Thursday, July 8, 2010

"In astrology, Saturn embodies the principle of concentration, contraction, fixation, condensation and inertia. In short it is a power which tends to crystallize and to set the existing order of things in a rigid frame, and thus be opposed to all change."

"At the base of the biological and psychological functions which Saturn symbolizes is to be found the phenomenon of renunciation, the succession of trials of separation which mark out the life-cycle of every individual, from the severing of the new-born baby's umbilical cord to the loss of natural faculties in old age, via all the different surrenders, self-denials and sacrifices which life itself imposes. Throughout this process, Saturn is thus given the task of setting us free from the internal prison of our animal nature and our worldly ties and striking off the fetters of living instinctively and by our passions. In this sense Saturn provides a strong restraining influence which benefits the spirit and is the motive force of intellectual, moral, and spiritual life."

"A Saturnine complex is a reaction displayed in a refusal to give up whatever one has become attached to in the course of one's life, a fixation which crystallizes in childhood, from weaning and from the different situations producing affective frustration which lead to the stimulation of greed in the varied shapes of bulimia, lust, jealousy, avarice, ambition and pedantry, linking with the cannibalistic aspect of the myth of Cronos devouring his own offspring. The reverse of this Janus-face displays, therefore, exaggerated renunciation in the varied forms of self-effacement, impoverishment of the ego, insensitivity, coldness and detachment verging, in extreme cases upon pessimism, melancholy and renunciation of life itself."

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