♄Saturn

Its letter and path

Saturn rides the double letter Beth (ב), on the path that connects Kether ↔ Binah.

Its sphere and correspondences

Its sphere is Binah (בִּינָה) — Understanding, the divine mother, in the world of Briah.

Form, structure, limitation, maturity, deep wisdom through experience.

Further planetary correspondences (day, metal, incense) to be added from source.

Its tarot, in this current

The card on this path is The World. The Golden Dawn places The Magician here instead, having assigned the letter to a different planet.

Its polarity

The letter Beth carries the polarity Life / Death (Sefer Yetzirah §37). The polarity is a property of the letter; Saturn supplies the energy that leans it one way or the other.

In the Sefer Yetzirah

The planetary assignment follows the Chaldean order set out at §§41 and 44; the polarity pair is given at §37 (Hayman critical edition).

Annotated passages to be added.

Related angels

Where the Golden Dawn differs

In this current, Saturn rides Beth (The World). The Golden Dawn moved Saturn to the letter Tav, and reassigned Beth to Mercury ☿ — so on their tree the Beth card became The Magician.