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 Aries in the Natal Chart
Core Conflict
Vulnerabilities
- lack of self-confidence
- shyness or insecurity
- fear of being hurt or controlled
- fear of confrontation
- chronic health issues
- feeling life is against you
- feeling unable to live life fully
Defenses
- identifying with a false persona/mask
- defensive aggression
- subtle manipulation or indirect expression of will
- withdrawal from both outer life and inner self
- psychosomatic issues from repressing anger
- projecting selfishness onto others; meekness
- or alternately
- outward aggression & controlling behavior
- controlling others instead of controlling the self
The Work
- confront fears directly and work through them
- explore and define your true identity
- integrate the persona with the inner self
- develop willpower
Transformation
- self-mastery
- freedom to express true inner self and act on its desires
- inner strength
- a powerful will
- psychic integration
- a clear sense of purpose
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.
