Hi, Elsa!
I just discovered your column and thought I'd take a chance. I've grown wary of astrology since one astrologer summed up my chart in a sentence: "You should commit suicide." Well, I'm still here, but I could use a little guidance.
Using Robert Hand's Planets in Transit, I looked up Saturn, as it is transiting my seventh house. (That's right, isn't it?) From what I've read, this is great for achieving committed relationships, but Saturn will begin transiting my eighth house in a couple of years, and here Hand pulls out his characteristic negativity, implying "Basically, expect to be broke and die." Okay, so I'm being a tiny bit facetious, but not much.
Elsa, I'm tired of just barely surviving, lone wolf style. I'm working extremely hard to achieve a better life, but Saturn transiting eighth looks past-hope-gloomy. I want to thrive!
Your insight would be appreciated.
Bless you!
Scorp Girl
Dear Scorp Girl,
I hope you told that astrologer that you’d die when you damned well pleased! I haven’t read Hand’s book in fifteen years, but I do give advice and I have some for you.
First, you are a Capricorn rising. That means Saturn rules your chart! My sister (also an astrologer) and I both have Capricorn rising and she had a theory about this she shared with me years ago.
After ten years of observing — well she watched people whine and bitch through their Saturn transits -- she noted she and I had very little trouble with them. In fact, most times we felt very supported and she wondered if the planet that rules the chart can do no wrong. If it’s not friendly to the chart, see. Because we know all about Saturn things! You do, she does, I do. So where someone more light fare may balk when told to "toe the line," people like us just get to work!
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1 - diana hartman
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2 - LYNN
Great article. Wonderful spin on Saturn - it has solved a mystery for me personally and put me in a really good place. Thanks.
3 - Truth
What does that say here, Speak your mind? Thats nice. I would strongly advise people not to go over to her blog unless you agree with 100 percent of everyone of her opnions. She will just say your "overwhelming" her blog and delete everything you ever said on there. Thank goodness I wasnt there long. No one is over there except for her yes mame people. Like 20 and 21 comment posts per topic. hardly a community, since she has an agenda with her blog. If your not into promoting war and praising her right wing views. I would stay away far away from her and her "chart readings"