Happy Return(s)?

I'm fascinated by my recent discovery of "Saturn Returns". I had heard the term a couple of times before during various astronomy readings and courses I've attended... but it never quite hit me that it was as powerful as I'm beginning to understand it is.

The all-knowing Wikipedia defines a Saturn Return as:

a regular astronomical occurrence relevant to the science of astrology to occur in a person's life at approximately 27–30 years of age and again around the age of 58–60, with the third and usually final occurrence around 86-88. The planet Saturn takes approximately 29.5 years to orbit the Sun; when it returns to the exact degree along the ecliptic it occupied at the time of a person's birth this is referred to as their "Saturn Return".

And it sure does explain some big changes in the lives of the people that I know. For one, I keep making fun of my husband's rather exciting 3 years (spanning 27-30 wouldn't you know)... He got up the courage to leave a toxic marriage, met me, married me and changed his job (twice) during his Saturn return. A lot of big changes in a small amount of time. And he's never been happier!

I am slowly (or not so slowly) approaching my Saturn return and already I feel the changes on the horizon. My parents are also approaching their Saturn returns. Will be interesting to see how that manifests.

The more I read, the more I'm beginning to understand the power of this marker. Through discussions with my father, who is "cracking the code to the universe" and attempting to understand the symphony of the spheres, I've come to believe that the planets really do affect us more than we will admit.

BUT - I wonder how a specific location of Saturn could affect us. If it has nothing to do with proximity, could it have something to do with frequency? Is the "sound" of Saturn at a particular angle or position meant to trigger some internal alarm clock? It would be interesting if it were indeed some kind of cosmic trigger... So that just in case you were completely ignoring your true calling and your heart's desire, Saturn comes around and kicks your ass back into the flow of your true purpose.

Please do comment if you know more about this. I'm very interested to hear how (and if) Saturn kicked your ass.

Who were you?

Are you your great uncle reincarnated? No? Well I know someone who probably is his great uncle reincarnated. He was born with an inordinate amount of information about someone who had never existed in his life. His first experience of knowing this was when he first met his great aunt when he was young. She remarked at how much he resembled her late husband. And as she stroked his hair he began to tell her bits of information about this man he had never known. He described the street he lived on, strange oddities about his personality and nicknames that people used for him.

And, like many other children who talk about things that adults can't make sense of, he was promptly told to "stop it". He never spoke about such things again - but always remained drawn to pictures of his great uncle.

Can I say hands down that he is the reincarnation of that man? No, but I can say it sounds about right.

When my friend passed, I had a very nice chat with him via a very talented medium. He told me of his plans to reincarnate into the family he had just left. It validated the notion that we never really stray very far from family.

When I was young I had a very strong sense about some of my friends - like I had always known them. Like they were traveling with me.

And sure enough, I think we choose a lot of things about our rebirth - the wheres, hows and whos... I think we often reincarnate back into our 'circle' (as wide as that may be). I do not doubt that they are our circle on the other side as well. Like a (dare I say it) soul group of sorts.

How would that work? In that great big world - how would I recognize you from our last life together? Easy. Harmonics. (See my earlier post on this) From life to life you're probably singing the same tune - and a good friend would know that song from a mile away.

I was at a lovely family gathering yesterday, a celebration of my recent wedding... And as the old family photos got pulled out - grandparents who've passed, great aunts and uncles on the walls, I looked to the new baby in the room and wondered...

Here's a little laugh for those of you non-believers:

Harmony

I'm sure there are few of us who have never experienced a loathing of a stranger. Maybe it's something about their face or their smell or the fact that they smoke, or they're bad parents or whatever it is... The fact is that we make judgments from time to time, randomly and unprovoked. But I had a far more interesting experience recently.

I met a girl who I really could not bring myself to like, despite the fact that she was very pretty, nice enough.. On the surface there was nothing to dislike. And yet, her very presence made my skin crawl. How? Why?

I found myself later describing the experience to my man. And as I did, the words fell out of me. I used a metaphor to describe it. That it was like I was one note and she was another - and we just didn't... Sing together.

I later thought more about this odd metaphor and the implications if what I had said were true.

What if.

What if that energy coursing through our veins (the stuff some call Chi) also carries a tune with it - a tune that vibrates away from us and around us - and our experience of meeting new people, going to new places is affected by this force field of sound? We're attracted to people and places that sing to us. We're likewise repelled by those whose notes don't gel with ours.

Could this extend even to a whole country carrying a note or perhaps a chord? What if the U.S. is a C chord and Iraq is a Dflat - there would always be tension there... or dissonance to use the musical term.

Could there be real truth to the notion of living in harmony with others?

Maybe it even extends to our love lives - and we're like those Happy Feet penguins - picking our mates by finding the one penguin whose 'heart song' matches ours. Aww...

Okay, but all animated sentimentalities aside...

I just think there might be something to it - my little theory. After all, lots of unexpected things have sounds... Like the Earth for instance.

And if we were.. "musical" then our lives might be subject to the laws of musical theory, namely: rhythm, harmony, melody, structure, and texture.

In time I might find some supporting science - but in the meantime... I just like the challenge of trying on new thoughts like this for size.