News in Cosmic Review
By Linda Brady

My vision for this monthly column is to provide you with an astrological view of events that shape our daily lives. Today, as I write I am listening to News Alerts of sniper shootings in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. People have died doing normal, everyday chores: sitting at a bus stop, going to a grocery store, mowing their lawns, getting gas and going to school. Each of these people had no idea that their lives would be cut short that day. They believed they had all the time in the world. We have experienced terror attacks for over a year. We no longer feel safe living our lives. We can no longer count on tomorrow in the same way we could before September 11, 2001.

o understand why these events are occurring and what we can do about them in our own lives, we must understand the planet Saturn. Saturn is the Lord of Karma, so it expects us to take responsibility to resolve our past. We learn through Saturn that history is important and that there is an important thirty year cycle from which to learn. It wants us to focus our energy in practical and efficient actions through determination, commitment and organization. Saturn requires us to take a high level of responsibility in mind, body and spirit levels. This responsibility means staying grounded and being spiritually attuned.

As the planet Saturn moves through the signs it structures and steadies those things governed by the sign it is moving through by streamlining, concentrating and eliminating the superfluous. Saturn entered the sign of Gemini on April 21, 2001and will remain there until June 5, 2003. Gemini needs clarity and gathers necessary information to have it. It lives in the present with ease and knows how precious the present is. Gemini needs to share ideas and thoughts and is a consummate communicator. Saturn in Gemini seeks:

To value the present and live our lives in it.
To develop competence in building new communication styles, forming new links and sources of information and redefining understandings that we already have.
To discern what information is important and what is frivolous.
To bring a practical focus to the versatility and dualism of Gemini.
To explore the potentials of our intellect.
To value clarity in thought and expression.
To take responsibility for our ideas and express them with maturity, thoughtfulness and efficiency.
To understand what history is ready to teach us.

Thirty years ago Israeli students went to Munich, Germany to participate in the Summer Olympics. Terrorists from Palestine killed many of them. Saturn was in Gemini. On September 11, 2001 terrorists struck again in the United States. Saturn was in Gemini. Palestine and Israel are still warring. They cannot find a way to communicate with each other and because of that people are dying everyday in the Middle East.

Saturn wants us to take responsibility to live in the present. Clearly it is a time to cherish our lives right here, right now. All of us know that living in the present moment is spiritually correct. We know that it is the only way we experience true joy, yet most of us are not doing that. We dwell on the past and plan for the future and there is that vital space, called the present, that is ignored. Are the events of the last year urging us to value our moments more? Do we need to honor the present and “be here now?” Have we taken our lives for-granted by not being fully expressed when we need to be? How many times have we wanted to say, “I love you” to a loved one and being too busy and put it off. Most of the time we have another chance to say what we need to but in this time of terrorism, we may not. Saturn in Gemini wants us to take responsibility to share our thoughts and feelings with another, regardless of how distracted we are or how busy we are. People were preparing to die at the World Trade Center and they were on the phone to their loved ones saying good-bye and I love you. One of the ways that we can honor them is to learn from them.

Saturn in Gemini wants us to take responsibility for our ideas and to express them with maturity, thoughtfulness and efficiency; not only to others but to ourselves.

We need to honor the diversity of who we are and learn to listen to the many different facets of ourselves. We need to discover the words to comfort and teach our inner child, respect our soul, embrace our uncovered male or female sides and to love and honor our adult selves. Saturn in Gemini wants us to find the words and to communicate effectively with all of us!

Linda welcomes comments to this article. You can respond to her at creativech@aol.com.

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News in Cosmic Review By Linda Brady

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By Linda Brady