Part of Necessity
Part of Necessity Square Saturn
The Part of Necessity square Saturn presses the things you must endure against fear, rigidity, and a sense of being trapped, so obligations can feel crushing until you find what genuinely can and cannot be changed. The friction asks for sober discernment, not despair. Sort the fixed from the movable and spend your strength where it counts.
- necessity
- limitation
- friction
Sources
- Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology (2017)Brennan reads the Part of Necessity, the lot of Mercury, as the point marking constraint, compulsion, subordination, enemies, and the limits one is bound to endure.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Treats the meeting of limit, time, and discipline with the lot's significations of constraint as a specific working relationship.
- Valens, Anthologies (160)Valens reads the square to a lot as obstruction and hard pressure bearing on the lot's affairs.