the world—self-discipline, self-reliance, consistency, responsibility, and
frugality ... a nocturnal Saturn can become more melancholy, more
prone to punishing oneself or others. Here gravity can become density
and a greater sense of life’s futility. Indeed, diurnality balances some of
these saturnine extremes!
Saturn is the most important of the planets in relation to terrestrial bound-
aries. Saturn is associated with agriculture, and the process and handwork of harvest.
Things that take time to develop and endure over time are representative of Saturn’s
nature. Therefore Saturn is linked to time, age, progress, productivity, maturity and
wisdom. In the rank of social structure, Saturn is the administrator, taskmaster, tax
collector, guardian, and teacher. It procures reputation and notable rank, according to
Vettius Valens, Book I, Chapter I.Its orientation can be toward perfection that requires
diligent and disciplined effort, or efforts that can be blocked and limited by restric-
tion, doubt, and lack of skill. It brings what is deserved or earned. Honors, respect, and
authority can be granted after efforts have been made. At its most malefic it judges,
punishes, rejects, and brings accusation, tears, captivity, exposure of deceit, and
orphanhood.
Classical diseases and health problems associated with Saturn are those pro-
ceeding from cold, obstructions, and decay, such as melancholy, agues, all nervous
diseases, epilepsy, black jaundice, toothache, cold defluxions, catarrh, atrophy, fistu-
la, leprosy, palsy, apoplexy, and dropsy, according to James Wilson’s Complete Dictio-
nary of Astrology.Saturn’s ailments are chronic and many are associated with aging,
such as arthritis, sclerosis, skin diseases, skeletal deformities, hardening of arteries,
cancer, congestion, constipation, consumption, deafness, birth defects, falls and bone
fractures, gout, growths, halitosis, paralysis, polio, retardation, rheumatism, rickets,
starvation, stones in the body, tremors, tooth aches and extractions, weakness, and
weight gain, according to Rex E. Bills’s The Rulership Book, A Directory of Astrological
Correspondences.
In modern astrology’s psychological view, Saturn’s influence in personality
lends a restricted bias toward the perception of how life should operate based on
parental, social, and cultural standards. It relates to the kind of intelligence that is fac-
tual, correlating information into organized, systematically logical knowledge. It is tra-
ditional rather than original. Saturn gives strong leanings toward conformity and
social acceptance, while resisting change and rejection.
Liz Greene, Jungian psychologist and author of Saturn: A New Look at an Old
Devil,gives the modern view of Saturn:
Saturn symbolizes a psychic process as well as a quality or kind of expe-
rience. He is not merely a representative of pain, restriction, and disci-
pline; he is also a symbol of the psychic process, natural to all human
beings, by which an individual may utilize the experiences of pain,
restriction, and discipline as a means for greater consciousness and ful-
filment.... The psychic process which Saturn symbolises seems to have
something to do with the realisation of this inner experience of psychic
completeness within the individual.Saturn
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