Namaste ... to YOU on this Saturday Eve ... I awoke this morning thinking ... This is Saturday ... What does that mean? (This could be one of your thoughts.)
Saturn Saturday Saturn Saturday ... Knowing that this day was named after Saturn, I delved into my mental archives ... I admit my "astrological knowing" has always been used on the playful level. With that being understood, I have let the astrologers be useful guides in my life and my interactions ... thank you to our astrologers ... I love you!
Still wanting to know more about Saturn near the day's end, I couldn't help myself from doing some exploring ... again looking for the spiritual relevance of this thought of having a day of the week named after Saturn. Saturn ... Saturn ... I know you are there. ...
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| A drawing by Jed, my Sun ... a Saturn-ruled Capricorn. |
I found an article written in 1967 by Dane Rudyar (an author, modernist composer, and humanistic astrologer). He led me to some interesting interpretations of Saturn. Here is the fabric of it in the palm of MY hand?!?! To start, Saturn is a god of Roman and Greek mythology who is associated with the Golden Age, the age of "purity and innocence."
When trying to understand the Saturn principle, Rudyar goes into the Indian culture for obtaining a better understanding. Here is my perception of his findings. He asks us to look at the Indian cycle in time called Satya Yuga. Saturn and Satya are very similar words is spelling and in definition ... both are cycles of time. The 'sat' in Satya means "essential being" and the 'ya' is the pushing force of it. More explanation is given but the summary of it is that Saturn can be looked upon as the "urn of the essential being." Remember our 'essential being' and that place of 'purity and innocence' is that place of beingness before "we become polluted by the environment." And being that, Saturn can be looked upon as the seeds of our beginning, we are that "urn of essential being."
I can see that Rudyar is saying that within all of us, we have that Saturn element ... that essential being ... that fundamental nature ... which remembers our true untarnished nature ... and in this life, this energy reminds us to keep going forward, it gives us the inner discipline to stay on our pathways ... to keep practicing on the pathway that leads to the Truth of our being. It sounds like we can call on our Saturn energy to guide us and help us to keep in touch with our true selves. This is good.
Most importantly, I am looking at how powerful Saturday is to us with this look at its etymology. That is all for now ... for a more in depth explanation and better understanding you can go here:
http://www.khaldea.com/rudhyar/astroarticles/meditationsonsaturn.php
Thank you for being here
in little and the big picture.
