I am in the middle of reading Stephen Arroyo’s excellent book, Astrology, Karma and Transformation.
Here is the opening sentence of the chapter on Saturn, which starts on page 71.
“Until recent years, the planet Saturn was usually referred to in most astrological books as a “malefic” influence, a dimension of experience that most people would rather not face but which merely had to be endured for no positive purpose whatsoever.”
That is all well and good, except for one minor problem:
That is not what “malefic” means!