Have you ever experienced the repeated delays, pressures, and disappointment associated with Saturn's transits and cycles? This classic astrology text, revered by both beginning and professional astrologers alike, offers a fresh perspective on how to handle the influence of this muchmaligned astrological symbol. Worldfamous astrologer and Jungian analyst Liz Greene brings her unique psychological approach to Saturn, showing us how the frustrating experiences connected to this planet can be turned into opportunities for greater insight and meaning in our lives. Saturn, she says, symbolizes a psychic processone that allows us to utilize the experience of pain for selfdiscovery and greater understanding. Greene traces the character of this most important planet through sign, house, aspect, synastry, and its role in mythology. She offers a brilliant analysis of Saturn to reveal the face of the "Initiator" who, for the price of our honesty, offers us greater consciousness, selfunderstanding, and, eventually, freedom. This 35th anniversary edition includes a new foreword by leading astrologer and author Robert Hand. Liz Greene is the cofounder of the Centre for Psychological Astrology in London and a contributor to the most respected astrology site on the web: www.astro.com, as well as a regular contributor to Astrodientst.com. She is the author of Astrology for Lovers and Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living with Others on a Small Planet . Greene currently resides in Zurich, Switzerland Saturn A New Look at an Old Devil By LIZ GREENE Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC Copyright © 2011 Liz Greene All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-57863-507-8 Contents ForewordIntroduction1 • In the Watery Signs and Houses2 • In the Earthy Signs and Houses3 • In the Airy Signs and Houses4 • In the Fiery Signs and Houses5 • Aspects in the Birth Chart6 • In Synastry7 • Conclusion CHAPTER 1 in the watery signs and houses A traditional reading of Saturn in the signs and houses may be found in a numberof textbooks. Some are more psychological in their orientation, but the majorityare concerned with his limiting and delaying influence upon the material planeor the world of events. This is certainly a valid method of interpretation as heunquestionably coincides with hindrances and the frustration of the even flow ofmaterial and emotional comfort in life. An analysis of Saturn's effects byaspect is also available from many sources, and this area also has been welldocumented through observation, experience, and tradition. The form side ofSaturn's expression has in fact been most adequately covered and will continueto be so as further research is done in the areas of midpoints, harmonics, andmedical astrology; however, it is the inner meaning which here concerns us. No interpretation of Saturn by sign, house, or aspect can be complete, ofcourse, since it is necessary to synthesise these elements and align them withthe combination of Sun, Moon, and Ascendant first of all, corresponding with theindividual's conscious expression, his unconscious or instinctual reactions, andhis behavioural patterns. These isolated factors in combination with Saturnbecome the spinal column of the natal chart from the point of view of character.They will in a very concise manner shed light on what the individual wants (theSun), what he needs (the Moon), the style in which he goes about getting thesethings (the Ascendant), and the thing within the man which causes him either tofail or to be dissatisfied once he has achieved his desire (Saturn). This is, ofcourse, grossly simplified, and entire volumes could be filled on all the knownmeanings of the Moon alone; however, from this relationship of four factors—andevery trinity must in the end be integrated by a fourth factor, a psychologicalas well as an esoteric law—we may gain insight into the meat of the individualstruggle toward greater consciousness indicated on every birth chart. There isno chart which does not contain Saturn, however dignified and admirably aspectedhe may be, and there is no life without struggle. We are taught in esoteric doctrine that the physical plane is the plane ofeffects, the last and densest of a progressively more subtle series of states ofconsciousness. Many people conceive of these planes as having a locationspatially, but they have never been described in this way: the planes refer tostates of being, or of awareness, rather than of place, and all coexistsimultaneously at the same time and all the time, in all planes, and at the samepoint. This is a difficult concept for the rational and one–pointed intellect tograsp as it contains a paradox and must be perceived through the intuition whichis capable of reconciling the opposing ideas inherent in a paradox and seeingthem as one unit. This concept of the planes does not contradict the findings ofpsychology although the terminology used by both ways of thought is different.The man who is following the devot