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 Pisces in the Natal Chart
Core Conflict
Vulnerabilities
- experiences that render you helpless in order to feel the limits of your own will
- fear that fate will destroy or control you
- loneliness
- powerlessness
- a sense of generalized guilt or a feeling of debt or the requirement of sacrifice
- fear or impotence around handling practical life
- fascination combined with fear of losing identity and individuality
- despair
Defenses
- self-isolation
- acts of penance
- drugs
- overcompensation by trying to prove you are in total control of your life
The Work
- accept and surrender to the experience of helplessness and isolation
- release your ego defenses and learn to tolerate the sense of exposure
- release the personality
- spend time in contemplation
- integrate the unconscious
- develop trust in the unknown
- pursue a path of service
Transformation
- transcending the individual ego
- a felt sense of unity and the interconnectedness of all things
- inner peace
- serenity
- becoming truly of service to the world
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.
