posted June 12, 2009 07:49 PM         

Boda is marriage

posted June 12, 2009 08:27 PM         

I see Saturn is more about authority in general

a strict,authoritarian father could be somebody with a hard Sun-Saturn aspect. a strict,authoritarian mother could be somebody with a hard Moon-Saturn aspect
I have Saturn quincunx Sun and square Moon myself...a mystic triangle. Both my parents were strict and authoritarian with me.

Saturn as father is definitely a western astrological thing. Sun is father in Vedic Astrology, but there are western astrologers that use Sun as the father too.

I think Sun describes my father more accurately than Gemini does.

Liz Greene's Relationship Astrology report uses Saturn placement as the father which she uses a man's relationship profile in the relationship. It doesn't work. It makes me superficial. From what my mom told me, my father was a man who was very jealous type that can get paranoid. He was also very intense,emotional,sensitive.
Therefore Sun in Scorpio fits me more than my Saturn in Gemini. The Sun quincunx Saturn in Gemini also fits him because he had Sun in Capricorn and was very shy and had problems with verbal communications. My stepfather was a power,control freak, and he restricted me when it came to communications at times.

Saturn is the planet of responsibility,obligation too
as an only child,I have responsibility,obligation to help my mother out like ...she asks me for money a lot because she is disabled with health problems, and so I give her money. That could be seen with the combination of Sun in 2nd trine Moon in 6th,and Saturn quincunx and square it for a mystic triangle.

a lot of things in Astrology can be questioned. I always had problems viewing Saturn as the father. However,I also don't think Sun fits well with the father either. Sun doesn't rule the 10th house. It rules the 5th house which is associated with children. I feel more comfortable using 4th as the mother and 10th house as the father.

interestingly, southern Indian vedic astrologers do that, but northern vedic astrologers use 9th as the father with the father viewed as the guru. It depends on the culture.

posted June 13, 2009 03:56 PM         

As for a man wanting to take care of a woman.... I would say Saturn would create a sense of obligation toward the other (as Glaucus mentioned), so look for Saturn (I don't mean this in a traditional fatherly way either). It may not be 'fun', but Saturn does tend to be protective, and the contacts can bind. Not necessarily nurturing, but definitely protective and all about obligation.
So, I would say aspects to Saturn in the natal, and also in the synastry. I don't know if just Mars in Virgo alone would cut it.