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	Originally written October 2005	pp. 1 2 3 4
	As astrology is a science of qualities, it is often easiest to recognize the quality of a particular planetary combination through artistic achievement. The arts communicate through direct experience. Very little gets lost in translation when listening to a great piece of music or when observing an important film.The arts are universal languages because they communicate directly to the emotions and our subtle senses. Hence, although keyword descriptions are useful in understanding planetary combinations, a more powerful and direct way to enter into how a planetary combination in astrology expresses itself is through appreciating cultural artifacts. The following works are richly expressive of the Saturn-Neptune planetary combination. Typically, cultural works written under the influence of the Saturn-Neptune combination are melancholic, richly romantic, or deeply redemptive. Profound and often stirring, cultural works that typify the Saturn-Neptune combination tug at the heart strings in all of us because they touch upon core-and difficult-dimensions of the human experience: yearning for redemption, existential loss, tragic mourning, and spiritual hardship. At their most profound, Saturn-Neptune works can incarnate a sense of the sublime, the inspirational, or the transcendent in a concrete and enduring form. In music, the Saturn-Neptune combination is often sweetly melancholic, deeply pious, or tragically redemptive. It is often challenging to listen to great works of music that typify the Saturn-Neptune complex and to not be stirred at a profound level emotionally. In film, the Saturn-Neptune planetary pairing can often manifest in existential dramas that deal with the most private or subtle of human concerns: the search for god, spiritual suffering, and redemption through tragic loss. Typically, movies that capture the Saturn-Neptune complex are less reliant upon overt drama and more concerned with subtleties: understated performances, hauntingly beautiful soundtracks, symbolism, images, and silence. In literature and theater, works capturing the Saturn-Neptune influence tackle the most profound struggles of the human condition: existential futility, the spiritual search for redemption, psychospiritual loneliness, and meaning in the face of absurdity. The works below were chosen because they express the Saturn-Neptune planetary combination in an enduring and essential way. Equally important, the synchronicities involving the Saturn-Neptune complex are quite profound. In all instances, the creators of the works that follow received Saturn and Neptune in transit to highly significant factors in their respective natal charts. In several cases, there appear to be not one, but several, instances of the Saturn-Neptune complex through time. That is, important pieces that resonate with the archetypal dimension of the Saturn-Neptune complex appear during times in which this planetary combination is activated. The cultural expressions speak for themselves; they allow a direct experience of the Saturn-Neptune constellation.
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