{"id":1791,"date":"2015-01-28T00:16:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T00:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ohmystars\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2015-01-28T05:32:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T05:32:40","slug":"saturn-in-sagittarius-a-personal-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ohmystars\/2015\/01\/saturn-in-sagittarius-a-personal-perspective.html","title":{"rendered":"Saturn In Sagittarius: A Personal Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"beliefnet<\/a>First of all, an apology to all my regular readers<\/strong>. As Saturn in Sagittarius rolls into the exact conjunction with my natal Mercury, sometimes it gets difficult to write. Also: the rest of my life has been nothing to write home about, but that’s a little too personal.<\/p>\n

This brings me to the main point I want to make today about interpreting astrological transits, using Saturn in Sagittarius as a specific example.<\/p>\n

They say writers should write what they know about. \u00a0On the one hand this is fairly good advice, but on the other hand it’s patent nonsense. If that were the case, every book you’d read and movie you’d see would be about some wretch in his or her sweatpants swearing at a keyboard about how bad it pays to be a writer. It might have the virtue of being True, but no one in their right mind is going to make it $200 million movie about that,\u00a0<\/em>unless you throw in a bunch of teenage vampires that transform into giant robots, or whatever’s selling these days.<\/p>\n

Likewise an astrologer, or someone who writes about astrology, needs to draw upon their own experience with life but can’t let that dictate everything.<\/strong> “When I had my last Saturn opposition, my nephew sprained his ankle in a freak bowling accident, so that’s going to happen to your nephew too” is not a prediction I would ever want to make in a reading.<\/p>\n

I am now old enough to have been an adult the last time Saturn passed through Sagittarius<\/strong> (November 1985-November 1988), and I’m like other transits I’ve experienced before, I find my judgment about it is perhaps a little too personalized. If you been reading my work for a while you know I’m not the type to automatically be discouraged by a difficult transit. I’m not one of those people who goes around blaming everything on Mercury being in retrograde<\/a>, despite the fact that it’s really easy to do that some days. Still: just like in early 1986, I hit a wall recently.<\/p>\n

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It has been extremely rare for me over the course of my adult life time to actually schedule a vacation, or even a couple of days off.<\/strong> I tend to keep working and working and working until I break down and stop functioning normally and stare into a corner and bump my head there for two or three weeks at a time like a malfunctioning Roomba.<\/p>\n