Eagle Eye on the Move
Astrology articles by Laura Lee Gabelsberg
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This summer’s Hurricane Beryl taught me some harsh lessons about starting over. Edna, a giant oak tree in our backyard collapsed exactly on top of our garage. It has been a difficult six months, temporarily setting up my husband’s home office in the cramped living room of our 1,100 square- foot house. This happened just two days after my youngest daughter’s nineteenth birthday and the ink was still wet on the tuition check to her university. I could do a whole piece just on Pluto’s three year dance over my descendant, but that’s not why I am here. I am here to welcome you to my new start, my first Substack. I am gradually returning to my astrology writing amidst this climate-induced life rearrangement.
For the past few months, I have been studying the period of life called the “astrological adolescence” with Alex Trenoweth. Trenoweth published a book on this topic that caught my attention a few years back called Growing Pains. Her book proved so valuable to me both as an astrologer and as a teacher/parent. When I saw she was offering her own astrology courses through her Rohini School, I was elated and jumped at the chance. I also finished up a book study undertaken with Brian Gray and some fellow 2022 graduates of New Astrology Emerging program.
This time period between the first Jupiter return at around age twelve and the final Saturn opposition around the age of fourteen is a literal gauntlet of human development. It is one most of us refer to as the dreaded “middle school,” or “junior high” years. Do you know anyone who wants to relive those years? I certainly don’t.
Growing Pains explained for me the idea of astrological cohorts in clear ways, specifically, Jupiter and Saturn groups and how teachers and parents could use them to better tune into the needs of young people. Jupiter changes sign about every year, and Saturn about every 2.5 years, giving clear cohorts of young people who share the same Jupiter and Saturn signs.
Teachers and parents have many opportunities to work out their own Jupiter and Saturn placements as authority figures by building stronger relationships with young people. Students have different ways of learning (symbolized by Jupiter) and different expectations and needs from their authority figures (symbolized by Saturn). As an added bonus, we can work with Jupiter and Saturn by sign without the need for a birth time. What I have found is that understanding my students’ Jupiter and Saturn helps me orient more quickly to my students at the beginning of a school year, identifying students who will need my extra attention. There are also some very interesting observations to be made when working with a class about the retrograde patterns with Mercury and the Moon as well. Students with certain retrogrades in their natal chart, clearly stand out in their cohorts.
I have been taking in depth look at Riley Keough, granddaughter of Elvis, and the astrological adolescence for the entire Elvis Presley family lineage and what I have learned I think astrologers will be interested in. Riley’s recent release of her mother’s memoirs informed some of the background work. So, please look for that article soon.
Lifting Astrology Up while Bringing it Down to Earth
Astrology tends to take its adherents way out into the cosmos sifting the movements of the planets and stars like grains of sand. When really, we could ask more practical and more personally relevant questions that improve life. For the Presley family of course this touches on fame and addiction. But society and individuals need serious solutions to our real problems in the day to day more than we need additional zealots. Because of that, I try to let the eagle take me higher, but bring the insight back down to earth by asking, “How can we apply what we learn from astrology to make life better?” Or, in a specific reading, “How can I help this person make better use of this specific time and place they find themselves in?”
I hope through conversations we can hone in on timely, thought-provoking questions that lead to the betterment of life. I think astrology has great potential to help people ask those questions and see through each others’ lenses more clearly, making us all eagle eyes.
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