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Saturn shifting from Cancer to Leo (July 2005)
July 8, 2005
Soul Astrology
Saturn shifting from Cancer to Leo (July 2005)
by Margaret Koolman
Since June 2003, Saturn has been transiting
Cancer, and all of us have had many opportunities to adjust
our family relationships from what they were in the past.
Every now and then, within families, the relationships need
to be consciously brought up-to-date as children grow into
responsible adults, and parents become less able, and
finally needy, themselves. The last two years will have
brought many out-dated habits to consciousness, and
hopefully the generations have been discovering a new
respect for each other.
During the first 10 days after the New Moon
on 6 July, Saturn will complete his time in Cancer. With
the New Moon focussing on fulfilling needs to enable
growth, we have this time to complete the sorting out
process with family and close friends. One effect on the
G8 world leaders’ summit, of the attacks in London on July
7, is bound to be a sense of drawing together, as many of
those countries represented have also experienced attacks,
some much worse.
Let us focus on the sense of growing family
feeling around the world as a response to such attacks –
and let’s, in the largest sense, not exclude even the
people who, unintentionally, cause this effect. The
attitude of rejection and exclusion pre-supposes
philosophically that there is somewhere to exclude people
to, and this is only logically possible at the level where
separation is the reality. If we want to live consciously
at the level where everything connects with everything, we
need to use the effects of all actions to link and lift us
into a more united and caring world family.
On 16 July, Saturn moves into Leo, and the
aspect of character to be reviewed and updated will be our
style of self-_expression. The way we will be aware of
Saturn’s principle is through events and people forcing us
to look at those things we have been putting off. Saturn
will start by opposing Chiron, the wound and the healer,
around 21 July. This suggests that we will start by
dealing with those things we have been avoiding because we
fear they’ll hurt. As part of the astrological weather, we
will all be experiencing this aspect. So remember that
those who look like your adversaries are also facing old
hurts. It’s only through facing the hurt that we discover
we can handle it, and that discovery heals our self esteem!
With this greater maturity, we can appreciate the value of
adversity in that it increases our ability to understand
and help others, who are similarly doing inner battle with
their fears.
For the next two years, we will be
discovering how others experience us in ways we didn’t
necessarily intend. We may catch sight of our unconscious
tones of voice and facial expressions of pride, judgement,
arrogance, that we would be horrified to own – or am I only
speaking about myself, as Leo rising?! Saturn in Leo can
be an arrogant dictator, a parade-ground sergeant-major.
It’s not just the pontificating, though, but also the masks
behind which we hide our fears. Wherever Leo is in your
chart will show those areas of life that you put your heart
into, that matter to you centrally, and consequently you
might be on the defensive. We become rigid, identifying
our position and refusing to contemplate as possible anyone
else’s point of view.
The point of being aware of our little
ego’s face is to discover, behind the protective, defensive
poses, who we really are. Will we be able to rise to the
Leo magnificence in these areas that matter so much?
Possibly exaggerating these ‘attitudes’ of ours into humour
and laughing at ourselves, or simply expanding into our
greater understanding and letting the postures drop away.
Those would be mature responses, and we have two years to
get it! , or a generous, wise elder. Even a young
individual can learn to own what is theirs, and suggest or
request rather than ordering other people about.
A bonus will be understanding why people
respond to us the way they do, and we can learn better how
to express ourselves honestly without putting other people
down. It’s likely to take time to make the desired
adjustments, to step inside and really be who we are. Once
we are authentic, Saturn in Leo represents the ability to
work with the facts, from the heart, and achieve wonders.
In the meantime, we can start by noticing our automatic
reactions separately from what appears to cause them, and
then responding sincerely to what is really going on.
Whatever your Sun-sign, your true heart still has qualities
of the kind and gentle old Leo!
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