Saturn

It represents grandparents, sages, elderly people, scholars, and knowledgeable people. The age of Saturn is old age, from 70 years, and sometimes later, depending on a person's health, until death.

It is phlegmatic, sentimental, or apathetic.

Saturn is the ruler of Capricorn and the planet of limitations and warnings. This can include themes of responsibility, such as self-discipline, punctuality, and the preservation of material resources. While Jupiter embodies the concept of expansion, Saturn suggests the establishment of parameters and limitations. It brings structure and meaning to the world around us and reminds us of our duties and obligations. Because of this, Saturn is often associated with our parents or other authority figures. Although discipline is not always easy or pleasant, it can sometimes help us grow.

As the opposite of Jupiter, which is a synonym for expansion, Saturn is a synonym for limitation. It symbolizes time and its relentless principle. It is associated with hardness, asceticism, discipline, and restrictions. Wherever Saturn is, it suppresses, slows down the process, and requires effort and concentration. Since Saturn is considered a malefic planet, it does not seem compassionate. However, it allows a person to develop, to cultivate a good thought process and a strong sense of responsibility. It is a sign of ambition, maturity, wisdom, and asceticism.

When Saturn is a dominant planet, a person is quite introverted, lonely, quiet, reserved, observant, ambitious, and indifferent. They may seem cold and emotionless, but this is not true. They are passionate and proud, but they do not want to show that they can be weak, or that their sensitivity or feelings can be touched. Nevertheless, they can be stingy, cruel, harsh, and selfish.

Saturn knows the limits of time and matter. It reminds us of our limits, our duties, and our obligations. In essence, Saturn brings definition to our lives. This planet, through its location and connections in our charts, realizes the need for self-control, boundaries, and limitations.

In a chart, the position of Saturn by sign and house reveals our own limitations, fears, and feelings of responsibility. The sign of Saturn can describe how we relate to our duties. However, it can also indicate traits that we find difficult to express in a natural way, and even to accept as part of our personality.

Saturn brings definition, and often limitations (some would say that some of them are quite necessary), to the planets it aspects.

Saturn is in exaltation in the sign of Libra; it is in fall in the sign of Aries (opposite the sign of its exaltation); it is in detriment in the sign of Cancer (opposite the ruling sign of Capricorn). Note that Saturn traditionally also ruled the sign of Aquarius. Thus, Saturn was traditionally in detriment in the sign of Leo.

Saturn rules the thoughts of people; it rules the first climate, the lands of the Hindus, black people, Jews, and barbarians; boors, old people, farmers, builders of cities; and also those who are engaged in tanning leather, draining lands, digging graves, sewing shrouds; and also prisoners, thieves, and despised people.

Among metals, it rules black lead, rusty iron, black stones, magnetite, weighing; and besides that, alcohol, prisons, graves, various kinds of dark places, and deserted, barren spaces.

Among animals, Saturn rules elephants, camels, and all large and fierce animals, for example, pigs, wolves, monkeys, black dogs, black cats; long-necked birds of large size, like the ostrich; eagles, any birds with a harsh voice, crows, bats, fleas, bedbugs, flies, rats, and any ugly snakes.

In the plant world, Saturn rules gallnuts, including those used to prepare ink; carob trees, holly, any barren plants with thorns, lentils, millet, plants called "eligu-mi" and aloe; any poisonous trees, bitter plants, black fruits, cold and dry fruits, sour plants, all kinds of foul-smelling fruits that wither, amber, and any coarse clothing.

In human nature, Saturn rules thoughts and laconicism, betrayals, and people in solitude, for example, hermits, as well as those who wish to reign over people; prominent personalities and those who strive for theft; vulnerable people and those who do not keep their word; prudent people and clergy; cowards, hot-tempered people, and the greedy.

Saturn rules agriculture, building construction, mining, digging; it searches for hidden things; it rules sorcerers, graves of the dead, everything that lasts for long years, as well as crafts where hard work is poorly rewarded.

Saturn, being the ruler of someone born, will endow them with its favorable qualities if it is well-positioned in relation to the Sun and the Houses; otherwise, if poorly positioned, it will endow them with everything bad that it possesses.

If Saturn is in strength and power and is conjunct or forms an aspect with any benefic planet, its bad qualities are transformed into positive ones, but in the case where the benefic planet is also strong, it will help Saturn little.

If Saturn is in conjunction with a malefic planet and forms an aspect with it, and both of these planets are strong, such a position indicates the most difficult struggle.

If the ruler of the born is Saturn, not mixed with another planet, this will be a dark-skinned, shy person of tall stature, with a pronounced sense of self-worth; black, curly hair, hair on the chest, small eyes; sensitive to dampness and cold. But this is in the case when Saturn is located before the Sun; if after, this person will be thin, with straight hair, cold and dry by nature.

Its great years are 265, greater are 57, medium are 43, and small are 30.

Its firdaria lasts 11 years. Its orb is 9 degrees before and after.