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Saturn, in my opinion, represents the key to understanding the connection between the humans that make history and the planets that mirror it. Saturn's near thirty-year orbit best reflects human generations. Better yet, it represents those generations across time. Thirty years represents different things to a hunter-gatherer and a post-modern city-dweller, respectively. Thirty years also holds different meanings to women and men as well. Whether we are speaking three thousand years ago, however, or three hundred, Saturn still works as a collaboration device whose standard remains constant across time. 
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<h2>Saturn and the Human Growth Cycle</h2>
Saturn connects to humanity by more than mere generational coincidence. The diagram below, consistent with the wave model we already use, shows where human growth and Saturn merge.
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The first quarter of the Saturn cycle equates to the years between birth and seven years. This important portion of a human's holds different meanings according to culture. In the modern world, this time prepares a child for school and life outside the home; in a hunter-gatherer society a child must be proficient enough to not act as a burden to their clan. We see here how though the time span is the same, that the reality varies according to social circumstance.
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A fourteen year-old girl in the Middle Ages will have different concerns and responsibilities than one in our time, but fourteen years always marks the halfway point of a Saturn cycle. Seen in this way, we can see how Saturn measures <em>reality.</em> For a fourteen year old girl the reality varies according to standards of the time. Reality deals with what happens in the physical world at a particular time of measurement. Though what we sense as real varies over time we can still measure what is real through understanding Saturn.
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<h2>Saturn and Carrying Capacity</h2>
Saturn and its connection to generations also relates to carrying capacity. If a culture only has citizens that live a little longer than one Saturn cycle, that culture will not have the capacity to produce much. If, on the other hand, a culture with those who can live three Saturn cycles and beyond implies a society with carrying capacity well past subsistence levels. Presence of octogenarians suggests a society that can afford to support senior citizens; one that supports a marketplace that does not require great deals of physical labor; and one, by extension, where can make a living through intellect. This last insinuates another characteristic consummate with more advanced societies : that the wisdom of older citizens passes down through all levels of society through philosophy, education or inventions. Societies that can afford to support these "extra" citizens produces those like Jung, Einstein and Leibniz. In turn, they move society forward, creating more ways to help the collective improve itself.
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All these factors show Saturn ties into carrying capacity and the reality each generation sees. How and if a collective 
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<h2>Saturn and Regional Influence</h2>
Saturn also points to regional influence. How a generation goes through life depends much on regional considerations as well. A generation that lives in a desert, lives differently than one in the forest. This distinction may letter less in our post-modern world, but in previous periods with less mobile populations, this consideration will mean more. 
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<h2>Saturn and Personal Transits</h2>
A transit occurs whenever a planet interacts with another planet or a point in space. A personal transit occurs when a planet interacts with a position (typically a planet) in a natal chart. Saturn's orbit, already proved as being connected to the human condition, also factors in as a standard indicator throughout one's lifetime. 