The slow process of returning to natal Saturn begins in rereading a “sleeper, word-of-mouth” book which gradually found its way to the bestseller list five years after it was published. Initially it received a single review by Phyllis Theroux for The Washington Post, landing it on a D.C. bestseller list. The reread connects locales of personal note: 1970s suburban Maryland (teenager when it was published), Willard’s doctoral alma mater (late 1980s recommendation via member of First Unitarian Society), and the specific town mentioned in first chapter of Becoming Dallas Willard which is located (relatively speaking) a short distance from first Saturn Return’s retreat from aforementioned place and—unknowingly at the time—proximate to paternal kin. Twenty years ago a public-use photocopier at Walmart there aided in relocation to this city of books where, twenty years hence—and still here—because of his connection with Laubach and literacy winded (only) last year to learning about Willard.
This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult—once we truly understand and accept it—then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.
—M. Scott Peck
New natal long-term aspects:
Saturn opposite natal Sun (February 20–beginning of December)
Jupiter square natal Jupiter (February 21–end of October)
Saturn ingress Aquarius (Saturday, March 21st, 23:58 EDT)
Image: Possible development from capitulum to contemporary paragraph symbol via Wikimedia, public domain.