“I understand your life is both speeding up and held back at the same time and I know it is stressful but there is no way around this at this time…”
I wrote that for a double Virgo client and I am sure anyone with planets in the very late degrees of the mutable signs or early cardinal can relate. Jupiter and Uranus will take you to your future in seconds, while Saturn in Virgo says, “Not so fast there, sonny. You haven’t paid your dues. You haven’t dotted that i, or quite cleaned your plate yet…” It is maddening because you can see the horizon, it is right there…
Can you feel this? Tell us how you’re coping…
41 Responses to “Stress And The Saturn Uranus Opposition”
The only planet I have in those degrees is Jupiter at 2 Cancer. It must be mitigating the t-square because honestly I am not feeling it. I did, however, feel Saturn’s return into Virgo. I am definitely more health and clean focused right now.
t Saturn sq my Mars – putting the breaks on everything while I’m going hurry up!
YES! Two years ago Saturn crossed my Virgo 1 ascendant and is now in my money house. Life has never been this weird. From one POV I’m incredibly close to long term goals, and from another incredibly far.
So I’ve been deferring to Saturn, eating well, and working working working. I’ve noticed that little ‘gifts’ appear when I do. Hidden money stash in a dusty corner, lost phone number of a valuable work contact, and/or others clueing me into discounts and less expensive ways of doing things.
I made friends with the old bastard!
Yeah, I have a vision of my liberated (Uranus) future (Jupiter) but right now it is all duty, all day – work hard and damned well better get it right or repercussions come right back on ya.
It seems going slow and getting it right is the fastest method.
Faith offers relief though and to the extreme. No idea how people who lack faith are coping right now.
Yes, double yes. I’m in the middle of an interview process for a great job. I’ve never seen such an application before. They want to know when I took my first steps. 
On the positive side, this has been a good way to get back in touch with people I worked with 10 years ago.
I have a sense that I’m going to have to wait forever for an answer one way or another, between the aspects you’ve mentioned and Mercury Rx. I usually try to channel the waiting energy by exercising more. That reminds me…
applicable dream from a few weeks ago, of having climbed a mountain, mere feet from the top on the last steep pitch. a difficult ascent, the summit within (literal) reach.
feels like waiting in an empty lobby for the appointment that takes place in a room on the other side of a door across the floor from where i’m sitting with my homework, which has a helluva lot to do with the appointment, which i have a good feeling about but when the hell is that door going to open. so, back to my homework, ’cause it’s there, so am i, and there’s time to kill. huh? i catch something. oops. oh, and another. a t i didn’t cross. doh. an undotted i. maybe, since i’m just sitting here waiting, i’ll give it all a good going-over, again. funny how everytime i think it’s done, it ain’t quite.
the door knows.
Elsa, I’ve wondered about that, too.
Elsa, I’ve wondered about that, too. That’s funny, I just wrote a post about the 9th house as you wrote this. Maybe faith can be support of many kinds, not sure.
Yes. My fellow late-mutable/early-cardinal friend marijita and I have been exchanging messages about “this sucks. when does it start? what are we supposed to do to get ready? i don’t know.”
I am going to work on my faith.
This is happening on so many important layers, family and career mainly, and it’s a special kind of torture, but I breathe and remain present and try to deal.
I had another sting yesterday. In my local area, ladies roller derby is really picking up, and I don’t know quite how to express this except to say that I was *born* for the fucking roller derby. Tryouts for next season’s team is on Tuesday.
Alas, however, the practice, bout, and volunteer schedule are too demanding for this working mom. With the understanding that I am important and deserve to have fun too, I really can’t justify spending 10-15 hours a week away right now for this particular interest. The realization hit me like a ton of bricks. I’m doing better today, but yesterday I was really sad about it. This is Saturn/Uranus opp. for me along with my own natal Uranus opp. Hello, midlife crisis!
Saturn’s archetype might be an old man, but personally I think he’s just a big bitch. 
Ha ha, Bob!
I’ve been able to deal with Saturn’s return to Virgo pretty well, actually. Compared to whatever the hell I was experiencing in 2007 and 2008, that’s for damn sure!
Definitely have more faith in myself and my abilities, these days, too.
I’ve been hammered for the last two years, it’s all I can do to keep going some days. These last few months and weeks have been brutal.
I used to be able to boost my faith by using angel cards but boy what a bunch of brain washing and false promises those were. Astrological energy may be brutal but at least it’s honest.
I do not know if everything will turn out okay (in fact I’m finding it hard to shake these feelings of dread) but there’s still a part of me that has a glimmer of hope.
I feel like I have been hit by a tidal wave, knocked under and don’t know which way the bubbles are going. Sold my house quickly, have to move quickly, I have to be out of this place by Sunday, as of right now I have no place to go. Apps being eaten by fax machines, references not being returned, people not keeping their word to help. Sat last night packing old photos of the last 30 years of my life. Strange, but I felt like I was cleaning out the house of a dead relative, and the dead person was me. Packing up my life to go nowhere towards my new future. Yer right, the brass ring is right there, just inches from my finger tips and I can’t grab it.
It’s gonna be a rough for a little while longer yet.
Hang in there, daisy.
Well – yes. Only I am so used to being battered by this opposition that I have reached a bizarre kind of peace with it, perhaps because I know it will indeed end – whereas if someone had told me in November 2008 that very thing, I would have demanded hard proof. I have a lot of mutable in my larger planets, but it’s all in the middle degrees. What has made these two-plus years SO agonizing (for me and many, many others in my “generation”) is the fact that this Uranus in Pisces/Saturn in Virgo has been in direct opposition to my Uranus in Virgo/Saturn in Pisces. So at this point, I know this upcoming month (May) is going to blow chunks, know it’s familiar territory and know that what lies beyond it will be very different for and welcomed by me.
I’m OK. Inching along. Thankful for everything that I have even though its not ideal.
6 planets in Virgo
merc,uranus and venus in the last part of virgo.
before Saturn hit. I used to have long list short list. to do lists, organized coupons, compartmentalized everything. I helped a lot of people gave away a lot of money to charity volunteered etc.
Well these planets are sitting in the 2nd. So saturn and restriction for a virgo is taking away the ability to plan and taking away schedules.
And earn a living.
Plus I am now on death # 9 since October.
Retro stareted taking people out again.
I expected it. Now I just don’t know who it will be. Before I knew the people had cancer.
Saturn for virgo is hey live without rules live without structure and then uranus pops in and says here is a crisis stick this down your throat and swallow it.
I don’t feel like talking anymore
My life no longer has order or rules.
I know longer have a steady stream of income.
I used to say hey if you want my money you have to do this.
Like for instance a friend having drinking problems. OK I will give you this car but you need to go to AA and get some help.
Well without money to wave as a bate you can’t interfer and coerce people into doing whats good for them.
So I guess the universe is telling me to back off and just let people die..Seems like a stupid message but I am heading it.
When I read my own stuff I don’t even like what I am reading about my own behavior..
coercing people into going to AA with a car.
I can’t even see staraight.
The guy did get his kid back.
This is the stuff I am grappling with I can’t seem to logically think about things anymore..
yeah, yeah, yeah.
man.
i feel kind of smacked around by the tides lately, but have been getting support and a couple days ago, had at least FIVE different people express appreciation for me and the work i do for them. it floored me to have so much at once.
i took this as a nod from Saturn that i’m maintaining.
For me Saturn conjucting my Moon/Mars conjuct in in Virgo in my first house the first time around was the emotional vomiting needed to end a 24 yr. relationship, my mother & uncle died as well, This time around with opposition to Uranus feels like i get hit by train on every level, emotional, mental, physical, Empathing has been off the charts leaving me scattered, this is not usual,(i am a metaphysican)I truly equate this time as a shift in conscience and there is nothing easy about it. I just have comfort in knowing I am not the only one on the roof at this time.
“Faith offers relief though and to the extreme. No idea how people who lack faith are coping right now.”
Faith is all I got now..nothing else makes sense *deep sigh*
Panic (as in hurry up!, urgency reigns) and paralysis (do nothing, hope everything just stops, or that I can take a time-out for a looong time)… Yep, those are my feelings these days. Seems to qualify as how this type of Saturn-Uranus energy can pan out, eh?
That’s how my driving test went. I can drive a car halfway around the state and not even hit anything, but the damn California DMV flunked me anyway. No, I had never ever heard that one is supposed to drive in the bike lane like it’s another driving lane before. I do not understand DMV logic at all, which is why I fail their tests frequently.
So close, and yet so far…it took two months to get the appointment, and now my permit has run out so I will have to start the goddamned process all over again. ARGH.
How am I coping? Not very well. I’m still somewhat steaming, and putting off studying for the goddamned written test (which I barely passed the first time, and won’t be allowed to miss many questions on the second time) because I want to throw up.
Trying to hold down my end, but find myself getting disoriented in certain ways. This morning I took a knife from a student in the schoolyard (shocking, unexpected) only to find that the school cop deigned the blade too short (under 5 1/2 inches) to worry about much. ?? This upset my applecart pretty good.
You could have written that for me as well….trying to see it as slow and steady, not paralyzed. And Mena…that is so frustrating.
Even if it isn’t a criminal offense, doesn’t the school have some kind of policy addressing dress code, cell phones, and oh yeah, *knives*? I mean, my gosh, I have to write a permission slip for my son to carry over the counter headache medicine with him at school. wtf?
thank you for putting this up tonite Elsa…needed to see that I wasn’t the only one going through this…About Faith…has been holding me until today…had a big blow out with God all day…I know he can take it…not sure I can…totally exhausted from the battleling going on in my head…I normally can take saturn ( I have it in cap at birth) but combined with the other major transits I am going through it is very tough…I have been telling my friends that I am becoming a highly fonctioning insane person!!! they laugh…but if they saw what’s going on in my head right now…they would believe me LOL…
Whatever is going on right now is totally shakin’ things up for me. There is such a pressure brewing and so much tension between doing what is ” right” and doing what “feels right”. Not always the same thing. Also I’m feeling the pull of letting things go. Anyone else feel like this? BTW, this is my first time posting so please bear/bare with me!
I feel like I’m being ripped apart right now. I know I “should” explain the astrology but I’m not up for it right now.
just yesterday, our new house is confirmed so we will be moving at the end of the month. the thought of it gives me something to look forward to. i am keeping the faith. elsa is right, we are giving a glimpse of our future ahead and as a cancer, i badly need a vision in order to keep going. for now, i settle with minute details of what i can do on daily basis. health will always be an issue for me. and since i am not working and just staying at home, i can do a lot of things. i feel hopeful, its a breathe of fresh air because i havent felt this way for quite a long time
Very late Pisces sun and late Sagittarius ascendant. Feels like I’m sitting motionless in a dark room staring at the window, waiting for daybreak.
affects my 4 – 10 house (sun end in virgo, mars in early libra), so have to decide between whether to move to a very old neighborhood with cozy place of hyper futuristic new loft place in a very sterile new part of the city… feels like the new has to win and the whole dilemma is very symbolic of some inner change i need to go through, career x family etc.
Thanks Elsa! I’ve had a couple of readings from you that were very helpful! (Am gearing up for the summer shenanigans!) I’m learning alot here!
thank you…
Oh yes. Wise words to your client, Elsa. Helpful to me too.
Asc at 27 Virgo, natal Uranus at 29 Gemini. Convalescing after back op in Jan (when Saturn went retrograde) and recovery though noticeable is SO SLOW! Frustration (and anxiety). I want to be out there!!
RP Merc retrograde doesn’t help of course. Am hoping for the brakes to come off when it and Saturn go direct (the latter being six days after my birthday).
Escapism is what is working (kind of). DVDs etc.
I have a 26 degree Sun/28 degree Merc both in Sag. Transiting Uranus/Saturn are squaring my Sun and I am working working working!
My business trip to Berlin got cancelled because of that volcano.
Relationship with the man is stalled. I know men find me attractive but they just aren’t approaching! I feel like I must have a sign on my forehead that says “danger, stay away”!
I do feel like I can see the light at the end of the tunnel but my train is stuck. How much longer do we have to put up with this?
This may sound crazy but it’s I think squaring 28th degree scorpio, the anal. I am sitting on the can within! my dreams.
Not much else is happening around this! Last nites dream was about our river being free of pollution.
Goggled that today to see the 10 top most polluted rivers and the reasons for it.
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