Saturn: The People's Planet

Saturn represents people. Famous people. Normal people. Abnormal people. Abnormal people who rule other people and kill millions of other people. People you will never hear of. People long gone. People yet to come. Saturn represents human life and human life=people.

Saturn plays a central place in Measuring History for various reasons:

• It defines the end of our visible-by-eye solar system; Saturn is the last planet visible to the naked eye
• Saturn’s orbit closely parallels the human growth cycle as in one Saturn orbit equals one human generation.
• Saturn waves (Saturn-Uranus, Saturn-Neptune, Saturn-Pluto) have an apparent trigger effect that ties the inter-century events connected with the three more outer planets to intra-century events on which history always turn.

The Physical Limits of Saturn’s Orbit

For centuries, Saturn, for good reason, defined the edge of our solar system: the planets beyond Saturn cannot be see with the naked eye. The distance Uranus orbits around the Sun explains why. The distance between Saturn and Uranus, the next planet after Saturn,  closely equals the distance between the Sun and Saturn. From another perspective, the distance between the two equals on visible solar system, a span of six planetary orbits. In this way Saturn represents a physical limit connected to our humanness. Saturn represents what humans can see without any assistance or technology. View this fact as important for two related reasons. To see beyond Saturn took knowledge accumulated to invent telescopes and practice astronomy. To sse Uranus requires all of the knowledge accrued over centuries that resulted in telescope technology and the mathematics required to discover Uranus and place it as part of our solar system.

Saturn distance from Sun: 1,429,400,000 kms
Uranus distance Sun: 2,870,990,000 kms
Difference: 1,441,590,000

    Seen another way, the discover of Uranus  required  millions of cumulative years of experience. Before Uranus' discovery, Saturn's orbit represented the limit of our knowledge and technology, a physical limit (by eye) that showed how far humanity developed. This statement does not dismiss “pre-Uranian” technology. It brought the world to the point where Copernicus had the foundation to present his “Laws of Motion” and Galileo could peer at Jupiter's moon. Those developments appeared a century before William Herschel located Uranus in 1781, but the combination of both made its discovery inevitable. Copernicus and Galileo led to much more than a better understanding of our solar system. Rather they helped, unintentionally, end European theocracy. Thus, Uranus and the steps that lead knowledge of it, obviously related, already begins to tell us quite a lot. 
    Uranus came into view as Europe rested between revolutions, revolutions based on the idea of individuality and government representation. These concepts not only indicate a leap in how people saw themselves, but the how societies reached that point has much to do with the mindset that led to the location of a new planet, helping us more clearly define the “border” Saturn defines. From the 1780s forward Europe also moved through an Industrial Revolution that ramifies down to our time. How that came into being also points to cultures moving beyond Saturn. 
    After Uranus thought and culture turned noticeably more complex. The American Declaration of Independence used the words of John Locke, a philosopher. Philosophy played a major role in the French Revolution that moved the middle-class into political and economic power. The last revolution, in particular, that the established ways of governance and diplomacy, primogeniture, feudalism, dynastic diplomacy, to name a few, could no longer keep pace with the needs of societies that increasingly depended on machines more than physical labor. National leaders counted on engineers and accountants as much as generals. One can without equivocation note that cultures would only turn more technical, industrial and secular. Within a hundred years of Herschel's discovery the world had turned truly global. A more interconnected world requires support systems the pre-Uranus could no longer provide. Moving beyond Saturn's physical limits meant humanity moved past limits that Saturn represents. 

Saturn and Human Growth Patterns:

[Saturn 0-30 diagram here]

The diagram compares the human growth process from the ages 0-30 segmented by quadrature alignments. Working from left to right the wave begins with Saturn's position at birth. Its endpoint is near age 30 when Saturn reaches the same position it was at birth, a Saturn return. The quadrature alignments appear at ages, 0, 6-7. 14-15. 21-22, 28-29. When seen through these divisions, we see the human life according to these segments

•	0-6: Early growth and cognitive development. Considered the most critical development stage, a person moves from infant through toddler through school age in modern societies. In all societies the child spends a majority of the their time with at least one parent, especially from ages 0-3
•	7-14: From childhood to puberty. Children in modern societies begin their first forays from the nest, with a good amount of time away from parental oversight, but still under supervision. In hunter-gatherer societies children  already have intimate knowledge of what is edible and contribute to the gathering process. This is also the period where children mature sexually on a physical level; by 14 humans can produce children and could already be married in some cultures across history; levels of physical maturity vary from individual, but we can be certain that the brain has not fully developed yet
•	15-21: Here the “child” loses all vestiges of childhood and moves to early adulthood. The body takes full adult form, while the brain does not reach full physical development until age 25; along with physical maturity comes the need and desire to define oneself as individual; balance between personal freedom and familial oversight could arise; and of course, issues of life or death can arise because teenagers can also produce children; in societies where fertility rates are low, families will push for offspring; in modern societies this ability acts as a disadvantage to many
22-29: Despite outside appearance the human body still matures, not reaching complete physical maturity until the average of 27. Around that age cell-growth reaches its peak, on average the body begins to lose more cells than it creates from now until about age 60 (the rate of decay accelerates after that); at or around 30, when Saturn returns to its position at an individual's birth, all societies expect a citizen to act responsibility; in most cases individuals at this age have begun or think about starting families.

    More than any other planet, Saturn represents the human condition, its limits and possibilities. For those familiar with astrology, Saturn’s connection with the limits comes with little surprise. Within the discipline of measuring history, this characterization takes on greater importance. The diagram above, explained below, details why, but to summarize Saturn's connection to the human growth remains consistent across the ages.
    
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Parents have different concerns for children based on their gender. Girls approach life with different concerns. Society's expectation diverge according to gender. Saturn's orbit, as seen in wave form, takes these differences into account. Yet, Saturn appears at the same position for women and men across time at each of life's turning points. In short, Saturn's orbit measures generations objectively across time. Again, we see another instance of the traditional definition of Saturn's connection to borders and limits holding up to scrutiny.
    The body, seen through the connection to human growth, represents the first limit. Our bodies come with built in programs to grow sexually active at puberty, obtain peak cell growth near age twenty-seven, and accelerate cellular decay after the second Saturn return (about age 58). Because people make societies, all cultures operate within the confines that Saturn mirrors. They operate on the knowledge that men and boys act differently toward women and girls depending on what side of puberty they fall under. How cultures either legislate or condone certain behaviors related to pubescence differs according to need. Hunter-gatherer and agrarian societies required earlier procreation. Agrarian ones needed more labor, placing different needs on women. Of course, everyone matures at various rates, some earlier, some later. History, a study of general humanity only concerns itself with the general standard rather than specific episodes. Besides, everyone compares her/himself to the physical milestones we all pass through.
    Society also limits us according to our physical milestones. Today's societies expect children to enter school by ages 6-7. Youthful behavior, tolerated to certain ages, is condemned after say age 30. 

	

Saturn & Unpredictability

As we have seen in other cases, measuring history mirrors the irony of human life. With Saturn, we get the seeming incongruous combination of human limitation and human unpredictability. Above we established how Saturn represents boundaries, restrictions and limitations that we can equate to the human condition. But limitations do not disallow any actions, they simply define rules under which we must proceed. Nor do these boundaries define how any life proceeds. They may map out when decision points arise, but human decisions always contain  too many variables. I speak here beyond the fickle behavior people can exhibit, though we should not dismiss this characteristic. Think more of how a pregnancy, an untimely death or sudden illness can change the course of events and we see how Saturn’s representation of people in the art of measuring history ironically introduces the serendipitous nature of life through a planet we have proved most closely related to structure and predictability.

Saturn Waves

Saturn’s tie to reality carries through to the next stage of complexity: Saturn in combination with the next three outer planets, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto helps us measure how the inter-century of the three outer planet waves, Uranus-Pluto, Uranus-Neptune and Neptune-Pluto tie into intra-century events. Whenever, we see a major turning point connected to a quadrate of one these three waves, we see how a Saturn-Uranus, Saturn-Neptune or Saturn-Pluto wave fills in the details. For instance, the 1992-1993 Uranus-Neptune  conjunction ushered in new paradigms as did the previous ones near 1308, 1478, 1650  and 1821, but the conjunction of Saturn to Uranus and Neptune in 1988 and 1989 adds the character of the Fall of the Berlin Wall into the picture. Time after time the three outer planet waves relate to the big picture, but the Saturn waves paint the
strokes that fill in the details.

Saturn Waves Defined

Saturn-Uranus: 46 years
Saturn-Neptune  36 years
Saturn-Pluto: 31/38 years

People Make History

That people make history points to the reason we can measure it. Astrologers employ planets to represent a native by time. Each of these charts can include the outer planets that we have seen so far produce patterns against we can measure history. One of the keys to the practice comes from understanding how Saturn represents human characteristics, limitations and realities. We just learned that Saturn waves connect the inter-century events of Uranus and Neptune waves to intra-century events where the concepts of the three outer waves play out in flesh and blood. Saturn transits, predictable as the cycles related to it the planet always are, glues all we have discussed so far together. We can see why quite clearly in a few examples.
	A native born with Saturn conjunct Neptune goes through her/his Saturn return with transiting Saturn conjunct both natal Saturn and Neptune. By extension, every time Saturn appears at a quadrature alignment in relation to its position at birth, it also will in appear in quadrature alignment, in this case, Neptune. What makes these occurrences more compelling comes with the knowledge that quadrature alignments of Saturn to its natal position appear at the turning points common to all: puberty, middle-age, old-age etc., line up with Saturn transits to itself at 0, 90, 180 and 360 degrees.  So for those born Saturn in a quadrature alignment to a other outer planets, when Saturn reaches landmarks through which we all pass, the historical periods that outer planets represent, their themes become personal.

Descartes

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This led to a number of agricultural revolutions that literally began to alter all of Earth''s ecosystems. At the same time it set a trend of extending lifespans beyond the thirty plus years of the average hunter/gatherer. Many Egyptian engineers, merchants, priests and royalty lived well into their sixties some two thousand years after the Agricultural Revolution of 4545bceNeptune-Pluto4042bce. This means that generations upon generations set up a new matrix impossible under times of less cultivation. Carrying capacity had expanded to at least two Saturn returns. Likewise, society had moved beyond purely agrarian motivations to where members built elaborate monuments to carry celebrants safely into the afterlife. Life had progressed to the point that people could contemplate about abstract concepts such as afterlife as much as they could survival.   Let us carry this forward to ((Isaac Newton))''s time. His time featured the transition from medieval to modern times . Certainly, his claim to fame has little to do with agriculture, but his life tells us much about carrying capacity and the generations of Saturn. Newton (4 January 1643 - March 31, 1727) lived to be eighty-four, equivalent to three Saturn returns. His work moved the ma thematic and scientific (in fact, finely defining it) past Plato and and Aristotle. But his work would have meant nothing in a vacuum. Newton''s work implies the carrying capacity that both preceded him and supported him throughout his lifetime. Here we instead of pyramids we speak of abstract formulas and highly reformed methods that help us see and manipulate the world to a level unavailable to humans for millions of years until his time. But we also speak of university buildâ€Œings and classes, along with students and the parents that supported them. Supporting these include a network of merchants and farmers, pirates, lawyers and priests, all necessary elements a society that can support universities and the schools that feed students to them. In addition, Newton had an adversary, Liebniz, who too represented his network of capacity enablers that allowed him the time to develop his cornucopia of ideas.!!Comparing Like Capacities    In no way can we compare the carrying capacity of England and France to that of ancient Egypt, yet look how Saturn''s orbit remain valid in all cases. Saturn orbits to human lives in the time of the pyramids comes in at around two or so for the highly supported, the educated. By Newton''s time it had expanded to around three. In addition, human capability during these Saturn-measured periods had changed from the marvels of pyramids to the verge of manipulation down to the atomic level. As human longevity grows so do the number of people who live with more and more Saturn returns. With this growth we should expect a higher level of what the public can understand and accomplish.!!Post-Modern Capacity    Throughout all of 1893Neptune-Pluto2384 the relationship between Saturnine generations and carrying capacity takes on new meaning. Lifespans growing ever longer represents an opposite problem than during any other Neptune-Pluto wave: too many people living too long and too comfortably threatens our existence. 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This different view of Saturn gives it a broader meaning when seen as part of an outer planet wave pairing. As we see over and over again, measuring history helps us see our pasts (and futures) from a perspective unavailable through conventional means.<br /><a name=''Changes_over_Time''></a><h2>Changes over Time</h2>How humans influence carrying capacity changes over time. Hunter/gatherers for hundreds of thousands of years remained at the mercy of climate and environment. They altered the equation by determining what plants they could cultivate to produce a more consistent dietary supply. This led to a number of agricultural revolutions that literally began to alter all of Earth''s ecosystems. At the same time it set a trend of extending lifespans beyond the thirty plus years of the average hunter/gatherer. Many Egyptian engineers, merchants, priests and royalty lived well into their sixties some two thousand years after the Agricultural Revolution of 4545bceNeptune-Pluto4042bce. This means that generations upon generations set up a new matrix impossible under times of less cultivation. Carrying capacity had expanded to at least two Saturn returns. Likewise, society had moved beyond purely agrarian motivations to where members built elaborate monuments to carry celebrants safely into the afterlife. Life had progressed to the point that people could contemplate about abstract concepts such as afterlife as much as they could survival.<br /><br />Let us carry this forward to Isaac Newton<a href="tiki-editpage.php?page=Isaac+Newton" title="Create page: Isaac+Newton"  class="wiki wikinew">?</a>''s time. His time featured the transition from medieval to modern times . Certainly, his claim to fame has little to do with agriculture, but his life tells us much about carrying capacity and the generations of Saturn. Newton (4 January 1643 - March 31, 1727) lived to be eighty-four, equivalent to three Saturn returns. His work moved the ma thematic and scientific (in fact, finely defining it) past Plato and and Aristotle. But his work would have meant nothing in a vacuum. Newton''s work implies the carrying capacity that both preceded him and supported him throughout his lifetime. Here we instead of pyramids we speak of abstract formulas and highly reformed methods that help us see and manipulate the world to a level unavailable to humans for millions of years until his time. But we also speak of university buildâ€Œings and classes, along with students and the parents that supported them. Supporting these include a network of merchants and farmers, pirates, lawyers and priests, all necessary elements a society that can support universities and the schools that feed students to them. In addition, Newton had an adversary, Liebniz, who too represented his network of capacity enablers that allowed him the time to develop his cornucopia of ideas.<br /><a name=''Comparing_Like_Capacities''></a><h2>Comparing Like Capacities</h2>    In no way can we compare the carrying capacity of England and France to that of ancient Egypt, yet look how Saturn''s orbit remain valid in all cases. Saturn orbits to human lives in the time of the pyramids comes in at around two or so for the highly supported, the educated. By Newton''s time it had expanded to around three. In addition, human capability during these Saturn-measured periods had changed from the marvels of pyramids to the verge of manipulation down to the atomic level. As human longevity grows so do the number of people who live with more and more Saturn returns. With this growth we should expect a higher level of what the public can understand and accomplish.<br /><a name=''Post_Modern_Capacity''></a><h2>Post-Modern Capacity</h2>    Throughout all of 1893Neptune-Pluto2384 the relationship between Saturnine generations and carrying capacity takes on new meaning. Lifespans growing ever longer represents an opposite problem than during any other Neptune-Pluto<a href="tiki-editpage.php?page=Neptune-Pluto" title="Create page: Neptune-Pluto" class="wiki wikinew">?</a> wave: too many people living too long and too comfortably threatens our existence. At the same all peoples have the capacity to understand the situation and even

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