Saturn will enter the sign of Virgo on September 2, 2007 and will stay there for over two years until October 29, 2009 and will return again from April 7, 2010 to July 21, 2010.

This does not indicate a fun time up ahead for all of us but Saturn is the great Teacher and it will give us the opportunity to build the foundations of our lives correctly. Saturn is the planet associated with responsibility, maturity, limitations, obligations and structures. It is associated with the material plane and with time and it takes 30 years to traverse the zodiac.

When the Great Teacher is in the practical Earth sign of Virgo, He is telling us to get down and work hard; there won't be any short cuts. However, if we do focus our minds at this time we can achieve extraordinary results and become very skillful at anything we turn our mind to from arts and crafts to organization and efficiency. Virgo is the sign associated with service to others and this is the time to not just think about helping charitable and spiritual causes but to actually do it. The world will need us all at this time to care for our brothers and sisters in practical, helpful ways.

Virgo is also connected to health and nutrition and we will see, on a global level, our food and nutrition becoming a concern. People will be more inclined to seek alternative, healthy diets, such as raw food and organic and there could be an outcry about things like irradiated food (which, by the way, in England, has to be marked as such). More and more fast food restaurants will be opening up offering raw or organic foods and others will compete.

Health care and the health services will be under scrutiny and perhaps Michael Moore's excellent film, “Sicko”, will have an impact. This will be a time when perhaps there could even be a universal health care system implemented in the U.S. over the next two and a half years; certainly we will be far more aware than ever of the limitations of the present system.

How Will This Affect You?
If you work with the energy of Saturn you can make your life more structured, and your foundations more solid for the future. It is a time to perfect and organize your life. Virgo also rules plants and you may find your green thumb more active than usual and a desire to improve your yard or a deeper need for the tranquility of Nature.

This is also a good time to work on your own health by setting up routines for exercise and healthy diet. If you have thought about going into healthcare as a profession, this would be an excellent time to do so. Alternatively, take a class in hands-on healing (e-mail me if you're interested as, among other things, I am a healing instructor for over twenty years).

Expect the next couple of years to bring more responsibility and limitations and it may be hard for us fire and air signs but it's good to remember that there's a time for everything and now is the time to be building strong foundations in our lives, physically, mentally, emotionally, financially and spiritually.

For many people they will find themselves settling down at this time. More people will be seeking and finding a permanent job, getting married or buying a home and starting a family. By the very nature of these things, some limitation is involved even though the long term result is good. So don't run away with the idea that it is all about work and limitation. It's just that you are making more serious choices. The Great Teacher is leading us towards maturity, whatever our age. It's urging us to pay attention to detail, the fine points and become more precise in our work and dealings with others. When Saturn was in Leo, we were painting the broad outline of our lives; now with Saturn in Virgo, it is time to complete the details.