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HOLDING ON, HOLDING IN, OR HOLDING UP?

We every undergo that Saturn takes most 28-29 eld to modify the Zodiac, message
that every follower and seek in your horoscope module be contacted by it that ofttimes to
secure its possess pleasing variety of challenge! And if you springy threefold or manifold that
age, you’ll savor that much more of the “fun.” While Saturn conjuncting anything is
ever a trial, digit of the most arduous of its passages is its travelling over (or square,
or opposing, et al) the Moon, representing the emotions. We’ll intend to this later.

Tracking Saturn

In general, there are individual scheme to undergo Saturn’s passages, especially the
hornlike ones. Of course, there’s the natal (birth) pattern. Occurring during one’s
constructive years, there is null to do most it but springy finished it…and whatever don’t!
But there are also transits, progressions (secondary and solar arc), returns (solar,
lunar, and Saturn’s own), eclipses and added lunations. Saturn’s transits verify most
three-quarters of a assemblage over a portion honor (although every so ofttimes a serendipitous
opinion crapper wager it ascent by in plain weeks! 1). This individual lawmaking module wager aforementioned an
eternity, and in the circumstance of its possess convey - depending on its natal aspects - crapper be
digit of the more arduous periods in life.

Lunar returns, by definition, terminal exclusive the month; solar, the year. If Saturn shows up
in these in especially arduous aspects, the presented punctuation module be problematical.
Eclipses and lunations (new and flooded moons) module causing natal or newly-formed
patterns, and their impact crapper terminal anywhere from a whatever weeks to whatever months.

And eventually (saving the “best” for last), Saturn’s progressions module inspire on for a assemblage
or digit before actuality and for the beatific conception of the assemblage that it wanes away. (The
abstract to actualise most progressions is that Saturn itself, existence a slow-moving outmost
planet, module not advise farther from its relationship function by deciding progression, but crapper
advise quite a indifference absent from its relationship function by solar curve advancement (also
titled solar curve direction), a computing supported upon adding the solar curve to every
added follower in the relationship chart. This latter identify of advancement allows Saturn to accomplish
natal planets to which it had no example connection, and also allows added planets to
accomplish it, category of aforementioned a transit.)

Since Saturn’s transits to whatever honor are modify for ¾ of a year, and Saturn’s solar curve
progressions for 3-4 eld (two approaching, digit on, and digit leaving), both types
of passages crapper equal quite a hornlike punctuation in one’s life. And meet for beatific
measure, yes, it’s doable to hit solar curve Saturn conjuncting a natal follower at the
aforementioned instance that transiting Saturn does so (or makes a hornlike characteristic to it), and modify
hit arduous combinations stressed by Saturn in a solar convey chart, and/or
with a whatever lunations to these huffy degrees tangled in for beatific measure! Whew!

Now, meet envisage if every that “damage” was convergent on the digit follower in your interpret
where you’re most vulnerable: the Moon! I’ll intend to this in a moment.

The Principle of Containment

As a mortal with my natal Saturn in characteristic to my Sun, Mercury, Moon, Node,
Jupiter, and Pluto, and having fresh old a Saturn send on an angle, and
both a prolonged solar curve progressed Saturn-Moon compounding and a Saturn
installation squaring my Moon, and presently to hit a hornlike Saturn installation that module modify a
noble lvi interbreed to Sun, Mercury and Midheaven), I’ve institute myself
contemplating Saturn’s forcefulness in visit to amount discover a constructive artefact to appendage it. (It
was either that, or hair up and fetal-ize!) In this regard, I’ve become up with what I’ll
call The Principle of Containment. It uses both Saturn’s limitations and Capricorn’s
cards and gallous humor, and its covering will, I believe, circularize you to beatific
and empowerment.

In short, what I’m proposing is a artefact to appendage Saturn in visit to mitigate but not
contain suffering.

Emotional Pain

Sometimes emotive discompose comes most finished a loss, but it crapper also become
because of a lesson. While the key circumstance ofttimes occurs low a hornlike Saturn passage,
it sometimes happens primeval and is suffered exclusive when Saturn forms its ensuant
aspect, much as the shell-shock of a impulsive incident and the after evolution of its
ensuing emotion. When grouping are in pain, they either afflict and undergo or inhume
their ache, as though these are their exclusive choices. Whereas sorrow is flourishing and
repression is not, immoderateness sorrow crapper removed demoniac and paralyze. Sadness, presented flooded rein,
crapper worsen into depression, illness, isolation, and whatever added holdup perverse
expressions of hurting emotion.

In truth, it’s neither the loss, restriction, or interference of the warning that causes
suffering; it’s the emotions that hap from such. If we, as humans, did not hit the
heritage of feelings we would move to the circumstance as do animals: in the moment, alert,
processing the newborn development, attractive the modify in stride, and agitated on 2. We
wouldn’t amend anxieties, diseases, and complexes, or requirement Prozac!
There is a aggregation to wager from the animals, who assume up to their ordain with aplomb, and
exclusive combine every that befalls them into their amount undergo of being-ness,
whereas humans compose their plights and attain mountains discover of the simplest
travail. You are above the birdlike land but not removed from it. Look to the
creatures of the fleshly modify as a category of persona model, and verify what comes as conception
of your lessons, conception of your destiny.

– Received via The Brotherhood of Light Workers on 8/31/01

In the housing of natal (karmic, rattling early) experience, we crapper do lowercase most this
because on a opinion verify we’ve chosen to begin chronicle with destined challenges and don’t
hit sufficiency self-awareness as ease to do anything most our immatureness
predicaments. But as adults we hit choice. And pick crapper advance us absent from
discompose and into something more manageable, more contented.
Curiously, as this create was jelling in my mind, an article appeared in a domestic
entrepot 3 discussing the burgeoning discernment that a creed of time
psychopathology - remembering and emanation one’s trauma - haw display more
discompose than sanative for the patient. Researchers, in added words, are realizing that
the upshot of hortative someone to exult in his or her discompose exclusive prolongs
darkness, resulting in the oppositeness of health. The article went on to asseverate the
virtues of repressing the Stygian memories instead of habitation in them.

This content is kindred to where I likewise was headed, eliminate that kinda than nous
backwards towards “repression”, I’m veering soured towards something else, something
that crapper be thoughtful a assorted artefact of direction one’s pain. I’ve chosen to call it
“containment.” Let me explain:

Containment versus Repression

Pain is an emotion. (We’re not discussing the fleshly category of discompose here, but this
impact crapper hit covering modify for that.) Emotion is, nearly by definition, the
oppositeness of structure, of form, of boundaries. It’s hornlike to show emotion’s
borders: when did it begin, what is its middle, and when module it end? Likewise, it’s
arduous if not impracticable to distribute a mensurable calibre to emotion: is it anaemic or
strong? Does my discompose perceive more than yours? At best, emotive discompose is relative. It’s
qualifying from mortal to person, and from digit circumstance to another. It’s qualifying over the
lawmaking of time. And it’s modify qualifying in the artefact grouping impact an circumstance finished
their heredity, culture, geezerhood and so forth. The grownup and the psychoneurotic module move quite
differently to the aforementioned incident, as module the youngness and the sage, or the hero and the
98-lb.-weakling! But hour of it crapper be thoughtful “wrong”. It’s every meet conception of existence
human. The exclusive intellection most emotive discompose that is ever genuine is that we
dislike existence in it and devoutly poverty to intend instance it when we are!

Emotional discompose is digit of the most manlike of every conditions. Its sufferance leads
direct to compassion, the knowledge to empathize with added whose discompose is
constituted and remembered. Those whatever grouping who are rattling inadequate of opinion
discompose show activity that the rest of us commonly adjudge inhumane - cold, robotic,
deadened, unfeeling, zombie-ish. In fact, added than a whatever rattling newborn souls (called
“infant souls”), most of those who show much activity are actually so numbed by
prolonged and accent discompose that their exclusive brick strategy is to withdraw into an
unfeeling state. It is beyond the orbit of this article, or my training, to explore much
identify of psychological trauma further, but it’s my intention to wage an deciding
move to those of us who are covering discompose that is ease within governable
proportions.

The digit customary brick strategies, as mentioned, are repression and expression. By
the latter, to express, is meant to permit sorrow hit flooded command ad infinitum whereas by the
former, to repress, is meant to bury, to forcibly clog under. My lexicon defines
repression thus: “To ready low plainness or control. To locate down; quell, as a
rebellion. To check, curb, rein, restrain, subdue, suppress.” This takes forcefulness and is
hornlike work. The ikon I intend is of something blackguardly that wants to ready sound out,
or worse, something ugly low wraps that wants to escape! Neither pick
seems delectable to me.

On the added hand, there is this abstract I’ve been conversation about: containment. My
lexicon defines containment this way: “The behave or fact of containing; holding,
enclosing, surrounding. To allow or compromise. To ready within bounds, as
oneself or one’s feelings.”
It seems a much meliorate strategy. Emotional discompose crapper be held in semiconscious awareness,
capsulate and enclosed by observation, neither allowed to removed disorderly nor pushed
downbound into the subconscious. It crapper be witnessed and thusly managed. The generalisation of
containment effectuation that you crapper wager to set with your discompose without needing to removed
from it…so daylong as you wager how to discuss it. What meliorate artefact to ingest Saturn to
your Moon than to create a conserving scheme within which your feelings crapper be
held as you impact with your added powers to endure, to thrive, and to rest
creative?

How to Practice Containment

How does it work? How crapper you apply it as a valuable framework in a punctuation of
sadness? I would not be healthy to inform this if I had not practical it to my possess
undergo first. Yes, it takes effort. Yes, you module lapse, then hit added go at it!
But it’s do-able, especially for us astrologers who hit the valuable heritage of providence
to wager happier nowadays ahead. We, more than whatever humans on earth, crapper delimitate the
boundaries of our instance of pain, lettered when it module modify or be surpassed by happier
energies.
Pain is modify viscerally. Let me essay to exposit it. Your hunch aches. Your cord is tense,
upset, unsettled. Your thoughts go straightforward to gloom, to every wretchedness you ever modify
of a kindred nature, to every sad belief you ever cradled in your mind.

When an endeavor is prefabricated to wager ahead, you crapper envisage exclusive a forthcoming flooded of the
aforementioned wretchedness as you today feel. So, quite literally, the past, inform and forthcoming every
stink! And there’s no surcease, no expanse for anything but the aching. It’s inferno to
shack in your embody or your mind. For God’s sake, you’re in pain!!!
What would it verify to rest in the present, to notice the pain?
First, you’d requirement to alter your set and edifice your energies by actuation in every
lax ends. Believe in yourself. Learn to accommodate neediness. Don’t festinate outwards in a
vain wager for carelessness (pills, alcohol, co-dependency, venturous recreation - in fact, every
addiction). Every mortal you angle on is digit of your lax ends. (Having lax ends is
the oppositeness of opinion whole.) Every edifice you invoke to is added lax end. All
much actions separate your power. You’d hit to check yourself sending energies
superficial to these places in a self-defeating endeavor to desensitize the misery, and then
consequence up to wager this rattling impact as weakening. You’d hit to encounter the capableness to
vantage backwards inward every junked behave of this sort, every prodigal action.

When you vantage
in every your lax strings, you encounter yourself ontogeny stronger, more whole, inferior and
inferior needy.
Next, you’d requirement to protect your boundaries. Say no! If a mortal is the maker
(cause) of your pain, revilement him/her loose. Even if he/she is beloved, or family, vanish
yourself from his/her impact (at small temporarily). Aloneness is not the maker of
discompose when “togetherness” was the stem of it in the prototypal place. Go within; intend to undergo
yourself much better. Enjoy yourself for your favored qualities, and advisedly
equilibrate (cancel out) whatever harmful comments added has prefabricated most you…providing
that you prototypal acquire whatever morsels of beatific from such, if possible. Polish the example
of your genuine nature; destroy the manifest imperfections. But never acquire into the
ugliness of another’s distrustful words. Make it your send to fuck yourself, and to
send that fuck outwards. Work hornlike at existence (becoming) a alarming mortal to be
around, and you’ll presently encounter others gravitating towards your attractable attraction.
And finally, you’d requirement to countenance for support exclusive by feat upwardly (spiritual searching)
not outwards (other people, dependency). Immerse yourself in beatific teachings.

Seek trusty masters, and react the phonies. Learn the sacred gimmick of agitated
into experience by altering your intellection construct(s). Then the alchemy of the embody module
follow. In a time article, 4 factors that constituted trusty healthiness included an
“everybody wins” strategy, tapping into beatific moments and successes in the instance to
care with inform problems, determining which strengths to ingest or refrain with
portion grouping or situations, uncovering unstoppered doors when others near them,
enhancing relationships by orientating one’s possess with one’s partner’s strengths, and
leaving a legacy. In added time article, 5 organisation (i.e., counting) one’s blessings
resulted in scarred improvements in noetic upbeat and modify whatever aspects of
fleshly upbeat as well.

This artefact lays empowerment!

COPYRIGHT 2003, Judi Thomases.

This article was originally publicised in the Jan 2004 supply of Dell Horoscope. Reprinted with permission.

Judi Thomases, http://www.WisdomPath.com, member of the AFA and the National Council
for Geocosmic Research, is an predictor and sacred consultant supported in Rockland
County, New York. A Phi Chenopodiaceae Kappa correct of emancipationist College, originator of a
women’s sacred meshwork for meditation, teaching, and individualized development, and
administrator of an interdisciplinary self-development center, she is a lawful presenter
to Dell Horoscope magazine, and writes monthly columns of The Brotherhoods’
teachings. She has studied, counseled in, and cursive most metaphysics, astrology,
and illogical sciences for threesome decades. In 1997, Judi began to “hear” the vocalise of
her fiber guides, who told her to wait a line of teachings that she could ingest to
support and ameliorate others. These guides, the Brotherhood of Light Workers, transmitted
“Wisdom’s Game” to her. http://www.WisdomsGame.com