PlatKat.com: My Last Day of Being 26

Thursday, November 29, 2007

My Last Day of Being 26

This year was kind of a trainwreck, but I'm sure some sick part of me is going to miss it. I liked being 26. It was a comfortable age in most cases—I was old enough to sound well-rounded and important in job interviews, but young enough to be cute and realistically naive sometimes.

Now I'm beginning the onset of this:

The Saturn return is an astrological phenomenon that occurs in a person's life at approximately 27–30 years of age and again around the age of 58–60, with the third and usually final occurrence around 86–88. The planet Saturn takes approximately 29.5 years to orbit the Sun; when it returns to the exact degree along the ecliptic it occupied at the time of a person's birth this is referred to as their "Saturn Return".

Saturn is symbolically/astrologically associated with time, challenge, fear, doubt, confusion, difficulty, seriousness, heaviness, and hard lessons, among other more positive things such as structure, significance, accomplishment, reflection, power, prestige, maturity, and order – this is why astrologers believe that the thirtieth birthday is such a major rite of passage and is considered by many astrologers to mark the "true beginning" of adulthood, self-evaluation, independence, responsibility, ambition, and full maturation.

I'm not a huge believer in astrology, but if the shoe fits...

posted by platkat @ 4:46 PM