The Lights and Planets
year gives us ‘more’—more maturity, more control, more
respect and so on. We became attached to the idea of
always getting "more."
So it is a deep (and for most, a very quiet) shock when
Saturn completes its cycle at the age of 30 years and
the adding on stops. We may not know it for a while, but
suddenly there is no "more" being added on. That kind
of incremental growth just stops; our expectations for
more, however, don't stop.
Our forward momentum, built up through all the years of
pushing to get to our maturity, carries us onward, past
the point of what we could agree is the prime of life,
past the point of where we stop maturing in the absolute
physical sense of reaching our prime. The physical
process ceases, but our mental expectations do not. We
are still pushing onward for more—More of what? More
of whatever we have been pushing for all our lives thus
far. This is the root of a seldom-discussed problem that
each of us face. What do we do when there is no ‘more’?