A significant portion of younger people in the astrological community dread their Saturn Return. By age 28-29, Saturn completes his first revolution returning to his starting position and evaluates whether or not you have adequately matured and pulled something together. If you haven’t, remedial situations ensue. Lessons of responsibility, duty, and discipline will be served unrelentingly. This is why you don’t bet on a horse with Saturn in the 5th. It is highly likely that the horse will have insufficient discipline to win on the racetrack (5th). Enough of the dread for the placement of your Saturn. It’s time to turn that story around.
We can attain mastery. That is what Saturn is really about. His special form of nurturing is heaps of discipline allowing us to face reality squarely. No hiding behind mom’s apron. Saturn is the trial master and when you project him, he puts you through your paces. When you act out your own Saturn, you are a Master of Trials. Acting as Saturn means you internalize discipline. Saturn rules the zodiac sign Capricorn and his natural house is the 10th. The likelihood you are here to play Saturn for others is more likely as a Capricorn Ascendant, Capricorn Sun, or Capricorn Moon. You will know you are acting as Saturn because you will have tremendous discipline. Your peers think you are too serious. For the serious, you are likely a Master of the Trials. For the rest, Saturn will be your trial master. I’d wish you luck but Saturn doesn’t play that game.
Saturn’s house placement can represent the place you face trials or where you are the most accomplished. Saturn in the 5th is Saturn on a racetrack. The 5th house is playgrounds of all types. Secretariat is the fastest horse who ever won the Triple Crown. His records still stand on all three courses. Absorb that for a moment. Secretariat has beaten not just his race but every horse that has ever raced at the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes. He is not just a member of the Triple Crown club but the fastest of all the Triple Crowns and stakes winners. He is the Triple Crown Master. At the Belmont, he beat the next fastest horse by 31 lengths. That’s astonishing. There is a famous photo of the jockey looking back at the rest of the horses as Secretariat is still speeding away. Whenever you see something like this, the superb performance, you are looking at Saturn. This is clearly a Saturn and Mars combination. The surprise is they are in Taurus the slowest zodiac sign.
Secretariat’s birth chart has Saturn and Mars in the 5th but Capricorn in the 1st. Themes in ones life often are written multiple times in the birth chart and this is one of those. Saturn and Mars. Capricorn, ruled by Saturn, is in Mars’ natural house. Saturn and Mars are loosely conjunct working together in another house both ruled by Ceres. Saturn represents your father and his was Bold Ruler.
Secretariat’s mother, the moon, is also highlighted. The secondary astrological writing in his chart is the Moon in the 1st house and Aries in the 4th house. Moon and Mars. The Moon represents the mother and her natural house is the 4th. Somethingroyal, his dam, was the daughter of Princeaquillo. Princeaquillo was the second best long distance racer in American history and the likely source of Secretariat’s large heart muscle. His beautiful physical performance is the Capricorn Moon in the 1st. His physical form, his body the 1st house, was his mother (Moon) through her father’s (Capricorn) line. His performance on the racetrack (5th house) was his father (Taurus Saturn ruled by his speedy Pisces Ceres in the 3rd house of short travel). Boldruler was an American Champion Sprinter.
Secretariat’s main rival Sham was his own half first cousin through Princeaquillo. It was the combination of Boldruler and Princequillo’s daughter, Somethingroyal, that created Secretariat but it was because of Mastery that this combination worked so well. Saturn is not the planet to bet on in the 5th house because the vast majority of the time he is acting to discipline the native. But sometimes, he is there to show us his Golden Age. Only Saturn can produce something so magnificent we remember it seemingly forever. He has all the time in the world and so he only shows us what he can really do very rarely. The rest of the time, he is putting us through our paces. Saturn is the ultimate trainer because he is the Master. By the time you would bet on a Master Saturn in the 5th, so will everyone else.