What are you trying to master? What are your goals? What do you keep reaching for despite set backs and adversity? The Sun and Saturn square off into tomorrow and we’re feeling a pressure to do better, to push higher and make something of ourselves.

Over the past few days I’ve been unfolding a story about Saturn as it approaches a hard angle to the Sun. Some of the words astrologers use to describe this connection are reality check, responsibility, crisis, and limits. It’s not an easy angle, but it’s a necessary one.

Yesterday I spoke of Saturn, a planet that represents maturity, responsibility, and achievement. Of all the planets, it brings a sobering influence, a sense that time is short. We’ve got to build the best life while we can. Today we’re feeling the pressure to do just that.