RED WHEEL/WEISER

from the bowels of the earth

This Saturn opposite Saturn cycle sets the tone for the next cycle at forty-five. The experiences that a young person has in relation to his or her parents during this testing-period will have much to do with what the mid-life struggle will be about. Since we have identified Saturn as both the inner sense of personal dimensions, limits and boundaries as well as the externally imposed definitions, the struggle that occurs at the opposition is something of a threshold struggle.

Though teenagers may appear inarticulate to their parents and other adults, they are eloquent with each other in their exploration of the unknown.