Saturn Enters Gemini! No, you're not seeing double. Yes, this column recently discussed the energies of Jupiter moving into Gemini. Seeing double can sometimes be what you deal with when working with Gemini?s energies. Just as Taurus spent time earlier this year experiencing the dual presence of Saturn and Jupiter, now it is Gemini?s turn. Saturn moves much slowly than Jupiter, on average it spends 2.5 years in a sign, and it will take two years and 10 months to move through Gemini, departing in June of 2003. It is entering Gemini on 9 August, at 4:25PM HST.
So what does this added planetary influence in Gemini bring? Especially since it is rather opposite in its energetic focus from Jupiter. Where Jupiter is expansive, Saturn constricts. Where Jupiter has humor, Saturn can be pessimistic. For the next year, these two disparate energies are going to kick Geminis right in their most challenging points -- integration of their different sides, holding a focus, and being clearer with expressing themselves in verbal and written communication.
Saturn really works well in the earth signs. Saturn loves to be in solid ground, which is Taurus? territory. It makes wonderful plans and patterns, builds foundations so that the structures, patterns, and designs may be built upon them. Other areas of Saturn?s forte are: stability, caution, defensive, experience, moderation, discipline. Builder of crystalline forms and the destroyer of outdated ones. Some of the negative traits are: fear, suppression, miserly, revengeful, bitter, rigid, limited, selfish, narrow-minded. The fear aspect of Saturn is what most people must deal with on a regular basis.
Also, it is one of the gateways to determining past life data in the chart. It is especially easy to delineate that other life information if there is a conjunction with another planet, or other strong and narrow orbed aspect.
Now it is entering an air sign, and it is going to bring its ?solidity? to an element that cannot be seen. We can feel air as the wind blows it by. We can remove air and make a vacuum. How do you "pin a cloud down" as the nuns sang in "Sound of Music" is part of the question of this transit.
Gemini?s Basic Qualities
As I mentioned above, Gemini is an Air sign and the quality is mutable, which means changeable. A perfect match -- as air is always changing, moving, flowing. Blowing tree leaves, grains heads bobbing, tossing that tumbleweed across the street as you drive down, and throwing the spindrift back up into the wave. All of these are just some of the ways we see the variable quality of air. Its keywords are "I think" and this energy is here to communicate in all forms. Singing, writing, speaking, and so on.
Creativity is at the forefront of positive Gemini energies. Versatile, open-minded, active, mediator, sensitive, alert, restless, responsive, good with their fingers are other traits that are possessed by the first air sign. Worrisome is at the top of the list for the troubles of Gemini. Indecisive, superficial, nervous, impatient, talkative (with very little content), into the thick of thin things are some of the other words to describe how Gemini energies can manifest.
Looking back to the prior two transits of Saturn in Gemini, we find it was last present from June 1971 to August 1973, and prior to that was May of 1942 to June of 1944. Cultural history reminds us that the early ?70?s saw a continuing of student unrest on college campuses in the USA -- protests and ?sit-ins?, with communications (magazines and radio) becoming more ?liberated? in design and content. The prior cycle was during the early years of W.W.II where communications became quite critical -- "loose lips sink ships", coding and decoding messages for the war effort. Where there was necessary restraint in the 40?s, the opposite was true in the 70?s. These are the two faces of the duality of Gemini. Here we are in the beginning of the new decade, century, and millennia with a new cycle beginning. How shall we balance these messages this time around?
Debatable Areas
Are we going to be able as a people to hold a new pattern of communications? There seems to be quite a thrust with many who are no longer willing to hold their tongue and be the doormats they have been in prior times. The first blurbs coming out are not particularly pretty or pleasant, yet these people are expressing their truth. Saturn is asking to re-pattern the mode of communications by being creative and releasing those old forms. A new form of ?perfection?.
Also, there is an overwhelming amount of ?information? available now via this Internet. Will there be another way of working with all this knowledge? A new application of it? A new way of filing it all? Perhaps so... and we will see this created here on this amazing electronic ?net? that links the world instantaneously.
Perhaps there will be a new thrust for Esperanto, the language created from several other languages, as a "universal" communications tool?
Ponder these concepts for yourself. What do you think may happen during the next three years in the world of communications -- personally, inter-family, community, country, and world? Just for grins, jot a few Saturn in Gemini style ideas down and see how close you are three years from now.
Basic Cycle
Saturn?s transits create patterns over its 28 to 30 year progress around the signs. Every time it conjuncts with one of your planets, it begins a cycle that will bring regular challenges at the squares (at seven and 21 years), and either rewards for your focus and work, or more confrontations at the oppositions (14 years from the conjunction). A commitment to a job, project, or a marriage sets up a "Saturn Cycle" -- and this is where the ?seven year itch? phrases comes from.
Saturn?s shift into Air, the element of the mind, will bring up some mental fears for all of us. If you are familiar with my writings, you know that I urge you to face your fears and, if it is necessary, to have help doing so. We are swiftly moving ahead from old ways of thinking, communicating, and sharing thoughts. This transit will show us how and where, on a very personal level, we each need to let go of these old ways. During this passage, I?ll be addressing Saturn?s impacts to each sign in the horoscope column that appears here at InnerSelf.
May we all walk in beauty.
Malama pono (take care). Namasté.
Recommended book:
"Saturn - A New Look At An Old Devil"
by Liz Greene.
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