This page is about all Saturn-Moon aspects, like Saturn Conjunct Moon, Saturn Opposite Moon, Saturn Trine Moon, Saturn Square Moon, Saturn Sextile Moon, Saturn Inconjunct Moon. 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-Moon
Lessons
- developing emotional security and stability from the inside out
- developing conscious decision-making skills rather than relying on feeling and instinct
- confronting the past and understanding one’s feeling nature
- developing creativity and intuition
Challenges
- sensitivity
- shyness or inhibition expressing emotions
- excessive caution
- a childhood that required emotional suppression or control
- a mother figure who offered little warmth or emotional connection
- lack of emotional support from family
- loneliness
- compulsive defensiveness
- difficulty in relationships due to emotional immaturity or dependency
- aloofness or sentimentality rather than full emotional expression
- fear of rejection or humiliation
Mastery
- resolving childhood wounds and releasing parental influences
- integration of the feeling nature (for men)
- discovering femininity apart from the mother’s example (for women)
- ability to offer wholeness in relationships rather than demanding affection
- true emotional independence & inner stability
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.
