The Saturn-Neptune Conjunction Part V

Part V: Personal Impacts, Houses 10 to 12

Lynn Koiner, PLMAFA

For individuals, we will be challenged to dissolve our old boundaries and discover a new societal interaction, a new way of being, indicated by the conjunction’s house position. Also, take into consideration the house positions of Saturn and Neptune in the natal chart. Saturn transiting any house portends a restructuring of our attitude towards that house’s affairs.

10th house: This is a very powerful position for any major conjunction. Power implies social responsibility. New responsibilities will involve a capacity for leadership. This cycle will bring new opportunities for growth that affect one’s professional life and social status. This house affects one’s reputation and, if it’s not changing with the times, the individual may go the way of the dinosaurs. If we continue with the same old patterns regarding what we are doing in the world, we may become extinct. For some, especially in the world scope, there will be a fall from power. Remember, the new direction, the new leadership, will require social responsibility.

The Saturn-Neptune conjunction here indicates that there is some collective fate impacting the world. One’s destiny will be linked to global and community needs. Boundaries will dissolve the limitations regarding what you think that you can accomplish.

One woman reported that her mother was dying and she spent her last days with her. “I blossomed after my mother passed. Even though I will always love her, she was very controlling (Neptune boundaries). Quitting the former job was the best career move.”

11th house: This is the house of shared goals, causes and group relationships, especially groups with whom we share common goals and interests. Outmoded aspirations must be discarded now so that you can embark upon a new developmental period with new social connections. As a social house, growth comes through social and group interaction. Alexander Ruperti stated that this cycle provided an opportunity to change one’s ideals. However, the individual must be “ready to associate spontaneously with others who could help the individual realize such changes.” While Neptune dissolves our connection to old social patterns, Saturn brings the lesson of learning one’s responsibility to groups and friendships. Our service to society will be supported through group interaction.

 According to Theosophical writer Alice A. Bailey, the energy of the Aquarian Age will be available only to groups, not individuals. At the last conjunction, I observed that many were searching for their “soul group,” those with whom they have traveled for eons, those who share a common spiritual purpose. Each member of the group carries only a small piece of a puzzle — a life mission. When they come together as a group, the big picture is made clear. This current cycle urges us to formulate and activate a plan, a goal and a purpose for the spiritual activity of the group.

12th house: I believe that any major conjunction or even transit in this house marks the greatest cycle for change. It’s a time for letting go of the old persona, like a snake sheds its skin. It is essential that the individual change on the INSIDE before changing OUTSIDE. Psychological changes affect the fears that act as stumbling blocks to the fulfillment of dreams. The individual may need to withdraw from the limelight to work on the inner changes. I have observed that some individuals, through the internal change process, release former materialistic goals. They find that they are not driven by the values of others — they formed their own values.

 As a 12th house person myself, I have often said that such people are life’s Guinea pigs. That is, they go through some major event which they then share with others who are going through the same experience. In a 12th house cycle, I experienced a painful health issue. It took 18 months to find a cure. This changed my approach to medical astrology and, when Saturn crossed my Ascendant, I began teaching medical astrology.

This house is actually very active, but the activity is always away from the normal sphere. By going to a place where the old self is not known, one can more easily change into someone new. Alexander Ruperti feels that this is a cycle to take “one last look at the ending phase of personal experience.” It is definitely a cycle for making drastic internal changes and prepare for new fields of activity that clearly manifest when Saturn crosses the Ascendant. It is a time to eliminate parts of our psyche that no longer work for us.

In closing, Ruperti stated about the 12th house conjunction that “something has come to seed from one’s ancestral, social, cultural or religious past” — personal karma. The challenge now is to extract from this seed the foundation for a new life, for a new cycle, that confronts us. It also means having the courage to repudiate the ghosts of the past cycle (1989 in Capricorn). A social crisis now is the outcome of the way in which one has worked out relationships with family and community in the past. It is a transition between what one must face up to, out of the past, and the call of a new beginning.