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Okay, now that you figured out what the very important placements are in your birth chart, let’s see what the Saturn Pluto conjunction is doing to you. Wait, you mean you didn’t figure out what your VIPs are? CLICK HERE to back and read the first blog entry in this series, then come back. It’ll be worth the trip.
The conjunction between Saturn and Pluto means several things, but when it comes to you personally? You need to look more specifically at the aspect the conjunction forms to your VIPs. I’ve whipped up a (hopefully) handy guide below to help you find those aspects — without any numbers at all, because some people break into a cold, panicky sweat whenever they see anything with numbers involved.
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If your VIP is in ______, the aspect being formed by Saturn and Pluto to your VIP is ______
Aries – square
Taurus – trine
Gemini – quincunx
Cancer – opposition
Leo – quincunx
Virgo – trine
Libra – square
Scorpio – sextile
Sagittarius – semi-sextile
Capricorn – conjunction
Aquarius – semi-sextile
Pisces – sextile
Here’s a description of how, in general, the Saturn-Pluto conjunction has/will be affecting your VIP:
CONJUNCTION: Conjunctions are powerful, and sometimes that’s a good thing. Other times it isn’t. Mostly though, a conjunction is really hard to ignore. Given that we’re talking about Saturn and Pluto, even if it ends up doing you some good, there’s likely to be a lot of discomfort involved. Think of this conjunction as the really awful tasting medicine that you probably needed, and once it has done its work you might be amazed at how much better you feel. But still — ewwwww.
SEMI-SEXTILE: Semi-sextiles are a minor aspect that are generally considered to be good, but in practice are generally pretty useless. Imagine you’re sitting down to watch the local news. The top story? Something terrible happened that could start a war. The next story? The government did something stupid that will affect you personally. After that, there’s a story about a mistaken raid on a crack house that killed an innocent person, and a warning that your favourite food may be killing you. The weather forecast is bad in your local sports team lost. But the news ends that night with an adorable story about a dog with a litter of pups, and that dog is also raising an orphaned baby raccoon as one of her own babies. That news story is a semi-sextile.
SEXTILE: Sextiles are friendly, helpful, and constructive. they are like that really nice kid in high school that absolutely no one paid attention to because, although friendly and helpful, he or she never won any awards or got into trouble or broke anything or got an amazing scholarship or anything like that. Where is that kid now? Do you even remember that kid’s name? Beats me, man.
SQUARE: Oh dear lord, the square. Sometimes life needs to give you a little push to get you to play along. squares can provide that push, but they are pretty much never pleasant. Sometimes in fact it’ll feel like that square is trying to push you onto the train tracks. Maybe for some reason, at this exact point in your life, you need to be on train tracks. God knows why though, and it’s probably not going to be the least bit of fun, and is probably at least a little bit more terrifying than you’d prefer your commute to be.
TRINE: Trines are great! Trines are awesome! Trines are just like that kid I described under “sextiles,” except that kid went on to win an award or really make something of his or her life. Ultimately though, it’s not like you know that kid anymore, or that he or she is likely to do you any favors if you call them up out of the blue and say “hey remember me? Can I borrow twenty bucks?”Or, if that kid does lend you a twenty, it’s more because he/she is a great person than you actually having done anything to deserve the favor. A world composed entirely of trines would be like Heaven on Earth, if Heaven presented zero challenges, and all you could ever watch on TV there are reruns of Full House and news stories about dogs raising orphaned baby raccoons.
QUINCUNX: Imagine your friends have recommended a restaurant featuring a kind of cuisine you’ve never tried before. You don’t know what any of the stuff on the menu is, so you pick something at random from the menu. When the dish arrives it looks dangerously under-cooked, and the sauce is incredibly smelly. You go into the back to yell at the chef, who does not speak any language you are the least bit familiar with. After a few minutes you figure out that you are at the wrong restaurant, the dish was served the way it was supposed to be served, and the chef you were yelling at was the dishwasher. That’s a quincunx for you.
OPPOSITION: Sometimes things need to be tested, like your relationship or your sanity or the tensile strength of a bungee cord. One of the ways to test these things is to have them pulled on and pulled on harder and harder until they either endure the test, or snap suddenly and whack you in the face. You can comfort yourself by saying things like “everything happens for a reason” or “well, if it didn’t survive the test, it probably had to go anyway.” And you could, in fact, be correct about that. That doesn’t really make your black eye any better though, does it?
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As far as the Pluto aspect to your VIPs go, this has been in effect, more or less, since late 2016. What has amplified that affect recently is Saturn joining Pluto. That’s started to kick in around early 2019, reaches its exact effect at 22 degrees Capricorn this Sunday, and will linger for about a month or so afterwards. Between August and November 2020, there will be a return engagement as Saturn retrograde back from Aquarius into the later degrees of Capricorn. However, like most sequels, it probably won’t have the same impact as the original.
Got all that? Good. Come back again tomorrow and we’ll figure out your specific details.
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