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Astrology Alphabet
by Bernadette Brady
Continued
from Part I
Jupiter
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Key Principle: expansion
of the world view, growth, movement.
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Rate of travel through
the zodiac: about 30° a year.
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Time to travel through a
chart: 12 years.
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Use in predictive work:
mainly for its ability to make transits and receive progressions.
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Figures: grandfather,
teacher, guru, traveler, adventurer.
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When Jupiter is being
emphasized by dynamic astrology, there are going to be changes to your
worldview. What you are learning, what you are mastering, what you believe
in are all areas that can be affected. Jupiter is the energy of
expansiveness, whether you like it or not. It takes joy in the big picture
and will influence life by the desire to expand the individual’s world.
The outward effect of this can be to bring study (mental expansion) or
travel (physical expansion of the worldview) into your life. If it is
impossible for the world to expand due to the life circumstance, then
Jupiter will simply change the life circumstance so that an expansion can
occur. This may not be a joyful event.
In addition, it would seem
that people with a strong natal Jupiter (or who have a large dollop of
Sagittarius in the chart) find that transits from or progressions to Jupiter
are too excessive, leading to obsessive, manic types of overreactions which
generally leave them exhausted at the end of the period.
Saturn
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Key Principle:
structure, responsibility, commitment, authority, building; to take
shape and form; consolidation of one’s position in life.
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Rate of movement through
the zodiac: about 12° per year.
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Time to travel through a
chart: about 29 years.
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Use in predictive work:
in both giving and receiving transits as well as receiving progressions.
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Figures: any person or
group who can wield authority over you. Individuals who intimate.
Individuals or groups for which you are responsible
Saturn is the planet of
material form. Its issues are about being here now, being a physical human
being in a physical body coping with our physical needs and dealing with the
consequences of previous physical actions. It would seem at times that
Saturn is the nemesis of the human race. For, if there is going to be
productive or useful growth (Jupiter) there must be a time of pause, and
consolidation—a time of restraint, a time of testing. Since all life as we
know it is subject to this pulse of expansion, contraction, then the
indicator of the times of contraction—Saturn—becomes a very important
planet in the astrologer’s toolbox.
Thus whether it is giving or
receiving, in predictive work, it is always strongly felt. When Saturn is
making a contact to the personal planets, it suggests periods of having to
accept the consequences of one’s actions. In its interaction with the
outer planets, Saturn produces landmarks in the map of a person’s life,
showing the times and ways that the individual will struggle against the
weight of the physical world and its needs in the search for awareness.
When people are young
(pre-Saturn return), Saturn contacts are usually experienced as limiting and
restricting, even possibly intimidating. The Saturnian figures, symbolically
father, the law, teacher, or boss, come to the surface during the contact to
enable the person to be exposed to restrictions in order to learn lessons of
responsibility and containment. These same contacts may yield welcome
increases in responsibility (job promotion) or stability in the life for a
mature individual.
Whatever the stage in life,
a Saturn transit will have a common theme of work, hard work. Under a Saturn
contact, a person is held to account, for better or for worse. The following
is a guideline to the transits of Saturn:
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Saturn-Sun: increase of
responsibility or being “under the thumb”.
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Saturn-Moon: loneliness,
isolation, feeling unsupported; needing to consolidate resources.
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Saturn-Mercury: serious
decisions, burdensome paperwork, study.
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Saturn-Venus: making or
breaking commitments in relationships; restrictions upon financial
affairs.
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Saturn-Mars: arthritis,
physical restraint, physical injury, being exhausted, hard labor.
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Saturn-Jupiter:
controlled expansion.
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Saturn-Saturn: major
life phase cycle.
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Saturn-Uranus:
frustration, slow progress in achieving new goals. Doing something which
is ground breaking.
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Saturn-Neptune: illness,
tiredness, depletion of resources, despair, to be without hope. This is
the major signifier of health problems in predictive astrology.
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Saturn-Pluto: blocked
energy leading to outbursts that could be violent; melancholy, darkness
of feelings; being in a “black hole”.
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Saturn-North Node:
taking responsibility with a group; taking on a fated commitment which
is part of the life journey.
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Saturn-South Node:
increase in responsibilities to do with family or “tribe”; fated,
karmic bonds are changed in such a way that the person has to carry a
greater load.
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Saturn-Ascendant: taking
on greater responsibilities; being seen as capable of handling
authority; given authority.
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Saturn-Descendant:
reviewing and changing commitments in relationships, either business or
personal. Being realistic about the nature of a relationship or business
partnership.
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Saturn-MC: greater
responsibility in the career; being seen to stand on one’s own feet.
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Saturn-IC: family
commitments which tie a person to the home; possible problems with the
father figure.
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Saturn-Vertex/Anti-vertex:
encountering authority figures, or encountering a long-awaited
responsibility.
The Outer Planets
The three outer planets
(Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto) tend to belong more to the collective rather
than to the individual. Particularly with transits, they take on a
generational flavor. For example, natal Neptune receiving a conjunction from
transiting Pluto will be occurring to everybody born within a twelve-month
period. Everyone may have the transit but few would be aware of it. Even a
Mars transit squaring natal Pluto will be affecting your generation. Watch
for the expression of the energy in the world of fashion, on the nightly
news, or in the papers, but don’t look for it in an individual’s chart
unless that individual is a world leader in fashion or politics, and so on.
However, when the outer
planets form relationships to the inner natal planets, they all challenge,
in some manner, the Saturn structure that exists in that area of the person’s
life.
Saturn and Jupiter can be
seen as a harbor mouth; inside the harbor, we can control the sea, break
waters, piers, docks, and so on. However, beyond the harbor the ship is
exposed to the uncontrollable open sea. Jupiter beckons us out of the
harbor, Saturn tells us to be well-prepared for the journey, and Uranus,
Neptune, and Pluto are the open sea—the collective. No matter how well
prepared the vessel, events can and will occur.
Uranus
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Key Principle: fast
unexpected change; a turnaround, an awakening. Freedom. The sudden storm
at sea.
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Rate of travel through
the zodiac: about 4° per year.
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Time to travel through a
chart: about 84 years.
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Use in predictive work:
generally used for its ability to make transits and receive
progressions.
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Figures: any person who
is considered to be unconventional, independent, chaotic, eccentric, or
rebellious. In addition the exciting person, the person who brings
change. Intellectual and or non-committed.
Uranus is about change,
unexpected, seemingly without pattern. The desire to break patterns of
responsibility. Not necessarily to be free of the responsibility but rather
just to be free. The wild card, electric, weird, fast, non-emotional,
life-in-the-fast-lane. The energy of this planet is chaos. This may be
welcomed, or may be feared. Spontaneous change by way of a general
non-emotional reaction, because the individual does not have the luxury of
time between events to brood or ponder. A ship in a storm does not have time
to meditate on the problem.
When Saturn has our life
firmly in its grasp via order, routine, habits, and life style, Uranus will
come thundering into our world, to alter, change, or confront us with the
vulnerability of our “nice safe secure systems”.
The energy of Uranus seems
to radiate out of a person when it is strongly transiting a chart. Light
bulbs can pop, electrical failures and computer hiccups seem to trail behind
us like unwanted guests! The following are simple guidelines to the types of
expressions of Uranus in transit.
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Uranus-Sun: the sudden
desire for freedom and re-classification of the self.
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Uranus-Moon: release
from personal emotions; events happening so fast that the person does
not have time to emotionally react; freedom from emotions. Release from
the conventional view of mother/child.
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Uranus-Mercury: sudden
ideas, changes in speech, encountering a foreign language, new books,
and so on.
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Uranus-Venus: changes to
socializing patterns; falling in or out of love; changes in financial
situation.
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Uranus-Mars: haste,
accidents, anger, sexual energy, passion.
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Uranus-Jupiter: when we
have transiting Uranus conjunct transiting Jupiter the community
expresses explosive energy— brushfires and the like. On the personal
level, this combination can be exciting but not too life-changing.
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Uranus-Saturn: see
Saturn.
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Uranus-Uranus:
"re-evaluation of life" cycle.
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Uranus-Neptune: very
little manifestation on the personal level; signifies inspiration,
change for the better, a flash of enlightenment on the collective
generational level. A hopeless case with no apparent solution can become
resolved.
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Uranus-Pluto: another
generational transit that may have little effect on the individual.
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Uranus-North Node:
sudden encounters with groups or people that expand our world, bringing
changes that redirect us on our life path.
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Uranus-South Node:
changing the “tribal” structure; an old issue can surface and be
cleared.
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Uranus-Ascendant: sudden
changes to the person’s life; immense drive for change/freedom; change
of name, changes to the physical body.
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Uranus-Descendant: rapid
change to relationship patterns: new type or style of relationship,
sudden forming or breaking of a relationship; an awaking to one’s true
needs in relationship.
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Uranus-MC: sudden change
of job or career, changes to social status, for better or for worse.
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Uranus-IC: changes in
the family or where the person is living; changes to the physical home.
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Uranus-Vertex/Antivertex:
encountering people who instigate change; this change can be welcomed or
feared.
Continued
on the next page:
Neptune; Pluto: North Node; South Node
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