Big picture: Choosing the past or the future requires commitment and perseverance. 

October 7. Mercury enters Libra.
October 15. Aries Full Moon.
October 18. Venus enters Sagittarius.
October 22. Sun enters Scorpio.
October 24. Mercury enters Scorpio.
October 30. Scorpio New Moon.

October 2016 Newsletter.

The weight of Saturn

One way to look at Saturn squaring the nodes is that reality is in transition. In that transition, it appears that this isn’t fair; or, that doesn’t feel right. We’re not in the place we were and we haven’t quite committed full on to a new way, to new rules. You could call the experience “growing pains.” This is  October. Growwww—-iiiiinnnnngggg pains.

There are no major sign changes, no eclipses, and no planets changing direction this month. However, Saturn, a planet often associated karma, is squaring the Lunar Nodes, which are associated with past and future destiny. This square happens about every 5-6 years in the sky and every 14-15 years in our personal horoscopes (14-15 years after the conjunction to the South node and 14-15 years after the conjunction to the North node).

This transit was exact on September 26, but Saturn is a slow moving planet and its influence doesn’t just disappear after the precise moment of the square. For some people, born with this pattern (they come in groupings of every 5-6 years), this issue of determining what is right and wrong for themselves can be a constant driver.

Of course, consciousness and other birth patterns, and a person’s actual life must be considered before truly understanding the expression of Saturn square the Nodes in the person’s chart.

Squares to the Lunar Nodes emphasize transitions between the past and the future.

Sometimes these Nodal Squares reflect a need to finish up, before moving ahead. The tension is palpable. When can we move forward?

Last month I began to read Gregg Levoy’s Callings. Finding and Following an Authentic Life. Every few years, inside my core, an underground tectonic plate shift happens, and I find myself drawn toward these kinds of books, just in case I have forgotten what the call from Spirit sounds like. So far this book is not letting me down.

Is this my Calling? Is that my Calling? Spirit, are you calling?

Saturn represents conditioned consciousness or the structure of consciousness. This applies to individuals and for countries. We have rules in our societies to keep order and allow people to live together in a good way and not in turmoil. If the rules stop working, or there is an imbalance in power, for example, those laws can change through turmoil, dictatorships, revolutions and so on.
Saturn represents a long history of how culture’s consciousness has maintained itself. It is not always pretty.

How come they got more than I did?

The South Lunar Node represent the threads and patterns from the past and the North Lunar Node, the promise of the future. The Lunar (or the Moon’s) Nodes are, on one level, the emotional responses to the times, reactions and habitual behaviors enforced by Saturn, the structure of consciousness. The Nodes relate to the Moon, our fluctuating response system, or as Steven Forrest might say our heart and soul.

Both Saturn and the Moon are linked to security. One is the security that includes laws and regulations; the other is personal inner security. When the rules ally with our personal security needs, we feel at home in the world, and our journey is just that much easier. Life feels fairer somehow.

Saturn square the Nodes is conflicted. Through its tension, we are reminded that life it isn’t always fair or bright and cheery.  We also have choice to choose the past, choose the future or flip flop somewhere between the two until the past patterns are released or outgrown.

By choosing the Virgo North Node we move away from the fantasy of the Pisces South Node and toward responsibility and practical good work.

By choosing the Pisces South Node, we may see the world through old school, rose colored glasses, and in the end feel disillusioned that our dreams do not come true.

There is not always a happy ending, no matter what Hollywood shows us. By letting go of that illusion, there, at the very least, is more freedom for us to steer our own course.

Big picture: Choosing the past or the future requires commitment and perseverance.

At the next Full Moon of Awareness, lightbulbs could be flickering (and a Sci Fi story unfolds?) By the New Moon of Transformative Communication at the end of October, our deepest emotions and passions could emerge. Read more in this month’s newsletter. (Oct 1, 2016 Note: Change of plans. We’ll publish the Full Moon & New Moon info closer to mid-month.)