| is a question that comes up around the second Saturn | | | | Where you can feel the brain working to try and get |
| Return, at 58 – 60 years old. It’s like our | | | | around it, and not really having anything to hang it on. |
| second chance, and there are often drastic changes. | | | | At your second Saturn Return, pay close attention to |
| Some people orchestrate theirs. Others, if you | | | | where you go for counsel. Whether it’s a |
| aren’t aware, have them happen to them. | | | | psychic, astrologer, coach, therapist, or clergy, |
| It’s a time of life change and an opportunity you | | | | don’t ever stick with someone who seems to |
| don’t want to miss. A Saturn Return reading is | | | | have no ideas or enthusiasm for you and your life, or |
| a great investment if you are approaching a Saturn | | | | who doesn’t keep pushing you to your growing |
| Return (28-30 years, 58-60 years, 88-90 years). | | | | edge. You always have a growing edge, no matter |
| Getting a Saturn Reading gives you information and | | | | how old you are. Unless you decide you don’t, |
| helps you prepare to take full advantage of this time in | | | | in which case you are right! |
| your life. | | | | Check out Yvonne Dowlen, figure skating at the age |
| Anyway, some people retire at their second Saturn | | | | of 80+: “If you don’t move,” she |
| Return, or change careers and want to know if they | | | | says, “you can’t move.” This |
| should live in a retirement community or not. | | | | applies to the mental and the emotional as well as the |
| This is so much a matter of personal preference. You | | | | physical. This woman has real spirit. She had a car |
| can be happy and have good experiences anywhere | | | | accident last year and her doctor told her to give up |
| (or not). The main thing is that you keep going and | | | | skating and she took that as a challenge. |
| growing. I read for people of all ages, plenty of them | | | | Good second Saturn Return role models? Oh, there |
| over 60. Let me share some of the things I’ve | | | | are the obvious ones, like Mother Teresa, Art Linkletter, |
| learned. | | | | James Brown, Jack Lalanne, Luciano Pavarotti, Pope |
| Who you have around you matters a lot at any time in | | | | Benedict XVI, and Colonel Sanders, but how about |
| life. You always want to attract and surround yourself | | | | people who live just down the street? |
| with positive people. | | | | Let me share with you some real life examples, some |
| A retirement community can give you people to share | | | | real life heroes. They’re the best kind. Names |
| history with – someone to talk with about | | | | and a few details changed for confidentiality. |
| Vietnam, and what’s wrong with the | | | | Julie is 63. She tore a core muscle last year and had |
| government, and what helps arthritis. They can also | | | | some bad months where she could hardly walk, but |
| share same-age frustrations. Like wasn’t it | | | | she was determined to get back to her rollerblading. |
| really easier when you had 3 cheeses to choose from | | | | And yes, she has. She also became fluent in Russian |
| at the grocery instead of 100? People who, when the | | | | and German at the time of her second Saturn Return. |
| discussion turns to the fact that there may not be | | | | Maureen lost her son at her second Saturn Return. |
| social security in 20 years, remember the time before | | | | The cards indicated a move would be a good thing. |
| there was social security and know that life goes on. | | | | Maureen moved to a big city and got a job downtown, |
| That sort of thing. You should always hang on to the | | | | with a 4 hour commute in some of this nation’s |
| good, and it’s very comforting to have people | | | | worst traffic and in a new field. She says it’s |
| around you who can share history. This is why family | | | | keeping her young. |
| becomes important at second Saturn Return, and | | | | James is 85 and tells me, chuckling, that he just got a |
| many siblings reunite, bury the hatchet, etc. | | | | 25-year mortgage on a new home. |
| However, this can be too much of a good thing. You | | | | Annie, 55, lost her husband 5 years ago and went into |
| may choose to live in a mixed neighborhood or | | | | a shell. Not with me you don’t! At her second |
| apartment because it is healthy at any time in life to | | | | Saturn Return, she’s rid of her fibromyalgia, |
| associate with people who are very different from | | | | started playing tennis again and got back into her size |
| you, not just in age. There’s the famous | | | | 6s. She’s dating on the Internet and just bought |
| “new toys, new playmates” study with | | | | a new home. |
| the mice. The ones who were given a steady supply | | | | At her second Saturn Return, Nancy is speaking on |
| of new and stimulating toys in their cages, and got to | | | | cruises. No she’s not a professor or anything, |
| meet new little mice did a lot better. So if you live in a | | | | she just knows a lot (who doesn’t at this age?) |
| retirement community, be sure you get out of it quite | | | | She stays current on the Internet, and always has |
| often. | | | | topics of interest. She pays a small per diem, and her |
| You see, we cannot form new brain cells as we age, | | | | companion travels free. This makes her very popular! |
| but we can form new brain connections, and to do this, | | | | One last one, Peter the successful attorney. As his |
| we need new experiences. That’s why you | | | | second Saturn Return approaching, he was bored with |
| hear, “I blah blah, it’s keeping me | | | | life and disgruntled. He signed up for a film course and |
| young.” | | | | just made his first movie. It’s very artsy. |
| So wherever you choose to live, make sure you keep | | | | “I needed that,” he said. |
| going – mentally, physically and emotionally. | | | | 60 is the new 40. Pay attention at your second Saturn |
| Learning something new is one of the best things you | | | | Return. Really good things can happen. |
| can do. I mean SO new that you’re totally lost. | | | | |