Quintile Saturn – Uranus

(Transit Saturn → Natal Uranus)

Avesalom Podvodnyi. Aspects

Saturn’s quintile: Asceticism is a desire to focus on one way of life. This aspect often brings in the areas of the planet an interested-yet-skeptical attitude toward life manifestations. Deep inside, the person strongly wishes for growth and flourishing, yet simultaneously 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 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 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 emerges; in harmonious conditions, the person will know how and when to support this life, though often will 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 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). Uranus’s quintile: If the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then all praise to Allah. This aspect brings in the planet’s sphere unexpected surges of life manifestations, which may be merely extraordinary exceptions or artifacts, but sometimes sound almost miraculous, revealing flickers of life within seemingly completely dead forms. At a high level, this aspect may indicate brilliant mathematical or theoretical-physical abilities, the capacity to perceive life and development within the most complex and abstract structures and models; at a moderate level, the individual should strive to recognize Uranus’s energetic-life expressions in the planet’s sphere as signs of fate and learn to interpret them. This aspect signifies a certain protection by fate—during critical moments, an unexpected animation arises either within the person or in the external world, disrupting the stagnant program proceeding according to established plans, creating a spontaneous fluctuation and opening the possibility for an unconventional solution or way out. Working with this aspect proceeds through consciously recognizing the meaning and significance of the vitality surge or unexpected developmental leap, supporting it and adapting it to reality, without which it typically dies out quickly and fades away. Strong activation of Uranus may bring in the planet’s spheres a vitalization of life in unprecedented forms, placing the individual in a dead end and causing great fear; yet hints about their true purpose and nature may be sought by recalling past Uranian flashes and manifestations of vitality within the planet’s sphere.