Purple Saturn

 

Shanivaar is the day of Shani or Saturn, Lord of Karma. The color Saturn is purple. Wearing and meditating on this color increases the highest manifestation of Saturn whose qualities are lies, spiritual darkness, duty, responsibility, practicality, effective time management and work habits...basically all-around drudgery.






Taurus is ruled by Venus who is Saturn’s friend. Saturn is in ninth harmonic. Hindu astrologers say that the 9th harmonic is to the birth chart as the fruit is to the tree from which it grows. It signifies the marriage partner, and can be thought of as the chart of our ideal mate. As the son of the Sun, Saturn’s nature is often expressed in the symbolic world of shadows. It accentuates the nature of the ‘shadow’ and makes the veil covering the soul’s real nature more prominent through its restricting influence. Astrologer Steven Arroyo wrote in Astrology, 'Karma and Transformation' that Saturn’s heat and pressure are needed in order that we develop what Buddhists call the ‘diamond soul’ or ‘diamond body,’ which is their way of saying our fundamental innermost nature.”
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