Saturn In Astrology: Consequences Over Time
Ask the collective
My husband and I were talking last night and he said, “You can’t hit the brakes”. He was referring to things like aging. People age, kids grow up, move out and move on, you reap what you sow, etc.
I think you can hit the brakes at times. For example, if you don’t like what is growing in your garden, you can rip the the stuff out and start over, at least until you reach an age that makes this impossible.
Translated, this means there is a point where a line is crossed. You blew out your liver, drinking for example. You lost the respect of your children, your parents, your friends, your partner or your neighbors. You spent all that money / time / energy and it’s gone.
There are circumstances where the water has actually passed under the bridge and considering this, it makes me feel grateful for the things I can still affect.
This is a Saturn phenomena. No wants to dig up their garden and start over. No one wants to be halfway up a mountain or heavily invested in something be it a relationship or an ideology or a stock of some kind and have to ditch it and start over. What do you mean, I have to rewrite this book?
People resist changing tack because it’s hard. Later it becomes impossible and required that you live with the result.
Is there something in your life that you really ought to scrap? Why do you resist?
15 Responses to “Saturn In Astrology: Consequences Over Time”
one of the most salient characteristics of life is its coersiveness, its always urgent, here and now, we cant postpone living untill were ready, life is fired at us point blank. on the other hand we can keep having facelifts untill our pubic hair becomes a goatee.
I dunno. I seem to have had to do this since the moment I popped out of the womb and if I don’t do it, the universe does it for me. It’s a sun/pluto/uranus thing coupled with Scorpio rising I think. Destruction and regeneration patterns. I don’t see it stopping until the day I die.
Evidently, my spiritual practices. 
I think I must have communicated my idea poorly because I didn’t get it across. jamie, right again!
I’ve no idea how to fix it, so I’m going to sleep.
I’ve always had problems with letting go with what is necessary,and starting over.
What I mean by that is, I tend to run to the extremes; I’ll start everything all over, retaining none of the useful bits, or resist any change whatsoever at tremendous cost.
Life for me has been about trying to recall the perfect balance we all had at childhood, but instead running from one extreme to the next and using the resulting scars as feedback to determine where that middle ground is.
-Rob
Leo/Virgo cusp rising
Sag : sun,mercury,jupiter,uranus neptune
Scorpio : pluto, saturn
Libra : moon, venus, mars
Thank you, Elsa.
I’ve been reading your blog off and on for about 2 years now.
I’ve also been enjoying it.
-Rob
To answer your question Elsa…
“Is there something in your life that you really ought to scrap? Why do you resist?”
Yes.
I resist because in the moment it is always easier fall back on a grudge than to recognize my role in shaping my circumstance. It is also the embarrassment for having been so wrong in my life hypotheses, and confronting the remorse associated with wasted time. It is guilt for having caused pain for loved ones, and frustration at my blundering ways. Perhaps there is a bitterness reserved for those that have misled gullible me, but that is not a feeling I let myself acknowledge.
It is all these emotions that prevent me from making the logical choices necessary to turn a sticky matter toward an outcome that is more favorable.
The gist of it is.. The thing that keeps me from consistently choosing the best choices, the harder choices, and the right choices is the addiction to the easy way out born from the philosophy of “if I don’t see it, it doesn’t exist” applied to reality in general.
-Rob
Rob, yes, your thinking along the same lines I am. You don’t do it because it’s hard and eventually the hard becomes impossible and then… arrgh.
Elsa, would this also relate to Saturn Return though in a person’s life? Or how may this be different from a Saturn Return?
Welcome, jnyx. I am sorry but I wouldn’t know how to tie this to that. I did a video series on the Saturn return here:
http://www.elsaelsa.com/astrology/2009/10/06/1-minute-astrology-demystifying-the-saturn-return/
What you do at the time of your Saturn return most definitely has long lasting effects.
How funny, I’m watching one of the Hoarders series right now.
The guy [of course] is really resisting, eventually saying something along the lines of, “…either youre pregnant or your not, either youre this or youre not, either youre a hoarder or youre not!”
I’m sitting here thinking, ‘yes, thats the point, that what this whole thing is about, scrap that shit sir!…BE free!’
Saturn is in my 7th right now. I’ve come to realize that all of my decisions, as far as partnerships go, have been for crap – business and personal. I need to scrap the career path I’ve been on for the past 5 years – the universe is definitely telling me this, in bold living color. The question is, what do I do next? That’s always the question, dammit.
thinking i can do everything i want to.
i want too much nowadays. have to prioritize. and have waaay less energy.
Get A Consultation
Schedule a consultation by phone
Schedule a consultation by email
Read what clients have said about usThanks, we look forward to working with you! :-) - Elsa P
Order a Report
Order a Transit Report
Order a Solar Return Report
Order a Relationship Composite Report
Order both relationship reports, save 10%
Order a Lunar Return ReportHeads Up from Elsa P!
Sign up below to get my free weekly email newsletter covering the astrology of the next week. I send this email out every Thursday.
Recent Blog Comments
- jana: I saturn conjunct mercury so it's always a struggle.
- iyabo1979: I think that having a lot of planets in the 12th house and also ...
- iyabo1979: For example, now in my life... I am struggling to heard. This ha...
- Cherry: Getting fresh air and sports helps i noticed. Tomorrow i am havi...
- Isernia: Uranus Pluto Virgo in a Leo 7th House. I'm hoping third time's ...
- music4am: Venus trine uranus from gemini to libra and from the 11th to the...
- curious wanderer: My DSC is in Aquarius, and I have Uranus conj. my IC. I feel at ...
Recent Board Posts
- Questions For People in Polyamorous Relationships
- Another Teenage Psychopath: Stabbed Grandmother 90 times, shot h...
- So scorpio moons are lurking these days... Why?
- How come (virtually) all the men around here are Scorpios?
- Online Dating
- My self-destructive Scorpio brother
- People Who Know You Well
- Planned Parenthood Director On Sex-Selection Abortions
- Men courting women
- Marge
yeah: self-loathing and it’s many manifestations. I’m working very hard to scrap that. Sun-Saturn and Moon-Pluto–both by square.
On the other hand, this post cheered me up because there is virtually nothing else in my life I need to scrap and that’s a great feeling!