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| Saturn Facts | ||
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| Dignified | Capricorn | If you can unite your head and your heart, you become dedicated to selflessness and world service. |
| Detriment | Cancer | Feelings are inhibited and unrecognized subconscious fears can be damaging. You must learn to love even if that love is not returned. |
| Exalted | Libra | Discipline enhances partnership, marriage, cooperation and compromise. |
| Fall | Aires | Limitation battles aggressiveness and usually wins. |
| House Naturally Ruled: 10th | ||
| Keywords | Limitation, principle of contraction, the teacher | |
| Associations | Health | auditory organs, body protein, crystallization and acid formation in the joints, gall bladder, knees, left ear, ligaments, parathyroid glands, skeletal system, skin, spleen, teeth |
| General | Aging, ambition, capacity for a career, cautiousness, cold, contraction, conventionality, delays, depth, discipline, form, inevitable and slow change, inhibition, intolerance, justice, law, learning principle, limitation, material gain, old age/people, organization, patience, perseverance, principle of truth, productive use of time, responsibility, restriction, scientific law, seriousness, sincerity, solidification, sorrows, stability, tenacity, theories, time, timing, urge for security and safety, wisdom of experience | |
| Positive Traits | Ambitious, cautious, constructive, diplomatic, good endurance, humble, patient, practical, reliable, respectful, responsible, self-disciplined, solid, thrifty, trustworthy | |
| Negative Traits | Aloof, cruel, depressed, despondent, dogmatic, fearful, heartless, miserly, narrow-minded, obstructive, overly sensitive, pessimistic, rigid, selfish, severe, suffers hardship, ill health and sorrow, suppressed | |
- Saturn concentrates and focuses energy and its actions are slow and lasting.
- The placement of Saturn indicates where you feel the least secure and tend to overcompensate and be conservative.
- Saturn acts as the bridge between the animal self and the real self and tests your soul until you break your self-imposed bonds and go free. Saturn demands acceptance of the material world as a proving ground for the spirit.
- Saturn collects and retains the impressions made on your consciousness through experience and builds it into soul power. A lesson learned through Saturn is not forgotten.
- The sign of Saturn indicates how you seek status and recognition and your possible career. If Saturn is weak, your career is usually not well developed.
- Saturn brings back to you the creations of your mind, emotions and body so you can see your weaknesses, turning them to strengths.
- Saturn indicates where your responsibilities lie and what life's lessons must be.
- Saturn destroys the old, out-dated and worn forms and builds a better structure on a higher level.
- The house Saturn is in is where you must start building a structure of security, responsibility and self-sufficiency.
- In a fixed sign, this gives you the ability to resist outside pressure, but you may be too rigid. In a cardinal sign, the path to change is through immersion in activity. In a mutable sign, you're often too indecisive and lack the strength to overcome existing obstacles.
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| Aspect | Effects |
| General | Aspects to Saturn indicate a lesson to be learned and involve the ability to concentrate, the capacity for self-discipline and the ability to give form and substance to your life. If Saturn is not well developed, you often lack the discipline and experience necessary to go far. Aspects show where you're forced to fulfill yourself and correct past mistakes. If heavily afflicted, you can be selfish and extremely rigid, which blocks normal life processes and social interaction. If Saturn is strong, you're ambitious and want to build something of importance and lasting value in the areas related to the sign and house occupied by Saturn. Planets that aspect Saturn are often inhibited in their action in some way. |
| Conjunctions | Conjunctions emphasize the ability to concentrate and to give form and structure to your life. You have many obstacles and limitations to overcome, but you're ambitious and willing to work hard. You're conservative, serious and respected for your self-discipline, but others find it difficult to warm up to you. The signs, houses and planets involved show the areas where this is most evident. |
| Trines | Trines indicate good fortune and lasting success through disciplined creativity and a serious philosophic outlook. Your high moral conduct inspires trust and confidence of others and you're often given positions of authority. The signs, houses and planets involved show the areas where this is most evident. |
| Squares | Squares challenge you to succeed or to become aware of the need to accept responsibility. You usually encounter severe obstacles and limitations that frustrate your ambitions and desire for happiness, which tends to affect your career and home life. You must learn to overcome negative thinking and attitudes. The signs, houses and planets involved show the areas where this is most evident. |
| Sextiles | Sextiles indicate flow and opportunities to learn and concentrate. Hard work and good organization lead to progress and mental development. You're loyal to siblings, friends, neighbors and organizations to which you belong or support. The signs, houses and planets involved show the areas where this is most evident. |
| Inconjuncts | Inconjuncts indicate you must learn to adjust to limitations and delays in areas related to the signs, houses and planets involved. |
| Oppositions | Oppositions indicate problems in relationships due to negative, restrictive and selfish attitudes. You're much too serious and austere and others view this as unfriendliness, so you're often lonely and frustrated. You're challenged to succeed or to become aware of the need to accept responsibility. The signs, houses and planets involved show the areas where this is most evident. |
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