This is your life...this is Your Saturn Return...make it good.

Table of Contents: "Saturn Returns~The Private Papers of A Reluctant Astrologer"

"Saturn Returns~The Private Papers of A Reluctant Astrologer"

Chapter One: “It’s never too late to be who you might have been.”


Chapter Two: “And then the knowledge comes to me that I have space within me for a second, timeless larger life.” Rilke


Chapter Three: “I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred…the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.” Ralph Waldo Emerson


Chapter Four: “Amor Fate: The Love of One’s Fate”


Chapter Five: “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave
behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter
another.” ~Anatole France


Chapter Six: “When an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside as fate." Carl Jung


Chapter Seven: “Simple Grace”


Chapter Eight: “The Devil is in the details…”


Chapter Nine: “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. Peter Ustinov


Chapter Ten: “If you don’t get lost, there’s a chance you may never get found.” Paul McNeil


Chapter Eleven: “We are constantly invited to be who we really are.” Henry David Thoreau


Chapter Twelve: “Whatever you can do or think you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it” Goethe


Chapter Thirteen: “I live my life in growing orbits…I am circling around God…and I still don’t know if I am a falcon, or a storm or a great song.” Rilke


Chapter Fourteen: “Whenever two or more are gathered in my name, there is love.” Jesus


Chapter Fifteen: “The Dutchman’s Tale”


Chapter Sixteen: “Entering Sacred Ground: Carl Jung’s Stone Retreat”


Chapter Seventeen: “The Sunday Afternoon Philosopher’s Club”


Chapter Eighteen: Mirroring: “As Above, So Below.” Hermes Tresmigestus


Chapter Nineteen: “My Barn having burned to the Ground, I can now see the Moon.” Zen Quote


Chapter Twenty: “This is serious,” said Pooh. “I must have an escape.”


Chapter Twenty One: “Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it needs to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new.” ~UrsulaK. LeGuin


Epilogue: “And to die is different from what one supposed, and luckier.” Walt Whitman


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Part Two: Isabelle’s Book: The Saturn Returns


Chapter One: The Saturn Returns:”How to Understand Saturn in your life and chart.
Chapter Two: Saturn in Aries or the First House
Chapter Three: Saturn in Taurus or the Second House
Chapter Four: Saturn in Gemini or the Third House
Chapter Five: Saturn in Cancer or the Fourth House
Chapter Six: Saturn in Leo or the Fifth House
Chapter Seven: Saturn in Virgo or the Sixth House
Chapter Eight: Saturn in Libra or the Seventh House
Chapter Nine: Saturn in Scorpio or the Eighth House
Chapter Ten: Saturn in Sagittarius or the Ninth House
Chapter Eleven: Saturn in Capricorn or the Tenth House
Chapter Twelve: Saturn in Aquarius or the Eleventh House
Chapter Thirteen: Saturn in Pisces or the Twelfth House

Excerpt from "Saturn Returns" : Chapter Thirteen

NorthNodeastrology.com: Excerpt from "Saturn Returns" : Chapter Thirteen: “I live my life in growing orbits, which move out over the things of the world, perhaps I can never achieve the last, but that will b...

Class on Sunday, February 26th, Class on Saturn and Nodes

This Sunday, at 1:00 PM in the Dome at "Soul Centered" on Montgomery St in Ojai, California, I'll be speaking on Saturn, Saturn Returns, and the North and South Nodes. I'll be drawing from my new book: "Saturn Returns; The Private Papers of a Reluctant Astrologer" and "North Node Astrology; Rediscovering your Life Direction and Soul Purpose" Both are available on amazon. Ojai is a delightful mountain village 90 miles north of LA and 45 minutes SE from Santa Barbara...a delightful place to spend the day! Hope to see you....$15 donation.

What's a Saturn Return?

What's a Saturn Return? Make a Change, make it Real, make it Now.

“When an inner situation is not made
conscious, it happens outside as fate.” C.G. Jung

The "Saturn Returns" at ages twenty-nine and fifty-nine are times of great change and opportunity. And so, they can also be times of crisis. These times are about restructuring our lives, and the biggest mistake you can do now is to do nothing. Make a change, make it Real, and make it Now. Saturnian times can feel melancholy and frustrating, but if we act with this archetypal energy and give it what it wants--which is work and restructuring-- you'll get the reward. Long terms. Saturn rewards in the long term, but the short term feeling of having to change and restructure your life in some way is never easy. But stay with it, and do it one step at a time. That's the way Saturn likes to move....like in a 12 step program....slow and steady, every day and with committment. So hang in there, and you'll find this old goat Saturn to be a friend not a foe.

What do you think of when you hear the words: “Know Thyself” and “Nothing in
Excess”? These were the words inscribed above the sacred oracular temple at Delphi, Greece. One might think that by understanding and trying to live by those wise words one might avoid the great troubles in life.

Perhaps they help. Our understanding of these words changes as we age, but
life often plays some nasty tricks on us in the meantime. Perhaps this is why
folks who understand “just a little” astrology view the coming of the Saturn
Returns, at 29 years old and 59 years old with deep sighs. But then, a little
knowledge can be a dangerous thing.

Saturn is an archetypal symbol for a process that asks us to reinvent ourselves and our ways of living. Not so bad!

However in ancient times, when people have fewer choices, Saturn was seen as the
“old malefic” and its passage was viewed with some suspicion. “Saturnian” times
can feel serious, with occasional bouts of melancholy or delay, but Saturn’s
purpose is to re-structure our lives—not to make us miserable. If we don’t
resist its call to change, restructure and reinvent ourselves, we will reap its
rewards. Saturn transits have a way of slowing us down long enough so that we
take a cold hard look at the realities we’ve built up in our lives and find new
ways to become the true author—the authority—in our life. We are finally having
another chance to become who we really are.

Saturn, in mythology, relates to the harvest, rewarding those who have “worked” for the effort it takes. It brings a good harvest if we’re willing to wait, work and endure.

Saturn, acting as the “stern taskmaster” likes nothing better than asking us to take out the garbage (psychological as well as physical) and to dig into the soil (of our psyche)
before we plant the new seeds (of new intentions/new life). Its passage in our life—especially at these times of the Saturn Returns, is when we have a chance for real change and
life-renewing rewards. How fascinating it is that astrologers today are
beginning to see that it is Saturn, not Jupiter, that is truly the planet of
luck and opportunity!

There are two Saturn Returns that happen to everybody: the first is between the ages of twenty-eight and thirty, and the second, between the ages of fifty-eight and sixty. Basically
the Saturn Return permeates the whole time period. So if you’re around 29 years
old, or 59 years old, you’re in it! And as Saturn makes its rounds in our charts
(and lives) roughly every seven years, it will be particularly strong if it
aspects a major planet in your chart as it returns to its natal position.
(Here’s where you do need to see your chart.)

So, all Saturn transits give us times of renewal, but these two times are
often the strongest. Astrologically speaking, the first Saturn return is when we truly come into our Self, as before age 29 we’ve been more reacting to what we were born into, than acting out of our true Self. And the second Saturn return is when we get a chance again to reinvent our
lives as we move into our wisest Self. Ideally at 29 we would stop doing the
same things as we were doing during our twenties, and do something different.
Reinvent yourself!

And the same is true of the Second Saturn Return at 59--the ways we’ve been living up till now, don’t feel as good as they used to—it’s time to take a different route to re-invent yourself.
Wouldn’t it be ideal if people could “retire” from their work at this point? But even without retiring, we can start being “pregnant” with our new truer Self at this time. The Self that will blossom in our sixties.

So even though our culture sees the age of twenty-one as the time of becoming an adult—it is not so for the astrologically minded--for us it’s twenty-nine. And you may get your Social
Security at sixty-five, but it’s at fifty-nine, at the second Saturn Return,
that your true personal and social security comes up for review.

Saturn Returns can be times of rough passage, or harvest, and they’re usually a bit of both. Check out the new book on Saturn Returns on Amazon.com : "Saturn Returns~The Private Papers of a Reluctant Astrologer" by Elizabeth Spring

elizabethspring@aol.com Or for readings: www.elizabethspring.com

"Saturn Returns:" New Book just released on Amazon.com

New Book to be released on amazon.com late December