Saturn in Taurus

Among these sources Raphael's Guide of 1877 is the only one to speak of this exact pair, and it does so in language nobody should reuse about a person, since it calls the type dull and vengeful. Its value here is historical, since it shows how flatly Victorian manuals wrote. Its planet symbols are damaged in the scan, and the entries were matched to planets by their order.

Lilly 1659 is far calmer: Saturn gets degrees 23 to 26 of Taurus as terms and the last ten degrees as face. The sign is earthly, cold and dry in his account, the same pair of qualities he gives to Saturn, which makes this one of three exact matches of temperament for the planet. Taurus still belongs to Venus, the planet of warmth and moisture.

Ptolemy, in Ashmand's 1822 translation, says the triangle of Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn receives a mixture of the east by way of Saturn. A planet of slow movement in a fixed sign gives modern writers an easy starting point, and they speak of endurance, thrift and patient accumulation. Modern popular astrology supplies those words, and nothing here predicts what anyone's finances do.