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 Taurus in the Natal Chart
Core Conflict
Vulnerabilities
- fear of poverty
- lack of self-worth
- valuing self based on material possessions
- fear of loss so intense it prevents enjoyment
- greed or self-denial
Defenses
- financial extremes like being entirely self-reliant or excessively borrowing
- accumulating material wealth as a security blanket or rejecting materialism altogether
- projection of judgement onto others
- rigid attitudes toward values
The Work
- develop inner security and self-worth
- develop values beyond the material
- develop a relationship with eternal spiritual reality rather than expecting the fleeting world of form to yield security
Transformation
- release of fear
- realization of true inner value independent of material wealth
- balanced relationship with possessions and one’s desire to acquire
- inner strength and self-sufficiency
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.
