This page is about all Saturn-Venus aspects, like Saturn Conjunct Venus, Saturn Opposite Venus, Saturn Trine Venus, Saturn Square Venus, Saturn Sextile Venus, Saturn Inconjunct Venus. 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-Venus
Lessons
- relationship as a path of self-knowledge
- taking full responsibility for one’s emotions
- learning to love oneself
- forming meaningful relationships based on honesty and not mutual need
- emotional maturity
Challenges
- a childhood of emotional pain and rejection
- potentially hostility from the parents
- painful struggles in relationships potentially leading to disillusionment and bitterness
- difficulty being happy or at peace or feeling pleasure
- isolation and loneliness
- experiences of rejection
- sexual inhibitions based on unconscious fears
- craving for affection and love coupled with fear and defensiveness
- demanding love but not expressing it
- emotional immaturity
- expressing needs through inflicting pain or sulking
- callousness to others pain
- anticipating betrayal
- loyalty to abusive partners
- sacrificing of self or partner
- avoiding deep emotional connections or maintaining a relationship with a partner one seems to dislike or even despise (martyrdom)
- lack of confidence in one’s femininity (for women)
- mistrust of women (for men)
Mastery
- a deeply fulfilling and honest relationship that is lasting and real
- relating based on free choice and love rather than need and mutual projection
- a deep understanding of the nature of love and relationships
- integration of the feminine and masculine within oneself
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.
