Saturn – Chiron Quintile

(Transit. Saturn → Natal. Chiron)

Avesalom Podvodny. Aspects

Saturn’s quintile: Asceticism is a desire to focus on one way of life. This aspect often brings to the planet’s spheres an interested-yet-skeptical attitude toward life’s manifestations. Deep inside, the person strongly wishes for growth and flourishing, yet at the same time perceives numerous obstacles, doubts success, and yet awaits it—becoming deeply distressed upon life’s failures and victories of stagnation, though never missing an opportunity to say: “I told you nothing good would come of these endeavors.” However, the individual becomes a suppressor of life’s expressions in the planet’s spheres only at the lowest level of working with the quintile and Saturn, especially when these are strongly afflicted due to deep traumas inflicted upon their vulnerable life-affirming sensitivity. Usually, this aspect softens Saturn’s rigidity, providing beneath an outward strictness and discipline a desire to preserve life within the expressions of the planetary principle and to allow it room for development. When Saturn is afflicted, the person will hold overly certain and dogmatic views about exactly how this life should be and precisely how it ought to animate the forms in which it arises; in harmonious conditions, the person will know how and when to support this life, though will often be too lazy to do so. Here, working with the aspect brings deep understanding of what occurs within stagnant forms (especially the most rigid and difficult ones, such as mathematical structures and metal constructions) when life begins to emerge within them, as well as insight into the developmental prospects of these specific manifestations and knowledge of which forms require assistance and which do not (an afflicted Saturn, without proper integration, may suffocate). Chiron’s quintile: Life, unlike the person studying it, never reaches a dead end. This is a highly promising aspect, provided one undertakes its integration, as it grants in the planet’s spheres the perception and materialization of life in those manifestations where previously it was practically imperceptible. For example, the Chiron-Moon quintile bestows abilities to perceive the human biofield and organs; at higher levels, it may enable healing through “conversations” with various body parts and internal organs as living beings possessing distinct characters and rudimentary consciousness (according to yogic teachings, the liver is stubborn and responds best to gentle persuasion, and so on). The Chiron quintile may produce anecdotal manifestations of life in objects and the most appropriate moment (a hot frying pan, alive, slips from the hands and escapes under the cabinet), creating unimaginable chaos of uncontrolled life expressions—initially often amusing, but, when systematically repeated over a prolonged period, capable of penetrating deeply into the subconscious or fundamentally expanding one’s understanding of life and one’s responsibilities toward it. For instance, Mercury quintile to Chiron in the fourth house may mean the person will have to rationally acknowledge certain family members as alive in ways they initially seem entirely devoid of such quality, at least within the spheres ruled by Mercury. Yet eventually, the Chiron quintile provides an exit from life’s developmental dead ends, including within family life.