Saturn works well in this sign because the sign already prizes what Saturn requires: proportion, obligation, the weighing of consequence. The person holds themselves to agreements, keeps their word past the point of convenience, and has a genuine intolerance of unfairness even when the unfairness benefits them. Relationships are entered slowly and taken as binding. Divorce, when it happens, is preceded by years of documented effort.
The difficulty is that duty and affection get tangled. They stay in arrangements out of principle, keep score in the interest of balance, and can become cold and legalistic in a quarrel, presenting evidence when what was wanted was warmth. Marriage may come late, or early to a much older person, or repeatedly to people who need managing. The private fear is of being alone; the public appearance is of being unusually self-possessed and rather hard to reach.
Maturity brings something like judicial calm. These are the people asked to arbitrate, and they arbitrate honestly, including against their own interest. They learn that fairness is not the same as symmetry, and that a good partnership requires forgiveness rather than accounting. The best of them become genuinely companionable in later life, having established that they can stand alone and therefore no longer needing to prove it inside a relationship.
What It Gives
- ◆reliable sense of fairness
- ◆commitments taken seriously
- ◆skill at mediating disputes
- ◆poise in social difficulty
What It Costs
- ◆duty mistaken for love
- ◆legalistic in quarrels
- ◆fear of being alone
This is one line of a whole chart. The rest of it — every placement, house and aspect at once — is a birth date away.
Cast Your Birth Chart