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PrintarticleIsSaturnthelordofKarma?

IsSaturnthelordofKarma?
ByPaoloCrimaldi
PublishedonAstrologyonline

IthasbynowbeenascertainedthatSaturnistheplanetthatisthemasterofKarma,theone
which more than each other puts us in contact with everything that we did in our the past
existenceandwhichwehavetodealwith.Butisthisreallyso?
Probably not, in the sense that Saturn more than being bound to our past lives, is a powerful
activatorofourpresenttime,oftheDharma,orratheroftheexistentialevolutivepaththatwe
have decided to undertake at the beginning of our current incarnation and that in one way or
another we try to move forwards, very often with effort, with difficulty. It is here that we find
karmic
dharmic power in the whole of its expression,
evolutive of Saturn, or rather his
transformative capability that forces us to deal with everything that we have more or less
consciously decided to do in our lives, with the entire responsibility that we accepted at the
momentinwhichourSoulappropriatedthebodyinwhichitresides.
Clearlythispathisnotalwayseasy,onthecontrarysometimesitcanhaveaseriesofevents,
also rather strong, which can create friction, tension, doubts, pains, but also certitude,
consciousness,action.InotherwordsSaturnhasthepowerofmakingusgetincontactwiththe
stronger,inflexibleandconsistentpartsofourselvesthatneverthelesssometimesmakeusface
different kinds of resistance that inevitably they coincide with the difficult, problematic, heavy
momentsofourexistence.
These moments are marked by Saturn transits, its covering of the zodiac, and in encountering
theplanets,andinparticularourpersonalones,andthereforedictateswhenourgrowthinitiates,
andtotheconsciousnessofwhatisreallyimportantinourlife.
ThisprobablysuitsthosewhohaveadominantSaturnintheirbirthchart,especiallyifitistothe
AscendantortotheMidheaven,sincefromthebirththeywillhaveaclearconsciousnessofwhat
theirlimitsare,aswellastheirpotential,andinseveralwaysalsowhentheymustbesubjected
to a check that does not take anything into account but on the contrary leads constantly to a
testinordertochecktherealimportancethatithasforourexistence.
Saturnhasaconceptionoftimethatisstrictlylinearandthatisdifficulttoanalyseandinterpret
orthatpostponesthings,evenforalongtime.Saturnisnottiedtothepast,oreventhefuture,
buttothepresent,thehereandnow,evenifitclearlychecksonthepastandplansinviewofa
goal,butonlywithinaframeworkofabeginningandanend.
InotherwordsSaturnbecomesloadedwiththepastonlyfunctionalreasonsorobstructingthose
plansitdoesnotlike,becauseitfeelsitsheaviness,theinhibitedstrengththatpossessesit,but
at the same time it does not allow itself to be blinded by the future because it knows that it
cannotreachanythingifnottodevelopthingswithconsistencyandperseveranceinthepresent,
without excluding any possibility and always maintaining an aspect that is healthily distrustful
andremovedinrelationtoeasyandfleetingresults.
ItisforthisreasonthatitisnotpossibletocallitsimplythelordofKarma,ifforkarmawemean
everythingthatistiedexclusivelytopastlives,asoftenhappensbutifinsteaditisseenasthe
onewhichdictatescausesandeffects(whichunderlieskarma)abasicprincipleofitsbehaviour,
then the above definition seems right, since it knows that behind a sacrifice and renunciation
thereisalwayssomethingpositiveandpracticalthatawaits,andthatnothing,oralmost,canbe
attainedwithoutanyeffort,andthatifthishappensitwouldinanycaseimplythedefinitionof
strategies and responsibilities to be able to manage it all in a wise and cautious way, avoiding
throwingawaywhateasilyenteredintoourlife.
In the next articles we analyse the cycle of Saturn and its transits, trying to favour the
constructive, positive aspect of its nature and not that, which often unjustly prevails, of an
oppressor.

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