Marjorie Orr

Author: Marjorie. Date: 01 Jul 2010

The 29 year Saturn cycle round your chart is split into four sections which depending on the chart are seven years roughly each, sometimes less or more depending on the axis. Transiting Saturn from the Midheaven (10th house) to the Ascendant is the most outer time of hard work, ambition, a consolidating peak to all the preparations of the 21 years before.
When Saturn gets to the Ascendant and even slightly before, certain old ambitions become less important and there is need for a re-evaluation. People find they don't want to work 80 hour weeks anymore which is the psyche's hint to wind down and step back slightly for a rethink.
Hyper-ambitious ego-maniacs find Saturn into the first quadrant difficult to handle since they live totally for outer achievement and approbation. So they keep pushing on as before, start making mistakes and finding success doesn't come as easily as it had done in the previous 7 years.
What Saturn really wants is for you to re-balance your life - to come off the ego more and into your centre. To find time for play and emotional matters as well as work. Often people get married and have kids when Saturn is moving through the first quadrant since it fulfils more personal needs.
It needn't mean that life grinds to a halt. Shirley MacLaine stopped movies for a while when her Saturn was in her first quadrant and wrote her books. I always think of Saturn here as a time to find what is really important for you, not for other people.
The last time I had Saturn into my 1st and onwards, I stopped a pole-axing schedule of producing live TV shows and then documentaries, took time out, wrote a novel and started doing astrology.
You do usually have to get your finances in order to make do with slightly less when Saturn moves through the 2nd which is a time of getting priorities straight and realising that money isn't the be all and end all it may have seemed before. But clearly you do need enough to get by so getting organised in advance is usually a good idea.
Sometimes Saturn through the middle of the 1st quadrant (3 houses) also brings up old unresolved psychologically issues. This isn't a negative. More your psyche trying to plumb the depths to find more bits of you which have been left lying on dusty shelves of your unconscious. So when you start emerging usually with Saturn into the 3rd, you move ahead as a slightly different person, hopefully more rounded, with different ambitions. Then you're into the planning phase of the next great Saturn sweep out and upwards in your chart. When it reaches the nadir/IC into your 4th you're ready to go out and engage more fully with the outside world again.

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