the timboucher experience

Culled from Saturn, The Bogey Man:

Saturn is much more concerned with the growth of our soul, than he is with our personal comfort or ease. And so even with a “face-lift” Saturn still reflects where we find our greatest self-imposed fears and weaknesses. Saturn points to all the open sores and cherished old wounds where we feel vulnerable to attack. Saturn becomes our angry father eating up all our potential and creativity. We internally experience Saturn as an angry, judgmental parent who’s only more than glad to “eat our lunch” by pointing out and reminding us of all our many flaws and shortcomings.

…Saturn becomes that nastier side of Santa Claus who only rewards those children who can display superlative, perfect behavior - and so he leaves us a “sorry old miserable lump of coal” in our Christmas stocking, because we’ve been very, very bad this year.

…Saturn is also the point we most often avoid out of fear… Saturn is important and necessary because he provides each one of us with a much needed sense of conservation, structure, orderliness, and awareness of our limitations. Saturn provides us with the natural maturation process and growth of the soul.

…Saturn’s lighter face is the archetypal energy of the “Wise Old Man,” who has gained wisdom and insight through all the varied experiences and trials encountered through the living of a long life. As the “Wise Old Man,” Saturn helps us define ourselves through the process of limitation. (or better said - the process of elimination)

And, from santa’s origin (this is a really really good article):

The shaft or chimney through which Santa comes when invading the houses and the use of a bell gives a hint that he is announcing something deeply hidden. The motif of the chimney is also found in the chimneysweep, who, similar to Santa Claus, is seen as a bringer of good luck at New Year. But the flue also points to the celestial smith, Hephaistos/Vulcan, or the demiurges in the Ogygian cave of Saturn/Chronos, from which Satyr and Satan etymologically and astromythologically derive.

• Gettin’ to the bottom of it
• Santa sightings!
• Saturn in Cancer
• The hits just keep on coming
• Santa