by Robert Wilkinson
Yesterday we discussed the qualities of Saturn going retrograde at 18 Libra. Today I'll offer a few hints about what you need to learn based in the house it falls in.
There are other interpretations than these, of course. That said, these may provide your imagination with some imagery and themes to help you open to new perspectives on your ability to respond to Saturn's challenges over the next 8 months.
Please keep two things in mind: 1) These are approximate for the birthdays I've noted, and 2) if your birthday isn't specifically listed, then your lessons involve the houses your birthday falls between. (In other words, if your birthday is between September 2 and 19, then Saturn is transiting both your 1st and your 2nd during the next 8 months.)
1st house: Get a new perspective on newly accepted obligations and duties. Examining what you've learned from experience, reorganize your inner and outer limitations and involvements. Accept the discipline as a learning rigor to repair a more ideal sense of self. This applies to your Solar chart if you were born between September 10-October 3.
2nd house: Find a more appropriate balance in your values and how you view and use the resources at your disposal. See that the triumphs and limitations in these things are the result of what you did and did not do in the recent past. Use your values to repair the ideal. This applies to your Solar chart if you were born between August 9 and September 2.
3rd house: You're restructuring how you view things and communicate them. This could be a time to repair relationships in your environment, or with your brothers and sisters, or also a time when consequences come home to roost. Train your mind and speech and repair the ideal. This applies to your Solar chart if you were born between July 9 and August 2.
4th house: You're restructuring your base of operations by viewing the limitations and strengths of your early upbringing. This begins a long term rise to a greater authority or visibility. Train your roots and flowers will result. Repair the foundations of your life. This applies to your Solar chart if you were born between This applies to your Solar chart if you were born between June 8 and July 2.
5th house: Retreat within to repair self-confidence to express more creativity. You will be seeing the consequences of how you've related to children, as well as your own playfulness and enthusiasms (or lack thereof.) Repair your connection to joyous self-expression! This applies to your Solar chart if you were born between May 8-31.
6th house: This will show you the consequences of how you work, and how you've cared for your health or not. This gives opportunities to restore the balance in these areas preparing you for new ways of relating to others. Repair your sense of a greater ideal of service. This applies to your Solar chart if you were born between April 7-30.
7th house: You're going to get to repair how you relate to others as an equal, as well as see the consequences for not doing this or letting things get out of balance with your partner. Let go of the need to control or be too rigid with others. Restore a proper proportion. This applies to your Solar chart if you were born between March 7-30.
8th house: This will help you view past losses from different perspectives. You may get insights into others' values that help you restore your sense of fairness. This balances various desires with the consequences of those desires, helping restore a more just view. This applies to your Solar chart if you were born between February 6-28.
9th house: This will show you the consequences of truths you've held up to now, and offers opportunities to mature into a more balanced larger view and sense of truth. Use inner equilibrium and learning disciplines to find a view that moderates the opposites. This applies to your Solar chart if you were born between January 7-30.
10th house: This will bring blowback for past authoritarian behavior, but benefits for willingness to take responsibility in public ways. It offers ways to repair the elegance and style of your public image. Be honorable in restoring your sense of what's just and fair. This applies to your Solar chart if you were born between December 8-31.
11th house: This crystallizes new goals and ambitions while bringing the results of past imbalances in these and group involvements. A good time to repair friendships. Look at how past ambitions brought you to what you're dealing with while repairing your ideal of group work. This applies to your Solar chart if you were born between November 9 and December 1.
12th house: Mature into a new sense of self as you spend time in solitude adjusting the ideal of "the movie of your life." This can help you see how past motives brought you consequences that are yielding either rewards, sorrows, or both. Repair a balanced self-sufficiency. This applies to your Solar chart if you were born between October 9 and November 1.
Copyright © 2011 Robert Wilkinson
Thank You Robert Wilkinson !!!
I have a Doubt Here I was born 15 May Taurus and my Ascendant is Leo !!!
5th house: Retreat within to repair self-confidence to express more creativity. You will be seeing the consequences of how you've related to children, as well as your own playfulness and enthusiasms (or lack thereof.) Repair your connection to joyous self-expression! This applies to your Solar chart if you were born between May 8-31.
But in my Natal Chart Saturn is in My 3th House Now !!!
3rd house: You're restructuring how you view things and communicate them. This could be a time to repair relationships in your environment, or with your brothers and sisters, or also a time when consequences come home to roost. Train your mind and speech and repair the ideal. This applies to your Solar chart if you were born between July 9 and August 2.
So Which one should i use ?
I Think i should use the 5th house because of the specific date that You Mentioned !!!
Thanks in Advance !!!
Blessings !!!
Posted by: Jorge Torres | January 26, 2011 at 05:31 AM
Robert... Umm I have a question. Now I am born on the sixth of december so I read both the 11th house and the 12th house. But what about my rising sign? I have that at 23 leo and that puts saturn in libra at 18 d transiting my 3rd house actually. So, should I heed the advice you offer up for that house as well? Sorry, Confused....
Posted by: Micheline | January 26, 2011 at 07:07 AM
Hi Jorge - Both positions are at work, one in your Solar self, one in your Ascendant self. By all means it's in your 3rd so that's important. I write what I do since many do not know their rising sign or what house a planet is transiting. The Solar chart is still valid for assessing what our Light/Life is expressing. Those transits apply to that part of our reality.
So read Saturn in the 3rd with an eye to how it's affecting your mind, interpretations, perceptions, communications, and environment relative to the self image you began back when it conjuncted your Ascendant, and read Saturn in the 5th with an eye to it applying to your Solar houses, i.e., it's restructuring how your light expresses itself creatively, dramatically, playfully, and the other 5th house indicators.
Hi Micheline - Actually, it moves between your Solar 10th and 11th houses. It starts in your Solar 11th then retrogrades back into your equal house Solar 10th sometime between late March and late April depending on the degree of your Sun.
If your Asc is 23 Leo, then using equal houses it puts transiting Saturn in your 2nd house, though it could also be in your 3rd house depending on what house system you're using. That means it's in the zone between those two houses, and you should read both. So yes, read all of these houses and open up to other possible ways Saturn in the 2nd, 3rd, 10th and 11th might manifest.
Posted by: Robert | January 26, 2011 at 09:23 AM
My Pluto is at 18 libra.. Any thoughts on that?
Posted by: Rebecca | January 26, 2011 at 06:37 PM
Looks like Libra-Saturn Rx will be in this Libra's 12th house. Fantastic.
Nah, heh. Truth is, I'm looking forward to being a hermit the next few months, redecorating and studying and cleaning/de-cluttering and focusing on our home. I've been opting out of social events the past couple of weeks, anyhow. Had a death in the family and just don't feel up to it. Highs and lows here. Also tired of forced conversations-- prefer real ones with real people.
Robert, thanks for your expertise here. Much appreciated. I had no idea where Saturn Rx would be transiting in my chart!
Take care :).
Posted by: Warriorlady | January 26, 2011 at 10:04 PM
Your Highness.....just a Little confused....My Ascendant is 18 aries....so the retro in Libra is movin in my 6th house? Are we dealing with solar or ascending? 6 - 12 or 7-1?
Posted by: chickie | January 29, 2011 at 06:00 PM
Hi Rebecca - What's Coming in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 as Saturn Conjuncts Everyone With Pluto in Virgo, Libra, and Scorpio
Hi Warriorlady - Should be good at claiming the wisdom from your past 25 years. Solitude is one of our most valuable resources. Saturn in the 12th is good for "retiring" from fulfilled self images.
Hi chickie - Saturn went stationary rx on your 7th. Now it's RX'ing back into your 6th, as a last preparatory period before it swings back above your horizon for about 15 years. Saturn is now in your Solar 3rd.
Posted by: Robert | January 31, 2011 at 06:25 PM
ThankYou Robert Wilkinson !!!
Blessings !!!
Posted by: Jorge Torres | July 28, 2011 at 05:31 AM
Fantastic! TY.
Posted by: Terry | July 28, 2011 at 09:12 AM