The Lights and Planets
Saturn: A Formal Definition
Let's be a little poetical here and describe this very
powerful planet. Saturn or 'Satan' has always been said
to be the prince of the material world. Saturn is the
narrowness that makes the way felt. Saturn is the
raceway or spillway through which courses Jupiter and
the waters of life (Mars). Jupiter is the blood coursing as
well as the course—the path—itself. Saturn is the
structure of the course, the walls of the arteries, the
resistance that allows pressure to build up to something
definite—to real "feeling."
Saturn is like a wood shaper that is adjusted to produce
a certain piece of molding. Any wood presented to this
shaper has no alternative but to pass through and be
conformed to the desired shape—the only shape
possible as set by certain limits. Saturn is the limiter. All
other wood is shaved away. Eternity or truth dictates the
limits, and Saturn is the shaper or test of form. When we