Sun square Saturn

Sun square Saturn - astrological aspect

Astrology aspects - Sun square Saturn The square indicates that restrictions and limitations derived from your own inner psycholgocial attitudes, values, beliefs and image are likely to confront you, and that these often emerge from a lack of self-esteem and personal insecurities.

The power of your solar energy is being held in check - almost imprisoned - by Saturn, until you succeed in 'learning certain lessons', 'recognising inner messages', and manage to transform those constraining attitudes that can cause the failure of your dreams through attracting obstacles along the path.

Part of this may have been influenced by your early childhood environment, where conflicts with parents (especially your father) or with authority figures have left you feeling defeated and psychologically wounded. Possibly attempts at being childishly self-assertive were unsympathetically crushed and rejected by strict and disciplinarian adults, or your efforts at self-expression and communication of feelings were dismissed and ignored. Whatever circumstances were experienced, the result was a diminution of a developing personality and loss of confidence and self-esteem.

You are likely to hold psychologically defensive attitudes towards life, not able to trust in the beneficience of the universe or people around you, often expecting that rejection and failure will be the only results that will come to you. With such expectations, the mirroring by the universe will bring such results. A transformation in your worldview is required to alter this pattern.

The operative effects of such a pattern are as follows: a fear of 'superiors' and authority figures, and the forming of negative comparisons between yourself and others; an underestimation of or failure to recognise your latent potential, qualities and strengths; a lack of personal assertion, and a tendency to be passive, fatalistic, pessimistic, rigid and insecure; a lack of self-confidence, and a belief that you are unlovable and will never taste success; health may be affected, with a loss of physical vitality and vigour, or psychosomatic ailments may periodically erupt. Looking out at life, you may imagine a constant frustration at your efforts, a life of hard toil for little result, and a scattering around you of unrealised dreams.

But if this is the case, then it is within you to transform the inner attitudees that generate such a reality; your life can always be changed for the better. This is the challenge and test facing you, to rise beyond those apparent inner limitations and restrictions that to some degree you are choosing to impose on yourself. Specific areas of oppression may be those associated with the sign and house positions of Sun and Saturn, and resolving the lessons implied in those spheres may hold a key to open the rest of your life to a more favourable future.

In failure and rejection lie the seeds of possible success, providing that you recognise the lessons and messages that are contained within such experiences. A new approach to self-evaluation is required, one that is not depreciating and negative in prior assumption, but values your strengths and qualities and sese them as assets that can be successfully employed. You may need to review all those traditional attitudes and worldviews that you have acquired in life, and see if they are restrictive or can postitively serve you. When life presents obstacles in your path, you have two fundamental choices; defeat or discover a way of moving beyond. The first is a path of self-limitation and stagnation, the second is the path of self-development and evolutionary growth, and that is the assertion of the solar power and of a higher self. This second path is the one that beckons to you.

While success may never be easy, and you have to work hard for every step forward, changing your conditioning attitudes is the transformative key. Your character can be strengthened and amplified by attitudes of optimism and positive cheerfulness; begin to trust in the universe and yourself, and you will succeed in restoring your self-image to a positive perception. The aim is to re-empower yourself. One of the most effective ways to do this is through techniques of creative visualisation, which can aid in the psychological reprogramming of all inner attitudes, replacing them by beliefs and worldviews that become positively attractive to the good experience of life. Take the time to explore such techniques.

Relationships could be similarly transformed. If you have been holding a negative self-image, it is always difficult to believe that anyone could love or be interested in you, so relationships may have been unsatisfactory, uneasy and lacking development. If you trnasform any unsuitable self-images, then relationships can assume a new light and vitality. Partners may appear who understand and value you for what you are, and have a faith and trust in your latent potential being actualised. Love is a great transforming power, and you will develop under such a gaze from another. Through consolidating and recognising your power, your solar will can be applied to attain your ambitions. Through sharing with a partner, you can gain a renewed perspective, healing and resolving conflicts which may have been previously detrimental. This squares' tendency for negativity is not inviolable; it can be the spur to change, provided you choose to take the future into your hands, and to recreate it into a positive pattern. This is the Saturn lesson and test that is really confronting you; a demand to assert your unique solar power.

All astrological aspects:

Astrological aspects definitions

Conjunction - 1st harmonic aspect
Opposition - 2nd harmonic aspect
Trine - 3rd harmonic aspect
Square - 4th harmonic aspect
Quintile - 5th harmonic aspect
Sextile - 6th harmonic aspect
Septile - 7th harmonic aspect
Semisquare - 8th harmonic aspect
Novile - 9th harmonic aspect

All aspects explained

Sun's aspects
Moon's aspects
Mercury's aspects
Venus' aspects
Mars' aspects
Jupiter's aspects
Saturn's aspects
Uranus' aspects
Neptune's aspects
Pluto's aspects
North Node's aspects
Ascendant's aspects
Midheaven's aspects

Sun's aspects

Sun's aspects to the Moon

Sun conjunct Moon
Sun sextile Moon
Sun square Moon
Sun trine Moon
Sun quincunx Moon
Sun opposition Moon

Sun's aspects to Mercury

Sun conjunct Mercury

Sun's aspects to Venus

Sun conjunct Venus

Sun's aspects to Mars

Sun conjunct Mars
Sun sextile Mars
Sun square Mars
Sun trine Mars
Sun quincunx Mars
Sun opposition Mars

Sun's aspects to Jupiter

Sun conjunct Jupiter
Sun sextile Jupiter
Sun square Jupiter
Sun trine Jupiter
Sun quincunx Jupiter
Sun opposition Jupiter

Sun's aspects to Saturn

Sun conjunct Saturn
Sun sextile Saturn
Sun square Saturn
Sun trine Saturn
Sun quincunx Saturn
Sun opposition Saturn

Sun's aspects to Uranus

Sun conjunct Uranus
Sun sextile Uranus
Sun square Uranus
Sun trine Uranus
Sun quincunx Uranus
Sun opposition Uranus

Sun's aspects to Neptune

Sun conjunct Neptune
Sun sextile Neptune
Sun square Neptune
Sun trine Neptune
Sun quincunx Neptune
Sun opposition Neptune

Sun's aspects to Pluto

Sun conjunct Pluto
Sun sextile Pluto
Sun square Pluto
Sun trine Pluto
Sun quincunx Pluto
Sun opposition Pluto

Sun's aspects to the Ascendant

Sun conjunct Ascendant
Sun sextile Ascendant
Sun square Ascendant
Sun trine Ascendant
Sun quincunx Ascendant
Sun opposition Ascendant

Sun's aspects to the Midheaven

Sun conjunct Midheaven
Sun sextile Midheaven
Sun square Midheaven
Sun trine Midheaven
Sun quincunx Midheaven
Sun opposition Midheaven

Sun's aspects to the North Node

Sun conjunct North Node
Sun sextile North Node
Sun square North Node
Sun trine North Node
Sun opposition North Node

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