posted October 08, 2012 06:26 AM            

We are each going to be in cosmic therapy for the next three years as Saturn goes through Scorpio. Now, like everything else, there are good therapists and bad therapists. Saturn in Scorpio is a good therapist although at times you might feel like quitting his therapy because consciousness is a pain in the butt.

Good therapists hold you accountable for your actions. Good therapists ask you to commit to change. Sure, there is a certain amount of whining, crying and carrying on that is permitted but only as long as it is in service to figuring out what is going on. Once you both figure out what is going on, the therapist says “Well, they are not going to change. You get to change.”

We are each going to be in cosmic healing for the next three years as Saturn goes through Scorpio. Now, like everything else, there are good healers and bad healers. Saturn in Scorpio is a good healer although at times you might feel like quitting his healing protocols and going back to your bad old habits.

Good healers hold you accountable for your actions. Good healers ask you to commit to change. Sure, there is a certain amount of whining, crying and carrying on that is permitted but only as long as it is in service to figuring out what is going on. Once you both figure out what is going on, the healer says “Well, to heal yourself, you have to change.”

We are each going to be in cosmic transformation and shape shifting for the next three years as Saturn goes through Scorpio. Now, like everything else, there are good shamans and bad shamans. Saturn in Scorpio is a good shaman although at times you might feel running for the hills because shape shifting and transforming is mighty scary at times.

Good shamans hold your space as you transform. Good shamans ask you to commit to change by shape shifting. Sure, there is a certain amount of whining, crying and carrying on that is permitted but only as long as it is in service to figuring out what is going on. Once you both figure out what is going on, the shaman says “Well, to transform, you have to shape shift.”

So let’s talk about what will be required of you in the months ahead. We will go through each year of Scorpio approximately a decant at a time. Each sign is divided into three decants of 10 degrees. The first 10 degrees of Scorpio are Scorpio-Scorpio. This is the most intense, primal, primitive, passionate and pointed section of the sign of Scorpio. Scorpio-Scorpio is intensely feeling based, very private, hugely passionate and deeply reactive. Found in the Path of Fire, the Via Combusta, when this section of Scorpio gets stirred up, it is driven by passion that can be heedless of consequences. Very often wordless, it is deeply chthonic, dark and hidden from view. It can sting like the Scorpion does ~ quickly and without warning from a hidden place. It can be amazing. It can be horrid. Like Jesse Ware sang last week, “In our wildest moments, we can be the greatest. We can be the worst of all.”

To illustrate the combined level of both passion and privacy, the first 10 degrees of Scorpio rule the body parts you don’t usually get to see unless you know a person very, very well. The degrees rule the urethra, uterus, testicles, epididymis, fallopian tubes, scrotum, sperm duct, vagina, corpus cavernosum of the penis, penis and labia majora. These body parts do tend to have responses to stimulation that require action on the owner’s part. Not easily ignored, when they are up and active, people notice or take appropriate actions to satisfy them.

Between now and February 17, 2013, we’ll travel through the first 11:31 degrees of Scorpio (between August 23rd and September 10th on your Mars Spreadsheet). Then Saturn retrogrades to 4:49 Scorpio on July 8th, 2013 (August 31st on your Mars Spreadsheet) for us to retrace our steps through October 17th, 2013 when he clears his shadow and station point of mid-February. For the long term changes in our life, the outer planets offer us a solid 8 to 10 months to figure things out, crystallize, form the frameworks and make the needed decisions. Between now and February, Saturn will ask you to put the emotional and psychological foundation in place for the next 30 years of your life in this deeply private section of your chart. Then you have the remainder of the year, from February to mid-October 2013, to revise, change or shift the vision to be what you actually want.

Events taking place in our lives between now and November 14, 2012 are PERMANENT. Saturn passes through this section of degrees, 0 to 4:49, ONLY ONCE. Grab for it quickly as Saturn flies by this section of the heavens very rapidly. You are making 30 year decisions ~ similar to the way we did in September and October last fall. The decisions are permanent and full of consequences. So planets found between the degrees of 0 and 4:49 are primed for action as Saturn sets them off. If you are not sure you want to do whatever it is for a long period of time, avoid committing. If you KNOW you definitely want to do it, make a commitment to it during this period. Saturn is paying attention. This is a fabulous time for changing habits in a very primal, deep and profound manner.

The week ahead is designed for releasing the stuff you no longer want, desire or need. We are in the dark phase of the moon, moving toward a New Moon at 22:32 Libra next Monday. The New Moon will be the FIRST New Moon while Saturn is in Scorpio, a kind of inauguration so to speak. If you remember, each of the personal planets and Saturn hovered or stationed around 22/23. Saturn’s station degree was 22 ~ he was there in November 2011 and during May, June and July. Mars stationed at 23:05 Virgo on January 24, Mercury stationed at 23:51 Pisces on April 4, Venus stationed at 23:59 Gemini on May 16, and Saturn stationed at 22:46 Libra on June 25. The New Moon next Monday begins our emotional journey of Saturn in Scorpio by joining with the Sun at that hot degree of 22:32. Our ego purpose and drive combines with our nurturing requirements and deep emotions. Our Sun and Moon take into consideration the realizations, knowledge and understandings we’ve worked out about relationships and partnerships since last November. We bundle all this wisdom together and move ourselves forward into the intense, merging and connecting energy of Scorpio.

Back when I worked developing, programming and installing computer programs, I had an office ritual which I found quite helpful to mark “completions”. Large software projects were broken into installation phases. After we completed a phase, launched a business unit or rolled out a major section of code successfully, I would take all the piles of papers, test runs, deadline sheets, printed emails and sign offs from their various places in my office. I’d weed through the various papers, easily throwing away half to three quarters. It was interesting reading through the old correspondence and remembering the process and progress. I’d set up pendaflex files in my “Completed Drawer” to hold the remainder of the papers that seemed important to keep. I’d break out my Lemon Pledge and clean my desk top and file surfaces. There was a distinct satisfaction to the wrap up exercise. At Pepsi, we further celebrated business unit conversions with balloons and cakes for the IT Department. When the balloons appeared in the morning over our cubicles, the department knew there would be cakes at 3 pm!

This week, I plan to have a wrap up ritual with Saturn in Libra. I encourage you to do something in your life to celebrate the ending of Saturn in Libra and your successful conclusion of that journey. And you WERE successful if you are still standing (or even sitting) and clearer about relationships and partnerships than you were three years ago. It is a great time for a wrap up ritual. Admittedly, over the past three years, I lost a few people I didn’t want to lose ~ some to death and others to life changes, choices and challenges. Some relationships blew up rather unexpectedly. Others disappeared, dribbled away or dissolved. I learned a great deal from each loss or change, good or bad. And that is what life is for. I intend to celebrate the new people who arrived in my life as well as the people who I have grown closer to over the past three years.

We only have NOW…so focus your intentions on what and who you want to celebrate as you say goodbye to Saturn in Libra. Release the sad memories or moments and encourage them to reform or shape shift into what did you LEARN from Saturn in Libra. While Saturn is a tough teacher ~ look to your natal Saturn by sign and placement to see what Saturn was trying to teach you while traveling through Libra ~ he is eternally clear in his message to you. It always comes down to by sign, by house placement lessons. In my case, a watery Saturn in a watery house, it is always about boundaries ever the boundaries! I THINK I am being good about my boundaries and suddenly, oops, nope, not so good, they dissolve and there is a puddle. And, Saturn sits me down and has a chat with me. “Respect the boundaries Anne.” So when Saturn was in Libra, I learned about boundaries with words, communications, in partnerships or relationships. What did Saturn teach YOU? And remember that “Ah well, life IS a process.” We still have so much to learn. We’ve Only Just Begun!

For the most part, this is an easy week ~ especially after the past few difficult ones. So celebrate the love in your life and the people you love. We get to work next week with Saturn in Scorpio. To help us remember how to feel love, here is a Bob Dylan song, “Make You Feel My Love”, sung by Adele.

Saturn mirrors the dates August 24 to 26, 2012 in your Mars in Scorpio Spreadsheet.

Void Moons This Week
Monday October 8, 2012 03:34:23 am EDT to Tuesday October 9, 2012 07:56:05 am EDT
All Day Void Moon

Wednesday October 10, 2012 05:40:55 pm EDT to Thursday October 11, 2012 03:24:33 pm EDT
All Day Void Moon

Friday October 12, 2012 07:49:01 pm EDT to Saturday October 13, 2012 07:02:51 pm EDT
All Day Void Moon

Moon day Monday October 8 Moon in Cancer has stressful closing aspect squaring the Sun in Libra asking us to make a choice between our ego desire for relationships and our need for nurturing emotions. Dreams are tumultuous. Sun has a sesquiquadrate to Neptune suggesting you are clearing a deep emotional space. Venus has an adjusting aspect with Uranus ~ this can be a health aspect, the opportunity to speak with someone you had a falling out with or a great releasing aspect to clear out things you want to let go of. There is a gift of brilliant communication and the ability to see patterns that you never noticed before. Take advantage of it!

Monday is Columbus Day and a Holiday in the states. The balance of the days will be posted later Monday evening.

Two new blog talk radio shows are offered on my website. If you look to the left of the website, you’ll see the “blog roll” listing is expanded. I am doing a new show, Scorpios Talking, with my friend Michael Colberg, a psychotherapist, on how to deal with the Scorpio energy we will all be immersed in for the next three years. My dear friend, LLorraine Neithardt’s new show, Venus Unplugged, will talk about all things Venus. We are still in the learning process so check in a few times to try us out. And, of course, the shows you know, listen to and love still continue: Weekly Weather, Access Astrology and The Mary Anne Show.