So, rather than reduce and compress the number of planetary significations—as is the modern tendency—let’s expand them using synonyms and definitions. Continuing with Valens and his significations for Saturn, I’ve extracted and presented here the list of 75 significations from Riley’s translation. These original significations are set in bold type style and are followed by their synonyms. Where deemed necessary, I’ve provided definitions for some of the synonyms. The majority of what is presented here is from the Merriam Webster online dictionary.
petty — illiberal, insular, Lilliputian, little, narrow, narrow-minded, parochial, picayune, provincial, sectarian, small, small-minded
illiberal: not broad-minded
insular: characteristic of an isolated people, especially : being, having, or reflecting a narrow provincial viewpoint
Lilliputian: trivial, small
parochial: confined or restricted as if within the borders of a parish : limited in range or scope (as to a narrow area or region)
picayune: something trivial
sectarian: limited in character or scope
malignant — bad [slang], bitchy, catty, cruel, despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, mean, nasty, spiteful, vicious, virulent
despiteful, expressing malice or hate
malevolent, having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred
virulent, full of malice, objectionably harsh or strong
care-worn — showing the effect of grief or anxiety: brokenhearted, crestfallen, downcast, downhearted, forlorn, gloomy, glum, low-spirited, miserable, sad, triste, unhappy, woebegone
triste: sad, mournful, wistful
woebegone: strongly affected with woe; being in a sorry state
self-depreciating/self-deprecating — aw-shucks, self-deprecatory, self-effacing
demure, down-to-earth, humble, lowly, meek, modest, unassuming, unpretentious
acquiescent, compliant, deferential, resigned, submissive, unaggressive, unassertive, yielding
solitary — alone, lone, one, one-off, only, singular, sole, special, sui generis, unique
deceitful — crooked, defrauding, dishonest, double-dealing, false, fraudulent
secretive in their trickery —
secretive close, closemouthed, dark, reticent, tight-mouthed, uncommunicative
trickery artifice, chicane, chicanery, gamesmanship, hanky-panky, jiggery-pokery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, wile
strict — accurate, authentic, exact, faithful, precise, right, rigid, rigorous, stringent
true, veracious,
downcast — bowed, down, downward, lowered
with a hypocritical air — artificial, backhanded, counterfeit, double, double-dealing, double-faced, fake, feigned, insincere, Janus-faced, jive [slang], left-handed, lip, mealy, mealymouthed, Pecksniffian, phony (also phoney), phony-baloney (or phoney-baloney), pretended, two-faced, unctuous
squalid — dirty, filthy, foul
black-clad,
importunate — troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand, acute, burning, clamant, compelling, critical, crying, dire, emergent, exigent, imperative, imperious, instant, necessitous, pressing, urgent
acute, present or experienced to a severe or intense degree
clamant, forcing itself urgently on the attention
emergent, in the process of coming into being or becoming prominent
exigent, pressing; demanding
imperious, assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
necessitous, (of a person) lacking the necessities of life; needy
sad-looking,
miserable — black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched
Cimmerian: very dark or gloomy; any of a mythical people described by Homer as dwelling in a remote realm of mist and gloom
elegiac: expressing sorrow often for something now past
lugubrious: exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful
plutonian: of, relating to, or characteristic of Pluto or the lower world
sepchulchral: of or relating to a place of burial
tenebrific: gloomy. causing gloom or darkness
tenebrous: shut off from the light; hard to understand; causing gloom
with a nautical bent,
plying waterside trades.
Saturn also causes humblings — demure, down-to-earth, lowly, meek, modest, unassuming, unpretentious
sluggishness — crawling, creeping, dallying, dawdling, dilatory, dillydallying, dragging, laggard, lagging, languid, leisurely, poking, poky (or pokey), slow, snail-paced, snaillike, tardy, unhurried
unemployment,
obstacles in business,
interminable lawsuits — dateless, deathless, endless, eternal, everlasting, immortal, permanent, undying, unending
subversion of business — insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, overthrow, overturn, rebellion, revolt, revolution, unrest, uprising, upset
secrets,
imprisonment — commit, confine, immure, incarcerate, intern, jail, jug, lock (up)
chains — something that confines, restrains, or secures
griefs — affliction, anguish, dolefulness, dolor, heartache, heartbreak, sorriness, sorrow, woe
accusations — censure, condemnation, denunciation, finger-pointing, reproach blame, culpability, fault, guilt, onus, rap
tears,
bereavement — absence, lack, need, want deprivation, dispossession, privation
capture — captive, internee, prisoner
exposures of children — liability, openness, vulnerability
Saturn makes serfs (a member of a servile feudal class bound to the land and subject to the will of its owner)
and farmers because of its rule over the land,
and it causes men to be renters of property,
tax farmers,
and violent in action.
It puts into one’s hands great ranks and distinguished positions,
supervisions, management of others’ property,
and the fathership of others’ children.
Of materials, it rules lead,
wood,
and stone.
Of the limbs of the body, it rules the legs,
the knees,
the tendons,
the lymph — a colorless fluid containing white blood cells, which bathes the tissues and drains through the lymphatic system into the bloodstream.
the phlegm — the one of the four humors in early physiology that was considered to be cold and moist and to cause sluggishness
the bladder,
the kidneys,
and the internal, hidden organs.
Saturn is indicative of injuries arising from cold and moisture, such as
dropsy — the swelling of soft tissues due to the accumulation of excess water (edema).
neuralgia — severe, shooting pain that occurs due to a damaged or irritated nerve.
gout: a metabolic disease marked by a painful inflammation of the joints, deposits of urates (a salt of uric acid) in and around the joints, and usually an excessive amount of uric acid in the blood
cough,
dysentery — a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection
hernia — a protrusion of an organ or part (such as the intestine) through connective tissue or through a wall of the cavity (as of the abdomen) in which it is normally enclosed
spasms — an involuntary and abnormal muscular contraction
It is indicative of these syndromes:
possession — the act of having or taking into control; something owned, occupied, or controlled (property)
homosexuality,
and depravity — abjection, corruption, corruptness, debasement, debauchery, decadence, decadency, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demoralization, dissipatedness, dissipation, dissoluteness, libertinage, libertinism, perversion, pervertedness, rakishness, turpitude
Saturn makes bachelors and widows,
bereavements, (see above)
and childlessness.
It causes violent deaths by water,
strangulation,
imprisonment,
or dysentery — a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection
It also causes falling on the face.
It is the star of Nemesis;
it is of the day sect.
It is like castor in color
and astringent in taste — having a sharp or bitter quality
