Saturn finally leaves Sagittarius and the fire from December 20 2017 to invest its Capricorn home and the Earth until December 17 2020 in its usual journey of about 3 years in each sign (a little less).
This planet is often dreaded by astrology enthusiasts, it’s reputed to be the “Great Evil” of traditional astrology, and one often attaches to it a whole range of attributes, such as fear, delays, constraints and other inhibitions of all kinds, often also rigour, austerity… But we often forget its positive aspects too : seriousness, maturity, structuring, sustainability, strategy, ambition, the planet allows us to “make solid”, and for a long time !
Summit meeting with Pluto
In Capricorn home, Saturn is likely to see all his qualities exacerbated, but also to see his more austere parts reinforced.
Moreover, this sign of Capricorn is going to know a big valorization during this time lapse of the saturn transit :
- The Black moon is already in this sign since November 2017, it’s interesting to follow in the sense that its passage will be much faster than that of Saturn (it will pass in Aquarius from summer 2018), and what it can come to raise or cut during this time it could be at saturn to realize it the following years (its conjunction with pluto will be for next mid-May).
- Pluto which is already almost at the 3rd decan but which advances very slowly, and saturn will be already conjoint with this planet certainly from the first quarter 2019 (big weight for the beginning of the 3rd decan)
- the south node will switch to this sign already from the end of November 2018 (still asking to settle things from the past, especially for the 3rd decans again since the nodes are always in retrograde motion, they start with the end of sign).
- Let’s talk about Jupiter, which will be added at the end of 2019 and for one year, the planet will be able to “reboost” the sign after 2 years which are announced to be “busy” around this archetype…
As Earth energy, one of the first attributions of these influences is likely to be expressed directly in the “matter”, i.e. either in terms of work (promotion, completion of an important project or redundancy) or in terms of money (revaluation, economy, balance of any account or debts), real estate (purchase / sale), or also at the most direct physical level, on the body, health, vitality, bodily or psychic (this will depend directly on the birth chart of each one, according to how Capricorn fits in with the rest of your energies).
Let us recall here that Pluto’s entry into Capricorn in 2008 coincided more or less with the great “subprime crisis”, Pluto coming for making a financal “clean up” on credit bubbles, this is one of Pluto’s functions, to create the crisis to force to abandon what must be abandoned in order to move forward lighter afterwards… And as Saturn is also quite “accountable” in its attributions, the planet can come and directly force to “take stock”, questioning, balance, final settlement, in a form of crisis or mourning to be done (see my article on the mourning process precisely as evolutionary phases of the Depression).
In alchemistic processes, there is here directly a junction between the basic “Calcinatio” that pluto operates and the “Coagulatio” that saturn brings, which can be translated at best to the most positive by a form of “healing” may be (a cauterization of wounds), both physically and psychologically (access to the unconscious parts could be used in an effective, useful, practical way), but this still conceals a very strong and important destructive power that should not be neglected either !
Beacause our Shadow (in the Jungian sense) will then be particularly vivacious and close to emergence all the time (this is precisely what allows us to treat it in the best possible way), but it’s not an insignificant process, without risk, it is necessary to keep prudence, reserve, as far as possible…
One of the most beautiful Saturn and Capricorn qualities for me is its introspection power, which allows to step back, analyze, integrate and somehow “absorb” our difficulties, often through loneliness, and I believe that this kind of passage in the sky has vocation to make all of us work on this points. Certainly, these are harsh energies, apparently austere, and that not everyone can “absorb” and handle in the same way; but it is also a path that leads, if sublimated, to wisdom…
It’s just a “new beginning” that this important conjunction of so many astrological factors in this sign proposes, to reach a different “security” (linked to the “matter” that will be impacted), and it’s very karmic as an influence, no doubt, this is what always accompanies the aspect of “crises” and important “mourning”, a notion both of transcendence and contact to our “past”.
It can finally be a time to review in a certain way our social investments, our society (both at the national level but also at the level of our immediate, local environment), our policies, the way we integrate ourselves into the collective and manage it, because by putting things into perspective, the next step will be the Saturn’s entry in Aquarius and the planet may have to prepare the future arrival of pluto in this same sign, thus at a time when many astrologers speak of the Age of Aquarius (phenomenon related to the precession of the equinoxes), this transit will be interesting to follow !
But in short for the moment, with this Saturn in transit Capricorn, “time” will find its full meaning and will ask to work with him, to cultivate patience and your ambitions, to take responsibilities !
It will certainly not be the most joyful transit of our life but it has a lot to teach us, both about ourselves as about the nature of life…
Saturn in transit through Capricorn 2017 / 2020
The most directly concerned signs are, obviously capricorn, and also in a more harmonic way the earth signs, Taurus (who will know the Uranus transit), and Virgo. But in a more tense way, it’s the Cardinal cross in square that will be more delicate, Cancer wildly imbalanced which has a very big weight in Opposition and with energies of a complicated nature for this sign ! Then Aries and Libra who will directly feel the quadrature in the more directly violent and conflicting aspect it can have (big tension for these signs).
+The year 2018 will more likely be a year of transition, preparatory, especially for the 1st decans, unless saturn innervates particular planets of your birth chart, the planet does not make any major tension in the sky in the medium term.
+The year 2019 will be much more sensitive (the most sensitive of this Saturnian transit in all respects), especially for all the 3rd decans, we can say with a first semester very complicated in terms of Saturian and karmic energies, and you will see Saturn conjoint Pluton at the end of the year and early 2020.
+The year 2020, apart from the end of the 3rd decan and the beginning of the 1st which still welcome saturn, the big annual influence will be Jupiter, which will come to make “magnifying glass effect” on these same Capricorn degrees, let us hope to give again a more optimistic and positive dynamics, “effectively constructive”, even if in contact with pluto nothing is ever certain and prudence must be maintained during this actualization…
It’s globally a very important time for all capricorns, whatever the influence you have of this sign, so an important thing for you is to keep faith, a trust, in the fundamental purposes of these transits, in the fact that “time and cycles pass” and that what can be tested today will be strength tomorrow, for sure !
For the overall conjuncture over time, see also the Lunations.