SATURN IS YOUR BEST FRIEND: on discipline, impulse control & delayed gratification

Saturn is really the energy in our life of being able to experience actual satisfaction through endurance, discipline, hard work, and stillness.

Dissatisfaction and satisfaction are things that you need to figure out in yourself because you will never find the satisfaction that will make you feel like you lived a really great life.

through perpetual consumption and unregulated pleasure-seeking without actually doing anything with what it is that you take in.

It's one thing to be taking in a lot in the world and then making a lot, which I think is the best case scenario of just letting life grind you down.

Like if you're going to take in a lot, like you should be putting out a lot.

It's like when people talk about social media and they say like you need to be making as much as you're consuming.

I actually kind of agree with that.

But I would say that like 99% of people are not actually doing that.

So this is where Saturn starts to come in.

The Sanskrit name for Saturn is Shani, which means slow.

And not just slow, like very slow.

Shani means very slow.

Saturn is the planet of discipline and limitation and responsibility and structure and long-term goals and long-term goals that often require some level of endurance.

So the presence of the Saturnian energy in our lives teaches us lessons that help us to grow and evolve specifically through challenge, hard work, and delayed gratification.

If there's one thing that Saturn loves, it's delayed gratification.

And if someone is able to develop a good relationship with this energy in their life, there's a profound maturity and even a kind of worldly success that they can touch in their life.

So through the vantage point of Saturn and what he asks of us, discipline is not about punishment.

It's about the evolution of your highest expression.

Shani is slow because Saturn is the slowest moving visible with the naked eye planet in the solar system.

So on a literal level, the name describes the planet's actual movement, but there's also something much deeper being pointed to in the name itself.

Saturn's slowness speaks to the slow ripening of cause and effect in our life, the slow ripening of karma.

So Saturn is the force that compels you eventually.

to face your duty to build a solid foundation that you alone are responsible for.

And this is the role of the Saturn return in the life.

Sometimes Saturn return violently reorients us to the actual duty in the life.