Mars-Saturn Bi-quintile

(Transit Mars → Natal Saturn)

Avelom Podvodnyi. Aspects

Mars bi-quintile: The fallen are not beaten: people walk over them and wipe their feet. This aspect imparts activity and energy in the planet’s spheres, directed toward interaction with lower forms of life. Affliction of Mars will make this energy destructive, though the person may not notice this immediately and may sincerely believe that everything emanating from them toward lower life forms benefits them (although it, being foolish and ungrateful, often fails to understand this and attempts to protest). If the planet itself is afflicted, the person may become a tormentor of lower life, such as a cruel governor (a more prosaic example, for instance, with Mars-Mercury bi-quintile—a strict schoolteacher who suppresses any manifestations of students’ vitality and is aggressively dissatisfied with their knowledge in their subject). In the harmonious variant, this aspect allows one to easily find an appropriate way to participate in the concerns of lower life forms and, with minimal effort, gain great dividends; however, one should not speculate on this, otherwise the opportunities for expressing and developing humanity within oneself will be irreversibly lost. Working through this aspect enables energetic and skillful participation in the development of imperfect life, whereby the person simultaneously develops themselves, gaining the opportunity to soften their own lower aggressive subconscious programs by directing energy in a more cultured and constructive manner. Saturn bi-quintile: Either the person is ahead of their time, or time treads upon them with its gray foot. This aspect gives a subconscious desire to deeply understand the lowest life in the planet’s spheres and to take significant part in it, through which the individual may express their humanism. However, initially, especially if Saturn is afflicted, the person perceives lower life very primitively, and their interaction with it is extremely awkward, potentially creating an inferiority complex or, conversely, awakening and activating sadistic tendencies from the depths of the subconscious. In areas of the inner world that resonate with the problems of lower life, the person will feel vulnerable, and it is fortunate if they extend this sense of vulnerability to the lowest life itself. Generally speaking, it is inherent to them at first, but over time it may be suppressed into the subconscious, after which compassion often transforms into pronounced cruelty, although in this case it is rather an exception than the rule. Here, processing proceeds through deep study of lower life forms and careful, unhurried search for adequate contact and interaction with them; temptations will include frustrations due to the slowness of this process, overly rigid and primitive notions about life, about oneself, and outwardly cruel behavior, which should gradually be replaced by gentle, albeit restrained, human expressions; at a high level, wisdom and profound human self-expression are achieved.