Planets: Saturn—ray 3 (sacred)

Ray 3 triangle

G Ray 3 (sacred planet)

Method: Intensification, growth through the opportunities of crisis

Rulerships: Orthodox: Capricorn Esoteric: Capricorn Hierarchical: Libra
Dignities: Exaltation: Libra Fall: Aries Detriment: Cancer Leo
Paired planet (Ray 3): Earth
Symbol: G a cross surmounting the left of a semicircle
Saturn triangles:

Saturn: general information

The highest mental attribute of Saturn is perfection … giving an intense desire to find out the true state of things.” … “Saturn delays, retards and hinders for no other purpose than that perfection shall be reached by all things and all men. Saturn concentrates and purifies until all impurities are, as it were, precipitated to the bottom of each earth life, until right action is performed for right’s sake only.” —Alan Leo The Art of Synthesis, p93

Saturn: Rulerships

Orthodox: Capricorn

Details to follow of Saturn as exoteric ruler of Capricorn: the drive to establish material achievement.

Esoteric: Capricorn

Details to follow of Saturn as esoteric ruler of Capricorn: stability of purpose, consolidation of the personal self as a vehicle for the expression of greater purpose.

Hierarchical: Libra

Details to follow of Saturn as hierarchical ruler of Libra: the ideal state of balance, the deep patience of global justice, the stable portal to another phase.


Saturn decanates

(To follow) The decanates in Esoteric Astrology are not given consistently. They are sometimes reversed and other times given in the familiar direction. Current research aims to provide a coherent system that ensures consistency and reduces ambiguity, while adhering to the basic tenets of the esoteric decanates as well as the “reversal of the wheel”. Alan Leo’s decanates tend to follow the traditional method (i.e. the rulers of each sequential sign by element), yet Alice Bailey often replaces these, sometimes with Sephirial’s planets, and at other times with fresh esoteric replacements.

For now, decanates are covered under the “Details” tab in each sign.

Saturn Dignities

Exaltation in Libra

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Fall in Aries

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Detriment in Cancer

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Detriment in Leo

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