WSaturn
Saturn is represented as a chart body for position, motion, aspect, and timing calculations.
Source notes
- A planetary chart body returned by the ephemeris layer and used throughout chart calculation.
- Saturn is represented as a chart body for position, motion, aspect, and timing calculations.
- This page supports object identity and chart-placement copy for Saturn, including links from calculation and doctrine pages that use the body as an input.
- This object page does not publish Saturn-specific interpretation, dignity judgment, condition scoring, or predictive doctrine. Use narrower doctrine and rule pages for those claims.
Source texts
(n.d.). Abu Ma'shar, The Great Introduction to the Science of the Judgments of the Stars.
(n.d.). Bonatti on Elections.
(n.d.). Hephaistio of Thebes, Apotelesmatics.
(n.d.). Ronald C. Davison, Synastry: Understanding Human Relations Through Astrology.
(n.d.). Sahl ibn Bishr and Masha'allah, Works of Sahl and Masha'allah.
(n.d.). Vettius Valens, Anthology.
Julius Firmicus Maternus. (1975). Matheseos Libri VIII (Jean Rhys Bram, Trans.), 3421-3455.
Published interpretations
These interpretations are sourced from reviewed reference texts.
chronocrator timing
Firmicus frames Saturn time-lord periods around danger, loss, illness, and hard Saturnian outcomes unless the planet's condition is notably helpful.
Reviewed source coverage
These notes show reviewed source context. They do not mean every chart use includes an interpretation for this object.
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- A Hephaistio translator note links the Saturn/Mars injury-family material with a Lot of Accusation name in Valens and others, but the cited window does not itself provide a direct Valens-titled formula page suitable for a generic chart use Accusation lot.
- A Mars-in-Cancer example belongs to unfavorable-ruler example material about exile and self-inflicted death, not to a parent-abandonment aphorism.
- A Moon/Saturn condition is the source-backed parent-abandonment and disrupted-nurture claim in this reviewed batch.
- Abu Ma'shar derives several house topics by analogy to planetary indications: the fourth from solar father/origin language, the fifth from Venus and Jupiter themes of children and pleasure, the sixth from Mercury's hiddenness and instability as illness/service, the seventh from lunar meetings and marriage, the eighth from Saturn and death, and the ninth from Jupiterian religion and travel.
- Abu Ma'shar gives a staged superior-planet synodic sequence from heart-of-Sun through burning, under-rays, strong easternization, stations, opposition, westernization, setting degrees, and renewed under-rays, with thresholds varying by planet.
- Davison treats the marriage chart as a valid chart in its own right that can be compared with both partners' nativities and read by houses, transits, and directions; difficult angular malefics and Uranus involvement with the luminaries, Venus, or the seventh house are framed as cautions.
- Dorotheus distinguishes Saturn-Jupiter and Saturn-Mars configurations: Saturn-Mars is tied to property loss, bodily weakness, family/father harms, and sibling grief, while Jupiter testimony mitigates the misery.
- Dorotheus gives a transit lot concerning children by taking Mars to Jupiter from the Ascendant by day and reversing the direction by night; later contacts to that lot supply children-related testimony.
- Hephaistio gives the Lot of Injury by taking Saturn to Mars from the Ascendant by day and reversing Mars and Saturn by night, then judging the place, its ruler, and bodily signification.
- Liber Hermetis gives a Wedding lot by projecting the Venus-to-Saturn relation from the Ascendant by day and reversing Saturn and Venus by night.
- Paulus describes the planetary-hour sequence as a planet going about for the day while successive planets execute the hours in Chaldean order, beginning with the day lord and repeating through day and night.
- Paulus gives a thirteenfold twelfth-part procedure for stars, pivots, and lots, then distinguishes benefic and malefic twelfth-part contacts to lights, Mercury, pivots, Fortune, Spirit, Necessity, and the prenatal lunation.
- Purchase is a topic family, not one universal page: estate, house, land, and similar purchases use specific Ascendant, Moon, fourth-house, Fortune, Saturn, benefic, and malefic-avoidance considerations.
- Sahl varies lunar impediment by lunar phase, malefic, sign gender, and aspect: Mars weighs more against a waxing/hot Moon, Saturn more against a waning/cold Moon, with sign and sect-like conditions modifying severity.
- Documentation context only; this support group is not applied chart interpretation.
Interpretive rules
Rules are drawn from cited reference texts. Topics without reviewed source-backed notes stay empty.
Firmicus Moon to Saturn full relief
- R
- W
When the Moon gives time to Saturn while full, Firmicus treats the handoff as offering escape from the harsher evils.
Julius Firmicus Maternus. (1975). Matheseos Libri VIII (Jean Rhys Bram, Trans.), 3421-3455.
Firmicus Moon to Saturn waning
- R
- W
When the Moon gives time to Saturn while waning, Firmicus treats the handoff as a severe water- and humors-danger branch.
Julius Firmicus Maternus. (1975). Matheseos Libri VIII (Jean Rhys Bram, Trans.), 3421-3455.
Firmicus Saturn ruler of time
- W
When Saturn is the active ruler of time, the period foregrounds dangers, losses, illness, and hard Saturnian outcomes unless its condition is notably helpful.
Julius Firmicus Maternus. (1975). Matheseos Libri VIII (Jean Rhys Bram, Trans.), 3421-3455.
Firmicus Saturn to Jupiter diurnal trine
- V
- W
When Saturn gives time to Jupiter in a diurnal chart and the two are in trine, Firmicus treats the handoff as especially fortunate.
Julius Firmicus Maternus. (1975). Matheseos Libri VIII (Jean Rhys Bram, Trans.), 3421-3455.
Firmicus Sun to Saturn diurnal
- W
- Q
When the Sun gives time to Saturn in a diurnal chart, Firmicus treats the handoff as a prosperity-increase branch.
Julius Firmicus Maternus. (1975). Matheseos Libri VIII (Jean Rhys Bram, Trans.), 3421-3455.
Firmicus Sun to Saturn nocturnal
- W
- Q
When the Sun gives time to Saturn in a nocturnal chart, Firmicus treats the handoff as a severe pestilence-and-death branch.
Julius Firmicus Maternus. (1975). Matheseos Libri VIII (Jean Rhys Bram, Trans.), 3421-3455.