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I would like to digress from exploring the planets relative to the Sun and start to examine and discuss Saturn. Saturn is a rule maker, but also appears at times to be a rule breaker. There is no other planet, for some of us, whose effects upon us are as obvious and as intrusive as those abscribed to Saturn.
Saturn is a beuatiful ringed planet, often yellowish in color, and regarded as being the outermost visible planet -- although Uranus is sometimes visible in its orbit to those with exceptional eyesight and having a clear viewing location for the starry sky above us. As the "outermost" planet, and the slowest moving planet (visible), Saturn was given symbolism relating to "limits." These limits were associated with time (ones life span, which was often 30 years in ancient times), with the skin (the outer limits of our bodies), with walls (that surrounded homes and villages to keep out bandits), with rules (as laid down by "elders" in one's society), with conservatism (those who carefully nourished their resources had a better life in their old age).
All of this would have been reasonable in terms of building a set of symbols, but Saturn took us a step further. Saturn hammered home its seeming impact upon each of us by bringing marked changes into our life a predicatble times. The most obvious Saturnian change occurs for each of us around 29 years of age when Saturn returns to its natal position -- we are forced to mature and adopt new ways -- or really fight to remain in a juevenile mode, a fight that most lose sooner or later. Saturn seems to require change. "Resistance is futile." Change now, willinglly, or change later under harsher conditions, but change you must.
Once Saturn had our attention, it became easy to see other milestones in our life that were coincidental with Saturn's movements through our charts. Indeed, for astrologers, there are several Saturn cycles which can be easily observed:
** Saturn's cycle relative to its natal position in our chart.
** Saturn's cycle relative to the chart's angles and houses
** Saturn and the Moon; natal and progressed positions, relationships
It's possilbe that we may explore several "Planet Series: Saturn sub-topic" threads because Saturn is so unique, so impactful, so important in our lives. In this thread we will keep in mind the overall theme of "how we deal with Saturn's transits and activities within our charts -- and whether we see Saturn as a friend or a foe."
FIRST CONSIDERATION: Where is Saturn in our Natal Chart? What house is Saturn in? What kind of a natal imprint might this suggest on its own? Saturn aspects will, for the most part, be addressed later.
** First Quadrant of the chart **
The movement of Saturn through the first quadrant or first three houses of your chart, according to Marc Robertson, represents A PERSONAL GROWTH IN DEPTH. As you live within your life, your surroundings, and project yourself thruough your activities and presence, you will come face to face with reality. What you were is not how you are now required to be. Life will bring you opportunities to redifine your self. In fact, DEFINITION seems to be one of Saturn's more important keywords. We will keep this sense of how Saturn may be experienced in life as it transits our first quadrant while we examine the natal position of Saturn in these houses.
** Natal Saturn in the first house **
One appears cautious and reserved, especially in early life. A lack of confidence requires us to define strategies for success and acceptance. Being still and unnoticed until we map out the surroundings we find ourselves in is typical. Trying to get others to live by "the rules" often leads to frustration as we try to equate "our rules and constraints" against what others have or don't have for rules and constraints.
** Natal Saturn in the second house **
We are preoccupied with making sure that we know our basis for being, just what our personal values and preferences are. We tend to work hard to get a basis of substance put in place, to order our resources, to stake out what is important to us and about us. Do we have enough? Is our list of "enough" complete?
** Natal Saturn in the third house **
How do I understand my environment? This, for Saturn, is the house of the ordered mind. It is a library of understanding in which everything must be cataloged, indexed and summarized. When young, this is hard to do, and all that is understood often has to be relearned and re-understood again. Plan after plan may be adopted and disgarded.
** The second quadrant houses and Saturn's place there **
The second quadrant may span a different (greater or lesser) arc of degree-space than the first. This is symbolic of where your focus is. The second quadrant represents GAINING A GROWTH IN PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.
** Natal Saturn in the fourth house **
One seems concerned with fundamental values. Early in life, these are the family's values as taught and experienced, sometimes seen as very restrictive or dicatorial, always quite definite and structured. This may be due to an absence (in one way or another) of one parent or even both parents, as experienced by the chart-owner. In any case, one emerges from early life with the sense of having been deprived or limited. What one actualy gets is a sense of responsibility, an ability to choose one's burdens and limited areas of exploraton, a legacy of values.
** Natal Saturn in the fifth house **
One seems totally occupied in defining how one expresses oneself, what skills are needed, what structures are used, how one can creatively shape ones life. Fun tends to be along planned or structured activities but a full range of creative expression can be had. Often one plays within some constraints, be it a ball field, or with a handicap, or within differing age groups, etc.
** Natal Saturn in the sixth house **
This "taking stock of me" house suites Saturn quite well. One seems capable of accepting what Saturn offers and is able to restructure rules, legacies, and the constraints of others so as to better ones work habits, effectiveness, and ability to help others along the way. Energy levels may be down and a lack of self-discipline may signify levels of depression from time to time.
These are basic understandings, summarized here, that every early-studies student should learn and understand early in their astrological education. Just as Saturn represents structure, it is one of the primary symbols in our chart that provides a major part of our personal structure. Saturn tells us a lot about our fears, where we choose not to grow, where we accept our own or other's recstrictions and rules, where we can face challenges that are important to our growth, where we are weak and need to overcompensate.
In my next post, I'll cover Saturn in houses 7 through 12. After that we will look at the cycles of Saturn as it moves through time and through our chart, marking important growth and crises points in our lives. We will also look at the Saturn-Moon phase relationship in terms of both the natal position and the secondary progressed chart. After all of this, we will hopefully have gained a comprehensive understanding of the may ways in which this far-away planet makes such a huge impact in our lives. Dave
Saturn is a beuatiful ringed planet, often yellowish in color, and regarded as being the outermost visible planet -- although Uranus is sometimes visible in its orbit to those with exceptional eyesight and having a clear viewing location for the starry sky above us. As the "outermost" planet, and the slowest moving planet (visible), Saturn was given symbolism relating to "limits." These limits were associated with time (ones life span, which was often 30 years in ancient times), with the skin (the outer limits of our bodies), with walls (that surrounded homes and villages to keep out bandits), with rules (as laid down by "elders" in one's society), with conservatism (those who carefully nourished their resources had a better life in their old age).
All of this would have been reasonable in terms of building a set of symbols, but Saturn took us a step further. Saturn hammered home its seeming impact upon each of us by bringing marked changes into our life a predicatble times. The most obvious Saturnian change occurs for each of us around 29 years of age when Saturn returns to its natal position -- we are forced to mature and adopt new ways -- or really fight to remain in a juevenile mode, a fight that most lose sooner or later. Saturn seems to require change. "Resistance is futile." Change now, willinglly, or change later under harsher conditions, but change you must.
Once Saturn had our attention, it became easy to see other milestones in our life that were coincidental with Saturn's movements through our charts. Indeed, for astrologers, there are several Saturn cycles which can be easily observed:
** Saturn's cycle relative to its natal position in our chart.
** Saturn's cycle relative to the chart's angles and houses
** Saturn and the Moon; natal and progressed positions, relationships
It's possilbe that we may explore several "Planet Series: Saturn sub-topic" threads because Saturn is so unique, so impactful, so important in our lives. In this thread we will keep in mind the overall theme of "how we deal with Saturn's transits and activities within our charts -- and whether we see Saturn as a friend or a foe."
FIRST CONSIDERATION: Where is Saturn in our Natal Chart? What house is Saturn in? What kind of a natal imprint might this suggest on its own? Saturn aspects will, for the most part, be addressed later.
** First Quadrant of the chart **
The movement of Saturn through the first quadrant or first three houses of your chart, according to Marc Robertson, represents A PERSONAL GROWTH IN DEPTH. As you live within your life, your surroundings, and project yourself thruough your activities and presence, you will come face to face with reality. What you were is not how you are now required to be. Life will bring you opportunities to redifine your self. In fact, DEFINITION seems to be one of Saturn's more important keywords. We will keep this sense of how Saturn may be experienced in life as it transits our first quadrant while we examine the natal position of Saturn in these houses.
** Natal Saturn in the first house **
One appears cautious and reserved, especially in early life. A lack of confidence requires us to define strategies for success and acceptance. Being still and unnoticed until we map out the surroundings we find ourselves in is typical. Trying to get others to live by "the rules" often leads to frustration as we try to equate "our rules and constraints" against what others have or don't have for rules and constraints.
** Natal Saturn in the second house **
We are preoccupied with making sure that we know our basis for being, just what our personal values and preferences are. We tend to work hard to get a basis of substance put in place, to order our resources, to stake out what is important to us and about us. Do we have enough? Is our list of "enough" complete?
** Natal Saturn in the third house **
How do I understand my environment? This, for Saturn, is the house of the ordered mind. It is a library of understanding in which everything must be cataloged, indexed and summarized. When young, this is hard to do, and all that is understood often has to be relearned and re-understood again. Plan after plan may be adopted and disgarded.
** The second quadrant houses and Saturn's place there **
The second quadrant may span a different (greater or lesser) arc of degree-space than the first. This is symbolic of where your focus is. The second quadrant represents GAINING A GROWTH IN PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.
** Natal Saturn in the fourth house **
One seems concerned with fundamental values. Early in life, these are the family's values as taught and experienced, sometimes seen as very restrictive or dicatorial, always quite definite and structured. This may be due to an absence (in one way or another) of one parent or even both parents, as experienced by the chart-owner. In any case, one emerges from early life with the sense of having been deprived or limited. What one actualy gets is a sense of responsibility, an ability to choose one's burdens and limited areas of exploraton, a legacy of values.
** Natal Saturn in the fifth house **
One seems totally occupied in defining how one expresses oneself, what skills are needed, what structures are used, how one can creatively shape ones life. Fun tends to be along planned or structured activities but a full range of creative expression can be had. Often one plays within some constraints, be it a ball field, or with a handicap, or within differing age groups, etc.
** Natal Saturn in the sixth house **
This "taking stock of me" house suites Saturn quite well. One seems capable of accepting what Saturn offers and is able to restructure rules, legacies, and the constraints of others so as to better ones work habits, effectiveness, and ability to help others along the way. Energy levels may be down and a lack of self-discipline may signify levels of depression from time to time.
These are basic understandings, summarized here, that every early-studies student should learn and understand early in their astrological education. Just as Saturn represents structure, it is one of the primary symbols in our chart that provides a major part of our personal structure. Saturn tells us a lot about our fears, where we choose not to grow, where we accept our own or other's recstrictions and rules, where we can face challenges that are important to our growth, where we are weak and need to overcompensate.
In my next post, I'll cover Saturn in houses 7 through 12. After that we will look at the cycles of Saturn as it moves through time and through our chart, marking important growth and crises points in our lives. We will also look at the Saturn-Moon phase relationship in terms of both the natal position and the secondary progressed chart. After all of this, we will hopefully have gained a comprehensive understanding of the may ways in which this far-away planet makes such a huge impact in our lives. Dave