Midlife Transits

October is one of those big deal astrological months, because Saturn will leave Virgo for the first time since September 2007. It will move into Libra, the sign opposite yours, on October 29, where it will put a lot of emphasis on the word ‘and‘ in your life. Any time you’ve got a major planet in the sign opposite yours, you’re being asked to figure out how to get around the either/or thinking we all love so much so that you can scooch over toward ‘this and that’ thinking. Saturn in Libra will give you a real workout (a challenging workout) in that department, as it encourages your normally decisive sign to weigh alternatives and nuances.

Example: it may seem perfectly reasonable to you as an Aries to prefer pens to pencils or vice versa or one pen over another or to have an deep fondness for or dislike of Sharpies. Saturn in Libra will do its determined best to frustrate this by introducing you to the world of working with both pens and pencils, your favorite brand and someone else’s, with Sharpies and their alternatives. It will most likely do this through the medium of a significant other that you will be motivated to cooperate with even when you think it’s going to kill you. But you may also find this theme surfacing in other areas over the next 3 years.

As if that’s not enough, Saturn will also be trying to teach you good manners! Libra’s natural instinct is to find your enthusiastic blunt straightforwardness to be not quite tactful and indirect enough for its tastes. So it will try to teach you the benefits of diplomacy. This is going to be really interesting because, come June 2010, Uranus will enter your own sign (yay!) for a few months, where it will turn up the volume on your inner voice, and it’s going to want to shout Saturn down. Plus, you’ll get a nice, warm dose of Jupiter to give you self-assurance. A lot to look forward to in the next 12 months.

In the meantime, rest up. September was a brutal month astrologically, and October is not nearly as bad. You could use the break, and you’ll get one. So take advantage of it.

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