ZIP DOBYNS (Astrology) - Film Score Rundowns

The natal chart is always primary. All the location can do is bring one or another
facet of ourselves up into high focus, high emphasis. But it's not going to revolutionize
the basic character. You are still yourself, and you're going to have to deal with your
basic character.
[Question: "Have you ever seen a revolutionary change?"]
I've seen changes, definitely, but over time. Real changes take time; they're slow
and cumulative. It takes time and effort to change habits. When you see a person make a
radical switch, usually that means they haven't integrated: they are just splitting from one
end of the polarity to the other. For instance, out of freedom into closeness, or
out of closeness into freedom. But they haven't resolved the Freedom/Closeness
Dilemma yet. The one exception to that may be if the person has a true religious
experience. This may really change the whole life. A person really has an experience
with a higher power and gain a faith in life that wasn't there before.
LETTER TEN: SATURN/CAPRICORN/10th HOUSE
The big bad wolf of astrology! Saturn represents Law. That includes natural law
like gravity. It includes cultural regulations like stopping at red lights and going through
green ones. It includes authority figures who carry out the law such as bosses,
policemen, parents. And it includes your own conscience or internalized law where
you say, "I must do that; I must not do this." If you break internalized law, then you
punish yourself with guilt.
So all of these are the rules of the game. And if you know the rules and play by
the rules, there is no problem. So you can have a prominent Saturn line and still be
highly successful. You are clear about what you can do, can't do, and have to do--and
you are doing it. But if you're fighting the rules or limits, and you think your will is
bigger than the Law, then you are going to be in trouble. So if you think you can ignore
gravity and jump off a twenty story building--well, nice knowing you!
So there are laws in the universe, and if we internalize the laws properly, if we
accept the laws and live with them voluntarily, then there is absolutely no problem with
Saturn at any time. All it does is bring consequences that let us know how we are
handling the Law. If we handle it properly, we get good consequences. Another way of
thinking about it is report card time. It lets you know how you are doing. If you break
the law, then it gets painful for you, and the world lets you know that you're on the wrong
track. You've got to change.
Of course, frequently we may not know exactly what the law is. It's not quite as
clear as time and gravity and red lights. There are fuzzy areas where we really aren't sure
whether we can do something or not until we try it. So we have to risk and test the law.
We do sometimes have to test reality and find out what the limits are, but not try to do
it in such a massive or extreme way that we end up devastated. Enough and not too much
is the theme.
LETTER ELEVEN: URANUS/AQUARIUS/11th HOUSE
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