Saturn in Transit: Boundaries of Mind, Body, and Soul

by Erin Sullivan

Drawing on classical myth, and the work of C. G. Jung and Joseph Campbell, the author examines Saturn's useful and developmental influence in our lives, and the manifestation of the astrological symbols in the individual and collective unconscious.

Genres: Astrology, Spirituality, Reference

304 pages, Paperback

First published September 3, 1991

About the author

Erin Sullivan is a Senior Lecturer at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, where she works on the experience of emotion in and through Shakespeare's plays. She is the author of Beyond Melancholy: Sadness and Selfhood in Renaissance England (2016), and the co-editor of The Renaissance of Emotion: Understanding Affect in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (2015) and Shakespeare on the Global Stage: Performance and Festivity in the Olympic Year (2015). She is currently working on a book about digital technology and Shakespearean performance.

Reviews

[Erin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Informative, illuminating, inspiring! I really love how she integrates developmental psychology with the saturn cycle, and makes mention of the nodal and lunation cycles, the uranus cycle, and gives a clear understanding of where they all fit in, and how they work together over the course of one lifetime to manifest growth and transformation.
I read this during the current Saturn retrograde in Scorpio, which is now conjunct my natal S.Node/Pluto conjunction, only a few months away from my first progressed lunar return and second nodal opposition, only two years from my first Saturn return! It was such a relief to find exactly what I've been experiencing described in this book. Read this in conjunction with Liz Greene's "Saturn: A new look at an old devil"!

[Don · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book revolutionized my view of Saturn cycles, which had up to that point been limited to the Saturn returns and transits. Sullivan outlines the whole cycle of Saturn through the natal chart, and I was able to get some astonishing insights into my (then-)current situation by simply going back approx. 29.5 years to when Saturn was in that position last time, and remembering what I was going through then. (This was when Saturn was transiting my midheaven and going into the 10th house, and it coincided with some very frustrating work-related problems, such as losing my "own" private office and being sent to an office shared with two others.)

[Taylor Ellwood · Rating 5 out of 5]

I bought this book on the recommendation of a friend and I’m glad I did because it provided some excellent insights into Saturn in transit and how Saturn as an astrological influence works. It also helped me plan some of my planetary magic in further depth so that I could use Saturnian influences more effectively. I highly recommend this book if you want to understand the astrological and magical potential of Saturn.

[Morag Stevenson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book along with Liz Greene's book on the same planète are never totally 'read'. They remain well thumbed, underlined, annotated reference books.

[Shelley · Rating 5 out of 5]

With Saturn currently making it's way through the sky I wanted to read about it's symbolism and core aspects. I thoroughly enjoyed this book--very informative with case studies, mythological analogies and expert experience in the field of astrology. I learned a lot.

[Heather]

I thought this book did a great job illuminating Saturn's impact without getting bogged down in too much detail.

[Susan · Rating 1 out of 5]

channelling Liz Greene.