Saturn the Planet of Limitation or the Devil? The ancients called Saturn Chronos (father time) or Phaenon (Greek for 'Shining one') or even Falcifer: 'Scythe-bearer', a Latin epithet making references to the grim reaper? . To many Saturn is known as the Lord of Karma and to Medieval Astrologers a Malefic Planet! Many associate the Tarot's Devil Card with both Carpricorn and Saturn (cap's ruling planet). In the 15th Major Arcanum Saturn is the planet of limitation and thus bondage - a "self imposed bondage of ignorance" (the two human figures can easily remove their oversized chains). Saturn is a stern taskmaster no matter what sign he resides who brings discipline, hard work, self-denial, pain. At one time or another we have all experienced the delays, disappointments and fears which coincide with a strong Saturnian influence. All of my Gemini friends have had some unpleasant experiences with this last transit of Saturn thru Gemini. As of June 3rd Saturn officially entered Cancer the Crab, a water sign with attributes of comforting things like home, hearth, motherhood, sentimental feeligs, patriotism, food/dining and powerful emotions.
On 26th, Saturn reaches perihelion, his closest distance to Earth of at 839.5 million miles. More and more we will began to see headlines alluding to Saturn's reign in Cancer.

An anecdote for a Saturn transit,
Saturn transits can result in full blown past incarnational karma landing splat in your face. That anecdote is patience, calmness and prayer. The Qabalists attribute Mirth or Laughter stemming from the Hebrew letter Ayin as the function for the 15th Tarot Card Laughter can be healing and transforming. Now that Saturn has entered watery Cancer (the sign of home, family and feelings) we need to look at both the planets and houses that are touched. Saturn is in his detriment in Cancer and also Leo and is exalted in Libra. Just as Mars is exalted in Capricorn. Now is the time to be aware that with Saturn's passage thru both Cancer and Leo we need to address this detrimental situation with both prayer and laughter. To a great exent the US Public is like the man and woman chained to the half-cube in the Devil Card. We too can lift the chains of self imposed bondage resulting from GW Bush and the Cartel stealing the 2000 election. Well good old Cancer GW has had his protective shell removed more then once exposing his brother Jeb and the Florida Fiasco. Read Greg Palast’s "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" No matter how much we see motherhood, women's rights and apple pie under attack with Saturn in Cancer, laughter in the face of hypocrisy,and hegemony will create miracles. Caution: at the same time our awareness, vigilance and conciousness needs to be heightened so that we are not surprised by the great waters of emotions that will flood over the world with Saturn in Cancer. Our duty is not to be like the Chinese QUTANG, China - who even with months of warning, the rising waters of the Yangtze River behind the Three Gorges Dam took thousands of people by surprise. The Three Gorges Dam is perhaps a graphic symbol of Saturn in Cancer wreaking havoc on our homes and traditions: unprecedented in the scale of both its construction and the dislocation imposed on people whose families have lived for centuries along the densely populated Yangtze.

Saturn in Cancer, USA's Dwindling Popularity and Homeland Security
Since Saturn is the Natal Sun Sign for our own USA (see chart) we better get ready to experience some repression much less ethnocentric nationalism to say the least. Our former positon of the world's darling and the Great US of A will began to wane faster then a decreasing moon (the ruler of Saturn) Recently we saw first hand how the French at the French Open booed our hometown tennis champion Serena (Libra Sun).We are moving quickly to our first serious test as Saturn exactly conjuncts the US Venus at 3° Cancer 06 on June 28th We have began to see glimpses of Venus/Saturn transit which also conjuncts with transiting Venus in Cancer meeting Saturn on July 9th. Repression is the watchword especially repression of women and the feminine. With the legislation against late term abortion and the treatment of Domestic Diva Martha Stewart we are beginning to feel the first salvos. Once again women and the feminine will be targets for onslaughts of limitation and repression. To see how serious this loss of rights can become read Classy Acts or or Cajones? by Phoenix Rising
Notice that on June 6th the Faustian Figure, John Ascroft decided to ban a Gay Pride Event at the Department of Justice scheduled for June 18th! On June 6, 5:04 PM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Attorney General John Ashcroft an outspoken conservative, banned a "Gay Pride" event at the Department of Justice headquarters, a gay group said Then on June 10th, the DOJ (Dept.of Justice) back pedalled and said that the event can occur and that it wasn't forbidden at all! Orwellian Newspeak is an under statement with the Bush Cartel and the DC liar's club. Two of the chief members, Powell and Rice are vehemently defending the Holocaust in Iraq where June 10th AP out of BAGHDAD, Iraq - At least 3,240 civilians died across Iraq during a month of war, including 1,896 in Baghdad, according to a five-week Associated Press investigation. On June 10th, transiting Mars in Aquarius has reached conjunction with the Moon at 27° Aquarius in the US Chart - the people are being heard and the truth is getting out! Evidenced by a masterful, brutally honest recounting of the Iraq War by Stan Grof A West Point instructor and retired U.S. Army Special Forces Master Sergeant. I need to thank (Johanna Oregon for pointing out this lucid document) WOLVES AND SHEEP A short history of the Bush Mafia's war in Iraq Stan tells it like it is: from: In-bedded ("embedded") reporters blended with CENTCOM to Uranium Rain on Baghdad to Rejections of US-installed colonial surrogate leadership. Each day brings a fresh attack from the Iraqis at their Great Liberators! Note that the March 20, 2003 date for the start of the War to Liberate Iraq had Mars at 9 Capricorn 39 and that transiting Saturn in Cancer will oppose that degree on Aug. 17 along with transiting Mercury at 21° Virgo to square the US Mars 21° Gemini - US unpopularity will began to reach a crescendo pitch in Europe and the Middle East. Let's pray that Iran is not attacked!

Homeland Security Means More Fences and Fearful Neighbors
With Saturn in Cancer, National Security will move to an even more prominent and dangerous level then first presented by Tom Ridge's Homeland Security Dept. Cancer is a sign that erects fences with Jupiter in Cancer the popularity of gated communities rose. The crab always wants to move sideways and back into his shell. Ashcroft wants to tighten the already existing extremely repressive Patriot Act (ratified with Gemini in Saturn along with N. Node) So he now wants expanded powers to hold suspected terrorists indefinitely before trials and to let him seek the death penalty or life imprisonment for any terrorist act.
Saturn in Cancer update from July 2nd. Venus enters Cancer and U.S. Develops Urban Surveillance System The Pentagon is developing an urban surveillance system that would use computers and thousands of cameras to track, record and analyze the movement of every vehicle in a foreign city. This DARPA project can easily be adapted to crime-ridden areas of American cities or to the Super Bowl or any site where crowds gather...As Joseph Onek of the Open Society Institute says: "It's one thing to say that if someone is in the street he knows that at any single moment someone can see him, yet It's another thing to record a whole life so you can see anywhere someone has been in public for 10 years."

Some of the Neo Cons Who Will be Tightened Up by Saturn in Cancer
Before we go much farther let's take a look at Ashcroft's chart We notice that Ashcroft has Mars in Cancer at 8° degrees and with this noon chart in IC (home to Cancerian Moodiness). In July as Saturn moves to sit on his Mars at 8° Cancer, we may even see his sexual and even physical stamina threatened as these two malefics join forces. Fear represented by Saturn and passion represented by Mars! Saturn transits to Mars are known for accidents, injuries and illness painful illness lilke arthritis. He also has a natal venus square mars which causes conflict between the inner man and the inner woman. We have heard much about GW Bush and his cancer sun at 13° degrees 47 along with Saturn at 26° Cancer getting ready for his second Saturn Return in 2004. (bush chart) .

Another Cancerian who is heavily involved in the business of national security and defense is Donald Rumsfeld. Rummy is another Cancer with both Sun 15° and Venus 2° in Cancer. Currently Rummy is under a heavy Neptunian influence and may need to be sedated before his delusions of grandeur encompass the whole planet! . For more charts of current political power mongers go to Political Astrology.com

Saturn was last in Cancer in 1973-75. Watergate was the biggest Washington Scandal in the news. During that time, President Nixon was disgraced, and resigned along with his VP Spiro Agnew. The 73-75 transit of Saturn in Cancer was the time of the OPEC imbargo when oil rose to asrtonomical prices. We are just beginning to see the denial phase of the Bush Administration about the overwhelming evidence that made First Strike in Iraq inevitable. Answering claims that the administration exaggerated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, Secretary of State Colin Powell and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice expressed confidence Sunday that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction will be found. Powell's Aries Sun at 15° deg 53 minutes will began to take the heat of a Square from Saturn/Cancer around October 24th and of course this won't really come down till the final direct motion of Saturn in Cancer around June 15th in 2004 Read a great article about the Powell and Rice denial dance from Phoenix Rising

Saturn in Cancer and The Economy It has been said that "the Devil is God as he is misunderstood by the wicked!" And with Saturn in Cancer we he have the three D's Deficit, Deflation and Debt/Decrease. Remember that Jupiter is exalted in Cancer (as represented by the Chariot Card number 7). So Cancer which represented by the letter Cheth means fence or enclosure. Economically now is the time to halt and fence in the spriraling increase of America's huge deficit. The Fed last cut interest rates on Nov. 6, 2002 pushing its target for the federal funds rate to a 41-year low of 1.25 percent. Greenspan is trying to play the Charioteer with the last 10 interest rate cuts Yet we are still in a slump with just of few rays of daylight in productivity. Unfortunately our jobless rate is higher then ever. Our debt load as a nation is way too high. U.S. consumers and businesses have over three times our historical high in debt. Going to war in Iraq and perhaps Iran, lowering interest rates, and dipping into Social Security to pay for more bail outs, tax cuts etc, is not going to solve this problem. You simply cannot stimulate an economy out of debt. Now is the time to start going with the old adage less is more and began to get out of debtby whatever means available.
Housing Market Under Attack
On June 10th U.S. mortgage company Freddie Mac((Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation), which replaced its top executives on Monday over an accounting review, now faces a probe from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Freddie Mac, is huge and manages a $1.29 trillion portfolio of home loans! Saturn in Cancer will not be kind to home builders or building material suppliers either - it is justa mater of time. With Saturn in Gemini we saw telecom take the fall with companies like World Com break records in accounting fraud.
Cyclical Nature of Real Esate
We will have to face the fact that the real estate market has peaked. The real estate market reached it’s 18.6 year high in April 2000 (North Node entered Cancer). With Saturn in Cancer, this market is now headed down, but still near the high, steadily headed below the crest. . Even as Jupiter started to leave Cancer in August 2002, we saw real estate prices began to ease a little. By August 2003, when Jupiter enters earthy, realistic Virgo the true support for housing and property prices will be diminished. We may began to see some real significant drops as Saturn retrogrades in October,2003 and by mid- 2005 the spiral effect increases. For many this can mean a chance now to sell high, wait a year or two and buy low. The next big low in real estate (North Node in Capricorn) will begin in late August 2009. The next major real estate high will begin in Nov 2018. If you are thinking of buying or selling a home in the next few years, pay attention to these cycles. Now may be the time to sell, but not buy.
Yes the stock market maybe in for a mini-bull run, a small cycle within a large secular bear market. Bush and company are hoping that the dividend tax cut will stimulate wall street but that will not save their ass. When we start to see many people that are over extended with credit card debt loose their homes (Saturn in Cancer) a vote for Bush in 2004 will be the farthest thing from our minds. The summer of 2003 will see many people scuttling into their crab like protection tenanciously holding onto their houses as housing starts began to slid and rates began to climb.

Saturn Trine Uranus and The Power of Cheth
Even in the midst of Saturnian limitations to our homes, economy, security and even our homes there is an expanding ray of light. On June 24th, 2003, Saturn and Uranus will be exactly trine creating a harmonious window between the discipline and form of Saturn and the genius of Uranus. The structure of Saturn will meet the innovation, insight, intuition, collective mind, and transcendence of Uranus to produce amazing results. We are already see discoveries in the area of biotech (cancer cures) and genomics daily. As Anthony J. McGettigan says: The last time Saturn trined Uranus during a change of signs was during the years 1912-1914. In those years, Uranus was entering Aquarius and Saturn was entering Gemini. Aquarius and Gemini are air signs. Interestingly, this was the exact period when Albert Einstein first articulated his theory of General Relativity. We may see even greater innovations with Saturn trine Uranus in water signs. Both Saturn and Uranus rule Aquarius and if we can use the limitiations of Saturn in Cancer this is great time to truly embody the the true Aquarian Spirit. The Tarot Card attributed to Cancer by way of the Hebrew letter Cheth is the Chariot. Cheth (Ch and H as in "help") is pronounced khayth which means a field and a fence enclosing it. Speech (enclosure of thought) is the function attributed to Cheth which build words into language (Cancer is a highly psychic and receptive sign with a great memory). Language has a preservative and protective power. Our greatest potential power is the unspoken magic of thought which is why the Chariot Card is assigned the Intelligence of the House of Influence which can take the form of the silent speech of thought. We will soon see how that silent speech will manifest into the powerful expression of language. Our complete receptivity (Cancer) to subconsciousness will allow us to be the Victorious Chariot - a vehicle for Universal Will and Cosmic Force.