This page is about all Saturn-Sun aspects, like Saturn Conjunct Sun, Saturn Opposite Sun, Saturn Trine Sun, Saturn Square Sun, Saturn Sextile Sun, Saturn Inconjunct Sun. 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-Sun
Lessons
- developing the conscious identity and inner masculine/Yang energy (initiative and creativity)
- defining your own sense of self-worth
- discovering that light and dark aspects are two faces of oneself
Challenges
- feeling the need to pit oneself against life
- intense fear of failure
- actual failure
- harsh or disappointing relationship with parents (especially the father) that leaves the child to have to build their identity on their own
- feeling a need to prove oneself
- compulsive ambition or professed lack of ambition
- guilt when experiencing happiness or relaxation
- extremes of either inherited money or poverty
- self-denial
- self-sabotage
Mastery
- unlocking the Sun’s full potential by integrating the shadow
- becoming the master of your fate
- strength
- self-confidence
- an integrated conscious identity
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.
