Saturn–Venus contacts can often indicate someone who has had difficulties or loss in the arena of love, because Venus wants to relate and Saturn wants to concretely define; a combination that doesn't always lead to idealized romanticism. However, Saturn–Venus contacts, with maturity, can also indicate a strong and committed relationship orientation that is sorely needed in our post-modern world of disposable consumerism.

Nicoli specializes in defining the mythological or archetypal fields operating in our everyday lives. She emphasizes the family heredity that we have emerged from and is able to identify the particular set of psychological dynamics or family mythology that took root at birth and in our childhood.

One should never underestimate family background for it is a living present within each one of us. How we come to know and understand the different parts of ourselves as reflected by the planets and their interrelationship in the horoscope determines how we individually meet our inheritance and our destiny.

Astrology uses the actual configuration of the planets in our solar system on the day, hour and place of birth. Paracelsus long ago bid us remember that we live within a planetary system and as such, are not separate from it but very much part of a greater whole:

“In order to grasp the true meaning of …astrology, it is necessary to have a clear conception of the inner relationship and identity of the microcosm and the macrocosm and of their interaction.”