have Saturn in Virgo! 
Well, I had two big transits: Saturn hit my Leo Sun/Mars first, and right now, Saturn is almost exactly squaring my Taurus Saturn.
I’ve been hit with a lot of “this is the way things really are, as painful as it is”, in the areas of my marriage and finances.
I’m not doing anything about the marriage right now, but I’ve adapted the attitude of “it is what it is”. I thought things would get better, but this Saturn transit made me realize what the man is really about.
As for finances, I grew up not having to worry about money, but these transits forced me to wake up and take a good hard look at the books–somehting I never liked to do, but is crucial for my own financial survival.
I didn’t like getting whopped with all this reality, but it’s for my own good. I can stay in fantasyland and let everything collapse, or I can become more aware of what’s going on around me.
Much like Lori, I have leo in the 7th and sun in the first house, I’ve learned much about myself, and how important it is to love me in order to be happy with someone else.
It has been hellish at times, until I got the hang of it, now I’m trying to flow with the waves, it has helped me found inner peace, and be grateful for being who I am.
Anything related to relationships is affecting me much more then usually would and being aware of this doesn’t help much. I’m trying to enjoy it as much as I can, because compared to saturn in the 6th and future saturn in the 8th, this should be a piece of cake. it’s not a life of death thing. it’s just relationships. I’ve always thought relationships were very unimportant compared to lifes major issues, rationally I still do, but it’s taken center stage now. so whatever, come what may, I’ll be fine I hope.
I thought it was interesting what Elsa says about being happy in a relationship, this sounds very jupiter in the 7th, or venus in the 7th. I wish I could relate to that, I think i’m on the right path though.
Ha, well, Saturn went through my 5th house. And for the past 2 years I realized how I have refined my passion. FINALLY I have something to look forward to (which is art). Before, due to school conditioning and things of the like, I did not know what my true expressions are. I am so grateful now for the outer expression of my self, may it be my taste, friends, social life, hobbies, and things of the like. Great lessons.
Wish I knew!
The Saturn was trining my Sun so this was a stabilized period, I was much calmer.
It went through my 5th house and I really dedicated myself to my hobbies, writing, photography, blogging. It wasn’t hard, but it was probably taken more seriously than usual. My hobbies define me, that’s what. Hopefully I’ve also matured on the way I do those things.
Saturn has been transiting my 10th and I’m finally feeling comfortable with responsability. I’m comfortable and confident with what I have achieved and am looking forward to achieving more. And I’m looking for the right job/career that I can be loyal to, that is a natural relationship/reflection of myself.. so that then I can focus on other things I want to bring into my life such as another relationship and a family.
tSaturn has been in my 2nd house.
Last summer, I quited the hellish job that made me feel utterly miserable and moved out somewhere else.
I’m more practical. I learned the hard way that money can’t buy you love. tSaturn restored my self esteem (Leo) and gave me the confidence to start anew.
Hm, when I had Saturn in my seventh, it wasn’t nearly that happy…oh well, figures for me 
I mainly learned that I was an immature git (and apparently I have ye to grow out of it. Still. Just shoot me now, I suck).
My Saturn in Leo has been all about the parental issues. I figured it’d be about career (10th), but all that boiled down to was I’m bored with mine, but can’t figure out what else to do. Mainly I’ve just been overburdened with parental stuff for the last decade. My father’s overshadowed everything.
The sad thing is the SR is nearly over and I clearly haven’t learned jack squat about how to grow up. Still. Haven’t figured out how to solve anything. Yes, I am asking for an asspounding when I’m 58…*sigh*
Hmm. Saturn return in the 9th here…I feel much more confident evaluating religious/spiritual claims for myself; less apt to think others, even authorities, know better than me. I’ve been nurturing a much more realistic love relationship than I’ve had in the past, getting to understand how to deal with real life issues together and not lose the magic…been pretty consistently learning more astrology and started doing practice readings for others. The very tail end is near and I’m finally getting the link between my self-esteem struggles and father issues. I’ll pat myself on the back now, thanks very much. 
I have Saturn natally in the 8th house…still trying to figure out what that means. During my SR, I learned over and over again about letting go, letting go, letting go. I felt like a child being ripped from its mother’s arms. All my friends from church moved on and my parents and I barely talk to each other anymore (we live near each other!). I stopped all contact with my boyfriend. Nearly every person in my workplace that I turned to for emotional support has left. In their place are people who don’t care how long I’ve worked there or who I am, they don’t like me. At all. I’ve have to learn how to do without others’ approval of my lifestyle or my personality. When I loosen up and let my playful side out, people respond better to me now. My controlling and overly perfectionistic side gets me nothing but grief anymore, so I’ve learned to ease up. Dramatics gain no one’s sympathy, so I’ve been learning to breathe when problems come up.
On the bright side, I have found a community online that has helped me express myself without fear. I can be my odd little self because in our group, we’re all “different”. When I hit a wall in late 2006 and felt completely lost in life, I stumbled on astrology and started delving into it seriously. (The 8th house is the occult house, right?)
Pluto was riding straight over my Ascendant, too, and Saturn was squaring my natal Taurus moon. Oh, yeah, throw in a Chiron square. UGH!!!
Yoga taught me self-respect and self-confidence. It helped me start to heal my heart wounds (Leo). I had a fitness evaluation during my exact SR and the lady said my heart was working too hard (how surprising…I’ve spent years running in circles trying to win everyone’s approval and it’s backfiring). I had to learn to love myself first and stop worrying about everyone’s opinion of me. Ouch. And stop trying to control everything in life (8th house…control issues! fear of the unknown, fear of change).
I just hope I got the lessons I was supposed to learn. The last three years have been a baptism by fire.
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That transit was in my 7th house too, and I had the hell and deprivation thing going on. I’d say I was learning to be happy without a love life, but actually I figured that out long ago…maybe I just needed a reminder.