“If I expressed it in this grounded reality, made it manifest
Would the longing cease…
Or merely move on to something other that was just beyond my grasp?
My fear is that the something that I reached for would die…
Disintegrate…
Turn into something ugly…
Or judge me for my stepping out of time.” HELEN TREMEER (1999)
Quoting (below) from my musings on social media about the Saturn/Neptune square in the mutable signs (exact square late November, 2015 – mid-June, 2016 – early September, 2016):
“Saturn/Neptune contacts can provoke guilt and overwhelm and a sense of needing to make reparation in some way. It’s not always clear where the responsibility lies for the circumstances in which we find ourselves and there’s likely to be a testing of our idealism; a bringing us back ‘down-to-earth’ at some level.”
One of the astrology pages I follow mentioned a connection between these planets and Frankenstein (there’s a new film out, and apparently, these two planets were in aspect at the time of the original story)!
This prompted a search for Mary Shelley’s original novel and more musing on the the planets: Neptune’s confusion, sacrifice and lack of boundaries; Saturn’s responsibility, integrity – and the figure of the scapegoat… and my own words (top) which I shared in connection with these planets (see tsu or facebook for the full rendition 😉 ), ‘turn into something ugly’ seemed even more apt than they were at the time of writing…
In the Frankenstein story, Victor lost all the people that he loved – could that be seen as reparation for stepping beyond the bounds of ethics and creating a ‘monster’? And if the monster had been given love and not ‘scapegoated’, would he have been able to integrate into society?
I also thought about Poseidon, giving a beautiful white bull to Minos to show support for his kingship, and Minos swapping the bull for another in his sacrifice to the god of the sea. Minos’ wife falling in love with the bull also results in the birth of a monster…
Stepping beyond the bounds… not making a fitting sacrifice… getting our priorities the wrong way around… are these the challenges of Saturn squaring Neptune? And, as a global community, are things such as genetically-modified food and cloning (not forgetting the present world situation around who is responsible for terrorist attacks and the care of thousands of ‘refugees’…) leading us once more into regrettable outcomes?
As we approach the festive season, perhaps we could focus on Saturn’s urge to integrity and responsibility? His realism could temper Neptune’s tendency to ‘rose-coloured glasses’ and help us to manifest a grounded love and compassion for all of earth’s creatures…
Love and blessings,
Helen x
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