The Saturn-Neptune Conjunction Part IV

Part IV: Personal Impacts, Houses 7 to 9

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.

7th house: This is a period of gaining a new perspective on relationships with others, learning a new way and means of interpersonal relating that may very well lead to a public manifestation of the personality. The lesson is in learning to interact in a fair and RECIPROCAL manner, to work cooperatively with others and benefiting when the whole becomes more powerful than the sun total of its parts.

Growth and change always implies that some relationships will not move in the same direction so that these relationships may not continue into the new cycle. Take the risk, exploring a vision with new types of relating, and trusting those who are different. In changing ourselves, we change our relationships with others. The 7th house rules consultant activities, political and legal services, negotiation, and working with gestalts for the benefit of the whole.

One individual married a woman who, soon after, died of cancer. This was traumatic but it led to a life-long relationship with someone who would transform his life. Saturn-Neptune can be a “darkness before the dawn” type of alignment.

8th house: It is my opinion that the 8th house rules all things totally beyond our control and our attitude towards them — along with how we feel about being out of control. This is a cycle that dissolves old patterns of indebtedness and entitlement, and it influences how we react to matters that are out of control. Fears can arise over long-term security issues.

The growth and expansion of this cycle will allow the individual to achieve a new level of spirituality — a belief or knowing that gives an inner sense of control, which can be shared with one’s community. The healing arts may be studied that allows the individual to help others who are out of control physically, mentally, emotionally, economically or spiritually. In identifying with the transpersonal, the individual can lead others out of the lost state of feeling powerless. Remember, this is a cycle of growth through giving others what we really need ourselves.

In an earlier cycle, when Saturn was in my 8th House, I studied reincarnation and the Edgar Cayce form of spirituality. I empowered myself and freed myself from the fear of hell and purgatory. This new belief system was transformational in liberating me from Catholic school dogmas. I was the most psychic at this time when I would have powerful psychic and predictive dreams around the day of an eclipse.

9th house: The 9th house conjunction will challenge our old values and belief systems, and it will dissolve our dogmas, urging us to move beyond our mental limitations and explore a new way of thinking and believing. If we stay with the comfortable and familiar, we will not grow. We must consider something new in order to stretch our consciousness. We may not agree with every new concept, but growth can occur by merely considering them. Travel and education may also be a catalyst for change.

New fields of abstract thinking should be pursued — not alone but through mental interaction with others, assimilating the unfamiliar, learning to understand what may seem alien at the time. Our world, spiritually and philosophically, is changing and we must change with it. There may be opportunities to communicate and educate but you will need to change how you communicate, expand your vision, break free from limiting belief systems and participate in global exchanges.

It is essential that the individual avoid cults, fanatical views and conspiracy theories that keep one from growing in a positive direction. One individual was able to break away from her dogmatic religious views and experience a philosophy of unity and inclusiveness.