Saturn Transits 2012-2015

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Saturn is now transiting your solar seventh house. Significant relationships with others are the focus, as well as the mirror relationships with others provides into your own personality. Saturn motivates us to do "spring cleaning" in the areas of life he touches, and one-to-one relationships will need to be considered and understood during this transit. Relationship tests are likely. Saturn looks for any weak links and exposes them. Either you have to let go of relationships built on weak foundations, or work on strengthening them.
This is a cycle in which you need to define, understand, and crystallize your significant relationships with others. If you already have a partner, this is a time when any issues surrounding compromise, flexibility, and the ability to give your heart to your partner will surface. Initial frustration can take the form of feeling criticized and "examined" in this area of life. By the end of the transit, however, you will have learned much about commitment and compromise. The amount of satisfaction you are deriving from your relationship, the quality of the relationship itself, and how you view your partner are all things that you are examining now. Disillusionment is a possibility, as you are seeing your relationship without rose-colored glasses now. I am tempted to say you are now seeing your relationship for what it is, which is true in a sense, but do remember that flaws are very much in focus, and your perspective may be skewed a little towards the negative before you reach a more balanced and realistic point.
For those of you who are single, the initial pressures of Saturn transiting the seventh house can create a feeling of loneliness. You might feel a void in your life now, and ache for a true equal in a partner. Although this is possible in either situation (whether you have a significant partnership or not), instead of an issue of re-committing, you will be examining your need for partnership. If involved in a casual love relationship, when Saturn transits the seventh, you might feel an urge (or pressure) to make a commitment or a re-definition of your bond.
Healthy partnerships can be the outcome, whether they are new ones or strengthened existing partnerships. Saturn always brings with him a fair measure of reality and objectivity, so that whatever relationships you have will be defined and re-defined. Relationships are seen now as serious things. Partners are no longer "fun and games" or simply mirrors of you

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. Responsibilities to partners, the need to compromise, and the realities of the needs of others, become clear. You are forced to begin seeing others as individuals, and to improve the manner in which you relate to and with others. Some of you will be leaving partnerships behind, and others will be making a commitment.
Depending on your age and life circumstances, "significant partnerships" can mean partnerships with loved ones, business partnerships, and even deep friendships. You might begin to view casual friendships as superficial and unsatisfying, and want more. Essentially, quantity (in the relationship department) is replaced with quality, and this process involves time, soul-searching, frustration, and, ideally, eventual fulfillment.
You might also find less time for socializing during this cycle, perhaps due to relationship stresses, but also because you are more serious than usual about your interpersonal relationships and have a hard time swallowing superficiality.
As this transit progresses, you are likely to discover your true needs from partnerships, as well as what you can realistically give to a partner.
At some point while Saturn moves through the sign of Scorpio, Saturn will oppose your Sun (or Ascendant). You might encounter opposition or resistance to your personal plans and goals, which forces you to re-evaluate your current projects or commitments. Some might need to be left behind. A maturation process is now in progress, and although this might not be immediately clear, changes you make now will make your life simpler, easier, and healthier later on.
During this cycle, dear Taurus, be sure to identify and "own" the role that you play in your relationships. Face complex emotions in your relationships without glossing over them or dismissing them as "not your problem". Be fearless when facing the roots of any problems that emerge now.