Okay first of all how is "Astrology" not a blog category on here??? Weird!

Secondly I know there are astrology buffs out there who want to help me with this one! Somebody please explain to me what the significance is of having my Saturn Return in Libra (which I've been researching) but more importantly, having it during THIS particular time! What was I thinking when I planned this lifetime??? Also, why is this transit lasting for 3 years instead of 2 (until October 2012, they say)?

I guess the *good* thing is that this isn't coming as any sort of surprise for me, since I've already been going through massive internal and external change since the beginning of 2007 (I changed a lot before that too, but it wasn't conscious). I've already gotten rid of tons of ties and previously held judgments and other attachments. I'm not totally done with the process I'm realizing, and I'm sure Saturn will take care of that... that's what I'm thinking, there still might be some big things that need release that I'm still taking for granted as "the way things have to be" - or - this is going to be primarily a huge building stage of my life, since a lot of the deconstruction has already happened. And, undoubtedly anything I start to build will be tied in with the efforts of the greater energy changes and plans for the world at large. I'm kind of excited actually! Please tell me Saturn Return doesn't have to be horrible and scary...

I got 15 minutes of Reiki today from this really good guy and that helped loosen some major blocks. I'm not sure why Karen Bishop and some other channelers say that we are moving beyond healing (the need for it and the need to practice it). I wonder if still wanting healing makes me less 'evolved' or something. Boo. Then again I also disagree with her when she says that as we move up in vibration, the leftover dense parts of us that haven't been transmuted yet just go "dormant" because there's nothing around us to trigger them... that sounds like grade-A baloney to me. I know we're raising our vibrations, but we're also grounding ourselves down into physicality. We NEED a certain degree of density to be physical, right? Maybe density isn't a negative? I am suddenly starting to see this from a different angle. Hmmm.

Also I will say, I think it's really cool how as this process goes on, I become so much more sensitive to feeling energies and such. A friend of mine tried Reiki on me in June (my second time, today was the third) and I felt it SO much more clearly when he was doing it today than when she tried it. It could be that he's just more experienced or whatever, but I do think it has something to do with increased ability to notice and work with energy, which I do all the time when meditating or just going about my life. I know there are those of you who've consciously had these abilities for decades, well, I'm still learning and I think it's crazy cool!