Saturn's shadow

...How to best utilize our time during a Saturn Rx period

Jul 01, 2024

living under Saturn’s shadow, a boy and his father try to make amends in a Cormac McCarthy novel imagined by DALL-E

“The greatest burden a child must bear is the unlived life of the parent.”

- James Hollis

By far, one of the most difficult tasks of being human is to become aware of the shadow. Many think they are, yet they seem to hate so many things. Anything we hate is our shadow on display. If we spot it, we’ve got it—to some degree. People like to complicate it, but it’s sometimes that easy. And so much of it stems from the “unlived life of the parents” and the resentment they carried around that story. It lives on in us. We are the sequel.

Being that Saturn is now retrograde until November, I thought it a good idea to place this giant idea between us as Saturn comes closer over the coming months. Wherever Pisces falls in our charts is where this meditation is set to occur (19-12º Pisces; June 29th-Nov 15th).

In the podcast I did on Saturn in Pisces, I explored the inner drama between the Puer and the Senex—or, the eternal child and old, wise man. It’s a complex James Hillman wrote about extensively and also pertains powerfully to not just Saturn being in Pisces, but to the slowly forming conjunction between Saturn and Neptune. Saturn being the Senex and Neptune (Pisces), the Puer.

We can see it everywhere. Generations refusing to grow up. A world more polarized than we can remember. Presidential debates that sound like fights on a 4th-grade playground. We are immature. We are soft. And we don’t know what to do with our shadows, so we fling them all around, talking sh*t, complaining about this group, that person, or planet without ever realizing that it’s us. It’s always us. We are the ones experiencing the story. Until we awaken to the fact we are the storytellers and we reclaim our shadows, not only will we be missing the real Saturn work, but we will also remain miserable. This is actually Saturn’s greatest gift. It’s just hard to see it, when we are in it.

When a planet is retrograde, it is close; its themes are more readily translated and felt. And so, with Saturn we slowly move into the events of the Fall, reluctant, yet willing; If we give ourselves the time to reflect with him, there will be much we are able to reclaim. If we don’t, we will remain screaming at the screen.

It’s now Pluto and Saturn who are Rx. Neptune is next. That’s a lot of powerful medicine available to us in the days ahead. Are we going to take it?

-adam

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Mars Cycles with Adam Gainsburg

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