I was wondering what would be the right topic for the very first post on this website. Then I realized that it probably makes sense to start at the beginning and share my first experiences with Astrology.
It was 2012, I lived in Budapest, Hungary, I had a good job, a serious relationship and close friends. I thought my life was in order and that I had it all figured out for the long term. Although I do remember having some questions regularly sneaking up in the back of my mind. is this it? Is this life? Is this what all the fuzz is about? I could not really explain why, but I just did not feel happy or at my place, but I thought I maybe wanted too much.
Then, out of the blue, my relationship ended. I really did not see that coming and it totally caught me off-guard. All of a sudden I did not know where I was or where I was supposed to go from there.
Now I am the type of person that needs to understand a situation before I can start to handle and overcome it. So I needed to understand why my relationship failed, what was my part in it and what can I learn from it. Long live Google!
Whilst searching The Web I stumbled upon an article from a Hungarian astrologer with a title: “I’m 30, my life is in crisis”. This title spoke to me as I just turned 30 and indeed I was at square one again. The article described that between the age of 28 and 30 we all encounter some kind of crisis in our life which forces us to grow up and take responsibility for our actions. This is called the Saturn Return, when the planet Saturn (symbol of loss, obstacles, lessons) arrives back to the same place where it was at your birth. Obviously this all didn’t mean anything to me. How on earth am I supposed to know where Saturn was at my birth and where is it now?
Shortly after I found another article from the same author which was about the end of the period of Saturn in Libra (symbol of relationships) and it explained what kind of crisis we might encounter in our relationships. I was fascinated as it basically described the painful truth, that my relationship was never one between equal partners. I then also realised that none of my previous relationships were „equal” either.
So I really wanted to figure this Saturn return thing out. After some searching on „Astrology”, I found a free birth chart calculator, where I entered my birth details (date, time, place). It gave me a picture of a circle with plenty of symbols in and around it. That was my birth chart. Not a surprise, that after some further investigation it turned out that indeed my Saturn was at the last degree of Libra and I just had my Saturn Return…
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