Saturn in Leo is hot and dry, sober and authoritative, focused and concentrated on one purpose. Neptune in Aquarius is cold and wet, delusional, hyper-idealistic, and falls for just about anything. Put them together face to face, and what do you get? Why, you have the perfect explanation for the paralyzed cynicism that we are living through right now.
You get a world where, if you start to think about where we are going to begin to pick up the pieces, you have to hold back tears long enough to get to Starbucks and feel better.
The issue of this opposition is integrity. That includes the integrity of the world, of our communities even though we are in denial that they exist, and our individual integrity, for which there are precious few examples and even fewer coherent definitions. It’s not that people don’t know the difference between right and wrong; it’s more like the feeling of there being no actual difference. But we seem to have a vague, nostalgic recollection of one. Who knows, maybe we will remember. During the last Saturn-Neptune opposition, Nixon got caught up in Watergate. Today the notion of a scandal seems nostalgic.
For those who happen to be awake, what is wrong is so outrageously wrong and so vast, there seems to be no way to correct it.
The integrity issue is difficult to tune into under this aspect; it’s difficult to experience it as real, or to perceive it as worth bothering with. In truth, we live with the question of whether anything is worth bothering with, unless we are obsessed by it. The people who do get it must have an extraordinary gift and that gift is no doubt being tested right now, as the psychic floodwaters of deception push, pull, and tear at the structures of our minds.
An opposition aspect this powerful is difficult for relationships as well. It is like the attempt to reconcile irreconcilable differences, or the temptation to merely give up trying.
But the good news is this: We humans always learn the most in these days of attempting to stretch ourselves across diametrical contradictions. There is something profound to be gained from confronting the impossible. Indeed, there is something to learn from observing exactly who and what refuses to do so.
Praise to all who take on the lonely calling of leadership in these times; to those who make it their business to squarely face deception and self-deception, and be overwhelmed doing so. Hail those who wake up and refuse to flounder, honoring the brevity and transience of life. I assure you all, when the floodwaters recede, you will be glad you did.
