Transits
After the Saturn return, as we move into our thirties and
forties, all of this gradually changes, and, at some point,
we will even find ourselves looking back at a time when
we were physically in more perfect shape, and so forth.
We do an about face, and begin to value things that we
had always taken for granted before, such as health and
physical strength—simple, but essential things.
So, there very definitively is, in life, what we can call a
"turning point," and the Saturn return, at around the age
of 30 years, marks where that point occurs. Up to that
point, life has always promised us more, and by
continuing in that line or direction, we got more. This
simple fact leads us to the false assumption that life is a
line, and that by traveling into the future we can
somehow get more. After the age of thirty, this is not the
case. As we peer along that line into the future, we can
very clearly see that, in a physical way, we will not get
more, but less. This is a fact.
This fact leads us to revision the idea of what life is and
what it offers, and the straight line to the future no
longer seems to hold all of the answers. It leads
downhill. Soon or later, in our thinking, we reach a
turning point, a point where we, ourselves, turn away
from seeing life as a line going somewhere we want to
go; we then begin to cast about for other perspectives,
other ways of seeing all this.