My Understanding of Saturn
I read articles where people say that Saturn is the reason we are born. I wanted to understand how to interpret Saturn's placement in our chart from the personal evolution point of view.
What I am sharing is based on my personal analysis and understanding and this is not meant to be a scholarly article. Please do give feedback if this resonates with you or if you have different view on what I shared below.
Saturn represents the karma we need to pay back, which is about moving from darkness to light, though enduring pain, grief and having to put in more effort. It is process of destruction of personal ego, going beyond our comfort zone, and accessing our higher Self. Saturn is also. about the duties we must honor and our pay back to the society.
Saturn ruled nakshatras are at the heart of Moksha houses (4-8-12), and Saturn rules 10th and 11th houses, and Saturn is debilitated in 1st and Exealted aww in 7th.
Vishnu avatar connected with Saturn is Koorma avatar,
bearing the lord of Meru mountain . Mount Meru is compared to galactic centre, associated with Moola an Ardra nakshatras, in saggitarius and Gemini - 3-9 axis associated with Knowledge and Wisdom.
When I connect all the dots, Saturn is about patiently enduring the pain and grief caused in life because of the conflict going on all the time between Asuras and Devas within us.
Saturn reminds us of our duty of bearing the weight of the mountain as long as the churning is happening, to be rewarded finally with knowing Self through higher wisdom.
Nakshatras owned by Saturn, the respective houses where these nakshatras are located, can represent areas where are required to endure pain and grief through love and care for others (Pushyami-Cancer), devotion to God and honoring spirit of friendship (Anuradha-Scorpio) and stillness/meditation/contemplation (uttarabhadra - Pisces).
In these houses we are required to approach pain and miseries as our teacher, using the means I mentioned above, with the ultimate aim being to understand self and our higher purpose in life. We channel knowledge from these life experiences to do right duty (10th house) and to help humanity (11th house).
The highest purpose of this entire human experience is self individuation or self realization, or complete integration with our shadow or subconscious self (hence Saturn exalted in 7th house, which represents our Shadow self).
Saturn is born to Chaaya (shadow) to Sun. Sun refused to acknowledge bthat he is his son until lord Shiva appears to confirm this fact. This suggests that Saturn represents our personal unconscious, part of our self that we refused to accept, and it is through painful Experiences, journey through dark night of the soul, that we break out from this old shell (limiting beliefs about self leading to fears and phobias) , to embrace the unconscious aspects of ourselves.
There are lot of videos and articles on internet that can help us to understand the concept of Shadow Work which I believe greatly can help us in living life with more emotional freedom.
Whereever Saturn is placed in our chart, that area represents the personal unconscious/dark side that we need to integrate into self based on feedback we get from life experiences.
Saturn owned houses represents the area where we need to clear our obligation, perform our Dharma (Capricorn) and the knowledge we contribute back to society (Aquarius). HOW we do this can be seen from our actual 10th and 11th houses.
The house in which Saturn is placed show the area where we will face challenges and restrictions, limiting possibilities to live life certain way, where we need to direct our efforts and that is the area where we manifest our highest Self eventually. This is an area where we correct our inner imbalances ie learn to balance things in our inner and outer worlds perfectly and hence get recognized by outer-world for PERSONAL TRANFORMATION we have gone through. The sign and house involved, planets aspecting give us details . Given that Saturn is associated with personal tranformation it is associated with our 8th. Well placed Saturn can give us required strength to go through tranformations successfully.
Saturn aspects 3rd, 7th and 10th houses from itself. 3rd house shows the area where we need to get rid of our IGNORANCE about self (develop correct understanding of self) and 7th from itself is where we need to be HUMBLE, serving and let go of our personal ego, 10th from itself is the place where we have to put in EXTRA EFFORT for getting results.
I read articles where people say that Saturn is the reason we are born. I wanted to understand how to interpret Saturn's placement in our chart from the personal evolution point of view.
What I am sharing is based on my personal analysis and understanding and this is not meant to be a scholarly article. Please do give feedback if this resonates with you or if you have different view on what I shared below.
Saturn represents the karma we need to pay back, which is about moving from darkness to light, though enduring pain, grief and having to put in more effort. It is process of destruction of personal ego, going beyond our comfort zone, and accessing our higher Self. Saturn is also. about the duties we must honor and our pay back to the society.
Saturn ruled nakshatras are at the heart of Moksha houses (4-8-12), and Saturn rules 10th and 11th houses, and Saturn is debilitated in 1st and Exealted aww in 7th.
Vishnu avatar connected with Saturn is Koorma avatar,
bearing the lord of Meru mountain . Mount Meru is compared to galactic centre, associated with Moola an Ardra nakshatras, in saggitarius and Gemini - 3-9 axis associated with Knowledge and Wisdom.
When I connect all the dots, Saturn is about patiently enduring the pain and grief caused in life because of the conflict going on all the time between Asuras and Devas within us.
Saturn reminds us of our duty of bearing the weight of the mountain as long as the churning is happening, to be rewarded finally with knowing Self through higher wisdom.
Nakshatras owned by Saturn, the respective houses where these nakshatras are located, can represent areas where are required to endure pain and grief through love and care for others (Pushyami-Cancer), devotion to God and honoring spirit of friendship (Anuradha-Scorpio) and stillness/meditation/contemplation (uttarabhadra - Pisces).
In these houses we are required to approach pain and miseries as our teacher, using the means I mentioned above, with the ultimate aim being to understand self and our higher purpose in life. We channel knowledge from these life experiences to do right duty (10th house) and to help humanity (11th house).
The highest purpose of this entire human experience is self individuation or self realization, or complete integration with our shadow or subconscious self (hence Saturn exalted in 7th house, which represents our Shadow self).
Saturn is born to Chaaya (shadow) to Sun. Sun refused to acknowledge bthat he is his son until lord Shiva appears to confirm this fact. This suggests that Saturn represents our personal unconscious, part of our self that we refused to accept, and it is through painful Experiences, journey through dark night of the soul, that we break out from this old shell (limiting beliefs about self leading to fears and phobias) , to embrace the unconscious aspects of ourselves.
There are lot of videos and articles on internet that can help us to understand the concept of Shadow Work which I believe greatly can help us in living life with more emotional freedom.
Whereever Saturn is placed in our chart, that area represents the personal unconscious/dark side that we need to integrate into self based on feedback we get from life experiences.
Saturn owned houses represents the area where we need to clear our obligation, perform our Dharma (Capricorn) and the knowledge we contribute back to society (Aquarius). HOW we do this can be seen from our actual 10th and 11th houses.
The house in which Saturn is placed show the area where we will face challenges and restrictions, limiting possibilities to live life certain way, where we need to direct our efforts and that is the area where we manifest our highest Self eventually. This is an area where we correct our inner imbalances ie learn to balance things in our inner and outer worlds perfectly and hence get recognized by outer-world for PERSONAL TRANFORMATION we have gone through. The sign and house involved, planets aspecting give us details . Given that Saturn is associated with personal tranformation it is associated with our 8th. Well placed Saturn can give us required strength to go through tranformations successfully.
Saturn aspects 3rd, 7th and 10th houses from itself. 3rd house shows the area where we need to get rid of our IGNORANCE about self (develop correct understanding of self) and 7th from itself is where we need to be HUMBLE, serving and let go of our personal ego, 10th from itself is the place where we have to put in EXTRA EFFORT for getting results.
