(October 13, 2009) - Now, typically I ain't one to adhere to astrology, but I can enjoy arbitrarily defining life's more miasmic moments and challenging aeons using the same astronomical tools as the next ancient Babylonian, Roman, Mayan, or what-have-you guy.
And so it is interesting to me that the two planets, Saturn and Venus, will appear only a half degree apart in an early Tuesday morning sky come mid-October. So, in addition to offering the exquisitive and graceful view afforded by conjunctions of sharp, bright, relatively close objets d'celeste, it may even be useful to note that Saturn is associated in astrology with the principles of limitation, restrictions, boundaries, practicality and reality, crystallizing and structures. Saturn governs ambition, career, authority and hierarchy, and conforming social structures. It concerns a person's sense of duty, discipline and responsibility, and their physical and emotional endurance during hardships. Saturn is also considered to represent the part of a person concerned with long-term planning. "The Return of Saturn" is said to mark significant events in one's life.
Of course, you already knew that Venus is connected variously to love, romance, fertility, and the personification of womanhood. And "love" or "fertility" do not necessarily have fixed definition. Also, Venus is known as the bearer of light and the bringer of darkness, the latter of which can be translated into the Latin as "Lucifer" -- ya know, the one what got cast out of them thar' heavens? Ishtar, Isis, or Aphrodite -- regardless of which traditional lore one may decide to attach to the planet, to consider its conflux with Saturn with all of its connotations can be an exercise in identifying one's own power to decide to begin or end (or to make the decision to postpone decision-making) one's relationships with the Nouns of Life, ie, people, places, things, or ideas.
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