by Ptolemaic aspects alone, Saturn is unaspected. It has no essential dignity.
Saturn rules Carlson's 7th house of litigation and open enemies.
This is a very curious situation. Thanks for picking up on this, Waybread.
How does an un-aspected planet express itself in a natal chart?
It can't "hook" onto another energy for development, and it isn't brought into play by being approached by other planets.
We know Saturn is responsibility, stricture, regulations and rules, ambition.
It is where we apply the brakes and where the brakes are applied to our actions.
It is the task master, the teacher.
Here is a good take on it, and especially considering Carlson's Saturn is in 10th.
Unaspected Saturn: Disconnected Father, Intensified Ambition
Unaspected Saturn possibly suggests a lack of support from the father figure. Emphasis on work accomplishment or self-discipline may compensate for initial insecurity. Unaspected Saturn can also suggest intensified ambition, especially in terms of Saturn’s sign and house placement.
Unaspected planets can become powerful or unruly. Interpret unaspected planet - Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune or Pluto.
hniizato.com
So:
Intensified ambition. Lack of support from the father figure.
All of this perhaps to attract the approval of the father? Ambition to "compensate" for insecurity?
If we look at the midpoints, we find the Saturn/Jupiter midpoint at 14 cancer.
Jupiter is knowledge. It is also religion.
So we have the teacher, and knowledge in exact square to Venus, near the MH.
We know the MH is how a person is perceived.
Venus is kind, warm, friendly, in Aries it is aggressive.
So we do have a Saturn role in the chart...
The energy of teaching and higher education, is part of the kind friendly image of the personality.
(Remember we are not making judgements here, just analysing!).
Carlson often refers to religion in his presentations.
And he presents the story, or the topic, in a didactic manner, one easily grasped by the public.
He lays out a series of facts about a situation, that he then develops, sometimes with an interview of someone, but always with informative references. This is part of his base style.
Another midpoint is Saturn/NN which is exactly at 14 Aries, exactly on that friendly, kind and charming Venus on MH!
The Nodes are relationships, and Saturn rules the 7th of Carlson's "other", his public.
This is another step towards understanding his enormous popularity with the public.
Another midpoint .... Saturn/neptune, the weaving of the storyline, the telling of the facts in an imaginative way.
The midpoint is at 14 Aquarius, this time exactly trine his kind and charming Venus on MH!
He weaves the tale in a serious way, charming his audience.
This is something like a Pied Piper effect!
The 14 Aquarius point also just happens to be the Venus/mars midpoint!
Venus in Aries is weakened by being in detriment, while it is in the sign of Saturn's fall, but Saturn's natural house, the 10th.
Venus is in the Terms of mercury... all this takes place in the sphere of communication !
Saturn is in the sign of Venus, triplicity of Venus, terms of Venus, and Face of mercury!
This native couldn't have done anything other than the job he does!
And he was almost destined to have great success at it.
It's an amazing picture puzzle that once put together gives us a fascinating glimpse at astrology at work.
