The Saturn
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Saturn The Astrology Planet
Saturn's position in your chart shows the nature of your conscience struct-
ure, and how you set about the task of self-discipline and laying down the
law to others. The reasons for your prejudices may be based on fear of
punishment, or on hope of reward for a task well done, depending on your
upbringing; in either case Saturn will show how well you conform.
Saturn is the ringed planet that encloses and encircles what is within its realm. It defines limits, form and structure. It represents caution, conservatism, realism, pessimism, orthodoxy and old age. It brings depression, poverty, stagnation, restriction and misfortune. It elicits depth of thought, ambition, perseverance, and the desire for status. It represent the State, the Establishment, politics, organization and civil authority. It institutes discipline and repression, imposes order, and establishes justice. It signifies miners, land owner, officials, and administrators. It represents the world and all its laws. It rules the tenth sign, Capricorn, the eleventh sign, Aquarius, and the Tenth and Eleventh Houses. Its orbit lasts twenty-nine and a half years.
The last planet we can see unassisted, Saturn represents limits: the limit of our vision, the limit of our body (the skin), and the limits of personal action (the law). Saturn is the structure and the form behind the way things are. It is the Lord of this World, the Lord of Karma and Time, the keeper of Records, and our teacher. It rules the skin, teeth, the organs of hearing, the bones and the knees. With our knees we are able to bend in humility to the way things are, a truth whether or not we respond to it.
Saturn symbolizes limitation, fear, time, structure, karma, consolidation, delays, the father, old age, tests, discipline, collective law/reality, school, teachers, contraction, responsibility, obligation, ambition and Satan. In the physical body it rules the skin, bones, teeth, knees and ears.
Saturn’s symbol is the crescent of the personality subjugated to and held down by the cross of matter. Only when we bow down to the law of the way things are and pass the tests of material existence can we truly be free to enter the realm of the spirit. It rules Capricorn, where, if unafflicted, strength, persistence, and responsibility can be married to being a channel for power, rather than trying to be the power. It is exalted in Libra, the sign of marriage, union and cooperation. What on Earth tests us more and calls for more discipline? It is in its detriment in Cancer, where it hardens and inhibits feelings, nurturing and mothering. In its fall in Aries it blocks the flow of energy, and one can be too self-centered.
We are all Saturn’s children in that our mortal bodies are eventually devoured by father time and our psyches by our parents’ shadows - the latter to the extent to which we do not fight for the light with which we were born, for consciousness. Saturn, however, is not merely our devourer, but our liberator if, while we live, we also learn to bow our will to the way the world is, and more importantly, to who and what we are. The interplay of knowing versus building who we are takes a lifetime, all under the dominion of time.
Saturn Keywords
limitation, fear, time, structure, karma, consolidation, delays but does not deny, the father, old age, tests, discipline, collective law/reality, school, teachers, contraction, responsibility, obligation, ambition, Satan rules the skin, bones, teeth, knees and ears,methodical, patient, disciplined, dutiful .