Saturn
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- Capricorn
Modern
Saturn, in the modern reading, is Saturn is structure and limit: discipline, responsibility, time, maturity, and fear. It is where life asks for patience and effort, where you meet boundaries, and where the hard-won mastery of age is built. Wherever Saturn falls by sign and house, and however it aspects the rest of the chart, this principle is colored and located, becoming one of the central themes of the personality.
Traditional (Hellenistic)
In the tradition, Saturn is the greater malefic, signifying time, limit, death, structure, agriculture, and hardship; cold and dry, a diurnal malefic, he governs the bones, the spleen, and lead, and shows the old, the poor, and where toil, fear, and endurance are met. Read its sign for how it expresses, its house for where, its aspects for how it gets along, and its dignity and condition for how well it does its work.
Lean in — Develop Saturn's principle consciously; it is a core part of who you are.
Watch for — Disown Saturn; what it governs will act out anyway, less consciously.
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Sources
- Ptolemy, TetrabiblosGives the nature and significations of Saturn in the foundational tradition.
- Valens, AnthologiesRecords the significations of Saturn in Hellenistic practice.
- Arroyo, Astrology, Psychology and the Four Elements (1975)Frames Saturn as a core principle in modern psychological astrology.