The Lights and Planets
The Guardian at the Threshold
Well, that was a more formal definition of Saturn. What
about the experience of Saturn as a chakra? Saturn is
usually the first of the chakras to be opened, not
because we choose it, but rather because it stands
between us and knowing ourselves, between us and
any kind of spiritual awakening. This planet is the ring-
pass-not—the guardian on the threshold of awareness.
Until we have come to grips with our personal Saturn,
we cannot really make any kind of personal progress.
How Saturn manifests in each of our lives varies; we
can look to the placement of that planet in our chart for
more information; however, what we are describing here
involves more than can be found by looking up a
planetary symbol on an astrological chart form—it is the
other way round: the astrological chart form is a diagram
of these planetary life energies always surrounding us.
What is important to grasp here is that Saturn is a vast
area of life; at the very least, it is a phase each one of
us encounters and must confront as we grow from being
a young person to an adult. As a way of showing you
this, let's talk for a moment about the key to Saturn,
which would be Jupiter—the next planet in from Saturn.
Jupiter, as we shall see, is the vocational planet, the
planet that shows us our life path, our way through
Saturn.