Mystical realities are symbolized by the twelfth house, and Saturn is linked to solitude. It’s a natural combination – mystics are forever seeking lonely mountaintops and wilderness hideaways. They love getting away from the noise, distractions, and temptations of the social world. With Saturn in the twelfth house, you need to get away. You need regular doses of radical, uncontested privacy. You naturally regenerate by withdrawing. Most of us who are closer to the midrange of the introversion-extraversion spectrum feel…...
Single people who read pop-psychology books often speak of “fear of intimacy” as if it were a mental disorder. That’s a common perspective nowadays, but anyone who’s been in a serious, no-exit sexual relationship is more likely to view such fear as a sign of good reality-testing and normal brain function. Love is profoundly frightening. We all have hot-button issues and places inside outside ourselves whose existence we just don’t want to admit. We’re all capable of very dark thoughts.…...
With Saturn in the 10th house, the person takes responsibility for her life calling and becomes accountable for her efforts. She gets rewards, promotions, and credit for the good she does. Criticism, demotions, and condemnation for ineffective or damaging professional actions. Little response at all for inertia and inaction. The person is very sensitive to her status and position within society and her precise role in her chosen vocation. The person is able to see her career performance realistically. If…...
At its most extreme this can be the placement of the hypochondriac. Anxieties about the possibility of the body breaking down can result in someone who takes responsibility for their health and isn’t frightened to put in the hard work necessary to keep healthy. This placement can be the hallmark of the workout fanatic: someone who makes their body a defense, even to making it hard like stone. Possibly the father’s working life was strongly affected by ill health. Saturn…...
Lessons and tasks focus particularly upon the issues of self-worth and income or finances. Consequently, it is very likely that you either have trouble as a result of having too little money, or too much of it. In the first case, you are striving to improve your self-worth and thereby attract better income. In the second case, you find it hard to know what you yourself are actually worth because others seem to judge you by what you own rather…...
The ninth is expansive, adventurous, and philosophical, while Saturn is rigorous and grounded. The combination is rich and paradoxical, and a little daunting. With your Saturn here, the successful maturation depends upon sustained effort in a challenging direction. Many astrologers would emphasize the connection between this configuration and traditional religious beliefs. That reading of the symbolism is valid but, while we can honor it, we need not be limited to it, In fact, the trouble with taking refuge in religious…...
Lessons and limitations bear most of all upon your individual means of self-expression. This includes anything that is a creative product or outlet of yours, such as artwork, children, hobbies, games, romance, etc. So delays, difficulties, duty, denial or heavy responsibilities are all possible in one or more of these areas. You are learning to go about such matters in a disciplined way, as if you have to prove something. Until you do, little or nothing will be forthcoming. When…...
The individual usually approaches life, the immediate environment and those within it, with a strong sense of responsibility. A tendency to take life seriously, and often a certain amount of caution and anxiety is present. There is a feeling of a ‘slow start.’ Frequently hardship and grief early on precipitates a feeling that they mustn’t put a foot wrong and that they must leave nothing to chance. There can be a tendency therefore to want to control things and certainly…...
School may have seemed restrictive or punitive and often there is an early fear to overcome around communicating spontaneously. There may, for instance, be an expectation of being chastised for opening their mouth. There is sometimes a fear of being thought stupid with Saturn here, and knowing the right answer can become the way of defending oneself. Stammering and other speech impediments are common in early life. The experience of feeling ridiculed for how the individual speaks (possibly because of…...
An inexperienced astrologer could easily get off on the wrong foot interpreting this configuration – and probably thoroughly frighten the poor individual who had it! Saturn, “the greater malefic,” in the house of marriage! Yikes! Run away! Fortunately, this reading of the symbolism is totally wrong on two counts. First, there really are no bad planets – every one of them serves a potentially positive purpose, Saturn included. And second, the main meaning of the seventh house in a chart…...