Our next Big Deal is the 9:07 pm PDT 22 October 2022 Station of Saturn (Prominence of Saturn Energy, which is Emphasis on the Most Important Thing), in 19 Aquarius (5:07 am BST 23rd, 2:07 pm AEST 23rd). In Ego Astrology, Saturn is kind of a Wet Blanket, No Fun. It symbolizes Structure, Discipline. Of course, that’s a “Christian” Perspective. In Rome, the Saturnalia Festival was the equivalent of Oktoberfest among the Germanic People – a time to Let Go of all the Rules and Allow yourself to be Impulsive. The early Popes, in their Intolerance for Fun, are the ones who made Saturn into a Bummer. But if Jupiter is the Inhale, Expanding the Diaphragm, Saturn is the Exhale. Neither is Good or Bad, and we’d all be Vulturebait if we tried to Eliminate One or the Other.
In Julie Henderson’s book about Energy, The Lover Within (see Bibliography), she gives Jupiter and Saturn two roles – Expansion versus Contraction, and Diffusion versus Condensation. We can also think of them as Exploration and Curiosity versus Concentration and Focus, or Extroversion versus Introversion. Most of us have a preference for either Extroversion or Introversion. When someone who favors Extroversion gets Ungrounded, they Recenter themselves by being around Other People. Someone who favors Introversion needs Alone Time to get Recentered when they’re Scattered.
In my 50-plus years of Studying Saturn, I’ve found that I have Resistance to The Most Important Thing, becuase Failure at that has Serious Consequences for my Ego and Self-Assurance. So I don’t Risk it. I have a list of Fallbacks, Lower Priorities that Suffice, which seem Less Difficult, and Give me a Sense of Success. So when Saturn is Lit Up, I’m usually Afraid to Let Go of my Fallbacks to Focus on Priority #1, for Fear of Losing my Successes through Inattention. But when I do Surrender and Focus on The Most Important Thing, I always find my secondary and tertiary Priorities waiting patiently for me when I get back, as though I never “Left.”
The Saturn Station chart features two Challenges or SuperPowers (T-Squares). Challenges become SuperPowers when we Stop Expecting Perfection, and instead Appreciate What We’ve Learned. Along the way, we Recognize that Perfection is about our Ideas, not our Realities, like the Difference between a Photograph and an Experience.
One of the Challenges is about Awareness of Where We Leak Energy. For instance, I find myself getting downright scienterrific about Studying exactly how much Sugar in which forms I can Enjoy without unpleasant effects. The Growth in Awareness is about Revising our Boundaries so they Support our Self-Sovereignty more than they Support our Codependence and our Addictions.1
1 Mercury (Awareness) in 19 Libra (Repeated Impulsive Actions that Unexpectedly Break Through Ossified Karma) T-Squaring Panacea (Healing) and Hylonome (Codependence) in 19-20 Capricorn (Learning that Suppressing our Karma doesn’t Work – We Have to Live It with Eyes Open) Opposite Pallas (Boundaries), Veritas (Truth of the Mind ), and Black Moon Lilith (Self-Sovereignty) in 20-22 Cancer (Coming into Enlightenment, Wholeness, Connection, Samadhi, Sharing), home of the Fixed Star Castor (Blending and Bridging Opposites, Optimistically – Mandatory Attention to Spirit, Remembering Who We Are and Why We Are Here).
The other Challenge is about Liberating Soul from our Beliefs and Structures around it, and instead Approaching it through Self-Appreciation. Merging our Identity with Soul involves Recognizing that we’re Surrounded by Vast Crowds of Other Souls, including the Souls in the Multitude of “Inanimate” Objects we Interact with every day. I’ve been finding myself Noticing my Pattern of trying to Rush through a Task to get to the next one, only to find myself Sabotaged by my Inattention to the Present Task. Like the simple Task of tossing something in the Garbage Can, seeing it Bounce off the lid and fall to the ground, while I Habitually curse it for not following my wishes. So I have to Apologize, Slow Down, and Pay Attention to the Task. If it was a Sport, the Adage would be Don’t Take Your Eye Off the Ball! 2
2 Uranus (Soul ) in 18 Taurus (A Vehicle for Spirit ) T-Squaring Saturn Stationary (Emphatically The Most Important Thing) in 19 Aquarius (Half Participant in but Half Observer of the Apocalypse, thus able to Define Alternatives) Opposite Sappho (Self-Love) in 21 Leo (Slavishly Devoted to Acknowledging the Sacred Light in Everything).
There is a Caveat in this Challenge. It’s a Mystery School. If we think we Understand it, we’re Wrong, we haven’t looked behind Appearances. We have to Let Go of What We Think We Know, and PIAVA a Deeper Grokking. The Relationship between Self-Love and The Most Important Thing that we need to Grok here, in order to Clear Ego enough to Allow Soul to Merge with it, resides in a Higher Dimension than our 2D Mind can grasp. Not Surprising, really. It’s 5D we’re Craving here, after all.
For instance, the Deer. They’ve taken over the yard. Double Fences no longer work, they go over them in stride, without even seeming to Labor. I’ve put the Fear of Power Tools in them with my Weed Whacker, but I have to Actively Chase them with it to get them to Pay Attention. Otherwise they just Loiter around looking like “Who’s this Lunatic yelling at us?” I’ve crossed off the FREE APPLES from the Sign in front and replaced it with FREE VENISON, but they pretend that they can’t read. I know intellectually that Resilience in 5D involves Cooperation with Nature and All of Her People, but I obviously need to discover the Missing Codes to make that Work. I’ve Listened for the Thrush Knocking Twice at Sunset, but most of the Birds have left town.3
3 The Yin Gate Mystery School in the chart below is betrayed by the twin green Xs next to each other. The heavy lines mark out (1) the two red-triangle T-Squares, (2) the two green-wedge Fingers of the Goddess that make the T-Squares into Diamond Stars and render them Self-Resolving, as long as we Let Them Work through their Program without Interference, and (3) the two blue-triangle Grand Trines that render the T-Squares Doubly and Triply Self-Resolving (Triply because the Grand Trines Connect planets in both T-Squares). Consequently, three sides of the blue “Golden” Rectangle that surrounds the two green Xs are marked in lighter blue lines.
