Symbol: ♄
Cycle: 29.35 years
Exaltation: Libra
Exile: Cancer, Leo
Fall: Aries
The sixth planet from the Sun, Saturn, is one of the most beautiful planets in our system, known for its numerous rings. However, its reputation is not nearly as good as it is rightly considered a planet with a very negative influence, which is why it is called a “great malefic”.
Saturn primarily symbolizes time, that is, awareness of the passage of time, as well as awareness of past time. In this way, Saturn represents the awareness of a limited duration in time and therefore the awareness of death, mortality, transience, because everything that is subject to time has its beginning and end. Everything this planet represents has its root in that original determination.
Since time is a resource that is non-renewable, that we never have enough of and that we always lose, then it is not surprising that the planet that represents time also represents poverty, scarcity, misery, anxiety, loss. As Saturn represents the awareness of the past or historical consciousness, which rests on our ability to memorize, to remember, this planet therefore symbolizes history, tradition, customs, ancestors.
Contrary to its antipode, Moon, which represents the first 7 years of life, our early childhood, Saturn symbolize the last period of life, the old age and therefore, signify old people, grandparents and pensioners.
Since Saturn follows Jupiter in the order of the planets in the solar system, Saturn represents the reaction and consequence of Jupiter’s influence. As Saturn’s symbol is the same as Jupiter’s, but turned upside down, most of Saturn’s meanings are the opposite of Jupiter’s. So, as Jupiter represents everything we want to get from life, to be happy, satisfied, cherished, accomplished, rich, Saturn symbolizes everything we dread and want to avoid and thus represents pain, suffering, hardships, losses, failures, defeats, disappointments, dissatisfaction, humiliations, chronic diseases. Just as Jupiter signifies hope, faith, positivity, optimism, spontaneity, enthusiasm, appreciation, happiness, wealth, Saturn signifies doubt, despair, negativity, pessimism, rigidity, apathy, disparagement, sorrow, poverty.
Since Saturn symbolizes everything that people would prefer to avoid, so in itself it symbolizes avoidance, ignoring, giving up, refuting, repressing.
This planet exemplifies the Mephistophelian spirit of negation and denial, so all the words that negate and deny such as, „no”, “I won’t”, “I can’t”, “I don’t”, “I don’t have time”,” I don’t care”, are in the symbolism of this planet.
In essence, Saturn symbolize our negative traits, our shortcomings, weaknesses and flaws which we refuse to acknowledge, deny, suppress and are eager to see in others. It represents all our various defense mechanisms, but also evil tendencies that we hide from ourselves and project onto others. For this reason, Saturn symbolize our shadow.
By its position in the sign, house and the aspects it forms with other planets, it shows where we are constrained, where we have difficulties expressing ourselves, where we have weaknesses, as well as where we need to learn the most.
Positively placed and used it gives seriousness, studiousness, thoroughness, patience, professionalism, acceptance of responsibility, respect for obligations, objectivity, impartiality, cold reasoning, recognition and correction of shortcomings, experience, maturity, wisdom. Creating something of lasting value.
Negatively placed and used it gives evil, meanness, treachery, corruption, malignity, hatred, malice, rigidity, projecting one’s shortcomings on others, condemnation, torture of oneself and others, strictness, reactionary, cruelty, inflexibility, stubbornness, rawness, primitivism.
Various meanings:
- symbolizes everything that resists the destructive nature of time for a long period – stone, rock, wood, skeleton, fossil, teeth.
- represent everything that serves to measure and track time – calendar, watch, clock, stopwatch.
- past, history, archaeology, customs, traditions, dogmas, habits, conservatism.
- memory, remembrance, retrospective, chronology, nostalgy, memorial, monument.
- destiny, fate, curse, doom, karma.
- old, old age, ending, end, epilogue, finalization, old people, grandmothers, grandfathers, pensioners.
- symbols of old age – decrepitude, dilapidation, gray hairs, wrinkles, slowness, senility, tiredness, weariness, fatigue, modesty, wisdom.
- self-preservation, protection, defense, guard, aloofness, defensive, fortification, rampart, dam, wall, blockade, bumper, shield, immunity.
- rule, law, fact, axiom, regulation, decree, judge, referee, jury.
- foundation, base, root, structure, final form.
- asceticism, stoicism, Buddhism
- slowing down, stalling, standing still, stopping, torpor, moving backwards, brake, stagnation, holding back, stiffness, rut, regression, living in the past, wasting time.
- negativity, pessimism, doubt, skepticism, verification, mistrust, evidence, science, judgment, materialism, pragmatism, empiricism, learning from experience, from mistakes.
- waiting, procrastination, postponement.
- negation in any context, refusal, refutation, denial, renunciation.
- frustration, deprivation, confinement, bondage, enslavement, submission, slavery, chains.
- dullness, stupidity, retardation, deformation, disability, sterility.
- suffering, pain, sadness, grief, mourning, agony, horror, terror, torture.
- envy, jealousy, malice, corruption, evil, sin, crime, felony, punishment, infamy.
- sarcasm, cynicism, irony, derision, satire.
- symbols of decay and neglect – dust, cobwebs, corrosion, mold, rot, dirt, stench.
- feeling of weakness and powerlessness, flaws, shortcomings, complexes, chronic diseases, failure, jitters.
- depression, apathy, anxiety, lethargy, listlessness, gloom, sullenness, fatalism, nihilism, determinism, decadence, masochism.
- discipline, restraint, determination, perseverance, patience.
- control, censorship, ban, forbidden, inhibition, despotism.
- feelings of transience, futility and meaninglessness.
- boredom, monotony, inactivity, immobility, atrophy.
- avoidance, ignoring, giving up, leaving.
- defeat, disappointment, disgrace, shame, condemnation, disparagement, underestimation, excuse, begging.
- accident, misfortune, bad luck, jynx, Murphy’s law.
- guilt, remorse, blame, blaming, projection, scapegoat, sacrifice.
- poverty, misery, scarcity, lack, debt, deficit, decline.
- limitations, restrictions, drawbacks, sanctions, embargo.
- forcing, coercion, conditioning, subjection to circumstances, blackmail.
- winter, cold, snow, ice, refrigerator, freezer, fan, air conditioner, hibernation.
- mountains, hills and valleys, mines, quarries.
- darkness, blackness, greyness, shadow.
- duration, endurance, immutability, impenetrability, endurance of suffering.
