Journal

December 27, 2022

I’ve been contemplating Saturn, the Sun, and the Aries-Libra axis lately. Especially the exaltation/fall of these two heavenly bodies in the equinoctial signs keeps me thinking. Divided the zodiac into two halves across the Aries-Libra axis, we get a “bright side” and a “dark side.” From a Northern Hemisphere’s perspective, the light is predominant from Aries to Libra season, when the days are longer than the nights. Starting with Libra season and continuing until the next Aries season, the dark reigns in the Northern Hemisphere, the nights being longer than the days.

The core meaning for Saturn’s exaltation in Libra and the Sun’s exaltation in Aries might be that the Sun, the great light, illuminates everything, making individuality visible. In contrast, Saturn, symbolizing the dark, consumes everything, making all alike. In total darkness, nothing is distinct, and we are all the same in front of death. The Sun, the ego, wants to shine. Saturn is ego death. We grow and live through the two ever-alternating cycles of becoming ourselves, separating from the mass, and realizing our unalterable allotment in the cosmic soup of darkness.