This page is about all Saturn-Uranus aspects, like Saturn Conjunct Uranus, Saturn Opposite Uranus, Saturn Trine Uranus, Saturn Square Uranus, Saturn Sextile Uranus, Saturn Inconjunct Uranus. 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-Uranus
Lessons
- cultivating truly independent thought
- conscious reevaluation of the principles underlying the structure of one’s life
- being individually productive while contributing to the development of the whole
- integrating the conflict between individual needs and group unity
Challenges
- swinging between extremes of conventionality and unconventionality in individual expression
- sudden crisis that shatter existing life structures
- conflicts with tradition and authority
- feeling powerless against collective forces
Mastery
- making your Uranian visions real
- shifting from personal ego-centered consciousness to a broader awareness of the collective
- integrating the need for structure with the need for freedom and innovation
- becoming an example of how to work for collective change while respecting individual needs
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.
