Molly asks regarding the Artist Up Against An Angry Bastard…:

I have Sun in Aries too, and although I totally agree with you that Artist shouldn’t give up his/her career over this, I found myself frustrated by your answer.

Molly, I understand your frustration and I’m happy to explain my methodology. This gal has Saturn transiting her first house. Her Aries house that is! The house of “self”. So she is being called upon to control (Saturn) herself. She is in effect, a Capricorn rising now and she is going to have much effect with Capricorn technique at this point than she will by charging ahead, Aries style.

See, she’s got a goal…a life long goal. How Saturn is that? So she’s got her mountain to climb and the idea is to get up it…by hook or crook!

Now I am not sure if you have ever climbed a mountain but I have and can tell you that sometimes, with some mountains, you will never make it where you’re going if you don’t plot a course. You need a plan!

And the most direct route is rarely the best option. I mean how good is it if you try to climb straight up and fall and break your fucking head? Major setback, yes? But do you know what a switchback is?

It’s a path up a mountain cut sideways so you can climb more comfortably and the way I see it this gal is on her mountain doing her climb and she has now hit an impediment in the form or this crazy asshole.

So being Aries she tries to fight him. But it’s not working, is it? She’s not winning and worse, fighting with him has derailed her and caused her lose focus on what she is doing on the mountain in the first place. Is she there to fight this bastard? Or there for an art career?

So perhaps this is where you and I part ways as to what to do. As an Aries, perhaps you think she should continue to bump heads with this guy…to ram and ram and ram. But as a Capricorn, this is where I say, hold the fuckin’ phone! I can’t get over this rise / this rock/ this whatever, but I still want the top of that hill and I want it bad.

So what I’m going to do is plot a course around this motherfucker and leave him on the side of the mountain (with no canteen) to fend for himself. To play with himself. To do whatever the fuck he wants, because I am back on my goal now. I am moving along.

So there you go. This is my thinking and I think the Saturn transit supports this approach. There are times where leaving a dragon on the trail, un-slayed, does not make you a coward. What it makes you is wise.!