Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's getting on for midnight as I write this, so we can proceed with a new Magic Monday. Let's start things out with a quote again: 

 

"Discipline has long been interpreted as self-control, or as some would say, "the overcoming of the lower nature.' The difficultiy is that such words as 'conquest' and 'overcoming' suggest an entirely inconsistent aggressiveness of technique.  The true metaphysician is not a wearied man wrestling with his lower nature; rather he is poised and relaxed, achieving through realization instead of conflict.  Avoid the process of suffering your way into a spiritual state." 

 

That's from Manly P. Hall's Self-Unfoldment by Disciplines of Realization, arguably Hall's best book and one of the classics of the Golden Age of American occultism. (The image to the left, on the other hand, is one of Augustus Knapp's splendid illustrations for Hall's The Secret Teachings of All Ages.)     

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Comments

Saturn Returns

[(Anonymous)]

Several Ecosophians have mentioned "Saturn returns", and my curiosity piqued, I went out yesterday and looked the term up. Then I made myself some charts at
https://astro.cafeastrology.com/natal.php.

These seemed to be pretty spectacular to my only-slightly-educated eye.

For one, I was born one month before the Great Conjunction of 1961. Then I had a Saturn Return in January of 1991, and another this year in March to keep the Grand Mutation company. (The Grand Mutation also happens to be a Great Conjunction.)

As advertised, change-in-life events have occurred for the couple of years before each of the Saturn Returns. My path changed significantly after the first Saturn Return in 1991, but I will have to wait to see what happens after this one. Learning all this gave me a lot of insights on my life I didn't have before.

Here are the articles I found online:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_return
https://www.astrology.com/article/how-to-survive-your-saturn-return/
https://www.liveabout.com/what-is-the-return-of-saturn-206368
and
https://www.elle.com/horoscopes/a27468618/what-is-saturn-return-astrology/

TSW. Thanks for helping me get educated.

- Cicada Grove

Re: Saturn Returns

[ecosophia]

Saturn returns can be a real bear or a real initiation, or both, depending on how you dealt with the thirty previous years! It's a fairly reliable bit of astrological experience, though, and it's good to know about, so you have the chance to brace yourself.

Re: Saturn Returns

[(Anonymous)]

Hello Anonymous,

This site also has good information on Saturn return

https://aquarianastrology.org/