Also called: Annulus Saturni

Where on the hand: Benham: it "rises between the fingers of Jupiter and Saturn, encircles the finger of Saturn, and terminates between the finger of Saturn and Apollo." It cuts completely across the Mount of Saturn.

What it looks like: A perfect semicircle around the base of the middle finger; or two lines crossing on the Mount of Saturn; or an incomplete arc whose two ends show it was meant to be a ring.

Benham: "a disposition to jump from one occupation to another, and not to stick to any one long enough to make it successful." The ring blocks the Saturn mount's beneficial qualities — wisdom, seriousness, steadiness. It is also read as pessimism, morbidity, melancholy and a preoccupation with death.

Western reading: Benham's chapter on the Ring of Saturn; he reported observing it frequently on the hands of prisoners and of people who had attempted suicide.

Read with care: Benham's observation that he saw this ring frequently on the hands of prisoners and of people who had attempted suicide is a nineteenth-century anecdotal claim with no evidential standing, and repeating it to a person could do real harm. The "preoccupation with death" reading belongs to the same era. Present the ring's mitigations, not its verdicts. RECONCILED. The Western reading of the Ring of Saturn is negative (it blocks the mount: pessimism, morbidity, preoccupation with death). An Indian minority reading takes it as a mark of occult capacity. Both are recorded; they are not the same claim, and the Western one is the majority position. Note also that the 'only the Ring of Solomon is read as positive' rule stated elsewhere has at least three exceptions in this reference.

rises between the fingers of Jupiter and Saturn, encircles the finger of Saturn, and terminates between the finger of Saturn and Apollo.Benham

a disposition to jump from one occupation to another, and not to stick to any one long enough to make it successful.Benham