Saturn

Saturn has a sidereal orbital period of 29.4571 years, and a synodic orbital period of 378.09 days. It has 1 retrograde period per year for approximately 4½ months

Magic

Power of contraction. Saturn energy is restrictive, disciplined, orderly. The energy of karma, forcing you to see things you do not wish to see. The dark queen who rules through fear. Use Saturn for protective magic, bindings, and shields, for understanding karma, and for manifesting things on your life you need to move on to the next learning (which may be things your ego doesn’t want).

Keywords: Rules, limits, Binding, Structure

Archetypes

• Grain God
• Grim Reaper
• Underworld Goddess
• Destroyer Goddess

Science

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius of about nine and a half times that of Earth. It has only one-eighth the average density of Earth, but is over 95 times more massive.

Saturn's interior is most likely composed of a rocky core, surrounded by a deep layer of metallic hydrogen, an intermediate layer of liquid hydrogen and liquid helium, and finally, a gaseous outer layer. Saturn has a pale yellow hue due to ammonia crystals in its upper atmosphere. An electrical current within the metallic hydrogen layer is thought to give rise to Saturn's planetary magnetic field, which is weaker than Earth's, but which has a magnetic moment 580 times that of Earth due to Saturn's larger size.

Nomenclature

Saturn is named after the Roman god of wealth and agriculture and father of Jupiter. Its astronomical symbol (♄) has been traced back to the Greek Oxyrhynchus Papyri, where it can be seen to be a Greek kappa-rho with a horizontal stroke, as an abbreviation for Κρονος (Cronus), the Greek name for the planet (Saturn symbol (late classical and medieval mss).png). It later came to look like a lower-case Greek eta, with the cross added at the top in the 16th century to Christianize this pagan symbol.

The Romans named the seventh day of the week Saturday, Sāturni diēs ("Saturn's Day"), for the planet Saturn.

Moons

Saturn has 83 known moons, 53 of which have formal names. It is estimated that there are another 100±30 outer irregular moons larger than 3 km (2 mi) in diameter. In addition, there is evidence of dozens to hundreds of moonlets with diameters of 40–500 meters in Saturn's rings, which are not considered to be true moons.

• Titan- the largest moon, comprises more than 90% of the mass in orbit around Saturn, including the rings.
• Rhea - Saturn's second-largest moon, may have a tenuous ring system of its own, along with a tenuous atmosphere.

Planetary Rings

Saturn is probably best known for the system of planetary rings that makes it visually unique. The rings extend from 6,630 to 120,700 kilometers (4,120 to 75,000 mi) outward from Saturn's equator and average approximately 20 meters (66 ft) in thickness. They are composed predominantly of water ice, with trace amounts of tholin impurities and a peppered coating of approximately 7% amorphous carbon. The particles that make up the rings range in size from specks of dust up to 10 m. While the other gas giants also have ring systems, Saturn's is the largest and most visible.

The time required for a given body to return to the same position relative to the stars.

The amount of time required for a given body to return to a given position relative to Earth.