The Ancient Greek story about Saturn has him swallowing his own children, sickly mirroring his father Ouranos, when he kept stuffing his children back into Gaia's womb. That led to Saturn castrating his heavenly father, cutting Earth off from our cosmic community. Ouranos' phallus, his potency, fell into the ancient oceans and gave rise to Aphrodite, the personification of Love. That's the parting gift the cosmos left us. The Power of Love.
For most of the past, astrologers saw Saturn's powers through the lens of it being the last planet they could see with their naked eyes. It marked the boundary of the known universe, so Saturn became the boundary, the limit, that held us all in its embrace.
Astrologically, we say that Saturn's archetypal energy embodies the principle of limits, structure, constraint, necessity, patience, endurance and manifestation. It rules achievements in life and in your career. Saturn is associated with Time, maturity and mortality (the Grim Reaper is one of Saturn's masks). Saturn is the symbol for authority, old age, status, hierarchy, structures (like government and rules), sobriety, and mortality.
Saturn's energies can also repress, make rigid, negate and defeat our ego needs, or restrain them until we face our responsibilities. Saturn builds boundaries, foundations, laws and restrictions. Saturn is called the Great Teacher, because we have to face those tests to achieve our destiny. Saturn teaches people to work through limitations, adversity, and obligation. So Saturn also symbolizes the wisdom gained, the discipline learned and the karma that needs facing.
Saturn is the archetypal senex - the stern old man. This is an apt image of patriarchy. Since patriarchy is finally being named as the system we live under (when you can name something, you can have power over it), we can begin to leave it behind, like Zeus, who wasn't swallowed, and who led the rebellion against Saturn and his followers, the Titans.
In the Chakra system, I place Saturn at the Root Chakra. The Root Chakra is the energy that grounds us in Earth's biosphere. Our culture and our family shape this chakra, for good or for ill. For a long time, our collective root chakra has been shaped by patriarchal rules that inspire fear, insecurity, male domination and female submission, disconnection from nature, over-reliance on logic and rational thought, and a denial and rejection of our feeling, emotional and spiritual natures.
These are the characteristics that have become almost stereotypical of patriarchal far-right beliefs - which in turn constellates its opposite - extreme left-wing wokeness. Here is Saturn in Aquarius, sorting out the group Mind.
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