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HOW DO YOU VALUE PEOPLE? Daily Astrology Thurs 1st Oct Sun in Libra opposite Saturn in Aries. This aspect will be building over the next few days. Sun opposite Saturn is the Protestant Work Ethic. Saturn at his worst says you are what you achieve, and what you achieve has to be visible and measurable. It is what happens to religion once you strip away the iconography and ceremony and divine hierarchy. The inner contemplation as a value in itself, the light of the hermit, is discounted. This aspect, centred in Libra, is a call to value people for who they are, rather than by status cues, which is Saturn. If a celebrity walked into the room, you would behave differently. That is because they have high status, which in an ideal world is based on competence. But humans want status for its own sake. We want to be famous, we want power over others. It is in our wiring, don't kid yourself it's not there. At the same time it is a good thing, a salutary thing, to admire competence and not slip into envy, as Cain did, as we all do. And to become competent and to achieve for ourselves, as Sun opposite Saturn drives us to do. And yet there also needs to be the valuing of people simply as human beings, without putting one person above or below another. What impresses you most, someone's IQ, or how they treat others? And how do you value yourself? A day for working out your values. And for pushing yourself, in a considered way