Saturn in our natal chart represents a place where we can feel limited, painfully inadequate, fearful, or experience delays. But there is a purpose behind Saturn’s seemingly negative effect on our life: Saturn wants us to grow up, take responsibility, and develop our inner authority. If we are willing to face ourselves and do the work to overcome our fears, we develop the strength and power we wanted all along.
We have a page about Saturn if you want to learn more. I also highly recommend Liz Greene’s book Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil, which is the basis for a lot of my thoughts on Saturn.
Saturn in Aquarius in the Natal Chart
Core Conflict
Vulnerabilities
- not fitting in within superficial social groups or connections
- feeling like an outsider
- alienation
- deep loneliness
- inability to feel ordinary belongingness or commonality with humanity
- mistrust of others
Defenses
- aloofness
- overcompensation through excessive social involvement or complete withdrawal out of fear of non-acceptance
- reactively emphasizing one’s uniqueness as a point of pride or superiority
- following group norms at the expense of individuality
- maintaining shallow but unfulfilling relationships
The Work
- accept and connect with your uniqueness
- find groups to connect with who resonate with your inner self
- find friends you can truly be yourself with
- accept being different as a leadership quality
- discern your own vision for the future of humanity and find people to collaborate with to work toward it
Transformation
- feeling a true sense of belonging based on inner affinity
- becoming a leader or meaningful participant in group efforts toward a future you believe in
The Saturn Growth Journey
The Saturn journey involves a coupling of need and fear. There can be shyness, stiff awkwardness, and/or emotional coldness and a sense of inadequacy in an area where we badly want to feel confident and capable. And we just don’t. Where others experience ease, we struggle. Where others find things obvious, we have to painstakingly puzzle things out. Where others dance, we stumble. That’s just the way Saturn feels.
If we can’t face our pain, we can end up projecting our unowned negative qualities onto others, or trying to satisfy emotional needs with physical ones and replacing inner work with outer achievement. We look outside ourselves for what we need to develop within ourselves.
Eventually, we realize there is no shortcut. The only way to our goal is to just do the work, by ourselves, for as long as it takes.
