The Importance that is Saturn....!

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“The Importance of Saturn”

 

Like most people, Saturn was a functioning malefic in my birth

chart many years ago now. My Jupiter

technically was better and so I had a strong philosophical and even

spiritual thirst only no appreciation for the practicalities of life. They say that early life is ruled by Mars and from

35 on, Saturn kicks in. Well, believe me, when

I first began appreciating Saturn my life dramatically

improved!

Today, my first goal of each day is to grow within Saturn’s

nature. Because Saturn is such an important

planet. We us it everyday! If we don’t have enough of ‘it’

then any number of its classic negative qualities come our way. If we don’t run to work in an integrated

enough way we can have an accident!

If we’re impatient we can miss that call which we were

waiting so desparetly for. If we feel

frustrated with the slow development of life we are literally creating

frustration which is in fact, pushing the fulfillment of desire away

longer!

Ever watch the water draining out of the tub or sink? Watch it some time. It

spirals down in a beautiful, orderly and timely way.

If you get impatient and want to speed it along the natural

inclination is to push the water towards the rain.

But, what happens is that extra push actually slows down the rapid

pace of the water down the drain!

Life and Saturn is like that. We

created our actions. We’ve performed all

our actions and now we’re waiting for that natural return. One of my Gurus used to say:

“We only have control over action alone, not over its

fruit. All our actions go out and strike the

entire universe and they’re returning at their own pace. We don’t have control over when they come

back. Therefore put attention on better

actions each moment. That alone will be the

best thing to create maximum best returns.”

I have thought of this constantly over the years. Even before I heard about Saturn I was beginning to

appreciate this important idea. In the West we

have a similar phrase. “The

watched kettle never boils.” In other

words when you’re being impatient and hanging over that boiling pot

it seems to take forever to boil! Why because

we’re pushing that natural time that is necessary.

If you ever want to speed up that boiling, just put your attention

on something else, and boom that pot is found boiling and you hardly

noticed the time go by. I have the same

experience with my computer opening up every morning.

It takes about 5 minutes and when I’m eager to get back

on-line and start communicating again with my Jyotish students, (a very

good goal one might think, he he) however, when I sit there waiting

hungrily for that waking up, it seems to go and take forever.

I’ve learned however, if I go and do something else for those

few minutes instead of hovering over my boiling pot of a computer;

immediately I find those 5 minutes rushed by and the computer is

ready.

In this article I thought it might be helpful to discuss more

theoretically the full potential and nature of Saturn. Because most of us are not understanding the

importance and every minute place of Saturn in our lives and as a result

of this mis-understanding we’re literally creating all the negative

Saturn consequences that we certainly don’t want!

For example, in addition to impatience or frustration some other

classic negative or malefic ‘signs’ of Saturn include

tiredness, even pain in the body. Other Saturn

signs are stress, anxiety, dis-ease, nervousness, worry, fear, and disease

and pre-mature death.

Yes, we could be increasing even our life span if we learn how to

enliven Saturn’s more healthy, benefic and positive side!

Other classic negative Saturn signs include disappointments,

losses, grief and all sufferings.

So, how can we get out of any or all of these negative Saturn

qualities?

 

By learning how to find Saturn’s sweet, healthy and benefic

qualities! In other word Saturn represents

“lessons of”. So, wherever it is,

whatever it’s doing it’s already trying to help us learn some

of our lessons.

But, where is it going? We can learn

from Vedic or Yoga philosophy for example, what the positive nature of

Saturn is.

Ever hear the expression “Silence is Golden”. I remember when I first heard this growing up. What a strange idea I thought, at the time. Now, I understand more, the deep, powerful

importance of developing inner silence.

With silence comes the Saturn ability to fulfill all desires. Silence, in fact, is just as crucial in fulfilling

our desires as the desire or Mars action that we generally think is

necessary. For example, ever have that

experience: “Where are my

glasses?” We’re looking and

looking, looking hear and looking there. For

the life of us, we can’t find our glasses.

Then, the moment we throw our hands up in the air, and give up, we

pass by a mirror in the house, and lo and behold we find our

glasses’ stuck on top of our head! Like

that, every moment we’re either living spontaneously enough Saturn

inner silence or we’re not.

If we are then we have our desires and they naturally pop up into

our conscious thinking level and easily find a way to their

fulfillment. However, most of the time, we

find ourselves having our desires and yet it’s taking forever for

them to become fulfilled.

What does this mean? It means we

acting, we’re desiring, we’re moving towards our desires and

goals only we’re not moving with enough inner quietness and that

lack of inner silence is literally the reason why we’re not getting

what we want!

In the ancient Yoga philosophy one of the greatest teachers was a

man named Patanjali. In fact he was the one

credited as the original founding father of yoga itself. Yoga means union and as we create union or oneness

within we gain the ability to fulfill all desires.

 

There’s even something in the field of Yoga called Sidhis or

mental powers were are described as possible to develop with the

development of yoga. Some of these classic

sidhis include “the power to become as small as an atom”. Others include the ability to become as big as

mountain, or as weightless as the air. Others

still include the ability to control all of one’s senses and have

unhampered will.

I mention these because if it’s possible to fulfill these

most powerful of life ambitions through developing the inner power of

silence then this gives us great hope that silence will help us all

develop our own ability to fulfill our desires.

In fact at every moment there’s already an intimate

relationship between silence and action. In

Yoga philosophy it’s said: “Rest

is the basis of activity.” What this

means is our day’s activities literally depend on how well rested we

became last nite! So, if we want to improve

our day’s goals and activities the first thing we should do is go to

bed earlier the night before!

If we want to be more of a success in our daily desires, we should

learn how to have a more powerful and successful sleep the night

before. For example, Ayurveda says the most

important hours of sleep each night are the hours between 10pm and 2am. (See Google search:

under Ayurvedic cycles of sleep: http://ayurvedamed.com/methods/51/

for more information.

Even during our daily hours each step of progress is first preceded

by a Saturn step. Try and take a step without

first planting one. It’s

impossible. First we plant one foot and then

based on that stable foot our first expansion foot goes forth. Then, we have to plant another foot and then, the

opposite foot expands forward.

Each step alternating between resting and activity represents the

two stages of Saturn and Jupiter. We first

plant our foot with Saturn and then our next expansive foot happens due to

Jupiter. Saturn and Jupiter, alternating steps

of expansion and contraction of resting and then expanding are the two

steps of all progress and prosperity to life.

We only have to look to these two cycles to see why we’re not

getting on to our natural fulfillment of desires!

If we’re experiencing any frustration at moving toward the

fulfillment of our dreams and goals then we should first look to see how

deeply planted are our Saturn’s!

Saturn represents that ‘silence which is golden’. Silence, inner mental, emotional, and psychic or

consciousness silence is the key to fulfilling all desires in life. Even the philosophy of Yoga confirms that the key

to fulfilling any desire depends on first having an enlivened inner silent

quality.

This is why the technique of meditation is so crucial in the yoga

field. We each should be meditating even for a

few minutes each day. Meditation sets the

mental clock to be silent and yet awake. When

you wake up in the morning and you’re not completely refreshed from

the night before, then sit back down, for a few minutes and allow the mind

to go within.

This technique of enlivening mental inner peace is a priceless

Saturn technique for developing inner silence.

Even 20 minutes in the morning before your day’s activities

will improve the inner wakefulness and bring more clarity of mind into

your every day.

We are today in the midst of a huge revival of this ancient science

and art of meditation. There are millions of

people today who are each discovering the importance and practicality in

first enlivening oneself inside. The net

result will be more mastery over your outer life!

Inner and outer, they’re both intimately related. Saturn is the link between the two. If we’re not more awake to Saturn’s

positive value then the outer expression of life will be full of Saturn

problems. The existence of any Saturn

frustrations or negativities is a literal Saturn sign that we need to be

more with our inner Saturn silence.

How far can this go? We only have to

look to nature herself to see. Nature is the

quintessential process of expansion! There is

no project in our entire world that is as profound and amazing as this

infinite pace of expansion of the universe.

The galaxies are rushing ahead expanding at a ferocious pace! How is this possible?

Because, Nature herself is anchored in eternal Saturn silence. Deep within nature exists a field of limitless

silence. This state, called the vacuum state

or the Unified field of quantum physics is now recognized as the true

source of all atoms and molecules in the universe.

Modern physics has found that all atoms are created literally out

of the Unified Field. They are created from

there, have a life here, and then break down and return to that limitless

field. The Mathematics of Physics has shown

that the energy of the quantum field is literally infinite.

All time and space in fact, comes from that state. Unfortunately, modern Physics has no concept of how

we might access that state. We can’t by

the way try to get to that. Any excitation of

life is a movement away from that. Any

thought, any action only takes us away.

Therefore, if it’s going to be possible to experience that

field it has to be through a natural lessening of mental and physical

effort. In meditation, for example, lies a

technique for reversing and minimizing activity until the mind arrives at

the source of thought itself, which as it turns out, is that literal

infinite field of pure silence.

One of my Gurus used to say: “If

you want to build a 20 story building you first have to develop a 4 story

basement.” If you don’t understand

the principle of building and you see the builders first going inwards you

might be confused and even yell at them:

‘Hey what are you doing?

Aren’t you supposed to be going up!’

That’s what it’s like in life with all of us scurrying

about trying to build this or that. All our

buildings, representative of all our goals, dreams and life aspirations

are due first to how deeply we’ve developed our inner

basements! If our buildings are shaky or not

developing rapidly enough, there’s a good chance we haven’t

enlivened our inner enough!

However, the solution is very simple.

First, each day put attention on the development of your inner

consciousness and then take more and more inner composure to your

day’s whirlwind of activities. Each day

I first desire to accomplish more Saturn integration of

silence.

As a result my every next day is more and more powerful. In addition to the each day’s rest and

activity cycles, there’s also a monthly Saturn cycle as well as a

Winter Saturn cycle of rest.

Each day we need to rest. Each day our

day’s activities depend upon our previous Saturn rest. However, each month during the Waning Moon’s

cycle this too is a Saturn period of rest. The

Moon expands each month during the Waxing part.

Very few people understand however, that the key to that monthly

expansion depends literally upon how deeply rested we were during the last

few days of the Moon’s Waning cycle.

Rest and activity, they are the 2 cycles of life. At every moment we’re always in between these

two. Right now, I’m typing on my

computer key board. Each finger pressed

depends upon first resting those same fingers.

Those that can’t rest their fingers enough get what is now

being called such things as ‘carpal tunneling’. Carpal tunneling is just the result of not acting,

typing, with enough Saturn rest at each moment.

Then, there’s the monthly Moon cycle of rest and

activity. Finally, there’s the yearly

Saturn cycle of winter. All the plants,

species and animals of our entire World rest during the winter. Why? Because, rest is

the basis of activity. All the plants and

species rest and then after literally months of ferocious silence we come

out and enjoy the spring time.

We’re in the beginning of one such cycle! Well, at least in the Northern hemisphere. However, the principle is the same. In the Southern hemisphere, they’re now just

beginning to go into winter. This last winter

I wrote a couple of articles on “Winter is Saturn”. All the qualities of winter, cold, retardation,

resting, contracting; all these are the characteristics of

Saturn!

Saturn is cold. Why? Because cold is orderly.

Ever go outside on a cool, brisk night and notice how enlivening

cold is. Heat, on the other hand is expansive

and dissipates energy and drive.

Then, there are a number of important Saturn moments during

numerous times of each year which are the times when nature is

saying: “Be more with Saturn during

these times!”

For example, this last week, the Moon went through the Signs and

aspects of Saturn. This year Saturn is in the

sign of Cancer, so each month for 2 ½ days while the Moon is

passing through Cancer, this represents an important Saturn moment. Those who are not in-tune with Saturn enough will

feel Saturn emotional grief during these days.

Why?

To show us how in-tune we are with our Saturn’s. Over the last 6 weeks, the Sun, Mars, Mercury and

Venus all went through Capricorn. Because

Capricorn is directly opposite to Cancer, this year they all were found

moving through Capricorn which was being directly influenced by Saturn in

the opposite sign of Cancer.

Most people in the field of Astrology think these Saturn kinds of

moments are just malefic in nature and prediction.

This is not true! These represent

important and vital Saturn moments which can be seen as opportunities for

developing more and more Saturn power.

Sade Sat is a classic 7 ½ years of Saturn grief! NO! This time when

Saturn moves through the 3 signs all around our natal Moon’s is the

time or opportunity for developing more Saturn power!

The very moment when Saturn moves to the other side of where your

Moon is, you immediately feel more outward and dynamic!

This then, will be like the Waxing Moon time, the time when

we’re meant to become active and dynamic again.

During the heighth of this Saturn/Moon sade sat utilize it like you

would a New Moon or rest period at night. The

more deeply we prepare and rest at night the more powerful and successful

will be our next day and progress in life!

In a few days the Sun begins its yearly transit through its Sign of

Exaltation in Aries! Normally, this is a very

powerful and expansive time of the year!

However, this year, Saturn is back in Cancer, after temporarily

moving into Leo for a very brief time. From

Cancer, Saturn fully aspects all the Signs of Cancer, Virgo, Capricorn and

Aries. These are the main aspects of

Saturn.

Saturn, like every planet aspects or influences the Sign in which

it is in. That’s why every month when

the Moon moves through Cancer, now, we can literally feel that intense

Saturn affect. Saturn however, has some unique

other aspects which Jyotish teaches us about.

Saturn is supposed to simultaneously influence or aspect the

3rd, 7th & 10th Houses away from

where it is as well. We count the Sign that

Saturn is in, as #1, and then moving into the next signs, count, 2, and

then 3. So, if Saturn in Cancer is #1, then

Leo is #2 and Virgo is #3. This means that

Saturn’s 3rd House aspect is also

upon Virgo during this Saturn/Cancer transit.

Also, Saturn aspects the opposite sign or 7th House

away. That’s Capricorn. Saturn also, is supposed to aspect 10 houses

away. So, we count Cancer as #1, Leo as 2,

Virgo as 3, Libra as 4, Scorpio as 5, Sagittarius as 6 and Capricorn as

7. Then, we move through Aquarius which will

be 8 houses away, then, Pisces which is #9 and finally to Aries, which is

#10!

Therefore, this year, and next month as the Sun moves through

it’s Sign of Exaltation in Aries, see if you don’t feel that

slight Saturn affect as well. You should feel

this immediate Sun swelling of power, drive and will as the Sun moves

through Aries. Classically, I’ve found

this is one of the most powerful months for me, personally. I feel the most powerful and I accomplish the most

during this month each year.

However, these last few years when Saturn first began moving

through Cancer, I could feel that Saturn influence upon my normally so

happy and powerful Sun moving through Aries!

This month will be the same. Even if

you’re tired of winter, or impatient for spring to begin; still, pay

attention to that Saturn flavor and this next month will be

good!

If you don’t pay enough attention to this or any of the

Saturn prompts in your life, then you’ll be destined to suffer the

negative results! The choice is up to us. We can choose either to flow with nature or try and

swim upstream. Personally, I love swimming

with Saturn instead of against.

Saturn is that part of nature that teaches us how to live life

being more in-tune with the infinite silence and wholeness of life.

 

Sincerely,

 

 

Mark

Kincaid

 

 

 

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