SATURN represents the energy of discipline, limitation and structure. It empowers us to apply self-regulating habits, the desire and ability to achieve maturity and status by living our lives according to standard norms of acceptable behavior. It is connected to family and the feeling of security that traditions bring. Saturn has a negative side too, as do all the planets, because in the desire to conform to standards set by time and hierarchies, it can make us fearful of change and self defeating, limiting growth through conservatism or fear of change. We use this planetary model in establishing routines and goals that are comfortable, so that it works to balance some of the expansive drive of Jupiter. It is the side of us that is law abiding, rather than revolutionary, and enables us to build solid, worthwhile structures in life that allow us to prosper through preserving and regulating life. Ambitions and goals that are established with the Saturn side of the psyche are usually attainable but demand hard, slow, sometimes laborious application of set routines and standards. Negatively it can express pessimism.
Saturn is the planet of structure, limitation, experience and discipline. A heavily afflicted Saturn in a ...