posted May 04, 2010 01:40 PM         

The question is posted by one of us long suffering Virgos from Saturn transit.

The girl sounds like I feel!! Enjoy!

Ask Real Astrologers: Should I Build a Bunker?
This week’s question comes from Svetie in Coffs Harbour, Australia:

After three harrowing years of Saturn in Virgo, I’m dreading this retrograde transit. If I’m not mistaken, it was my second Saturn return. Will it treat me a bit gentler during this retrograde, or should I build a bunker now?

Svetie, we all may need a bunker here shortly!

Seriously, you are indeed in a challenging period, but not due to a Saturn return. That happened quite some time ago and is long past. What’s happening now is the conjunction of transiting Saturn and your natal Sun at 26 Virgo.

And that’s not all. Your natal Saturn is at 26 Gemini, so you’re also experiencing a Saturn square. To complicate matters still further, transiting Saturn and Uranus are opposite one another and formed an exact contact at 28 degrees Virgo on April 26. It was the fourth pass of this opposition, and we’ll get a fifth one later this year in Libra and Aries.

Of the five passes of Saturn and Uranus, the one that touched your chart most directly was on Sept. 15, 2009. That was a whopper, no doubt about it. Although some of the same elements are present now, including Mercury retrograde, Saturn has moved past your Sun. On his retrograde path, he will return to 27 degrees Virgo but no further. Sure, that’s way too close for comfort, but you got through the direct hit and lived to tell about it, so you’ll survive the next one.

Uranus is another story. He’ll return to 26 Pisces and will hover around that degree until January 2011. What’s more, he’ll have Jupiter in tow to amplify his disruptive nature. However, all disruption isn’t bad. Wildly exciting developments and growth opportunities can be just as destabilizing as exploding relationships and detonating careers, and they are every bit as possible … make that “likely.”

Fortunately, you’ve got a lot of mutable energy in your natal chart (mutable signs are Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces), and that means you are adaptable and open to change. Still, I don’t doubt that you’re under heavy stress and would like some stability. That probably isn’t going to happen for awhile. You may not need a bunker so much as an RV with all the amenties.

Best of luck to you, Svetie, and thanks so much for writing. Let us know how it goes.

Pat

posted May 04, 2010 02:54 PM         

Unfortunately, asides from my Virgo sun, nothing else in my chart is mutable. Well, unless you count Neptune.

posted May 04, 2010 03:30 PM         

Here is something I built earlier.

posted May 04, 2010 03:33 PM         

Mine was back at the end of 2007, the beginnings of 2008.

I must say, I find myself still trying to recover from that time, Starkiss lol

Now I have t Pluto opposing my Saturn, t Saturn sq Saturn, t Saturn conjunct my Pluto, and Pluto separating from my Pluto.

posted May 04, 2010 03:36 PM         

When Saturn was on my Sun (20 deg Virgo) I went to hell and back. That's the worst. It manifested as problems with health, money and generally being unsettled.

Oh, how I hated it! I'm so glad it won't be touching my Sun for some time.

posted May 04, 2010 03:59 PM         

My moon is square it as 25 gemini *sighs*

posted May 04, 2010 04:06 PM         

MVM

" And I've always kind of packed my bags and gone wherever the wind's blown anyway."

posted May 04, 2010 04:12 PM         

Something to look forward to.

posted May 04, 2010 05:43 PM         

After all that I feel like I still go through some kind of shell-shocked moments, almost like moments of emotionally reliving the craziest moments of when it all happened. Even though it's over, I am still trying to gather the pieces from the crash of '08 lol.

It's not to say there haven't been moments of happiness and peace -there have been but it's almost like trying to trust in them because the past couple of years have been nonstop emotional bombardment and there's still a feeling that I am on 'probation' or something.

posted May 04, 2010 06:01 PM         

"After all that I feel like I still go through some kind of shell-shocked moments, almost like moments of emotionally reliving the craziest moments of when it all happened. Even though it's over, I am still trying to gather the pieces from the crash of '08 lol."

posted May 04, 2010 06:03 PM         

Belgz,

In 2007, when Saturn went into Virgo (I have Sun and Venus in Virgo), I quit a very comfortable job in finance to pursue my dream as a musician. I didn't have a plan. I didn't save enough to live comfortably.

I sold all I had, downgraded my place to live from great town house to a cottage behind someone's house, and basically I have been in shock ever since of how difficult life became. Nothing came easily. I had to hustle and live well below what I had got accustomed to. But, I knew it would be hard.

Then the debt. Owing money is probably the worst thing for me to experience, especially when I don't know HOW I am going to pay them back.

Then the health problems.

Then the break up from cheating boyfriend (we lived together)...

I had a meltdown! (Not a technical one, but I bet if I did see a psychiatrist, they'd have said I had a meltdown. It's just that I didn't go to see a professional.)

I am still recovering from it. Basically everything went up in smoke and manifested in the worst way possible, and it has been going on since mid 2006.

I think I am insane today because of these past few years.

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After all that I feel like I still go through some kind of shell-shocked moments, almost like moments of emotionally reliving the craziest moments of when it all happened. Even though it's over, I am still trying to gather the pieces

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posted May 04, 2010 06:17 PM         

Oh yeah, the NOMAD syndrome. Yep! It's been a suitcase, a bag, guitar and laptop for me (things I take around wherever I am needed, or wherever I want to go).

MVM, remember on facebook last year when my status said something to the effect, "where to live next?"

So, I also identify with that feeling of "home is where the heart is."