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FOR FEBRUARY THROUGH DECEMBER 2004

by Brian Habit

Neptune conjoins your Saturn from roughly February 2004 till December 2006.

To review, 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.

Now, while Neptune passes over your Saturn, you could see a dream come to fruition. Your sense of inspiration has evolved to the point where it now combines powerfully with your reality testing. Right-brained, fluid intuition meets your faith in your destiny, and you’re ready to express your sense of self-discipline in a more idealistic way than ever before. An otherworldly perception of what’s possible in an ideal world (Neptune) combines with that part of your consciousness that has to be practical and strategic in order to survive in the physical world (Saturn). Their meeting produces an intensification of your independent goal-centered style. Your development of self-respect is temporarily uplifted, sensitized and enchanted as it collides with a contemplative vision. Your awareness of a mysterious power, one suggesting the presence of a divine spirit or deity, is energized and mobilized now.

Your natal Saturn offers the potential for you to act with self-reliance and originality in the general way in which you face the world, day in and day out. That potential is now activated in a way that weakens the barrier separating your consciousness (or ego) from your unconsciousness (or soul). You can expect significant changes in how you act on your conscience and your commitments, a period in which imagination triggers your ambition, and a peak in individualistic behaviors.

The question is whether you’ll give in to exaggerated hopes and fears and act based on distorted overly positive or overly negative perceptions, or you’ll act in very inspired ways through artistic pursuits or some other activities. It’s common to feel inspired, spiritualized, like you’re walking on Cloud Nine when Neptunian inspirations start stirring. Life can seem dreamy or magical. It’s also common to feel confused, debilitated, or hypersensitive under Neptune.

Saturn represents where we are likely to be blocked somehow and overcompensate by acting in overly conservative ways. When Neptune passes over Saturn, it’s like a wave washing over a rock, gradually eroding it or dissolving it. Maybe it’s a rock that needs breaking up. On the other hand, that rock might be the very foundation on which your commitments rest. Perhaps you’re confronted with the need to let go of something. You lose something or someone due to circumstances beyond your control. It’s a time of sadness and grief, of letting go and looking at life’s more serious realities from a more spiritual perspective. Maybe you find it necessary to let go of a worldly situation (such as a job) due to a debilitating element (such as an illness). You feel drained, discouraged, maybe emotionally distraught. The question becomes how you will deal with this new reality. The universe calls on you to take a more spiritualized go-with-the-flow view on life. Will you ignore this imperative, and try to stay entrenched in the status quo, however tenuous or ephemeral it might be?

If you make a mess of this transit, then you give in to an unrealistically negative or positive perception of the world. Your act self-destructively, or you trample over others in your rush to realize some farfetched dream. You victimize someone else, or someone else victimizes you.

If you act self-destructively, then you might let yourself slip into dwelling on negative thoughts. You might give in to your fears. Or you could swing in the other direction, seeking escape through some pleasant reverie or ill-conceived action. Maybe you come up with a visionary idea. You ambitiously throw yourself into a venture, overlooking some crucial current facts that you’ll need to consider in order to succeed.

If you involve other people in a destructive process, then maybe you lash out at someone else, perhaps even someone who’s been very supportive in your life, because you’re feeling distraught or confused about which way to go.

If someone acts in a way that frustrates your ambition, maybe you fight a losing battle. For example, if someone ends a romantic relationship with you, and you feel angry, you might retaliate by sending that person nasty messages. One way or another, you waste time in trying to hold on to something that isn’t there, rather than letting go of the past so that you can accomplish more in the future, and it only brings everyone down.

Maybe you act based on your fears about how others will treat you in the future, whether or not your fears are grounded in reality. You anticipate that someone will act in a way that frustrates your ambition, and then you make a preemptive strike, based on your fears. 

Another way to get into trouble here would be by violating laws or social norms in the rush to realize worldly ambition. In that case, deception meets up with ambition. You resort to lying or some other form of deceit to accomplish some worldly ambition. In your drive to have a more ideal life, you try to “get away with murder” by trampling over other people in a self-serving way.

In yet another scenario, you end up playing the role of a victim. Someone else acts brutally toward you, using force to exploit you financially or otherwise. You get caught up in a very serious, yet murky matter. For example, maybe someone alleges that you broke a law or violated some policy. Even if you’re innocent, and even if you ultimately vindicate yourself, dealing with the allegation can still eat up some of your precious time and energy.

If you carry off this transit well, then you let go of things that are beyond your control. You face the facts by taking a more “cosmic” or spiritual perspective on your life. You loosen your grip on trying to maintain the status quo in work or creative pursuits. Perhaps you let go of an existing commitment or structure in your life, so that you can make way for something new, like a politician who completes a term in public office and moves on to something else.

Inspiration combines with administration. Vision combines with practicality. You pursue an inspiring vision, but you do so within the structure of life’s realistic limits, rather than trying to push faster or farther than natural limitations allow. You’re like a candidate who assumes a high office during a time of economic or social difficulty. She comes up with a strategy for improving conditions. She offers hope without encouraging people to have unrealistically high expectations of what can be accomplished. With her at the helm, people feel more hopeful about the future. She becomes popular and wins re-election. 

Your idealism meets up with your purposefulness. For example, you might take an organization to task for failing to live up to its mission or exploiting those people who help make its success possible. You try to branch from one area of imaginative, artsy work into another. Gracefulness meets determination. Style meets stamina. You’re like a well-trained athlete who wins a marathon.

If you find that your morale is flagging, then you take concrete, practical steps to turn the situation around. For example, if you’ve been hitting the bottle too hard or too often, maybe you get into rehab. If you feel like you have no control or focus in your life, maybe you see a psychotherapist. Or suppose you’ve gotten to the point that you doubt that you can make a big dream of yours come true. You’ve let yourself get out of shape in some sense, or you’ve never gotten yourself in gear to start acting on your inspiration. Maybe now you hook up with someone who helps you marshal the self-discipline and focused effort that you need to make your dream a reality.