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FOR FEBRUARY THROUGH DECEMBER 2004

by Brian Habit

Saturn trines your Jupiter from roughly July 2004 till May 2005.

At roughly the same time that Saturn trines your Midheaven, he also trines your Jupiter, temporarily forming a lovely grand trine in your chart. Jupiter represents expansion, optimism, and vision, and Saturn represents solidification, caution, and realism. While these two are connected by a flowing trine aspect, it can make for a successful and satisfying combination of these principles.

If you make the worst of this transit, then you act naively or too freely in your career or some other public pursuit, and it gets you into trouble.

For example, maybe you get yourself into hot water by acting opportunistically, taking advantage of someone else’s vulnerability or acting in some brutal way to satisfy a greedy desire or ambition. Perhaps you see your principles as being superior to those of your opponents, and you use illegitimate means to take them out of commission, or you get out of hand during an argument. Maybe you try to win at playing some version of King of the Mountain, bullying others financially or otherwise. And maybe you get away with acting cocky for a while. You get to luxuriate in some short-term gain, but sooner or later you can expect to have to “pay the piper.” For instance, the government or some other authority might step in and crack down on you.

In terms of being naïve, you could get splashed in the face with cold water. If that happens, then maybe you’re pumped up, enthusiastic and cheery about something, only to be met with a frosty reception from people who hold some past indiscretion against you. In another scenario, you try to bail out of a situation when it turns sour on you. You abused your power earlier, and now you think that you can make a clean getaway, without suffering any serious loss. Eventually life shows you that you were sadly mistaken. Maybe you make some bold grab for money or power, and your plan goes awry somehow. You end up causing more harm to someone else in the process than you had intended.

Another possibility is that you don’t act naïve, but you have to curtail your work or other activities for a while, due to an injury or illness. There’s sometimes a mixed-blessing or cup-half-empty-and-half-full quality about this transit. Saturn transits are always serious times, but with Jupiter involved there can be a silver lining to even a dark cloud. The combination can make for a certain bittersweetness, a mixture of sadness and progress, the presence of both a loss and a gain.

For example, a woman’s career takes off. She becomes more and more successful, but she and her husband grow apart. She decides to end their marriage, and they separate as friends. Is that a gain? A loss? Or both? They don’t succeed in keeping the marriage going, but they maintain a friendship. She’s freer to pursue her career by changing the structure in her life (ending the marriage). Hmm…

A man has been suffering from an illness. He gets treatment, and it goes into remission, or it gets to the point that he can’t continue in his job, so he leaves it and starts receiving disability pay. Is that good news, bad news, or both? Illness is bad, but successful treatment is good. Having to leave a job due to illness is bad, but being able to go on disability can be a blessing.

If you make the best of this time, then you look at life with both determination and optimism, and you act accordingly. Oftentimes, people make major commitments that lead to satisfaction during this transit. Sometimes it involves accepting a reality (Saturn) and acting determined (Saturn again) to make a dream come true, to bring something into their lives that gives them joy (Jupiter).

For example, a woman wants to be a mother. She also wants a long-term romantic relationship, a marriage. Her romantic life has been going through ups and downs. She’s had more than one boyfriend, but nothing has panned out into a successful marriage. She realizes that she’s getting older. If she wants to have children, she can’t wait forever. What to do? She adopts a child as a single parent. The child becomes a healing force in her life, and within weeks of the adoption, she meets a guy whom she will eventually marry. Looking back on it, she feels like the child brought her husband into her life. Her story features both Saturnian realism, determination, commitment and responsibility and Jupiterian joy, taking on more in life, going for it. Acting on the Saturnian principles helps her feed her Jupiter.

While Saturn trines Jupiter, people often achieve milestones in their lives, especially in their work. They take a more structured approach (Saturn) to doing what expands their horizons (Jupiter). For example, a musician might record his first album as part of a band after signing a contract with a record label. An amateur astrologer might join an astrological organization. A couple gets married. Or suppose a child was born out of wedlock. Her parents might get married now, thus perhaps increasing the stability--or at least the commitment to the idea of stability--for that child’s home life. From the child’s perspective, it’s a solidification of a structure in her life that might help her feel joy and contentment. 

In your case, Saturn is moving through your 6th house of responsibilities. He’s triggering your natal Jupiter, which rules your 2nd house of resources and your 11th house of goals and allies. Based on all of that, this transit can help you clarify or streamline your job duties or your responsibilities in your personal life, in such a way that it helps you realize a financial or altruistic goal. It can also help you feel a lot better about yourself, about what you have to offer the world and your ability to cope with whatever life dishes out.

If you’re feeling frustrated by not having the structure in your life to support a goal, think about how you might “go for it” anyway—not haphazardly, but successfully. Remember the single woman who wanted to be a mother? She didn’t have the structure of marriage in place to support becoming a parent, but she didn’t let it hold her back from pursuing a dream. Of course, she made sure her career was stable enough so that she could support a child, but she went for it. How could you do likewise, especially in your work, or finances, or organizational activities?