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In Brief: End of rewards or harvest, beginning of investment. Turning away from the public, turning toward inner voice.

This transit marks a major turning point, the end of the long preceding cycle, and the very gradual beginning of a new cycle of experience. The tenth house cusp, the tip of the top of the natal chart, marks the peak of Saturn’s rise through the chart, which starts when it crossed the 4th house cusp, and this is the beginning of its descent to meet that 4th house cusp again.

What is being left behind, and which should be easy to see and understand, is all of the success or returns you have achieved over the last 14 years or so, whatever they may be. This last number of years saw you increasingly taking control of your life and circumstances, with the vision and clear-sightedness to make the right decisions, separate the wheat from the chaff, and gather together the rewards you have earned. These should have been years of some success, a harvesting of whatever seeds you had sown many years before. So, point one is that you are done with this period and should not expect more of the same to continue. It’s done. You have made your push, sown your seeds, and reaped your return or harvest, whatever it may be. While you can expect to continue to benefit from what you have put in motion up to this point, this is NOT the time to push on or to start anything new.

The second and more important point is that you WILL be experiencing something new, but it will be coming up from within you, not coming from the outside as you have come to expect things during these last number of years. You will absolutely want to take advantage of everything you have learned up to this point, and benefit from your success up to now, but it is key that you let go of what has driven you forward to this point, and begin to take a different and more receptive attitude.

By receptive, what is meant here is that it is time to begin listening to your own inner voice. It can be easy to ignore at first, but this inner message will grow increasingly stronger as time passes, so it is to your advantage to learn to hear it early on and to begin working with it. It will, in time, be persistent, and eventually will be unavoidable, if you do not willing bring it forth, so you might as well go to meet your maker, in this case a new voice calling you from within. The outside world will increasingly become more bewildering, while this inner voice will grow stronger. The point: stop reading from the outside world, and start reading from within.

In summary, there will be a shift of perspective away from the outer, external world of success (and perhaps power) that you have enjoyed (or not) over these last seven or eight years, and a shift toward taking a more receptive (and perhaps humble) approach to life, acknowledging your own inner life. It is this inner life that will increasingly interest you, and this period marks its advent.