Saturn transits always ask you to define something. In the case of a Saturn transit to Venus, this would be your relationships, your values, your tastes, etc. So last week I was riding around with the AMF. We were talking about money. And I told him I could see where having more resources would be a great help to him. How it would make an enormous difference in his life.

“I don’t feel the same though,” I said. “In fact I’ve been thinking about this. Do you know what I would get if I got a lot of money?”

“What?”

“Nothing. I can’t even think of one thing that I would want to buy. There is nothing out there that would make me a happier person. Um…what? More clothes than I could possibly wear? I’d just keep writing my blogs. I mean, I would probably get that dent out of my car, I guess. I want a car that runs. I don’t want to be worried about if my car is going to start or something, but other than that, what am I going to do? Get a bigger car? I hate big cars. I hate to shop for anything and everything. The more you have, the more you have to take care of.”

He nodded.

“So what I would do is just keep writing my blog and what’s that take? A computer? I already have one. Scott keeps buying them for me, so now I have two! So I’m good for a long time. And the people around me? Well if they want something, they can just go buy it. They can have whatever money I have – just take it and go make themselves happy, but me? Well there is just nothing for me to do with money, except give it away.”

And this is true. In fact, one look at my chart and I can’t imagine me having any other attitude. Every way you turn it – what I value is the ethereal. And a few years ago my editor HQ bought me a consultation with astrologer Michael Lutin who I greatly admire and have always referred to as “that funny motherfucker”. And I mentioned this on the phone with him. I told him I didn’t care about money and he got real quiet.

I guessed it was because he was trying to figure out if I were serious. Well I have Capricorn, so I am always serious! But you know. Capricorn is supposed to be one money-grubbing son-of-a-bitch so there was a pause. And I could almost feel his wheels turning. “Is this chick crazy, or…”

I got the idea he thought he ought to suspend judgment. It was like he was staring at the chart, thinking it was possible I was stating an actual fact. So he didn’t push it and either did I. We just went on with the consultation. And anyway, this is another manifestation of my Saturn transit. And right now, my ex from 28 years ago is reading my book. And he is at the part in the book when he knew me and it says it right in there…I state this plainly, as a teenager:

“This was a constant financial drain, so I was exceedingly poor. Not that I much cared about that because believe me, I didn’t.”

So you can see, it’s always been this way. It’s just not the thing on my mind.

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