Sun opposed to Saturn

Limitations and restrictions may occur on opportunities and experiences, often

created by unresolved emotional patterns. The source of these may be sentimental
attachments to the past, to memories, to experiences, and to earlier relationships.
You find it difficult to break free from the past; and previous experiences will
influence present choices and attitudes. You may have grown up with a negative
self-image, one which lessens self-confidence and also shapes restrictive
worldviews. This may come from unsettling and disturbing childhood experiences.
Perhaps you put up protective barriers to defend vulnerable feelings from damage;
you may have believed you were not loved by your parents, or you were left with
just one parent through separation, divorce, or death. Issues of emotional
dependency may have grown, and a mother- or father-complex formed. You tend toward
pessimistic attitudes, linked to a reduced physical vitality, emotional moodiness,
melancholic dissatisfaction, and depression. Lacking self-confidence and perhaps
seeing the world as a harsh, loveless place, you may feel bitter and cynical. Your
family life may turn into an imprisoning environment in some way, perhaps through
children, economic hardship, or social isolation. You maintain tensions and
frustrations by refusing to release behaviour patterns formed during childhood and
within your parental relationship. It is your choice, if you wish, to continue
limiting your life, but it is not inevitable; limitations are only imaginary
parameters which we draw around ourselves as a barrier; they can be erased or
expanded. Your creativity is blocked by emotional repression. If you dissolve the
barrier and redirect the energies toward positive and constructive channels, then
much could be achieved. Finding additional interests and stimulation would be
beneficial, showing that the world has much to offer if you open to its riches.
Becoming involved with children could reveal new ways to see things; their
enthusiasms and sense of wonder could be transmitted to you. With contemporary
self-help techniques, visualization, meditation, affirmation, and the availability
of numerous ways to release blocked energies, you can transform your life to face
the future with positivist and optimism. Once freed from past restrictions, you can
uncover your latent potential.

Sun square Moon

What people who were born with Sun square Moon in their natal charts want and what
they need are in conflict. The Sun square Moon aspect is similar to the Sun
opposition Moon aspect in this sense, but there are very notable differences.
Whereas the struggle between wants and needs is mostly played out on the inside and
through significant relationships with Sun opposition Moon people, Sun square Moon
people tend to confront obstacles that come from the outside. In truth, the
struggle is within, as it is a case of being �one�s own worst enemy�. There can be
a tendency to attract challenging situations into the life as an unconscious
attempt to recreate the tension of early childhood. As well, specific habits and
attitudes can hamper their progress in life.
These people generally have a need to achieve and accomplish something important,
and they act out their internal struggle along the way. For whatever reason, these
people didn�t feel needed or accepted. The clash between their parents or parent
figures, if indeed there was one, made them feel unaccepted for who they were, and
there can be a very real drive to prove themselves to the world (and/or to the
parents). The parents may not have simply been opposite personalities, as is the
case with Sun opposition Moon. It is more likely that their relationship was a
continual struggle. Sun square Moon individuals internalized the tension in the
cosmic air that they were born into, and felt out of place as a result. In some
cases, they literally felt unwanted by one or both parents. Even if the parents
didn�t clash, the early life was likely to have been over-stimulating and tense,
causing the child to feel insecure.
These people experience a struggle between their need for nurture and their need
for independence. When they get the autonomy that they seem to crave, they feel
unsupported by others. When they receive the support they crave, they feel
smothered. This internal clash is most apparent in the relationships they form,
especially in the first half of their lives when they may not be aware of these
patterns. Confrontations and challenges are frequent�not just with romantic
partners, but also on the job, with friends, and so forth. However, these people
have a lot of drive and spunk. They are resilient creatures who have faced conflict
and who have survived it. Although they face a struggle with fluctuating energy,
they are motivated to accomplish something. Ideally, they learn through experience
to accomplish something for themselves rather than to prove their worth to others.

Moon conjunct Neptune

There�s no shortage of imagination when the Moon is in conjunction to Neptune in
the natal chart. How this quality is used depends greatly on the other aspects to
this conjunction and the natives� level of maturity. In a difficult chart, over-
sensitivity, dependency, self-pity, irresponsibility, escapism, and irrational
fears are possible. However, most people with this aspect do not display all or
even most of these traits for prolonged periods.
There is a powerful need for a creative outlet for their imaginations. Intuitive
and dreamy, these people �feed� on inspiration. They want to connect to something
higher than themselves�to rise above the mundane. The idealism of this position is
tremendous, but it also opens them up to some serious let-downs. These people grab
onto some fantasy, feeling, or inspiration and it takes them so very high, that
when reality hits, they fall down hard.
Sensitive to a fault, they live in the world of feelings. They just as easily feel
ecstatic as they do pained by life, although these processes are very much private
matters that are not usually apparent on the surface of things. They want to
believe that people are honest, kind, refined, and good-hearted, and they will pick
up any small indication that this could be true. In other words, they find the good
in people as much as possible. They are very accepting, and generally make those
close to them feel quite free. However, the closer you are to these people, the
more you will realize that it can be very easy to burst their bubbles. Emotionally,
they can be hard to pin down. They rarely categorize people, and they have a hard
time making definite statements or commitments. They do most anything to avoid
hurting a loved one�s feelings.
People with this aspect generally need a fair amount of �down time�, as they are
very sensitive to all of the mixed energies of any given milieu. Stress is not
something they handle well, and their usual response to difficult situations is
escapism.
Emotional nourishment is constantly sought, and these people find it difficult to
satisfy their emotional longings. The expression �divine discontent� applies here.
Creative outlets help tremendously.

Saturn square Neptune

The square indicates inner tensions and frustrations, and it is likely that Neptune
will be inhibited from true realisation and will be bound within the unconscious
mind by the barrier-forming restrictions of Saturn. This will cause Neptune to be
agitatory, stimulating unconscious fears, anxieties, phobias, morbidity and guilt
feelings arising from an overactive imagination which lacks suitable channels for a
more healthy release. The consequences of this inner pressure and disquiet tend to
create feelings of inadequacy, incompetence and inferiority. These may be quite
illusory and unrealistic, yet they have a powerful influence on your actions and
choices. As time passes and you perpetuate these tendencies, you continue to create
negative results, which convinces you that such inferiority beliefs are actually
true. You become a self-defeatist, and lack confidence in your own abilities. This
negativity can spread until you begin to run away from accepting responsibility or
challenges. Denial of any aspect leads to its suppression into the unconscious
mind, where it is likely to fester, slowly releasing poisons into the personality
within the appropriate level of natural affinity, distorting body, emotions or
mind. Such a forced cutting away of part of your nature is never wise, and is as
foolish as cutting away an arm because there may be an unsightly mole on it. In
accepting your own nature, self-forgiveness is required, and a refusal to compare
yourself to any illusory ideal of perfection. Why feel guilty because you are not
like an ideal? You never can be, and your real task is just to become yourself,
warts and all; and coming to terms with that is a great freedom and liberation in
itself. Face those fears of failure. Talents are there within you; they are just
hiding out of sight. Find that pot of gold around the corner, and perhaps with a
bit of support from others you'll learn how to really use it. All of those inner
illusions, guilt trips, inferiority complexes and phobias can dissipate like
chimeras in the sky. The self-imposed barriers of Saturn will collapse, and Neptune
will flow through, healing you and inspiring you to find a new way