Our Unfolding Life Path :: Transits

I think one of my favorite things that has begun to take form as I’ve gone deeper into astrology is the way that personal transits unfold in a story.

We often have these big transits that mark major turning points, life shifts ,and transformations.

There are the ones that we all experience like the Saturn Return and Saturn Square Saturn and our Nodal Opposition and Nodal Return and Uranus Opposition, to name a few.

But the coolest thing that I’ve begun to notice over the past few years of studying my own personal transits is how there are almost these preparatory transits that come before these major transits that get us ready for the transformation.

There are certain transits that I have been afraid of, I’ll be honest to admit. Saturn Conjunct Moon was one of those.

I knew it was going to be a harder transit to move through, but I didn’t really have an idea of what was going to trigger the change.

In addition, I live on my Moon Midheaven Line ,and I have my natal moon in the eighth house so because of the nuance of astrology, I experienced Saturn Conjunct my Moon in regards to eighth house these as well as my career. 

I simultaneously had Chiron Conjunct my Midheaven, so there was a lot of fears, insecurities, and wounds coming to the surface all at once that felt like a lot to handle.

Saturn transits have always been relatively tough for me as I am Saturn dominant. They are what initially got me into transits in the first place, when I experience Saturn Square Sun, Saturn Square Venus and Saturn Square Pluto back to back over a year and a half period. I tend to experience Saturn transits in a very loud way, or it’s that I become ultra aware of what Saturn is here to teach me.

In the past, I’ve had a lot of fear when an intense Saturn transit is approaching up until this point.

Next summer, I have Saturn Square Uranus, Saturn Square Neptune, and Saturn Square Saturn back to back.

And surprisingly, I have no fear around these transits.

I don’t think that it takes away that they may have some difficulty, challenge, and growth edges to them.

But I can sense exactly what they’re going to be about.

I have had Neptune squaring Mars and Saturn squaring Mars the past year.

Neptune blurs. Saturn slows down.

And over the past year, I’ve been understanding the deeper motivations working behind the scenes of my Mars energy.

I have been facing chronic illness which has caused me to slow down and created an inability to put my Mars energy forward in a way that I wish to.

So these transits have forced me to get very clear on what I give my time and energy to, and I’ve become very aware of what I actually want and what’s not sustainable.

A lot of what my Saturn transits next Summer involve is shifting in to the next phase of my personal journey, and I feel very clear from these Mars transits of what that phase is, and seeing already what isn’t working and what is ready to be let go of.

If it weren’t for these pre-transits, I think the Saturn Squares would be a lot more intense, as they would be revealing things that I maybe wasn’t already aware of.

Saturn Square Saturn can be often more intense than your Saturn Return if you aren’t aware or ready acknowledge what needs change in your life. I’ve most commonly seen divorces occur from this transit. 

Squares create friction and tension.

And if you aren’t paying attention to what Saturn lessons are delivering the Saturn Square feels like a wake up call.

Your awareness with any Saturn transit is what makes it difficult or not.

Discipline, structure, and responsibility are part of any Saturn transit.

But your relationship to what is being asked for is what makes it feel life altering or not.

If you’re in a job, relationship, place that you hate, you will be woken up during a Saturn transit to sit with what is misaligned.

And you will be asked to start laying the foundation for new changes to be implemented and to course correct.

And if you don’t, that’s where the tension begins to arise.

I’m very aware of what I believe Saturn is going to ask of me because of my Neptune Square Mars transit. The slow down from Neptune has  heightened the awareness of what needs changing.

I have not been grateful for this transit up until this realization.

Neptune Square Mars has been probably one of my least favorite transits that I’ve had, but it is one that has been slowly revealing its gifts over time in space.

And I love looking at how transits unfold and create a map of the path that we follow throughout our lives.

The more you’re able to tune into the gifts, lessons, and growth associated with a transit, the more you’re able to recognize that even the hardest transits you experience are here for your benefit.

They are always aligning you closer with your true self.

They peel back the layers of the illusions we subscribe to.

And allow us to see what our soul truly wants. Sometimes it’s through ease, flow, and blessings, and other times it’s through friction that challenges us to grow, evolve, and change.

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If you live in Denver, I’ll be teach a transit workshop on November 9th and would love to have you!

 If you don’t live in Denver, it will be uploaded as a course mid-November.