Saturn aspects
What the tradition holds about the Saturn at an angle to each of the other bodies. An aspect on its own is geometry; what the older sources actually discuss is a particular pair at a particular angle, and they treat each one as its own subject.
15 pairings curated here, each traced to a work and a page you can open for free. 15 also have a longer piece on what the pairing looks like in a life. Anything involving Pluto is absent and will stay absent: it was discovered in 1930, after every work this site is able to cite.
Saturn and Sun
- Sun conjunct Saturn· also written Saturn conjunct Sun
- Alan Leo reads this as bringing responsibility into the life, and holds it really fortunate only where the two share a congenial sign. He then divides it by sign class: in the fixed signs a subtle pride or dignity with a keen sense of honour and justice; in the cardinal, intellectual pride and a somewhat cold nature — which he puts down not to a lack of feeling but to a want of breadth of thought.
- What this looks like in a life
- Alan Leo, How to Judge a Nativity (1912; pages from the 1928 printing at archive.org/details/howtojudgenativi00leoa), p. 133Alan Leo, How to Judge a Nativity (1912; pages from the 1928 printing at archive.org/details/howtojudgenativi00leoa), p. 133
- Sun sextile Saturn· also written Saturn sextile Sun
- Sixty degrees apart. Alan Leo takes the sextile with the trine here: the whole nature is steadied, the responsibility it brings is not difficult to discharge, and progress upward is slow but held to be sure. One 1918 source groups the two the same way and adds foresight, method and organising ability, with the stamina to carry a project through delays and obstacles — though it holds recognition to be generally late in coming.
- What this looks like in a life
- Alan Leo, How to Judge a Nativity (1912; pages from the 1928 printing at archive.org/details/howtojudgenativi00leoa), p. 134Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 261–262
- Sun square Saturn· also written Saturn square Sun
- Ninety degrees apart. Alan Leo reads this as domestic affliction — limits on progress through the conditions of home, parents and family, and through difficulties the person cannot control. One 1918 source treats the square and the opposition together as adverse to what is generally termed success while abundant in experience: plans thwarted by delay and obstacle, difficulty finding and keeping work, and a sense of being held in leash.
- What this looks like in a life
- Alan Leo, How to Judge a Nativity (1912; pages from the 1928 printing at archive.org/details/howtojudgenativi00leoa), p. 134Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 262–263
- Sun trine Saturn· also written Saturn trine Sun
- A third of the circle apart. Alan Leo takes the trine with the sextile here: the whole nature is steadied, the responsibility it brings is not difficult to discharge, and progress upward is slow but held to be sure. One 1918 source groups the two the same way and adds foresight, method and organising ability, with the stamina to carry a project through delays and obstacles — though it holds recognition to be generally late in coming.
- What this looks like in a life
- Alan Leo, How to Judge a Nativity (1912; pages from the 1928 printing at archive.org/details/howtojudgenativi00leoa), p. 134Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 261–262
- Sun opposite Saturn· also written Saturn opposite Sun
- A hundred and eighty degrees apart. Alan Leo calls this pairing very evil, causing obstacles, disappointments and failures, and holding progress back through separations. One 1918 source treats the opposition with the square as adverse to what is generally termed success while abundant in experience: plans thwarted by delay and obstacle, difficulty finding and keeping work, and a sense of being held in leash.
- What this looks like in a life
- Alan Leo, How to Judge a Nativity (1912; pages from the 1928 printing at archive.org/details/howtojudgenativi00leoa), p. 133Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 262–263
Saturn and Moon
- Moon conjunct Saturn· also written Saturn conjunct Moon
- One 1918 source declines to class this as simply a bad aspect where the mind is concerned: it holds that the conjunction deepens the mind and gives greater power of concentration, and that where Saturn is strong by sign and the Moon otherwise well aspected it lends Saturn's virtues rather than its difficulties.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), p. 268
- Moon sextile Saturn· also written Saturn sextile Moon
- Sixty degrees apart. One 1918 source groups the sextile with the trine and reads them as lending the mind the best of Saturn's qualities: self-reliant, serious, sober and systematic, succeeding through tactful and diplomatic dealing, reasonable and trustworthy in matters of honour and justice, and well thought of in the community for it. It calls their patience and persistence inexhaustible.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 267–268
- Moon square Saturn· also written Saturn square Moon
- Ninety degrees apart. One 1918 source treats the square with the opposition and calls it one of the signatures of sorrow: a mind made melancholy and full of worry, carrying an atmosphere of gloom, and — since it holds that thoughts are things — bringing delays and disappointments in every department of life. It expects difficulty from the people and things it assigns to Saturn, probably parents.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 268–269
- Moon trine Saturn· also written Saturn trine Moon
- A third of the circle apart. One 1918 source groups the sextile with the trine and reads them as lending the mind the best of Saturn's qualities: self-reliant, serious, sober and systematic, succeeding through tactful and diplomatic dealing, reasonable and trustworthy in matters of honour and justice, and well thought of in the community for it. It calls their patience and persistence inexhaustible.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 267–268
- Moon opposite Saturn· also written Saturn opposite Moon
- A hundred and eighty degrees apart. One 1918 source treats the square with the opposition and calls it one of the signatures of sorrow: a mind made melancholy and full of worry, carrying an atmosphere of gloom, and — since it holds that thoughts are things — bringing delays and disappointments in every department of life. It expects difficulty from the people and things it assigns to Saturn, probably parents.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 268–269
Saturn and Mercury
- Mercury conjunct Saturn· also written Saturn conjunct Mercury
- One 1918 source treats the conjunction separately, and says plainly how it differs. It gives depth to the mind and forethought, along with the other qualities it credits to the sextile and trine — but not in so full a measure, and it holds that the person cannot externalise them as readily, so the assured success it grants the good aspects does not follow. The same source adds an embarrassing timidity here.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), p. 210Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), p. 210Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), p. 210
- Mercury sextile Saturn· also written Saturn sextile Mercury
- Sixty degrees apart. One 1918 source reads Saturn's contact with Mercury as a brake upon a flighty mind, giving it seriousness, depth and concentration — and credits the forethought and reasoning that follow with success in whatever vocation is pursued. It describes a patient persistence that lets no temporary failure block eventual success, with caution and diplomacy that make such people hard to beat over time.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 209–210Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 209–210Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), p. 210
- Mercury square Saturn· also written Saturn square Mercury
- Ninety degrees apart. One 1918 source treats the square with the opposition, and reads trouble and delays running through the whole life — the person thwarted by slander and by enemies who stay out of sight, growing bitter and sarcastic under it, then shunned, and finally withdrawing to brood alone. It calls such people cunning and untruthful, and holds that they pursue the occult for personal power rather than the unselfish motives it attributes to the good aspects.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 210–211Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), p. 211Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 210–211
- Mercury trine Saturn· also written Saturn trine Mercury
- A third of the circle apart. One 1918 source reads a mind steadied and deepened by Saturn — serious, concentrated, and capable of forethought and profound reasoning. It expects such people to become prominent in some serious enterprise rather than in public life, because they are quiet, subdued and serious in manner; and it calls them absolutely honest and fairminded, making them in its own phrase the finest judges obtainable.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 209–210Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 209–210Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), p. 210
- Mercury opposite Saturn· also written Saturn opposite Mercury
- A hundred and eighty degrees apart. One 1918 source treats the opposition together with the square. It reads a life subject to trouble and delay, thwarted by slander and secret enemies, and holds that this in time makes the person bitter and sarcastic — then shunned by those who can get away, and driven into seclusion to brood. It also calls the person cunning and untruthful.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 210–211Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), p. 211Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 210–211
Which of these you have
The birth chart page works out every aspect in your own chart from your date, time and place of birth, and shows the entry below the matching row. Nothing is transmitted; it is calculated on your device.
For what the five angles are — the geometry, the orbs, and which pairs can never form which aspects — see aspects.