Each decade, from an Astrological viewpoint, brings certain challenges and opportunities. I will outline some issues here that are common to all, yet I must emphasize that specific information will be found in your own Birthchart, based upon your date, time and place of birth, which cannot be conveyed in a more general article of this nature.
Your Birth Chart
Your Birthchart, when accurately set up and properly interpreted will be a useful guide through your life's journey, serving to remind you of your “Original Script” and offering insight into many of your life’s conundrums and complexities.
It can also give clues about other/previous lives and the Karmic balance resulting from those experiences. A summary of efforts made in those other incarnations, lessons learned, or stages skipped... and a reminder of what you could do now, here, in this lifetime. Your natal chart will help you understand better these fundamental questions.
Your natal chart can also describe your parents and your experience of family life, the people who have most affected you and who have had an enormous bearing on your life. The main protagonists will stand out in your chart.
Age 50 - 51
At age 50-51 we experience the Chiron Return – Chiron, a small planet with a most eccentric orbit of 50-51 years around our local star, the Sun, is known as the Wounded Healer. The Centaur, Chiron, half brother to Zeus (so the story goes) became a wise guide, healer, herbalist, astrologer. Though wounded in the thigh by an arrow of Hercules, and often in pain, he developed compassion for others – because of that very pain, and this is the key to understanding Chiron in the Birthchart.
If you now are aged 50-51, you have natal Chiron in Aquarius, where the pain felt, and the healing sought, is within the “Body” of society in general – healing for Humanity, the search for true Friendship, and the heartfelt desire that the deepest Wisdom will flow from the Aquarian Waterpot for the benefit of all.
All of us will experience “Chironic” issues connected with healing in some form or other at this age, more specifically according to Chiron’ Sign, House, and Aspects in the Natal Chart. Your specific skills and talents, especially those developed in the divinatory and healing arts are likely to be more obvious around this time – both to yourself and to others.
Age 52-53
At 52 and 53, Saturn and Jupiter transits indicate that you are yet making efforts to fulfil your responsibilities, and to further define your role within the society within which you live and function. Your reputation within your chosen field begins to “crystallise”, though it is possible to abandon unproductive directions and develop new approaches.
Age 53-56
The period from age 53 to 56, with helpful Uranus and Neptune transits, is the ideal time to contemplate the Eternal Realities behind and beyond our physical existence (if you have not done so already) ... and if you are reading this the chances are that you are more than a little aware of the importance of the Inner Life. Esoteric studies, deeper considerations, become more significant around this time.
Age 56
Around 56 we become more aware of the limits of our power and the need to have wisdom about releasing, letting go of obsessions (particularly relevant for the Pluto in Leo Generation – born 1937 to 1958). A younger generation is making its claims – the issue of preparing to hand over the reins will surface here.
Age 59 - 60
At 59 to 60 we all experience the Saturn Return – Saturn having completed its second complete circuit of your Natal Chart. The first Saturn Return was at 29-30 – a time of “growing up” as you (reluctantly?) left your twenties behind. This time the issues again are those of maturity, experience, a gathering realisation of what you have achieved and what is “yours” in terms of accomplishment and achievement; also an acknowledgement of that which you have not achieved.
You have, in a sense “made yourself” what you have become. As an “Elder” and on the threshold of old age, you possess considerable experience and wisdom. Though we may retain strength and vigour well beyond this time, the necessity is to work towards an understanding of the Inner Worlds, study the map, welcome the End which is also a Beginning.
Source: Astrologer David Matthews, www.giddylimits.co.uk
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