Shani (Saturn)
Among the nine grahas, Saturn is the karaka of karma, discipline and justice. It is called the great teacher. It gives the fruit of effort and patience, but slowly. Its touch feels harsh, yet in the end it is entirely fair.
What Saturn signifies
Saturn is the karaka of everything in life that needs effort, time and patience. It governs karma and its results, discipline, responsibility, justice, longevity, service and labour, and detachment. Saturn gives you nothing for free. It settles the full, fair account of what you have done. So where your effort is honest, Saturn rewards it, late but surely.
Saturn strong vs afflicted
When Saturn is strong
- Slow but solid success and name through effort
- Discipline, patience and responsibility
- Long life and firm resolve
- Fair, honest and dependable
When Saturn is afflicted
- Obstacles, delays and repeated effort
- Gloom, isolation and worry
- Bone, joint and nervous-system trouble
- Hurdles at work and delayed results
Signs and nakshatras Saturn rules
Rashis
Nakshatras
Saturn remedies and mantra
To settle and strengthen Saturn, mantra chanting and acts of service are used.
Om Shanaishcharaya Namah
Chant 108 times · most auspicious on Saturday
- Worship Shani or Hanuman and fast on Saturdays
- Donate black sesame, mustard oil and black cloth
- Selfless service to the poor, labourers and the elderly
- Honesty, discipline and keeping your word, the greatest remedy of all
Saturn tools and other grahas
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Saturn rules Capricorn and Aquarius. It is exalted in Libra and debilitated in Aries.
Saturn is the karaka of everything in life that needs effort, time and patience. It governs karma and its results, discipline, responsibility, justice, longevity, service and labour, and detachment. Saturn gives you nothing for free. It settles the full, fair account of what you have done. So where your effort is honest, Saturn rewards it, late but surely.
Saturn's friends are Mercury and Venus, and its enemies are Sun, Moon, Mars.
The mantra for Saturn is "Om Shanaishcharaya Namah", chanted as a remedy.
In the Vimshottari system, Saturn's mahadasha runs for 19 years.
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