- The only certainty is change (that incessant gnawing feeling, its change, trying to get out!)
- What you think is important, probably isn’t (excess baggage fees are a complete waste of money)
- Hold on tight (to yourself)
Astrology tells me that with Saturn in Pisces, I am a reluctant Hero, but the way in which he connects to my Sun, and to Jupiter, tells me that I am also blessed with a free soul, a fighting spirit and a brave and creative heart!
As I approached thirty years of age, I could hear the individual call of my own Astrological Saturn, and understood the call to adventure that was being issued. I allowed myself to be drawn, instructed and coerced by “fate” to respond in a suitably dramatic and flamboyant manner.
Having given up waiting for my partner to commit to me and satisfy my desire for children I grew tired of waiting for the gnawing sensation in the pit of my stomach to go away and trying to pacify the roaming restlessness I felt.
I could hear the call, and it was time to go, I accepted the challenge and I “let go” of my life, I turned my back on it, and chose something completely different.
I was emigrating, and although it was not that far, I was still emigrating to a country where they spoke a different language, where the rain was prayed for, and where the muezzin sang from ivory towers five times a day. I was leaving home, for the second time; I was doing something different.
Having sold, bartered and given away nearly everything I possessed, I departed like any novice hero, with well wishing teary friends, a heart full of hope, and unlike most novice hero’s that I had read about, a rather over-sized travelling trunk! (I was always the romantic)
Only an hour after leaving, there I was, the car broken down, standing on the side of the road clutching a kite, and waiting for a taxi to carry me and my impossibly archaic Edwardian trunk to Heathrow airport. I was actually wondering if I was meant to go at all!
Heathrow was mobbed, my trunk was something that should have gone on an ocean liner, not an airline, but I was stubborn, it was coming with me, and I paid an exorbitant surcharge.
Two years later, I left most of its contents behind me but the value was the lesson!!
I did finally get there, and the next few years were some of the maddest, saddest, funniest and loneliest that I have ever had. Saturn pushed me out into the world, this reluctant Hero, and made me who I am today.
This is the beauty of Saturn. He has a shaping quality, that although painful and arduous at times, works to refine and transform you into a person who can withstand the trials of life, to build a strong container to carry you through the rough and tough times that will inevitably come.
My travels have not ceased, and although I no longer tarry in the land of the “infidel” I still live several weeks on horseback from the land of my birth.
I have watched Saturn closely ever since those “daredevil days”, and with deepening interest, as he has made his way around my chart.
I was that reluctant hero, naïve and gauche, heading into the unknown, learning about the world, and the different groups, peoples and institutions that I became involved with whilst Saturn navigated my 10th 11th & 12th houses.
I watched Saturn as he dropped below the horizon, moving through Cancer, as my soul finally found the children I would give birth to, helped me build a house, my nest in the mountains, the place where I kept my babies safe.
I witnessed my Hero battling with the dragon in the cave at the bottom of my chart, stealing the monsters treasure as I gained my lifelong dream of an official qualification in astrology, whilst juggling toddlers.
More recently I have watched my Hero limp back towards civilization; the journey home, can often be the most dangerous; letting go of much of what I thought I had gained, as the load became too heavy to bear.
Having spent the last seven years bringing the bounty home, back to be shared with others, I am once again facing a Saturn return, my second, and the call has come again. This time, instead of emigrating, I am publishing a book, and a deck of cards, which, like long distance travel, also come under the rulership of Jupiter. The call has come again and I have heeded it, I have no choice, and I know these three things for certain:
“The only certainty will be CHANGE, for regardless of whether I want change or not, it will come and get me anyway, even if I hide under the bed.
That I need to travel LIGHT, because I can’t take it all with me, excess baggage fees are a complete waste of money, but I STILL LOVE FLYING KITES.
That I will be leaving home again, maybe not in the same way, but certainly on another level. I WILL BREAK THE MOLD IN WHICH I HAVE BEEN SET, and once again, I WILL ANSWER THAT CALL TO ADVENTURE.
If I am blessed with a long life, I may even see my third Saturn Return, like my father, who has recently had his; still sharp, still active, a staunch Saturnian with a bold dash of Jupiter about him, and always game for an adventure!