Cast & Chart

Placement

Saturn in Virgo

A chart describes tendencies in a symbolic tradition. It cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.

About this entry

Virgo gives Saturn no house or exaltation in Lilly 1659, only degrees 19 to 24 as terms. Its temperament does the rest: earthly, cold and dry, the two qualities he assigns to Saturn himself. Ptolemy (Ashmand's 1822 translation) connects the triangle of Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn to Saturn only by way of Capricorn, a link he mentions in passing.

Heindel 1918 has one remark on this pair, a period claim about illness that this page does not repeat. Lilly lists studies, granaries and places of books under the sign, a friendlier set of associations for a patient planet.

No book here offers a portrait of the pair beyond that. Modern popular astrology usually describes exacting standards and a habit of working through the details slowly. Those phrases are modern, and roughly two and a half years of births share the placement.

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