Stuffy Saturn ~ 5 August 2006


Yesterday the internet and e-mail buzzed about the announcement of OPH1622, a planet/brown dwarf many times the size of Jupiter that seems more content to hang out with another brown dwarf (a celestial body that lacks the mass to be a star) than to orbit a star. What to make of this the astronomers do not yet know and I do not know what to think of it astrologically. All I know is that everyone wants to know where it is... according to my worldly calcs for the celestial body, it’s right about 7 Sag 50 as of the 2000.0 epoch. So there’s that.


Meanwhile, the most massive body in our solar system, the Sun, passes Saturn in the next day or so. It’s long been my contention that solar transits rank number one for potency of all the planets in our system. It is, after all the most gravitationally influential and disperses more radiation than any other body in our planetary system. Fortunately - or not - solar transits last but a few days. In theory the Sun to Saturn is like light passing through a lead crystal. All light gets displayed broadly and in pure, true color. However, for those feeling Saturn transits, it feels like a cosmic naysayer: “Nope, that won’t work because...” “You can’t do that because...” “You don’t have the money, talent, enthusiasm, smarts...” There’s always a rational reason that Saturn pitches to see if you can actually take a decent swing at his rendering and smack it beyond the boundaries of sensibility.


These next days remind us of the tedious grand fixed cross of planets that occurred last year, and the fact that we get it again this year in various forms and times before Jupiter makes it home to his own sign of Sagittarius, OPH1622 and the Galactic Center. The Sun-Saturn pattern refreshes our memory that with Neptune, Sedna, Jupiter and Saturn involved as the year moves forward we need to refresh the following planetary views:

Neptune - create a strong, inspired vision for life’s outcome, apply creative intention to every life act, making it a vehicle of propitiation.

Sedna - get conscious and choose well - making healthy choices, once you select the option you do, the right to complain about life’s path goes away.

Jupiter - establish a meaty (I’d mention tofu, but that doesn’t seem to hold up as well), passionate belief system that never lets you down, dare to believe beyond ingrained subconscious limitations.

Saturn - get out there, roll up your sleeves, break a sweat and do the work that builds a foundation for a fantastic life, allow capriciousness to occur, insist upon quality in all things.

If it were just not true that the sassy Sun and stuffy Saturn offered up such mixed blessings in the moment. The feeling is that of wanting to do something important, powerful, great or even fun, but lacking the ability to do so. That’s why I’m going to offer a bold declaration for all who care to apply it. Remember Sedna: it’s your choice if you follow it. I’m only offering a cosmic telegram of sorts. Anyway, I think we should declare tomorrow (or today for those of you on the other side of the Domain of the Golden Dragon - the International Dateline) to be Stuff Saturn Sunday. That’s right! Stuff Saturn and his dangedable, annoying limits into a tidy container and pitch it in the bin. Go do something fun just to spite him. Don’t let him get you down or filter your light. No way. Take life by the horns and do one of those “I’ve always wanted to” things that linger on the list of unfulfilled dreams. It can be as simple as climbing a coconut tree (carefully, Saturn does rule bones) to get a fresh nut, or seeing how far you actually can hit a baseball, or risking seeing two movies in a theater in one afternoon. Quality must prevail, though. If you decide you want to have a coffee or tea for instance, going to a hole in the wall diner for the cheapest stuff on earth implies caving into Saturn. Buy fresh herbs for dinner and cook better cuts of tofu/meat/fish or only organic veggies. Get it how you want it. That defeats the legendary restrictive nature of Saturn. You know the old boy lost some steam a few years ago because of astronomy. Astrologers used to contend that Saturn’s beautiful rings implied constriction. However, now that astronomers verified that Jupiter and Uranus also have rings - probably Neptune does too, that logic crumbles. So much for the theory of the rings, at least in that sense.


Back to point. Today or tomorrow and into your Monday, whenever that is, do something fabulous, fun and on the borderline of frivolousness. Keep in mind the march of the planets to come later on this year and in the short term, tell Saturn to stuff it. You fully intend to make something good out of it.


In line with the above, break out your checkbooks and buy the book, product, service of insight and inspiration you’ve been deliberating about so long, whether on my site or any other site... not so expensive though, that you cannot feed your pot bellied pig serving as your constant companion.


For those still having trouble finding my scopes on www.mediavillage.com, take note of the links on the left side of their homepage. If you click on TV Astrology Star-Casts, you’ll find my column. Personal horoscopes follow the lead article of the week. Enjoy!