Francesca Oddie

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Saturn again... because he's about to voyage and I'm sentimental about it.

I’m in a foggy fog and think the only solution is to write down all that is swimming around in my head.

We are coming to the end of Saturn in Scorpio, for my pals and I this is the end of our Saturn Return… what have we learnt?

I am OVERWHELMED with SPIRITUAL sense. I’ve always had it in me, these bursts of understanding and knowing and feeling, but this is extreme.  Everything feels connected and makes sense, my instincts have always been strong but they are getting loud, almost bossy.

Three years ago I arrived in this office and my heart was SOARING with creativity and excitement.  September 2012 was magnificent (apart from Chris Moyles leaving the airwaves.) Studio F7.  It felt so right, it was right.  The people I met, the glorious daily commute from my stunning home in Angel.  The land of the faraway tree.  High in the sky among the tree canopies, next to Kings Cross, ready to adventure whenever I felt like it.

Then in early October I got an email saying “Saturn is in Scorpio this won’t happen for another 30 years!” I forwarded it on to a new friend, delighting in the hilarity of my love of astrology. ( I got these emails because I registered with various sites I used when I was busy guessing people’s rising signs.) I had NOT A CLUE about the planets.  I didn’t know it was relevant.

But Mamma Mia within a month of Saturn’s arrival everything started to crack. Saturn came along, cracked a whip and showed me that everything I was delighting in wasn’t real.  It was all built on sand and it all started to crumble.

The commissions I was living off dropped because the business encountered some changes, I struggled to pay the rent of my beautiful (overpriced) home...That was the beginning of those lessons.  They repeated on me until I took the hint.  I am slow to take hints.

The glorious office has bought me many fantastic people and in Jan 2014 a girl who was working here said, “oh right, it sounds like you’re having your Saturn Return” she photocopied me part of a book.

“Sex, death and other people’s money” The Saturn Return in Scorpio deals with power and maturity in these areas.  Mine is in the 6th house, all to do with work.

The journey of 2014 continued to take it's long, cold  saturnine path and every few days I was meeting some spiritual nutter with a story or two that left me gobsmacked.  I didn’t seek all of them out in stereotypical hippie places, I was at insurance events, or they were flatmate’s friends, or people in the office, people on planes and trains.  They were everywhere… opening my mind.

We are in the final days of Saturn in Scorpio (for another 30 years) and I feel like I’ve come a long way!  These September days are full of concrete plans for the future, health, good money management and a far reduced inclination to BLINDLY and Sagittarianly see the best in people.  Far more real (Saturn), much more inclined to be slow and spend only AFTER ££ has been earned.  Most of all these days are full of spiritual guidance that no longer scares the sh*t out of me!

All I can say is YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW.

Saturn started transiting my 6th house in OCTOBER 2009! That’s a long and that’s when I started with the Pet Insurance.  It’s the only job I’ve stuck at for longer than 6 months.  Saturn brought discipline to my work area and it’s about to depart and sort out my 7th house of relationships PLUS my Sun is there… so it will define my identity, philosophy and destiny.
I’m friends with Saturn now.

I’m looking forward to this transit and the redefinition of beliefs that Saturn in Sagittarius will bring for us all.

PLUS now that Saturn is leaving Scorpio, Chris Moyles is coming back to the airwaves.  I would love to know his time of birth… whichever house was being transited it took him away from the public eye for the 3 year duration… I would guess first house as he’s a PRESENTER and the first house is what presents us to the world (our persona, the mask we wear) and he has a gap between his teeth and dimples, sign of the Scorpio ascendant (in my opinion.)

Either way, I'm sure he's learnt how to deal with authority (Saturn) and the BBC (the most Saturn organisation of them all is it is"British" and we are Capricorn nation, born on the 1st of Janurary 1801)! Saturn rules Capricorn and they love hierarchy and authority.

I’ll know his time of birth one day!

xx