Kate Bornstein's Blog for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws

Healing Time News -- With a Free Bonus Comic!

Dear Reader of This Grossly Intermittent Blog,

Hey there. I'm writing to say I'm going into hospital on Thursday, June 12th for some abdominal (abominable?) surgery. I'll be in hospital for just under a week, then pretty much housebound for 3 more weeks, is what the docs say.

Read the next paragraph (in italic type) if you want the somewhat gory details. For the more faint of heart, please skip this next paragraph cuz it's major league icky! If all you want is the free bonus comic, skip all the way down to the bottom of this post.

Roll Your Body Like Sister Kate

I am feeling SO MUCH BETTER THESE DAYS! I'm just now finishing week one, free of pain and free of narcotic painkillers. My great doctor at the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center (The GLBTQ health clinic in New York City) has put me on a terrific regimen of meds, and now I'm free to get my body into better shape, and that brought me to Yamuna Body Rolling. That's Yamuna in the picture to the left, holding the red ball.

Saturn Return. Whoopee, I'm on my 2nd One!

Your Saturn Return is when Saturn returns to the same position in the sky as when you were born. Saturn takes roughly 29-30 years to make one full orbit around the sun, so Saturn returns every 29-30 years. I turned 58 this past March, 2006. That puts me square in the middle of my second Saturn Return. If you're 27 to 31 years old then you're going through your first Saturn Return.

According to the scientifically dubious but nonetheless scarily accurate field of astrology, the planet Saturn effects us in terms of values, identities, and life direction. In your Saturn Return, there's generally a series of deep, profound changes in your life, usually in areas of your life that you've been avoiding looking at.

So how do you ride out your Saturn Return? Do you or can you prepare for it? Even if you don't believe word one of astrology, there's gonna come a time of BIG UPHEAVAL in your life. How're you going to deal with it?