Transits
First House Saturn Transit
In brief: The first step in making our dreams real—doing
it!
Saturn transiting the cusp of the first house is a major
event. Astrologer Grant Lewi writes of this crossing as
perhaps being the most portentous and earth-shaking
one of the major angles. He goes on to write how, as
Saturn moves into the first house, one enters what he
calls the "obscure sector," seven years or so of a sort of
minor oblivion. I have not found this to be true. It is a
fact that, in this sector, we are about as far away from
public praise and success as is possible; I have found,
however, that in this sector we are, mostly, very, very
busy. Let me describe my understanding of this transit.
As Saturn hits the ascendant, it leaves the realm of the
outer or above-the-horizon houses (7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and
12) and plunges into what are called the "Personal