PAGE FOURTH EFFECT OF SATURN

Natural house of enemy Kuja

Shani transit impacts:

• body/personality (1)

• mental health/daily business (3)

• marriage/contract (7)

• career/prestige (10).

Must personal discipline is required. Severed relationships in youth; difficult or enslaving commitment in maturity. Heavy responsibilities for family. It is required to take care of the Self, the social-emotional personality as well as the physical body, since all of these will suffer the effects of heavy workload and public expectation.

A good time for reorganizing the lifestyle in order to carry on for the next 30 years with less abundant luxury. Strive for efficiency and eliminate waste wherever you notice it. Some relationships are draining with little reward; these outdated commitments will be lost. Some relationships retain handsome value and require maintenance; these will be retained and serviced, at personal expense of time and resources. Time of restriction, austerity, and renovation/reconstruction. 

Good era for personality therapy if the budget permits. Otherwise, service work to those deeply in need will provide a very successful therapy of appreciation for the blessings one still receives. Avoid victimization and mental servitude. Whatever is draining and burdensome, be realistic and know you can leave the shackles behind. Many find themselves taking a serious step toward freedom at this time despite the downside of separation and uncertain social status. "Cut your losses" and focus on projects that deliver measurable results.

Gochara Shani passes across the lagna [1st house]

Native subconsciously reacts to the body/appearance/identity sector of their life by throwing negative expectations at the fleshly environment. Trouble with appearance, validation of identity, social location. Obligation to endure responsibility for physical body & personality.

One feels a heavy social responsibility to follow society's more conservative rules, respect class boundaries and traditions, and make productive use of your time.  Typical concerns during these 2.3 year transits which occur once every 29 years, are: care of the elderly, protection of old knowledge, and wise management of resources.  

Unless Saturn is a major benefic in the nativity (rare, but possible) Shani gochara lagna creates austerity, survival, oppressive relationships, and heavy conformist pressure on the social personality.  Shani in lagna temporarily makes trouble for your first spouse as your burdens are shared with them. Native becomes a low-resource/high-responsibility person.  

They say that stress is the gap between the way you think things should be and the way they really are.  Saturn forces a person toward a more realistic perspective which is a good thing in the long run, but giving up one's cherished ideals in the face of brute reality is a painful experience, and it makes one a crabby, stressed out marriage partner for the duration.  

In process of crossing the lagna, Shani will send a Parashari drishti [aspect, ray, or "focus"] to the 3rd, 7th, and 10th houses from its transiting position.  Thus when gochara in lagna, Shani shoots a ray into the 3rd, 7th, and 10th rashi houses.  

This phenomena creates rules, limitations, austerities, responsibilities, and concern for traditional methods into

• domain-3: daily tasks & mental health = stress from lack of team cooperation & planning

• domain-7: partnerships including marriage = stress from lack of balanced agreements

• domain-10: public duties including profession = stress from lack of dignity & prestige 

Expect therefore some depression with a dulling routine and no relief from creativity in either marriage or work, because both the marriage partner and the professional authorities must function as conservative, even punitive agents during the Shani transit to lagna.  

• Transit of Shani to the lagna will be more complex and demanding if planets occupy the 3rd, 7th, and 10th rashi houses.  See a brief view of gochara Shani's general effects on graha in the transited house.

Das / Behari says: will produce depressing influences. In a chart of progressive order, the transit will bring responsibilities, & a patient and careful frame of mind, producing caution, reserve & tactfulness. ... a time of shearing away of things such that your responsibilities will increase & your accomplishments will be great. 

Do not start any new long range projects, which will be delayed for completion if started. Do the things or project which requires short time for completion. Do not waste this transit as an excuse for sitting around & waiting for a more favorable time. Peep inward & restructure yourself as is the demand of Saturn; it will take several years, so do not be in a hurry. It is a time of introversion & introspection. An excellent time for any kind of psychotherapy or human potential work. 

Analyze the previous transit & be guided. In case Saturn is malefic or afflicted, one will suffer loss of health of wife, children & close relations. Food not to your liking, fear of enemies, disharmony, disagreements & disputes. Journey to a distant place & separation from relatives. Loss of wealth & honor, obstruction & delay in undertakings & increase in expenditure. Birth of a child if exalted or in own sign. Other results will also be favorable if aspects of other planets are good.

Natural house of friend Shukra

Shani transit impacts:

• birth family/wealth (2)

• children/speculation (5)

• secrets/healing (8)

• income/goals (11). 

Not a bad time if you are willing to work hard and keep a tight budget. Affects 3 of the 4 money houses, so don't expect easy money! But ethical earnings will come. Holding confidential information may be a burden.

When transiting the 2nd house of food, family, & finances, Shani places karmic restrictions on everything fundamentally related to the mouth.  = stress from lack of savings & traditional values.  These restrictions affect:

• values of knowledge -- especially oral history, family traditions 

  • struggle to learn, information not easy to digest, confusion of traditions.  Difficulty in school.

• values of moral & aesthetic development

  •  struggle to clearly distinguish moral truth & artistic beauty from their opposites.  A period of poor taste.

• values of money & material possessions

  • pecuniary restrictions of all kinds, especially limits on new acquisitions.  Struggle to locate good values in housing, food, clothing, etc.  Prices rise; wealth drops. 

• and of course the most basic of all values: food.

  • struggle to locate nourishing foods.  Eating disorders may manifest.  Quality of available or affordable food drops.  If Shani is a major maraka, He brings starvation and death.

• general harmony of relationships within the tribe or extended family

  • family members in general more difficult to get along with.  Arguments over food, money, and morality.  Family members unable to locate shared values.  

• physical terrain of mouth, teeth, lips, jaw, throat, tongue - and sound production for speech

  • Diseases of the mouth.  Painful and expensive if beneficial dental work.  Vulgar speech.  Poor articulation.  Lying.  If Shani is extra malefic can induce aphasia and other severe communication disorders.

In process of crossing the 2nd house, Shani will send a Parashari drishti into the 4th, 8th, and 11th rashi houses.  This phenomena imposes rules, limitations, austerities, responsibilities, concern for traditional methods, constraint, discipline, and delay, regarding:

• domain-4: home, emotional base, education & parents = stress from lack of shelter (emotional & physical) 

• domain-8: the spouse's family, values & secret knowledge 

• domain-11: marketplace gains & networked associations

Expect some financial stress, because Shani is occupying the 2nd house of fixed assets while transiting the 11th house of liquid assets. There will inevitably be money problems unless Shani is that rare functional benefic.  Shani's aspect to the 8th house may limit access to healing changes by locking the person into restrictive family values [2nd house] with limits on their psychic permission to change. This protects the family's stability but oppresses the individual member's creative self-expression. Shani's restrictions on the 4th house can similarly make the home environment quite conservative, with the parents' values dominating any attempt at personal change, and financial shortfalls making it hard to gather enough resource to leave the oppressive place.  

• Transit of Shani to dhana bhava will be more complex & demanding if planets occupy the 4th, 8th, and 11th rashi houses.  See a brief view of gochara Shani's general effects on graha in the transited house.

Das / Behari says: will decrease the income, cause financial loss. Advancement in psychological, spiritual & moral values. In case you are materialistic, loss of wealth is likely, otherwise everything will be all right. You have to work hard to keep everything going on as you want. But try to avoid letting fear add to your financial insecurity. This is a good time to organize your finances & be economical.

Natural house of neutral Budha

Shani transit impacts:

• mental health/daily business (3)

• health/conflict/debt (6)

• belief system/religious fellowship (9)

• privacy/foreign lands (12).

Transit of a malefic graha through a friendly or neutral dusthana typically gives good results.

For the mature person, this a a straightforward & disciplined period of needing to control one's thoughts and follow a straitened daily routine. Maintain low expectations of siblings & coworkers. You will handle the lion's share of the workload in all group administrative matters, with little recognition. 

Take care not to become depressed. Mental & physical Health will suffer from the overwork. Although it seems counterintuitive, the single best approach to this exhausting but not debilitating transit is to EXERCISE EVERY DAY. That's right, every darned day. This works because all of the problems are "natural" problems, Shani aspects 3 of the 4 dusthana's from this position. Never a major crisis, just a heavy daily grind... May be sleep-deprived due to drishti on domain-12. Do what you can to recover the sleep, but don't expect much in the way of vacation time

In process of crossing the 3rd house, Shani will send a Parashari drishti into the 5th, 9th, and 12th rashi houses.  This phenomena imposes rules, limitations, austerities, responsibilities, concern for traditional methods, constraint, discipline, and delay, regarding:

• domain-5: children, romance, and the arts (especially performance art)

• domain-9:  religion, philosophy, the Sangha, and university education = stress from lack of religious fellowship & disciplined higher studies

• domain-12: pilgrimage, meditation, and release of earthly bonds

Expect therefore some overall mental health stress because Shani is moving through the house of daily tasks, making every project burdensomely careful and detailed.  Shani provides 2.3 years of relentless drive to "cross every t and dot every i" while not allowing much financial improvement especially for the self-employed.  

The money limits happen because sahaja bhava is the 2nd-from-2nd house, and they hit the self-employed harder because 2nd-from-2nd signifies self-made wealth.  So if you own a business, your 3rd house is probably strong at birth.  You have the drive to create your income independent of the big corporations.  But when Shani plows through your 3rd house get ready to be humble.  Re-read Ben Franklin's autobiography and concentrate on the core virtues: early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise!  

Shani normally oppresses the financial health for a total of about five years, because He transits dhana bhava (the second house of money) first for 2.3 years and immediately afterward he enters sahaja bhava (the second-from-second house of self-made money) for an additional 2.3 years.  So there is rarely much rest for the weary during these five years, unless Shani is that rare benefic or a very auspicious bhukti is happening to compensate for Shani's karmic paybacks.

Deepening the natural frustration of these five years of suppressed wealth is the fact that while Shani transits the 2nd-from-2nd forcing great care and attention to the most minute details of communication while not providing much profit relative to the effort, He also afflicts the 9th house of religion making the Sangha (one's religious or philosophical community) often more trouble than help.  Typically one acquires unwanted administrative responsibilities to maintain the Sangha at the cost of one's own business time, with very little recognition for the sacrifice and often, unfortunately, minimal immediate benefit to the Sangha as well.  Everyone seems picky, irresponsible, and difficult to work with - and you end up carrying the load.  Remember that all these people, your customers, coworkers,  and your religious brotherhood, all have past-life relationships to you, and they're setting you up to pay back little cheats and selfishnesses from past lives.  That's the logic of this transit of Saturn!

Finally Shani will shoot out an afflicting ray for these 2.3 years of transit through the third house, which harms the 12th house of dreams and meditation. Since the mental health is damaged by Shani's occupation of the 3rd house anyway, meditation and the calm, creative, imaginative space that most people use to relax, pretty much evaporates during this transit.  It's a time of focus on material survival, administrative detail, mental function, and intense long-range planning.  It's not a very spontaneous or relaxed time.  Long retreats are not good during this transit, unless one is deeply prepared to do battle with the intractable habits of the mind.  Foreign travel should be very carefully planned with special attention to cancellation insurance (sahaja bhava as 8th-from-8th emphasizes insurance).  

As with any behavior of Shani, best results in all areas are gained through planning, planning, planning.  Compulsory planning does undeniably drain the spontaneity right out of life, but during Shani's transit to the third house, spontaneity is not the goal.  Mental health and business stability are the goals.  Be sure to have a Plan B (and plan C and plan D ...) ready for these 2.3 years.  Then, all will be well indeed.

• Transit of Shani to sahaja bhava will be more complex and demanding if planets occupy the 5th, 9th, and 12th rashi houses.  See a brief view of gochara Shani's general effects on graha in the transited house.

Das / Behari says: denotes hindrances & delay in travels, disappointments & difficulties through relatives. To a good horoscope, this transit will bring gravity of mind, thoughtfulness, & an inclination to engage in profound & deep studies, or perhaps a desire to investigate occult & mystical subjects. There may be extensive changes. You have trouble with people in your immediate environments such relatives and close friends. ... success, pleasant functions, recognition of service, agreeable events, outstanding reports, gain of wealth, pleasure, prosperity & success in undertakings. Defeat of enemies, happiness, power, position & enjoyments are indicated if Saturn is aspected by benefic planets.

Natural house of neutral Moon

Shani transit impacts:

• home/property/education (4)

• health/conflict/debt (6)

• career (10)

• body/personality (1)

Not bad for career, if the period is used to slowly lay a solid, steady foundation. Good time to be in school, job training, etc. Scarce resources in housing: unavailable, expensive or crowded. May be house-bound. Good time to work in the home, small & unpretentious home-business, house-cleaning job, etc.

In process of crossing the lagna, Shani will send a Parashari drishti into the 6th, 10th, and 1st houses.  

This phenomena imposes rules, limitations, austerities, responsibilities, concern for traditional methods, constraint, discipline, and delay, regarding:

• domain-6: enemies, debts and disease = stress from lack of loans, medicine, or police

• domain-10: public duty and leadership = stress from lack of dignity & public standing

• domain-1: bodily appearance, vitality, & social personality = stress from lack of recognizable appearance, physical structure

Typically Shani in bandhu bhava gives challenges regarding shelter and the home.  You may be forced to move house - but if natal Shani has some auspicious qualities, the move is an improvement.  

However the three most stressful events in life are generally acknowledged to be

1. death of spouse or divorce

2. loss or major change of job

3. loss or change of home

Excess public responsibilities that drain resources from other areas of your life like home and family [simultaneous with significant demands from home because Shani is moving through bandhu bhava!]; discomfort in the physical body caused by overwork, emotional conflict in the home, and general insecurities.  

So undoubtedly Shani's transit through the 4th house of home and hearth will generate some significant anxieties as you manage the gap between what you expect (a placid, stable home) and what really happens (upsets, restrictions, socially mandated uprootings).  

Still, 4, 10, and lagna are all kendra (angular) houses - and Shani's transit to angular houses is generally beneficial to the physical structure of one's life, because it gets your behaviors lined up with social expectations which makes the tribe happier and ultimately increases material prosperity for all. 

The animosity built into any drishti toward domain-6 is undeniably irritating, but you can handle enemies by moving away from them.  It all works out in 2.3 years.

• Transit of Shani to bandhu bhava will be more complex and demanding if natal planets occupy the 6th, 10th, and 1st  rashi houses.  See a brief view of gochara Shani's general effects on graha in the transited house.

Das / Behari says: will bring domestic troubles, bereavements, unfavorable changes, & hallucinations etc. To the more highly evolved individual a desire for rest, & more attention to the needs of the household, preparations for the closing years of life (its transit in 2nd or 3rd cycle), & securing benefits to family & heirs after the close of the earthly career. 

An important transit as the house indicates domestic life. Any domestic problem will become critical which you should solve calmly. This could be anything from simple reorganizing to major reshuffling of your relations & contracts in domestic lie. Your house may become a tremendous burden, because of payments, repairs etc. 

Past incidents, not settled earlier, may come into prominence. This is an especially good period to resolve them now. Start modestly for steady rise in life. Any negative factor at work here will oppose your successful achievements later as this house is opposite to your 10th house of career. Parent's health may not be satisfactory. Disagreements with wife, relations & superiors are likely which will bring about their displeasure. Mean action, disrepute, misery & unhappiness.

Natural house of enemy Surya

IMO, this is the single most difficult house for a Shani transit. (along with the temporal house of Ravi). Affects:

• children (5), 

• spouse (7), 

• friends (11), 

• birth family (2). 

Shani crossing the natural house of enemy Surya is quite frustrating & exhausting. However as always better results occur after age 45, and best results after age 60.

Children become a heavy responsibility. Their many needs drain your income due to Shani's drishti to domain-11 & domain-2. E.g., you may be paying college tuition for several children during Shani's 2.3 yr transit! 

Lovers also become a burden, & the pleasures of creative self-expression are constrained by ethical concerns, duty, & responsibility. Separations may be necessary if unmarried. Married life also is tiresome, because of Shani's 3rd drishti upon domain-7.  

Literary & performance art is constricted & delayed by funding problems. Political office & financial speculation subject to public opinion & market limitations.