"Somehow, juggling flaming swords while maintaining the proper posture needed keep a book atop our heads, we must follow a complex blend of opposing bits of advice. Keep it together, while ripping it apart. Follow the rules, yet at the same time, rewrite the rules. Maintain consistency, without forgetting to try something new. And, of course, respect authority… except when that 'authority' has lost sight of its moral roots, at which point, overthrow it by any means necessary.
Is it any wonder so many of us feel stuck between a rock and a hard place, trying to figure out whether to give that same old thing another shot or to throw in all our tiles and start from scratch? I'd be lying were I to assert there's any easy answer to all of this.
Looking comprehensively at one's birthchart can help provide more detailed information about where to opt for careful conservation and where to bust out liberation-style. Houses that oppose one another in a chart always reflect complementary themes—and if Saturn's in one, then Uranus has got to be in the one directly opposite it. Therefore, say that Saturn's hitting your 2nd house, which deals with your personal resources, finances and that which gives you a sense of stability and security in your life. Uranus must be lighting up your 8th, where we merge our resources with someone else, in passionate and/or complicated psychological interrelations, unable to easily discern what belongs to whom. That would tell you to be super-diligent about preserving what's yours (Saturn in 2nd), since you'll probably be shaking things radically up in terms of your most intimate partnerships (romantic, professional or otherwise). Another example: Uranus in the 1st means your immediate personality is undergoing major reinvention… which also means Saturn's in your 7th and, as part of this reinvention, you've got to be very responsible about who you maintain close one-on-one relationships with, and how you do it.
Get the picture?
Envision this tug-of-war transpiring across two corresponding areas of your life. The goal, tricky as it sounds, is to not let either side win. When the rope is pulled taut from both directions, the tension produced is actually a healthy creative one. Should one team, Saturn or Uranus, become distracted or fatigued, the other team will take unfair advantage and yank its selfish principles to victory. Regardless of which planet is permitted to win, the other will be collapsed in the mud, dirty and cranky and discouraged. And believe me, you want neither Saturn nor Uranus to be disrespected."
Looking at this, I have it in the eleventh (Saturn) and fifth (Uranus). Which are empty houses for me, yay, so I dunno if I can blame any drama on this specifically tying to my planets.
However, I will look up some info on those house placements, since this seems like a good idea.
Saturn in eleventh:
A new inner direction takes hold, and becomes a plan for action.
As Saturn comes into and passes through your Eleventh House, you should, by this point, be actively listening to the inner message that began reaching you as Saturn moved into the Tenth House. Above all, this inner message brings something new into your life, perhaps more of a feeling or tone… or a simple vibration, but something that your whole being resonates to. More than anything, this new experience is something of a vision. Many see a whole new life plan at this point.
A vision is an experience or insight we have that is more real or important to us than the rest of our life surrounding it, both before and after that event. In a moment of vision, we take into ourselves or absorb seminal information that is more than we can simply understand with our mind. It may take weeks, months, or years to decipher and realize what it means. It is analogous to what we read about in some of the sacred texts, where they speak of receiving a secret scroll into the mind, and reading (understanding) it over time. We take in a vision, and we bring it to mind, again and again, until we have absorbed its content, until we understand it.
Saturn’s transit of the 11th house is a time when we are fueled and fired by something coming from within our own mind and self, an idea, thought, plan – a strong stimulus or message of some kind. And in this house, that original stimulus or insight turns into a plan, some attempt on our part of implement whatever idea is moving us, and make it real. “For spirit must be made to matter,” is a line I wrote years ago that describes what I am getting at here. We are inspired or driven to design a plan to make our inner vision real, to make it matter in our day-to-day life.
And to do that, we look everywhere around us for help, for anyone willing to move these plans forward. In this sense, we are very community minded, not particular about who can help, but embracing all and any means to make these dreams real. Here we are perhaps at our most visionary or altruistic, way beyond any selfish or personal motives, and sincerely making an effort to help make something happen.