Transits
Houses" (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6), those houses under or
beneath the horizon. We move from the world of ideas
and plans to where plans are implemented and made
real. Something happens!
The seven years during which Saturn transited the 10th,
11th and 12th houses were years during which a new
urge arose within us, and a giving way to ideas and
plans we wanted to make real occurred. Everything that
could possibly stop us rose up and blocked our way,
and we had to negotiate through whatever these
obstacles happened to be. We may have lost a lot of
energy, and even some of our will to make a difference,
during this journey, but the moment we enter the first
house, whatever we have managed to hold together of
our original impulse manifests—it appears and rises into
view. This is why this point is called the ascendant or
Rising Sign.
This result may be small, but it is a first step, and
whatever action we have made flows over the detritus of
our past and into the present as something concrete.
This is the first concrete sign of our ability to make our
dreams happen.
This point marks our plunge into doing something about
our dreams; it is the point where we begin to walk the
talk. It gets real here. And yes, this house and the next
two do represent our turning away from our past, from
what we have been and done, and from the social or
outer environment we have been in; however, it is not
really about our being lost in some minor form of
oblivion—we are just busy, involved!
We are involved in doing something, and Saturn,
through the first house, sees us totally involved in taking
action—in making it happen.