Transits That Change Your Life with Astrologer Rick Levine

well hello everybody and welcome to the cosmic connection today we are going to be talking about life-changing transits those transits that happen and you are just never the same again so rick's going to be going through what the biggest ones are um for those of you who don't know me my name is amanda paul walsh i'm the founder of astrology hub and i'm here with and for those of you who don't know me i'm rick merlin levine and uh this is my thursday afternoons hanging out with all of you guys and with amanda puawash so much fun all right so before we dive in i just wanted to thank all of you who are writing in your praise for rick's astrology foundations class we are receiving so much feedback and it's so fun and one of my favorites i think it was an inner circle member she posted about how every sunday when the module is released the next module is released it feels like christmas morning and that santa is basically like dropping a present under her christmas tree and just how giddy 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love to have you in the live q a we had last week um ended up being two hours and we're time stamping it though so you can see where your specific question may have been answered in the video um and rick was on fire i just couldn't believe it yeah it rocked and one of the things that i mean we probably will talk about this at tomorrow's q a obviously more in depth but we just can't possibly answer every question the questions are so amazing and so good we could spend the rest of the day you know answering those questions but thank you all for everyone who took the time to put a question in and we're doing our best to get to as many as we can we got there a lot i should count i mean it was a lot but okay all right so let's talk about life-changing transits first of all what is that what are they well for some people they they're every day [Laughter] and and for 2020 they might seem like they're every day um you know if you think about it we go through life and there are days weeks months when you know things just happen that happen it's no big deal you know we go through our regular thing oh my god the car has a flat tire i forgot to take the trash out um kid's sick what am i going to do for you know i mean these things are just things that we deal with and um and and they don't want to say any of them are unimportant but they come and go and come and go and they're part of the fabric of our lives and you don't have to be an astrologer to understand that as we live our lives we hit certain bumps in the road and certain things that um you know we just deal with as a as a matter of its life you know it's like i gee i didn't expect that but i'm dealing with it and life goes on and then there are those days weeks months years decades that alter everything that things are just not the same um lyle watson who i've spoken about here before he was not an astrologer or at least never wrote about astrology had a book called life tied and in it he describes how the tides rise and fall every day and that then there are certain times when the tides are greater than they are at other times we call these spring tides regardless of what time of year they are but they're tides that are stronger and then every now and then there is a tide that alters everything it changes the face of the ocean it alters the beach the the ocean comes over the tide wall or the normal boundary of the ocean and once it does that everything is transformed it doesn't go back to the way it was we have thursday mornings like that we have decades of our lives like that there are things that happen in our life that are like these and he called them life tides um rather than spring tides or just regular regular you know tides and and astrologically we can there there are those tides that we can talk about astrologically that we all have around the same times of our lives and then there are those tithes that are these life tied like events that one person might have and another person might not and so there there are different kinds of events astrologically and every now and then there's what one might call a perfect storm you know where there's this tide that everyone gets at that age plus this one that only you're getting plus the arrangement of the planets up there that are making it like maybe march of 2020 where it's like oh my god what the hell just happened and they're all happening at the same time and and those definitely alter the fabric of our lives there are times in our lives when we look back when when we get old enough we look back and go oh my gosh when i was 24 years old i'm a different person now and um i was a different person at age 25 than i was at age one through 24 that year altered my life and so that's kind of what we're talking about when we're talking about life-changing astrological events and and we're calling these transits because those are the simplest to understand the most obvious astrological events but for those of you who are astrologically informed you know that there are progressions and directions and there are things that happen from relationships there are other ways in which we can get this however when you look at a chart and unfold it in time one can um see major periods not not major periods of change but periods of major change that was a dangling adjective in the wrong place periods of major change and and it's that that we really want to talk about today is what are those periods what are some examples i don't think we can cover all of them or quantify all of them in in in an hour's period of time um but but they roughly um fall into the descriptors of the four outermost planets although they certainly can have other influences also and on top of that they can combine the influences of multiple planets at once so for example there are changes in our life that are saturnian saturn is the the planet of responsibility it's the planet of karma you know uh when when we undergo a saturn nine life-changing experience it's often the result of 20 years of work coming to fruition or 20 years of work dissolving into a frustration and going away you know it's it's karmic um with with saturn transitions it can be like the promotion to a new job that has a huge amount of responsibility because saturn is about responsibility um it can be the birth of a child or or the or a new relationship that isn't just fun and gains that it brings on a whole level of responsibility um or it can be the loss of a loved one i mean there are many different types of events but saturnine events are often karmic was the word that i used but they're often apparent even if only retrospectively what do i mean by that it's like it's like usually saturn transits are not surprises if we're paying attention we know that if we cut class all year and don't do any of the assignments we shouldn't be surprised when we receive a failing grade for the course however there are those of us who are surprised anyhow you know but that's just because we're in denial but saturn's stuff is you get what you deserve and there are points in our lives when those saturn events pile up and either things seem to happen externally to us or we take responsibility and do it saturn events are also things often where we have to make real important choices um let me just go through the four planets and then we'll come back and talk about the specifics so there are saturn events which are no surprises you get what you deserve they're karmic you know you do good you get good you do bad you get bad um i mean and i'm over exaggerating it a bit but that's basically how saturn works you know it's to every action there's an opposite and equal reaction the next planet out is uranus and remember when uranus was discovered in the 18th century it was like a total shock because for hundreds of years for a couple of millennia it was understood that saturn was the slowest moving planet and then all of a sudden uranus was discovered and the real estate of our little solar system tripled overnight it was like and so there are events in our lives that happen that are like they're they're like lightning striking they're they're they're like the shock of awareness um they're like getting hit over the head um you know with within a weight with with a cosmic alarm clock that's mixing metaphors i don't think we get hit over the head you get what i'm saying though it's like go oh wow what just happened and and and uranus is like lightning and we all have events in our lives that we didn't see coming we couldn't see coming and yet all of a sudden out of the blue something happened and it changed everything maybe our company that we worked for for 22 years was sold the new owners came in and they fired everyone in middle management even though they'd worked for 23 years and gave great service boom where did that come from you know um uh a uranus transit can be meeting someone and falling in love like kapow whether or not you're in a place in your life whether you're looking for love or even in a relationship or whatever it's like what that what the heck is that about a uranus transit can be an accident however i like to say that uranus transits that are accidents are really purposes because often what uranus does as it creates sudden life-changing events is uranus is like the lightning that is releasing tension and if there's no tension there's no lightning so you can hit a uranus point in your life and we'll describe what these are in a few minutes you can hit a uranus point in your life and nothing happens and to someone else their marriage breaks up you know their kids kid leaves home they get fired from a job and their house gets foreclosed and they win the nobel prize all on the same day or within a week it happens you know it's like nothing happens then a ton happens so uranus is the sudden it's the unexpected um and it often has to do with releasing built up tension that we didn't even know was there it's not like we were just in denial over it it was just outside of the realm of of perception the next planet outward is neptune and neptune is a bit more mysterious before we went online my camera wouldn't focus that's neptune it's like it's like it's like this hazy um if uranus is like lightning striking neptune is like magnetism what is that mysterious force pulling me this way you know it's not like like lightning boom it's like sudden neptune is like it it's like it it it's hard to understand uh neptune um is about things that are confusing and misleading and we have places in our lives or times in our lives when we when we reach a point and we go holy smokes i was in a relationship for three years and it wasn't the relationship that i thought i was in or i've been doing this job and i've been thinking that it's been absolutely amazing and my boss and my employees all hate me i mean you know but it's not about like a boom something suddenly happens it's like it's like reality is out of focus but neptune is also the beauty of spiritual imagination because when things are out of focus we make stuff up and so that's fantasy and of course um the word spirit is actually also um like alcohol because um spirits dissolve into the air there's nothing there it's the ethers and so um and so neptune transits i think are the hardest to understand because they're they're not they're not clear we don't it's almost like we know what we're doing we know where we're going we have wind in our sails where we we have maps the saturn stuff we've put in the time you know the uranus stuff we've kind of dealt with all of that and then we're out there on the seas and the wind stops blowing and we're in a sailboat now what it's like we're drifting and with neptune transits often it feels like we're drifting and and one can say well that's kind of cool take some time off well that's true but what about the six years that i prepared to get to this point because i was in the middle middle of a phd program and and um four years into my phd program i have this neptune transit and i just want to go to india and hang out on an ashram for a couple of years now i'm not saying that's a bad thing but that's neptune transits and and they're life changing because because all these outer planets are slow moving i'm going to come back to that in a moment all these outer planets are slow moving if i don't come back to it after i talk about pluto remind me because that's an important piece okay so so saturn is you get what you deserve it's karmic uranus is sudden unexpected and unpredictable and and sometimes it's brilliant when the lightning strikes it's oh my god i can see everything it's brilliant and then it's dark again but i know what was there in the dark with neptune everything is gradual you know there there's this um story that it's a horrible story but i'm gonna tell it anyhow um that if you put a frog in cold water and gently bring it to a boil that the frog will just die it'll boil to death but if you put a frog in ice cold water or boiling hot water it'll jump out that's the opposite of neptune because with neptune things change so slowly we don't notice them and we become accustomed to the aberration that can be very difficult or very harmful and then it's a struggle to find our way to the other side of it you know but neptune transits can be totally life-changing um i i you know if you have a friend who uh had been going for their phd in physics and began to get more interested in spirituality and then joins a um a a born-again christian church that might be a neptune thing now neptune isn't bad it's just having to do with beliefs and imagination and certainly can be spiritual um and it may be in fact all of our beliefs on in some way are neptunian because what we believe as true this year or this decade 10 or 20 or 30 years later we might go did i really believe that when i was in my 20s because that neptune is always gradually shifting but it can be very life-changing the last of these four planets that i want to talk about saturn uranus neptune and pluto and um pluto even moves slower than neptune but for whatever reason the speed at which pluto moves grabs our attention in ways that are very profound have to do with shadow work have to do with the underworld um liz greene who is a phd psychologist a jungian said that um that saturn pluto is saturn's only friend you know saturn's a hard ass but you know but but saturn is is like everything is karmic this is it and pluto goes nope it's when something happens that's it with a capital i in a capital t that's not the event that's just the beginning of a deeper transformation in fact saturn which is the grim reaper father time saturn is related to death in a way because it's finality pluto says nope death ain't final that's just the beginning of another transformation so with pluto life-changing plutonic events we find ourselves pushed into the shadows into the unconscious into um journeys that are they they can be a year five years a decade they can be tremendous they can be lifelong but they're not necessarily where we thought we were going and yet we're but they're very they're obsessive and compulsive there it's like we have to do this we have to go there and we have to go deep and we're not going to finish this until we've actually gone through the complete and total transformation so those are the four types of life-changing events from an astrological point of view certainly the faster moving planets can be life-changing if they're connected with an outer planet i mean jupiter can be you know good luck jupiter can be winning a you know million dollar a year lottery for the rest of your life that's certainly going to change your life maybe not for the better as much as you think but it may change your life um but chances are if something like that that big happens there's another outer outer planet um connected with it and now i'm gonna come back to what i asked you to remind me about but just looking at you i'm feeling the pressure to kind of beat you to the punch and talk about it and and that is that and that is this in in astrology the slower moving the planet the deeper the note the longer lasting the change now when we're talking about the astrology of change it's a little bit different although it's intimately tied to the astrology of your birth called natal natal just latin for birth um your natal chart or birth chart is is your chart and in your chart those planets don't change your birth chart is your birth chart so if you were born with the sun at nine degrees of virgo your the sun in your chart will be at nine degrees of virgo forever if you were born in 1963 or four and pluto was at nine degrees of virgo also will you have pluto lined up with your sun in your chart forever that's part of your signature and that has a whole meaning about how the depth and the intensity and the power and the transformation of pluto becomes part of who you are but that's not what we're talking about here when we're talking about life changes we're talking about we all have a chart we all have a chart with with an ascendant and a mid heaven and a sun and a moon and mercury and all these planets are at different points that chart is a snapshot of a moment the universe the cosmos the solar system does not stop spinning revolving at your birth even though it feels like it does when you look at your chart because i'm like a stop gap animation stop action animation i'm like a freeze frame i'm like a polaroid picture taken at that moment and even though i go through my my aging process there's something about the shape of who i am that holds that moment meanwhile pluto nine degrees of virgo my son at nine degrees of virgo not my chart but um meanwhile pluto is continuing on its journey around the sun and pluto takes 240 years to go around the sun once well no one no one here will ever experience pluto going around every point in their chart compare that to the moon because by by the second month in our life the moon has moved through every point in our chart which is why the moon is home and familiarity and nurturing because the moon is so familiar by the time we're in our 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s the moon has been around our chart hundreds of times and so we're so familiar with it that we might forget where it is until something happens especially if we're biologically connected to the moon like women are we go oh oh i'm at that part of my cycle because the moon is very familiar we've been there before again and again and again every month we're back to the same place in that cycle but meanwhile the slower planets are all changing at different speeds and the rule is this the slower moving the planet the longer lasting the event is that it's associated with that's unfolding in your life and therefore the more profound more long-lasting and more powerful the change is going to be in your life which is why when we talked about these life-changing events we started with saturn which is already a 30-year cycle many people only get one saturn cycle most people probably get two some people get three or even more um you know because a lot of people check out on their first saturn return the 27 club you know 27 28 29 um you know you can't quite get it together boom i'm out of here i don't mean that consciously but that's that can be one of the things that happens um but that saturn return is the first example of astrological life-changing events that it doesn't matter what your chart is everyone gets at the same age why because it takes saturn 29 and a half years to go around the sun once now with retrograde motion it can be back in the same place as it was when we were born in 28 29 29 and a half years it varies it's not on our 29th birthday it's not exactly at 29 and a half but an astrologer can pinpoint when saturn returns to where it was when you were born this is the infamous air quotes saturn return every planet has a return in fact you have a lunar return once a month that's you know but you don't notice it because it happens every month it's familiar monday happens every week you know oh it's monday again you know it's that kind of thing but when you have a saturn return you only have that once every 29 years 29 and a half years and saturn as the planet of responsibility maturity karma when we come into our saturn return whether we know it or not we have to grow up we take new responsibility if things in our lives are not going well we are forced to make changes if we don't make those changes it becomes much harder for us to make those changes in our mid 30s or 40s or even later and so one of the important things about understanding these transitions is that as we're coming into the saturn return through our mid late 20s most people automatically just begin looking back and going hmm where have i been what have i done what's worked what hasn't worked where do i want to go what do i want to be how am i going to get there i mean these are just things that we think and and often during the saturn return period which is not a day it's a phase that can be weeks months or even a year or so but often during a saturn return the following events may be events that someone would have buy a home sell a home change jobs change careers go back to school get married get divorced have kids decide not to have kids move back in with their parents um kill their parents go to jail i mean there there there are events that that are the result of karmic things that have been building up and then we're forced to make decisions and um and and often the decisions that we make the decisions that saturn would like us to make when it returns to where it was when we were born are decisions that have to do with taking responsibility like buying a home or like getting married or like having children or like taking a new job or like going back to school and taking a course of of of study that would lead in a certain direction and you know this is the there's there's a cultural thing that people refer to as the under 30 over 30 thing if you're under 30 you don't trust anyone over 30. why they're grown up they're different they're fuddy-duddies they're sticks in the mud if you're over 30 even a precocious person under 30 and i say 30 it's really 29 ish you know but it's but if you're over 30 it doesn't matter how cool someone is who's 27 years old they're not passed through the gates of maturity and so that saturn return is a life-changing event for everyone but here's something to consider and that is that if we go back to the birth or natal chart some people have a saturn that works we all know people who just are disciplined they work hard they don't think of anything you know differently that it's like when they make their mind up to do something they just do it they go for it they put things together they get to where they're going they run into obstacles they go oh that didn't work i'm going to try something that's someone with a functional saturn and then we know people who are the opposite end of the spectrum nothing works for them because they're always trying to think of the fast and easy way around things or to get out of work or or they don't want to make commitments or they're not willing to take responsibility for who they are or what they've done or whatever so depending upon your saturn in your chart everyone has saturn returning at the age of 29 30. but for some people it's just a confirmation of the last 10 20 30 years of their life and for other people it's not an easy time um go ahead yeah so what about the second saturn return is are there going to be similar themes sure go ahead sorry yeah just how is it different the second time around well the the the the difference between saturn the second at at around age 58 uh 57-58 or the third time around at the age of 86 87 88 um the difference is the experiences that we've had because saturn if it's karma we can always alter our future karma but by what we do in the present and so as we and saturn is the taskmaster and saturn is the teacher so if we learn our lessons from saturn saturn's transits theoretically should get easier or at least more more manageable to move through however we're human so they don't necessarily because there are pieces of our life for example that at a saturn transit that may come together areas that we've been working on like we may get the promotion at work but our husband or wife may leave us because we've not been paying attention to them for the past 14 years so it's not just a one thing or another the the thing is that saturn rewards the discipline and so at the second saturn return one of the most important things that we can do halfway between the first and second saturn return at around age 42 i don't know if you know anyone around that age no yeah um but around that and that's the saturn opposition that saturn halfway around on on its second time round um by the way if saturn is a 29 year cycle let's say let's round it off to 30. at age 15 that means saturn's halfway around that's screaming adolescence that's looking maturity at the face and not being mature and then at 30 roughly saturn has returned to where it was but then roughly at age 42 42 43 that's roughly when saturn is at the halfway point again now it turns out that that 40 to 42 period is also a point of a uranus transit that everyone experiences at the same time because uranus is basically three times saturn saturn is roughly 29 years and uranus is roughly 84 years so you know 29 times 3 is actually 87 it's a little less than that but there's it's roughly roughly saturn goes around three times while uranus goes around once and a lot of the planets have this intricate kind of gears of clockwork into relationship but what that means is around the time of our saturn opposition that's halfway between our saturn return at age let's say 30 and our second saturn return um at age 58 let's say that around age 42 to really 44 in that in that range it varies as the time goes on because of the retrograde motion but at the time of that saturn opposition halfway between our first and second saturn returns during that same time uranus which takes 84 years to go around is now staring itself at the face and that's the halfway point this is often what's considered to be the opening volley of the midlife crises and i used crises in the plural rather than crisis in singular because that uranus opposition basically if saturn is about responsibility and karma and getting what you deserve and doing the right thing and saturn is about the heaviness and the weight of of the past and tradition and following the rules if that's all saturn uranus is basically the rebel uranus is basically the mm i'm adding you know it's like it's like i don't care if i have a job i don't care if i'm married i don't care if my kids are expecting me to bring home you know money and drive him to school i'm just got a bonus and i'm buying a red sports car and i'm driving it to guadalajara and i'm going to stay there until i want to come back which may be never now i'm not saying everyone who has a uranus opposition does that but that's what often what happens is that that saying just like the um difference between the under 30 and over 30 there's another saying life begins at 40. why because at 40 we're getting flavors of that uranus opposition and uranus looks basically what happens as we approach 4142 we're looking back and going oh my god what happened to the excitement that i had in my 20s you know i'm now working a boring job i have three kids i'm doing i mean i get that this is all good and this is exactly what i wanted but i'm not old yet but i'm not young and if i don't do it now i'm i'm never going to get the chance to do it so i'm going to go out and buy that fast you know racing car or i am going to take the trip to africa and and climb mount kilimanjaro that i've always wanted to do because if i don't do it now i'm going to lose the chance and it may be irresponsible to do it and it may piss people off that i'm doing these things that seem self-indulgent but screw them that's what i'm doing and the uranus return the life begins at 40 is often about reclaiming that um um what's the french word joy de vivre uh yes oh my god the joy of life it's close enough my friend sucks yeah um but but it's often about reclaiming that buzz and there's often something else that occurs in the late 30s early 40s whether we are spiritually inclined or not there's often a spontaneous rising of kundalini kundalini or chi or ki or life energy or whatever you want to call it depending on what tradition you come from um one of the sp well one of the orient one of the reasons why we follow spiritual traditions and do yoga and and all of those kinds of practices is to build this life energy and to bring it up which is about the buzz that we would like to have as we move through life but during the uranus opposition often that energy comes up hard strong suddenly and whether we asked for it or not and this is um this is the uh client that that i would have that the person who comes in um has been married for 20 years has kids in their teens and is basically i'm i'm crazy because i've just met this guy and i've totally fallen in love and i'm not doing anything stupid but i'm ready to because my marriage is kind of a disaster and um and but it's you see the energy is coming up and it's not about the person that they're attracting or are attracted to which is often what the what someone thinks and then they leave their marriage and go chase a a dream which is not based on reality it's just based upon the fact that you are magnifying this energy internally therefore it's sending signals out that are attracting you to it and i like to tell people that no this person that you've attracted is basically um it's basically an acknowledgement of the intelligence and power that you have because you've attracted a reminder that you're capable still of feeling these things it has nothing to do with that person although that's the illusion the the illusion is that if i don't follow that person in my life then i'll lose that chance that's the uranus the the the lightning striking but the fact of the matter is that it really is it's an awakening it's the great uranus is called the great awakener age 42. so those two you know then there's the second saturn return which like i said if you've kind of paid attention to your life the second saturn return should be easier than than than your um than your first i remember i was on the phone um during my second saturn return on the day of it exact now i'm an astrologer i knew that i've been in my second saturn return and kind of had been dealing with some stuff and um some some financial stuff that you know just stuff and um and i was on the phone with an astrologer friend who said hey i just noticed i'm looking at your chart hold on a second do you realize that your saturn return is exact today i said no i didn't dawn on me and she said so what's going on anything happen i said well you know i you know there's a bunch of things we could talk about hang on there's someone at the door and i went and opened up the door and there was a person standing at the door said are you rick levine i said yeah they said you've been served irs now i dealt with it i mean it was saturn you got to deal with it but but comes around at saturn returns and um and yet and yet if we're paying attention and there was a part of me that was because i was kind of prepared for that kinda but if we're paying attention as we get closer to the saturn return the second one at 58ish um we look back again and we go so gee i'm i don't have my life ahead of me anymore i've lived the middle part of my life i still have life in front of me but it's like it's like the third third of life first third youth saturn return middle third between the first and second saturn returns roughly 30 to 60 middle age life then third third 60 to 90 roughly um and and so at the second saturn return rather than looking back and saying what do i want to be when i grow up now it's what do i need to do in my life to make changes to stabilize it so that i can gracefully move into this third phase which may be the last phase of my life so the saturn and the uranus um returns and oppositions the uranus return by the way happens in 84. anyone who lives to 84 goes through a second childhood why is that because it's like a new moon it's the beginning of a uranian cycle uranus is the planet of weird eccentric and old age and when uranus returns to where it was when you were born if you're graced with living to 84 you know it's okay for you to be weird and forget now when it comes to those kinds of cycles with neptune and pluto because neptune and pluto never complete a cycle and because they may not even get halfway around and because they're both so elliptical in orbits that there are times when when pluto's moving so quickly that we can get to the opposition at age 60 let me just think yeah that at age 70 75 and then there are other times when we don't get to the opposition until age 130 because pluto can move very fast or very slow now right now pluto is closer to the sun so pluto's been going through the signs roughly you know 12 to 18 years but pluto can take 30 plus years to go through a sign so it so for that reason there's it's it's more difficult to associate a pluto transit by a particular age in relationship to how pluto moves against where it was when you were born so those are all one class of life-changing events that are age related they happen to all of us at the same time i'm gonna open up the second class but i but i think rather than diving deep in talking about him we'll just open the door to this because this is in itself you know a very deep and wide conversation um but the second class of of life-changing astrology transits is this um let's say let's say that you were born with um with the sun in sagittarius okay um and it doesn't matter what the sun is in sagittarius every year you know in late november early december so let's say you were born with the sun let's just pick an arbitrary um let's say 15 degrees that's halfway through the 30 degrees of sagittarius it doesn't matter whether you were born in 1928 and are 92 years old or whether you were born in 1950 and are 70 something years old or 70 years old or whether you were born in 1990 and you're 30 years old your son in your chart is going to be at the same place it's going to be at 15 degrees of the 30 degrees of sagittarius so that becomes a marker now every time a planet moving around the sky lines up with that point in your chart your sun that's going to create a buzz in your life now the moon does it want to move and if you're sleeping it might just pass off as a dream you know um because it only lasts for an hour or two um in fact um if you're having breakfast one morning with your spouse and you're having your coffee and whatever and you have your newspaper and you're reading the newspaper and you kind of look out over the newspaper and go oh my god i can't believe i'm married to this person this is awful look look what he look what she is doing uh i made a mistake i'm uh and you go back to the paper or whatever and an hour later everything's fine you know i mean it happens you know maybe they were dripping coffee out of the whatever what that means is you were in a you're in a foul mood right moods change mood equals moon the moon always changes but if at breakfast the next day you felt the same way and at dinner you felt the same way and then you went away for a weekend and you couldn't stand it because you still felt the same way you're not in a bad mood or moon you're in a bad mars or maybe a bad saturn and those planets move slower and therefore the event is going to last longer you with me here yes all right so back to your sun at 15 degrees of sagittarius or wherever the sun is in your chart the planets move around the moon hits that point once every month and might create some sort of emotional because the moon is reflective and emotional reaction or response but saturn will line up with that point in your chart once every 29 years but it has nothing to do with how old you are because you could have been born with saturn anywhere in the chart if you were born with saturn at early sagittarius as it was i think in the late 80s saturn was in early sagittarius so if you were born in early in um in early december in let's say 1988 i may be off a year or two here but what that means is that maybe a year or two later in early in your life saturn would have lined up with your son and then 30 years later at roughly age 31 or 32 or 33 saturn would have lined up with your son again now let's say that you were born um with let's let's let's say you were born uh like me let's say you were born um in 1949 um my saturn let's let's say it's at zero degrees of virgo the beginning of virgo i'm in aries so saturn in the sky wouldn't have reached my aries sun until it had gone through virgo libra scorpio sagittarius capricorn aquarius and pisces it would have had gone they would have gone through i can't say english i can't speak english anymore it would have had to go through seven signs before it reached lining up with my son which means that it was probably um i probably would have been 20 years old before i experienced saturn lining up with my sun so we can experience saturn lining up with our sun at any age it's what we call an age-independent transit but at once it once you know when that happens that's going to happen every 30 years at that same degree because saturn takes or 29 and a half years so from that standpoint we look at life-changing transits and i would do this in my head with any client who walked in i would go oh this person is this person is a capricorn oh my god saturn's in capricorn right now well it's almost moving on to aquarius i imagine the last year or two would have been really structurally important in how this person took on new responsibilities or how they didn't deal with old responsibilities because saturn was lining up with the sign that their son was in now if someone else walks in and they were born let's say they were born on um uh january uh let's say they were born on uh february 6th um so that would make them an aquarius in my mind i immediately know that in about a year or so and again with my tools i could pinpoint this exactly but i would know that saturn in the sky is coming toward lining up with their sun and i would want them to begin to think about if they were over 35 or so i was like what went on in your life when saturn was lined up with your son you know 28 29 years ago you might have only been four years old but maybe your maybe your dad lost his job and began working at home and your family moved and you went into daycare that you hated it doesn't have to be bad stuff maybe you had a sibling born but but there are things that happen even early in our life that become part of a larger repetitive cycle so saturn lining up with the sun is is is one thing but saturn lining up with the moon also and um it's an amazing exercise you can do this with almost any of the astrology programs you can do it with an ephemeris which is a book with all the planets locations in it day by day but that is to take your entire life and map out when saturn lined up with your sun and your moon but also when was it 90 degrees square when was it opposed when was it square again and then when did it line up again and do this all the way around through your life because this will give you the architecture of some of the major life-changing events in your life and saturn does that but saturn is the backbone it's the it's the mainspring of the clock of life and you can see how that saturn actually how it how things change when saturn hits those sensitive points when it lines up with or squares or opposes um your sun and your moon and for that matter all your planets but the most obvious are the sun and the moon but now as we move outward the slower moving planets have heavier weight so when we look at uranus um you know back to the person who is a capricorn for example i know right now uranus is in the sign of taurus uranus spends about seven years in each sign uranus was in um what was in capricorn um again we're back to the late 80s or the 80s even into the early 90s late 80s early 90s uranus was moving through capricorn so if i know someone has a capricorn sun and and and i can figure out when uranus was lining up with their sun i know that was probably a pretty explosive and unstable and maybe incredibly exciting rock and roll oh my god this is like really cool but i can't sustain this forever period of time because it doesn't have the stability of saturn it has the the um the unpredictability the genius the eccentricity the awakening the uh um the craziness of uranus so when uranus lines up with the sun or with the moon again for example these are times when there's the potential of these life-changing events for that matter when uranus lines up with any planet in your chart when it lines up with venus it might be a time because venus is related to love and money it might be a time when if you're in a relationship something happens that shifts the energy and that something new and different comes along for either you or your partner or both of you in some way it's almost like if you can change the relationship and capture that energy of the change well you're good otherwise that relationship might either go away or stay and be stale but uranus lining up with venus is an attraction to things that are outside of the norm that are that are that don't follow saturn's rules when saturn lines up with venus often it feels like we're isolated in a relationship it's heavier we have to deal with it it can feel like we don't have enough money it can feel like we're not loved when uranus is there it's like what the hell just happened none of these are good or bad unto themselves it's how we react and work with what happens so this is kind of the the background energy of how outer planet transits or life-changing transits work um we go out to and by the way um with uranus uranus basically is going to release tension that's been built up and uranus can in fact create an event that's not pleasant that changes our life in a way that pushes us in a direction that is perfect and we couldn't have figured out a way to get there except the lightning strike strike struck burned down our house and freed us to take the insurance money and take that sailboat trip around the world i i mean i'm just making this up but if that was always our life dream and we couldn't have done it the uranus basically that abrupt change is what frees us to take you know um to uh do what's next the problem though is is that with uranus often the changes are not what we think we would like you know and so uranus can be either positive or negative depending upon how we react to it depending upon how our chart is is is built depending upon the angle that uranus is making um to other planets in our chart aside from lining up with one planet um but you know uranus transits can be totally they that it's the it's the it's the life-changing epiphany it's the i never realized that and everything changes that's uranus it's the lightning striking um you know and we talked a little bit about neptune but when we get to neptune and pluto transit they're harder to pinpoint an event and here an interesting thing comes in and we're not going to delve down this rabbit hole too deeply but um with you with neptune and pluto it's like things kind of come in and we're drawn either onto a journey or into into shadow work or into some sort of realm of fantasy or delusion or into some spiritual imaginative you know transition i mean some of the most creative artistic poetic musical works have been done while artists are in the midst of neptunian transits um so they're not bad but often what happens is that we might be kind of experiencing these neptune transits that are so slow that the exact transit can happen instead of direct retrograde direct three times three times in your out that's a typical astrology passage you know is a planet will go over a point retrograde back over it and then go direct again making three times part of the one larger process but with uranus i'm sorry with neptune and pluto those planets can go so slowly that aspects can repeat five or seven times over the course of a year or two or three what that means is what is the event well often if i'm let's say in the midst of this two or three year process of neptune lining up neptune right now is in is in pisces and so those people who have you know who who are mid-late pisceans have neptune you know kind of messing around with their son of course neptune is at home in pisces and pisces sons are neptunianly aligned anyhow so it might not be as dramatic you know for them as it was um 15 or 20 years ago when neptune was going through aquarius lining up with someone's aquarius son but when neptune lines up with your sun it can be a process of of years which means that it sometimes takes a faster moving planet than neptune like slow-moving uranus or saturn both of which move a lot faster than neptune and they can act like the trigger that that pops the event because the event is kind of like the scenery is changing the dynamics are building and then into that comes a faster moving planet like an or like an eclipse or like a mars retrograde that is making an aspect to your own planets in your own chart and so when we look at these outer planet life-changing events we're often looking at the slow-moving planets building pressure and then faster moving planets somehow igniting the fuse that actually create the event to precipitate into the three-dimensional world once a major life-changing event occurs oftentimes it's a one-way street there's no going back you know we're through it um and we we can't there are those events in our lives whether those events are changes in relationship or whether those are um things that we did that were really stupid that then we got caught and then we went to jail or whether those are things that that um that were like a major promotion and then we took a new job and we moved to this new city often these kinds of life-changing events change the trajectory they change the direction of our lives um and and they they're windows of potentiality and of course here's where the use of astrology comes in is because astrology doesn't say where you're going it just says where those junctions are and so if i know which junctions i'm standing at and what the alternatives are and what the repetitive patterns are around that point and then i can see what's coming up it doesn't answer my questions but it gives me a fabric a map upon which to put my existence on so it can kind of get a sense of how important is this decision that i need to make today where does it fit into the bigger scheme of things what's acting as the trigger what happened when this event happened before this event being a saturn lining up with my venus by conjunction by square by opposition anything that creates tension what happens when other slow-moving planets line up with my venus in other words this this layers of an onion to unpeel which is why this kind of work is so fantastic and powerful for anyone doing depth therapy contemplation spiritual work uh shadow work astrology is just another tool in the toolbox that gives us an ability to make a map of these psychic or or cerebral terrains invisible terrains wow okay did you ask me a question i i literally don't think i have since the very beginning which is fine it's one of those days where you just rolled and so i'm going to do my best to summarize go for it so basically you talk life-changing transits are brought about by the four slower moving outer planets yes and other things but those are i mean this is a simplification but yes okay all right so that that includes saturn uranus neptune and pluto yes saturnian life-changing transits are about things like responsibility and karma they're not surprising this is kind of like you reap what you sow like it's it's it's it's a culmination of a lot of different choices all the sudden being obvious one of my favorite astrologers who i know i've mentioned here before grant louis who was an english professor at dartmouth college and retired from the academic life to pursue a full-time career as an astrologer um he wrote that when this is just an example when transiting seven lines up with your birth or natal son he he wrote this is a time when the chickens of ambition come home to roost he's a brilliant writer and he goes on to say if you've been tending those chickens they come home fat and happy laying golden eggs but if you haven't they come home scrawny hungry sickly and even if you don't have resources or food they're yours you need to deal with them it's a beautiful image and it's just one image of how that works but yeah that's saturn okay what you deserve these things okay so they're not surprising you get what you deserve all right uranus is has a very different flavor it's more shocking it's sudden it's releasing built up tension it may not be pleasant in the moment but oftentimes it's lining up something that is even better for you but you wouldn't have been able to do it on your own it was like you needed the drama the shock the whatever and that's possibly true of saturn also a good saturn transit often is like when you're going through it it's like this really sucks this is the worst period of my life i can't believe i'm having to do this and then five years later you look back and you go you know i'm so glad that happened because if that had hadn't happened i would have never realized i would have never done this and i wouldn't be here so that so yes what you're saying is true but in all fairness it's true of a lot of the outer planet transits right well that's what makes them life changing i mean we humans don't often change because everything's pleasant and we you know it's a lot of times takes that tension okay so then we have neptune these are harder to pin down it can be a period when you were speaking it it was almost like you were speaking in a fog it's like confusing sometimes misleading the reality is out of focus this is also a time where fantasy or spirit you can feel like you're drifting it's it's very out of body experiences astral travel dreams you know we can make ourselves sick or healthy when neptune transits are occurring if we feel like we got something weird going on in the body during a neptune transit get it checked out i mean i'm not a fan of many medical procedures but if you get it checked out and you find it's nothing then you don't have to worry about it if you worry about it you'll manifest the damn thing that's that's the way neptune works okay all right and then we have pluto which this uh these are this is like profound shadow work deep transformation metamorphosis i wrote down the word initiation it's like those is it or not would you think of it as an initiation but they all kind of are they all kind of are you know pluto is pluto is definitely pluto is like roto-rooter you know it's like it's like pluto comes in and burns down everything but uranus burns down everything but pluto makes sure that there's no there's nothing that survives here's the action of pluto pluto when pluto happens as a transit it's the action of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly where's the continuity there is none on the surface but on an imaginal level something happens microscopically that takes the black ooze of the disintegrated caterpillar and it buzzes it and it realigns the energy and it creates the butterfly the phoenix that arises from the ashes of the ruins of destruction and so pluto is often these deep transformations they can be initiatory but so can other things but they're they're one-way streets they're deep they're death rebirth but not physical death they're they're letting go and recreating from from that okay so the slower the moving so the slower the planet is moving it it is striking a deeper note there's it's more dramatic change longer lasting event um so again it's this more profound change the longer the slower moving it is so of those four the slower moving ones are pluto and neptune correct okay all right so then we have oh i had a question as you were talking about the saturn return you said it could be a week it could be a day it could be a month it could be a year what determines how long it is well a few things one is um whether or not we get the whether or not we get the memo read it and deal with it you know um there are people who deal with their saturn return before it even happens because they're so ready for for making it happen um but because the planets go direct retrograde direct it's possible that if my face is my planet and saturn goes direct over it and then retrograde and then direct and moves on that period of one two three passes can be nine months that's typically it's like a gestation period and so i deal with the opening events of it and then i get some replay of it and then i move through it and and even still i might be feeling it for weeks or months or even a year or so if my antenna are up and properly attuned um and i may be dealing with it for for weeks or months or even years afterwards however compare that with someone else who saturn comes along and it comes almost up to their their place where it was when they were born and then it retrogrades and then it goes direct and so by the time it goes across their point it's moving fast and then it doesn't ever come back that far so that person gets it on a one-time sweep and it seems like it's totally arbitrary and many people make the mistake of going oh i got a saturn return coming but boy am i glad it only happens it happens on tuesday you know april 19th 2022 and so foo i don't have to deal with this long term well unfortunately that thinking is not the way it works because often the gradual one two three gives us more time to adapt and to work with it and to me whereas the one time past sometimes can turn our life upside down inside out and backwards so there's no quick and easy answer to your question but there's many things that can make it last longer or shorter one is the actual motion of the planet the other is how well we integrate it or deny it or not or don't work with it i mean one could arguably say that if we have a saturn transit we've been ignoring the law and we do something terrible and we end up going to jail and it's a you know life sentence how long are we dealing with it well for the rest of our lives that's a life-changing event and i mean that happens to people right yeah okay so the first saturn return is around 28-ish it's 29 29 technically 29 and a half but because of that retrograde direct it can vary up to nine months or so okay and then the second saturn return is 58 ish yeah age okay and um then we have the saturn opposition which is when saturn opposes the the natal which happens at around 14 and a quarter and maybe 44. 43 44. it's just right after the uranus opposition the two of those kind of inter interplayed dependency and you didn't really yeah right the saturn opposition and the uranus opposition often time create that midlife crisis period those are happening around the same time yeah it also can be it also can be but depending on the motion it can also be the opening square uh the the first square of neptune and or pluto so there's many things that you see so the the nuances are how many outer planets are involved and again we can be getting a saturn return that everyone gets at 29 and a half but we might also at the same time have uranus exactly lined up with our moon so we're getting two we're getting an age-related transit that everyone gets at our age but then we're also getting something that has our name on it only at the same time yeah life changing event all right so this is this is a time where um you may be looking back and going wow i've been really responsible but i haven't had any joy or any excitement or any fun or you know i've been so responsible um my question there was is that when we've and this i'm just asking for your opinion on this is that when we've been responsible from an external expectation more than like responsible to our purpose or responsible to to who we actually are would you say that's more like that happen that rebellion against the responsibility happens more when we've took taken on a bunch of shoulds that might not be our own yeah i think of ramada saying i've been shut upon long enough that that saturnian but that's the saturn from external but a healthy saturn are those same things come from a moral imperative on the inside out and so yeah that varies and i think i think it's harder to integrate the outside in and to re-correct that than it is when you're working from the inside out it's easier to continue riding that with you know with power and and then would you say that if someone has been answering to both of those impulses so the more saturnian responsible impulses plus the more um i want to use the word vital but like that uranus like energy that maybe they would cruise through that period of time easier as well if they've paid attention to both yeah perhaps yeah okay the second saturn return a question for so that's around the 58-ish is that a time where the where the question of legacy is coming in like what is the legacy i'm leaving maybe i've really thought about that but i think that that's i i think that that's a possibility i think people often or some people i think around that time begin to think of retirement [Music] um but yeah certainly legacy i don't think everyone thinks of legacy but i think the people that do that might be something that comes in around then what they're leaving behind yeah okay um and then we have the uranus return uh around age 84 and that's like a second childhood so that's that sounds fun okay and then i'll let you know soon yeah you got a ways to go all right so pluto opposition um these ones vary right like the pluto opposition and all these the timing on this very so it started to get a little bit less you know structured yeah and so then then you started talking about the second class of life-changing transits which are age independent transits perfectly said okay and these still include those outer planets um but now the outer planets aren't making a relationship to where they were when you were born they're making relationships to other planets where they were so they're making a relationship to your son or your moon or your mars any of them yeah okay all right and that's a whole different conversation for today i mean i i can see as we're talking about this that every single one of these topics is a huge topic that we could go into for a long time but this was really an amazing beginning and i don't know about all of you but it like started to click in the the structure of it which is is really nice so thank you for that but basically the bottom line is these kinds of transits they change the trajectory of your life and they're like windows of potentiality that open up that like events happen and things change and then that window closes and you look back and life is different there are some windows that we get thrust through like like like over the edge of a cliff and then there are some windows that open that are potential and that it takes personal effort to walk through the door of opportunity the oftentimes these outer planets will create an event that we have no choice but to deal with but oftentimes they'll create an opening like you said a potential and it's totally up to us as to whether or not we engage or not so interesting i love that okay rick you're amazing thank you so much this has been this has been like very very rich and um full so thank you and is there anything that you want to say before we close out instagram i know you guys are like heading for twenty thousand so that would be good yeah yeah um you know rick levine astrologer on instagram um and the daily piece which i have to say because of my efforts with the with the foundations of astrology my dailies they haven't suffered in quality but they've suffered in timing a bit and so for all those people who are patient enough to read them when they come out they're not getting them as far in advance as i would like but sooner or later that'll be corrected so yeah rick levine astrologer on instagram or facebook daily um kind of cosmic weather reports if you will and i call it the daily planet pulse i love it and you have inspired us to up our instagram game which you are featured in like all the time so but we're doing a lot more with our instagram as well so if you want to get like little snippets from these talks that help you reinforce the ideas if you want to get more information about timing and different things that are happening at different times and how to work with that energy we're doing a lot more with our instagram too and you've been a total inspiration and we love to to highlight you and what you say so we inspire one another not just you and i but we all inspire one another and in these times that is so important not to lose that flame of potential because you know we were talking about these outer planet doorways you know let's not forget that these planets also in relationship to each other in the sky create worldwide potential doorways and events and 2020 from the very beginning of the year all the way up through early 2021 this is one of the largest gateways doorways turning points whatever you want to call it significant moments inflection points in human history that we've seen in centuries and so you know it's important to inspire one another to keep playing to stay in the game because it ain't over ever wow that's a very amazing reminder and in the that again that term window of potentiality this 2020 event time is of potentiality so yeah all right everybody thank you so much for being here thank you for being a part of our community as always thank you for making astrology a part of your life and we'll catch you on the next episode [Music] you

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Published: Fri Oct 16 2020