My favourite Saturn quote of late and inspiration for this article is by Walter H. Under Saturn, we may feel it’s chronically bad karma and we are etched by the planet’s experiences and it tends to chisel away at the character of the individual. Saturn represents the lessons of life, whether through productivity, achievement, and success or negatively though a disappointment, burden, and the cry of frustration. A heavy sense of obligation is commonly felt. The individual often absorbs all criticisms and their self-evaluation, constantly criticizing and setting standards which require enormous effort and struggle places enormous strain on the soul. If the father is strong and present, then, he might too harsh, critical and severe. The father may have been perceived as weak and disappointing. The person needs a position of responsibility to make their mark on the world.Ī Sun-Saturn aspect in the natal chart is commonly associated with the father-complex and issues with authority it may create a feeling of lack of presence of this energy in their life.

However, it also suggests that deep down, they are deeply insecure. A Sun-Saturn aspect can lead to considerable worldly success. It must be understood that the aspect is a force in the individual’s life which can generate remarkable ambition a well-developed sense of duty and doggedness when lived out rather than avoided. One needs to remember that with Sun-Saturn it is not all doom and gloom and a life filled with many burdens, depressions and material struggles as traditional astrologers would have us believe. In astrology, Saturn has always had a binding if not strangulating hold on the expression of any other energy in the horoscope. A sensitivity to society’s needs and expectations that are immensely useful and dynamic in serving the world in some way.

Liz Greene calls Saturn the feeling of having not “made the grade” in the eyes of others. In psychology astrology, Saturn is referred to as the superego and is called the Moral Authority of Personality and keeps the person’s behaviour, feelings, and thoughts in check within society’s uniformity. An individual with the Sun conjunct, square or opposite Saturn is highly vulnerable to collective feeling and is also concerned with how they are viewed in the eyes of teachers, authority and peers and is deeply anxious with the role they play in society.

Sun trine saturn natal chart