The Lights and Planets
Experience under Saturn
The psychological experience under Saturn, or time, is
to know only total fear for our life, in particular, fear in
relation to what we hope to become. The external world
sulks, looms ominous, and threatens disaster and
accident at every street's crossing. We are wrapped in
the rush of time tearing at each hour’s heart. Every
single thing, every outer edge and hard person, only
serves to cause us to put off our life, to postpone, and
sends us scurrying fast into the future, hoping, hoping,
hoping, someday, somewhere, to find the chance to be
ourselves. Living in this fear, we put off endlessly until
tomorrow what we find just too hard to do today.
We are the "Beautiful Soul" that Hegel describes, so
exactly, in his Phenomenology of the Mind:
"This soul lacks force to externalize itself ... the power to
make itself a thing and to endure existence. And, to