Why the Sun's Square to Saturn Can Be So Difficult

[@Adam-Elenbaas]

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[@CassiusAntares]

I have no idea what a brilliant Sun feels like. Saturn opposes my Sun, (conjunct Chiron) and squares my Moon. Humility, pain and barriers are just about all I know, and the sickness and servitude of my 6th House Sun is the opposite of what I want in life. I need to shine. I'm so tired of the pain.

[@earthstara2408]

I am so sorry, and I understand… I have Saturn/Chiron opposite Pluto/Uranus….Mars the other malefic also in same house/sign with Saturn and opposite my Moon in same house/sign with Pluto/Uranus This is truly a prison planet and we are slaves in an inhumane humanity ~

[@finlybenyunes8385]

As a Sun conj. Moon squared by Saturn I feel for you, but would like to know if you've had your first Saturn return as I found greater ease of self-expression after age 30, and even more after age 60!

[@CassiusAntares]

@finlybenyunes8385 Thank you. Unfortunately, I'm 36, so my first Saturn Return has come and gone. At least there's a while to go to try and figure things out before the next one.

[@susaniceland]

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[@elenamar700]

​@@CassiusAntaresI would rather say you are Fortunate to be only 36. Although our birth chart shows us our own personal "reality of life" there are things we can do to change those circumstances. Investigate Family Constallations, and do a few sessions if you can. You may be surprised at the results and how your life can improve. The details and theory are too complex to describe here but Try it.

[@Christina_Rising]

This square in my chart … I’m so used to this the energy… but it doesn’t make it fun lol yippie

[@CanadaDhryyy]

I am a current student in Night Light astrology. Every time I hear Adam speak I am so grateful that I joined. This was so beautiful put. Thank you! ❤ the depth he takes this in truly feeds the soul.

[@el_museo.mp4]

Hello from a former student in Mexico City! Nightlight its the best astro school ever

[@kayyy.beeeee6173]

I’m in complete shock. I have sun square Saturn Natally and this has played out my entire life. I always thought it was because I had a Virgo moon. Mind blown

[@kellianderson1072]

I woke up this morning dealing with a huge wave of self doubt and “negative” emotion. This helped my perspective on a the micro and macro level. 🙏🙏🙏

[@Its-Lulu]

I hope everyone here is doing well today! 🥰💗💗💗

[@ryanwood9637]

I quit my job a few days ago. I have nothing left in me at the moment. My birthday is Friday and I'll be 47. It's also my 4th year anniversary with my gf and now i have no money and no motivation 😢... This video helped me realize i need to get out of my ego. I need to ask for help. Ty Adam I've studied Astrology for 20 years and every day i learn more about how it can help build me up and at times break me down. It's comforting to know I'm not alone during darkness. I'm still not sure what i want to do when i grow up or even if i really want to grow up. I can't get out of bed but this video woke me up literally and figuratively. This darkness will pass and a better life is on the other side of this chapter. Sending blessings to everyone and a special thanksgiving vibe to great teachers like Adam for keeping me going when stuck in a tunnel of my own ego.

[@tennesseem4971]

You really nailed this one. Adam! I'm sun conjunct Saturn and Scorpio. ( I did experience the loss of my dad at 19) This conjunction with a Leo rising can get confusing! I'm working on my dimmer switch but sometimes I just hit the lights and hide. Also, silence and emptiness describes my feelings about this Thanksgiving. Although I'm comfortable with silence, I am feeling this theme and that my family will not be getting together, because we're just not feeling very connected right now.

[@phoebetaptiklis5122]

Another one for the long term library. I guess it's no surprise that a Cancer is so amazing at this ability to integrate the archetype(s) into reality - I think I'm right on that - that Cancer and integration are a thing?. I really love this perspective. Much gratitude. Phoebe

[@WhitePillAnon]

Dimmer switch, great metaphor, thank you, Adam, love that, been training it all my life^^. #grabbed: Natal Saturn-Sun square, experiencing transiting Sun square Saturn: Just another replay of the theme 'I'm not enough'. Transiting Saturn is still in orb of my 2nd Saturn Return - Saturn in a grand air trine with Venus and NorthNode - so the best way to not feel over-shadowed by grand-daddy Saturn's sternness is to be loving towards mySelf and create things that fill me with joy (Venus in Libra). In childhood, due to intelligence and talent, everybody expected more from me than from others. Whatsoever I delivered, there was always some fault. While it made me strive for excellence, it also gave me the feeling that less than perfect is not good enough; it set my benchmark so high that I cannot ever reach it. Saturn serves as a dimmer for my obsessive Scorpio Sun; the more I allow it to moderate certain manic aspects and give structure to the expression of my energies, the lesser it needs to give me frustration and depression^^. Therefore, while I do feel Saturn's heaviness physically these days (in my 1st house), I've learned to welcome the opportunity for allowing my sunny essence to re-balance with my Saturnian form.

[@AngelicRealm]

#Grabbed I am an Aries sun in the 8th house. Virgo rising. Cancer moon. In my “retirement“ job, I work as an editor, publisher and “need to know more” astrologer. 🧐 Transiting Saturn in my 7th house Pisces is squaring my natal Saturn (1*) in my 4th house Sagittarius. All while the Mars Sun cazimi is transiting my 3rd house Scorpio which is being squared by my Leo 12th house PLUTO. 🤦‍♀️ Today, I promptly came down with the flu, my phone broke, and I nearly lost my very important client whose book I am publishing (my 9th house Taurus has my Mercury at 8*). All while I watch on the news, the church I grew up in, burn to the ground 🔥. You cannot make this stuff up. 🤷‍♀️ Thank you Adam. You are delightful and do not need a dimmer switch! ☀️ 🤩

[@bokky24]

😢 Praying that you will have a better day 🙏

[@hellyjones]

I learned an important lesson about “no” from my Grampa-whose chart I’ll never see-and this makes me wonder what sun/saturn dynamics were going on for him. One of his mantras was “always ask, the worst thing that can happen is someone will say no.” Words I keep with me for courage to ask hard questions and stay curious.

[@PeachyKins]

Same :) mine is "IF you don't ask, the answer is ALWAYS no" ....but lately, it's been seeping into my awareness (bc I tend to not even bother asking if I'm not 90% certain the answer will be yes, perhaps my Pluto/Saturn square Mercury?) Been noticing that sometimes getting a "yes" has turned out to be a curse. And rejection as protection ❤

[@SunGraal]

An interesting Sun/Saturn signature I've found in my life (Leo Rising, Aquarius Sun, Stellium with Saturn in Capricorn) is a bit opposite of the first point. The Individuating process is always met with a heavy dose of ego checking aimed at convincing me there is only the other/whole and no Self, which the Self does not like. Both my Father and I seem to only feel seen by others, when we kill ourselves for their sake.

[@Notesofcitrus]

Extremely resonant. Honestly, listening to this made me feel so much better about the limitations/burnout/emptiness that I’ve been running into this week so far. Thank you Adam!

[@Jelka8]

Dimmer switch virtue :) This episode is off the charts.

[@virgil6493]

Definitely had a dose of humility this week, reframing feelings of inadequacy or being a fraud due to insecurity from past experiences, by seeing any absolute identification as fraudulent- reminds me a lot of my first acid trip in my teens, which I think was also a sun/saturn transit. I came to the thought (in a very juvenile way lol) that identity is fickle. Functionless beyond describing a single part, and can't be intrinsic, all our parts are only potential, no matter how much we desire or fear to be those things in definite terms. So much is formed by both "negative" and "positive" encounters with each other's parts. It's definitely hit me as a revision of what's already known on an intellectual level, it often feels like the saturnian "checking" for myself ends up with me being challenged in ways that test how integrated vs intellectualised those ideas are, what's been missing, and how much that benefits not just myself, but those that may depend on me. I value these transits a lot retrospectively, they always help me fill in the cognitive blanks or break out of false dichotomies. It's a fun time as always !

[@nicolecoenen9801]

Love the dimmer switch idea, I'm going to integrate that into my life, as a Leo sun and rising, I hate the wound licking that inevitably comes, but shining to bright

[@erikabautista6960]

Wow 😮and the dimmer switch idea is amazing

[@ransdellremediation]

My husband's step father passed yesterday. So many variants of these planetary archetypes for us right now. Traveling. Not at home. Connecting to my family and father. My father comforted him.

[@nickirealtime]

I have been sooo feeling this energy this week. Boredom and a bit lethargic. Wondering what the heck? Finding that rather than trying to snap out of it...move through it. "There is no bypassing ". 😉🤔

[@bokky24]

Thank you for sharing. I have been feeling this way since last week.

[@billm8487]

This was helpful. I've got a Sun/Saturn opposition in my natal chart and am approaching in last phase of my second Saturn return. Saturn issues have hovered over me all of my life. Given Saturn's position in my chart, the past year has been challenging to say the least - but your video confirms how I need to keep pressing forward (and how I can) during this transit, and in the final phase of this last return. Thanks Adam!

[@Butterkupflowers]

This was lovely! Perfect timing as a reminder to sit around dinner tables this Thanksgiving and watch our friends and family “fill their archetype,” and to use that dimmer switch just enough to let them do that 🌞 also reminded me that Saturn exalts in Libra who have an unexpected knack for humility and who know that “charm is the art of making both you and I look good,” (at least so says this VERY humble ♎️) Happy Thanksgiving Adam and family, we are so grateful for you and these videos 🙏

[@Maria-jp6eo]

Illuminating and beyond. You are very good at what you do. Holy smokes. Thank you.😊

[@csunedchic]

Oh my gosh dear teacher, as I struggle to clean and cook for my family tomorrow, I slow down to reply to your lesson today to listen and to remember, I am a beautiful and divine soul having a human experience. My chores are turned into a reflection of my connections with the people I love ❤️. Happy and giving thanks and wishing you and your staff a wonderful Holiday season

[@Cinder1987]

No issues in sun & Saturn, but it’s my Saturn in Pisces 1st house return and also have Pisces rising on my ascendant. Both at late degrees. Been most challenging period of my life since Saturn entered Pisces and ongoing..

[@KarinMYearwood]

Crazy how I literally channeled this for one of my daily tarot readings over on my KZbin channel. Its uncanny how sometimes the tarot reflects the transits in the sky

[@mariaantoniaalvarez3852]

I have a tsquare mars sun saturn. Sun being the apix of the t square. I think I have become very good at these things. I was thinking about the dimming switch and I think when I was younger i shone very bright. Maybe to the point of arrogance. and I felt others tried to dim my light. They actually succeed. I became very isolated and shy. Now im coming back with more humility. Now knowing that the path of the sun does not depend on the light that others reflect , like the moon. the sun shines regardless of the recognition that others give to that light. I think thats a lesson ive learned :)

[@dedeboyd6826]

This so spoke to me . I was born with Sun (12 degrees Virgo 12th ) Square Saturn (9 degrees In Sag 3rd ) . My dad died in a car accident when I was 12 years old. I also have Mars conjunct Sun and Mercury RX , 12 house... I have used this natal energy to delve deep into the unknown...it feels familiar to me. Since natal Pluto is also in the 12th, death always feels familiar to me. This transiting Sun Square Saturn and Mars conjunct the Sun...I am a current student in Night Light Astrology 27,( woop woop) started my Spanish class today and finishing up my certification for BrainSpotting as a healing modality. ( Just saying this on this screen feels too sunny...I like things a bit more quiet...Yeah , I am feeling aligned and the Shadow cards have been coming up this week when I do my devotional practices using oracle cards. I have eaten plenty of humble pie in my life , so needed to pull in my energy or dim the switch as Adam says, and right now the task master is having me to look at my judgement. Just another day in the cosmic arena of life, eh?

[@animir7631]

When you talked about the dimmer switch I lit up, then I turned it down. Once you get high, you gotta get low 🌞😎

[@Alicia-fx5lb]

Love how you described that dance of the deer coming out of the forest only to go back . Sometimes in 'pursuit of that caling'/dream' we can get caught up in manifesting that perceived vision - that so called bigger picture. Today I cane across a mosaic mural composed of different individual tiles that from afar formed the image of a specific landscape (a community). Upon closer observation, I noticed each tile was its own distinct artwork - abstract painting, words, paintings of objects, animals etc. I then understood what the soul wants. The bigger vision is far greater than what can be seen from the personification of one mind. The soul is each its own changing expression of authenticity and how the pieces fit together are far beyond what any one of us can comprehend. I feel the sun's square to saturn is difficult because it takes a lot of humility to navigate this dance as you have so clearly described. Thank you so much.

[@eileenm9252]

Sagittarius Decan 2 going through this transit right now. Just want to cry.

[@annajackard4121]

This truth sure has been a reality for me for some time..thank you..appreciated the way you expressed this image

[@aquariusstar7248]

I love you so much for this! I have sun in Aqua H1(conj mercury combust) square Saturn in Taurus h4, and i have been trying to understand this aspect for half of my life now! Even Liz Greene's explanation has not been this enlightening. It's so funny though--past 10 years i have been getting these understandings. My guess is because i am Cap moon conj Cap ASC, and Pluto has been transiting h12. Now i am consciously aware of how this is playing out, I can be more ready and intentional to stay out of my arrogant ego and be curious, stay open amd reflective. This is tough at times....learning not to make it about me, not taking responsibility for things going wrong all of the time (let others own their sh*t), and certainly not letting other ppl's negation be the last and final word about who i am, but also be curious about the other and their desires, and discovering new relationship patterns to work through these challenges (h7), and learning to pivot and redefine my goals/work/mission(h10) when needed. I am a new student of evolutionary astrology. This interp of Saturn square Sun aligns with the EA sun/saturn concept of releasing parental conditioning--that which the parent negatively projects onto the child must be released for soul growth and individuation. The child may encounter negation in the outer world if projecting its sense of umportance too brightly, only to re-exprerience the negation of the parent. The child (Leo) has to learn to go through the purifucation of Virgo to get in healthy balance with others (Libra -Saturn exaltation). Your interp gives me greater clarity.🙏🏾🙏🏾 #grabbed

[@pattiboersma5184]

I’m starting to like Saturn more and more. Or maybe respect more.

[@erikabautista6960]

Beautiful image of the deer 🦌 thanks 🙏🏽

[@odinconstellation]

I was just reading about the Sun/Saturn combination in The Archetypal Universe book before i just saw this video 💪supreme Rising Adam.

[@LALife6]

EXCELLENT explanation on Sun!!!!❤ thank you!

[@suzdwyer4577]

I've definitely noticed my resistance to the emptying out recently and learning to sit with the quiet times with patience and trust. Your Tao te Ching videos are helping me enjoy this time and be with it 💗

[@cherylannfulton5448]

WOW Adam!! BRILLIANT. I have Sun (Leo) square Saturn (Scorpio) in my natal chart. I will write up a #grabbed in response to your extremely helpful and eye and soul opening observations. I have contributed to your Kickstarter and will be making another contribution before the end of the year. I love and deeply appreciate your work and the work of your team. Thank you.

[@delightfullytaboo]

profoundly deep with this one if you really think about it. "Saturn serves the Sol" 🔥

[@bokky24]

Today here in Australia the movie Napoleon opens. I personally think he is the perfect example of this Sun-Saturn relationship. He just got too greedy and arrogant so Saturn hammered him down. I always remind my son of this...always remember that you were a tadpole before you became a frog..please dont be or hang around obnoxious toads. This is all I can give to him these days. Stay humble and open.

[@racheld1111]

Transiting saturn is sextile to my Natal Saturn and Pluto and today on a nice walk I slipped on the dirt road and rolled my ankle, heard a pop and I think I sprained it. I’m a Pisces rising. I just feel so depleted.

[@colettelovers666]

Started the process of this shift 1 year ago. That’s how long it took to shed the old identity/archetype. Beginning the process now of entering the world again

[@zaiologyy]

Love how you said to stay contemplative during rougher transits, it's so true !🧘 Almost looking forward to them for the lessons they bring :)

[@suedecampo6346]

I have natal Sun square Saturn. This was very helpful. Thank you!

[@el_museo.mp4]

#Grabbed This talk put into words the feeling ive come to in these past weeks as I am discovering now at 29yo that Im autistic. Its been something very moving, libertating but heartbreaking at the same time. As the square is happening right after Mars´Cazzimi which landed right on top pf my natal Pluto in the 1st house (with a scorpio stellium btw) and sqare my natal Aqua moon... BRUTAL ! Its like the square is helpring me embrace my "new recently diagnosed self" as just another version of who I AM. I felt SO errased and confused these past few weeks wondering WHO TF I AM?! if I was masking my autism all this years... this iluminated the acceptance Saturn is, in a way, offering to me.

[@Sweet-Aloha]

Yes, thank you--This has been quite illuminating☀️

[@SophieDemitra]

This was fascinating! I hadn’t thought about the opposing natures of sun and Saturn, as reflected in their dignity and exaltation. I have sun square Saturn.- sun in aries and saturn in Capricorn. I’m pretty old so I have been through two Saturn returns. I think the most difficult circumstance has been that I have so little time to pursue much of what I love. I work too much.

[@SoulbirdCreative]

Thank you, this is very enlightening. I hope you reach your backers goal.

[@SimpleMandy]

This came at such the perfect time! Thank you for articulating what I have unintentionally been reflecting on today.

[@djunaversecenterforhealing2505]

Wow! I loved your dimmer switch metaphor. Your lecture is brilliant, and it shifted how I was dreading to attend a large thanksgiving gathering under that influence. I feel very empowered and have a better context. Thank you. 💕🙏🕉

[@asalzraps9501]

Probably the best explanation of this aspect that I've heard. I have this in my natal chart with Sun in gemini in the 11th house squaring a pisces Saturn in the 8th house. Life for me to this point has been a nightmare of constant inner conflict and issues figuring out who the fuck I actually am.

[@hallucinogen22]

I have sun mars and mercury square Saturn.... I’m very much over this world trying to humble me at every turn 🙄 It has taught me patience in a way that was more like a “well you have no other choice because you can’t have this right now and maybe will never, so HA HA!” Really does make a person want to stop trying and striving and at times has seemingly defeated my will. But then I sleep and get something to eat and find some glimmer of light to chase after again. What else is there to do but keep going, right?

[@martianmoongdds]

Thank you so much. ”The soul resists identification. The soul resists being put into a category or being purely identified with only one image, and that is because the soul is multivalent, multi-dimensonal, multi-archetypal. The soul gets to know itself, explores, experiments, enjoys and participates in its own nature through its own process of bringing archetypes and gods in and letting them play, and then moving on and letting them go and exploring and experimenting more. Soul identity is about that process. It’s ongoing, it’s relational. And if you try to grab it, hold it or define it with an image, you will alienate the soul or suppress the soul. Which is why eventually no matter what we try to identify ourselves with - Christian, Buddhist, astrologer, ninja, parent or spouse, eventually the more we become identified with that role. Life and universe has a way of conspiring to knock us out of our identification with that role.”

[@joshuahelmeke]

Yes, Saturn is the master of change. Crisis itself is a matter of change and Saturn often symbolizes crisis. I have Mars conjoined with Saturn and in my experience Saturn has never been a symbol of stasis.

[@lisanicoll2426]

This is incredibly helpful. I have a Sun-Saturn conjunction in Gemini in my natal 1st house and, although it's different from a square, still presents a lot of what you're talking about here. Thank you so much!!

[@laurelcrittenden]

Amazing as always Thank you 🙏

[@99skyroxx]

Off the Top 00:28 & then there's 7:08 ...This is a treasure box of golden nuggets, too many to keep posting. Ty Adam. I love authenticity, I adore quirks, Aqua moon trine Uranus. Excellent! I would love to participate in your courses bt I have financial difficulties, I am in Canada>its called the exchange rate, LoL

[@Adam-Elenbaas]

Please feel free to use our "need-based" tuition! That's what it is there for, and you are welcome to use it!

[@evadebruijn]

🙏 My Moon in Aries wants freedom and my Saturn in Cancer squareing my Moon puts the breaks on and puts limitations in place. My conclusion: it is good to have patience and stamina but it is frustrating as heck when you want to fly out of the gate STAT ✌️ On top of that my Saturn is conjunct my Mars 😤 🍀❤️🍀

[@zachvizion]

I have this aspect in my natal chart. Sun in Leo square Saturn in Taurus.

[@thrinedemol]

I have a Saturn right opposite my scorpion ascendant. I play with the dimmer all the time :) And Gosh…do I know well silence and emptiness ! People around me don’t understand that thought. That’s a difficult part, for me

[@debrademingwalsh7495]

Natal 12th house Sun squared Saturn (which also opposes my MC)

[@kkst3552]

Natal sun 2° square Saturn but nettle mercury 0° 16 minutes trine Saturn I was both very unlucky and very lucky. No major health problems until age 63.

[@susaniceland]

Brilliant thanks ❤

[@evadebruijn]

Not sure about the dimmer switch, for some people it is not a good habit to decrease themselves in order to make other people less uncomfortable. "This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine" (I don't think that in True Shining it is the Ego that shines) ✌️

[@nicoleboeres6246]

Amazing!!!

[@pixietumbleweed3773]

Welp... you nailed it. Sun at 3° Sag and i was basically saying some of these same exact sentences yesterday to my boyfriend lol. Like why does it seem like since my birthday last year there's some energy that wants to tear apart my ego and prevent me from creating a defined life, a defined self, walking a path, having goals, etc. Like it's too much to ask to just shine as an individual human being that I love and am proud of 🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️ not into it haha

[@G_ATA_7]

My son's Taurus Saturn Rx is conjunct his father's Sun in synastry and his father has Sun/Saturn ~5° conjunction in his natal chart. So the 2 Saturns are within an 8° orb.

[@jennie.morrow]

I want to become my Sun in Virgo. I am Scorpio rising with Moon in Sagittarius. Playful with secrets, juxtaposed with order....oh yeah Saturn in Cancer...

[@fredwiggins4610]

Thank you

[@DiariosdeHyle]

Thanks!!!!!!

[@andreac.6779]

Wow… “Saturn is a servant of the soul “

[@erikalunamoon]

I’m a ninja and I don’t care what anyone says! LOL 🤣🤣🤣 I love the dimmer switch perspective!

[@julietshelley]

Can you give me advice Adam or another astrology student? I was in a friendship and then relationship with someone who I had a sun opposition Saturn composite chart - my sun, his Saturn. I didn’t appreciate what he was going through, the reality of his life and his struggles. He came to my place on October 4th and said he wanted to end our relationship. I was in shock. I am only now really understanding what happened and why and this video is helping with this and reading the book on Saturn by astrologer Liz Green. My friend and I haven’t spoken in nearly four weeks. I don’t know what to do to try to come to terms with my massive sense of loss and grief. He has not reached out since October 4th when he ‘finished’ our relationship. Can you give me any suggestions or advice about what I can do to try to deal with my broken heart as the sun part of the equation here? Thank you.

[@SWHardyn]

Oh the irony...Libra Sun in 1st square Aqua Saturn in 4th /opposite Leo Mars in 10th conjunct NN (exact degree) opposite/Saturn, Mars also square my Sun/Libra Mercury 12th trine Saturn...I did not meet my father until I was 19 and he died soon after. Raised 4 children and put through college on my own. Took care of Mom for 4 years untils she passed (family karma cleared) I am always the favorite at a party, but secretly cannot wait to get back to my rabbit hole. Thank God I stumbled into astrology. Saturn wins..definitely more giving than taking in this life, but I will not complain. 😊

[@saraheld-lz6jb]

I have Saturn Square Sun natal

[@KarinMYearwood]

My natal saturn sextiles my natal sun.

[@christinedecatus1489]

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[@venusrevive132]

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[@ramonexs9bm769]

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[@gorjanaelenairi]

Beautifully clarified💜

[@yelojazz6199]

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