In Astrology Saturn is together with Jupiter the pair that is all about "Society". Some of Saturn's key-words are maturity, responsibility, consistency and commitment. He's all about structure and authority - in politics, religion, companies but also physical structures as buildings or our skeleton and of course also on our mental and emotion plane and that's why he's often perceived as limiting.  Many structures can be widened, restructured or re-invented etc.  

Common sense, integrity, discipline and hard work are more attributes of his - yet, "hard work" doesn't necessarily mean "physical exhaustion" but maybe more like the "commitment" part of it.

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People born under a lot of his influence may appear a bit "reserved" or sincere.

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Planets and all Bodies do change and "evolve" too - around 1851 (depends which sidereal ayanamsa is used) Saturn changed his signs of nodal axis and resides now together with some others on the sidereal Gemini - Sagittarius axis.

Which means, that his themes of  "maturity and structuring" got new "coloring" or way of action.

His "influence" axis is also in sidereal Gemini - Sagittarius, but the earlier degrees, actually it's our Solstice axis and same time aligned with the GEN-axis (Galactic equator crossing the ecliptic points), means he has a lot to do with the "paradigm shift" we're going through (well, they All do)

- maybe we're asked to manifest and structure our life from the "higher mind", the knowing about how the principles of the Universe work on all realms. We're shown truths, realities, revelations  and we shall take it as responsible, mature people - like being the "eye in the storm".

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His nodal axis is under the constellation Lyra (Sagittarius) and over Canis Major (Gemini) and with the Twins, emphasizing on the communication between the cosmic and earthly realms. Beside that, under Canis Major (Sirius) we see the very bright star Canopus, who is the Navigator of the Argo Navis, the ship of the incarnate path....  

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Greek Mythology:

Cronus was the primordial God of time (it needs "time" to give form to any kind of material - literally!!) Cronus is the son of Uranus and Gaia. He did take over the throne from Uranus by castrating him and out of semen that fell into the ocean, Aphrodite was born. Uranus prophesized that Cronus son would take the throne of him - which Jupiter/Zeus did. He wasn't the initiator of all this - it was his mother Gaia...  He and his wife Rhea did rule over the throne, earth during the "golden age". 

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Roman Mythology:

Saturn was the Roman God of growth and agriculture.

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Some Astronomy:

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 times that of Earth. He's the least dense planet in the system, even so he's over 95 times more massive than Earth - they say, he could "float" on water... 

It takes Saturn 10'759 Earth days (or about ​29 1⁄2 years) to finish one revolution around the Sun. As a consequence, it forms a near 5:2 mean-motion resonance with Jupiter.

The elliptical orbit of Saturn is inclined 2.48° relative to the orbital plane of the Earth. 

His rotation rate is only 10.7 hours (he got short days).