Robert Anton Wilson

Chapter 8. Saturn in Your Chart

Astrologically speaking, the planet Saturn is the force of discipline. Saturn defines your duties, responsibilities and the structure of your life. Saturn also represents the heavy hand of authority, fear, inhibitions, constrictions, restrictions, reservations, anxiety and limits imposed. It is a symbol for the force of gravity. Words like "must" and "can't" relate to Saturn.

Hard work and perseverance are also saturnian concepts and that's not all bad. "The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine." Saturn represents mastery, seasoned professionalism, efficiency, consolidation and dependability. This Khronos, Odin, "star of limiting the place" also represents daddy, and Jehovah complexes. Below is described your "saturnian" self Robert Anton Wilson.

Saturn in Capricorn

DETERMINED DECISIONS

NOTE: THIS POSITION CONFERS EXTRA POWER

To get past your limits you need both ambitious goals and the necessary executive power to achieve them. You have it within you to deal with many hardships in the pursuit of long range goals. In time you can get what you want. Slow, steady. determined steps insure your future success.

You may have to pay some dues before you create a fair balance between your personal and your professional life. Be realistic about your own innate human need for play. You can secure status and success through competence. Once you master the science of etiquette, a great position will be yours. Find tactful ways to release unwanted burdens and joyless responsibilities. Make friends with some people who seem to get what they want easily. Then, you can learn and acquire their appropriate behavior patterns.

To realign your position in the work world, have a chiropractor realign your backbone. To increase your financial earnings, pay more attention to scientific achievements. Hedge yourself from future losses, disassociate yourself dishonest individuals. To make your career achievements more meaningful, balance them with personal fulfillments. Work together with your lover.

Do something good for your bones and skeletal system. Avoid excess chocolate consumption. Take a mineral supplement and eat sesame seeds.

Saturn Bi-Novile Uranus

DECISIONS MUSE WITH LIBERATION

You are somewhat willful, determined and reform minded. You can implement original ideas in a practical way. Self discipline brings you opportunity for freedom. To get more power you need to cultivate your interest in politics, big business and science.

Saturn Sesqui-Quadrate Neptune

DECISIONS CHALLENGE FANTASY

You are challenged to create your ideal working conditions. It will not necessarily be easy, and it can be rewarding. You need to make an extra effort to distinguish between fantasy and reality. To get more power, work through any tendencies that you have toward morbidity, fears, anxieties, neurosis, phobias, and inadequacies. You can become an artistic innovator.

Saturn Opposite Pluto

DECISIONS CHALLENGE CLEANSING

Beware of making changes when the price is too high. World problems can be a bummer and you may be better off without the evening news and the daily newspaper. Tune out doomy gloomers. Get your information from divergent sources. To get more power get on line to computerized networks of information.

Saturn Sextile Node

DECISIONS COOPERATE WITH INTERCHANGING

To gain more power, cultivate some of your natural affinity for the powers that be. You can get the approval and help that you need to achieve your professional goals.

TIP: Get on the fast track to important people in your community. Become an active volunteer in a service club.

Saturn Tri-Decile Ascendant

DECISIONS BRING OUT TALENT FOR YOUR REALITY

You are steady and have a good attitude toward work. You're perfectly willing to do your share and then some. You're probably more conservative and serious than most people.

Saturn Conjunct Midheaven

DECISIONS UNITE WITH WHAT WILL BE

Discipline and ambition, that's you. It sounds simple and it is not easy. You can gain more power and status and security through the consistent application of hard work and ambition. In time, you can become a leader.

Chapter 8A. Chiron in Your Chart

Discovered in 1977, Chiron is a relative newcomer to astrology. Named after the half-brother of the Greek god Zeus, Chiron is a comet from outside our solar system, according to the latest scientific findings. In Greek mythology, Chiron was tutored by the Sun and the Moon (Apollo and Artemis) and, in turn, taught the offspring of other gods.

Chiron taught special skills such as astrology, philosophy, ethics, music, medicine, horseback riding, and weaponry. These skills where thought necessary for gods, and humans, to achieve their destinies. The position of Chiron in your birth chart denotes what and where you may teach or be taught. It is also where you can be healed and how you can heal others.

A Centaur, who is part human, and part horse, Chiron is a half-breed. His higher self sometimes struggles with his own animal nature. What follows is a description of the "chironic" side of your character.

Chiron in Taurus

ACQUISITIVE MENTORING

To come to terms with your true values and your potential resources, you need to become a bit more of a maverick. Any time you want to open new doorways to the financial world, you only need rearrange your beliefs. To gain a new understanding of the big picture, learn something from bankers, CFO's and earth stewards. To become more prosperous, you need to become more generous. To earn more money, you need to build a new bridge between the known and the unknown. You will become truly rich by realizing that you truly have enough. Ground your belief systems in reality.

Imagine for a moment that you're Mr. Spock of Star Trek fame, Yoda the Jedi Knight or Helen Keller mentoring the blind, then give some sagacious thought to how you can benefit by helping those less fortunate than yourself. Try your hand at credit unions.

Chiron Conjunct Ascendant

MENTORING UNITES WITH YOUR REALITY

People may see you as being deeply hurt and somehow grievously wounded, or they may see you as being a gifted healer, sage or shaman.

TIP: Make up your mind. Focus on the hurt or the healing.