This article I read this morning refers to Satan as Saturn, uses the term excess to explain the nature of the Devil, who is traditionally cognate with Satan. Whereas the article is correct in pointing out that all gods are astrological, I think this particular, very traditional attribution is an error, and that Satan is an aspect of Jupiter. Given the limited understanding of moral psychology that the ancients had, we can forgive them for this misattribution, but it will be very beneficial, for the spiritual health of the west, to correct it.
Under Pezers guidance yesterday, I identified Satan not as The Devil, who is indeed related to Saturn, but as a more gregarious form of ‘disobedience to the plan’, which I recognized as Jupiter.
The nature of Jupiter is expansive and his attribute is optimism (‘faith’) and, in the same vein, excess. Saturn is the imprisoner, Jupiter the transgressor. Both are aspects of the all-god, who does not exist, but as which Jupiter is interpreted by silly men. For example, on the morning of 9/11, Jupiter stood at the midheaven above New York, which shocked many astrologers.
Jupiter is the God of Catholicism par excellence - in all its facets. Catholicism was raised up to defeat Saturn, the god of austerity, the law of the least, of the return to ash, of death and separation through rebirth. Saturn as The Devil rather represented poverty sickness and death than material excess, Jupiter, nor Satan, represent these things.
Jupiter is essentially the lusty god of Catholicism. He provides the papal banquets and the love making under the cross, the “madonna mia” that the Italian cries out in during orgasm, and he drives men to give shape to the excesses in the form of the gargoyle-sweating cathedrals of early France, Paris, Orleans, Reims, -
The Devil is dead-serious, Satan is playful, gregarious. Both are aspects of what men mistrust, namely that which goes beyond them what they can not follow all the way - in this sense the Deceiver Neptune is the most dangerous devil, the one who rules over artists, and whose preferred means are beauty, alcohol and opiates. Surviving his devilry requires that one become a philosopher (if there are oppositions to work through) or a sex-master; the Bhagwan is the latter aspiring to the former, which makes of him an erotic-religious inspirator.
The gallery of devils does not end, Venus as Lucifer, Pluto as Hades/Poseidon-Earthshaker, Uranus the Irreverent and Mercury the Trickster are all devils in their own right. But the devil Satan is of all of the the most human, it seems to me now; probably his gregariousness and his ability with excess is of all these rogue forms best suited to man. It seems thus that religion itself (Jupiter brings moral conviction and authority) is the best host to mans transgressive nature - in church, man sins best.
There is much to say for the idea that religion is primarily a matter of sanctifying ‘crime’, transgression, and in this sense, a sound way to be Catholic is to revere Satan. Catholicism has been friendly to Satanism all along. That is not to say that to revere Satan is to be catholic; the term refers, after all, to the totality, for which the Church, the cathedral and the order, stand symbol. But the notion totality is in the end restriction, a Saturnian idea that can not account for excess. The Catholic church is thus properly a combination of Saturn and Jupiter, which accounts for its lasting majesty, and it holds two different devils - one, Saturn, the lord of retribution, and two, Jupiter, the lord of the self-justifying sin.