Saturn And The Pole
In ancient ritual Saturn appears as the stationary sun or central fire at the north celestial pole.
When Saturn ruled the world, his home was the summit of the world axis: with this point all majortraditions of the great father agree. Even today, in our celebration of Christmas, we live under theinfluence of the polar Saturn. For as Manly P. Hall observes, “Saturn, the old man who lives at the north pole, and brings with him to the children often a sprig of evergreen (the Christmas tree), isfamiliar to the little folks under the name Santa Claus.”
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The home of the great father is the cosmic centre—the “heart,” “midst,” or “navel” of heaven. As theearth rotates on its axis the northern stars wheel around a fixed point. While most stars rise and setlike the sun and moon, the circumpolar stars—those which describe uninterrupted circles about acommon centre—never fall below the horizon. The invisible axis of the earth’s rotation leads directlyto that central point—the celestial pole—around which the heavens visually turn. All of the ancient world looked upon the polar centre as the “middle place,” “resting place,” or “steadfast region” occupied by the Universal Monarch.