The influence of saturn

Saturn's influence of caution and restraint may conflict with your innate decisiveness. Discernment is needed to use this influence rather than allowing it to confuse you. Once aware of it, you can cooperate with this influence to modify your tendency to add aggression to your decisiveness.

Saturn will soon counter any temptation the usually conservative Taurean might have to over-indulge in the good things of life and is likely to encourage caution and worry. Saturn may be helpful in encouraging a deliberation towards social or business successes. At other times, Saturn may reinforce a rigid attitude to routine, which may be imposed on others, especially partners or children.

Saturn brings an economy and authority to Gemini's usual verbosity, and others are more inclined to pay strict attention. There may be an opportunity to 'tune in' to the influence of Saturn and attend to the inner voice of authority, rather than being diverted by the more usual 'monkey-mind' activities. However, if Saturn adds taciturnity, the individual may have to watch out for a sharpness that can startle or scare others, especially in the absence of humor.

Saturn positively influences Cancer's capacity for making shrewd decisions and judgments, but may encourage the individual to withdraw into that shell at other times, especially in a period of worry or tension. There may be a chance to 'tune in' to the energy of Saturn at a time when there is a need to make an ethical decision. Saturn's influence can be a stabilizing force, adding a timely shrewdness to decisions and a quiet determination to succeed.

Saturn's influence brings a serious mien and may dampen down Leo's infectious approach to life, but this is unlikely to be a serious problem. At times, its influence can counsel caution to the self-aware Leo individual rather than unthinking over-enthusiasm or a dictatorial approach. Saturn's influence can add to the usually intrepid nature of the Leonine personality, helping to sustain appropriate action when things get tough.

Saturn reinforces Virgo's serious approach to life, especially in the area of caution and conscience, and may increase a tendency to expect others to be as hard-working and as meticulous as themselves. A tendency to be hard on themselves may increase, and self-confidence may be severely dented if they are experiencing a period of anxiety. In other circumstances Saturn can have a stabilizing influence on a tendency to become overanxious, lending a balanced perspective.

Saturn may enhance Libra's innate sense of justice, and sincerity, replacing a tendency towards superficiality in dispensing sympathy and kindness, tact and diplomacy. However, it may encourage sexual or romantic inhibition, preventing the healthy expression of emotion, and a tendency to be self-centered rather than outward-looking.

Saturn's influence tends to dampen down the proclivity to enjoy sex, pushing Scorpios in on themselves so that they are likely to brood and lose sight of their goals. A cruel or jealous streak may manifest. At other times Saturn may have a needed sobering effect on the tendencies to overdo things or become obsessive, and in facilitating good business decisions.

Saturn helps encourage Sagittarian intellectual development and love of learning. Advantage can be taken of the restraining influence of Saturn in situations where the individual might otherwise act without due consideration. Attempts to 'listen' hard can result in an amplification of the 'still, small voice within' that warns or directs. Saturn can encourage too much hesitation when it is time to make a move.

Saturn is Capricorn's ruling planet and enhances proclivities towards shrewd judgment, practical ambition, and patience. At times Saturn may tip the scales, causing a tendency to be careful with money to fall into stinginess, or the desire to become established professionally to develop into a stinginess with the time given to family or friends. Saturn's negative influence may be felt also as a heaviness that encourages a natural inclination to be pessimistic.

Saturn encourages the Aquarian determination and individualistic approach, but may encourage clinging on to original ideas long after they have been superseded. The influence of Saturn can act as a prompt for the inner voice of wisdom, especially encouraging balance if there is a tendency to display obsessive behavior.

Saturn can promote a desire for self-examination and be a stabilizing influence on emotionality, or when Pisces needs to hear the voice of reason. It's influence can also inhibit self-confidence, especially sexually.