Saturn

Celestial Body: Planet

Saturn is famous for its incredible rings of ice and rock. The second-largest planet in the solar system, it has over 140 known moons and moonlets, with Titan being its most massive.

Rules: Capricorn

Saturn rules the sign of Capricorn, moved by discipline, structure, ambition. Saturn is about limits, responsibility and patient, steady mastery. Saturn energy builds foundations that last.

Mythology

Saturn is the son of Uranus and Gaia. He castrated his father and then ate all of his children (including Neptune and Pluto, but not Jupiter) so he would never be overthrown by them. Saturn is harsh and brutal, but brings prosperity and order. He represents both ruthless limitation and prosperous manifestation.

Application

Your Saturn sign shows how you can set boundaries to face challenges that employ discipline. It highlights your karmic lessons, the areas of life you are meant to master and where you must earn it via perseverance. Your first major Saturn return occurs around the time of your frontal lobe forming and is a massive, necessary astrological rite of passage for all.

In terms of your body graph, your unconscious (internal + physical body) and conscious (external energy) Saturn sign gates reveal lessons and responsibilities essential to your evolution.