Midlife Transits

Saturn’s going direct in Virgo today. Take a look at this post if you want to see what that means in general. Below is information for your particular sun sign.

Here’s an example of how to do a short little horoscope for yourself using keywords. (I have a list of keywords on the Practical Astrology home page. Scroll down to see them.) Also, if this mini horoscope seems off, you can look at the one for your rising sign if you know it.

Okay, so our keyword for Saturn in Virgo is going to be gloomy or gloominess, since that’s what Saturn in Virgo has seemed to bring. If there are people out there not having a gloomy time with the Saturn in Virgo portion of their lives, they’re not telling me about it.

Virgo represents your solar 6th house.  Keywords for the 6th house are health and job.

So Saturn going direct in the solar 6th house on May 16 could mean: a break in the case regarding a gloomy matter about your health or job. Let’s say you were literally suffering from depression (can happen with Saturn in the 6th). Around the 16th, you tell your medical provider things are just not working for you. Your medical provider adjusts your medication and you finally start to feel like yourself again.

Or let’s say you have been applying for a new job. Nothing but gloom out there in the job market. Around the 16th, you get your first hint of a break in the case. A suitable job finally opens up for you to apply for!

Things like that can happen. Maybe not those exact things, but things like that. Again, take a look at Practical Astrology if these keywords don’t suit.

Saturn

Saturn goes direct May 16. Saturn in Virgo been’s a pretty gloomy little planetary placement, coinciding as it has with the crash in the real estate market in the US, and, not so coincidentally, with the crash in real estate markets around the world. It’s not been bursting with good news, this transit hasn’t.

Not only that, Saturn’s been picking fights with Uranus off and on since it entered Virgo in September 07, and it’s hardly jolly to watch these two planets fight. They’re enemies from way back. Saturn is always suspicious, perhaps with good reason, that Uranus is out to overthrow everything he’s built. In fact, the last time they met, on election day November 2008, Uranus in the person of Barack Obama (Aquarius Ascendant, ruled by Uranus, representing change) soundly beat Saturn in the person of John McCain (Virgo sun, famous old person).

Saturn’s going to be in an even grumpier mood when he moves into Libra, since he’ll be greatly annoyed not only with Uranus when it moves into Aries, but also with Pluto in Capricorn. It’s easy to see why Saturn’s not the most popular kid on the astrological block, even if he does have all those neato rings to look at.

But…since Saturn goes direct on the 16th, lots of us may get a break from the gloom. May is already shaping up to be a relatively optimistic month overall, and Saturn going direct only adds to the general lightening of the atmosphere.

How so? Well, when a planet goes direct, people who have been affected by difficult transits from the planet in question often get a break in the case. For example, let’s say your sun is at 16 degrees Gemini. Saturn would have been in a square to your sun since October of 2008. The result could easily have been some kind of ongoing gloom about something having to do with your home. Let’s say it lost a bunch of its value in the real estate crash and that has left you feeling like your overpriced mortgage is more of a burden than its worth. It’s all you think about. How are you going to get out from under this mortgage?

And then…the Obama administration does something that’s supposed to help homeowners like you, and you tentatively and hesitantly apply for a refinance–and then worry. You get turned down and freak out. Then, just after Saturn goes direct, you pitch a fit with your banker, whine and scream, and your banker says, ‘I think we have a program that will help you.’ Lo and behold it does, and your transit of misery ends. Not so gloomy….the load lightens.

Not everyone will get a break in the case in the days around the 16th, but lots of people will. One little home mortgage modification doesn’t solve all the problems of the world; your house is still worth less than you’d like. But it sure does help. Even John McCain is bound to perk up.

Now, for an extra-special treat, I’m going to post little mini-horoscopes for each of the signs, so you can get a glimpse of what Saturn going direct might mean for you. Go to the free monthly horoscopes page for your sign and enjoy.

A difficult transit to the sun is when you say to yourself “The problem with my life is not my circumstances. It’s me!” I know this because I’m having a difficult transit to the sun right now.

You’re having a difficult transit to the sun right now if you were born between say the 12th and 18th or so of February, March, May, June, August,  November or December. You’re also having a difficult transit to the sun if you were born around the 20th to 23rd of December, March, June, or September. I’ll put this another way: a certain percentage of people in every single sign are having a difficult transit to their suns.

So a lot of you are gonna want to start fixing yourselves. If you want some help dealing with your difficult transit to the sun, you can send me an email if you want full on services. If you just want to let off steam, then post a comment.  Good luck to all of us!