{"id":1725,"date":"2014-11-19T23:03:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T23:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ohmystars\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2014-11-19T23:03:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T23:03:46","slug":"saturn-leap-from-the-pod-or-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ohmystars\/2014\/11\/saturn-leap-from-the-pod-or-die.html","title":{"rendered":"Saturn: Leap From The Pod Or Die"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last time, I wrote about a Scorpio with Taurus rising who is facing unusual marital circumstances <\/a>(congratulations to the future and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Manson!). This time around I would like to talk about an infinitely more pleasant Scorpio with Taurus rising.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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…and for those of you who saw “True Detective,” I SWEAR it’s coincidence this is painted on the street in front of my place. I SWEAR!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(Which reminds me: if you’re getting into astrology and you see a person that has two or three factors in common with someone terrible, don’t let that prejudice you. I am a Sagittarius with Moon in Cancer, and if you ask me about people with that combination I will tell you all about Harpo Marx or Jimi Hendrix or Mos Def. I am much less likely to bring up the example of serial killer Richard Speck. I do seem to share some personality traits with the first three people I mentioned (but none of the musical talent), but I swear there are absolutely no bodies in my fridge. Well, except for that chicken, and it was that way when I found it. Honest!)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Anyway, the Scorpio with Taurus rising is a client of mine named Amy (okay that’s not really her name, but I’m a firm believer in anonymity)<\/em>. She is experiencing Saturn transiting through her Seventh House.<\/strong> Specifically, transiting Saturn is conjunct her natal Descendant, which is the single most important point in the chart regarding long-term relationships. Even though Saturn will be entering Sagittarius in December, thanks to a\u00a0retrograde\u00a0it will be conjunct her descendant until well into next year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturn brings challenges wherever it goes, and Amy’s situation was challenging in the first place.<\/strong> You see, Amy has landed herself in one of the classic dilemmas of the Modern Age. She’s crazy in love with a guy — let’s call him Rory — and he feels the same way about her. They have great communication and get along well.\u00a0The only problem is that she lives in California and he lives in Scotland.<\/strong> They haven’t actually met yet, although they’ve been talking for a long time. Naturally they want to meet in person. But Saturn is in a bad place for that now, isn’t it? Surely, since all astrologers cower in terror at Saturn transits, the matter is doomed isn’t it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

No. Not at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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If you’ve seen Stanley Kubrick’s classic film 2001 A Space Odyssey, you know this scenario: A perfectly ordered environment run by a perfect intelligence decides for perfectly logical reasons, that the human crew has to be killed off for the sake of the mission. The lone surviving astronaut is stranded outside the ship without a helmet for his spacesuit, inside a space pod. The easy decision would probably be to sit out there for a couple of weeks and starve to death.<\/strong> The alternative is for the astronaut to blast himself into space and across to the ship without a helmet on, and hope he make that jump correctly and can grab another \u00a0helmet and get some air before he dies. Now that’s<\/em> Saturn forcing your hand.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t seen it before, watch this. Even if you have seen it, watch it again because Kubrick is awesome.<\/p>\n