Saturn, AKA the Task-Master, makes a hard angle, known as a Square, with this Full Moon in Sagittarius. 

Saturn is about taking responsibility for ourselves, and usually requires and honest look at our lives and choices to get clear on what is working and what needs to change. That may involve a part of life we have avoided out of fear of what we will discover. It's like one of the beloved storybooks of my childhood: The Monster at The End of this Book.

Grover was terrified of the looming monster, and each time you turned a page he freaked out ("I told you not to turn the page!"). He preferred to stay in the same spot, so he didn't have to get any closer to the monster. 

But then a funny thing happened: there was no monster at the end and, alas, nothing to fear. 

Once we face the imaginary or mind-based monster and begin on the path we have avoided, we feel relieved and stronger and in a much better place, mentally and emotionally, than we were in when we were in hiding. The song lyrics: "I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed" come to mind. 

Saturn is all about tedious and honest work, and the success and fulfillment we earn from that work.

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When I was a kid, my dad would bring me to the store and allow me to buy as much candy as I wanted. My best friend, Aimee, and I really took advantage of my dad’s generous candy policy. We also knew where my dad’s change stash was, which he was always adding to because he worked in the restaurant business and, back then, people paid in cash. We would help ourselves to it, in support of our sweet-tooth pursuits.

If we asked my father for permission to do something, the answer was always a resounding “Yes.” I can still hear my mother gently (or not so-gently, depending on the situation) scolding my father for “letting them eat all that candy” or apologizing profusely to a friend’s mother about the inappropriate movie my father had allowed us watch (we rented The Exorcist, when we were in Elementary school). My father was an Aries Sun but he must have had the free-spirited Sagittarius stamp somewhere in his natal chart. If, in my teenage years, I went on a venting spree, my father would just smile; not in a judgmental way; it was more of an all-knowing, this-doesn’t-really-matter in the grand scheme of things sort of way.

Sagittarius represents the wide-lens view of life. The higher mind knows better than to get enmeshed in the mundane chatter that often depicts Gemini, Sagittarius’ opposite sign. Sagittarius rules opportunity, adventure, freedom, and excess (to name a few). The full moon lands in the Sign of the Archer on Saturday, June 3rd at 11:41 pm EST. 

The Full Moon, which illuminates Sagittarius while the Sun resides in Gemini (on June 3rd), may point to the need to take a look at our life situations and choices from a more objective and higher-minded perspective to assess how we might make shifts and adjustments, if we don’t love what we see. From this higher vantage point, like viewing the land below from a hot air balloon, we can see the many pieces that make up “the whole” and how they all fit together. From this angle, we can get to the work on any pieces that aren’t adding to the picture we want to see and create.

Saturn, AKA the Task-Master, is making a hard angle, known as a Square, with this Full Moon in Sagittarius. Saturn is about taking responsibility for ourselves and lives, and usually requires and honest look at our lives and choices to get clear on what is working and what may need to change. This may be a part of lives that we have avoided out of fear of what we will discover. It's like one of the storybooks of my childhood: The Monster at The End of this Book – do you know that one? Grover was terrified of the monster that was supposedly looming at the end of the book, and each time you turned a page he freaked out ("I told you not to turn the page!"). He preferred to stay on the same page forever, so he didn't have to get any closer to the monster. But then a funny thing happened: there was no monster at the end and, alas, nothing to fear. Once we face the imaginary or mind-based monster and start, step by step, to do the work, we feel relieved and stronger and are in a much better place, mentally and emotionally than we were when we were in hiding. The song lyrics: "I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed" come to mind. Saturn is all about tedious and honest work and the success and fulfillment we earn from that work.

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In my 4-class series for emotional balancing, I use yoga, pranayama or breath-work, mantras, kriyas, and journaling to face "stuck" emotions and energy (step 1), move through them as gracefully as we can (step 2), and build a spiritual foundation or an inner home (step 3) we can always return to.