{maketoc}Saturn, in my opinion, represents the key to understanding the connection between the humans that make history and the planets that mirror it. Saturn's near thirty-year orbit best reflects human generations. Better yet, it represents those generations across time. Thirty years represents different things to a hunter-gatherer and a post-modern city-dweller, respectively. Thirty years also holds different meanings to women and men as well. Whether we are speaking three thousand years ago, however, or three hundred, Saturn still works as a calibration device whose standard remains constant across time. ...page...<h2>Saturn and the Human Growth Cycle</h2>Saturn connects to humanity by more than mere generational coincidence. The diagram below, consistent with the wave model we already use, shows where human growth and Saturn merge.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.onesixfoureight.com/compendium/bitweaver/essential/images/saturnwave1.jpg" width= height= align="center" desc= ><br /><br />The first quarter of the Saturn cycle equates to the years between birth and seven years. This important portion of a human's holds different meanings according to culture. In the modern world, this time prepares a child for school and life outside the home; in a hunter-gatherer society a child must be proficient enough to not act as a burden to their clan. We see here how though the time span is the same, that the reality varies according to social circumstance.<br />A fourteen year-old girl in the Middle Ages will have different concerns and responsibilities than one in our time, but fourteen years always marks the halfway point of a Saturn cycle. Seen in this way, we can see how Saturn measures <em>reality.</em> For a fourteen year old girl the reality varies according to standards of the time. Reality deals with what happens in the physical world at a particular time of measurement. Though what we sense as real varies over time we can still measure what is real through understanding Saturn.<strong>People Make History >>>>></strong>...page...<h2>People Make History</h2>In <em>((Cosmos and Psyche))</em> Richard Tarnas repeatedly makes clear how people make history. Then he connects the lives of well know people to outer planets patterns. He shows, for instance, that Descartes' <em><a href="http:/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_on_Method">Discourse on Method</a></em> reached the world at the transiting Uranus to natal Uranus opposition that appears in everyones chart near the age of forty.<h3>((Descartes))</h3>Descartes birth at the end of the XVIth century came under a notable outer planet configuration. 1596Uranus-0-Pluto1708 was joined by a trine to both Uranus and Pluto to Neptune. This means that when Uranus by transit opposed his natal Uranus, the latter also was opposite Pluto and sextile Pluto, as shown below:<br /><br /><img src=http://www.onesixfoureight.com/compendium/bitweaver/fame%26infamy/people/descartes15960331-16370608.jpg width= height= align= desc= ><br /><br />While this example does not include Saturn it demonstrates how the events of people's lives fit into the picture. Everyone who lives through their forties sees the Uranus to natal Uranus transit. In the lives of the influential their test of personal power and freedom can show up as major advance to society. ((Galileo)) had the same Uranus to Uranus transit in 1610 when he announced his telescopic discoveries, affirming Copernicus' theory. Tarnas also reveals the same transit active at times of breakthroughs for the work of ((Kant)), ((Einstein)), ((Freud)) and ((Jung)). Here we see the mechanism through which the outer planets mirror history. At predictable intervals outer planets transit positions in the natal chart, at which time the native makes a decision or performs an action consistent with the transit.<br />This observation also shows the built in variability of this method. For example where at Descartes Uranus-to-Uranus opposition, transiting Uranus opposed his natal Pluto, in Galileo's case Uranus was square natal Neptune as it also opposed natal Uranus. Thus, the same personal transit/life changing moment event (Uranus opposite Uranus) had a different component (Uranus opposite Pluto, Descartes; Uranus square Neptune, Galileo) that helps describe the details of the respective breakthrough. This observation jibes with the fact that outer planet transits represent how concerns of coinciding generations differ across time. Galileo held the concerns of the 1560s Uranus square Pluto, Uranus opposite Neptune, Neptune square Pluto generation, while Descartes held those of the Uranus conjunct Pluto, Uranus trine Neptune, Neptune trine Pluto generation. When any of the outer planets transit across the natal planets tied to a generation, the transits represent the collective experiences for the generation in question. Famous people merely epitomize the ultimate outcome of any given generation. How Saturn fits here is examined below.<strong>Saturn and Carrying Capacity >>>>></strong>...page...<h2>Saturn and Carrying Capacity</h2>Saturn and its connection to generations also relates to carrying capacity. If a culture only has citizens that live a little longer than one Saturn cycle, that culture will not have the capacity to produce much. If, on the other hand, a culture with those who can live three Saturn cycles and beyond implies a society with carrying capacity well past subsistence levels. Presence of octogenarians suggests a society that can afford to support senior citizens; one that supports a marketplace that does not require great deals of physical labor; and one, by extension, where can make a living through intellect. This last insinuates another characteristic consummate with more advanced societies : that the wisdom of older citizens passes down through all levels of society through philosophy, education or inventions. Societies that can afford to support these "extra" citizens produces those like Jung, Einstein and Leibniz. In turn, they move society forward, creating more ways to help the collective improve itself.<br />All these factors show Saturn ties into carrying capacity and the reality each generation sees. How and if a collective ...page...<h2>Saturn and Regional Influence</h2>Saturn also points to regional influence. How a generation goes through life depends much on regional considerations as well. A generation that lives in a desert, lives differently than one in the forest. This distinction may letter less in our post-modern world, but in previous periods with less mobile populations, this consideration will mean more. ...page...<h2>Saturn and Personal Transits</h2>A transit occurs whenever a planet interacts with another planet or a point in space. A personal transit occurs when a planet interacts with a position (typically a planet) in a natal chart. Saturn's orbit, already proved as being connected to the human condition, also factors in as a standard indicator throughout one's lifetime. ...page...<h2>Outer Planets and Saturn</h2><h3>How Saturn Describes the Outer Planets</h3><h3>Outer Planet Transits and Saturn</h3>