We've endured two-and-a-half years of Saturn's celebrity-obsessed transit through Leo, the sign of divas and drama-queens. Enough about Britney, Paris and Lindsay, says Big Daddy Saturn: let's get serious. The hyper-superficiality of recent times is on the wane. At the personal and collective level, Saturn in Virgo gets us pure, or tries to. As with any Saturn transit, the more you fight it, the more it holds firm and forces you to deal with its lessons and truths.
Revelations to come are all about using discrimination; no more painting broad strokes like we did under big-picture Leo between 2005 and 2007. The nitty-gritty is here to stay for the next two-and-a-half years. Our leaders will be forced to do their due-diligence, or hit the road. Same for us; especially those of us born between approximately 1978 and 1981, or the early 1950s. Are you ready to get serious?
Al Gore has been sounding the alarm on the fate of our planet for years, but he'll be pleased to see how Saturn in Virgo finally gets the populace to serious work on cleaning our air, dealing with climate change, and going organic. Virgo is the sign of the body, of health and healing; when Saturn moves into this constellation our awareness turns toward purification at a personal and global level. Thus, all the recent talk about health care programs is astrologically appropriate. People will begin to grow and buy local, or Saturn will force a reckoning. The alarm bells about lead paint in Chinese toys, poison in pet food (Virgo rules domestic animals), and the 47 million Americans lacking health care will continue to sound. If politicians fail to act, they'll be Saturnized right out of office. The public is going to demand a clean bill of health.
There are plenty of things to get neurotic about in the coming years. But the better we are at getting our individual selves on the right path, the better the collective will fare. Bio-terror and nuclear weapons in the hands of rogue terrorists are two things that might your knickers in a twist. Ditto for toxic waste and nuclear accidents. The good news? Saturn is much more at home in Virgo than it was in Leo — he has less to complain about. He just wants us to read the fine print.
Leo rules the heart — and Katrina, the major event of our Saturn in Leo journey, broke many. When Saturn last transited Virgo, "No Nukes" activism began in earnest, and started getting major media attention. Peak oil is about to become the new cultural buzzword, no longer the most censored story. Oil has finally hit 100 dollars a barrel, and the party is over for Sheiks and Texan oilmen. The oil industry, the dirtiest of them all, is about to face its final battle. The last gas crisis, under Saturn's transit through Leo and Virgo in the late 70s, was nothing compared with what's to come. SUV's are over; I wish I could say the same thing for war.
Along with Saturn's now firm presence in Virgo, we now have two other major planets in earth signs, strengthening the Saturnian energy and making the world feel serious. With Jupiter in Capricorn since mid-December of '07, and Pluto entering Capricorn for the first time since the American Revolution, the times, as Dylan said, are-a-changing. It's up to you to take a stand and get a firm grip on your life, so that you'll remain grounded during the trying years ahead. It all starts with Saturn.
Famous People with Saturn in Virgo: