Glossary · graha
Shani
Also written Saturn
Shani is Saturn — the slowest and most demanding of the visible planets, and the one most misunderstood. It is not malevolent so much as exacting: the lord of time, labour, discipline, delay and consequence. What Shani gives, it gives slowly and only when earned — and what it gives tends to last.
It signifies hardship that matures a person, old age, servants and the marginalised, the joints and the bones, and patience itself. Its long transits — the seven-and-a-half-year Sade Sati most of all — are watched closely; the tradition reads them descriptively, as seasons of testing and structure rather than punishment.
Saturn takes about two and a half years per sign and rules the nakshatras Pushya, Anuradha and Uttara Bhadrapada.
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