Saturn - The Planet
The planet Saturn is a symbolism for the Divine aspect that takes care of the spiritualisation of humankind’s soul, individually and collectively. Saturn represents the part of our own being that once took us into experiencing life in physicality. Saturn’s qualities are our most essential equipment on our journey up the spiritual mountain of becoming consciously aware of our true nature as spiritual beings that are as much part of God as God is part of them. Saturn’s experiences guide us all back home into the oneness with its Highest or God Self and the oneness with all life.
Saturn’s position by sign and house reveals the areas of life in which the soul during its present lifetime encounters its main obstacles, the main life lessons it has come absorb and the Karmic debts it has to repay. To me, the understanding of the purpose and meaning of these things is of the greatest importance. The first step towards resolving the difficulties and obstacles we encounter is the recognition that they are not in anyone’s life as hindrances and nuisances. In truth, they are educational aids a kind and loving Universe places into everybody’s own hands, to ensure the spiritual growth that is every soul’s birthright. They are meant to help us make the progress that potentially can be achieved during each one of our earthly sojourns.
Our character determines the outcome of our destiny. Every soul is responsible for its own and is required to shape, build and form it. The Universe is constantly trying and testing us to see how far we have got with this task. In truth, Saturn’s lessons are the most valuable and desirable of all, because first and foremost they teach us the spiritually most highly prized qualities of self-control and self-mastery. Without them no progress on our evolutionary pathway back home into our true nature is possible. Reaching the perfection that is in our Creator is its ultimate goal. Perfection here means wholeness – wholeness is holiness – namely the full integration of all the qualities and aspects that are in God, our true Father/Mother. Each one of us carries them within, if only in seed form.
Saturn is the planet of Karma and represents the celestial schoolmaster who, stern and undeviating, practises perfect justice. Through the chastening processes of tests and trials, sorrows, delays, disappointments, limitations and privations, it eventually dawns on the soul that its earthly existence is not meant to be one of pure pleasure seeking. Although this aspect is not meant to be excluded, the real purpose of each lifetime on the Earth is the integration of the qualities of patience, humility, wisdom and compassion for our own as well as other people’s suffering. This we can do only each through our own experiences.
Under Saturn’s rulership old, worn out, useless and crystallised attitudes and behaviour patterns are waiting to be destroyed in order to make room for better, more useful and adaptable ones. Patiently, persistently and with self-discipline we are meant to overcome the negative aspects of our nature of scepticism, fear, suppression, materialism and self-preservation. We replace them by bringing forth from within the higher and highest aspects of God’s nature and our own, like trust and confidence, dependability, reverence, wisdom and compassion.
Much can be learnt under Saturn’s guidance if we show our willingness to pay attention to the Cosmic schoolmaster. In retrospection, meditation, concentration and by looking inwards towards our Highest Self and waiting for its guidance in all things, instead of running to other people, we learn to be patient and grow in wisdom and understanding. Saturn’s gifts are invaluable in the process of enduring our Karma and redeeming ourselves. Without them, it is impossible to pass our tests and finally reach the degree of wholeness that we are on the Earth plane to seek.
Saturn delays our desires but never denies them. For those who willingly submit themselves to the hard work this teacher requires, in the fullness of time Saturn’s role changes from that of the teacher into the one of the rewarder. And when his gifts finally arrive they truly are worth having.
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