Or Why I Love Saturn

Astrologers forever have struggled to explain why astrology works. some put forth magnetic forces, planetary influence, citing the obvious pull of our moon, affecting our earthly tides. I will not here support or denounce such theories. Instead, I will present a unique view that forms Measuring History’s perspective. Simply stated, People Make History.

Saturn and Generations

This chart shows the how Saturn’s orbit coincides with milestones of human growth; each quadrature alignment (0°,90°,180,270°,360°) points to ways that both parents and society assess how a child compares to both others or and to recognizable growth milestones. Everyone experiences puberty in their mid-teens; by about 20 or 21, both parent and child (well, adult) understand the need to leave the nest. The diagram explains Saturn’s connection to these turning points in detail. The important point here comes from how Saturn’s orbit remains the same throughout history. Its “year” always equals  29.5 earth years. In the same vein.Humans always develop along these general guidelines. Yes, some reach physical maturity at different times, but even these are measured against the same standards.

No matter what period in history, Saturn’s orbit and human growth pattern remains the same

Different Societies,
Different Needs at Different Times

In Roman times a boy reached manhood at about 15 or 16. In medieval times, 15 or 16 was a marriageable age, all tied up in dowry and family legacy; if a family did not have enough dowry to attract a suitor, a girl was often shuffled off to a dreary life in a convent. In hunter-gatherer societies where live expectancy hovered around age 38, Saturn’s connection means something radically different than in today’s world where life expectancy has doubled in developed societies. Yet, Saturn still measures generations, irrespective of culture or historical period. Voilá, we have standard means of Measurement

Saturn and the Other
Outer Planets

In my upcoming book, Measuring History, A Visual Primer I title the chapter on the ringed planet, Saturn,The People’s Planet for reason’s made obvious above.  Saturn represents generations and generations represent people born at the same time with the same interest. How they make history comes with Saturn’s connection with the extreme outer planets through the Saturn-Uranus, Saturn-Neptune and Saturn-Pluto waves. Think of how this makes sense in terms of the length of historical episodes in terms of the lower frequency waves, Uranus-Pluto, Uranus-Neptune  and Neptune-Pluto, with frequencies of 127 (on average), 172 years and 495 years. History changes by year, decade and century. By combining the generations of Saturn with inter-century changes of history we see how history lives through the transits in people’s charts.

Standard Transits for Everyone

In my next post, I will detail how outer planet transits appear in standard for everyone, but I will leave with a couple clues. Everyone has a Saturn return around age 30 and a midlife crisis halfway through the next Saturn cycle, near age 42. This the same age the Uranus, who’s orbit equals 84 earth years, is halfway through its orbit, from another perspective, Uranus by transit opposes natal Uranus. Neptune’s orbit of 168 years means Neptune is lower square (90° from) its natal position. Pluto with its oblong orbit has differing relationships to all of these planets depending on where it is in its orbit (Pluto varies between 12 and 25 years in a sign). So according to culture, everyone has a mid-life crisis that varies by century as determined by outer planet waves. A mid-life crisis varies between a 16th Century denizen and 21st Century one.

Until next time, think of how this fits into how people make history.

What does this mean to the reader. A Book-of-the-Month, weekly media reviews, an astrological view of the previous month and a few series including History of the 21st Century, 9/11 and Now, more on Paradox2140 and more hidden gems under development. Most importantly, posts will daily and the static pages on waves and the wiki on Measuring History and mundaneastrology.net will stay more up-to-date.

The wave to the left shows Saturn’s orbit compared to human growth milestones.

The wave to the right demonstrates the same wave used for a span of time between the alignment of two planets, the two here showing Saturn and Pluto for the span between 1947 and 1981.

The beauty of the waves is that they appear the same across time for any planet pairing, making them a great standard for measuring history.

So using Waves as the title of a the blog about Measuring History makes sense to me.