Depression and Solar Consciousness
An alchemical tether runs between the Sun and Saturn in our horoscope. Expansion and contraction work together to define a creative life.
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WE ARE EACH BOOKENDED between our star, the Sun, and the planet Saturn. The expand/contract cycle between the two ends defines the rhythm of our life’s narrative.
Another way of putting this would be to say that we all are stretched between a tether that combines our father and mother’s powerful influence.
From this lineage, our personal history is defined. And our life is placed or located within the grid of quotidian reality—bound to the horizontal movement of time.
How we experienced the relationship with both parents is indicated by the position of the Sun and Saturn in the natal chart.
If the Sun at your birth was in a fire sign and Saturn was in a water sign, then fire and water qualities—the spiritual and imaginal realm- predominate your narrative.
Your innate ability to inspire, enthuse, and innovate is tethered to the imagination and how your imagination supports and sustains your aims.
Your first experience of the solar would be through your father’s fiery nature. The Saturnine would be from your maternal lineage. This is a simplified explanation, but it explains how the expression of the solar (Sun) in the human (Saturn) work in tandem.
Challenges to our conditioned life—the inherited part of our nature, the vestiges of our childhood—first appears through Saturn’s gifts of doubt, resistance, and depression. A certain pressure registers within us that can be defined as a call to freedom from the past..
When you think about it, depression usually fuels looking beyond (or beneath) the status quo conditions in your life. This is how Saturn opens a door into the re-emergence of your solar nature and its autonomy and independence.