Saturn in Leo

Leo, the one house of the Sun in Lilly 1659, faces Aquarius across the circle and so counts as a detriment for Saturn by the definition given in Heindel 1919. Ptolemy, in Ashmand's 1822 translation, places Saturn in opposition to the Sun in both house and exaltation. Lilly allows him the first ten degrees of the sign as face and the first six as terms, both at the very opening of the sign.

On this pair the old writers disagree about the body. Raphael's Guide of 1877, matched here by list position alone, gives a large frame with broad shoulders, while Heindel 1918, writing of Saturn rising in Leo, says the planet shortens the body and darkens the hair. Heindel adds that Saturn can check the generosity of the sign so that gifts come with conditions.

Saturn's dry coldness meets a sign that Lilly calls hot and dry, so they share dryness. Modern popular astrology often reads a difficulty with being seen, paired with a disciplined kind of pride. That is modern language, and it makes no statement about any individual.