In episode 322 astrologer Diana Rose Harper joins the show to talk about the meaning of the planet Saturn in astrology, and what it signifies in a birth chart.
Saturn is the furthest planet that is visible to the naked eye, and so it is the last of the traditional planetary bodies in our ongoing series on the planets.
In astrology Saturn is generally said to signify contraction, constraints, rejection, exclusion, time, tradition, age, that which is old, confinement, depression, structure, seriousness, authority, concrete reality, and that which is cold and slow.
During the course of the episode we read through a variety of passages from ancient and modern astrologers in order to understand how astrologers have conceptualized Saturn in the past, and then we used that as a jumping off point for discussing what it means today.
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This episode is available in both audio and video versions below.
Here are some timestamps for topics covered at different points in the episode:
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:19 Diana’s Saturn credentials
00:03:17 Diana’s natal chart
00:04:30 Saturn symbol and diagram
00:07:13 Vettius Valens significations
00:10:51 Benefits of Saturn
00:13:10 Saturn vs. Mars
00:14:28 Positive side of malefics
00:15:50 Visibility and slowness of Saturn
00:25:10 Saturn and actionable realism
00:28:50 Saturn and healthy fear
00:31:16 Saturn, mastery, and consequences
00:38:40 Elders
00:39:40 Depression
00:44:32 Austerity, reticence, and preservation
00:50:37 Benefits to native at expense of others
00:55:38 Deception
00:56:47 Restraints and imprisonment
00:59:12 Saturn’s rings
01:01:52 Freedom and limits
01:03:33 Boundaries
01:05:20 Farming and gardening
01:08:33 Karma
01:12:00 Death
01:17:32 Beauty and the Beast
01:17:56 Abu Ma’shar significations
01:25:51 Gravitas and deliberateness
01:29:10 Asceticism
01:31:13 Saturn is feminine?
01:42:50 Herding
01:46:30 Embargos
01:48:22 Water motif
01:50:49 William Lilly significations
01:55:20 Clowning
01:58:46 Domicile rulership diagram
02:02:43 Profound in imagination
02:03:50 Dignity and sect
02:08:31 Dave Grohl’s chart
02:15:33 Using celebrity charts
02:16:44 Reinhold Ebertin significations
02:22:30 Inhibition
02:24:34 Chris’ Saturnian personality
02:27:48 Stinginess
02:31:29 Normalizing hardship
02:34:43 Steven Forrest significations
02:40:45 The Greatness of Saturn book by Robert Svoboda
02:42:50 Dark night of the soul
02:45:27 Limitations and finality
02:51:00 Coldness
02:51:25 Richard Tarnas significations
02:59:00 Progressed moon and Saturn cycles
03:01:26 Diana’s Saturn return story
03:06:00 Saturn return cycle
03:10:20 Astrology Podcast episode 24 on Saturn returns
03:11:24 Saturn and time lord techniques
03:14:10 Saturn Venus and Venus exalted in Libra
03:17:18 Other Astrology Podcast episodes with Saturn references
03:19:00 Diana’s work and offerings
03:21:30 Concluding remarks
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