Saturn-Saturn Aspects in Synastry

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If you face any challenge in your relationship, you will find Saturn the best teacher because this planet represents your karma. Saturn can show you that what goes around comes around. Saturn can reveal others will treat you the same way you treat others.

Let’s explore 5 major Saturn-Saturn aspects in synastry and what they mean!

Disclaimer: This article represents a few interpretations among countless interpretations of synastry. I have 900+ synastry aspects in total, so you should check your whole synastry chart instead of one aspect within it.

Saturn Conjunct Saturn Synastry

With Saturn conjunct Saturn synastry, you’re learning the same karmic lessons. You may share traditional values, ambitions, and long-term goals. You can spur each other toward both worldly achievements and spiritual wisdom.

The conjunction of two Saturns can indicate staying power. You both take commitment seriously and are willing to work hard. You can endure challenges, knowing that without challenges, there is no strength. You respect each other’s determination, wisdom, and perseverance.

Saturn-Saturn conjunction is also where you help each other develop important habits. You can push one another to become a mature adult, understanding that with greater power comes with greater responsibility.¹

At the same time, this synastry aspect can feel heavy. You can be overly serious and emotionally guarded. There can be a sense of restriction and detachment in this bond.

Saturn Sextile Saturn Synastry

With Saturn sextile Saturn synastry, you can share outlooks about work, responsibilities, and self-discipline. You’re both willing to work hard, though you may have slightly different work styles.

There should be no hurried timelines. Yours is a sustainable, long-view partnership, weathering both opportunity and scarcity. You appreciate that time alone brings self-reflection, just as time together cultivates depth. “Let each stage of the relationship come”, you say. “We will mind all the seasons”.

You can respect each other’s privacy and boundaries. You can steady one another without too much ego. You can share Saturnian karmic lessons, which teach you profound wisdom gained from life experiences.

This seal of Saturn bestows mutual trust and resilience. You are oak and ivy, nourishing one another through tough times. You are focused and patient to make things happen.

You can also easily discuss serious matters and offer practical advice. You honor each other’s morality and integrity.

Saturn Square Saturn Synastry

Saturn square Saturn synastry can indicate you have different karmic lessons. What you’ve gained in wisdom may not apply to your partner.

You may see each other as a restrictive force, blocking what you want in life. Your partner’s street rules may clash with your compassionate standards, for example. Your moral principles may not match.

The relationship may lack affection and fun. You may regard each other as stubborn, pessimistic, and cold.

But coldness isn’t bad, because coldness can store food longer in the fridge. Similarly, your partner’s strict boundaries aren’t negative; they’re meant to make this relationship positive and long-lasting.

Saturn represents the past, so you both have to overcome the yesterday version of yourselves to move to a better future.

Saturn Trine Saturn Synastry

Saturn trine Saturn synastry can be a soulmate aspect because it suggests longevity. You may share approaches toward duty, loyalty, and commitment.

You’ll come to appreciate each other’s forbearance. You can find your partner an attentive audience for any depression you face. You’re both disciplined when working toward shared goals. Your long-term ambitions likely match your partner’s.

No stage of the relationship can confuse you because you have the strength of character to weather all seasons together. You harvest and hibernate; prune away excess and watch green shoots of patience arise. You practice savings for winter’s bites and enjoy the journey instead of the destination.

You may learn the same Saturnian karmic lessons. You can gain from each other’s wisdom while remaining humble about your differences.

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Saturn Opposite Saturn Synastry

Saturn opposite Saturn synastry is like a karmic mirror – you can see your weaknesses in your partner reflected at you. Saturn represents the past, so you can learn to treat the past version of yourself with greater compassion.

But Saturn is usually rigid, so you can be too strict toward each other. You may not be willing to see yourself in your partner’s mistakes.

You may have different approaches toward work and commitment. You may disagree about career choices, financial management, or family responsibilities. Your relationship may overly focus on security, and this can come at the expense of fun and spontaneity.

But you are opposites balancing the wheel of wholeness—you limit as your partner grows; you draw lines as they remove unnecessaries. Neither can conceive the other’s truth. So you may clash in misunderstanding, needing yet rejecting each other’s wisdom.

1. A popular proverb in Spider-Man in Marvel comics ↩︎