OFF-TOPIC BONUS : ASTROLOGY # 2 - Film Score Rundowns

eing protected, safe, less crowded. I would recommend strongly wearing blue as a
healing color during the Saturn period. Actually black and gray are connected with
Saturn.
The reason why I would like to strengthen Saturn as you go into that cycle is
because of Saturn being in the 12 th house. It’s a little weak there. It’s good for you if you
follow the motto, “Seclusion is the price of greatness.” It’s almost like you’re going to
need more alone time, inward time. If you’re trying to go out and conquer the world,
especially during that first little phase of Saturn, I think you may run into some brick
walls. You can push but don’t expect the world just to totally embrace you with open
arms. I think it comes more as you get into Saturn-Mercury dasha-bhukti. So it’s a cycle
where you do at first a lot of really deep soul-searching, deep contemplation, preparing
the soil, and doing the groundwork which Saturn is wonderful for. And then when you go
into Saturn-Mercury, it’s like bringing your creative gifts and talents more fully out into
the world. It could involve mercurial activities like writing, education, things like that.
I think the Jupiter opposing Saturn helps it greatly and makes it more spiritual. In
that exchange, I think Saturn gets lifted up. [Bill: “What is your definition of spiritual ?”]
It’s not going to church on Sunday! It’s consciousness, whatever your relationship is to
philosophy, higher conscious. It’s not necessarily dogma. [Bill: “So it can mean
betterment of myself in some way.”] With Jupiter retrograde I find that the person has to
kind of travel to the beat of their own drummer. They have to be their own guru in
approach. Jupiter is the guru planet, and being retrograde, it means you have to find it
more on your own rather than having necessarily a spiritual teacher or guru externally.
Plus Saturn is opposing Jupiter, so in a sense it’s taking the brunt of Saturn’s energy.
Usually in the exchange between Jupiter and Saturn, it’s kind of like Jupiter
uplifts Saturn and Jupiter gets pulled down a little bit by the Saturn energy. When I use
the term “spiritual,” again I’m not talking about religion but mysticism, deeper
knowledge, deeper wisdom, or whatever you wish to call it. Usually in most people’s
charts that are fairly highly evolved spiritually, there is some connection between Jupiter
and Saturn. It creates a kind of divine restlessness that pushes the soul to always want to
grow.
[Bill: “Of the two planets, which one is better placed natally?”]
Jupiter is a little better placed but still Saturn has several things going for it. For
Virgo rising, Saturn is a functional benefic in your chart. It rules your 5 th -Capricorn
house which is considered the house of poorvapunya or past life credit. So it indicates
that during the Saturn cycle some things also come forth to you from the past.
[Bill: “Could you focus more on the natal chart and the planets’ strengths and
weaknesses?”]
First of all, Virgo Ascendant tends to be detailed-oriented, meticulous, pragmatic.
It can indicate some interest in health and healing but it doesn’t have to be like being a
practitioner. It could be just your own healthcare interest. Neptune is on the Ascendant
and that’s like a cosmic tuning fork that tunes you in to different things and makes you
sensitive. That’s why it’s important that your environment have a certain peace around
the home. It’s almost like you have a psychic antenna and taking in a lot of impressions.
In the Vedic system, your Mars is in the 1 st house in Virgo and this creates a condition of
kujdosa and it can sometimes indicate an early marriage ending in divorce or difficulty
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