All About Saturn:

Being the furthest planet from the Sun, Saturn has the longest cycle of all the visible planets. For this reason, Classical cultures represented Saturn as the Father Time, an aged man who marked the natural reasons in our lives with his scythe. He was both lord of the harvest and death. Riding the heavens in a chariot drawn by winged dragon-snakes coiled up like spiraling DNA, Saturn structures our life, its ending and its transcendence to higher consciousness. Saturn's dedication to structure and discipline suits order in business and politics, as well as the physical frames upon which our buildings and bodies depend. Yet too much control can calcify our actions and attitudes , freezing the juices of creativity and rendering us impotent. There must be a limit to limitation. If we keep this in mind, we can benefit from the positive aspects of Saturn's control and strength. In ancient Babylon, Saturn was identified with the god of Ninurta, whose name means "lord of the earth". Ninurta was a god of rain and storms, fertility and (like Saturn) agriculture, as well as war, wells, canals, floods, and the plough. He also released humans from sickness and the power of demons. Saturn reveals the meaning of life's framework, from the cellular structure of DNA to the architecture of our houses. Structure can give us freedom; it does not have to limit us. Saturn in our chart indicates where problems, restrictions and barriers are likely in our lives and confronts us with the reality of impermanence. But Saturn presides over much more than failure and endings: as the planet of firm foundations, it can show us how to strengthen our endeavors and make them more sustainable. In understanding Saturn, we make a friend who will never give false hope and will always be there to support us, providing a framework for our progress through life, just as it also presides over the skeletons that our bodies need to stand tall, and the foundations that hold up buildings. With Saturn as our guide, we become more powerful by working with and mastering problems. The strength of Saturn will sustain us, whatever happens.