Transits Saturn

Saturn conjunct the Sun You reap what you sow That s the message of this challenging and sometimes discouraging transit. Saturn stimulates your ambitions, increases your need for security, forces you to learn discipline, and may confront you with your weaknesses. But it can also J bring security, fulfillment, and recognition for work well done. 

Notice that Saturn, the planet of restriction, is now in her fifth house of children, and Uranus, the planet of the unexpected, is in her eighth house of death and transformation. Those two transits, I should point out, aren t nearly enough to trigger such an exceedingly rare and terrible loss. After all, everyone who had an Ascendant in the neighborhood of 21° Virgo also experienced those transits. A birth chart must show the potential for an event in order for it to happen. And there it is The close opposition of her natal Uranus to her natal Sun, Moon, Mars, and Neptune clearly introduces the possibility of violence. The transits acted on the possibilities already there in her remarkable chart. 

Here s the rule The transits that pack the biggest wallop are those made by the slowest planets — Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto — to the Sun, the Moon, the Ascendant, and the faster planets. Contacts made by the faster planets are usually short-lived. Contacts made by the slower planets to the slower planets (such as Uranus opposite your Pluto or Neptune conjunct your Saturn) may be too subtle to detect (unless the natal planet happens to occupy a prominent position in your chart). But contacts made by a slow planet to one of your personal planets — Pluto conjunct your Moon, Uranus opposite your Sun, and so on — signify the chapters of your life. 

Saturn conjunct Uranus Though you may feel constrained, it s pointless to rebel. Instead, seek controlled ways of expressing your individuality, which will allow you to sail through this transit with aplomb. 

Neptune conjunct Saturn The rigid rules and regulations you live by aren t working anymore, and you need to update them with a more inspired, less fearful set of bylaws. Remind yourself that everyone who was born within a few months of you is experiencing this transit. And be sensible about money. 

Looking at that chart, I would have noticed that Saturn, the planet of lessons, was transiting back and forth over her Sun (and had twice made an exact conjunction with it earlier that year) that Uranus and Neptune, traveling in tandem in the ninth house, were conjunct her Saturn and opposed to her natal Pluto and that transiting Pluto had been dueling with her Ascendant for about a year and was approaching an exact opposition. 

Observing all of this, I might have uttered cheerful words about transformation (Pluto) and responsibility (Saturn). I certainly would have told her that Saturn transiting through the tenth house often correlates with professional success. But secretly, I would have been worried. Like a lot of people, I find it... 

The Clapeyron equation can be applied to substances under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure, because it can estimate the conditions of phase transitions—and therefore the stable phase of a compound—at other than standard conditions. Such conditions might exist, say, at the center of a gas giant planet like Saturn or Jupiter. Or, extreme conditions might be applied in various industrial or synthetic processes. Consider the synthesis of diamonds, which normally occurs deep within the earth (or so it is thought). The phase transition from the stable phase of carbon, graphite, to the unstable phase, diamond, is a viable target for the Clapeyron equation, even though the two phases are solids. 

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This spacecraft is a scientific probe that was sent to study Saturn, Saturn s rings, and its moons. To withstand the transit through the asteroid belt and the Saturn micrometeoroid environment, Mylar was used in a Whipple shield arrangement (Section 10.4.2.4.2). It served the dual purpose of micrometeoroici protection and multi-layer insulation (MU). The standoff distance from the secondary shield varied from 2.5 inches to 18 inches. In some critical locations on the spacecraft, fuel tanks for example, two layers of beta cloth were added behind the Mylar. 

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