my saturn is near the 8th house cusp so saturn had just toured my 7th on my return. I had been an unwed mother, working two jobs, finishing university, and realized I didn’t want acheivement, I wanted security and home and more children. I wanted to be a housewife. like WANTED for real. you’d be surprised how much prejudice I encountered for wanting that (in my family/friend circle).

sun in the 7th, cap moon in the 5th. I felt so much shame being an unwed mother that I bought a wedding ring to wear to the grocery store. now I’m a single mom of three nearing my saturn opposition and I suspect I’m learning not to care about what other people think.

My Saturn is conjunct my sun/ascendant. I left my man, got divorced, moved far away, and found *my* life as opposed to the one that I’d been told I should have.

Truly? Best thing I’ve ever done for myself - I kind of feel like I got off the wrong mountain too.

My Saturn is in the 9th, which is always a little hazy to me (unfortunately, because my Sun is also there). I know it involves publishing, and my SR definitely involved putting the pedal to the metal in that department. And I read endlessly about, and fell in love with, Buddhism (religion/philosophy).

Ultimately, maybe it was that I payed my dues in an industry that had aspects I loved and aspects I didn’t, and the dues-paying allowed me to leave (a couple years later) and pursue only the parts I love, independently. Maybe that’s it, though it seems a little vague..

Thank you, Skye. I am hoping to this gets spread around. I have two more videos in the can for the next two days and will either leave it there or continue on depending on the response I suppose. I appreciate your taking the time to post.

Hi Elsa - The climbing the wrong mountain analogy is hitting home. I think your story about Henry helped your message to sink in. During my saturn return I realized that I had climbed the wrong mountain career wise. Looking down that steep slope, I wondered how the swearword I was going to get back down there and climb a different mountain. Everything else in my life was going well’ I just grew increasingly frustrated with the path I had chosen even though I was doing well. Then along came Revenue Canada and said, ‘Son, we would like to have a really good look through your records and find out how a youngster like you has done so well.’ The Audit took nine months! After it was done I was assessed for the equivalent of one years gross pay. Do you know how long it takes to save that amount of money after expenses and more taxes? Any way, I am not one to let things like this stand in my way. Saturn in Capricorn and Jupiter in Sagittarius. I redoubled my efforts. Which led to a redoubling of my frustration with being on the wrong mountain. After a couple of years of working very hard and making a lot of money but not getting to keep any of it. I had an opportunity to go on an expense paid holiday. It was from this new vantage point that I was able to say… I’m done! When I got back I instantly started rearranging that part of my life and starting to put together all of the gear to climb another mountain. What I realize now is that I did a practice climb on a small mountain first and then got ready to climb another big one. And I am standing on the top of it now, waving like mad at you saying, ‘Thanks Elsa….I like your green dress!’

spinner - I got it. *whew!

The mountain crumbled alright. Similar to Henry’s story, with the exception that I didn’t decide, but the universe did. (and no new satisfactory mountain in sight yet - apart from the intention to find it).

Thanks Elsa! That just makes my day.

…working to make the time and space to paint again.
(working hard hard hard i sometimes forget where i’m going but i can’t just drop off the face of the world as a single mom.)

everything else is… social growth. no small candy that, trying to connect to a group of eccentrics who feed each other’s creativity.
well, we’ll see.