Sun-Saturn Biquintile

(Transit Sun → Natal Saturn)

Avelom Podvodnyi. Aspects

Sun’s biquintile: A promising direction for eradicating crime lies in the widespread practice of mercy. This aspect directs a person’s initiative in the planet’s spheres toward lower and imperfect forms of life, which on a low level manifests primarily as instructions and directives imposed authoritatively, yet with poor understanding of the essence of the matter. In reality, this aspect indicates that a person can take constructive part in the issues of lower life, and moreover, such life requires their volitional impulses and initiatives—but only provided there is genuine understanding and not merely selfish interest. Then the individual can achieve much, and in doing so, not only their own vitality will grow, but also their human essence will emerge. Debilitation of the Sun signifies strong dictatorial tendencies, a propensity to disregard the complexity of inner antagonisms and problems of lower life, and an emphasized separation of it from oneself as evolutionarily higher. Debilitation of the planet indicates the complexity of lower life issues (including in corresponding spheres) and the strength of one’s own egoism. Harmony between the Sun and the planet suggests the temptation of purely selfish, effortless consumption of lower life forms, which will offer no noticeable resistance and, on the contrary, will initially be only delighted by any attention from such a lofty companion, even if he sprinkles them with wormwood and spices them with garlic quite obviously. For example, a harmonious Sun-Moon biquintile provides good understanding of domestic animals and affectionate relationships with them, either urban type (“favorite dog sleeping with owner on the same bed”) or rural type (“eat, eat, little pig, until autumn when we’ll slaughter you”). Saturn’s biquintile: Either the person is ahead of his time, or time treads upon him with its gray foot. This aspect gives an unconscious striving to deeply understand the lowest forms of life within the planet’s spheres and to take meaningful part in them, through which the individual may express their humanism. However, initially, especially if Saturn is debilitated, the person perceives lower life very primitively and interacts with it extremely awkwardly, which may create a complex of inferiority or, conversely, awaken and activate sadistic tendencies from the depths of the unconscious. In areas of the inner world that resonate with the problems of lower life, the person will feel vulnerable, and it is beneficial if they extend this sense of vulnerability also toward the lowest forms of life. Generally speaking, this sensitivity is inherent at first, but over time it may be suppressed into the unconscious, after which compassion often transforms into pronounced cruelty—though in this case, such cruelty is more an exception than the rule. Here, work proceeds through deep study of lower life forms and careful, unhurried search for adequate contact and interaction with them; temptations include frustrations due to the slowness of this process, overly rigid and primitive notions about life, and outwardly cruel behavior, which should gradually give way to gentle, albeit restrained, human expressions; at the higher level, wisdom and profound human self-expression are attained.