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| By Maurice Cooke |
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"Saturn is without question the most significant indicator in the entire sky in terms of that which is essential for the individual to understand about himself. From the placement of Saturn in the birth chart can be derived the main lessons to be learned in the life, the major balancing of energies that must take place, and the extent of the negative karma that needs to be set aside.
The planet Saturn is related astrologically to all that which limits and restricts man in the earth plane. It thus rules illness, authority, karma, duty and responsibility. The location of this planet in a chart always tells how at least a portion of the negative karma of the soul is to be met in this incarnation. It usually points to what the native fears in a subconscious sense, for the negative karma is known to the soul before birth and the personality forming on the earth plane is subliminally aware of what awaits it in the life pattern just beginning. The house position of this planet points to the department of life where the negative karma is to be encountered."
First house: when the karmic planet is located in the house of the ego, it can be concluded that many of the traits of the self -and the self-image- are to be importantly changed through the course of this incarnation due to the pressures which Saturn's influence will bring to bear on the self picture.
The self image must be buffeted by reverses, which will mold a character like no other influence could possibly do. The soul, prior to entering this incarnation, was vividly aware of the vast amount of work they yet needed to be done on the self image and the basic personality which it tended to project for each physical experience, and was willing to subject that personality to a pattern of difficulty which it deemed the only salvation available. The reverses, however, may be of many kinds. In numerous cases the health is delicate-because the soul knows that much can be improved through bouts of illness.
In other instances the body is strong, but accidents or operations intervene to sap its strength. In still other cases, the physical side of the experiences left alone, and the pressures are applied in the mental or emotional spheres instead. Although there are no hard and fast rules to the working out of Saturn's influence when located in the first house, the actual nature of the reverses suffered will always be a strong pointer to the kind of change which needs to be effective in this life.
Moreover, the faster the native learns what the desired changes are and takes positive steps to bring them about, the faster will the pattern of negative experience terminate. The relief of the pattern, however, is depended upon the extent of the negative karma to be set aside. It often happens that, even after the lesson has been learned and the requisite changes have been made, the suffering continues. In such cases this is invariably due to the necessity to set aside more karma and has been met.
Second house: When Saturn is located in the second house, the meaning is like a sub category of Saturn in the first. Again there are reverses a fortune that must be encountered, however the department of life in which they will be met is more clearly delineated. It is that of the affections. It is the love life that will most obviously be under Saturn's hand, and this will manifest in love lost and fulfillment delayed. We know that many with Saturn in the second house will be dismayed at this news; however we remind the reader that earth life was not meant to be merely an adventure in pleasure or accomplishment.
Each incarnating soul comes with many lessons and much karma, and the troubles in love are meant to allow this learning and this unburdening to take place. It is best for the person with the second house Saturn to strive for genuineness in the affections, and for that philosophical attitude which allows him to contemplate lost love equanimity.
It is attachment which brings sorrow to the human being, not the loss of a person, thing or situation. Were it not for the attachment to the thing now lost, no sadness would be felt. Indeed when the individual has learned to love without attachment, and to love genuinely from the heart, then it is more likely that the pattern of loss will cease. It will have no other use then, even for the setting aside of negative karma.
Third house: when Saturn is located in the third sector of the Natal chart, the meaning has to do primarily with the mental sphere. The native will tend to be of a somewhat serious cast of mind. Where Saturn is heavily afflicted, there may be a tendency toward mental depression or instability. The details of the trait can be gathered from an inspection of the afflicting planets.
If on the other hand Saturn is primarily well aspected, then the mind will tend to have a stable and perhaps even philosophical bent to it. A cautious individual, this one-especially, given to planning well ahead in order to forestall any negative eventuality. The karma is largely a mental nature, and pertains to the weight which is often felt upon the mind.
Fourth house: the placement of Saturn in the house pertaining to early home influences points clearly to a powerful karmic pattern involving the parental factors at work in the formation of the personality. Saturn rules authority, and the first authority with which the new personality collides is that exerted by the parent. When Saturn is afflicted in the fourth, it may be concluded that the family life was under a cloud of coldness or control, and that at least one parent represented a problem for the developing personality.
Usually this problem is presented as an emotional one vis-à-vis the parent concerned and often the autocratic nature of that parent is the reason for the emotional stress felt by the native. In other cases the effect of Saturn can manifest as a physical distance from the parents, as contrasted with an emotional one. In some instances, at lease one of the parent figures is lacking altogether.
The result of this heaviness in the early life is usually to make the individual extremely cautious when it comes to establishing his own home during early adulthood. Other complexes can also be created, but these vary widely depending upon the specifics of the emotional relationship with the prominent parent signified by Saturn
Fifth house: when Saturn is in the fifth house, it may be concluded that the relationship with the father requires a good deal of effort during the first part of the life. The native is generally one who prefers to invest his emotions in a love relationship with a potential mate, rather than in his parental associations. This preference, carried over from a string of past lives, is now to be corrected and balanced by forcing the individual to expend effort on his relationship with his father.
Even in cases where the father figure is largely absent from the life pattern, the native must deal with the notion of the father. Indeed a father's absence is often a greater impetus to correcting one's attitude than his presence might have been.
At the same time, the placement of Saturn in the fifth house will tend to delay or deny affectional fulfillment with a mate, and to restrict the possibilities of having children. This is not to say that these areas of experience are necessarily to be denied altogether, as this only happens under severe afflictions to a fifth sector Saturn. The restrictions that are felt, however, are intended to prompt the individual to balance his expenditure of affectional energy, not placing it all into the pair bond, but learning to distribute more to the parents (father) and to the children.
Sixth house: when Saturn is located in the sixth house, there is a strong indication that the working conditions for the native will be felt as restrictive and oppressive karma at lease over certain periods of life. The purpose of placing him under these restrictive conditions is to inculcate a seriousness into his attitude toward his job or his role in life. He longs for an easy way to make a living, but Saturn will see to it that only through effort, perseverance and attention will he succeed.
Seventh house: the placement of Saturn in the seventh sector points to the karmic necessity for enduring a traumatic breakup of a marriage or marriage-like bond. The karma invariably stems from a life in which the native was responsible for inflicting equivalent pain on another by sundering a marriage partnership. Usually the mate in this life is the same one who in that earlier experience suffered as the native must do now.
However, unless Saturn receives only adverse aspects from other planets, the native will likely not be denied marriage fulfillment permanently. Provided he seeks earnestly the key to understanding why the marriage foundered, and strives to make the necessary changes in himself, it is likely that, at least eventually, a suitable match can be made which will be permanent.
Eighth house: Saturn in the eighth house always limits sexual expression during portions of the adult life, whether through chosen abstinence, through illness of the native or his partner, or through the lack of a relationship. The purpose is always to prompt the person to de-escalate his emphasis on sexual experience. Many individuals with an eighth house Saturn may deny that they over-inflate the sexual area, but we seem to matter in a different light.
While in a minority of instances the native will have succeeded in dismantling his exaggeration of sex (precisely what his guides intended), in most cases the native will simply have suppressed the sexuality into the subconscious in order not to have a conscious personality tormented with desires that cannot be fulfilled (during those periods when the life pattern enforces abstinence).
In some situations the desire of the soul to eschew sexual contact is so great (because it wants to correct earlier indulgences) that it arranges overlays and filters for the personality which will lead it to choose celibacy. Such individuals may be drawn into the church, for example and would be incapable of understanding any hint that they harbor strong sexual urges that are now being counterbalanced.
Care must always be employed when explaining the eighth house matters to individuals, due to the ease with which those of prudish or puritanical nature can suppress their basic sexuality. However, in any case of suppression, the results can often be perceived in the health of the body (illnesses affecting the regenerative area), the dream experiences (embarrassing), or markings on the forehead (creases between the eyebrows). We caution astrologers and others in the counseling profession to use discretion when attempting to probe this area.
Ninth house: when Saturn is located in the ninth house, the meaning pertains to the area of philosophy. Saturn is not at ease in the ninth, since the ringed planet is attuned essentially to worldly things whereas the ninth house is that of speculative philosophy, spiritual insight and intuition. This placement usually suggests that the individual has a tendency to develop a self-paced philosophy of life, limited to that which can be objectively known and experienced. Often spiritual and "other-worldly" ideas are given short shrift as being incapable of hard demonstration. The task for the person with the Saturn placement is to broaden his perspective on life, and to develop some concept of the purpose of existence.
To this end, his guides will sometimes arrange for at least one of his parents (or an equivalent) to be into a more spiritually-based philosophy or religious way of life. The hope is that the native, through exposure to this non-worldly influence, will absorb much of the ideas which go beyond his narrow approach. If such contact fails to jolt him out of his placid materiality, his guides will normally begin to present him with personal experiences for which his own philosophy cannot account. These promptings will become stronger and stronger until, unable to deny the reality of his experiences any longer, he will turn and begin to seek a more encompassing way to view life-one which will take these experiences into account.
Tenth house: when Saturn is found in the tenth sector, the meaning is that the individual must put considerable effort into his job or career in order to make it a success. Lacking this effort - in a good deal of care and caution-the career will tend to turn sour again and again. The lesson is simply to devote a reasonable effort to making one's job a success. If this is done, then no problems will be encountered. However, past life habits of sloth and inattention have usually been brought forward into this life, and it is these which the job reverses are meant to correct.
We should point out that the tenth house rules any role in life and not merely a well defined job or career. For a housewife, the home environment is the career and Saturn in the tenth will have its effect here. The tenth house is also a "parental house" and an afflicted Saturn in this position will tend to coincide with a strained relationship with one of the parents.
Eleventh house: when the planet of karma and restriction is located in the house of (former) enemies, the meaning is that much effort yet needs to be expanded in straightening out the relationships with souls that once were adversaries.
The greater the afflictions to Saturn, the greater the effort that must now be made. In practical terms, this placement of Saturn will tend to bring into the life authority figures with whom much conflict is felt. Usually the earliest of these figures is one of the parents. If a strained and conflict-ridden relationship arises between the native and one of his parents, there is little doubt that that parent was once an enemy, and that unless the two individuals can resolve the conflict in this life, they will simply have to be tossed together again and again until the old enmity dissolves and the only force that can do this is love.
Twelfth house: the placement of Saturn in the twelfth points to a burdened previous life, usually one marked by illness and loneliness. As a result the present personality will bear scars in the subconscious, and these residues may well program him to react to events and people in certain negative ways. The possible ramifications are too varied to allow us to comment more specifically.
We will say only that this placement should be taken by the astrologer or analyst as a clue to the origins of many of the complex phobias and antisocial behavior patterns of the native, so that other more direct methods of probing and clarification can be initiated. Past life regression tends to be very helpful in this regard.
In the signs of the Zodiac, Saturn always points to a major lesson to be learned, the lesson being in some way indicated by the sign. The specifics can vary, but always the general idea can be derived from a knowledge of the sign traits and especially an understanding of the major flaws present when the sun is in the sign concerned.
In Aries, Saturn denotes a lesson relating to control of the self in some way. This could mean mental, physical or emotional control.
In Taurus, Saturn will point to a self-indulgent streak, usually of a physical kind.
In Gemini, Saturn denotes a tendency for the mind to be too serious and weighed down.
In Cancer: Saturn points to a problem in accepting the parent-figures that were available in the early life. Usually, the actual parents were less than satisfactory to the individual, but occasionally the problem is entirely due to the inner traits of the individual himself. As a result of this parental problem there is placed in the unconscious a distorted concept of what a parent should be and how a parent should act. This usually leads to activity and behavior of the negative or damaging kind when he individual himself becomes a parent.
The poor parent-image in the unconscious and the negative experiences that caused the poor image to be implanted, are karmic necessities that function to discharge the negative effects of actions taken as a parent in a previous life, which actions damaged others in some way. The major task for the person with Saturn in Cancer, is to overcome the handicap arising in the early home into evolve proper parental behavior for himself.
In Leo, Saturn points always in the same direction: pride and arrogance. The worse the aspects to Saturn, the more grave the problem and the more pressing the need to bring about a correction.
In Virgo, Saturn denotes a tendency to be too organized and methodical about areas that don't deserve that much energy to be expended on them. This is a placement that tends to blind the individual to the larger view of things. Details and unimportant concerns take the attention away from an appreciation of the whole. The lesson is of course to balance the lopsidedness.
In Libra, Saturn brings problems into the partnership area. Marriage is either delayed, denied or made a focus of limitation and restraint in some way. These limitations are an exterior reflection of internal difficulties in terms of the kind of mutual sharing that marriage requires. This problem is always a component of the soul, and not just of the personality. The problems encountered in the marriage area are for the purpose of laying bare the internal difficulties so that the personality can attempt to rectify the internal imbalance by taking positive action to improve the partnership department of life.
In Scorpio, Saturn shows always that some form of sexual problem is present in the life pattern and must be worked on in order to be corrected. The problem is usually an over emphasis on the sexual area, and the usual way of correcting this over emphasis is to force the individual to endure long periods of very limited sexual expression.
In Sagittarius, Saturn shows that the usefulness and adventuresome spirit is too pronounced in the soul, and at the present life has been chosen for the correction of the imbalance. The usual means of forcing the correction is to limit travel, or to attach Saturnian characteristics to it, for example, illness or responsibilities. The individual with this placement, particularly if Saturn receives close negative aspects, should attempt to see that life calls us away to a higher adventure than merely traveling upon the physical earth.
The great summons is to seek the adventures of the mind, the soaring of the spirit, and the out-flowering of love for all creation, for in these endeavors will be found the true adventure of the soul: it's own progress toward the higher realms.
In Capricorn, Saturn is in its own sign, and is therefore very strongly placed. In general, all of the positives Saturnian traits will tend to be present, and some of the negative ones depending upon the degree of affliction. The positive traits are those of seriousness, stability, caution, and instinct to seek safe positions, ambition, and a strong ability to do well in the world's terms, i.e. worldly success.
The negative traits are emotional coldness, an over-emphasis on worldly success, hyper -punctuality. The matter of aspects must be carefully judged as the absence of negative aspects will mean that none of the Saturn in Capricorn lessons are slated for the life being lived.
In Aquarius, which used to be ruled by Saturn before the discovery of Uranus, Saturn is also fairly well placed. However there is a definite tendency for this placement to coincide with an over emphasis on the mental side of life, often to the exclusion of the emotional interchange with others. This is the greatest problem for the placement, and those especially who have Saturn afflicted here will have to undergo emotional difficulties and affectional losses in order to be brought to see the importance of developing and demonstrating affectional impulses.
In Pisces, Saturn is very badly placed. Pisces is watery, changeable, emotional and unconcerned with practical matters. Saturn is hard, stable, extremely practical and suppressive of the emotions. Thus one would expect a conflict between the different urges of these two symbols, and that is precisely what results. The individual tends to be in a tug-of-war between hyper emotionalism on the one hand, and the urge to be cold and rational on the other. Sometimes the conflict is between the inner traits and the kinds of experiences and people one unconsciously attracts.
For example, there could be a situation where an individual with this placement is himself cold, practical, rational and reliable, but he continually finds himself dealing with emotional, unstable and impractical people. In effect, the emotionalism is also inside himself, but it is confined to the unconscious sphere and must be projected out upon others in order to be realized.
Hilarion
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Other sources of information:
http://www.cafeastrology.com/articles/saturninhouses.html
http://www.astrologyweekly.com/learn-astrology/planets-in-houses.php
http://www.astrology-numerology.com/inhouses-saturn.html
