Saturn in Libra

Core Conflict: wanting connection / fearing rejection

Vulnerabilities: fear of being alone, fear of intimacy, disappointment or difficulty in partnerships, fear of dependency or vulnerability, lack of true connection, emotional dependency, isolation

Defenses: unconscious projection of inner conflicts onto partners, choosing "safe" but unfulfilling relationships, creating or choosing imbalanced relationships, blaming others for relationship failures, choosing partners based on superficial qualities rather than values, avoiding true intimacy, playing the martyr, giving with conditions, superficial charm or stoicism

The Work: take responsibility for your relationship choices and your inner life, become aware of unconscious projection and blame, resolve inner conflict, cultivate emotional independence, choose relationships that are a real match, learn to tolerate the risk of intimacy, become emotionally honest

Transformation: emotional self-sufficiency, relationships as a vehicle for mutual growth, integration of the shadow, true intimacy & harmony, inner wholeness

Saturn in the 11th

Core Conflict: needing to belong to a collective / feeling uniquely different

Vulnerabilities: not fitting in within superficial social groups or connections, feeling like an outsider, alienation, deep loneliness, inability to feel ordinary belongingness or commonality with humanity, mistrust of others

Defenses: aloofness, overcompensation through excessive social involvement or complete withdrawal out of fear of non-acceptance, reactively emphasizing one’s uniqueness as a point of pride or superiority, following group norms at the expense of individuality, maintaining shallow but unfulfilling relationships

The Work: accept and connect with your uniqueness, find groups to connect with who resonate with your inner self, find friends you can truly be yourself with, accept being different as a leadership quality, discern your own vision for the future of humanity and find people to collaborate with to work toward it

Transformation: feeling a true sense of belonging based on inner affinity, becoming a leader or meaningful participant in group efforts toward a future you believe in

Saturn Sextile Mars

Low Intensity: Orb 3°, Soft Aspect

Lessons: going inward to explore and integrate the masculine principle within oneself, developing a deeper understanding of power and control, developing inner strength and resilience, learning to assert the personal will in a balanced way that is neither forceful or timid

Challenges: a childhood experience of being dominated by the father, potentially experiencing physical abuse or cruelty, a sense of inadequacy around one’s power or masculinity, lack of confidence, intense inner frustration, feelings of weakness or powerlessness potentially leading to violence or manipulation out of fear, using sex as a way to assert dominance rather than pleasure or connection, sexual inhibition due to fear, a sense of not having control over one’s life, coldness, selfishness, recklessness, accidents, conflict with authority, or alternatively, extreme passivity and lack of assertion which may build up into frustration and anger or self-destructiveness

Mastery: integrating masculinity and power without dominance or needing to prove oneself, the ability to harness and direct energy with precision, determination and stamina, self-assurance grounded in self-knowledge, the ability to balance the desire for action and the need for caution

Saturn Conjunct Jupiter

Medium Intensity: Orb 5°, Hard Aspect

Lessons: developing your own set of values and life philosophy based on intuitive perception, translating those values into your practical life, buckling down and doing the work you need to do to improve your life rather than expecting fate to hand it to you, understanding the nature of good and evil and moral decision-making on a personal level

Challenges: a negative outlook on life, feeling like your life is in the hands of fate, struggle to follow intuition when it conflicts with “real-world” concerns, swinging between hope and despair, or between blind optimism and untempered pessimism, loss through speculative investments, under-achievement due to fear of failure, periods of losing or abandoning one’s faith due to material conditions that seem to contradict it, “selling your Soul to the Devil”, depression due to loss of meaning, seeking shortcuts to the good life, always waiting for your big break, expecting something for nothing, questionable moral choices (selfishness, dishonesty)

Mastery: integrated worldview and moral belief system that supports right action and practical success, understanding and acceptance of good and evil in self and the world, living in alignment with one’s intuitive vision and moral compass