This page is about all Saturn-Jupiter aspects, like Saturn Conjunct Jupiter, Saturn Opposite Jupiter, Saturn Trine Jupiter, Saturn Square Jupiter, Saturn Sextile Jupiter, Saturn Inconjunct Jupiter. Hard aspects like conjunctions, squares, and oppositions tend to be more difficult than soft aspects like trines or sextiles. The closer the orb, the more intense the aspect.
We have a page about Saturn. 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.
About Saturn-Jupiter
Lessons
- developing your own set of values and life philosophy based on intuitive perception
- translating those values into your practical life
- buckling down and doing the work you need to do to improve your life rather than expecting fate to hand it to you
- understanding the nature of good and evil and moral decision-making on a personal level
Challenges
- a negative outlook on life
- feeling like your life is in the hands of fate
- struggle to follow intuition when it conflicts with “real-world” concerns
- swinging between hope and despair
- or between blind optimism and untempered pessimism
- loss through speculative investments
- under-achievement due to fear of failure
- periods of losing or abandoning one’s faith due to material conditions that seem to contradict it
- “selling your Soul to the Devil”
- depression due to loss of meaning
- seeking shortcuts to the good life
- always waiting for your big break
- expecting something for nothing
- questionable moral choices (selfishness
- dishonesty)
Mastery
- integrated worldview and moral belief system that supports right action and practical success
- understanding and acceptance of good and evil in self and the world
- living in alignment with one’s intuitive vision and moral compass
About the Saturn Growth Journey
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.
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.
