The second-largest planet in our solar system. One of the most striking planets that has visible rings around it. As kids, we named Saturn as our second-favorite planet after Earth, only because it seemed like a beautiful mystery to us.
Who knew that Saturn had such an important part to play in astrology? At first glance, having Saturn sit in your charts seems like a blessing. A beautiful, large planet governing our life? How important must we be?
But that’s when you read on further, consult an astrologer, and slowly, that ecstatic smile on your face drops, not to return for at least 7.5 years.
Why 7.5 years? It’s because this wonderful planet governs everyone’s charts and puts everyone through 7.5 years of hell called the Sade Sati. According to Saturn, they are just helping you grow and build character. For you, it’s a time when everything slips from under your feet and over your head. A stable paying job? Not for long. Hello, unemployment.
A reliable relationship? Not anymore. They leave you, and guess what, your friends chose your partner’s side. Gadgets begin to break. Money begins to flow out to repair and maintain.
Never got sick so far? Chances are pretty good your common cold isn’t very common. Break a leg isn’t an idiom anymore, but your new reality.
The great apartment you have is suddenly not your home anymore.
Seven and a half years of this.
Did you think you had adulthood all figured out? Not when Saturn is around you, don’t. Saturn decides to be your harshest teacher who doesn’t believe in homework. It straight away gives you exams, and you must perform at every single one of them. They will be staring at your face as you attempt to clear it.
You will fail most of your exams, then maybe get a single right answer. A relief window that acts as a consolation prize.
More often than not, during the 7.5 years of extreme tests, your consolation prize will be a couple of days when nothing breaks, and you enjoy a good meal.
But two days later, you may end up with food poisoning.
Saturn is trying to teach you to cook food properly. Check outside food for foul smells that indicate contamination.
It’s your fault you got food poisoning because you failed to pay attention during your lessons.
During the Sade Sati, literally everything is your fault. You must bow your head, nod in agreement that you made a mistake, and then try to do better. But don’t expect to be lauded for your efforts. Never expect anything during exam time that lasts for 7.5 years.
Eventually, Saturn is supposed to help you build character, resilience, and make you stronger through a series of tests.
For some, Saturn doesn’t affect them as heavily as others. It’s a background character that will occasionally make you slip on a banana peel.
For others, Saturn decides to be a headmaster, the sternest one you can imagine, who holds a thick cane of discipline. It doesn’t just make you slip on a banana peel. It gets you attacked by a monkey who had dropped the banana peel. It gets you fined by a cop for littering. And just as you reach home to bandage yourself up, not only are you out of first aid, but the landlord is waiting for you, demanding rent.
Also, you have to work overtime that day.
So…what is the point of Saturn in your charts?
It’s there to remind you that life is tough. As kids, you believed a little too much in fairy magic, and Saturn comes and slaps the feel-good books out of your hands and throws a tome at you. It’s trying to teach you and make you stronger by taking away every cushion you own and tearing it right in front of you like a bully. Then it laughs at you.
If your chart has Saturn making a home in every important aspect of your life, you’re likely to find stability much later in life. Astrologers will comfort you by calling you a late bloomer, like it’s some coveted title everyone is vying for. Blooming late is not your thirties. It’s somewhere in your early forties.
Until then, it’s like being a contestant in a survival reality TV show where everything is rigged, the prize for participation is a handshake, and after elimination, you don’t get to go home to family and friend support, but are mocked for losing the game.
Saturn could have been chill about everything. It is the third coldest planet in the solar system. But no. It decides to push aside every planet, even the moon, and tries to gain importance by practically being a bully.
But of course, astrolgers will call it a revered teacher that makes you stronger and resilient.
Isn’t that why we go to school, to learn from our teachers? Isn’t that why we go to the gym, to work out?
Saturn really needs to chill for once. If we aren't getting a graduation ceremony, we shouldn't have to endure the endless pop quizzes.
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