[5] LifeCycles of responsibility—the first cycle of Saturn (part 1)

Like all LifeCycles, Saturn’s begins with a conjunction at birth.  Here, you intimately and viscerally experience the reality of boundaries, and of limitations.  Suddenly, you are no longer one with mother.  You have been forced to experience the boundary of your body, the skin that tightly encloses you and separates you from the endless oneness of the womb.  Immediately, you experience your powerlessness and limitations and understand that you have to struggle to be fed, protected, loved.  This is the phase of realisation that you are bounded by your body and, as you grow, by the environment of home.  This is truly a crisis of immense proportions and the subsequent emotional and physical experience of limits and freedom, powerlessness and power are deeply imbedded in the psyche and form the basis for your gut reactions in these areas throughout life.

The graphic shows another view of the first half Saturn LifeCycle, with the separating square (90°) at around the age of 7 and the opposition (180°) at 14-15 years old.

Old Roman Catholic teaching declared that a child reaches the age of reason at seven.  While the impact has been somewhat diluted today, the age of seven to eight, the time of the first separating square, does bring a new experience of vastly wider boundaries into your life.  The walls of home have been weakening as you experienced pre-school, but now there is an increased expectation that you begin to fit in with a new set of restrictions.  The excitement of reaching beyond the garden fence is reined in as you learn to sit still in class and obey a new set of rules.  This is a phase of learning to accept limitation and much of what you have to suppress as a result of these restrictions is consigned to the shadow self deep in the psyche.  If you learn well, the reward will be success in thinking and reasoning skills, the development of a personality that is capable of surviving beyond the home and the ability to accept a greater degree of responsibility than ever before.

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