Astro Stories

  Saturn sets up boundaries. In Pisces… Could there be boundaries made of water? I see a castle of old, with a princess locked up in the highest tower, walls, and a moat around them.  A prince is fishing whilst his faithful horse is taking swimming lessons.  I see an ocean, and people in love, or believing they are, living on two separate continents. They are having a virtual relationship on the internet but they are just dreamers.  I imagine a mysterious place, the Island of Avalon. It’s magically protected. If you’re not invited, you simply won’t find the way.  Lost in the mist you’ll end up back to square one, in Glastonbury.  If Avalon serves as a metaphor for the sacred place of vulnerability within,  Saturn in Pisces protects it with smokescreens, illusions, camouflage. If you’re a wallflower, you know how to make yourself invisible. If you’re wandering in the wilderness, hungry and trying to catch  fish in a river (how often did you experie...

The Sun is the Great Spotlight, but Saturn is in exile in Leo. Leo is a sign where things and people show. They may show up, show off, show how to do things or how they work, they may be a role model, a hero, a dad, one to look up to, a king or a queen… Saturn on the other hand is a naturally shrinking energy: it crystallises, condenses, hardens. It obscures and cools down. Saturn is fear, or prudence. It means discipline, the work that is done behind the scenes with patience. Its best expressions are achievement and mastery, the rewards of hard work. A friend of mine was complaining in front of his four year old son about not having money left. The boy gave him the solution: “Just go to the cash machine!” This made us laugh. Saturn is being grown up enough to know that money doesn’t grow on trees. Leo loves having fun, but Saturn says “But…” Some people become artists, dancers, musicians or acrobats. When they perform, you believe that gravity has been cancelled. It takes a lot ...

I have a chart here with Saturn in Aries in the 12th house.  It gives me a headache...  A headache is a relevant interpretation. Aries rules the head, Saturn is often painful, Saturn in Aries gives me a headache. Literally or metaphorically.  Metaphorically a headache means struggling with thinking. Thinking is usually associated with Gemini and Mercury. I won’t contradict that, but the exciting difficulty with astrology - is that it is never so simple.  Mars and Aries rule the head, and thinking doesn’t happen in the lungs as far as I know. We often hear that Mercury rules the mind so how does this work with the association of Mars and Aries ruling the head?... let’s just refine a bit:   Mercury connects. There is an expression: connecting the dots. Mercury does just that.  The mind does a lot of connecting, so much so that we end up associating Mercury and the mind. In reality, all planets are involved in everything.  So what is the Aries or Mar...

Ju piter and Saturn can be seen as two faces of the same coin. Called "social planets" they symbolize the attitudes, beliefs or values we hold as members of a society  with its rules and laws... A "code of honour", a certain attitude towards traditions and customs, thoughts about duties and rights are exemple of social values. Venusian values are tastes, likes and dislikes. Social values harmonize more or less easily with individual preferences...  Beyond human society, Jupiter and Saturn speak about our religious, ethical or spiritual attitudes in regard to  our place in the "Great scheme of things".   If Jupiter expands whatever it touches like a "Miracle Grow" planet, Saturn does the opposite. Saturn contracts, tightens, structures, tests, shrinks, condenses, slows down...   At the level of feelings, Jupiter brings about enthusiasm and optimism, and Saturn fear and... let's say realism!   Saturn was called the "Great Malefic" by ...