Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil by Liz Greene

Author:Liz Greene [Greene, Liz]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
ISBN: 9781609253707
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser
Published: 2011-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

Saturn in aspect to Mercury

Mercury in aspect to Saturn is traditionally considered to concur with profundity of thought, a shrewd, careful and thorough mind, canniness in business matters, and on the more negative side, a tendency to depression and gloominess, narrowness and rigidity of viewpoint, and a propensity for prevarication or evasiveness. There seems to be some association of Mercury-Saturn contacts, particularly the “hard” aspects, with speech difficulties such as stammering or stuttering and also with defects of hearing. The close conjunctions, squares, and oppositions of Mercury and Saturn are also said to have some connexion with dullness or lack of intelligence. In general, however, Mercury-Saturn contacts are considered to be reasonably easy to deal with although not particularly important unless other planets are involved in the configuration or unless one or the other planet is on an angle.

It is possible that Mercury-Saturn contacts assume major importance only at a particular stage of an individual's development—that is, when he learns how to reason. Not everyone makes use of this capacity. Mercury-Saturn contacts are not productive of the kind of stress and emotional frustration which is more typical of Mars, Venus, or the Moon in aspect to Saturn. Mercury, being symbolic of cold reason and common sense and being inclined toward matters of business or commerce as well as intellectual pursuits, tends to blend agreeably with Saturn regardless of the nature of the aspect. It is fairly obvious why a combination of these two planets should be associated with tact, shrewdness, and diplomacy.

There are many people, however, who labour under the less agreeable side of these aspects, and this seems to be more in evidence with the more intellectual type of temperament. Frequently there is much frustration felt in the area of communication and feelings of inadequacy about one's mental capacities. These feelings, if amplified enough, are often at the root of physical expressions such as stammering; the ease with which this difficulty in speech is helped through such therapeutic methods as hypnotherapy strongly points to the psychological origin of the difficulty. Like Saturn in the third house, Mercury-Saturn contacts often suggest the appearance of dullness when the situation is actually one of fear and inhibition. The curious expression of the chronic and uncontrollable liar is also one of the less attractive facets of Mercury-Saturn. But Saturn remains true to form here in that there must be present a reasonable degree of intelligence, sensitivity, and complexity of character in order for such distortion or overcompensation to exist. Often it is the person who experiences the more difficult face of Mercury-Saturn who in the end is able to make use of the opportunity for mental development and illumination which Saturn offers.

Mercury is a highly important planet symbolising a highly important function because he represents the instrument of communication of the birth chart's potential to the environment and likewise the instrument of assimilating data from the environment. In spite of the fact that many esoteric schools of a devotional nature teach us that

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