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Today let’s get a line on the planet Saturn. Saturn is rarely loved like Jupiter. With Jupiter, for the sake of balance, I hinted that we might want to tone down our optimism about old Jove, a Jupiterian tendency, and to recognize that overdo is not always a blessing.
  
I think we need to approach Saturn from the opposite direction. Many people dread seeing Saturn coming. They make a cross with their index fingers, wear garlic and treat old Chronos like a vampire that’s going to suck all the fun out of their life. Saturn has his true positives, and we’ll go for balancing the fishing boat on this one, too. (The only planet that’s probably less popular is Pluto.)
     Let’s take a look now at Saturn, the planet of discipline, structure, time, wisdom, practicality, grounding, efficiency, authority, restraint, guilt, caution and aging. (If you’re not having fun yet, don’t worry. You will.)
If you’re joining us in progress, here’s the background post about our May Planetary Fishing Trip. 

   Saturn Fishing Instructions
1. We’ll start with a Saturn appreciation exercise. Imagine a crucial part of your life having no limits or order. Maybe your love life, parenthood or job. The one I like to use is driving my car. Visualize no traffic lights, no turn lanes and general chaos that would leave you with two types of road: freeway and free-for-all. How would you feel? Not very safe is my guess. 
     Now think of the House where Saturn resides in your chart. What does Saturn do in the positive to bring safety, order grounding and practicality to this part of your life? Feel free to find other Saturn attributes that are likable. One of my favorite images of Saturn is the good father, one who helps you out when you’re in a jam, always has something wise to say, and makes you feel like your feet are planted firmly on the ground in his presence.

2.  Research time! Go to your search engine. Find out about the god Saturn. What are some things you like and dislike about what you’re reading? Any new revelations? One I like: Saturn’s reign was depicted as a Golden Age of abundance and peace.(Wikipedia) No wonder those Saturn-ruled Capricorns do so well in business.
3. About your Saturn and its sign:

a.   Does your Saturn sign, in your opinion, support your favorite and least favorite facets of this planet’s expression? b.   What quality of Saturn would you like to develop more in your life? c.    What’s the element of your Saturn? (Earth, Air, Fire or Water) How does that quality help or hinder the quality you want to develop in 4b? d.   What’s the quality of Saturn’s relationship to your other planets? Mostly compatible or a struggle? e.   How many planets make a major aspect to Saturn [1]? f.    How many of the planets are in close aspect, within 3 degrees or less? g.   Do these aspects make “doing Saturnian things” easier or more challenging?
 4.  Who was “Saturn” in your life? What did you learn from him or her? What do you want to keep from that experience and what do you want to toss?


Extra Experience: Look at one of your lingering guilt trips today with the practical side of Saturn. Do you really still need to go there? Alternate experience or in addition: Take an opportunity to share wisdom with someone today. How does it feel?
Next week we’re onto Chiron and Neptune, both in Pisces now—so the fishing should be great!
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Photo Credit: Saturnus Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio 16th century, Wikipedia, public domain. 

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[1]This is often easiest to find and view in summary in a matrix on the chart wheel page or in one of the “reports” offered, if you have astrology software.


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Rune of the Day:

HAGALAZ, pronounced Hag-all-az, literal meaning is hail. This rune is a power rune, indicating radical change and upheaval, whether through destructive natural forces, life challenging events, and challenges. This rune helps people not only to overcome these troubles and reduce the negative consequences, but to also learn a lesson. These changes are necessary in order to strengthen one. And sometimes, its best to start over from the ground up in order to build a stronger foundation. In magick, this rune can be used for protection, to attract good luck, and to obtain good results.

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“In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.” ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

Yesterday Angelina Jolie told the world she'd had an operation that reduces her risk of cancer from 87% to 5%. She'd had a double mastectomy.
That one of the world's most beautiful women should choose to have both breasts removed is a powerful notion. Jolie in particular has been hailed as a living embodiment of Venus -- a ripe peach of a woman, who exudes the kind of sexuality that melts celluloid and makes strong men, and women, weak at the knees. So for her to remove those potent symbols of femaleness – her breasts – has, well, impact.


From bad girl to mad girl, to femme fatale, to single mother, to philanthropist, to partner, to mater familias: Angelina Jolie's public profile has evolved dizzyingly over the past two decades. While some celebrities respond to publicity by retreating, Jolie looked the paparazzi cameras dead in the eye and kept on walking straight towards them.

She's brave. Jupiter-Moon-Mars in Aries.

Her decision to write an op-ed piece in The New York Times about the double mastectomy that she's undergone this year is another example of both her brilliant handling of her extraordinary fame and her guts. Her choice to have the operation and to talk about it could well save lives, because she truly can be that much talked about thing, a role model.


Looking at her chart, you can see that she's bound to be known for something more than acting. The magnetic film presence is in the Sun-Neptune opposition, with Neptune in the 5th house of acting. Neptune is, of course, the planet of film and illusion. It's also the mirror, so her Sun shines right at it.

But the emphasis in her chart is on the Midheaven and the Ascendant. That is her status and her persona and in those she is blessed by the gods. Venus, the goddess of beauty, sits right on her Ascendant exact to the degree, and Jupiter, the king, is also exactly on her Midheaven - to the degree, crowning her with very high status. That's quite an astonishing double dose of luck, so I checked the provenance of this chart, which gets an AA rating from Astrodatabank. Apparently it's kosher.

Jupiter on the MC makes her loom large in the public imagination, but that Jupiter also conjuncts her feisty, ferocious Aries Moon. In fact that Moon is moving away from fiery Mars towards Jupiter. Her emotions must be enormous, towering, sudden, violent.

She says that she spent years self-harming with blades and with a partner. This was a pretty literal way of living her chart. Mars rules sharp things, and its proximity to her Moon gives the blade direct access to her emotions. Her 14 or so tattoos are also evidence of the power of sharpness, and drawing blood, for her.

Nevertheless, the Mars-Moon contact comes to the fore again with this latest news. The Moon, because of its rulership of Cancer, rules breasts. Transiting Uranus, the planet one would associate with advanced medical intervention (I've seen it with c-sections), is currently at 11° Aries, the midpoint between Jolie's natal Mars and Moon, and it's been hanging around this point all spring. Transiting Pluto, the planet of excision, has been squaring that same point from her sixth house of health.

So the Pluto-Uranus square is right at the heart of her chart right now, bringing greater pain, greater fame and greater meaning to her life.

She won an Oscar for this role in Girl, Interrupted.Her article about the surgery was published as the Moon moved into Cancer, its own sign, creating a grand trine between the North Node in Scorpio, destiny in the sign of deep surgery, and Chiron in Pisces, the wounded healer in the sign of mass consciousness.  What is more, Chiron is currently exactly conjuncting Jolie's Dark Moon Lilith at 13° Pisces. Chiron is about both scarring and healing.

Jolie has said, in another context: “I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.” In fact, she has spoken about scars quite a surprising amount.

In a previous incarnation, her Girl, Interrupted phase, Jolie was embodying the energy of the Lilith. In her natal chart, her Sun and Moon are also both at 13°, square and semi-sextile to Lilith in Pisces. This must be the root of some of her mesmerising, voracious and vulnerable, sexual allure.

Her Sun and Moon, her nature and her core self, also form a so-called Mystic Rectangle with Neptune, the movies, and Pluto, power. This is, of course, not mystical at all, but shows her true temporal power. Jolie has the ability to influence millions of people with her actions and her money. And with this power comes huge responsibility.

Finally, Jolie's North Node is at 0° Sagittarius, the archer. There's an eclipse at 4° Sag on the 25th of May, the last of the Gemini/Sagittarius season. Jolie's Sun is in Gemini and her partner Brad Pitt's Sun is in Sagittarius. They have been through a rapid evolutionary leap in the past 18 months or so, I suspect. 

That North Node, her destiny and life direction, is in the 5th house of children and acting, so that's good. It makes one exact aspect -- to Pallas Athena, the warrior goddess at 0° Aries, the very first degree of the zodiac. This is the pioneering degree, the beginning, the first step, the breakthrough. Women warriors in ancient times, the Amazons, each removed one breast so that it would not get in the way of a drawn bow. And it also makes an aspect to Jolie's Venus-Ascendant.

For the public, this eclipse definitively marks the end of one type of role she was modelling, and the beginning of the next. Aries MC-Jupiter-Moon-Mars is a hero. Gemini Sun has many faces. Which one will it be this time?

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