Saturn takes approximately twenty-nine years to orbit the sun and therefore a birth chart.

People who have Saturn rising or directly overhead at birth tend to want to be in control they gravitate to positions of authority, even if it takes them a lifetime of struggle to do so. There is a point to Saturn, of course, just as there is a point to difficult experiences – we become better people for them we grow. Wherever Saturn is placed in a birth chart reveals where we have the most to learn and where we will suffer our greatest frustration and heartache. This planet is synonymous with hard lessons, effort and responsibility. Saturn is not the easiest planetary archetype to deal with. And although astrology is still viewed as a spurious study by most scientists, its usage and popularity is as strong in the Twenty-first Century - if not stronger - than it was three thousand years ago. It is a satellite belonging to Earth.īut whether a star, a satellite, an asteroid or a bonafide planet, astrologers through the ages have watched the movements of the planetary bodies and gained meaning from them. Thus the passage of the sun through the circle of the zodiac is merely an illusion. Here on planet Earth we see the sun rising and setting each day but in reality it is we who are moving. The sun, of course, does not actually move at all. Since these planets are such slow movers they have a more significant effect on world events and those that shape our individual lives. When an astrologer like myself makes predictions we place greater importance on the movements of the outer planets (Uranus, Neptune and Pluto) and the non-personal planets (Jupiter and Saturn). Mercury, Venus (and Earth) take roughly a year to complete an orbit but Pluto – now recategorized as a dwarf planet - takes two hundred and fifty-six! It stands at the centre of our solar system and the nine planets surrounding the sun are constantly orbiting it taking various amounts of time to do so.

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