Saturn
Sinister, Cold and Cruel
Restriction, Insanity, Disaster,
Fun energy isn't it?

Hardships can be strengthening
Patients, Discipline, Ward Work can produce very satisfactory results.

By the end
You may wish it wasn't over.

Saturn cycles are opportunities to increase our wisdom, knowledge, and understandings about concentration, self-control, restraint, meditation, moderation, patience, purification, cleansing, fasting and stillness.

Duty and responsibility are keynotes for this cycle. A period during which you are being taught specific lessons about life which lead to maturity, stability and inner confidence which are necessary to becoming more self-reliant and capable of taking more of the responsibility for you own life.

This cycle can indicates the end or death of relationships, career, family member, home, car or some unpleasant situation, usually of a fundamental nature or maybe a situation in which we would much rather somehow ignore our responsibility for an equal part in its creation. Saturn represents the birth and death cycle and all things are born and as a result will, or have, died. If you live in such a way as to be in touch with the Great Mystery, then you will not be sorrowful for the losses, you would respect their cycles and let go, and be joyous for the replacement that is given after.

This is a time of testing where our morals, values, philosophy and skills are tested, opposed and challenged to see if they can stand up to the test of working in reality, or a real situation. If they can't then it is time to reconstruct the parts that don't work by modifying, eliminating and adding parts so as to get positive and rewarding results for you and other people involved. The testing during this cycle is not usually very pleasant. It can strengthen your character and basic structures so as to be firmly anchored in reality. Saturn is hard realities, creating sound and tested methods of work and routine that makes for an excellent foundation when trouble and hard times are at hand.

It has a devitalizing and shrinking effect. The body can look and feel older, your hair and skin colour will not look as healthy. It's a general shadow of gloom. If a disease starts during this cycle, it usually lasts a long time with the possibility of it becoming chronic. Its influence is destructive to the human body, as he is decay and death, causing distress by, colds, chronic diseases and mineral deposits. It causes hindrances. disturbances, stoppages, suppressions, and lowered vitality.

It's not unusual to feel and be handicapped when it comes to social interests and activities. It causes detrimental criticism from others around you, which tends to cause losses and setbacks, creating a sense of depression as this is a no growth energy cycle, it is usually the reverse, your decline, but only where you are not living the eternal laws of life, or the time has come for change.

It tends to slow things down, so that we conserve, focus and concentrate our energies. It is much like driving a car down the street at 50 miles per hour, we see very little. Along comes this cycle and now we are walking down the street, we see an awful lot more, which surprises us. You must slow down in order to penetrate the specific areas of your life that is being effected so as to see clearly and learn the lesson of life being taught.

It tends to bring events along which force you to face your fears. This is usually unpleasant, but must be faced in order to have a stronger internal base structure. Fear is negative and is the root of anger. It is better to purge yourself Spiritually, mentally and physically so as to be joyous and of an uplifting influence, in accord with the highest and purest of ideals.

You may experience pressure to make an area of your life more precise and solid. This can be an inner urging causing you to examine an area that is not satisfactory any more, because your attitudes and priorities are being tested and modified. Therefore the urge to make changes. This testing and modifying of attitudes and priorities can come from unpleasant circumstances arising in your environment, forcing you to reevaluate.

Have you ever see someone walking down the street with their head hanging down so far as to create the question within you, "How come she hasn't walked into a pole?" You may notice that this cycle can make you hang your head down. Its quite common.

As with all energy cycles there is always the potential that this energy will be projected on you from the outside world and also it can mean that you will also project this energy onto your outside world in some way. So when observing this energy, keep this in mind. The energy, of this cycle can be repressive, narrow minded, cold, frigid, unclean or filthy, he stinks, he can be a corrupt and ruthless master and can undermine anything that has beauty and value. Nothing is to rotten, wicked, foul, grotesque or frightful. So when faced with the possibilities of these energies entering in the form of scandal or some kind of catastrophe during this cycle you can be sure that Saturn is getting ready to fill your environment with it rankness in a most underhanded manner. He will drag you through hell in the most cruel, gruesome, distasteful manner imaginable, if He can, and totally enjoy doing it. The best way to handle and avoid these kinds of energies in your environment is to remain pure and free from evil deeds and thoughts. This way there is nothing for the foul stench of this cycle to hold on to. It is a testing of your strength and endurance, love of truth and harmony, which requires patience and long-suffering on your part. This leads to a joyous existence.

This cycle can cause the emergence of someone into your space to play the Dirty Son Of A GUN! Or some Heartless VILLAIN! will arrive on the scene and do everything that you don't like or want. Beware or else! Its the slogan to remember. If something nasty, slanderous, degrading is in your karma, now can be the time of its arrival. With fortitude, love, patience and long suffering you will succeed so don't worry.

Since this is a cycle of change, it is common to have change in your relationship to others, both intimate, close friends and associates. There are basically three kinds of relationships. One, the kind of relationship which is very comfortable much like an easy chair. Two; the kind of relationship which is detrimental or stopping your growth. Three; the kind of relationship which helps and supports your growth. This time frame will make some of these relationships clearer, which is a major factor of the eliminating process of this cycle. A relationship which is to expensive for you or the other person should be balanced for mutual benefit, or it will be terminated by the one who is the giver, and the receiver, who gave nothing of real worth, may suffer due to the loss.

If you are solid, secure and confident and have proper morals, ideals and attitudes within, then these energies won't bother you very much if at all. You will see this non growth period as an opportunity to further your inner cultivation so as to have a better foundation to build upon, which is a form of growth anyway. Concentration, renunciation, self-control, self-Restraint, meditation, purification, fasting and other disciplines are abilities that can be developed during this cycle. The proper application of the virtues will take you through to the other side of this cycle uncontaminated.

One of Saturn's tendencies is to make you experience the negative side of life in order to teach you not to treat others in this negative way. It only happens if you have done negative things to others and it comes back to you in the same measure so you can directly experience the same feelings which you at one time you caused someone else to experience.

Astronomically the planet Saturn takes approximately twenty eighty years to make one revolution around the Sun and therefore makes one revolution around a Birth Chart in the same amount of time. This means that Saturn will make four hard angles and four soft angles of influence during its complete 28 year cycle. The Saturn cycle to itself, or the place it occupied in the sky at Birth, occurs every seven years, making a hard angle. This represents the seven year cycles that we all have heard so much about.

Saturn is considered a malefic planetary energy. Lets take a look at this and see if we can understand why it is only part of it. Energy is energy. The use: that's something else. Saturn = nothingness. If we look at life, for a moment from the prospective that life on a planet like earth could last, let say 5 million years? Now a human lifetime is what? Nothing, or nothingness. This cycle can bring nothingness into your life on the reality level of existence. Especially when we experience grief, depression, sorrow, misery, suffering, disease, decay, corruption, death. Saturn says NO STOP!. He limits, thwarts, discourages. Go directly to jail and don't collect $200. He represents the collective laws, governments, opinions, rules and regulations in schools, at work and in the home.

The question arises as to what is fortunate and unfortunate? Either one can lead to the other. These two opposites are part of the natural scheme of things. Hardships can be strengthening just as too much ease and comfort can be weakening. The outside life is always changing, and so are the attitudes and ways of those close to you. It's more important to tune into your heart center and keep love and peace within, correcting yourself, and being consistent towards your True Self. This will aid in your ability to outlive all your turmoils and troubles......and laugh about it.