Tapestry of the Gods
Volume III
by Michael D. Robbins

Astro-Rayology
in progress

Interpretations of Famous People by Ray, Sign and Life Emphasis
With Explanations of All Astrological and Rayological Elements

Saturn in Aries

Saturn in Aries or Saturn in Relation to Aries:

(from Esoteric Astrology)

Saturn Falls in Aries:

“Saturn ‘falls’ in Aries. This has two meanings, for this is a dual sign.

First: Saturn is the Lord of Karma, the imposer of retribution and the one who demands full payment of all debts and who therefore condemns us to the struggle for existence, both from the form side and from the soul side. Saturn, therefore ‘fell’ when man fell into generation. He ‘followed the sons of men down into their low place’.

Second: Saturn’s power is completely ended and his work accomplished when man (the spiritual man) has freed himself from Karma and from the power of the two Crosses—the Common and the Fixed. Esoterically, Saturn cannot follow man on to the Cardinal Cross.” (EA 105)

Saturn Stimulates Discriminative Pioneering:

Saturn in Aries is particularly described by the term, “discriminative pioneering”. (cf. EA 148-149)

3. Saturn (in Aries) and the Presentation of Opportunity on the Path of Discipleship:

In the language of esotericism, the presentation of obstacles which must be overcome is called the “presentation of opportunity”. With Saturn in Aries, one is presented with the ‘opportunity’ of difficult but necessary beginnings. For instance, many difficulties lie in the path of something that must be done; the disciple feels the great burden of beginning. His dharmic and karmic responsibilities, however, will not allow him to escape shouldering the burden.

Actually, in many countries of the world, huge, heavy burdens are either carried on the head, or by using the head as a principle means of support. Those who carry such burdens walk very carefully and slowly. This is a graphic symbol of the Saturn-in-Aries attitude.

4. Saturn (in Aries) and Choices to be Made and Destruction to be Endured in order to Promote a Freer Expression of the Soul:

The choices to be made concern what is worth undertaking and what is not — which ‘invitations’ of life to accept, and how to accept them. One may also have to witness his initiatives destroyed if they are insufficiently sound to bear the weight of purpose. One may also destroy the initiatives of others, as when rebellions (Aries) are “put down” (Saturn). Dangerous conflagrations can be “stamped out”; this combination is good at “putting out fires” — for good or ill.

When this Saturn in Aries turns tyrannical, a suggestive image would be the heel of the boot upon the fresh, young shoot; but noxious weeds, too, may be “crushed” before they grow. Rooting them out, however, requires the work of Pluto.

5. As “the sacred planets endeavour to fuse the personality and make it the instrument of the soul and the non-sacred planets influence more specifically the form nature”, how does Saturn, a sacred planet, fuse the personality and make it a responsible instrument of the soul in this particular sign? How does it enforce the law(s) of the soul, and assist in the fulfillment of the Purpose, Plan and Dharma conceived by the soul?:

When the vehicles of the personality function under soul plan and purpose, they function harmoniously, Saturn in Aries (like its counterpart, Saturn in Libra) helps to keep the balance between the three personality vehicles, by subduing inappropriate initiatives in any one of them. The vehicles or fields are kept “in leash”, and none is allowed to act entirely independently of the rest.

The soul is intended to “rule” from the plane of mind — at first from the lower mind and then, from that concentration of energy on the higher mental plane which is called “soul”. Aries governs what might be called ‘soul impulses intended to become personality initiatives’. The personality can waste so much precious time following impulses from the three lower vehicles, or from the ambient force fields in which these three lower vehicles function.

For instance, an impulse towards action may be prompted by my own emotional vehicle, or may impress itself upon my astral body from my astral environment (which includes the astral bodies of those with whom I am associated). But, Saturn is the Lord of Time, just as it is the planet of plan and purpose.

By regulating initiatives — confining them, more and more, to those which should be undertaken, whether or not the personality wants to undertake them, this combination makes the personality an instrument of soul dharma, and clears ‘room-in-time’ in the life, for those things that, from a spiritual point of view, must be done.

6. Miscellaneous Meanings of Saturn in Aries:

See that you begin purposefully. See that plans are begun in accordance with the Plan. See that activities are begun aright. See that undertakings are initiated in line with the Law; lawful beginnings.