Weekly Hello

Are you full of the joys? Or are you a tad grumpy? If you are indeed looking at your world through a grey lens, Saturn has got you by the tail. I know this because I am tapping away on my laptop while a little voice in my head reminds me of all the things that are not working in my life and none of those that are. The Sun is a degree or so away from a square to Saturn – it will be exact on Monday – and life under Saturn is a serious business. We can’t cut corners or run a red light. What we can do is push through the pain and remind ourselves that even if we can’t see the sun behind a blanket of cloud, it is there, generating heat, light and energy, and before long it will emerge in all its shining glory!

A few weeks ago, I was working on a foreword for Alex Trenoweth’s book on Saturn Bending the Light and it necessitated my giving the “old devil” some new thought. Saturn does improve with age, if only because after banging our heads on the same granite wall time and time again, we eventually learn not to do that. But, truly, once you get beyond that cold, austere, unremitting dimension to Saturn, there is gravitas, even a comforting warmth. The kind of warmth we experience when sitting by the fire with an old mentor who has seen us through many failures, struggles and disappointments, and never says, “I told you so” but sagely adds, “Welcome to my world!”.

I know I haven’t been producing many videos recently, and this is because I have so many other astrological demands on my time, but I am about to record one on the approaching grand configuration, which involves Jupiter and all the outer planets. I hope it will be worth waiting for.