The Saturn

Saturn is the slowest moving planet because it takes about two and a half years or so to pass through each constellation of the sidereal zodiac and completes the round of the zodiac in thirty years, represents hard work, sorrow, old men, servants and the lower level workers, people in the iron, mineral, oil and steel industry, municipality and drainage works. It is typically described as the bringer of grief and misery in life, A well placed Saturn can bestow excellent power, prestige, name and fame and a badly placed Saturn can devastate you. Saturn is the son of the Sun by his wife Chaya or shadow. Saturn is cold and dry, lethargic and an elderly planet. Saturn is sad, morose, and presides over the left leg. It is associated with the principles of limitation, restrictions, boundaries, reality, crystallizing and structures.
Saturn is worshipped by individuals going through a "bad" phase in their life. Saturn aspects three signs, the 3rd, 7th and 10th signs from its own position. Saturn destroys the house it occupies (except if positioned in the seventh house, where it receives directional strength) and any houses it aspects or any planet it conjoins or aspects.
The Saturn Mass 5.6846×1026 kg Surface area 4.27×1010 km2 Surface Temperature 82 K min. Distance from earth 1.2 billion km Vedic astrology Nature Servant Exalted Libra Debilitated Aries Friends Venus, Mercury Enemies Sun, Moon, Mars Body Part Nerves Mahadasha 19 Year Gem Blue sapphire Numerology 8 Mantra Om sham shanesharaya namah