posted February 20, 2008 08:52 PM            

Does retrograde change the saturn energy?

Thank you.

posted February 21, 2008 12:30 PM            

But don't think Saturn in the 7th means your relationships are doomed to failure. I've got it, and have had the same boyfriend for 15 years. Though that might put you off.

From:
http://www.cco.net/~trufax/research/Natal%20Retrograde%20Planets.pdf

posted February 23, 2008 01:26 AM              

If a man has Saturn retrograde in the 7th and ALSO Mars retrograde in the 5th in his natal, How would this effect his behavior regarding relationships, children, sex, etc.combined together?

posted February 23, 2008 07:54 PM              

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Karmically considered, the placement of Saturn in your birth chart indicates where your energetic blockages, weaknesses and fears lie, and the areas of your life where the most concentrated effort and discipline will be required to master and overcome them. Yet it also points to the aspects of life, which can become your greatest strength if you are willing to face your fears and difficulties honestly, and work with them patiently.

Saturn in the 7th House

The whole arena of marriage, cooperative partnership and committed one-to-one relationships is where you meet some of your most frustrating and difficult challenges and also where there is great potential for soul growth.

There may be a long delay of marriage, either by choice or simply because you never encounter "the right one". Or, you may marry or form partnerships with people who cannot be fully available to you or meet your emotional needs. You may marry out of a sense of duty, obligation, proper form, or for security instead of joy. Often there is a karmic marriage (or a series of them) in which you seem to bring out the worst in one another. Actually, this may be the basis of your avoidance of marriage: the unconscious awareness that once you commit yourself, you will have to confront your own personal demons, weaknesses, flaws, and fears. Thus, there is a sense of heaviness in your heart and mind around marriage or commitment.

In any of your close partnerships the "other" will reflect back to you your own inadequacies. If you are willing to become more conscious and to claim your own problems instead of blaming the other person, you will heal and become more whole through your marriage or other committed relationships. If you are not willing to go any deeper than "this person is not making me happy", loneliness and dissatisfaction are apt to be ongoing. This is not to say that you should martyr yourself upon the altar of marriage or stay in an abusive or painful situation, simply that "for better or for worse" will entail, for you, a good bit of both.

Saturn Retrograde

All of the above is complicated by the fact that you carry a rather heavy burden of self-doubt, mistrust, or guilt over having let yourself and others down in your past, when you struggled (and failed) with these same issues. You now have the opportunity to correct your course, make amends and resolve a difficult karmic tangle, or a difficult state of mind.