We’ve reached the wax­ing square of the Sun and Sat­urn; and, oh boy, do we have a prob­lem with author­i­ty! We began a new phase in some task, job or project at the end of Sep­tem­ber; but now we find our­selves at a crossroads.

We have to make a choice; what do we keep, and what do we cut? It seems as if an author­i­ty fig­ure is chal­leng­ing us now. Or, maybe the very thing we have been build­ing up is block­ing us. Or, is it our own self-doubt about our author­i­ty that is get­ting in the way? No mat­ter how life seems to present us with this choice, the true chal­lenge of this or any sit­u­a­tion is always to be found in the spir­i­tu­al strug­gle with­in each of us.

With the Sun rep­re­sent­ing pure poten­tial, (it is undif­fer­en­ti­at­ed and so unlim­it­ed but it is not real, yet); and Sat­urn rep­re­sent­ing real­i­ty, (it is lim­it­ed because it is what we had to put some part of our poten­tial into in order to make it real), what we will find is that what­ev­er we have so far poured our self into may be the very thing in the way of our fur­ther growth now.

Yet not every­thing in our real­i­ty is in the way, we need to keep some or most of what we have built up, but we have to let some­thing or some­one else go. We need to face the sit­u­a­tion square­ly and with courage. The chal­lenge of a cri­sis is to see through it to the oppor­tu­ni­ty that is there wait­ing for us. We can­not be attached to the tem­po­rary form of the real­i­ty; instead, we must hon­or the essence, the spir­it behind it.

So ques­tion author­i­ty, but ques­tion your own espe­cial­ly. Hon­or what you have become, but do not be impris­oned by your present form. When the ground drops away from beneath your feet.…it is time to spread those wings.