Saturn is the significator of life and it's strength in the horoscope counts very much in giving good longevity to the native. The planet Saturn is lowest in status in the planetary cabinet. It therefore represents servants, menial laborers and other categories of persons low in the social rung. Saturn is a hard task master and mighty planet. Saturn is a planet of sorrow. It is very slow. When it is strong in the horoscope it makes the native careful, strong, profound in opinion, austere, singular in their mode of thinking, laborious, avaracious, vicious and envious. A favorably posited Saturn in the horoscope makes the native high order thinker, gives mental and moral courage, foresight, discipline in fields of life and power to undergo all sorts of privations. It causes delay, denial, hindrances and obstacles when it is weak and afflicted in the horoscope.
Saturn is the lord of the signs Capricorn and Aquarius. It is exalted in the sign Libra at 20 degree and debilitated in the sigh Aries at 20 degree. Mercury and Venus are friendly to Saturn, Sun, Moon and Mars are inimical to it while Jupiter is neutral to Saturn. It represents West direction.
If Saturn is well placed and strong in the horoscope there will be acquisition of wealth but after some difficulties, the native will get recognition from government, becomes affluent and attain a high position. A strong Saturn in the horoscope makes the native prudent, contemplative, cautious, responsible, reserved, precise, persistent, industrious, provident, patience, services, resolute considerate, mathematical, temperate, chaste and executive.
If Saturn is weak and afflicted in the horoscope then the native experiences immense difficulties, anxiety and agony during Saturn's period. There is distress to the parents, spouse and children. The native faces wrath of the government and his superiors. When Saturn is afflicted, debilitated or malefic in the chart it makes the native a skeptical, melancholic, deceitful, avarious, lazy, lethargic and idle person.
Parts of the body rules by him are bladder, excretory system, teeth, muscles, wrist and feet.
Diseases caused by Saturn are muscular pains, tooth ache, asthma, tuberculosis, epilepsy, hysteria, pains in the joints and ulcers.
