Why is Saturn

So…

Important!....?

 

            Was reflecting on Saturn today and thought it might be good to describe exactly why the Knowledge and Wisdom of Saturn is so important.  Saturn, after all, represents balance.  Saturn is happy in Capricorn & Aquarius, but,….is described as being Exalted! In the sign of Libra…. the sign of ‘balance’.

            Saturn, therefore is the Planet responsible for telling us how well we’re doing in terms of our Balance!

            If we’re silent, well rested, still, happy and even, then everything seems fine.  But, the minute that we get tired, loose our composure, settled feeling then suddenly ‘everything’ seems wrong.  We’re anxious, easily upset, lethargic, worried, and tend to see the World, ... ‘Have Empty’.

            Know that expression:  “Half Full, half Empty!”  It means we see life through the eyes, through the lens, filter of our Moonish glasses.  Actually through our total Astrological lens.  So, we see the World,  we experience the World in exact proportion to how we’re feeling inside.

            If we’re tired, upset, irritable, or out of balance; then that’s the lens through which we’re seeing and experiencing our World, and life.  Therefore, Astrology can help us.  Astrology can help us solve the ‘real’ problems of life; which are NOT, out there, but here, inside, in our own Mind’s and Body’s, in our own Astrology!

            The moment we first, ‘Identify’ the Astrological experience we’re going through; and then take some steps to balance, correct or heal that malefic Planet that’s the real cause; then any problem can be solved!

            Take Saturn’s situation.  Saturn represents ‘balance’ and yet, no one teaches us about balance.  We don’t study the importance of rest and certainly don’t get taught how to get back into balance.  Instead we end up blaming the ‘outer’ for what’s really going on inside.

            We’re experiencing losses, grief, hardships, anxieties and suffering and we think, “Oh, why is this happening?”  Maybe we even hear about Astrology or even Saturn and we think:  “Ah, now, I know the culprit.  It’s Saturn!”  Saturn is causing me my grief!   And, how long am I in Saturn Maha dasa for?

            19 years!  Oh, my!   That’s right.  It’s way too long to continue suffering if that’s why we’re really going through what we’re going through. 

            The real solution, however, is not that Saturn is causing us our problems.  In fact, Saturn is only “Mirroring” our problems.  Life, our Astrology, all the details in our life; in fact, only mirror us!  Life mirrors us, and the actions or karmas that we’ve set in motion.

            The Planets, including Saturn are only mirroring back to us, what action, good or bad; that we’ve created from our past.  This is one of the reasons why Astrology is so powerful for us, is because it has the possibility of helping us discover those patterns so we can understand ourselves better!

 

Saturn's Signs…

 

            So, why is it so important that we understand Saturn?  Because, it’s one of the most important of Planets and its nature and true symbolisms are so poorly understood today.  This is because we live in a stressful age.  We live in a time, when the fast pace of life is stressing all of us out.  To keep up, we think we have to be so busy.  We therefore, don’t get enough rest, and then fatigue and tiredness begin to build up.

            Saturn is important because it takes only 1 or 2 days of NOT getting enough rest and boom, we’re stressed, irritable, upset, out of wack, and generally feeling miserable.  We keep this up, and fatigue and tiredness become deeper.  Then stress results.   And stress means that, which is NOT being unwound.   Then, when stress starts building up dis-ease and disease are next.

            Falling sick for example is 85% of the time due to the build up of stress and fatigue.  It’s known today that stress is responsible for the majority of all diseases or sickness!  Therefore, to discover how we’re creating our ill-health or lack of balance, through mis-interpreting Saturn is a very crucial aspect of Astrology.

 

Saturn’s Signs:

Positive

&

Negative

 

            Like every Planet, Saturn too has two sides.  It has a positive and negative side.  The positive side or “signs” include restfulness, patience, calmness, stillness, happiness, feeling in the flow, and doing the right thing at the right time.

            Saturn, ‘strong’ people report all kinds of amazing experiences of finding themselves at the right place at the right time.  They get what can be called “nature support”.  They think of someone and suddenly they appear.  Desires get fulfilled easily and naturally.  In fact all of life seems to flow more easily for those lucky Saturn benefic people!

            Un-fair?  No, just their good karma.  So, what about the rest of us, who don’t find ourselves, being so lucky?

 

Malefic

Saturn

 

            For those who Saturn is found acting malefically this is because we were not ‘born’ with a strong or ‘good’ or balanced, or benefic Saturn.  In our case, the negative Signs of Saturn may include:

 

Tiredness

Worry

Fatigue

Imbalance

Anxiety

Impatience

Frustration

Delays

Disappointments

Losses

Grief

Ill-health

Dis-ease

Sicknes

Disease and

Early death….

 

            Sound bad?  Not meant to be.  It’s just important that we learn the Signs of all the Planets.  What Saturn is trying to show us is “we’re out of tune with him!”  Or, we’re out of tune with life.  The proof of this is “Start doing the Opposite of what you’ve been doing! And see if you don’t feel better.

            Experiencing ‘tiredness’?  Stop, what you’ve been doing, and get more rest.  And keep doing this until the tiredness goes away!  Once you realize that Saturn is rest and rejuvenation, it’s a tremendous boon in life!

            The negative signs are there only to tell us how we’re doing.

            Mars Signs also serve the same purpose though their meanings are different.  Mars’ positive signs include energy, dynamism, enthusiasm, courage, fighting for what is right and standing up for ourselves.

            The negative Signs of Mars include lack of energy, lethargy, pessimism, fear, or lack of courage, and NOT standing up for ourselves or what is right!

            Therefore the first rule of thumb in Astrology is to find out whether you’re experiencing the positive or negative signs of any of the Planets.

            Now, that you know Saturn’s signs, you can easily determine if you’re experiencing the positive or negative side of Saturn.

            Therefore, since most people do experience the Saturn negative side, then you need to realize, “Oh, I’m out of tune with my Saturn.  Therefore I should learn how to become more in-tune with my Saturn!”

            The sign then, that you’re getting more in-tune will be any and all negatives of Saturn go away!  So, if you’re experiencing that Saturn tiredness, then as you gain rest, the tiredness goes away.

            Just like what happens when you’re rushing around at your house and trying to get to a very important meeting and you keep banging yourself, stubbing your toe, hitting your elbow on the door frame, slipping and falling.  All these of course are good, negative or malefic Mars signs.

            You ‘hear’ this, and stop, take a deep breath, and then begin again with the idea not to push so fast, and all those symptoms of malefic functioning Mars will stop!

            Negative feedbacks in life are Astrological signs that we’re acting out of tune!  We take the steps to adjust and immediately life will become better!  It’s guaranteed.  It’s in the design!  God created the Universe this way.  We can either continue straining against almighty God or the Universe, or we can learn to work with Nature.

            As it turns out this entire creation has been created for us!  We’re the lucky ones whom God created an entire Universe just so we could evolve in it!  But, at this time, in this age, so few understand how the laws of nature work.  Therefore we’re violating these laws whether consciously or not.

            Astrology is profound, however, because it understands these laws and even knows when we’re out of tune and when we’re balanced.  So, learn these Astrological symbolisms and adjust.  Adjust; find the better way of doing things and find if all the negatives of any of the Planets don’t go away!  Now, and forever!

            They say Saturn is the most unkind, merciless Planet.  I certainly had a similar experience when I was younger.  But, the very moment I began to understand Saturn, his negatives started going away.  This is because Saturn is a mirror of us.  The moment I began to act more in-tune with Life, was the very moment Saturn started being kinder to me!

            Saturn, therefore, can be the most wonderful and life supporting Planet.  We only have to understand its signs and learn to act in-tune.  These laws of Nature are here for our benefit, protection, and our quick pace of progress and evolution.  No one teaches us, unfortunately about all this so we succeed or fail in direct proportion to how many benefices we have and how much we mis-understand our malefics.

            Those people, however, who ‘get’ their Malefics, even if they don’t understand Astrology will start changing their lives!

            Here’s hopeing that we all continue to grow in this Knowledge and Wisdom of Life.  Life is Astrological, so its language can be extremely helpful!

 

 

Jai Guru!

 

 

Mark Kincaid

 

 

 

Founder

 

Nature’s Astrology

www.naturesastrology.com