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by Brian Habit

You have Saturn in Pisces in the 12th house.

Saturn represents that part of our consciousness that has to be practical and strategic in order to survive in the physical world. Saturn has high standards. He demands self-discipline, commitment, and quality. Saturn is how we develop self-discipline, self-respect, and faith in our destiny. By “destiny,” I mean our social role, one that harmonizes with our inner nature.  Saturn also relates to how we make peace with solitude. He’s our ambition, our sense of realism, and our conscience or superego—that part of us that has expectations for how we act.

You have Saturn in Pisces—the sign of the Mystic, the Poet, and the Romantic. In order to develop self-discipline and act successfully on your ambition, you’ll need to transcend yourself. In other words, you’ll need to spend time on activities that help you remember that you exist above and apart from your consciousness. Pisces knows instinctively that we are not our personalities. Rather, we are the awareness of our thoughts, feelings and surroundings, and this includes our personalities themselves. Pisces observes the mind observing the world, knowing that when we experience the world, we experience it indirectly: we experience our awareness of the world. For Pisces, there is no objective reality—only our subjective reactions to it.

In order to develop a healthy sense of self-respect and satisfy your conscience, you need to change your reality by changing your consciousness of it. When it comes to surviving in the physical world, the focus isn’t on how you act; it’s on how you look at the world. One way that you can focus your mind or consciousness itself is by meditating, rather than paying attention to what’s going on around you.  Meditating doesn’t have to be anything exotic or driven by theology or metaphysics. It can be as simple as spacing out. You can also focus your attention on awareness itself. You can experience your inner world as something real and solid by creating something tangible, like a poem or a painting. Or you can simply imagine something.

To develop faith in your destiny, act like a mystic. Don’t limit yourself to your rational thought as a source of knowledge. Instead, look to your intuition, faith, or sudden insight as a means of communicating or uniting with the divine. Act like a poet. Imagine beautiful things and create them. Act like a romantic. Seek out relationships in which you can share tender emotions and excitement, glamour and imagery, idealism and enthusiasm for the indefinable. Doing these things will help you develop a social role that harmonizes with who you are in private.

What will help you act like a mystic, or a poet, or a romantic? Escaping from mundane reality by swimming in the rich waters of your imagination. Creating something in your imagination. You can also do it by empathizing with others. Approach them with gentleness, compassion and a willingness to adapt. Tap into your awareness that higher levels of consciousness exist and it’s possible for us to achieve them. Pursue whatever interest you might have in the paranormal or religion or psychology. 

Saturn lies not only in dreamy, meditative Pisces but also in your 12th house, the house of release.

The 12th house includes those experiences that are beyond our control and disrupt our identification with our egos. It also represents our spiritual life, whether that means meditating, engaging in religious practices, reading spiritually inspired works of literature, or taking selfless action on behalf of others. The 12th house relates to behind-the-scenes, secluded or confined activities such as in hospitals or prisons, intellectual work carried out in solitude, and matters that are conducted behind closed doors or swept under the rug, away from the general knowledge of the public.

When a planet lies in the 12th house, it’s like a master teacher who stands ready to guide us into transcendent states of consciousness. For you, Saturn stands ready to offer certain types of experience or perception that are customized to help you make leaps in your evolution. These experiences or perceptions feature distinctly Saturnian elements: self-discipline, persistence, determination, and a commitment to quality.

Given that you have Saturn in the 12th house, part of your cosmic homework involves identifying with being more than your ego. Saturn represents our creation of some sort of great work. In order to create yours, you’ll need to act in ways that help you say, “I’m not just my ego. I’m also a spiritual being. Yeah, I go through life’s ups and downs, but there’s more to who I am than just a person struggling to make my way in the world.” The 12th house is where we stretch toward taking such a “God’s-eye perspective” on our lives. You can either stretch toward such a perspective willingly or unwillingly.

If you do it willingly, then you take the initiative to develop a spiritual life, whatever that means for you. Maybe it means selfless acts of kindness toward others. Maybe it means religious faith. Maybe it means meditation, or contemplation or spiritually inspired works of literature, or some other activity. Whatever it is, it helps you identify with being more than a personality that’s subject to the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.” It helps you tune into your sense of the eternal.

With Saturn in the house of release, that’s where you can most expect to have to go it alone. Perhaps you didn’t have role models for how to act selflessly on behalf of others when you were growing up. Your relatives or neighbors were largely self-absorbed, whether it was because they were deliberately acting miserly or because they were consumed with struggling just to survive. Maybe as an adult you’re surrounded by people who look at their own lives in a narrow way. Your colleagues or romantic partner or friends don’t have much in the way of their own spiritual practices. They see religion as being the opiate of the masses, or they ridicule your interest in phenomena that cannot be explained in terms of scientific knowledge. For one reason or another, you’ll need to largely rely on yourself to achieve states of self-transcendence.

Your ability to dream will also be especially tested in that department of your life. Among the various planets, Saturn is known as the taskmaster. Like a stern teacher, he demands serious, diligent effort, and he rewards us according to the effort that we put forth. If you act with self-discipline in facing circumstances that are beyond your control, you can expect to be rewarded for your effort. If you don’t act with self-discipline in that department, then you can expect to experience some major sadness. It’s up to you whether you slack off or study like you should.

It’s your choice whether you open yourself up to a fuller experience that would promote your evolutionary development, for example, by developing a deeper, more compassionate response to other people’s pain. Doing that would mean facing some serious challenges. You wouldn’t be able to get by without feeling some of the suffering that other people feel. It’s understandable if you don’t want to “go there.” At the same time, it could also lead to problems if you don’t go there.

The choices that you make in expressing your ambition have a lot to do with the sort of future that you can expect to have. If you make unhealthy choices, then you could behave like a cold manipulator, a repressed lost soul, or a fear-driven victim.

If you act like a repressed lost soul, then you don’t develop a spiritual practice. Rather than seek out any experiences that would help you transcend yourself, you limit yourself to considering only what you can count or detect using your five natural senses. You drift through life, confused and stricken with self-doubt. Maybe you go with the flow and take the easy way out, and then you live to regret it. You’re like the tortured soul who follows orders from higher-ups in the Nazi hierarchy during World War II, and then feels an intolerable sense of responsibility and guilt for his actions. Perhaps you try to numb your consciousness through substance abuse, overeating, or some other behavior that provides an immediate escape from your painful feelings…and adds to your problems in the long run. You might act carelessly in ways that lead to you’re undoing. You’re like the drunk driver who injures others, or the politician who has an extramarital affair while running for office…until it becomes public knowledge.

Like a fear-driven victim, you could look at yourself and your life in narrow terms. Perhaps you struggle to accomplish more than is humanly possible, and when you inevitably run into circumstances that are simply beyond your control, you’re thrown for a loop. When confronted by such circumstances, you stubbornly stick to your same approach even though it works against you, and you come to feel more and more powerless. You feel terrorized by life. If you go down this road, then you stretch toward a spiritual perspective, but you do so unwillingly. Instead of voluntarily going there, you wait until reality presses you into service.

If you do that, then it could compound your sense of anxiety when you meet circumstances beyond your control. You could set yourself up for a fall, or make matters worse for yourself in a situation that is already challenging.

For example, let’s suppose you’re in an intimate relationship. The other person ends it. What do you do? Such a loss is bound to be difficult, but if you see your emotional or financial survival as being dependent on staying with that particular person, then such a perspective would only make the loss more painful for you. You could act like a cold manipulator, by conspiring to victimize the other person, but what would doing that get you? Rather than help you move on gracefully, it would only prolong the struggle and increase the damage. It wouldn’t feed your Saturn.

Another example: you are required to pay certain fees or surrender certain possessions to comply with some legal obligation. Instead of doing it, you put your energy into avoiding it. Maybe you falsify some records. Somehow you try to dodge the requirement, and eventually it catches up with you. You wind up having to pay a higher, more painful price than you would have paid if you had faced the matter squarely in the first place.

Here’s a third example: you experience an accidental or injury. It requires that you make adjustments, at least temporarily, in how you approach your work or some other situation. Rather than focus on what you are still capable of doing, you focus on what you are incapable of doing. You identify so much with your body as it was before the event that it takes a toll on your morale. Just when you need to build your motivation to get through a tough recovery, you work against yourself.

If you make healthy choices in expressing your ambition, then you take the initiative to develop a spiritual life, whatever that means for you. You take time away from the drama of your life by focusing on your calm, peaceful center within. That center is a place that you reach via self-hypnosis, prayer, meditation, or deep spiritual thought. You have spiritual or psychic experiences. You have a sense that God is present in the world, or you have a sense that higher levels of consciousness exist. You maintain a sense that you exist above and apart from your ego, that an essential part of you remains untouched regardless of life’s ups and downs, twists and turns. Doing this helps you tune into your sense of the eternal. When faced with trouble, you develop wisdom. You let it be. You “let go and let God.”

In addition, you treat yourself and others with gentleness. You see everything and everyone in the world as being interconnected. Your attitude is like that of a bumper sticker that I saw. It said “If I see myself in you, then how could I harm you?” You associate other innovative, imaginative people, such as artists who push their craft into new frontiers. Even while you enjoy experiences of wonderful romance or brotherly love in your imagination or in reality, you don’t expect anyone to be a dream come true. Whatever you do, you do it with a highly nuanced sense of aesthetics or a compassionate vision.

Making the most of your Saturn means applying your practicality and determination in imaginative, empathetic ways. You treat others with gentleness and sensitivity. Pisces gravitates toward stylized artistry, and Saturn symbolizes management, ambition, hard work, and duty, so you combine these principles successfully in one way or another. You could conduct yourself like a self-disciplined altruist, an ambitious visionary, or a diligent dreamer.

If you act like a self-disciplined altruist, then you demonstrate an unselfish concern for the welfare of others. You open your heart and soul to others through acting in an altruistic or spiritual fashion. You radiate caring and support in other people’s lives. Either voluntarily or in response to a pressing demand, you provide support for others in a time of need. For example, you work as a scribe for a blind musical composer, or you nurse wounded soldiers in your home during wartime. You stay in the family home later into your adulthood than you would prefer, so that you can help shepherd relatives through a time of crisis. One of your parent’s dies, so you take on the extra responsibility of resolving his or her affairs, maybe even taking over the family business. Another possibility is that you help raise money for disease prevention after someone you know is diagnosed with the condition.

If you act like a diligent dreamer, then you see possibilities through your mind’s eye, and you take sustained, determined action to make them a reality. You know that wishing won’t make it happen, so you roll up your sleeves and you get to work. You’re the activist who promotes an end to slavery, fairer treatment for women, protection of the environment, or some other burning cause. You’re the successful actor who creates an independent institute to help creative but commercially uncertain works make it to film. Like an ambitious visionary, you sense trends or possibilities, and you ride the wave of your imagination to flow along with them. You’re the dance instructor who sees the potential of her students or the astronaut who finds space travel inspiring. You’re the psychic researcher who studies paranormal phenomena, or the entrepreneur who starts a luxury eyewear company and markets mystique to the masses.

 

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