This page is about all Saturn-Mercury aspects, like Saturn Conjunct Mercury, Saturn Opposite Mercury, Saturn Trine Mercury, Saturn Square Mercury, Saturn Sextile Mercury, Saturn Inconjunct Mercury. 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-Mercury
Lessons
- developing one’s mind and ideas from inner perception and personal experience
- testing ideas and knowledge through ones own experience
- self-education and discovery of intrinsic truth
- building one’s own framework of truth and falsehood from the ground up
Challenges
- circumstances where education or information from the environment is blocked which forces the person inward
- a childhood unsupportive of independent thought
- mistrust or sense of inadequacy around one’s mind or mental abilities
- fear or inhibition around communication
- speech difficulties such as stuttering
- narrow or rigid viewpoint
- evasiveness
- habitual lying
- habitual silence
- cynicism as a defense mechanism
Mastery
- an awareness of the relativity of truth and a keen sense of illusion
- the ability to become a detached observer of the mind itself
- the freedom to truly form one’s own view of the world
- perceiving meaning behind form
- learning to think creatively rather than simply accumulating opinions
- forging a bridge between intellectual and intuitive faculties
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.
