Chart Synthesis ✦ Dawn Bodrogi ✦ The Inner Wheel
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If we allow the Progressed Lunar Return to rid us of our childish desires to cling to the familiar, the Saturn Return that follows becomes a constructive force. We realise we are no longer victims of our projections, but participants in the creation of our personal reality.
The Choice: Habit vs. Growth
The Moon represents our ingrained habits and patterns — the conditioning we’ve picked up along the way. At age 27, we are asked a simple but agonising question: do I choose to keep on as I am, or do I make the necessary adjustments to move forward?
To grow, we must let go of the past. But at the end of a cycle, we often feel defenceless. We cling to emotional crutches, terrified of the leap. This is where South Node behaviours can become extreme — and for some, the tension of this transition becomes more than they can handle.
— Dawn Bodrogi
The Lunar-Saturn Conflict
There is a specific conflict here between the Moon and Saturn. We don’t want to grow up and take responsibility for our lives. It’s easier to sink back into the warm bath of the familiar, even if it’s damaging us. This is especially true for those with difficult outer planet aspects to the Moon — Amy Winehouse (Moon/Neptune) or Kurt Cobain, whose return conjunct a grand-trine-linked Jupiter caused a massive overflow of energy.
Beyond the Return
The sadness of the 27 Club is that all their potential died with them. We can’t save the world — but as astrologers, we can provide the alternative viewpoint: the map that turns a curse into a crossing.
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Thank you Dawn for your enlightening words! This gives me a new viewpoint on life…:)…Soon, the NS will be conjunct my NN in Gemini, in the 12 house…I wonder what this will bring me….:)
Hello, Luca. Did you mean the SN will be conjunct your NN in Gemini? If you did, this is a very important time for you. This is called a ‘half return’ or ‘nodal flip.’ It happens roughly 9 years after the returns, and it’s a chance to take stock and see how you’re doing in balancing your nodal development. When the transiting SN is on the natal NN, it may bring experiences to you that echo the past, or that point out certain thought patterns and behaviours that need adjustment. Sometimes people you once knew come back into your life for a time, or people who remind you of people you knew, and usually it allows you to see just what did and didn’t work in those relationships. You should look on this time as an opportunity to sort things out. When we move from Sag to Gemini, we must stop living on a completely instinctual level and begin moving towards a more experiential and rational existence–we need more than belief to know what’s right. We need to make decisions based on our own personal experience and connections. Good luck.
Dawn, as usual, I am moved by your keen insights. Your writing is not only very illuminating but offers sound advice that all of us can use. Fond thanks, Patti.
Thanks for this Dawn. My brother, sadly, is a member of the 27 club and I’d always thought it was his upcoming Saturn return along with the Pluto/Sun transit that did for him. This sheds more light on it all.
Thank you Dawn for your kind answer! Indeed, I meant that the SN will be conjunct my NN in Gemini…And with the Progressed Lunar Return, I feel change is coming soon…What can I say, I am a frightened member of the 27 Club…Your words touched my soul: “we know we must change, we must move on, but we often feel that we don’t have the strength or courage to do it.”…:)
Opal: I’m sorry to hear about your brother. When you have a transit as intense as Sun/Pluto along with the Progressed Lunar Return, the pressure to change is intensified and multiplied, and so is the fear. We all have an irrational fear of change, and understanding these cycles can make change easier for us.
Luca: The nodal ‘flip’ always happens round about the time of the Progressed Lunar Return–the transiting nodal cycle is one of those crossroads we all experience at the same time in our lives. If we make even the smallest attempts to stop clinging to old behaviour patterns, we are rewarded, so look to your North Node and see what you can do there. You won’t be sorry.
I really love some of the one-liners you’ve got in here, such as “the devouring nature of the outer planets” and “trines as overflow” and Saturn building our world rather than lamenting the loss of the womb. Powerful and I wish I could have expressed it so eloquently.
Thank you, Amy. As for those trines, I don’t trust them when they gang up. Trines seem to be the dominant aspect for a lot of disasters, natural and otherwise. Serial killers have grand trines dominant–there’s a sense of self-containment and entitlement with trines that can go very wrong.
Very good blog,but can I just say it was pretty hard reading that yellow against a black background. Just a suggestion,maybe try a different colour background? otherwise it’s quite hard on the old eyesight,or maybe it’s just my eyesight! sorry…
Hi Carolina, I’m glad you enjoy the blog. If you look up on the right hand side, you will find a font expansion ap. Keep hitting the A+ until you find a size that’s comfortable for you. I recently worked for the American Foundation for the Blind, which is a leader in making sites accessible to people with low vision. The yellow or orange on black is a recommended colour combination, and has proven much easier to read in general than the traditional black on white. I’m sorry you’re having difficulties, but I’m afraid I can’t accommodate everyone’s needs. When you choose a blog you have to choose a template, and this particular one organizes information the way I need it organized. I hope it doesn’t put you off.
Love your writing and insights as ever Dawn
I am 54 and my progressed Moon is within 3 degrees of natal once more – a lot of what you’ve written here rings very true, but, generally speaking, what of the ‘second time around’
Hi Rob. Thanks for asking this. This isn’t a quick reply but quite a complicated one, so I will be writing an entire post on it soon.