Surviving 30: Waking Up to Your True Self Through Your Satur...

Surviving 30: Waking Up to Your True Self Through Your Saturn Return

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No matter how fast you run, your shadow keeps up. Sometimes it’s in front! Only full overhead sun diminishes your shadow. But that shadow has been serving you. What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest. – Rumi

Karen Hawkwood • Surviving 30: Waking Up to Your True Self Through Your Saturn Return

when you can find the expression of your guiding principles and a receptive set of shared visionaries to work with you, it will bring you a level of satisfaction nothing else ever would.

Karen Hawkwood • Surviving 30: Waking Up to Your True Self Through Your Saturn Return

it’s so very important for you to follow your own direction and not just be ‘part of the herd’.

Karen Hawkwood • Surviving 30: Waking Up to Your True Self Through Your Saturn Return

Remember that all true change across human history has balanced a vision of what is possible in the future with the inconvenient reality of imperfect human nature, and make a place for both. When you struggle – when the group rejects your ideas, or you can’t find a group that welcomes you, or when you either become obsessed by your beliefs or lose

Karen Hawkwood • Surviving 30: Waking Up to Your True Self Through Your Saturn Return

Keep questioning your beliefs, your values, what inspires you, and keep risking those values by sharing them rather than keeping them close out of fear of rejection. Reach higher and broader, be willing to take risks, remember that the most progressive ideas are always the most threatening, and that the point is to have the courage of your convicti

Karen Hawkwood • Surviving 30: Waking Up to Your True Self Through Your Saturn Return

That sense of rightness to your own ideas, finding what comes authentically from your own perceptions yet remains flexible enough to share and integrate with a group of common-minded people, is the thing you have to earn.

Karen Hawkwood • Surviving 30: Waking Up to Your True Self Through Your Saturn Return

The reformist nature of Aquarius is also associated with a willingness to rebel, break the rules, or diverge from the mainstream, so if you’ve had a tendency to do whatever will shock people or continue to make choices just because they’re different from most people’s, you’re over-doing your Saturn.