Beyond Midlife

Introduction

Dear reader,

this horoscope for the second half of your life is a special opportunity to look into your past, your present and your future. Whatever your current age, you will be able to examine the themes currently most prevalent in your life and, looking back on earlier years, understand the course of events that has led you to this point. At the same time, you can look ahead and get a sense for future developments in order to orient yourself accordingly and adjust your plans and decisions to what is to come.

The ups and downs of life will sometimes present you with challenges that appear contradictory and are not always easy to reconcile with one another. Should you sometimes get the impression that the texts about certain life stages don’t quite match up with each other, you can take it as a sign that you might be particularly beleaguered by antagonistic interests and parts of yourself during the time in question.

Psychological astrology does not work as a preventative for actual experience. Regardless of what exciting and challenging themes defined your past and which ones still lie ahead, astrological readings aim for self-knowledge and awareness, not for avoidance of life. If you get the sense of having missed out on something when reading about past life themes, it doesn’t mean that you've done something wrong. Life doesn't have a reverse gear. What matters are the lessons and conclusions you draw from your past to serve your future. The descriptions of future constellations do not contain a determined plan either, rather, it's your personal responsibility to work with them in whatever way you see fit.

The texts in your horoscope "Beyond Midlife" are meant to encourage biographical self-reflection. I hope you will allow them to stimulate, enrich, and surprise you. Personally, writing this analysis made me look forward to getting older while deepening and expanding my understanding of essential connections in the big picture of life. It is my intention to pass this promethean and epimethean torch on to you as a source of inspiration.

With warm regards

Markus Jehle

Your Life Path Who You Are and What You Want to Bring to Life

Your character determines your personal fate. It influences your goals and decisions and defines the part of your life path that is subject to free will. By understanding more and more who you truly are, you can shape your fate according to your own desires. Your behavior doesn't always correspond to what defines your essence. The resulting conflicts and contradictions also hold the potential for you to become aware of your individuality and uniqueness. Astrology enables you to see yourself clearly, and to develop an increasingly better and all-encompassing understanding of your life.

Bringing Yourself to Life

Vitality and the courage to face life paired with pride and dignity is your brand. You have a playful nature and see your existence as a creative challenge. Inner authority is more important to you than external power. You want nothing less than to achieve total mastery of yourself. The path to get there is something akin to a hero's journey for you. You want to go through life as a unique and inimitable individual, experiencing special adventures often even in daily life. Your choices are to be an expression of your personality, and you place great value in an authentic lifestyle.

Your desire for recognition and validation cannot be overlooked. The sunny side of life is a particularly good stage for you to play the gallery. Your will is aimed towards greatness, and life is meant to offer you joy and fulfillment. Your warmhearted and generous nature will help you resonate positively with your fellow human beings in no time, even if you sometimes overestimate yourself and your effect on others. You can be very self-centered in some moments, which means that you don't always do right by the world around you.

Creating your own kingdom in which you can feel like the center of the universe strengthens your confidence. Thanks to your gift for centering yourself internally, you exude great charisma. By reflecting on your own immanent talents and confidently putting them to use, you will find precisely the audience that corresponds to you. You have impressive strengths that give you a special appeal. You can use this to create radiant works, and of course bask in their glow. So don't be shy about playing God and bringing yourself to life.

Into the Monastery

For you, coming into your own is about much more than who you are as an individual. You secretly yearn to merge into a mission of a higher order. You may also experience the desire to sacrifice yourself for the fulfillment of a great assignment. While you might become known or even famous outside of your own circle over the years, your personal fulfillment will still be found mainly in the realization of goals that don't only serve the interests of your own ego. You take yourself most seriously in areas where your individuality serves a higher purpose. You have a deep inner sense that in reality, it's much less about you than it is about the higher purpose you are here to serve, perhaps on an unconscious level.

It was probably not always easy for you to define your personality clearly. Sometimes you were under too many influences at once, which resulted in your individuality becoming blurred repeatedly. Still today, you are tempted to take on roles you are presented with by the outside world and play them like a chameleon. This means that you regularly run the risk of losing yourself, but you can still find fulfillment. What counts for you is not so much who you are, but what you can accomplish in this function.

The sense that at the end of the day it's really not about you may well lead to feelings of frustration as you age. You might get the impression that you are being ignored, as though you have been invisible or entirely nonexistent. This could be caused by your tendency to hide your light behind a bushel or stay behind the scenes instead of stepping out into the spotlight. In some ways, your personal concerns are not of this world - which gives your existence a spiritual dimension. Thus, in some ways your life takes place in a sort of monastery, whatever it may be called or look like. Coming to understand this is and will always be a central concern of your existence.

Great Service

Humility combined with pride and character has been your brand from an early age. You quickly developed a pronounced sense of confidence and liked to place it in the service of a cause close to your heart. In spite of your readiness to adapt and subordinate yourself if necessary, you wanted to feel important and do something big. From a young age, you had your pride and you understood how to make yourself useful in ways that would garner respect and personal recognition.

Moving through midlife, your analytical and self-critical nature helped you leave your mark and assert yourself more and more successfully. Your individual strengths and gifts became particularly evident due to your choice to specialize in an area where you could sharpen your profile and prove your mettle. It was your expert knowledge in particular that regularly provided you with the validation you desired. Still today, you can score points with your analytical abilities and help push through the issues that matter most to you with your pragmatic nature.

You have a vivacious and creative spirit that will come to the fore more and more clearly as you grow older. While you may have appeared rather controlled and withdrawn in the past, your growing maturity and life experience will see you express your heartening spontaneity and joie de vivre more and more freely. Instead of presenting yourself all too humbly, you assert your needs. Thus, you may still become quite popular in your old age without attracting unpleasant attention, and your typical mixture of confidence and reserve will continue to make you happy and satisfied for a long time to come.

Between 40 and 50: In the Middle of Life - Challenges and Opportunities

Perhaps you belong to a generation where life-changing twists of fate take place before or directly in the middle of your life. Disappointments, broken dreams and unfulfilled desires will ring in a period of time often described as mid-life crisis. The desire for freedom and individuality will now swell unexpectedly and may lead you to take dangerous risks and march to a different drummer beyond what you can actually handle. At the same time, your potential to come into your own reaches its peak and the resulting responsibilities will weigh heavy on your shoulders, leaving you less and less room to breathe. The middle of your life will show what you can achieve with your ambitions, but you may also hear a call for other, even higher purposes.

About year counting: From the moment you are born, you are in your first year of life. When you are one year old, your 2nd year of life begins. From the moment you turn 40, you are in the 41st year of your life.

The Impact of Your Talents

Pluto square Pluto: Mar. 2018 until Nov. 2020 37th to 40th year of life

So far, you've likely had little reason to doubt your plentiful supply of talents and resources when it came to putting the best of them to use. Similarly, in terms of money and finances you're used to having everything under control and keeping any fears of potential scarcity at bay. But now you are confronted with challenges where your tried and true patterns don't seem to be working anymore. The feeling of no longer being behind the wheel of certain processes goes hand in hand with a deep uncertainty about the nature of life, which may be different than you had imagined until now.

The adjustments you're currently living through are largely matters of fate. Clinging to your possessions and building on your previous self-confidence will not get you far in surmounting these new challenges. This time is essentially about recognizing what values you can truly build on. Even if you're currently forced to manage substantial losses that you never thought possible, you can prevent potential failure by recognizing which ones of your gifts and treasures really count. You are now partially dealing with forces outside of your sphere of influence. Understanding this and accepting it with humility will help you pass this life test successfully.

If you don't fully recognize yourself in this description, it could be because you have been unable to build up a stable sense of self-worth. Maybe you were made to feel like you weren't worth anything early on, or you were confronted with experiences of loss that asked more of you than you could bear. If this is the case, this phase of life is primarily about finding inner security and creating a robust foundation for your existence, emotionally as well as materially. By recognizing what has substance as well as sustainability, you will also have an easier time marketing your talents in the future.

The cause of the processes of transformation you are currently experiencing lies in your growing need for validation. You are no longer prepared to hide your light under a bushel, seeking greater interest in and attention on your personal concerns from others instead. By taking yourself seriously without becoming dependent on external validation, you can get the attention you desire without having to fear competition from others. You are now getting in touch with creative potentials that enable you to permanently come into your own.

By being careful to evaluate how meaningful your creations really are, you can save yourself and others a good deal of embarrassment. It's becoming very clear which of your gifts make you someone special. You can initiate a lot of changes with your newly awakened creativity and zest for life, even if your successes provoke jealousy and resistance in others. It's your creative productivity in particular that leads you to the breakthrough you have long yearned for. Enjoying this fully and with a growing passion makes this chapter of your life especially stimulating.

A Primal Trust in the Gods

Neptune square Neptune: Mar. 2021 until Jan. 2023 40th to 42nd year of life

Some of your dreams from the past are likely still with you - perhaps the fantasy of an idyllic home, a big happy family or perpetual inner peace. Maybe you wanted to found a homeless shelter or a charity for impoverished orphans, or to live out your days meditating in an ashram. The desire to fill your parental role to perfection may also have kept you going for many years. Whatever you once dreamed of, your early forties will reveal what was overlooked in these visions.

Perhaps you are realizing that up until now you have been leading the life your parents imagined for you. Because you could easily feel out the needs and wishes of those closest to you, you may have been more occupied with their well-being than with your own. The fact that you love offering your fellow human beings emotional support and security doesn't make things any easier. In this regard you may have reached a point of feeling used, or in extreme cases even deceived, or perhaps you are simply lacking the strength and energy to continue caring for others.

Your past approach to family matters may also reveal itself to be a big misconception, or your dream home may increasingly turn into a nightmare. So if your dreams and desires haven't come to fruition in the way you hoped they would, then this is your opportunity to learn from those disappointments in a way that you can build on in the future. Thus, this life phase may turn out to be a decidedly positive one with regards to your emotional and spiritual well-being. You might even come to experience the healing powers of what psychologists call "primal trust" for the first time.

The insecurity that presents such a big challenge in this life stage is rooted in your interpersonal relationships. Perhaps some people you trusted will turn out to be less reliable than you thought they were. In extreme cases you might even feel deceived or betrayed. Things may not be quite what they seem in your romantic relationship either, as is likely becoming apparent by your own growing sense of dissatisfaction. No matter what type of disappointments you now have to overcome in your various relationships, the most important thing is for you to maintain your trust in all those with good intentions towards you.

Maybe this period of your life sees you fall deeply and truly in love for the first time. People may enter your life who feel like soul mates, perhaps also on a platonic level. Your partner might also need additional support from you, or you are asked to make other sacrifices in the interpersonal realm. In addition to the fulfillment of your lofty ideals for love and relationships, you are also hoping for encounters that stimulate and inspire you in the creative sense. You may even be visited by a muse, whatever her name turns out to be.

Longing for New Prospects

prog. Moon in 9th house: Dec. 2020 until Mar. 2023 40th to 42nd year of life (with orb 1/6th of house size)

After a period of cleansing and purging your soul, you are now feeling a growing need to discover new horizons. You're now in a pioneering mood and ready to go on long journeys, particularly on an internal and spiritual level. Tending to new life prospects will now greatly contribute to your well-being.

You feel more drawn to art and culture than you may be used to. You long for moments that are special and sublime, and want to leave the worries of daily life far behind. The big questions of life, particularly the ones about the meaning and purpose of existence, are now getting under your skin. You desire answers that don't leave you in any doubt about why the world is the way it is.

Perhaps you will experience an urge to continue your education in an area of interest you haven't fully explored yet. You like thinking on a larger scale, and you come to many of your conclusions through pure intuition. You are attracted to the big picture, and understanding what life is really all about gives you great inner peace.

Savoring Life to its Fullest

prog. Moon in Taurus: Feb. 2021 until Mar. 2023 40th to 42nd year of life

After a phase of internal restlessness and activity you now long for more calm and stability. Your strong desire for safety is making you hit the internal breaks in order to curb your life's current momentum. What's most important to you now is taking up and following through with what you started in the last two years. You want to settle down internally and develop substance.

The joy you derive from lust, pleasure and sensuality will bestow you with a pleasant feeling of security in this life stage, particularly on the bodily level. It does you good to spend lots of time in nature and to rest spiritually and physically. Pure relaxation, that's your motto for increasing your internal well-being. You may even be a little sluggish and lazy, even if you're not at all accustomed to that.

It's entirely possible that you're clinging to possessions that no longer have any real use for you. Consumption is not always the right substitute for self-care. This life stage will demonstrate particularly well what you really need to have and own to feel good.

Symbiotic Relationships

Jupiter in 8th house: May 2022 until May 2023 41st to 42nd year of life

You currently have many opportunities to profit from your ties and utilize the resources you have developed from them. Next to concerns regarding marriage and inheritance, contracts and business deals will also develop favorably, and you are now quite good at drawing personal benefits from them. Furthermore, your readiness to engage with and trust your fellow human beings enables you to enter into promising new symbiotic relationships that will enrich your life and offer you happiness and fulfillment from now on.

You are experiencing a strong desire to confront your dark sides and to transform and be purified from within. Successfully overcoming crises and transformational processes will strengthen your faith in yourself and give you new prospects in life. You will now find meaning and fulfillment in getting to the bottom of repressed feelings and fixed ideas, detaching yourself from old allegiances that no longer serve your growth. Thanks to your positive attitude, you will now be able to master even deep-seated fears and blocks successfully.

Insights into the finite nature of existence will encourage you to make even painful changes and stand by your inner truths. It’s crucial, though, not to let your urge to clear your conscience become overwhelming, taxing yourself and your fellow human beings beyond everyone’s limits. You can now also see the positive side of experiences of loss, and whatever you leave behind will free up the path to new prospects for your life.

Committed Relationships

Saturn conjunction Descendant: Mar. 2024 43rd year of life

Submitting your interpersonal relationships to a rigorous review presents a necessary, though not always simple challenge during this phase of your life. It may well be that some of your friendships and acquaintances come to an end during this period and that you feel the time has come to part ways for good. Even if this sometimes pains you, it's still important for you to clearly differentiate between those relationships you want to maintain in the future and those you don't care to. The disappointments you experience now are particularly relevant for pointing out where a break is inevitable.

However, separations are not inevitable. Those relationships that have a solid foundation can deepen and solidify during this time. The processes of maturation that you have undergone in the past years may strengthen your wish to take on more responsibilities in your partnership. Maybe you avoided certain commitments in the past and only now feel internally prepared to engage on a deeper level. There is no more getting past the responsibilities required by loyal and reliable relationships. It will pay off to think in the long-term when making the decisions you are now faced with.

Should you have neglected to fulfill your obligations to any of your fellow human beings over the course of the last years, you are now confronted with the resulting consequences. It's very possible that you will encounter external limitations and be challenged to put all your cards on the table. Wherever there is an imbalance in giving and receiving, it's your responsibility to initiate a fair adjustment. Even if this is somewhat of an effort, you will profit from doing so. It's very important for you to use this period of your life to create the right conditions for your partnerships and other relationships so that they endure for the long term.

Maturity in Relationships 

Saturn in 7th house: Mar. 2024 until Mar. 2026 43rd to 45th year of life

Recognizing and accepting which among your relationships you have outgrown over the years now demands a good deal of effort on your part, which will however be worth it in the long run. Wherever you have come to the conclusion that you bear the brunt of the responsibilities in an interpersonal dynamic without a fair balance of give and take, it's time to decide how accountable you want to continue being and where processes of disengagement and separation are called for. Maybe you have felt pressured to fulfill the expectations of others for years now, and are just realizing that you've arrived at a point where you can say no and distance yourself from them instead.

The better you know yourself and the more at peace you are, the more clearly you will be able to understand and empathize with the behavior of your fellow human beings towards you. Whatever is currently being mirrored to you in your personal environment may point to your own limitations and shortcomings. You can take this as an opportunity to take a closer look at your deficits and strengthen your relationship skills. By understanding your own responsibilities within your partnerships and other relationships, you can now create clear conditions and preemptively defuse or make redundant any impulse to accuse or blame each other.

There may be an increase in misunderstandings or disappointments during this time, because other people may turn out not to be who you thought or wished they were. It might be difficult for you to recognize the limitations of your relationships or accept the deficits and flaws of your partner. But in return, you will now see very clearly where you stand with your fellow human beings and whom you can rely on. This enables you to stabilize or renew the foundations of your closest relationships in order to continue building on them in the future.

The New Meaning of Life

Uranus opposition Uranus: June 2024 until May 2025 43rd to 44th year of life

In your early forties, your surroundings will clearly reflect how much value you place in being an independent thinker and forming your own opinions. Perhaps you will have conflicts with people close to you about the right way to live, or unexpected events lead you to question your choices in life so far. Your trusted certainties and convictions may undergo abrupt changes during this life chapter. This may plunge you into a crisis of meaning you may not have thought possible in this form.

Take this opportunity to recognize how and where you have been leading the wrong life up until now, or missed your mark for other reasons. The resulting insights may now hit you like lightning and cause you to spontaneously turn your attention to totally new subjects in life. Perhaps you will go back to school or find some other way of discovering new horizons. Your desire to set sail for new directions could now also lead you abroad or connect you with people from foreign cultures.

You now have the inner freedom to quench your burning curiosity about life with real focus. Always being on the go out of fear of missing out no longer gives you any sense of fulfillment after midlife. You now need a purpose with a deeper meaning to guide you. Perhaps you will start to view questions of faith in a new light, or you are finding a new worldview in some other way. No matter where your life path leads from here, determining your own course, while resisting the constant temptation to stray from it, is now totally up to you.

Settled Possessions

Saturn opposition Saturn: Mar. until Apr. 2026 45th year of life

One of the essential challenges of your existence is overcoming your initial sense of inferiority and lack in order to build a stable sense of self-worth. Towards your middle age, this endeavor will present you with several interesting tests of your strength. This relates especially to issues around shared properties as well as inheritances that haven't been fully clarified or settled to date.

Your fear of loss in particular will show you what you still have to learn about dealing with money and property. As long as you value security above all else, it will always be difficult for you to share what is yours with others. It's currently your responsibility to ensure that your claims to ownership are respected while consciously avoiding taking advantage of anyone else. The days in which you undersold yourself or maneuvered yourself into personal feelings of lack due to your own avarice increasingly belong to the past. You now have the opportunity to demonstrate how well you have learned to maintain your vested resources without having to cling to your goods and chattels at all costs in order to do so.

Even if you sometimes still lack the composure to handle crises and losses in a relaxed manner, you can use the life tests of your middle age to learn to encounter life from a more secure and stable place, and to protect your personal territory. You may even discover untapped talents and resources from which you can profit in the future and further strengthen your life's foundations.

Happiness and Transformation

Neptune in 8th house: May 2026 until Mar. 2040 45th to 59th year of life

The phase of transition you will be cycling through in the coming years brings with it a certain insecurity about the values you share with others on the material as well as the mental and emotional level. It feels like you can no longer count on people respecting your rights and following general rules and laws. The boundaries between what you call your own and what you willingly share with others are starting to blur more and more, and it's entirely unclear what you can and can't lay claim to now.

When it comes to handling your finances or joint properties and inheritances, a certain carelessness and naïve gullibility on your part may cause confusion and a lack of clarity. In extreme cases you might even feel used or made a victim of dubious circumstances because you were cheated out of your fair share. Your readiness to help and make sacrifices may make it difficult for you to demand what is rightfully yours.

Practicing devotion and going so far as to give yourself up to another completely may also bring you deep joy and fulfillment from now on, especially when it comes to sex and eroticism. Love and transformative experiences of great spiritual and emotional intimacy on a physical level can now be deeply healing. Your longing to overcome boundaries and become one with another person may even develop into a type of addiction and tempt you to surrender completely without reservations. But the opposite is also possible, and you may derive great happiness from transcending the powers of Eros, or sublimating and refining them in an artistic way.

The threshold between life and death may also hold a growing fascination for you in the coming years. Perhaps you are gripped by a longing for redemption and feel an increasing need for positive and healing transformational experiences. By resisting the temptation to idealize processes of rebirth too much, you can explore the hidden secrets of life without losing yourself in them. Aspects of existence in the domain of the occult and labeled taboo are exactly what you will be seeking to understand from now on. Your encounters on this journey have the potential to be exceedingly joyous as well as dangerous, and the line between those two can be very thin.

New Beginnings in Career and Society

Uranus conjunction MC: Aug. 2026 until Apr. 2028 46th to 47th year of life

Professional and societal questions define this sometimes rather turbulent part of your life path. Perhaps you are preparing to change workplaces or planning a new start professionally, perhaps it's time for you to retire or you are considering going into business for yourself. Regardless of what type of change you make, you are now wishing for an increase in freedom and self-determination. Even if changes now set in that you didn't initiate, you can use them to target new goals with your ambition.

You are in the midst of a transition from obligation to desire in terms of what you consider your calling. This may mean that you react to normative performance expectations that don't meet your standards in an unexpectedly rebellious way. On the one hand this can bring on conflicts with higher ups and authority figures, but on the other hand it offers you the possibility to freestyle independently and to come into your own creatively.

The liberties you take in this life stage will also re-define your role in society. Perhaps you will detach from an old paradigm, flouting everything related to your career and re-orient yourself along internal and personal values. Perhaps you will also develop a surprising new sense of ambition or become active in a field where you get to know a whole new set of people. Thinking about your reputation too much may be detrimental. Set your own standards and measure your success according to your own criteria.

Whatever decisions you make now, keep an eye on their effects on your domestic and familial well-being. Whatever price you will have to or have already paid for the successes you seek will now come to the surface in much greater clarity than before. You may also have to rethink your work and home lives in order to better balance them out. Doing more than is good for you is not an option for your future. Drawing the right conclusions from these events will give this stage of your life a special appeal.

Surprising Successes

Uranus in 10th house: June 2027 until May 2036 46th to 55th year of life

A central issue for you in this life stage is being able to decide for yourself what you feel called to do. You are not interested in being told by which standards to measure your successes. Perhaps you are even entertaining the idea of starting down a completely new path or leaving professional life behind for good. Should you, however, have taken a long break, now would be the right time to re-enter the workforce. Whatever the case, it will be decisive that the goals you pursue are your own, and that they correspond to your desire for autonomy and independence.

In order to meet your growing demand for freedom, you can hardly avoid breaking norms and rules. Perhaps you even enjoy breaking with certain conventions and falling out of line in other ways. It's increasingly in your own hands what role you play in the social world of the future and which traditions you want to break with or keep alive. Some of what you have long valued greatly is now losing its worth, and you are less and less interested in what others think of you. This can bring conflicts around authority with it, but it won’t prevent you from playing by your own rules.

You may also have successes in this life stage that you weren't expecting at all. But even if there are no big changes on the social or professional level, you can still develop new attitudes that help you steer your ambition towards things that offer you fulfillment and satisfaction. Living only for your audience is part of the past, because what the future now promises is far more attractive than any conventional form of success. Your new goal is to come into your own freely in the context of what you feel called to do while continuing your life journey.

Engaging Undertones

prog. Sun in Libra: June 2027 until Oct. 2057 46th to 77th year of life

You won't immediately experience it at the surface level, but eventually a charming and engaging undertone will start to make itself felt in your being, which may be new and surprising for you. You are more intensely focused on your fellow human beings than you were in the past, and your efforts are more directed towards togetherness and harmony. You are now very invested in aligning your behavior and your goals with others, and in finding a diplomatic balance in moments of antagonism. Even if you do preserve your original character, you will catch yourself making compromises and even acting to the benefit of your fellow human beings more and more often in the coming years.

You may also start to notice yourself behaving in more fickle ways than usual, and increasingly struggling to make clear and binding decisions. It will take a while for you to get used to thinking and acting more in terms of partnership. Still, new opportunities will present themselves, if you overcome any self-centered tendencies and practice being considerate. The experience of increasing your happiness and joie de vivre by sharing it with others will also be valuable and enriching in the coming years. As a result, you will gain new social skills that will pay off in many ways.

Diverse Resources

Jupiter conjunction Jupiter: Sept. until Oct. 2028 48th year of life

Your 48th year will be promising in financial and material terms. You now have the opportunity to delve into your hidden talents and expand your successes. Your pragmatism and your intuition for fruitful business deals will now pay off particularly well in a variety of ways. Go ahead and show your generous side by sharing your good fortune and abundance with people who know how to appreciate your talents.

Perhaps investments made long ago will also start to yield returns. This enables you to set new goals in order to grow and expand further. It won't be difficult for you to profit from your talents now. But merely accumulating material wealth will start to feel less and less meaningful to you as you age. Pay closer attention to what material needs are actually pertinent to your happiness. Foregoing a few indulgences may turn into a big step forward.

Your more wasteful tendencies regarding your resources could however prove to be a problem. Therefore, try to remain within the realm of the possible and not to overburden your budget. You likely still have more at your disposal than ever before. Direct your focus towards making sensible investments that can offer long-term happiness and fulfillment.

The joy of this phase of your life is not all about material comforts. You are equipped with a diverse range of talents and are increasingly able to share them with your fellow human beings. Pass on the things you deem valuable and important. The experience of finding fertile ground for your abilities and seeing other’s enthusiasm costs you little and benefits you a great deal. Unearthing hidden treasures together with others can enrich your life immeasurably. Therefore, feel free to fully enjoy what makes you feel happy and optimistic.

Harvest

Saturn conjunction MC: July 2030 until Apr. 2031 49th to 50th year of life

As far as your ambition is concerned, you have reached a peak on both the social and the professional level. You are now at the summit of your success and can reap the recognition for all the efforts and achievements of your life so far. It may come in the form of a promotion with extended responsibilities, so that you will serve as an example to others. Or you experience other forms of appreciation for the competencies you managed to acquire over the course of your life. What you harvest now is the result of all you have worked for with such discipline and endurance.

However, this phase of life will also see you confronted with the accumulation of all the times you fell short of your goals over the years. Your fears of failure and the conflicts you haven't yet worked through are now becoming visible. You may well feel frustrated in this regard because some successes will remain unattained and in some cases you may even fail completely. Maybe you encounter other setbacks and even play with the idea of giving up. If you haven't reached your goals, now may be a good time to reorient yourself. The deciding factor will be to use the resources and competencies you have worked so hard to develop up to now.

Perhaps this phase of life also sees you confronted with the necessity to redefine your goals. At the same time, it’s important for you to finish those things you have achieved and make peace with what has remained undone or incomplete. Maybe you would have preferred savoring what you worked for over a few more years and are contemplating where you might still be needed in the future. Bridling your ambition and respecting the boundaries set by others may be a big challenge for you now.

Resignation would be the wrong attitude towards your desired successes not happening in this stage of life. Instead, use the opportunity to question your ambition and to continue caring for your private, domestic and familial concerns. In fact, you may have sacrificed more for your ambition than you realized until now. Now you are forced to take the price of success into account. On the one hand this may cost you a good deal, on the other it can also enrich you greatly. Recognize the true scope of your possibilities and engage with them accordingly.

Between 50 and 60: Your Best Years - Channeling Your Potential and Achieving Mastery

The transition into your sixth decade will touch on your sore spots at first. Now it's time to use your key life experiences and the potential for healing that can be found in your growing awareness of your own transience and mortality. Your late fifties will show what you have achieved and completed in your life so far. From now on, it's all about passing on what you know and what you have learned to the next generation and leaving a lasting mark. At the same time, new life prospects will open up to you with promises of joy and fulfillment.

Inner Values

prog. New Moon in 2nd house: Dec. 2031 until Dec. 2032 51st to 52nd year of life (with orb 1/6th of house size)

Over the last few years you have been much more active in the spotlight than usual, and you weren't afraid to make your concerns known. But now you are beginning to feel a longing to reap the fruits of your labor and find a place where you can savor what you have achieved so far in peace. You may be feeling a growing need to set boundaries when it comes to the demands of others and to protect your personal inner space. After a long, extroverted life phase in which you showed presence on many levels, your spiritual and emotional interests are now turning inwards, towards the treasures that remain to be unearthed there.

Your impulse to plumb the depths of your self-worth helps you steer your life onto a more stable course and make sure that your activities and contributions pay off even more than before. You long for more security and dependability, not just on the material level but also in your emotional life. You are becoming increasingly aware of what you really need in order to feel happiness and abundance on a deeper level. Some things can't be bought and are still more valuable to your well-being than all the money in the world. Focusing on this fact is both the attraction and challenge of the coming years.

A Cultured Lifestyle

prog. New Moon in Libra: Dec. 2031 until Dec. 2032 51st to 52nd year of life

After having internally reorganized yourself and developed pragmatic new attitudes in the last stage of your life, you will now feel a growing desire for a counterpart to share with and relate to on an emotional level. You are very invested in maintaining a sense of togetherness, and you increasingly value a fair balance of give and take. Finding an inner sense of equilibrium through balancing yourself out emotionally in order to achieve peace and harmony is becoming essential in all your interpersonal relationships.

Togetherness both in the emotional and intellectual sense is your new magic token for approaching your fellow human beings in search of a fair balance of interests. You are enjoying the pleasing sides of life to an increased degree and you do your best to make everything feel as agreeable as possible. Happiness, love and equilibrium are playing an increasingly important role, and not just in the context of partnerships. You want things to be harmonious and beautiful, and this is not just a question of aesthetics, but of your entire lifestyle.

Healing Messages

Chiron conjunction Chiron: May 2032 until Apr. 2033 51st to 52nd year of life

Not having a meaningful, satisfying long-term outlook on life has continuously made it hard for you to orient yourself. You could never believe in anything for too long without encountering doubts. At times, you were even convinced of the exact opposite of what you had considered right and true only a short while earlier. Thus, for a long time you were unable to develop goals and tenable convictions to work towards and build upon.

At fifty, you have reached a point where you have to decide where the journey will lead from here. You now recognize the consequences of your refusal to commit to a specific direction in life. You may also realize that you need to take wrong turns until you are ready to accept the suffering involved in arriving at the right destinations. Avoiding the pain of committing and thereby excluding other possibilities and life paths is the Achilles heel of your existence. This pain can never truly be alleviated - even by choosing and leading a meaningful life. But by becoming conscious of your own significance and accepting that life sometimes deals us strange cards, you can set yourself goals that are right and healing for you.

Even today, the glaring injustices of this world are enough to make you despair. But you no longer need to rebel against them at all costs or feel guilty about them. Instead, you can calmly stand up for your beliefs and convictions, even if they are incomplete and may be revised at any moment. You have been traveling and searching for much of your life, internally as well as physically, but now is the time to arrive and settle within yourself, and to face the question of the meaning of your existence head on. This way you can experience your messages and convictions as healing and gratifying both for yourself and others.

Finding Your True Values

Pluto trine Pluto: Apr. 2036 until Jan. 2039 55th to 58th year of life

The transformation of values you are currently experiencing results from your growing confidence in handling your talents and resources. Deep-seated fears of loss that once kept you from living up to your full potential are now giving way to a growing sense of confidence that enables you to set clearer boundaries and to protect what's important and valuable to you. Particularly with regard to finances, you are repeatedly confronted with questions of "all or nothing" and can now create a real breakthrough if you play your cards right.

By concentrating on your personal values and strengths, you can learn to recognize what seeds will grow, proliferate and yield rich returns. The feeling of missing out on the fruits of your own labor belongs to the past. Choosing not to let anyone encroach on your territory and successfully preserving what you own will awaken new power and strength within you that will increasingly start to pay off. Perhaps in the past you've had a false or incomplete image of the values that really matter to you.

Instead of continuing to cling to your goods and chattels, you can now show your generous side and enjoy your possessions in a more relaxed way. From now on, the option of spending your resources in your own interests is no longer tinged with guilt. At the same time, you are secure enough to share your goods with others without worrying about being cheated or deceived. By letting go of bad experiences from the past, you create space for completely new possibilities of handling your gifts and resources successfully. You may be richer than you ever thought possible and can now recognize your real treasures.

The catalyst for the internal processes of transformation you are currently experiencing may be of a medical or psychosomatic nature. Maybe your life- and work circumstances are also undergoing changes that force you to make the required adjustments. It's the little things in daily life that harbor a potential for creating far-reaching change. It may be time to let go of habits that you can no longer reconcile with your wellbeing. By clarifying for yourself what kind of lifestyle and activities do in fact correspond to your needs, you can find your own inner rhythm and do what's good for your health.

You can now initiate a lot of changes where you like working at full steam. Some tasks may require your full dedication and demand all your resources. By paying attention to the details, you can have an effect on things normally outside your range of influence. Only at those moments where your strength reaches its limits will you be asked to show humility. By releasing your tendency to demand perfection at all times, you will also have an easier time health-wise, and still manage to have an impact.

A Mature Entrance

Saturn conjunction Ascendant: Sept. 2037 until July 2038 57th year of life

This phase of your life stands for a new beginning, even if you can't immediately tell what form that will take. You now need a cause that motivates you enough to risk a new start. Looking back at what you have achieved and realized over the course of your life, you are now forced to ask yourself what could be a new reason for stepping out. What do you expect from your life in the future? What appeals to you and what challenges you? What would you still like to achieve, what wishes have come true and which ones remain unfulfilled?

Don't take these questions lightly now, but rather choose a task that can occupy you for some time to come and that requires you to act conscientiously throughout. This phase is ideal for finally tying up the loose ends of your life and starting over again, unencumbered by the past. Of course, you can use all your experience and the competence you have acquired so far as a foundation for this new beginning. The main thing is not to weigh down your future with things that are actually already part of the past.

The signs of the physical process of aging can hardly be denied anymore in this phase of your life. Take these visible processes of maturation and aging as an occasion to adjust your overall appearance, including your style of clothing, accordingly. In this context, the question of how you can gain the respect you desire from your fellow human beings also comes into play. This can mean a change in your demeanor or even a shift in your role, and it will help you to underline these changes with a fitting look and style.

The processes taking place in this phase of your life also have an effect on your environment and your relationships. You can't expect all of the people who are important to you to be enthusiastic about your new lifestyle. Some may even try to push you back into your old patterns. Try practicing patience in this regard, and wait until you are sure of your new presence. Once you have found your new way of life, your connections with others will also gradually begin to change and clarify. Not all of them will survive, but some relationships will consolidate and deepen as a result of your new role. Let life surprise you!

A Stable Sense of Self-Worth and a Secure Livelihood

Saturn conjunction Saturn: Oct. 2039 until July 2040 59th year of life

You are likely no stranger to the uneasy feeling that you are not being adequately rewarded for your work. As hard as you have tried not to undersell yourself, the feeling of not getting enough in return hasn't been easy to shake. It would be no wonder if the resulting sense of lack led you to become especially economical, if not miserly, with your resources. You are sure to be familiar with what it means to limit yourself to the bare necessities and to keep your goods and chattels together.

In your late fifties, you have enough resources at your disposal to feel protected against existential fears. Even the discomfort of feeling indebted to others and therefore having to make an advance effort in order to justify your existence is gradually lessening. You no longer have to bend over backwards in order to have your work appreciated and to be remunerated appropriately. A stable sense of self-worth and an inner ease in your dealings with money and property can lay a solid foundation for you to build upon in order to better face the challenges of your third age.

By now you have gathered enough experiences to be able to gauge realistically which investments are worthwhile and which ones aren't. You are now being asked to think in the long-term with regards to your material resources, so that you'll be able to reap the rewards in the future. It may be a big help to you to create a financial plan for the coming years so that you'll be able to reliably evaluate the resources you can bank on to secure your existence in your old age.

In this regard you will be confronted with the following questions: How secure is your livelihood? Whom can you entrust with the care of those possessions you no longer need? What are worthwhile investments for the future? In which areas can you manage with less? What have you earned and what do you owe? What is a reliable source for your self-worth? What gives you a sense of security? How much space do you need for yourself? Use this opportunity to set clear priorities and to secure the foundations of your life.

Hindsight and Memory

prog. Mercury stationary retrograde: Mar. 2040 until Mar. 2041 59th to 60th year of life

This life stage will be marked by intensive mental and intellectual activity that will be expressed in different ways. One of them could be a specific subject opening up and demanding all your attention. Whether you chose this subject yourself or it was brought to you by someone else, it will most likely keep you occupied for the next couple of years. Perhaps you will work on an academic degree or continue your education in some other way, make your way through the appropriate literature and collect all the information you can find.

Regardless of how you further your education and what knowledge you will be dealing with in the coming years, you may have a sense of familiarity as if you already know some of what you are learning. From now on, education for you will be more about remembering things you have encountered before than about taking in truly new subject matter. This may sound strange, but things feeling familiar even though they are new may become a regular experience for you in the future. Therefore, staying informed will from now on always also mean reflecting on what you think you already know.

A certain contemplative tendency may also become a constant companion for you during this life stage. You will mull over things and events for longer than usual. This can lead to realizations you might not have had otherwise. By paying close attention to not getting bogged down in fixed concepts or continuously circling the same subjects during this life stage you can nip some of these exhaustive brooding phases in the bud.

You may also feel like you are increasingly treading water in your thinking and that you aren't getting any closer to finding answers to key questions in spite of the hard work you are putting in. In these situations, a change of perspective is the right strategy for dissolving blockages in your thought processes and finding the right alternatives. More of the same - meaning even more intensive thinking - will only get you further if you're on the right track, bringing things to light which it will serve you to explore thoroughly. In the coming years you can get to the bottom of many things whose purpose and meaning you haven't had access to before and come to conclusions that will be of great use to you in the future.

Sensible Investments

Jupiter conjunction Jupiter: Sept. 2040 60th year of life

The two years leading up to your 60th birthday will mark a transition during which you recognize that you still feel young at heart in many ways but are already struggling with the traces of aging. You can no longer draw from an overflowing well of energy and abundance, but rather have to pay closer attention to rationing your resources. This is especially true when it comes to the material foundations of your life and your handling of money and finances. You are used to a certain standard of wealth, but banking on it to continue without any more work from you is not advisable now. Instead, you need to create a cushion that remains durable in your third age and enables you to make the most of your talents in the pursuit of your goals.

The phases in which you could be frivolous with your resources are increasingly becoming a thing of the past. Instead, you are being challenged to make long-term investments and build a solid foundation for your existence. Developing new sources of income for yourself and making better use of the ones already at your disposal will be a rewarding goal for this chapter of your life. Perhaps you will discover a hidden gift or a talent you never delved into that you can now use to pursue your objectives. You are accustomed to being a big spender, but now is much more about perspective and meaning than excess and luxury.

By doing things that inspire you, you will discover new prospects for the transition into your third age. By now you have gained enough experience in life to be able to recognize which investments will pay off. You might be accustomed to being able to afford a great deal in the material sense, but there may also be other values you can use as a source of optimism and faith in yourself. It may even be wise to part with some of your possessions and go through life with a little less baggage. Consumption alone has less and less happiness to offer you. Anything you acquire now should be an investment in your future and support you in once more getting the best out of your natural abilities. The key to your future life happiness lies in the right balance between having and being. Working on this will pay off especially well now.

Between 60 and 70: From Obligation to Freedom - Time to Freestyle

The transition from "I have to" to "I want to" will give you golden years once more in your seventh life decade. You can increasingly live out your individuality free of conventional constraints, thereby experiencing yourself in a whole new way. Vital concerns that you were unable to live out until now will stimulate your spirits and encourage you to take risks and dare to try new things.

Sustainable Pleasures

You are quite serious about the ways you choose to amuse yourself. You leave nothing up to chance when it comes to having fun and getting the most out of your free time. This sometimes leaves little room for spontaneous endeavors, but you show great endurance in your creative projects. Your roles are usually well-rehearsed, which provides you with additional stability and security. You need the certainty of knowing that anything related to free time and enjoyment will take place within a firm framework. You don't particularly enjoy surprises, no matter how well-intentioned they are. You prefer staying on the safe side and fully savoring what lies within the realm of your creative possibilities.

You show great patience in the pursuit of your hobbies, and you are not easily deterred by setbacks. You don't mind a few challenges and difficulties being attached to what brings you joy. You don't make it easy on yourself when it comes to showing what you have to offer. Sometimes this leads you to appear somewhat inhibited, but your successes end up being all the more sustainable. You create things of lasting value from within yourself, something not just anyone can do. Even if you don't enjoy yourself one hundred percent of the time, once the happiness does set in, you fully savor every moment of it.

Other people often aren't privy to what brings you fun and joy. This is partly due to the fact that you like to indulge in some of your hobbies in solitude. Therefore, you also keep some of your leisure activities a secret in order to fully enjoy them for yourself without interruption. You need to retreat in order for your creativity to be able to unfold freely. In the process, you draw from sources whose origins are sometimes hidden even from you, but that enable you to do particularly special things. A lot of what delights you happens of its own accord, simply flowing through you. In this process, you penetrate spheres to which others don't have access. This may lead you to feel a little alone at times, but you will also uncover highly valuable treasures.

As you realize your creative affinities in your third age, you may show an increasingly spiritual orientation. You have highly sensitive instincts. Therefore, devote yourself to hobbies where your sensitive and transcendent sides can come to the fore. You have a pronounced imagination - a creative potential that often flowers largely in secret. So don't be shy about showing what you have to offer, even if the outlines are sometimes a bit undefined. You are a creative spirit - literally!

Diverse Interests

Uranus square Uranus: Sept. 2044 until Aug. 2045 64th to 65th year of life

Your strength for making your own judgments and standing up for your own opinions will lend you new momentum in this life stage. You now feel free to express your personal opinions, even if that means going against rules and norms and sometimes finding yourself alone with your views. Perhaps you will also dedicate yourself to a new hobby that you finally have time and energy for, without a care for the conventions that always kept you from letting your curiosities roam free in the past. The time has come for you to follow your personal desires and to say what's really on your mind. Spend your time on subjects that feel electrifying to you, and challenge your wakeful spirit with questions that help you gain new insights.

Perhaps some areas of your life require some re-thinking so that you can show what all you are really made of. Surprise your fellow human beings with the parts of yourself that weren’t seen or heard until now. Some of what has been slumbering deep within your subconscious for a long time now is finally ready to be articulated. Don't be discouraged if you don't immediately feel understood by others. You will now express thoughts and ideas that are completely new and unusual, even for you. Take all the time you need to understand what's going on inside you. Go on a journey of discovery to the timeless sources of your creative inspiration, and during this time take the opportunity to profit from your gift for marching to the beat of your own drum. Unexpected insights into connections that shed a completely new light on your old opinions and perspectives are beckoning.

However, take care not to succumb to the temptation to stick to your guns in a bull-headed way, and let other opinions be valid too. This life stage will show the extent of your tolerance and foresight all too clearly. Try to act in a way that is effortless and free instead of dogmatically declaring your standpoints. You don't need to be anybody else in order for your insights to shine. Instead, tend to your own interests and be happy when they help you garner some attention. You certainly aren't lacking original ideas for steering your life in a stimulating and interesting direction again. Continuing to learn every day is one of your innate talents that can now fully flourish. Be clever about using the opportunities it provides you with.

The change and upheaval you will now encounter is deeply rooted in your past, and the influence you have over them is limited. At times, you may feel completely at the mercy of circumstance. However and wherever fate shows itself to you, take this opportunity to discover new spaces of freedom and become more independent on the inner level. Finding out what life has planned for you now requires a certain willingness to experiment. Some developments will come from deep within your subconscious, and it's far from clear where things will ultimately lead. Trust in the acts of divine providence now revealing themselves to you. You are part of a larger whole, and with a little luck you can actually grasp the big picture all at once.

Putting Down Roots

Saturn conjunction IC: Dec. 2044 until Sept. 2045 64th to 65th year of life

As far as your origins and your family go, you have now reached a point where it's time for you to clarify your boundaries and find closure in areas that have been emotionally burdensome. You are currently being confronted with the consequences of all you inherited from your parents and ancestors. Now you can recognize the effects of familial patterns and traditions, and you are faced with the necessity of dealing with the associated responsibilities. This doesn't necessarily mean that you are condemned to carry forward unpleasant or dysfunctional family traditions for all eternity.

You can use this phase of life to build a stable and secure home base for yourself, both internally and externally. Maybe you are thinking about acquiring an apartment or another type of property, perhaps you consider moving or you simply paint your walls a new color and rearrange some furniture. The main thing is that you feel protected and safe in your home while making sure your budget can handle it well. You may want to downsize spatially, perhaps because your children have moved out or you need less space for another reason. Whatever decisions you are faced with, making them with the long term in mind will pay off in the future.

You may now feel a strong desire to retreat and become more domestic than you are used to. Emotionally and spiritually, you will have to work through a lot, triggered by the memories that arise during this time. Some of what you are currently experiencing has its source in events reaching as far back as your childhood. Now you have the opportunity to find an inner sense of closure regarding these experiences, which can lead to a feeling of spiritual peace. Reorganizing yourself internally and doing some thorough emotional housekeeping are central challenges in this span of your biography. By ensuring that your needs are fulfilled and that you as well as your loved ones are well cared for, you can lay a solid foundation for the next phase of your life.

A New Beginning in Service of Your Own Interests

Uranus conjunction Ascendant: Oct. 2047 until June 2049 67th to 68th year of life

The idea of a new beginning gives you new lifeblood and inspires you to seek out risks and leave behind deeply entrenched behavioral patterns. You want to show the world that you can be different, and you value acting in an autonomous and self-determined way. It may come as a surprise, but your desire to slip into a new role and start a new life has been making itself known for some time now. You may simply have ignored the signs or did not want to see the truth: that you long for new challenges.

How much things can change all at once is now being made clear to you. Life circumstances that you have long been familiar with may now feel foreign. Perhaps you feel the desire to keep a distance from key people who are close to you in order to give more space to your own expectations and demands. Your desire to shape your life freely may be greater than you knew. This can bring grave changes with it. You are now decidedly benefitting from doing things your way and maintaining control of your own actions.

In this regard, you are confronted with some of the following questions: where have you missed out on asserting your own interests in the past and why? Were you too unselfish for your own good? Did you not know what you wanted? Were you too considerate of others? What consequences will it have for you to think more about yourself? Where is it time to start over? What will support you in doing so? What's stopping you? Taking up new roles and learning to play them well is a long process. It would be astounding if you succeeded right away. Don't be discouraged by setbacks and always dare to go for another round.

Of course, it would be an illusion to believe you could start all over and pretend like your old life never happened. Furthermore, there are also parts of the past that have stood the test of time and that you can continue to rely on in the future. This phase of life shows you what was neglected in the past. Make up for the things you missed out on without falling from one extreme into the next. It's more than enough for you to maintain your own interests and show a healthy degree of selfishness. Doing so in a different role than you have up until now can prove to be very life-affirming.

The Flaws of Others

Pluto conjunction Descendant: Apr. 2050 until Feb. 2053 69th to 72nd year of life

Your weaknesses in dealing with other people come to the fore very clearly in this phase of your life. It won't take much of an effort to provoke power struggles or get entangled in relationship issues. The causes are often unpleasant emotions such as envy, anger, jealousy or compulsive desires for closeness, sex, and intimacy. You will experience some of this yourself, some of it will come to you from others. The resulting intensity can make your existing relationships implode as well as give them greater depth, and it's a magnetic force for newcomers.

Facing the dark sides of your own being now becomes an existential necessity. In almost all situations, you may need to deal with the question of whether the accusations and conflicts that are laid at your doorstep are just other people's problems, or whether they actually mirror facets of your own being. The information you're now receiving may be related to patterns of behavior you haven't been able to see in yourself or have rejected until now. Now is the time to get to the bottom of such things, and to resist the temptation to keep your head above water by blaming others.

Maybe you're now discovering that what binds you to other people doesn't necessarily have to be love, even if that's what you thought until now. You can take this realization as an opportunity to give love another chance, be it with an old partner or a new one. Maybe you can sustain your relationships by submitting to a deep process of transformation. You will now see what parts of a relationship are built to last and whom you can rely upon one hundred percent. But wherever you discover a lack of loyalty from your fellow human beings, now is the time to forge new alliances.

Between 70 and 80: Fit for Old Age - Life Tasks Completed

Feeling robust as well as experienced will be the defining joy of your early seventies. But eventually you will no longer be able to deny the signs of age. Even in those areas where you have achieved mastery, it's time to take a step back and give up your prominent position and place. It's time to condense your experiences and distill the essential insights they have to offer. Your eighth decade will also make clear how far you have fulfilled your life task and how clear your conscience is.

Special Treasures

Jupiter conjunction Jupiter: Aug. 2052 72nd year of life

Surrounding yourself with a certain material abundance has continued to bring you happiness and fulfillment throughout your life. As you advance in age, you are getting better and better at recognizing what you really need and which acquisitions and investments still make sense. This helps you optimally utilize even those resources that are becoming more scarce. By abstaining from a few luxuries here and there, you can consciously enjoy those that remain and continue to feel enriched by them. You have by now gained enough experience in life to resist the temptations of consumerism and to instead share what you have with others in order to enjoy it together.

Up until now, you derived your sense of stability and security largely from your possessions. But as you transition into your eighth decade, values of a more intangible nature are starting to become important to you. You may also discover some talents that have remained hidden up until now, and delving into them can bring you satisfaction and inner fulfillment. You have a great deal to offer and are getting better and better at recognizing where your gifts are needed and welcomed by your fellow human beings. Doing good by sharing your inner wealth with others will continue to bestow you with joyful moments, offering you new prospects and optimism.

It will now become increasingly clear to you which of your personal treasures are truly meaningful. Maybe some of your possessions carry a particular symbolic value for you personally. Protecting and savoring these treasures can bring you great happiness from here on out. Other things that have long been important to you as status symbols will become less and less meaningful. Leaving those in good hands and separating from them will help you go through life with less baggage, while drawing a sense of safety and stability from other sources.

Clear Relationships

Saturn conjunction Descendant: Apr. 2053 until Jan. 2054 72nd to 73rd year of life

Getting older requires you to be prepared to let go of things and people, bidding them farewell on an internal level. The right moment to do so will now be presented to you clearly. Some of your relationships have reached a natural ending, be it because they have fulfilled their purpose or because they can't continue on due to external factors. Twists of fate over which you have no personal control may also result in separations and goodbyes. Whatever the circumstances may be that require you to find closure in certain relationships, successfully overcoming the pain of these ruptures represents a central challenge in this phase of your life.

Still, going on without the accompaniment of a partner is not inevitable. Some interpersonal relationships may now experience a deepening, perhaps through your taking greater responsibility for the well-being of your counterpart. Gratitude and respect play central roles in this sense of togetherness. Offering stability and security to those closest to you may give you the reassurance of being needed and doing work that is useful. Maybe you now require the help of others, thus experiencing their special appreciation for you. This stage will show you clearly who the loyal allies are that you can rely on at any time.

In this phase of your life you will feel with increasing clarity that you no longer can or want to meet all the expectations and requests that other people make of you. As a result, you will have to say no more often and sometimes even to disappoint your fellow human beings. Still, it's essential that you accept your own limitations and express them clearly to the outside world. Therefore, be honest with yourself about when things become too much or when certain responsibilities threaten to overwhelm you. By setting clear priorities, you can now focus your interpersonal activities on those people closest and most important to you.

Deceptive Successes

Neptune conjunction MC: June 2054 until Mar. 2056 73rd to 75th year of life

The extent to which you've managed to fulfill your hopes and dreams in the professional and the social realm can be measured by how satisfied or unsatisfied you feel with your achievements thus far. A rational approach will not help you cope with these feelings. Perhaps you have accomplished a great deal by conventional standards and have relevant successes to show for it, but you might still be experiencing an increasing sense of dissatisfaction. It may sound strange, but some of this feeling is likely of a divine nature. Finding a fulfilling answer here could be the biggest challenge of this life phase.

Maybe you feel called to a higher purpose and want to save the whole world, or your perspective and sense of meaning have gotten lost along your career path. A more socially involved profession may now appeal to you, or perhaps you have secretly been dreaming of a creative life as an artist. It may prove to be very enriching for you to see where these fantasies lead. But before you start putting your desires into action, you should make sure that your visions are informed by a healthy dose of realism. Some of what comes up in the context of your professional and social prospects now may appear in a deceptive light.

Developing a positive attitude towards the concept of disappointments will prepare you well for the challenges of this life stage. Whether it's the realization that even so-called dream jobs involve hard work or the feeling that you have subscribed to the wrong ideals or been robbed of your true successes, you will now have to accept things that were not part of your plan. But even if you do take a few wrong turns, eventually they will lead to an opportunity to devote yourself wholeheartedly to a task that makes you feel happy and internally fulfilled.

You may be asked to make sacrifices that don't appear meaningful to you at first. In extreme cases, you might need to depend on the support of others in order to get by. As paradoxical as it sounds, these types of experiences may help strengthen your faith in life. You now need to feel that you are embedded in a social fabric and connected to the world. You may even encounter this feeling in the form of becoming well-known or even famous beyond your immediate circle. But don't let appearances seduce you into playing only to the gallery. Dreaming of success and recognition can be a great motivator for you now. Remaining on the path that's right for you and staying the course throughout requires you to remain vigilant.

Securing Your Resources

Saturn opposition Saturn: May 2055 until Feb. 2056 74th to 75th year of life

Your advancing age is starting to leave behind traces that are also becoming noticeable in your finances and your properties. Especially when it comes to matters of inheritance or estate, you are being asked to show a strong sense of responsibility. These things need to be sorted out with a long-term perspective in mind, and you likely won't be able to please everyone involved. Setting boundaries regarding unjustified or inappropriate demands is a test that will allow you to prove how well you have come to master your old fears of loss.

You have never taken the task of securing the material foundations of your life lightly, and you want to take care of your finances as independently as you can for as long as possible. Still, you may eventually need to rely on other people's resources, money and support. Maintaining your dignity and self-worth throughout this time may cost you some effort and demand a great deal from you, but it will pay off well into your old age.

Your frugal and sometimes even miserly lifestyle has enabled you to accomplish a great deal while using your resources economically. Even at an advanced age, having to restrict yourself to the bare necessities doesn't worry you, even if your reserve supplies may be dwindling and you have to do without certain things. Nobody can take away your self-worth, and this is something you can rely on, especially in your old age.

From Me to Us

Moon's Node conjunction Moon's Node: Jan. until Feb. 2056 75th year of life

A central challenge in your soul’s journey is placing your pronounced individuality and your creative abilities at the service of a community. By making an increasing effort over the years to network and pull together with other people, you have gotten closer and closer to your life purpose.

It hasn't always been easy for you to overcome your ingrained patterns of self-representation and not only satisfy your personal need for validation, but also take a step back in order to support the realization of a collective guiding principle and finding your place in the bigger picture. For a long time you were used to thinking primarily of yourself and pursuing your own interests, but by now you have also learned to be a team player in group situations.

Repeated fateful encounters over the years encouraged you to face your spiritual mission in life by honoring the greater good just as much as your own legitimate self-interest. By welcoming the associated changes and risks, you broadened your horizon beyond the end of your own nose and got closer to your soul’s purpose, step by step. Today it is becoming easier and easier for you to step down from your high horse and find your way to happiness and inner fulfillment among friends and like-minded people.

Psychological Undertones

prog. Sun in Scorpio: Oct. 2057 until Sept. 2087 77th to 107th year of life

In the coming years you will undergo an inner developmental process that indirectly results in you becoming more intensely and passionately bound to life than you are accustomed to being. You are feeling a strong urge to discover yourself on a deeper level and plumb the hidden undercurrents of life. From now on you will be accompanied by a psychological undertone that enables you to approach yourself as well as your fellow human beings more sincerely and honestly.

Your behavior may now be guided by ideas connected to your desire for more influence and a firmer grasp on life. You want to shape your life more actively, and you are increasingly behaving in more decisive, less compromising ways in order to express your will and thereby achieve as much as you can and have as far-reaching an impact as possible. Since your original character will largely remain intact, it may take a while for you to get used to striving for more power and influence and releasing any experiences of powerlessness. The ensuing crises will strengthen your potential for transformation and open up totally new avenues of leverage to you. Some of the fears you will be faced with in the coming years won’t always be easily or rationally understood. However, facing them will pay off in many ways, and enable you to find an inner truthfulness and strength you didn't know you had.

Success and Honor

Saturn conjunction MC: May 2060 79th year of life

In this stage of your biography, everything you have worked for and achieved will be brought into focus once more. Maybe you receive public recognition once again in the form of an honor or accolade, or you take on an assignment or a post that requires all your experience and expertise. You now feel a strong desire to give something back to the world in return for all the successes you have earned over the course of your life. Unlike before, your personal ambition is largely satisfied, and you are now primarily occupied with doing right by your social responsibilities and serving the greater good.

Next to this positive time of harvesting, you should also be prepared for frustrations, the source of which lies in omissions or neglect that will be presented to you with new clarity once more. Take this opportunity to find closure with regards to these missed chances instead of continuing to mourn them. Even if you have the impression that you failed in certain areas, do yourself a big favor and make peace with that. While most of your career milestones are over, you can continue to make contributions and take on tasks that still express what you truly feel called to do.

Recognizing the true meaning of all you have achieved over the years can have a joyful as well as a sobering effect. You are now being shown where you might have overestimated yourself, and where you weren't as irreplaceable as you thought. At the same time, external layers are falling away to reveal the core of your true inner calling and its significance. Perhaps this reveals your achievements and your successes to you in a different light and you find it easier to assess them realistically. You may have underestimated some things, so that the full range of what you have accomplished and realized in your life is only now becoming visible. Don't just measure your achievements by other peoples' standards, but rather take the time to appreciate yourself. You've earned it!

Mature Rationality

prog. Mercury stationary direct: Mar. 2061 until Mar. 2062 80th to 81st year of life

This life chapter is marked by the strong feeling that you have collected a lot of knowledge and information over the past few years that now urgently needs to be expressed. This can take the form of a stronger than usual urge to communicate, or a new curiosity and eagerness to meet interesting people with whom you can have deep conversations. Finding distractions is now the correct strategy for working against your inner feeling of stagnation and dissolving mental blocks.

Over the past few years you have discovered a great deal through intensive research and exploration that might also be of interest to your fellow human beings. Thinking about passing on the knowledge and abilities you have acquired to others in a teaching role is a promising option for you now. If you sense that you might have a talent for writing, you could also work on putting your realizations and insights down on paper. Perhaps you also feel an urge to develop your own concepts and discuss them at length with likeminded people or other interested parties.

After years of reflecting and looking inward, you are turning your attention back to the outside world, and you are very invested in making new connections and fostering a stimulating exchange of ideas and experiences. The coming years will show the true value of what you have explored internally and imagined in the past. Your fellow human beings won't automatically be on board with all your ideas, but you will be able to say in good faith that your thoughts and ideas are your own.

Everything you express in this life stage will remain valid for a long time. Therefore it would be beneficial for you to think carefully about the promises you make and agreements you enter into now. By carefully examining any contracts you sign, you will be able to profit from them for a long time to come. Deals you make now may prove to be very lucrative. What's important is that you stay honest and don't make any false claims, as any untruthfulness can have long-term consequences. It's your rationality in particular that has ripened over the years and become a great source of support in making necessary adjustments and sustainable decisions.

Success and Transcendence

Neptune opposition Neptune: July 2061 until Apr. 2063 80th to 82nd year of life

All your life you have longed for a perfect hearth and home, and the times when you came close to successfully creating such an idyll for yourself may have seemed like miracles in light of your origins. Your stories about your family were so unbelievable that they often provoked confusion and perplexity in others, usually - though not always - unintentionally. But when it came to making sacrifices for your family, you were always ready and willing to forego your own needs and be there completely for your kin.

In terms of your social status, you may go through phases of weakness and helplessness as you advance in age and come to depend on the support of others. Still, your sense of yourself as a successful person might return and motivate you to share your collected experiences for the greater good, thereby becoming a valuable source of guidance for your fellow human beings. In spite of the disappointments you had to endure, with regards to your spiritual wellbeing you have always been able to work wonders, and as you age this gift becomes a big help to others as well.

You look to the transcendent experiences that result from serving the common good much more than to worldly successes as a source of happiness and liberation in your advancing age. Your ambitions are now primarily aimed at using your empathetic and helpful nature to care for yourself and those closest to you, and to acquire merits especially in the spiritual sense that everyone can benefit from equally. You will once more feel called to a higher purpose in your old age, and whatever this means for you specifically, it offers you the possibility of surpassing yourself in order to find fulfillment.

80 and Beyond: Detachment and Transcendence - The Circle Closes

After 80, the doors to transcendent life worlds will be thrown wide open to you. Walking through them happily and carefree may be a revelation for you. Life's old age will give you the jester's license to freestyle in your own highly individual and eccentric way. With a little trust and devotion, you can continue to grow internally and achieve far-reaching and joyful insights. It's your focus on what is essential that enables you to detach internally and to find closure with anything still preventing you from saying farewell without regrets. The power of fate will show itself very clearly now, and require humility and a readiness to transform and purify yourself at a deep level.

An Inner Thirst for Knowledge

prog. New Moon in 3rd house: Aug. 2061 until Sept. 2062 81st to 82nd year of life (with orb 1/6th of house size)

In the last stage of your life you were very preoccupied with securing the material basis for your life in the mental and the emotional sense, but now you are experiencing a strong impulse to reorient yourself within your personal environment. You long for interaction and connection, and internally you are quite caught up in further expanding your knowledge and your possibilities for expressing yourself. It's very important to you to follow the whims of your mind and intellect and learn new things. You may even catch yourself learning more and more about a certain field of interest and wanting to become an expert in it.

It will probably take some time for you to get accustomed to questions and doubts becoming your constant companions, continually motivating you to educate your mind and your thinking. The desire to understand what is going on around you and get actively involved with what interests you will make the coming years into a stimulating challenge through which you can learn a lot and gain many new insights. You are prepared to take on a wide variety of issues and to let others partake in your thoughts and ideas. By refining your skills of participating and expressing yourself on many levels, you will learn a great deal about yourself and even more about the world.

Hidden in the Shadows

prog. New Moon in Scorpio: Aug. 2061 until Sept. 2062 81st to 82nd year of life

After years of working for harmony, beauty and justice, you are now primarily interested in the underlying stories and secrets of life. You are gradually developing a sleuth-like instinct for honesty and sincerity in your interactions with other people. Nothing should remain hidden, and getting to the bottom of things is becoming an essential motive of your existence in the emotional as well as the spiritual sense. You want to know what's going on, not just with others around you but also within you.

From now on you want to explore certain things even more intensively than before, and detach from secrets and taboos that you have long been subconsciously entangled in. You will be particularly focused on your material and psychic family legacies from now on. By recognizing the price of these involvements and obligations, you can detach from entrenched complexes and leave the past behind you. Your desire to transform and change internally may turn out to be a driving force of your existence. This may mean really getting down to the bone of many issues, but will also enable you to make significant breakthroughs.

Positive Assets

Jupiter conjunction Jupiter: Dec. 2063 until Aug. 2064 83rd to 84th year of life

You have always been quite invested in being able to draw from an abundance of resources and make the most of your talents. You can profit from this gift well into your old age and continue enjoying it by treating yourself to something special every now and again. Unlike before, you are no longer so wasteful with your assets, but rather understand how to stay within reach of your abilities and to use good opportunities as efficiently and optimally as possible.

It's your healthy and stable sense of self-worth in particular that has paid off time and again over the course of your life and remains very useful in your twilight years. You have always known your worth and you will continue to benefit from this knowledge for a long time to come. Even if you no longer have all the resources at your disposal that you did in the past, you can still easily assert yourself and successfully make ends meet thanks to your confident disposition. Go ahead and enjoy the sensual pleasures of existence, and savor them for as long as you think appropriate, even in your old age.

Self-determined Interests

Uranus conjunction Uranus: Dec. 2063 until Nov. 2064 83rd to 84th year of life

It has always been important to you to tend to your own interests and to form your own independent opinions and points of view. You wanted to decide for yourself what to learn and what sources of information to rely on. Thanks to your quick perceptive faculties you could orient yourself anywhere and gain the perspective necessary to make smart, autonomous decisions. You have a mind of your own and an eye for what is unusual, but as a result you often felt foreign and misunderstood in the past.

You have always taken the liberty of thinking in contradictions, which helped you find your way to your individuality over the years. While you may have appeared torn in the past and restlessly moved from one idea to the next, in your advanced age you can enjoy thinking in a way that is bold and idiosyncratic, and following whatever thought comes into your head. Even if your interests and statements may sometimes appear crazy to others, you now have the intellectual freedom to think for yourself at all times.

In your old age you can enjoy the jester's license to give voice to your thoughts without sugarcoating them. Your curiosity about the unusual remains unbroken, and you are mentally and emotionally free enough to close out your lifetime freestyling in a relaxed way. Perhaps some interesting and unusual subjects still beckon, and by cultivating your special sense of humor you can maintain the internal distance necessary to live out your days happily and in serenity.

Rejuvenating Home and Heart

Uranus conjunction IC: Feb. 2066 until Oct. 2067 85th to 87th year of life

A change of scenery can prove to be highly stimulating in this stage of your life. You are faced with the question of how you can uproot yourself and settle down somewhere else in the most constructive way possible. Whether you're thinking of moving, buying a home, or emigrating completely, mobility is the key to successfully walking this biographical path. The meaning of home and homeland can now appear to you in an entirely new light, provoking a major change.

Familial changes may now be wreaking emotional havoc in you and creating the desire to either fly the coop or build your own nest. Cutting the cord to your family of origin and your roots as well as finding some internal space from your own familial or domestic situation enables you to make the right adjustments for the future. What's important here is autonomous action on your part regardless of whether or not old family structures are dissolving or new ones are being constructed.

In this context, you will ask yourself questions such as: What can you change in order to find inner peace? How free do you feel when dealing with what was given to you at birth? What domestic and familial changes would do you good? Where do you want to put down roots in the future? Where is it time to cut the cord? And what should you take better care of in the future than you have in the past?

The desire for the fulfillment of your very own emotional and spiritual needs sets a refreshing new dynamic in motion in this life stage. This also affects your professional and social ambitions. Maybe you will start to value your well-being more than your ambition to produce something outstanding. Flipping the switch and setting other priorities is now unexpectedly easy. Taking a risk here and there in order to make it happen will now pay off very well.

Farewells and New Beginnings

Saturn conjunction Ascendant: Nov. 2066 until Aug. 2067 86th to 87th year of life

This phase of your life will uncover the physical effects of aging. It's quite possible that there will be burdens and challenges that you feel less and less up to facing. Even the things that you once enjoyed tackling with great vigor can now become inconveniences. Accepting the associated limitations requires you to practice setting boundaries and doing without. Focus your activities on what really matters, even if this results in having to part ways with some of the habits you have grown to love.

Perhaps you are also experiencing this period as a phase of strengthening and consolidation. Maybe you feel challenged to risk a new beginning with a new assignment or a personal concern. In this context it's important for you to conclude with the old and leave it behind, so that you can ring in this new stage of life in as free and lighthearted a fashion as possible. By now you have gathered enough experience to gain the respect you need from others when dealing with your expectations and wishes. You now no longer need to cope with everything alone, but can instead confidently request help and support from others in working for your goals and interests.

This life phase will lead you to focus on the essential, resulting in having to restrict your interpersonal contacts. You may have to part ways with some people for good and continue along your own path. Therefore, you would do well to hold yourself accountable for clarifying your expectations as well as your boundaries. A healthy dose of selfishness can now be a valuable resource. Your courage to create a new beginning will also be rewarded by new people stepping into your life whom you can rely on in the future.

Assets You Can Rely On

Saturn conjunction Saturn: Dec. 2068 until Sept. 2069 88th to 89th year of life

Looking back on your life and feeling certain that you made use of your all your talents and potential does a great deal for your inner satisfaction. In the past, you were not always able to afford everything you wanted and frequently had to do without, but you were still able to earn and save a fair amount over the years, thereby creating a sense of security for yourself. Your gift of being able to live on very little has always paid off and now offers you the security of being able to care for yourself and continue to make ends meet as you age.

You might experience a return of the sense of lack and avarice from the earlier years of your life, but by now you know what you are worth to yourself and have your fears of loss from the past well under control. Decisions about what you can afford and where you want to indulge are yours to make, and you have gathered enough experience to know how to make sacrifices and come to terms with material restrictions. Being frugal and keeping your treasures together if necessary are rights that nobody can deny you.

Over the course of your life, you have continuously improved your understanding of how to maintain your possessions and to protect yourself against possible losses. Even in your old age, you are still quite invested in protecting your personal territory and not letting anyone take anything away from you that you consider your own. In order not to wall yourself off or become excessively suspicious of others, it will pay off for you to use the serenity of old age to share your resources with others and to generally show your more generous side. It was always your goal to own something, and now it's your responsibility not to let anything own you.