You get some great, amazingly fantastic news. What’s the first thing you do?

Surely, the first thing I will feel is a shiver of joy. But immediately after that, I will stay cool, as if it is a normal situation. I’m not used to receiving exciting, pleasant news.

I usually have to put a lot of work and patience into whatever I want to achieve, especially patience. Until the time arrives, carrying the wished outcome, I have already assimilated entirely into an impartial feeling. So, when good news comes for me, I can’t really feel that excitement or happiness.

There is an explanation for that. In my birth chart, Saturn and Jupiter, both retrograde, are in my 6th house, which is, among other things, the house of work, routine, and enemies. Saturn is a cold planet and the master of karma. Despite being together with Jupiter, the upper hand has Saturn. I think that explains a lot why I am the way I am.

When I was younger, I had problems with patience. I eagerly waited to receive good outcomes and news promptly. Sometimes, to that extreme point, I got aggressive—I wished to receive the news better yesterday than today. Meanwhile, after I learned about Vedic Astrology and my birth chart, I’ve learned to live with that delay; I think it turned into another extreme of being almost indifferent. I just do what I can do, as well as I can do, with effort and devotion, and wait.

Actually, it is Mercury who delivers the news, but in my case, it is Saturn.

I think Saturn and I, in the passing years, have become very good friends.