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Oxychick
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posted January 24, 2004 09:46 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hi, I just wanted to see if anyone had any interesting Saturn-in-Synastry experiences they could share. The pair I have in mind has a few favorable Saturn aspects-mutual reception of Venus trine Saturn. A's Saturn also trines B's Mars and A's Saturn trines B's chiron.

Thanks all! I hope everyone is having a good start to their weekend. I see the sun shining, but know it's really a cover up for the bitter cold brrrr....

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posted January 24, 2004 01:52 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hey, I'll just throw this out there, left over from my last "thing"...

her Mercury Trine his Saturn

her Mars Trine his Saturn

his Sun Trine her Saturn

and the sore spot - His Mars Opp my Saturn

But overall, I felt like I connected with this guy more than any other in my whole life - that he REALLY understood me.

I miss him so much...

.gloria

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lioneye68
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posted January 28, 2004 12:30 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Aspects to Saturn in the natal chart can modify how Saturns feels in synastry aspects. If Saturn is trining Venus in the natal, it's nicer to planets it makes aspects to in synastry. Venus makes the old grump be nicer hee hee. Jupiter could have the same effect.

All in all, Saturn has a bit of an underserved bad rep in synastry. This is what Kevin had to say about Saturn in the "Ask Kevin" archives.

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I need to start off here by reminding everyone that any astrology book written before 1970 is almost certain to have nothing but bad things to say about Saturn. Many astrology books written in the past 30 years still have overwhelmingly negative and fatalistic interpretations, again, particularly when dealing with Saturn. This is not to say that Saturn is a particularly fun planet to deal with; however, we’ve all got Saturn in our charts, and we’ve all got to learn how to deal with it.

Saturn aspects in Synastry tend to have a very heavy, responsible, limiting energy to them, certainly. Stephen Arroyo feels that Saturn aspects in synastry are karmic, particularly when they involve one person’s Saturn to the other person’s personal planets. But here’s something that most books don’t mention: strong Saturn aspects are also extremely common in long-lasting relationships. This isn’t to say that if you don’t have Saturn connections in the synastry with your partner that the relationship won’t last; however, there’s something about those Saturn aspects that seem to force people to buckle down and work at the relationship rather than giving up at the first sign of discontent.

As with everything else, it comes down to the level of self-responsibility that each individual possesses. If you are comfortable with your own Saturn, then you’re probably not going to mind it if your partner’s Saturn falls in your 7th house.


(or squares your Venus, for that matter)

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trillian
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posted January 29, 2004 01:09 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for trillian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks for that lioneye. I love Stephen Arroyo, and would strongly recomment his "Relationships and Life Cycles" book to everyone here with an interest in understanding charts between people. It's so valuable.

Arroyo says some of those 'hard' saturn aspects between two people are the strongest, they stick like Crazy Glue!

If I get a chance this weekend, I'll copy some of his wisdom for you here.

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lioneye68
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posted January 30, 2004 05:27 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That would be simply grande, Trilly...can I call you Trilly? No? ok, sorry.

Whenever you get around to it, I'd love to see what Arroyo thinks about Saturn squares and oppositions in synastry. Even the bad aspects are enduring...just more nerve wracking, I suppose. But that's ok, if you need some tension to keep the sex spicy, and the boredom at bay, like moi.

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Jazzebel
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posted January 30, 2004 10:16 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
hello ladies,
I`ve been looking at so many synastries, could be over 1000 by far, thou not in depth - just curious to see what aspects a certain couple has. (Especialy was interested of long term relationship couples). Of course, you`ve heard it before, Saturn was always there. Usualy hard aspects - square or oposition. Sun/Saturn square came up in almost 85% of the couple`s synastry. I am already used to not get surprised to see Sun/Saturn hard aspect, I`ve seen it in every third synastry. There were couples (some with 40 years marriage) who had Sun/Saturn square both ways. Opposition is also very common. Most of the time Saturn aspects in synastry feels like loving a bad boy - people would try to convince you he is not good for you, yet you will fight and stick to him desperately.
I just recently looked at Bennifer`s synastry - J.Lo`s Saturn square Ben`s Sun by 1 degree orb, and Ben`s Saturn square Jen`s Venus by 3 degrees.
Madonna`s Saturn square Guy Richie`s Sun 1 degree, Jennifer Aniston`s Saturn squares Brad Pitt`s Moon, Mercury and Venus, Goldie Hawn Saturn squares Kurt Russell`s Venus by 0 degree (they never get married but been together for about 30 years), Yoko Ono`s Saturn squared John Lennon`s Venus by 0 degree, Elizabeth Taylor`s Moon conjuncted Richard Burton`s Saturn, Wittney Houston Moon conjuncts Bobby Brown`s Saturn ...and so many more examples.
Sun/Saturn square or opposition is very very enduring, Saturn/Venus square is a deep but troubled love. When I see Venus/Saturn square I know there is much love between those two people but there is always something heavy about their relationship (the Saturn person soemtimes experience sort of sorrow and suffering). I`ve never been scared off of Saturn hard aspects when I see it in synastry. Its very sweet actualy. You know the love suffers and that makes you somewhat wiser.

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lioneye68
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posted January 31, 2004 01:36 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ick. Saturn. It's the old crotchety school master who has no tolerance for tomfoolery or sentiment, and he has taken an interest in YOU. When he's focusing on you he's saying "Not good enough. You're not being realistic. Rethink that one. Plan that better. I only want the best for you, but you're kind of an idiot. Bad things happen to idiots..."

Jezzabel, yes, I'm seeing the same thing. The hard Saturn aspects are more common than the nice ones in long term relationships. I wonder why that is. Have we come to expect a certain level of anxiety or burden with a committed relationship? Because Saturn aspects can certainly deliver those.

Virgo dude and I have several (of the worst...)

My Saturn in 25:33 Aries closely squares his Mars in 25:06 Cancer, and his Venus in 29:09 Cancer.

His Saturn in 0:39 Pisces squares my Ascendant in 3:51 Saggie, and opposes my Venus in 28:48 Leo. (by aspect only, not sign)

But I have Venus trine Saturn in my natal chart, so I'm cool with Saturn's energy.

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Jazzebel
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posted January 31, 2004 03:07 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I dont know, Lioneye, why those Saturn aspects occure so often...

but if, lets say, your planets aspect your partner`s Saturn and you stay in that relationship, obviously you have a personal identification with and a need for a structuring agent in your life or it would not have attracted his Saturn in first place (or vice versa).

The main restriction here with the saturn aspects, I read it once, would come when the planet person goes thru its period of rebellion against authority and seeks to be independant, whilst Saturn sits waiting for the phase to pass. The planet person however, can give saturn some rooom to play, loosen up a bit and be a child, if saturn is willing to let its walls down long enough to let that happen.

P.S. I know you have Venus/Saturn hard aspect in your synastry that is why I gave you those examples of couples having them too. Having a double Saturn aspect is kind of relief thou, it is balancing, unlike when only one of the partners gets affected by the other`s Saturn.

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Purpleflame
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posted January 31, 2004 11:05 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hi All, Am very interested in hearing about the double aspects with Saturn. We have the Saturn and Venus square AND we also have the Saturn and Venus trine.Also, the Saturn and Chiron trine..even tighter. Hmmm..?? I am finding this a most interesting subject and it seems there is a lot of conflicting views. SOme astrologers say these type of ties are necessary and will walk you through thick and thin.. crazy glue is the perfect description. Others .. mostly.. not astrologers but ones I have seen commenting say you won't ever be/stay together with the Saturn/Venus square. I disagree that it always keeps the two apart. I just think it is not always easy to get the two together.. Saturn tests the depth of the two of you and really through this long testing, seems to make you really KNOW that yes, this IS for real and you will wait or undergo all the wonderful growth that leads to unconditional love. Of the above mentioned, as in Kurt and Goldie or Yoko and John .. how difficult was it for them to get together?? Flame

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trillian
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posted February 02, 2004 01:08 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for trillian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Sorry lioneye, I haven't had a chance yet to copy all that! But I promise I will...you will find he concurs with many of the things Jazz says.

And you can call me Trilly anytime. :heasrt:

Oh, I do remember one tidbit, because it annoyed me to know this about my current love interest! Arroyo says that the person whose Saturn aspects the other person's personal planet, is the one teaching the lessons. The Saturn person is teaching life lessons to the other...

I'll have to check his and my aspects again, the major one is his Saturn conjunct my Sun...

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kittie
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posted February 02, 2004 01:34 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Very nice topic
Saturn mutual aspects really really stick like crazy glue, I think, but apart from this I don't know much about their meaning.
Moon square Saturn - does it mean the Saturn person will press and hold down emotionally the Moon person? Or it means Saturn will teach the Moon something about emotions and love?
Does Sun square Saturn mean that Saturn person will bring down the energies of the Sun?
Saturn conj. Ascendant - this one I don't understand at all

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trillian
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posted February 02, 2004 07:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for trillian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
OK, here are some excerpts from Stephen Arroyo on Saturn...

Saturn & Karma...
"the first thing to look at is Saturn. Whatever house someone's Saturn fallls in -in your own chart-always indicates an area of life where they can teach you some lessons. But those lessons can be extremely positive; you don't have to look at Saturn as a negative thing. It doesn't have to be a restrictive thing. Someone's Saturn in your 5th house can teach you how to enjoy yourself more."

"If someone's Saturn hits your personal planets or ascendant, especially the Asc., sun moon or venus, there's usually a strong attachment there. And by attachment, I mean that literally. It's not good or bad necessarily, it's just an attachment. There's some kind of security thing you have with that person. How it's often experienced is: the person whose Saturn hits your personal planet or Asc., has something 'over you,' Saturn is authority, right? Often at the beginning you feel you owe them something, or you respect them or look up to them. The Saturn person is the one doing the structuring. "

"Wherever Saturn falls in a house in a comparison, that's often where you have things to learn, where you'll be tested and challenged to define your approach to life in that area."

"One thing that really struck me was how many marriages have these Saturn aspects. Saturn-Venus or Saturn-Sun are the most common. And then Saturn and the Moon were second in quantity. And that they had very long lasting relationships, a lot had, in their comparisons, "hard" Saturn aspects."
The conjunction of Saturn to the Ascendant is very common in marriage comaprisons. It's a funny thing though, because attachment ismutual and goes both ways.

"Often the Saturn person will act like he or she is not attached. That person is the boss, that person has something 'over' the other person. And the 'underdog' in the situation will often feel like "oh I've got to work really hard to please this authority figure." But wait until there's some kind of crisis, or till the 'underdog' decides that he or she is sick of working so hard and threatens to leave. Then the Saturn person starts freaking out, becaus it's the person whose Saturn is involved in this aspect, in a comparison, whose security is tied up in the relationship, even more than the other person. It's a very complex aspect."

A specific case he speaks of:
One couple I remember, the husband's Saturn squared the wife's sun, and the wife's Saturn squared the husband's sun. They were miserable for years till she had the courage to leave him. Now, one Saturn aspect doesn't have to make you miserable, it depends on the rest of the comparison and on how you deal with it. But with a double whammy like this, I've never seen a happy relationship with that combination."


So that's a little bit of Arroyo on Saturn, does this help at all? It's really one of my favorite books of Astrology.

Now, if you don't mind a long post getting longer... ...here are the Saturn aspects of me and my Gem...

His 7th house Sat. conjunct my 9th house Sun
His Saturn trine my Asc.
His Sat. trine my 12th house Uranus
His Sat. square my Sat. (5th house)
His Sat. trine my North Node (2nd house)

My Saturn trine His Asc.
My Saturn trine his Plute & Uranus (12th house)
My Saturn falls in his 4th house
My Saturn sexile his Neptune (3rd)
My Saturn square his NN (7th)

So there you have it...

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trillian
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posted February 02, 2004 07:54 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for trillian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Here's something else of value from Arroyo, though he is quoting another astrologer:

"Most important in judging attraction is the aspect between the Ascendant in one chart and the planets in the other. This is true not only for marriage, but for all comparisons. Unless the Ascendant or Descendant of one horoscope combines with the planets of the other by sign--not necessarily by a close aspect, but by sign--it's doubtful that the attraction would result in marriage.
There's got to be some link between the Ascendant or Descendant of one chart--or the ruler of the Asc. or Desc.--and your own chart. "

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sthenri
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posted February 02, 2004 08:42 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This is true, I am not attracted for long easily-Venus in Aries, and there must be an aspect from my ascendant in Sag, for any attraction at all.

I have found the best relationships are those with strong aspects to the ascendant.
That's Just my Opinion.

Natasha
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"Love is Freedom"
Jimi Hendrix

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lioneye68
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posted February 02, 2004 09:21 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Cool...Virgo dude and I have both of those covered in one way or another...my sun, mars and mercury all fall in his 1st house, my moon falls in his 7th house.
None of his planets fall in my 1st or 7th house, but he does have a 3rd house sun and moon , which make him seem Gemini-like. I have Gemini on my 7th house cusp. Also, the ruler of my 7th house is Mercury, and he's very much a Mercury Boy, being a Virgo sun, merc and moon.

But those Saturn aspects...sure they mean we'll stick it out through the tough times, but will we be miserable while we're doing it? I just want to be happy.

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posted February 02, 2004 09:46 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I've been reading lately that with Saturn, you have to look at the inconjunct aspect as well, because for some reason, this aspect is more significant when Saturn is involved. Did Mr. Arroyo have anything to say about that?

Also, what if 2 people's Saturns form a sextile aspect? Does that mean anything?

Gawd, I hate when I get self-centered like this "What about me ME ME ME!!!" ...but this is good informantion, man!

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posted February 03, 2004 01:15 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Really cool Trillian -

I'm gonna check that book out!

Thanks man...

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trillian
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posted February 03, 2004 10:15 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for trillian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
lioneye, it's ok to be a ME ME ME--cause you GIVE GIVE GIVE, too! A balance for all things. You give so much to LL, you deserve some wonderful things in return. And with matters of the heart...shoot, we all need insight, don't we?!

I'll have to look at the book when I get home and see if he says anything about the quincunx, lioneye. I can tell you this: even with a 3 degree orb, my Saturn makes a quincunx to my Gem's Venus and Sun. My 5th house, his 9th...and oh, how I can feel the pull. We've tried to walk away several times and just can't do it. I have heard before that the quincunx can be a mighty powerful aspect...so if you and he have one with Saturn and a personal planet or Asc. or Desc., I think that is a very strong bond.

And you know it too.

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lioneye68
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posted February 03, 2004 12:16 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Aw, gosh you're sure a sweetie pie, Trilly!

When you say "quincunx", do you mean "inconjunct"? I mean, is that the same thing, the sign on either side of the opposite sign? Or is that the semi-sextile, 30 degrees apart? Or both?

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posted February 03, 2004 01:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for trillian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Oh shoot...LOL...I know you wrote inconjunct, but for some reason I read quincunx!!!

Quincunx is 150 degrees....

Sorry for the confusion!!

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posted February 03, 2004 02:25 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Yeah, that's one sign away from the opposite sign. That's the same thing as the Inconjunct. (although the word 'inconjunct' would make more sense if it referred to the semi-sextile, 30 degrees apart, as it's one sign off from being conjunct. Hense, it's INconjunct....but hey, it's too late to change it now LOL)

So, 'quincunx' and 'inconjunct' are essentially the very same thing. The signs on either side of the opposite sign. Right? So that's the one that has special significance with Saturn.

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posted February 03, 2004 02:37 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for trillian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Forgive me!
I'm having a day, here! 10 inches of snow, boy trouble, and not nearly enough sleep.

Yes, they're both the same thing. Duh.
Gonna go scrape the egg from my face now! and find an aspirin...

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posted February 03, 2004 08:13 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hi all, according to the Magisociety info, the inconjunct or quincunx, (150 degrees apart) is good if it does not involve Saturn.They say the 150, involving Saturn, is like a square or an opposition. A no-no. If it is involving say, Venus and Mars or any other planets, then it becomes one of the aspects like the conjunct or trine.. that they think is wonderful. But, Saturn, nope, they say that is negative.
And remember, the orbs are tight.. within three degrees. If you are looking at the declination charts then within 1.2 And, again a contra-parallel within planets is fine but when it involves Saturn, it is like a square or opposition.They say Saturn is very important and as we all know many astrologers see Saturn as karmic. Morningstorm looked for Saturn aspects right away.
Donna once mentioned if you are fortunate to have the aspects balanced,(between you..an equal number of negs and pos.)then it makes it much more advantageous to the relationship. I had not thought about the Ascendant but we have the Saturn trining my Ascendant as well. Lots of Saturn with us.. makes sense as this is certainly a relationship that I feel, affects me.
Thankyou everyone, for being so forthcoming with the info. Every time I come and read at LL, I learn something new.
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posted February 04, 2004 09:34 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for trillian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks for that purpleflame, but personally, I don't think I am much of a fan of the Magi society.

And even if the quincunx has the power of the square...well, I'm with Arroyo and Jazzebelle, the squares and hard aspects are very often like Crazy Glue. And as you said, if there is a balance of harmonious aspects, that's all for the best.

Arroyo says that w/o friction, w/o problems, there's nothing to help a relationship grow.

Now, as for problems, like those that might be presented by Saturn...

"There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts."
--Richard Bach in _Illusions_.

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posted February 04, 2004 09:57 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for starflower     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This is a great topic, as I find Saturn (the great Malefic) to be the most challenging planet to understand, even tho I have Aqua Sun, Saturn in my 6th House.

My current love interest and I have the following Saturn aspects in Synastry...

Sun sextile Saturn
Moon sextile Saturn
Saturn trine Nep
Saturn opp Pluto

I feel some kind of karmic/past life connection with him. I felt from the start a connection, and I knew our relationship would last at least quite a while - I never felt like it would just fizzle out quickly.
I'm not saying that this is the biggest love of my life, but there is something deep going on here.

I dont really understand the Saturn/Karma stuff.

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