Watch Your Step

“Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth”

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

My father never reached the age of 64. He was already dead and buried going on 5-years. Mom, god bless her soul, is still going strong. She’s 94 and heading up to the funeral we are having tomorrow for my mother-in-law who died this past Monday at 85. I was my mother’s Saturn Return child.

My mother’s father died when I was born, her Saturn Return. My father died when I was divorced from my first wife, my Saturn Return. On mom’s third Saturn Return she had a triple bypass, and I had a kidney removed, it was my second Saturn Return. So, we’ve been in synch with each other our entire lives This is such a common observation among families, that transits echo one another, it has become borderline cliché. But at the same time the synchronicity is definitely fascinating when it is first discovered.

Mom was an avid golfer like her own parents and made it out to the links every chance she got. But it was probably very close to her second Saturn Return that she awkwardly stepped out of a cab at the airport in Miami, caught her foot between her luggage and the curb, and fell onto the the sidewalk. She severely broke her shin bone and required surgery. The accident slowed her down, but it didn’t stop her.

34-years, and one last Saturn Return later, she’s still here, teaching by her example the qualities of Time, perseverance, and wisdom.

HVA

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