Jupiter-Saturn

Jupiter-Saturn combines the heights of Jupiter with the grounding of Saturn, the "ups" of Jupiter with the "downs" of Saturn, the ideals of Jupiter with the realities of Saturn.

As such this combination is associated with the “hard growth,” and the growth (Jupiter) that has a sober slow pace (Saturn). Thus The Jupiter-Saturn combination can show up as success (Jupiter) that is well structured (Saturn) because of the element of time (Saturn) and/or hard labor (Saturn) and hardship (Saturn) that preceded it. Another way this combination can show up is a nature of reserved restraint (Saturn) regarding celebrations (Jupiter).

Below are examples of famous people born with this combination in their natal charts (natal chart is another word for astrological birth chart, or pictographic representation of the sky when they were born). When we witness how this combination shows up in the lives of others, we can become more self-aware of how this combination shows up in our own lives. The more we are conscious of the ways astrological alignments (otherwise known as “aspects”) show up in our lives, the more the archetypal tensions involved can become integrated in our lives, thus revealing inherent strengths to us.

Please note that the tension of this archetypal combination, as illustrated in the lives and creations of the famous people in the examples below, may be demonstrated in ways that are more integrated or less integrated.

 

  • Author J.K. Rowling, who was born with this combination in her birth chart, demonstrates this combination in the fact that before her career expanded to the point where she became one of the wealthiest authors in the world, she began her writing career while a single mother raising her daughter on welfare. Thus the Jupiter-Saturn combination here shows up as expansion and abundance (Jupiter) preceded by sobering constraints (Saturn).

  • The Jupiter-Saturn combination often shows up as the meeting of the ups (Jupiter) and downs (Saturn), and the expansion (Jupiter) and contraction (Saturn) at the same time. The life of Barrack Obama demonstrates this dynamic; at the same time that Obama won the United States presidential election he also lost his maternal grandmother, whom he was very close to. Tom Hanks exemplifies this dynamic in the movie Castaway, a movie that celebrates (Jupiter) the struggles and solitude (Saturn) of a castaway stranded on an island. At the moment when the castaway accesses the larger world (Jupiter) by leaving his island he experiences the loss (Saturn) of his “friend” Wilson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaQa4ttIyNo

 

  • The Jupiter-Saturn combination in the chart and life of Sigmund Freud can be seen in the following quotes joining themes of Saturnian negation with Jupiter’s expansive success: “Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.” “From error to error one discovers the entire truth.” “Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.”

 

  • The Jupiter-Saturn combination in the chart of James Comey can be seen in the joining of commitment (Saturn) with high ideals (Jupiter) in the title of his book "A Higher Loyalty."

  • Levon Helm, drummer and vocalist for the rock and roll group “The Band,” demonstrates the Jupiter-Saturn in his natal chart, with the pathos in which he sings the song, “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.” The song chronicles the defeat of the souther confederate states in the United States Civil War. This video performance captures the way in which the song celebrates (Jupiter) defeat (Saturn): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dDbnwQlCek

  • The Jupiter-Saturn combination in the chart of Charles Dickens can be seen in his famous line from A Tale of Two Cities, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

  • The Jupiter-Saturn combination can show up as the ability to expand (Jupiter) upon oneself by describing what one is not (Saturn). This quality can be observed in the song “Artsy” by rapper The Grouch, who was born with the Jupiter-Saturn combination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCHV2I_Xog0

  • Musician Bob Dylan, who was born with this combination in his natal chart, demonstrates a quality of this combination in his song Like A Rolling Stone. In it he chronicles the fall (Saturn) of someone born into a rich, high class (Jupiter) family into a life of poverty (Saturn). In this example Saturn shows up as a corrective reality check to Jupiterian tendencies to overly indulge in a sense of entitlement to luxury.

  • The Jupiter-Saturn combination in the natal chart of chemist Albert Hofmann, inventor of LSD, can be seen in the way the chemical compound he is celebrated for (Jupiter) lead to a series of Saturnian consequences, such as harmful misuse and its condemnation by the law (Saturn).

  • Bernie Taupin, lyric collaborator for musician Elton John, who was born with the Jupiter-Saturn combination in his natal chart, demonstrates this archetypal dynamic through the lyrics to the song “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” in which he expresses his desire to say goodbye to a life of fame and excess (Jupiter) so that he can return to a simple rustic and traditional (Saturn) life:

When are you gonna come down?

When are you going to land?

I should have stayed on the farm

I should have listened to my old man

You know you can't hold me forever

I didn't sign up with you

I'm not a present for your friends to open

This boy's too young to be singing

The blues, ah, ah

So goodbye yellow brick road

Where the dogs of society howl

You can't plant me in your penthouse

I'm going back to my plough

Back to the howling old owl in the woods

Hunting the horny back toad

Oh, I've finally decided my future lies

Beyond the yellow brick road

Ah, ah

What do you think you'll do then?

I bet they'll shoot down the plane

It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics

To set you on your feet again

Maybe you'll get a replacement

There's plenty like me to be found

Mongrels who ain't got a penny

Sniffing for tidbits like you

On the ground, ah, ah

So goodbye yellow brick road

Where the dogs of society howl

You can't plant me in your penthouse

I'm going back to my plough

Back to the howling old owl in the woods

Hunting the horny back toad

Oh, I've finally decided my future lies

Beyond the yellow brick road

Ah, ah