The Dysfunctional Saturn and its Impact upon Health
Dysfunctional Saturn aspects in the natal chart frequently contribute to health issues. For example, people with Fibromyalgia often have Saturn inconjunct (150) aspects in their natal chart.
These people have a difficult time assessing their accurate responsibility in most situations. With Fibromyalgia, these people are drawn to crises, care-taking and sacrificing themselves for others. Because they actually resent these crises, their bodies develop an “allergic reaction” to the adrenalin that they produce – hence, the great pain that they experience.
Because many diseases are associated with this dysfunctional pattern with Saturn, it is essential to change the psychological pattern in order to improve the health condition.
The best description of the Dysfunctional Saturn comes from my favorite book by Alan Epstein, The Psychodynamics of Inconjunctions. I love this book so much that I have two copies of it…just in case I cannot find one when I need to refer to it. Often, the psychological issues of this 150 degree aspect represent the psychological struggles about which the individual is most aware. They also represent important talents available to the individual, if they will overcome the dysfunctional side of the planet. Many of these talents are listed in Epstein’s book. This book appeared in AstroAmerica’s Top Ten List.
The Psychological Issues of a Dysfunctional Saturn are:
- Problems and lessons come through dealing with the reality of responsibility.
- Need to prove self responsible to others, limiting freedom, assuming responsibilities and burdens
- May have had to assume responsibilities for parents, foregoing play in order to assume the worry and burden of family survival.
- The parents often felt that they themselves were making great sacrifices and handling great responsibilities when they were actually dumping these on the child.
- They permit others to unload their burdens on the individual who is not always efficient and effective in these tasks.
- Find themselves surrounded with irresponsible or needy people – these inept people give a sense of purpose and connectedness.
- Premature, adult-like assumption of duties so that the individual never does learn how to handle responsibilities effectively. The enjoyment of life is very much limited by these chores. Saturn says: Before you can be happy, the people you love must be happy.
- Feelings of isolation because of these responsibilities
- Forced to wait and be patient; sense of timing is inappropriate
- As a child, the individual was either forced to wait or rushed and pressured.
- The individual fears a total collapse if they do not do it all.
Mar 4, 01:40 AM
This sounds like it must be me. My BD is 6/18/1954; I was diagnosed with Fibro in 1996 along with about five other illnesses. From what I can tell it looks like I was born with saturn in scorpio in the 6th house and neptune in libra occupying the same space. I have had more than my share of health problems and have also been a victim of spousal abuse, attacked and beaten by a stranger and given a broken nose by a beloved niece.
I have a couple of guru’s (spiritual mentors) and healers who all say I have a very bright aura (light) that scars people. I guess you could say they want to punch my lights out (wish I were joking). In any event I am really a great person; an upstanding citizen, great friends from all walks of life, etc. I just do not even come close to the stereotype one would think of when one considers a person being attacked so many times. At some point people would begin to think this just cant be, she must be asking for it. That’s the issue though no one gets why these things keep happening to me.
In addition I have had to have four surgery’s in the pelvic area; the last one was in 2000 to remove my ovary’s . I was on the table for six hours and lost a lot of blood; they had to call in two additional surgeons due to the extent of addhesions conecting my bowel to my ovary. That was eight years ago and it looks like they are going to have to go in again as I have a stricture on my sigmoid colon. It is extremely narrow and getting at a dangerous point as adhesions are also growing around it. The decision will be made on how to procede in the next couple of weeks after some more test. But I am terrified and so tired of these cycles. They will remove about 5 inches of the colon and I have a 50/50 chance of wearing a bag for the rest of my life. I have been searching for a good medical astrologer who could advise me on any obtions I may have and if I have to have this surgery when would be the very best time for the best outcome?? If there is a specific way you do this and charge please advise as I do not see it on your site. Or perhaps there would be some one else you would like to recommend to me.
Thank you so much.
Debra