The Saturnian Complex
*The mythos of Saturn “Saturn indicates a tyrannical, domineering
parent who seeks to mold his children in his own image and force them to
live by his standards. Children often become “swallowed up” by such
domination. Cronus became domineering and swallowed up his children in a
need to control Fate. It was the fathering style he was taught, which
modern day psychologists tell us is what happens in dysfunctional
families. We learn how to parent from our parents. Zeus broke the
pattern, which is the example which we ideally seek in dysfunctional
parenting. To break the pattern, one must learn to develop the positive
side of Saturn. Mastering Saturn as the inner teacher is a difficult
task as it forces one to deal with the problematic side of Saturn as
well. Saturn as an external element, again fortifying itself as an
Artificially Created Belief system.”
Saturn is esoterically linked to Karma. Saturn intensifies feelings
of isolation, sadness, depression, etc. Cronus spent the last of his
life as a prisoner of Tartarus, a dark, gloomy place that can be
described as a pit of blackness. Depression is often a pit of darkness
to those who suffer from it. Saturn, badly aspect, gives us this
feeling. But once the dark side of Saturn is recognized, his bright side
can be brought into view and enhanced. Sadly, Saturn has been regarded
only as miserable and attributed to despair and darkness, lending to the
thought that there is no way to escape its confines. Feelings of shame,
fear, guilt and humiliation shackle us and keep us confined to the pit
of darkness. The way to get out of the pit is to stop placing blame on
others and take personal responsibility for our situation in life.
Saturn, therefore, represents our limitations in power and control
{by his ruler ship and its coming to an end), in confinement or
isolation (by his banishment to Tartarus) and capacity (as Saturn’s
placement as a planet, which until modern times was the boundary of our
Solar System). Taking all this into consideration, it is no wonder we
face difficulty when attempting to transform Saturn from a controlling
force to a teaching force because we encounter all our limitations in
every aspect of our lives.
Saturn’s connection with agriculture suggests the nature of time.
Seeds must be sown at their proper times and harvest can only occur when
their time of fruition has occurred. Chronos is derived from the Greek
word Cronus meaning “time”. Cronus/Saturn represents limitations. He is
the symbol for Father Time, for he brought all things to an end that
have a beginning. Saturn’s domain is patience, stability, maturity and
realism. Saturn affects us by delaying rewards until they are earned.
The Golden Years is a term we use to describe the retirement years
and Saturn rules old age. Those who have learned the lessons of Saturn;
perseverance, confrontation of limitations, tyrannies, and inner
darkness; who learn to accept the world around them with tolerance of
others and self-acceptance, age with dignity and acquire wisdom.
Saturn represents our limitations, our restrictions, yet it is also
our inner mentor and teacher. His lessons are manifested only over time,
after which we go through inner rebirth and enjoy spiritual growth. The
times these life changing events can occur are usually when Saturn
returns and testing takes place within different disciplines. Saturn
returns every 29 ½ years with appearances at age 29, when we face the
discipline of maturity; at 58, when we face the discipline of acceptance
and wisdom; and at 87, few people make it to the third return. However,
coming in right behind a Uranus return, it is without a doubt, a
profound event.”
Saturnian facts on sacrificing on “The offering of gladiators led to
later theorizing that the primeval Saturn had demanded human victims.
Macrobius says that Dis Pater was placated with human heads and Saturn with sacrificial victims consisting of men
(virorum victimis).
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Yet they themselves were not the founders of any cults but the slaves
to it, just as the average man is, and have worked hard to maintain the
Inversion of the Natural laws of the planet.
And so the grassroots must follow them who is above, because the
natural law states that which is above is likened to that which is
below.
Excerpts show the mythological and historical events that have
pointed out the self-deification of the ability to sacrifice in the name
of ego, or the one eye cyclops of a singular viewpoint only.
“Saturn is a wielder of lightning; no other agricultural god (in the sense of specialized human activity) is one.
[22] Hence
the mastership he has on agriculture and wealth cannot be that of a god
of the third function, i.e. of production, wealth, and pleasure, but it
stems from his magical lordship over creation and destruction. Although
these features are to be found in Greek god Cronus as well, it looks
they were proper to the most ancient Roman representations of Saturn,
such as his presence on the Capitol and his association with Jupiter,
who in the stories of the arrival of the
Pelasgians in the land of the
Sicels[23] and that of the
Argei orders human sacrifices to him.
[24] “
He arrived in Italy “dethroned and fugitive,”
[46] but
brought agriculture and civilization for which things was rewarded by
Janus with a share of the kingdom, becoming he himself king. As the
Augustan poet
Vergil described it, “He gathered together the unruly race” of
fauns and
nymphs “scattered
over mountain heights, and gave them laws … . Under his reign were the
golden ages men tell of: in such perfect peace he ruled the nations.”
[47] He was considered the ancestor of the Latin nation as he fathered
Picus, the first king of Latium, who married Janus’ daughter
Canens and in his turn fathered
Faunus. Saturn was also said to have founded the five
Saturnian towns of Latium: Aletrium (today
Alatri), Anagnia (
Anagni), Arpinum (
Arpino),
Atina and Ferentinum (
Ferentino, also known as Antinum) all located in present day
Ciociaria, province of Frosinone. All these towns are surrounded by cyclopical walls; their foundation is traditionally ascribed to the
Pelasgians.
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“There is a symbolic connection between the Trinity of the New
Testament and Ouranos (Uranus) Saturn (Cronus) and Jupiter (Zeus).
Ouranos, the first father figure, was the Greek version of Varuna, the
Vedic creator god. Then Saturn castrated Ouranos, ending his generative
power. Finally, came Jupiter, who, like a Jesus figure, was perceived as
a savior, so that future generations would not be tyrannized by an
obsessed deity.”The Comparison to Saturn is quite simple,
We are turning into the god Saturn, the very element that we are so
afraid of, the devouring god of time and death, “The potential cruelty
of Saturn was enhanced by his identification with
Cronus,
known for devouring his own children. “But Saturn also had a less
benevolent aspect, as indicated by the bloodshed in his honor during
gladiatorial
munera. His consort in archaic Roman tradition was
Lua, sometimes called
Lua Saturni (“Saturn’s
Lua”) and identified with Lua Mater, “Mother Destruction,” a goddess in
whose honor the weapons of enemies killed in war were burned, perhaps
as expiation.”
Are we not devouring our own children, our deeds?
In later developments he came to be also a god of time. His reign was depicted as a
Golden Age of
plenty and peace. So is the planet Saturn originally a sun, an old
father of time,* Does man not hold time in his hands? The ever striving
for eternity for youthfulness?
When we remove honesty from our lives, we remove honesty from the
universe. We all wear rings, and we are all in cycles of programming,
just as we are held in a mesmerized place, by all glittery objects of
desire.
