Recognition and Transformation

Saturn in the cycle of human experience and development, represents “outer limits” beyond which we’ve been told by stultifying traditions, we shall not venture. In this context, Saturn represents, in the individual human cycle, recognition of limitations—but this means supplicating ourselves to the delusion that there are limitations. The reality is, there are no limita­tions.

  When Saturn is found at 23° Libra, as it was when this post was written, in Dane Rudhyar’s Astrological Mandala we find “Chanticleer’s Voice Heralds Sunrise” – a creative and joyous response to life’s processes. . . “At the ego level, chanticleer may feel that he makes the sun rise; but someday he will learn through painful experiences that to create is only to reveal what is.  The vivid recognition of the as yet-unknown in the known” – Saturn’s transcending “purpose” in the human cycle, if you will.

  Rudhyar continues: “What is at stake here is the individual’s capacity for a response to life’s renewals – cyclic, predictable, yet always new, always creative.”  Beyond this in our solar family lies Uranus, messenger from the galaxy, challenge to transformation.

  Fritjof Capra in “The Turning Point” – Living organisms have an inherent potential for reaching out beyond themselves to create new structures and new patterns of behavior. . . Evolution is an ongoing and open adventure that continually creates its own purpose in a process whose outcome is inherently unpredictable. Metaphorically speaking, Uranus challenges Saturn’s limitations which would put a damper on reaching beyond our recognized selves, to create our own purpose and new forms of living.