Saturn is always the Teacher.
Saturn teaches through limitation, restriction, control over, restraint.
That is the lower aspect of Saturn.
Saturn is also the Teacher – the discipline, the instructor, the mentor, teaching the sacred mysteries.
Pisces is the Fish – it is also a sense of imprisonment.
All of it is a Teaching. Everything a Teacher.

A Story
The fish in the ocean gets captured & placed in a small fish bowl.
The fish, captured & imprisoned, looks out from a fish bowl it has been placed in….looking out into the vast ocean outside the fishbowl & wonders how did I, free before, ever end up here?
Seized, trapped, captured, imprisoned & placed into an ever increasing smaller & smaller fish bowl?
How was I caught & netted & captured & confined until my body is losing its autonomy & all I feel is repulsion?
How do I free myself

And she was a Teacher (Pisces) and one day
a man (Capricorn, an administrator for an organization
came to her asking for her time & for help, for
assistance & the Teacher offered it freely.
Having kindness & compassion for the man.
And they talked together & the Teacher supported the thoughts & ideas of the man as he shared his life, his past, his history, his relationships, hopes, wishes & dreams.
And the Teacher continued to listen & support & offer subtle suggestions to the man on how to be recognized & move more out in the world, to show his gifts & to over time, come to a state of true self identity.

But over that time something else happened.
Unbeknownst to the Teacher was a subtle net hovering nearby.
It may have been unbeknownst to the man, too, used to his own ways of being in the world – Capricorn, the administrator of organizations seeks to find people who can support his organization & his vision. Once he finds the “right” people to support his view of the world, there is a subtle “capturing”, a giving to those “right” people subtle jobs. Which the people, thinking they are helping the man, at first say yes. What it is is a subtle manipulation to get people to recognize, to agree, to work for, to support the reality the man has built around himself.

The man, Capricorn, makes up & creates lots & lots of jobs (which Capricorns can do, climbing the ladder as they always are doing, becoming adminstrators) because these “jobs” to be done support the organization, but really they support his sense of importance, which becomes over time a false sense of self identity.
And with those jobs created, the man then goes out & about around the world talking to people in order to find people who will listen to & support his vision for the organization & the many jobs he created.

Notice, the man doesn’t do the jobs. He creates the jobs & then hands them over to others who think they are supporting him.
The man then becomes the boss & the executive over these people whose jobs he has given them & over time what begins to the people as a way of supporting the man or organization – something else happens – subtly there are over time expectations, time restraints, disapproval, criticisms and judgments about when & how people are doing their jobs – jobs he has created to support his vision & jobs that are being done from the kindness of the hearts of the people who have assumed those jobs.

And so back to the Teacher.
Ever so subtly, as the Teacher offered suggestions to the man, he then began to also give her jobs to do. Jobs that would support the organization & the man himself. The Teacher, thinking this a good thing, to support the man, took on more & more of the jobs, given ever so subtly, until the Teacher found all of her time taken up with these “jobs”.

It was to be a fun & happy & cheerful presentation, but actually it soon became rigid with structures & time restraints, directives, controls, rules & expectations to be met.
The Teacher began to feel sad & no longer wanted to participate, but she had promised so she continued over months & months. And as the months unfolded, the structures & rules & expectations grew & grew until the feeling about this entire situation, the presentations, the man, became oppressive to the Pisces fish Teacher.

The Pisces Teacher realized she had been subtly caught – as had so many others who were participating in this man’s thought forms. People who didn’t realize they had been caught. Overall, when with these people who acquiesced to this man when speaking with this man….when with them a feeling of deep oppression, subjugation, repression & coercion began to be felt by the Teacher.

And the Teacher began to realize she was caught & realized she had to free herself & have the strength to release herself from what felt like a subtle captor & this captive state.

And to do that the Teacher had to experience the oppressions, to understand it, & begin to tell the truth to the man.

All of this, the understanding & realization that the Teacher had to be free took a long long time. A long long time for the Teacher to comprehend what had occurred. When one is caught in a web, in thought forms of another’s, a glamour & an illusion form – and it is very difficult to remove oneself from this. The “net” is very thick. It is first of all difficult to understand & see thru the fogs & miasmas of the situation.

The Teacher began to understand when she began to feel strangled & imprisoned, began to feel like a slave to what she had said yes to – captured by the glamours & illusions presented by the man (most likely unbeknownst by him) & also by those who believed in the man & the organization.

The organization (whose leader had actually died), in an effort to keep the organization going, was actually dissolving – and there was a ferocious effort to keep the organization going as it had when the original Teacher had been alive. But the result was simply a crystallization happening. From a living organism to a crystallized & structured organization.

The Teacher had a dream – that she was in a home with two others. They cleaned & cleared the house till it shone with a clean clear light. And then they went to see a Zen master teacher someone told them about. The Teacher (Pisces) was wearing lots of clothing & hiding inside her clothing was a necklace of an annulus (circle w/ an inner circle removed) made of stone. (a circle w/ a hole in the middle). As she sat with the zen master, somehow the necklace appeared out of her clothing. When the zen master saw the annulus shape, he was shocked, fell back, and said in an astonished voice – “You’re a Teacher!” He then jumped up and disappeared.

Over time, the Teacher realized she had to withdraw herself from this situation. And as she had to withdraw herself from another’s thought forms, hopes, wishes & dreams, so did the man have to withdraw himself from his own glamours & illusion & step out of the fog into a true identity of himself & into the Light of Day.

The picture the Teacher wanted to present to the man was this.
Disengage from your activities with the organization.
You have been an executive to every spiritual organization on earth. That work is over & that work is complete.
You must now stand free.
And because you are a Capricorn, you must begin to climb the real Capricorn mountain. Get good shoes for the long arduous climb and use all your tenacity and strategies to climb the rocky cliffs of the mountain of Capricorn till you reach the top. There you are to stand in the Light of the Sun. Then all your work in the world will have been understood and you will stand in the light and realization of your next job description – that of an Initiation.

Maybe to be continued.

Today, Monday, December 4, 2023.
Virgo moon – order & organization preparing for the season ahead.
Sagittarius Sun & Mars – what journey, what path shall we take next?
Venus enters Scorpio – the snake sheds his skin – stands blinded in the transition till the new shiny golden skin is formed.
Venus in Scorpio – eliminating all possessions & realities that are no longer helpful or needed.
Our first Monday of Advent.
love, Risa

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