Some think of the Saturn principle in astrology as representing a tough taskmaster, demanding excellence from his pupils. In this case, the Saturn principle is about mastery.
Others point to Saturn’s role as the ‘lord of karma’ (what you give to life, life returns to you.) Here, the Saturn principle represents universal justice. Saturn is then seen as the force that crystallizes the energy of your thoughts, your feelings and your deeds and converts them into an objective experience. Like a boomerang, all that you send out returns to its source.
Complete objectivity, however, would not have a specific point of view, which is like asking how things look in the dark. Libra maintains several points-of-view and keeps juggling various options in order to reach a balanced assessment of a situation.
As people become selfish and self-centered out of fear that they are losing what they have, Saturn’s two and one-half year passage through the Libra sky restores the principle of fairness in our everyday lives. The purpose of Saturn’s work in this sign of the zodiac is to balance out the polarities, so that all that is disproportionate is adjusted and equilibrium is restored.
When the Saturn principle moves into the Libra sky, an intensified pressure is felt by members of society to participate in life according to the agreed upon rules of the game. Saturn in Libra motivates people to succeed in partnerships and in society in general by playing fair and square, by showing others the respect one would like to receive (the ‘Golden Rule’) and by ending up with lots of love in life.
Saturn enters the Libra sky on October 29, 2009-the eightieth anniversary of the stock market crash of 1929 in the United States, the day when the market lost 14 billion dollars.
This time,the passage of Saturn in Libra could herald the start of a new economic system. Ideally, it is also a time where people stop rushing in to fight one another and instead embrace compromise and conciliation as a means of resolving an issue.
Saturn moving into the Libra sky ushers in a period where goodness and loveliness prevail, for no consciousness appreciates all that is beautiful in the world more than Libra.
No work of art is entirely original, as everything a human being does rests on a past foundation of human knowledge and human accomplishment. Any person who has ever engaged in producing a creative effort that has lasting significance must submit to the laws of their craft. This entails showing deference to all that has come before, for only when there is a common frame of reference, can a work of art be truly appreciated by as many people as possible. This concept was expressed clearly and eloquently in a poem written by William McCall:
I slept and dreamt that life was beauty
I woke and found that life is duty
Straight is the line of duty
Curved is the line of beauty
Follow the straight line and you will see
The curved line ever follows thee.
Paul Six August, 2009 Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA