Saturn in Aries

Aries is the fall of Saturn, and the reasoning in Ptolemy (Ashmand's 1822 translation) is plain seasonal logic: as heat increases when the Sun enters this sign, cold decreases, so the planet of cold was placed opposite the Sun's exaltation. Lilly 1659 repeats the assignment and gives Saturn only the last four degrees of Aries as terms. Fall describes the position and no more.

Heindel 1918 makes a striking comparison. If Aries is a stove with a fire burning, then Saturn is like water poured in where Mars would be oil, and elsewhere he treats Aries and Libra as opposing grounds where the Sun and Saturn contend. Raphael's Guide of 1877, whose garbled symbols leave the match to list order, gives a thin, big-boned figure inclined to quarrel, and it too is an old assertion.

Saturn stays in a sign roughly two and a half years, on Lilly's figure of 29 years and 157 days for the whole circuit, so this is shared by everyone born in that span. Modern popular astrology often describes a struggle between impatience and self-restraint here. That description is modern, and the chart cannot say how any one person meets it.