# Saturn in Aries
Het Monster: Saturn in Aries The theme of Aries is “doing your own thing,” but Saturn in Aries can slow this down due to fear of failure. A very rigidly controlling authoritative figure can increase this inhibition or provide a role model for excessive restraint in a child’s behavior. For these children, it is important to interact with people who allow them to be themselves, encouraging the child’s confidence in their own abilities, and then the best that this Saturn position can offer may manifest.
Indubala. Planets in Signs. (Indian Tradition)
Saturn in this sign is weakened; this is its weakest sign. If Saturn’s weakness is not neutralized, the result of this placement may be foolishness, difficulties in marriage, few friends, talkativeness, rudeness, and envy. There may be a tendency toward vagrancy, absurdity, and gloominess. Possible diseases of the teeth and spine, incontinence, and failures in commercial ventures.
Pavel Globa. Planets in the Zodiac Signs
These were the periods of 1907–1908, 1937–1940, and March 1967–May 1969, when Saturn was in Aries—and this was a very contradictory state. In Aries, Saturn is a guest of Mars. But in addition, Saturn is in its fall here, since Aries is primal fire and lacks a primal core. Therefore, Saturn manifests here in the most disharmonious way; many of your complexes will surface because in this sign Saturn is debilitated. Circumstances will force you to take initiative, and you will have to learn and build a system of life views through very difficult trials. You must pass through the fire of highly active shocks, reflecting and analyzing many life circumstances, and in the process of your own development arrive at the formation of your own value system. For every miscalculation and mistake, you will immediately receive punishment and are doomed to suffer until you reflect and reassess everything that happened. Therefore, in extreme situations you may achieve more than in a calm environment, revealing remarkable abilities, even genius. And although you may perceive any crisis very painfully, ultimately you will be grateful for the lesson it brings, or in the best case, you will instantly form a coherent system of beliefs. At the same time, you usually must process everything “through your head,” and you must reach many conclusions independently and consciously, because this is Aries—it must necessarily develop its own values. In the worst case, if you lack an inner core, you become increasingly rigid and may provoke extreme circumstances yourself to feel your own fullness in them.
A person with Saturn in Aries may seek situations involving strong emotional shocks, because life then acquires meaning for them. Incidentally, for the generation of 1967–1969 this was very evident; many of them feel that their life lacks meaning. Sometimes you may vacillate, and you often feed off the suffering of others, or you may feel unwell in a calm environment because you need to be at the epicenter of suffering to “feed” on it in this way (such was Stalin). You usually experience any restriction of your freedom and initiative very painfully, as well as any severing of contacts. This is because you need an external stimulus, a push for development. In your development, you often want to grasp everything at once, but you usually lack sufficient self-control.
To console you, it can be said that Higher Forces test you in “fiery” conditions, in trials and blows. You have a program: “Victory now or never.” Mistakes immediately make themselves known; for every error, miscalculation, and cruelty, you receive immediate punishment. Fate usually strikes you immediately so that you can gain life experience. As a result, even though you do not like stressful situations, you are still drawn to them because here almost instantaneous compilation of life values can occur from seemingly absurd fragments. Certain elements and blocks of your inner system exist, but since Saturn is weak, there is no core to unite these parts into a coherent whole. There is no such line of life and meaning that would connect these individual abilities into a coherent value system. And since such a system usually does not hold for long, you will return to similar situations again, though how often depends on other indicators—the positions of other planets and the social context of your life.
In society, during the future transit of Saturn in Aries, there may be an outbreak of crime, cruelty, and suppression of the will of others. In general, during Saturn’s transit through the fire signs—Aries and Leo—harsh winters are possible; there is a danger of frostbite, and it is necessary to move more to generate inner fire. Although this is a sign of the Cardinal Cross, in its manifestations it is surprisingly similar to the Fixed Cross. For example, it involves the instantaneous construction of a system of life values, but it differs in that this unstable state is, as it were, characteristic of the Fixed Cross.
Het Monster. Planets in the Zodiac Signs
Dangers that are difficult to avoid occur between the ages of 42 and 56 and after 69. Loss of status at 30–35 years old. Marriage to a widow or widower. An unhappy marriage. With good aspects—discipline plus initiative yields brilliant creative achievements. With bad aspects—eternal self-defense, lack of objectivity toward oneself and others.
Catherine Aubier. Astrological Dictionary
Hidden inner energy, harsh judgments, rigidity, authoritarian and moralizing tendencies, persistence.
Avesalom Podvodny. Planets in the Zodiac Signs
A very practical orientation, a subtle range of flows. Difficulty integrating into the flow, a sense of constriction, tightness, and discomfort (especially in responsible situations) in energetic contexts. Instead, a responsible (or, in defeat, extremely irresponsible) attitude toward oneself in terms of one’s energetic influence on the environment, and with sufficient experience working with the energy channel, greater stability and the ability to control it. In youth, sharp disappointments in first loves, after which one “comes to their senses” and either wastes energy pointlessly (or not at all) and tries to parasitize (negative variant), or in depressions Saturn’s wisdom teaches one to be more attentive—to both the environment and oneself, and to what one channels (positive variant). By age 30, the choice between positive and negative variants is complete. Saturn in Aries does not indicate weak energy but rather high responsibility in the choice of egregore, flow, and where one directs it. With poor processing—phobia: fear of perishing in the unknown and dying from lack of strength during one’s lifetime.
Frances Sakoian. Planets in the Zodiac Signs
Circumstances compel the acquisition of initiative, patience, and self-confidence to arm oneself for life’s practical needs. The necessity of mobilizing one’s sources of strength drives the development of willpower and character strength. Persistent pursuit of selfish goals. It is difficult to be objective about oneself. They introduce new peaks of experience, and there is not enough time to familiarize oneself with the consequences of their actions. Therefore, social justice and responsibility are often absent even in consciousness. This position signifies an abundance of ideas. They often invent new work methods. In the developed individuals, discipline combined with initiative often leads to brilliant creative achievements in their chosen fields. However, they often try to maintain a defensive stance; they are always on guard and fear everyone. Thus, it is difficult for them to understand others, engage with them, cooperate, and possible meanness and intolerance toward subordinates, emphasizing their own ego. They are their own judges, so preoccupied with themselves that they fail to notice the needs of others. Their tendency is to pursue exclusively personal goals, sabotaging cooperation and, consequently, success. They are not diplomats, preferring to act alone and caring only for their own needs. They neither expect nor offer help. In their profession, they prefer to be their own masters, which does not always succeed.
It is difficult for you to assert your desires and aspirations openly and directly. You may also suppress your anger and aggression. Important tasks for you include developing self-confidence, courage, and faith in yourself. Possible headaches and excessive anxiety may arise due to impaired normal blood circulation to the head.
Planets in Signs. The Art of Prediction. Semira and V. Vetas
There is a tendency toward a rigid line of conduct. Lack of focus makes it difficult to bring completed work to perfection: it is hard to stop once started.
