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If you understood what was presented above, then you know that our view of life changes as we age. There is life before and after our Saturn return. Before that return, we are always looking forward and we have very little sense of time being limited. We are young and it seems like we will live forever. And ideas of death are very far off.

After the Saturn return, as we move into our thirties and forties, all this gradually changes, and at some point we will even find ourselves looking back at a time when we were physically in more perfect shape, and so forth. We do an about face and begin to value things that before we always took for granted, like health and physical strength – simple, but essential things.

So there very definitively is in life what we can call a “turning point,” and the Saturn return around the age of 30 years marks where that point occurs. Up to that point, life has always promised us more, and by continuing in that line or direction, we got more. This simple fact leads to the false assumption that life is a line and that by traveling into the future, we can somehow get more. After the age of thirty, this is not the case. As we peer along that line into the future, we can very clearly see that in a physical way, we will not get more, but less. This is a fact.

This fact leads to revising our idea of what life is and offers, and the straight line to the future no longer seems to hold all the answers. It leads downhill. Soon or later in our thinking, we reach a turning point, where it is we who turn away from seeing life as a line going somewhere we want to go, and begin to cast about for other perspectives, other ways of seeing all this.