The Tester, Discipline

The traditional "bad guy" or malefic in astrology, where Saturn touches we feel the serious and potentially negative effects of its constrictive nature. However, Saturn also brings crystallization into form, and the discipline and hard work necessary to actualize our dreams. It is here we learn to discriminate, be ambitious, set boundaries and develop responsibility as we pass through the tests of life and reach for our own perfection. We are pushed to move beyond fear and skepticism and commit to our goals; and we are given a bounty of determination, concentration and persistence to accomplish this. We appreciation and nurture tradition and time honored, conservative outlook.

By transit, or in other predictive charts, Saturn brings delay, disappointment, restriction, death or endings, negativity, fear and exhaustion. It also brings limitation, boundaries, patience, introspection and clarification. Here we are encouraged to release impracticalgoals, and are rewarded for the accumulation of hard work with a strong sense of accomplishment. By transit, we can develop dental problems, loss and delay. Saturn's challenges are often appeased with menial, unglamorous and unrewarded labor, such as scrubbing the grout in the bathtub.

Positive Affects

As Saturn, ruler of Capricorn, moves slowly, its attributes come over time, and include the self discipline required to acquire confidence, experience, and compassion for the challenges of others. The great preserver, Saturn is our continual opportunity to grow up and take our lives, and ourselves, more seriously.

Negative Affects

The negative sides of Saturn include fear, small thinking, and all things constricted, rigid, limited and bitter. In the end, with Saturn's help, we find it's better to do what has to be done, when it has to be done, whether we want to do it or not…to be the only sensible approach.

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