Jupiter is very large, rules expansion. But Jupiter does not know how to stop. Saturn creates obstacles, obliges to stop. For this, badly understood, is seen as bad luck. Saturn is the last visible planet, limits the solar system. Saturn rules the limitation principle. Evidently the two principles complete one another. A greater and greater mass of water, growing and growing, produces a disaster, an inundation. Limited by a barrage, becomes a dike, and the canalized water can be used to action turbines.

Saturn governs the stones. He is the Great Architect of the Universe. To build we need stones. We may compare our life to a house. To build a house, we edify walls, we limit the infinite space with walls, and so doing we give a form to our house, we give a form to our life. Without limitations, the world would not have a form, would be an oceanic chaos, would not last, would not be stable.

In our life Saturn can be a wall which blocks our path, or even as the four walls of a prison, jailing our capacities and our destiny, or can be the walls that built your house, your career, your success.
Saturn can limit us into a sad, material, intellectual and spiritual poverty, or can build a castle of happiness or a temple. The difference is how we use, consciously or unconsciously, the principle of limitation.

The astrologers would remember that Saturn is the natural ruler of the 10th house, the house of success, and with Uranus governs Aquarius, the true freedom. His greek name is "Chronos", Time. There is no durable success without Saturn.

Saturn, like any other planet, expresses a fundamental law of the Universe. He who does not respect the Law of the Universe wounds himself. Saturn can be a great friend. Everything has a form, and as such needs his power.

Inner Travel:
Saturn
 

Let, let your imagination dream.
Let your imagination fly.

Just let flow in you this delight,
unknown, but familiar,
imagine your place of power,
there, near a water-fall,
hearing the sound of water,
admiring the natural beauty of the landscape,
in the sunlight.
In the sunlight imagine the Castle of the Great Architect of the Universe.
You are inside,
you are into the simples and beautiful Castle of Saturn.
He receives you with a cool elegance,
which badly hides his sympathy for you,
smiling a suggestion of a smile.
And Saturn leads you to a sequence of lesser rooms,
where are exposed stones, many, many beautiful stones.
He offers you the stone you'll choose,
a magical stone to construct your life.
On the stone table facing you are crystals,
in every scale, of every color.
You focus your sensibility, asking:
" What is the color of the stone I need ?
What is the stone which is the more in tune
with how I want to build my life ?
What stone will better materialize
my desires and give a form to my life ?"
Looking ,,, feeling ,,, perceiving.
Feeling the different vibration of every stone.
Hearing the subtle sound, the hidden music,
the special, typical vibration emanating from the stone.
Catching a stone into your hand,
into the sensibility of your hand,
feeling the quality of the stone.
Feeling how it helps or contradicts
the form you want to give to your life.
Catching another stone, feeling ... comparing ... choosing.
And suddenly you, the conscience you are,
comes into the stone.
There, into the inner space of the stone,
you encounter an intelligence,
a not human intelligence,
a very ancient, a mineral intelligence,
the person the stone is.
You send well being, friendship
to the intelligence of the stone.
You feel the friendship this mysterious,
tranquil  intelligence is sending to you.
You feel the personality, the person.
You ask to this friendly intelligence
to share with you her qualities, her power,
to help you to give to your life the form you need.
Letting the intelligence of the stone memorize,
memorize in a stable, permanent manner
what you want,
you feel how the stone stabilize the form,
crystallizes the form.
You feel how the energy is flowing,
repeating, repeating without a lapse the dance,
the vibration you need to give to your life.
You feel how the intelligence of the stone emits formative forces,
constructing conditions in behalf of you.
You express gratitude to the stone.
With affection, you express gratitude
to this ancient mineral intelligence.
With love, you say farewell.
Anew you are facing the table,
looking to the stone from outside.
Saturn is smiling his invisible smile.
You express gratitude to Saturn.
With affection, you express gratitude.
And you are in your place of power,
beneath the great over fall of Light.
 
 

Comment

Saturn is a divine expression of the Divine. One of his gifts is the power of attention, of concentration. One of his danger is the power of attention. Attention hypnotizes.

We can easily realize a curious experience with a piece of chalk and a chicken.
With the piece of chalk we draw a line on the ground. We take the chicken between our hands, and with our extended arms make it gyrate, gyrate. When the chicken is dizzy, we put her beak on the white line of chalk. It stays there. It does not move. It sees only the white line. The rest of the Universe disappeared for it, only the white line exists, there is nothing else. The chicken stays there, there is no other place to go. It is hypnotized.

We are exactly in the situation of the chicken, hypnotized by the white line of our day to day life. We, and Merlin of Avalon. The legend tells that Merlin fell in love for Vivian. She was beautiful. Impassioned, he revealed all of his magical secrets to Vivian. She took vantage, jailed Merlin to have him only for herself. Up to now, Merlin is a prisoner. He is jailed into a prison made of air.

Made of air ! There are no walls, no grades, nothing. He only is hypnotized by Vivian's beauty. He just have to awake, he is free.

The secret of awakening and of freedom is hidden into the planets farther than Saturn, into the invisible planets.