It’s a couple of years since our young woman rediscovered that story she’d written, and eclipses have moved on to the 10/4 axis of her chart.  She’s happily married, emotionally sound, she has new friends and creative energy to burn; but she finds herself feeling the lack of a strong purpose, a direction, a sense of meaning to her life.  She dislikes her job and doesn’t feel she is working in her ideal profession; her boss is a real tyrant, and lately has been piling lots of work on her and blaming her for missing deadlines she didn’t know existed.

Her husband encourages her to leave the job; after all, they both can live on his income.  But that wouldn’t solve the problem, because it goes deeper than just her problems with her boss: she doesn’t know what to do with her life.

She might have more clarity, she suspects, if her mother had provided a stronger role model.  Her mother stayed at home and cooked pot roast and raised her kids, and that certainly is not the direction our modern young woman wants to take.

Then one day, as eventually happens in life, her mother dies.  Our young woman returns to the family home –and,  metaphorically, to her fourth house-- to celebrate her mother and mourn her loss, to grapple with endings and mortality.  One day, sorting through a trunk of her mother’s momentos, she finds something that shocks her: the yellowed, hastily scrawled pages of a short story her mother had written years before. … Her mother, a writer?  She’d never thought of her mother as a writer, or indeed as a creative person at all.

If the 10th house and Saturn, its natural ruler, send us out into the world looking for meaning in life, the 4th house and the moon send up on a treasure hunt deep within ourselves and our lineage.  Here, we find the raw material, diamonds in the rough, that we can polish and refine into a meaningful gift to offer the world.