The moment a planet stops before changing direction, either into or out of retrograde. Its themes sit at their most concentrated because the planet is barely moving. A station holds a single degree of the zodiac for days at a time, so whatever a chart carries at that degree gets an unusually long contact.
A transit that perfects near a station outlasts the same contact made at full speed: the orb barely changes for a week, so the reading holds rather than passes.
a pause, a turning point, and a theme held still long enough to be noticed.
Saturn stationing on a natal Sun is the slowest and heaviest version of that contact there is.
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