Saturn Exits Leo and Enters Virgo
Depression Constraint Worry Debt Loneliness Loss
The planet Saturn, the astrological symbol of limitations and heavy burdens, exits the sign of Leo and enters Virgo on 2 September 2007 at 13:48:45 UT, not to return to the sign of the Lion for another 25 years or so. What is notable about the sky at the moment of Saturn’s ingress (entry) into Virgo is a massive Cosmic Cross in Common Signs, involving seven of the ten planets. The planetary formation known as the Cosmic Cross features planets in all four of the signs of one quadruplicity (in this case the Common Signs - Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces) and suggests a situation in which a person feels hemmed in by obstacles on all sides; a problem resolved in one quarter turns into a challenge from another quarter; the person feels besieged and suffers from constant heavy limitations in one form and another. This is the condition of the heavens as Saturn enters Virgo. Because the beginnings of anything influence the whole course and outcome of its future, this indicates a nearly three-year period of relatively strong limitations and challenges for those people having a number of planets in the Common Signs, and is apt to be a time of continual difficulties and frustrations for them until the planet leaves Virgo on 21 July 2010. How the passage of Saturn through Virgo will manifest in the life of any particular person depends, of course, on the individual’s particular horoscope.
Saturn is the outermost of the planets normally visible to the naked eye and so, until the time of the discovery of Uranus, his orbit was the outer limit of the solar system and the planet, as an astrological symbol, implied the limits and limitations of any situation, including a human life. Limitations can take many forms. Health can deteriorate; mental depression can cripple the ability to act; prison can restrain our personal liberty and ability to move about and live; there can be financial setbacks or conditions of want, and so on. Also, any of these forms of limitation can be and usually are mirrored in areas of life that seem unrelated to the original cause, as when money problems crop up in a marriage relationship to become an issue, or health problems are reflected in financial loss and huge debt, with its associated worry and desperation. The problems and frustrations associated with Saturn often cause a person to see himself as isolated and cut off from support and solace, resulting in feelings of loneliness. Saturn is the planet of reality, of material substance, and the cold hard facts of life. He brings burdens, sadness, heavy responsibility and the imposition of obligations and duties that we would rather not assume. Where Saturn passes there is constraint. He unearths things from the past, and brings an end to present situations. His effects are permanent. Underlying all of these more or less external manifestations of Saturn’s power is the deeper spiritual (call it psychological) need to learn to face reality on its own terms without attempting escape into delusion and fancy. Such virtues as patience, dependability, longsuffering, endurance, strength in the face of adversity, the ability to carefully and methodically handle real-life difficulties, and the development of true individuality are built into the personality when we successfully meet Saturn’s challenges. These things are the reward for passing the tests of Saturn.
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