Saturn as a Limiting Force of Fear and Responsibility

Life’s more expansive experiences can trigger forces of an equally constrictive nature when that abundance turns to excess and threatens your integrity. Eat, drink, and party too hardy and your health suffers. Awareness of real limitations on any level can be symbolized astrologically by Saturn, the limiting force of your actual fears and true responsibilities. Actual fear (not an imagined fear) is a survival signal alerting you to a life-threatening situation: You spent the rent money and an eviction notice is served.

True responsibility involves the effort to become aware of the consequences of your actions and to build your competence at meeting your basic survival needs. This means working to build and maintain the reality structures of your life and this process differs for each person. When Saturn’s limiting force is ignored or denied, a potentially immobilizing condition arises. One’s sense of reality becomes buffered by compensatory phobias (perceived threats) and considerations (false duty) and then, frozen by the frustrations of unmet needs and unrealized dreams. Saturn symbolizes the ability to reality check yourself, to be your own anchor.

In any astrology chart, Saturn can pinpoint a critical grow-up-or-freeze-up zone, defining the necessary issues for maturating the personality. Saturn means business. When Saturn over-emphasizes, spontaneity and creativity can be stifled and crushed. Too much Saturn spoils the party but not enough Saturn can spoil your entire life. By learning to respond to your real fears, you can develop enough response-ability to convert those fears into commitments. One hundred percent commitment amounts to integrity. Whatever you can get behind 100% is where you will find your real integrity and often that is symbolized by the House that Saturn resides in.

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