Saturn in Sagittarius

Saturn and Jupiter have an old tie that shows up here. A footnote by Ashmand to his 1822 Ptolemy traces their familiarity to the sextile between their day houses, Aquarius and Sagittarius, so this sign is one half of that link. Lilly 1659 calls Sagittarius the house and joy of Jupiter, which makes Saturn a visitor in a place the other planet favors.

Lilly sets degrees 21 to 25 as Saturn's terms and degrees 21 to 30 as his face, so the last third of the sign holds all of Saturn's allotments here. Fiery, hot and dry on his account, the sign agrees with Saturn only on dryness. No source here gives a character for this pair.

Sepharial 1920 reminds readers that Saturn has good influences and acts as a malefic only through conjunction or evil aspect, a caution against reading the label as a sentence. Modern popular astrology tends to describe serious belief and learning that takes years. That is modern phrasing, and it cannot tell anyone what they believe.