Saturn transiting the third quadrant of your chart
We are making deliberate progress (a Saturn term) and I'm sure that some of you are anxious to compare your experiences with my observations about what might typically happen as Saturn moves thrue houses seven, eight and nine.
Saturn in the third quadrant urges you to DEFINE YOUR AWARENESS OF OTHERS (Marc Robertson) thru your projection of yourself and your values and your skills into the worlds that others inhabit. We are, afterall, considering Saturn in the traditional houses of partners, sharing, and extension of ourselves into the largest possible environments. So just what will the "definition of our awareness of others" lead us to?
Well, consider EXPECTATIONS! Emerging somewhat self-assured from our first and second quadrant experiences, we must have some expectations of what happens when we meet others. This is where REALITY comes into play. What reactions will we observe and experience. How might we COMPROMISE a situation so as to gain something without losing our balance? Not being just "alone" in terms of CONSEQUENCES for our actions or responses, we do have to look outward and to define our awareness of others.
So, using this circuitress logic, lets deal with some real definitions.
SATURN TRANSITING THE SEVENTH HOUSE
Define the meaning of what others mean to you while Saturn transits the 7th house. This may involve another person, several other persons, a wider span of people, the public as a whole. Do you know why you are interacting? Do you understand what others are doing? Is everyone's role acceptable to you?
Typical "rough spots" due to this transit may involve marriage problems, issues in business processes that don't work well, being frustrated by others who can't seem to understand you and your methods, a breakdown of understanding what each party wants. The end result is that one can both define success and define failure. In this sense the seventh house becomes an experience, an experience we move froward from and from which we gain new challenges to address.
SATURN TRANSITING THE EIGHTH HOUSE
You tend to experience the 7th house, you now have to revert to typical Saturn processes when Saturn moves thru the 8th house. You have to now DEFINE THE SUBSTANCE OF YOUR AWARENESS OF OTHERS. Lets put this another way: Do you have preferences or dislikes about those you come into contact with? Are these preferences or dislikes based on facts and reasonable grounds . . . or are they adopted casually, carelessly, maliciously, as suggested by others, or through the deep and carefull interactions you have with others over time. How honest are you in judging and accepting yourself, others?
During this period it is a good policy to focus on groups having similar interests as yourself as this provides a more comfortable place to extend yourself and to receive others. You also have to assess what you experienced in the 7th and how it might fit or not fit with events and peoples encountered in the 8th house. In terms of normal 8th house stuff, define your policies about investments, taxes, spending commitments, ownership burdens of all sorts. What does loss, gain, change mean to you? Are you balanced? Is your ego defined and in check? Are you preparing yourself for real purposes?
SATURN TRANSITING THE NINTH HOUSE
Focus your ideas, define those ideas, understand what connects you to others. If you are engaged in some form of formal study, what drives you to exploring and understanding other places, other cultures, other solutions? If you are engaged in travel, what do you seek to discover, what are you learning, what will you do with these experiences? What is the purpose of making connections to others outside of your private world?
Education and travel may prove frustrating! Religion may lose its appeal! Legal situations may arise because of things promised and left undone. Any frivolous activity should be a signal of things not following a productive course. AT THIS POINT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE PREPARING FOR SOME REAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND REAL OPPORTUNITIES. Your reputation needs to reflect you character and focus on life . . . . and vice versa. Will you be ready to step forward?
SOME COMMENTS
Some consider this quadrant to be Saturn's most severe test. After this point you can fail or you can succeed, but there are no more chances for another twenty plus years. Take Saturn's transits through these houses very, very seriously. Dave