The Mystic Marriage of Astrology’s Odd Couple

When a transiting aspect occurs between two outer planets, quite often it will happen several times over a period of months or even years, and though we will feel its effect each time the aspect is exact, astrologers tend to consider the last aspect in the series as the most effective and the most noticeable. On January 31, 2019, the first of three sextile aspects formed between Saturn and Neptune, and a second occurred on June 18. Next month, on November 8, the final exact sextile will take place at 9:45 p.m. EST (10:45 p.m. EDT), at 16°01 Capricorn/Pisces. This is an interesting event, because if you asked a group of astrologers which two planets were the least compatible, Saturn and Neptune would be right at the top of most lists.

This is not surprising, as Saturn can be a dour planet, one that is focused too much on the serious side of life, spending so much time fussing about facts and details that at his most intense he can leave us melancholy and withdrawn. Neptune tends to get lost in a fantasy world that consists only of her own imagination, and may have little basis in what the rest of the world considers reality. Neptune on her own can, in other words, find it hard to separate fact from fiction. The sextile aspect is generally