Star Struck Style

Transiting Saturn conjoins my natal Chiron today. That also means that it opposed my natal Pluto yesterday because Pluto and Chiron were just a few minutes away from being in an exact opposition on the day I was born.

Trying to find a detailed interpretation of the Saturn/Chiron transit is difficult: not a lot of astrologers have done a deep dive into this aspect. My go-to site for succinct interpretations, “Café Astrology,” describes the transit as follows:

“You will be learning about your own inner strength during the course of this transit. Circumstances position you to question your own integrity and grow to a position where you respect yourself more, by eliminating attitudes that no longer serve a greater purpose for you. Frustrations with the demands, rules, or expectations of others are likely to surface in the process of these discoveries.”

To be honest, I’m not at all frustrated with “the demands, rules, or expectations of others” right now. I’ve kind of given up on trying to please anyone else but myself lately. I suppose that’s because both Chiron and Saturn reside in my egocentric fifth house. I’m in the midst of my second Saturn return, so this transit to Chiron just seems like icing on the cake. I believe I’m handling these cosmic events quite admirably by not letting anything get to me. After fifty-eight years on this planet, I’m quite thick-skinned.

However, I’m not sure how others born in my generation might feel while these planets are lining up like this. I’m a Saturn-ruled Capricorn, and Chiron is prominently-placed in my chart because of its opposition to Pluto: a rare natal aspect indeed. I can see this alignment causing some people my age eager to make major changes to their lives based upon acknowledgement of trauma they may have experienced in the past, for instance, if the natal Pluto/Chiron opposition occupies their first and seventh houses respectively.

That’s not at all how I feel. In fact, with Pluto in my eleventh house opposing Chiron in my fifth house, I feel as if efforts that I made fourteen years ago to transform my public image were successful yet unnecessary. Now that Saturn is on the opposite side of this axis, the only person I need to please is myself. Anything in my life that made me feel “not good enough” seems sort of irrelevant at the moment. This alignment is empowering me, making me feel as if I’ve earned the right to show off my scars.

Still, I don’t really want to do that because I just don’t crave the approval of anyone else right now. It’s a liberating feeling, and something I ought to get used to as this alignment will recur again in 2025. In the meantime, I’m going to enjoy feeling disconnected from the urge to have others tell me how fabulous I am. Tell me something I don’t know!