Saturn: Time and Labor (Maelinhon)

There is such an interesting episode in the science fiction series Doctor Who, somewhat similar to Groundhog Day, where the Doctor was driven into a temporary trap location with all sorts of scary things, and the exit from it was closed with a slab of armor-piercing stone, several meters thick. And the character, trying to get out of the trap, over and over again overcame a very difficult path in order to break through to this locked door and hit it with his hand or foot, after which he died. Then he was resurrected at the beginning of the path, the path was repeated, and again he had only enough time for one hit on the indestructible plate. Over and over, hundreds, thousands and tens of thousands of hits, after which he died, but little by little the plate began to crack and after a certain number of years the Doctor finally got out of the trap. Titanic work, overcoming the insurmountable for the sake of freedom and one’s goal… Doesn’t remind anyone?

Do you know what distinguishes good science from bad? Good science does not fit into neat and convenient tables and it can (and should) be discussed simply and interestingly. If your science (be it astrology or physics) fits into tablets and is incomprehensible to the general public, it means that you yourself know it poorly. In the second article of the cycle about planets, we will talk about Saturn and its graha, Shani. At the same time, we will try to understand the concept of Destiny and Karma, because the planet Saturn is considered “bad” by bad astrologers and is responsible for the fate of a person.

Any planetary energy and personal flow of the planet’s graha have their own characteristic cut and global principle of work in space. They can be carried out in very different ways, in connection with which all the tables with the properties of the planets are a very general and extremely dubious thing. Different people “digest” the same flow of the planet in their own way – one digested it, was renewed and ran inspired, and another choked on the flow, fell and began to vomit. And then broke down and died. The flow passes through everyone in the same way, but each person has his own set of parameters and data, with which the incoming planetary energy enters into a different chemical reaction. Due to which a bunch of aspects are obtained that are visible only during personal work with the planet and its genius. Well, and a little in the natal chart. Just as they can manifest themselves in completely different areas, so it is incorrect to say that Saturn = Fate, or Mercury = Money. The properties of each planet and element carry a PRINCIPLE, and it can manifest itself in any sphere.

The principle of Saturn’s work can be described as Equilibrium and Balance, the endless maintenance of a balance that was broken by someone, and with its long cycles, forgetful people often do not understand why they are being hit on the head, thinking that they have been cursed or that God is punishing them for some sins. Yeah, if only…

How is karma formed? Here you are, living your life, doing something, but you get a chance to grab some money and shift the blame onto another person, which is what you do. You get a large sum of money, and that person, for example, goes to prison or suffers hardships so that you can feel good. He is forced to sell his home, ruin his health and generally get into debt and problems for many years, because he cannot do anything for you. He works a lot, gets sick from this, loses his family and eventually dies. And you live happily, spending money that is NOT backed by your labor and time, you did not formally earn it. And the key root in the word “earn” is “work”.

You die in good conditions, your victim – hard and in bad. Let’s say that person worked for 5 years to get out of the bottom, that’s about 44,000 hours. His wife left him, let’s add, for example, 20,000 hours of his life, which were converted from his stress and pain. Let’s add another 70,000 hours of work for the moral damage that person received as a result of your actions. You have to give 134,000 hours of life to this soul + interest. About 15 years of your life. Well, of course, this is all rough, for clarity, but still.

You both died, reincarnation took place and you were born again. Where is Saturn here? And it lays down the positions of your natal charts. And now you will work half your life from hand to mouth and wonder why everything is so bad? I have never done anything bad to anyone! And there is no money, no personal life, no health either… You go to an astrologer and he tells you that your Saturn is bad, it is all his work. And you begin to think of Saturn as something terrible, bringing chaos and nightmare to your life, which could have been completely different… Could have been, if you had not upset the balance. Now you must return and work off what you took. Well, you have no personal life, so that you are not distracted from work.

When we take away years of life, happiness, health, time, any resources that do not belong to us and are not supported by our labor from another being, you get into a karmic debt. Killed someone? You will work off years of their life. Robbed? You will return them with labor. Humiliated, deprived of happiness? You will get a drug-addicted child, to whom you will be forced to give years of life and cisterns of tears and blood. It works both ways, so volunteers and workers get a mountain of goodies.

Saturn’s main function is to bring the system into balance, to return it to normal, basic characteristics that were violated by someone. And when we say that you create your own destiny, we mean NOT violating this balance, and not that you can do any kind of crazy thing and nothing will happen to you for it.

Shani is the planet of time and labor resources, which vigilantly counts the hours. How many hours have you given to work? How many hours have you sacrificed to other people, animals, the world? And how much have you owed, having robbed and deceived you? It counts all this and, based on the calculations, gives out your so-called destiny, which you will live later. How to live? Well, it is up to you to decide, it only sets the basis.

The first known guise of Shani is the god Cronus, and it is his ability to count time and make a time map of life that makes Saturn the planet of old people and vagabonds. Old people gave it all the time they had, and the homeless refused to participate in the game and overcome anything at all, even the need to wash and find a job. Therefore, a deficiency of Saturn gives idlers, bums, cheap kitchen philosophers and swindlers, often indirectly gives alcoholism (failed to cope with the load, broke down, started drinking). An excess of Saturnian energy gives rise to tyrants and inadequate asceticism, based on rules and prohibitions without reason, only work, only rules, no joy and not a minute of peace!

The second guise of Saturn is a hard worker. And this, you must agree, is directly related to time. Saturn loves it when something is done hard, overcoming oneself and circumstances, stubbornly going towards the goal, regardless of problems, pain and obstacles. Saturn hates idleness and dishonor, when the result is obtained dishonestly, by someone else’s hands, someone else’s time and effort, or even thrown at random: maybe someone will do it. This is a state of affairs when a person not only did not digest the energy of Saturn, but generally tried to dodge this flow.

Lots of people walking down the streets throw trash under their feet, or don’t even bother paying for special services and throw bags of waste somewhere out of a window or under a fence. Someone will clean it up! Someone, but not me. This means that not only are they trashing the planet and its ecology, they are also shifting their cleaning work onto others. Someone will have to spend their time, energy, money, collect this garbage, take it to a landfill or pay for removal (and money is converted time). And yes, those who cleaned it up are great, Saturn will reward them, but the assholes get a black mark for many years, which were drawn from the unspent resource + the suffering of those who were affected by it. They threw out trash, the plastic killed an animal, the pollution led to diseases of people and the soil, and hey presto, you get interest. There are plenty of examples. He gave the child to an orphanage (he didn’t want to waste time on him), appropriated someone else’s property, made a living being suffer and be tormented, killed, pushed the work onto others…

Saturn’s energy flow is dry and cold, similar to crystalline and dense, transparent glass or ice. And balance for him looks like transparency and purity, which nothing should disturb. Therefore, another, already non-obvious aspect of his work is purification and transformation, in any sense. Purification of information from lies and nonsense, purification of a good name, purification from negativity and patterns, from the unnecessary and dirty … Saturn does not like clutter, so bringing anything to purity, balance and honesty is his favorite activity. And you can draw the signs here yourself. Listing the aspects of Saturn’s manifestation in life – the volume of the engine of this site is not enough. From garbage collectors and volunteers – to judges, policemen and those who cleanse information.

From a physiological point of view, Shani is the conductor of the Earth element. In the body, it is responsible, in a broad sense, for cells, their division and arrangement into tissues, therefore, the accumulation or excess of Earth in the natal chart leads either to obesity or to oncology (in both cases, there is uneven, violent growth of cells). The Earth element has a sweet taste, therefore, by eating a lot of sweets, you increase the Earth in the base of the body, which causes fatty tissue to grow. This is the interesting logic of metaphysical anatomy. In terms of physiology, Saturn is responsible for taste, saliva, muscles, spleen, stomach and intestines, as well as tissues in general, therefore, both bone tissue and, say, the adrenal glands – hormonally active tissue of the body – can be attributed to Saturn. And if you are sick with any of these, pay attention to the upayas for Saturn.

The good news is that he is stern and cold, but scrupulously honest and willing to accommodate you halfway if you want to work with him and improve your life. Ascetics and vows to Saturn are the most difficult to perform, but the most extensive and powerful in results. This is the case when you can stupidly work off karma “externally”, giving the resource you have chosen as payment for some benefit. Some clean up trash or take care of the elderly, some do charity and volunteer work, some make information clean and accessible… Others, like the Doctor, choose the path of physical work. You all know these stories about people who dug out passages in the mountains with their bare hands or built bridges so that others could walk easier and more easily. Shani adores such workers and gives them royal gifts.

(c) Mylene Maelinhon / Material of the Marginal Metaphysics project

Translated by Schwarzenstern

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