The Lights and Planets
these inner planets represent our inner life. When we
complete our Saturn return at 30 years of age, we begin
to discover our inner life, call it being re-born, born
again—what have you. When we stop looking out and
start looking in we have discovered our inner or
"spiritual" life.
We did not see it before because we were, ourselves,
within it (within Saturn); however, as we emerge from
time's (Saturn’s) grip, and start to float out beyond, we
begin to see (and value) our inner life. In a very real
spiritual sense we are "born again" and our spiritual life
has just begun. This is, in fact, a major turning point in
life.
To recap: We get outside Saturn or the physical only to
find Saturn and the physical—where?—within us, of
course, and very much a part of our inner life. This
concept is central to learning about esoteric astrology.
Now, more on the outer planets:
The outer or transcendental planets, Uranus, Neptune,
and Pluto, are the story of the discovery of our inner or
spiritual life. Please keep in mind that the inner or
spiritual life I am talking about here is not "out there"
somewhere, but rather "in here." It is the process of
actually discovering the inner planets, as well as all we
have had and known all along. How could it be anything
else?
Each of the outer planets progressively disclose more
and more of our inner life to us, making it ever more
clear that there is no "out there" to be added onto life,
but rather, we already have and always have had, in
here, as a part of our life, whatever there is of value to
us and worth sharing. One traditional way to say this is
that we “discover our self" and that the self we discover
is, astrologically speaking, the Sun, as well as all of the