by Nancy R. Fenn

In connection with the Saturn Return, you also want to know information about the house and sign that your Saturn is in and how it may affect your later life.

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INTRODUCTION
Saturn is the Great Teacher of the Zodiac. ALl of our inportant life lessons are tied up in the sign and placment of Saturn. Again and again we return to these issues. every 7 years we get a major report card. Did we learn the lesson? Can we graduate yet?

The customary pattern is to avoid the issues of your Saturn until you are past life. This isbecause where Saturn is, it is too frustratingm too painful.

Liz Greene in Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil, describes Saturn as the part of you what you wouldn't want to take to dinner to meet your new boyfriend's family! It would trip, say the wrong thing, spill food on your new clothes, etc. That's why we avoid this area and turn to our stengths instead.

But sooner or later, it becomes more painful to avoid Saturn than to confront and work with it. This is our Great Task in the second half of life, say, 45 to the end of this lifetime.

We also have a major checkpoint at 28-30, the first Saturn Return, and the second major checkpoint at 58-60, the second Saturn Return.

Robert McNamara is someone prominent who is approaching his third Saturn Retunr, full speed ahead. Those who live long enough, like Robert McNamara, may also experience a third Saturn Return.

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Here are some of the things that have happened to famous people during their Saturn Returns:

• ECKART TOLLE, author of The Power of Now had a conversion experience at 30 and began his life as a spiritual teacher.
  
  
• GWYNETH PALTROW's father died just as she was starting work on the film about Sylvia Plath's life and suicide. After, she decided to take at least a year off, saying, 'I worked so much in my 20s, and I really burned the candle at both ends and I wasn't too picky about what I did,'she said. 'I think the combination of losing my father, turning 30, taking a year off has completely shifted everything.'" She has recently become a mother.
  
  
• Just turning 30, WINSTON CHURCHILL followed his father's footsteps, crossing the floor of Parliament to the liberal side (over Tariff Reform), an event which would have lasting repercussions in his life.
  
  
• FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE did the unheard of at 30 for a woman of her era. She left home for the Crimean War, beginning one of the most influential lives of the early 20th century.
  
  
• STANLEY KUBRICK, turning 30, made his first major studio film, the powerful antiwar movie Paths of Glory starring Kirk Douglas.
  
  
• JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. (A Beautiful Mind) married, had a child and experienced the onset of his mental illness at about 30.
  
  
• ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER met his wife Maria Shriver at a tennis tournament when he was 30; they married two years later. 30 years later, preparing for his second Saturn Return, Schwarzenegger was elected governor and apologized for a lifetime of womanizing.
  
  
• At 30, LEO TOLSTOY ended a life of gambling, fornicating and murder (his own words) to start a charitable peasants' school on his estate. This is the man whose book The Kingdom of God Is Within You influenced Gandhi to begin his passive resistance movement. Tolstoy also tried at this time to give his serfs their freedom and to give them his land but they were suspicious and refused. 30 years later at his second Saturn Return, Tolstoy tried to will his estate and property to his serfs but his wife and children revolted.
  
  
• ROY HORN (Siegfried & Roy) was mauled by Montecore, the white tiger, right in the middle of his second Saturn Return

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If you have been pursuing a career or lifestyle to please someone else, there is a sense of urgency at the Saturn Return to make important changes. Sometimes this means retraining for a career, lowering income to make a lateral move or even divorce. Statistically, more divorces take place in America when people are between 28 and 30 than any other time. On the other hand, some people marry and take on big responsibilities at that time.

With a sense of urgency, it can seem like everything has to be done all at one time but the transit actually takes place over a couple of years. Not all the changes have to happen at one time.

Naturally some people are more comfortable with change than others. For example, those with SATURN IN TAURUS may need to make the most changes and they may be the most resistant. Change can also be frightening to the earth signs, Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn.

Saturn Return also brings pressure to change attitudes toward parents, those in authority, develop a new relationship to God or begin a spiritual path, make adjustments to the community you live in, move to a more compatible place or embrace a new religion or culture, sometimes through marriage.

Naturally these are some of the reasons people "over thirty" are so different from people "under thirty". Coming of age doesn't occur at 18 or 21, as our culture asserts, but rather at 28-30 during the Saturn Return.

Liz Greene, internationally famous astrologer, explains in Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil that Saturn "... is never easy to deal with because his function is that of promoting growth, and it is only frustration and pain which at present are sufficient goads to get a human being moving."

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STRESS IN SUN SIGNS
Because there is stress connected with the frustration and pain of growth and change, inner, outer or both, many people experience these common reactions to stress: nervousness, anxiety, irritability, depression, insomnia, neurotic feelings, feelings of vulnerability, drinking or smoking, over eating and insecurity or "analysis paralysis". Most people go through some sort of identity crisis as well. Click here to learn about stress in the Sun Signs.

Fire Signs
    
Aries | Leo | Sagittarius

Earth Signs

      
Taurus | Virgo | Capricorn

Air Signs
       
Gemini | Libra | Aquarius

Water Signs

     
Cancer | Scorpio | Pisces

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CONCLUSION
Saturn Return is like asking you to clean out your garage, or your closet. As intense as it can be, it removes all the built-up clutter in your life to reveal a more authentic path and a more authentic you. Sometimes people leave your life, sometimes through death, sometimes through choice.

If you do a thorough job during your first Saturn Return, between the ages of 28 and 30, the rest of your life will be better and your second Saturn Return will be easier. If you fail to rise to the task at 28-30, your second Saturn Return, ages 58-60, when you are more deeply entrenched in an inauthentic life, may be difficult indeed. This is one of the reasons many people die betwen 58 and 60. They may not have met the challenges of the first Saturn Return and at the time of the second, the stress is overwhelming. One of the reasons I'm writing these articles is that, unforuntately, both of my parents died during their second Saturn Returns.

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If you know the sign your Saturn is in, learn more ...

Saturn Return in Aries | Saturn Return in Taurus
Saturn Return in Gemini | Saturn Return in Cancer
Saturn Return in Leo | Saturn Return in Virgo
Saturn Return in Libra | Saturn Return in Scorpio
Saturn Return in Sagittarius | Saturn Return in Capricorn
Saturn Return in Aquarius | Saturn Return in Pisces

Email me for the sign and house of your Saturn or for your own mini reading. WHEN YOU REQUEST A FREE MINI READING PLEASE PUT YOUR BIRTH DATE, TIME AND PLACE AND PUT THE DATE IN WORDS, i.e., JANUARY 1, 1955 NOT 1/1/55.

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