THE last symbol for Saturn, the ring, derives from the famous rings of the planets.
When people wed according to European tradition, they place rings on each other’s left hands.
It is a promise that they are bonded and restricted to just one another.
Saturn is astrologically exalted in the sign of marriage and partnership, hence its connection to the institution of marriage. 
In fact, all institutions are believed to be under the rulership of Saturn.
Every institution has a set of rules and traditions that should not be broken and are associated with keeping the established status.
Saturn is therefore associated with an authoritarianism that yields autocracy and disastrous dictatorship.
This is how it is related to the ominous number 13 card of the Tarot.
For this reason, everything with number 13 has become associated with ill-luck or disaster.
In medieval England, for example, the standard fee of the hangman was 13 pence — a shilling and a penny.
Indeed the death card has become the most feared and at the same time the most misunderstood of all the cards in the Tarot deck.
Just the mention of the card’s name has made some people wet their pants, all because the meaning of this card has been taken too literally when in fact the same card of death can be one of the most fruitful and positive cards in the deck.
Why do people fear death anyway?
Where is the fear coming from?
Only those who see death as extinction have a reason to fear death.
Those who understand death to be one of the many rites of passage on man’s eternal sojourn need not fear death.
In Africa-centred metaphysics, death is symbolic of the ending of a major phase of your life which ushers the beginning of something far more valuable and important.
You must close one door in order to open another, mustn’t you?
You need to put the past behind you and be ready to embrace new opportunities and possibilities.
People who resist these necessary conduits to higher realms of existence are the ones who experience pain, both emotionally and physically.
Those who are conscious of the metaphysical possibilities of death welcome it as a positive, cleansing, transformative force of their lives.
To this end, number 13 is not an unfortunate number in Africa-centred metaphysics as is often supposed.
It has become so firmly associated with the notion of ‘bad luck’ that it is easy to forget the fact that in the ancient African religion 13 was the characteristic number of participants in many orders and occult groups, including sacred meals, a practice re-enacted in the size of the original Nazarene Last Supper.
And it can be clearly demonstrated that 13 is the most fortunate number for Africans, African-Americans, and people of African descent the world over.
The US has recognised the efficacy of this great number in symbology.
It started with 13 colonies.
Its first national flag had 13 stars and even today it still has 13 stripes.
On the green side of the dollar bill there are 13 steps in the pyramid of the Great Seal.
The motto above the pyramid, which reads ‘Annuit Coeptis’, has 13 letters; the eagle on the right side has a ribbon in its beak that bears the motto ‘E pluribus unum’, which contains 13 letters.
The eagle has 13 tail feathers and on its breast there is a shield of 13 stripes.
In one talon the eagle holds 13 arrows and in the other, an olive branch with 13 leaves and 13 berries. Over the eagle’s head are 13 stars that form the six-pointed ‘Star of David’.
All this symbolic imagery is stolen symbolism from ancient African metaphysics. The reader should be amazed how much of the symbolism taught at the ancient Egyptian Mystery School by African philosophers has found its way in European and American secret societies.
Is it not clear now that when Europeans suppressed witchcraft (literally the art of magic and of influencing world events through manipulation of cosmic codes which include numbers), they meant to privately keep such esoteric knowledge stolen from our ancestors for their singular use?
Under the philosophical and spiritual teachings of the ancient Egyptian (Kemetic) Mystery System, the number 13 represented transformation, resurrection, rebirth and a new life.
So in the BC era, originally, there was nothing negative, scary, shameful or unlucky about the number 13.
Its use has only been bastardised in today’s cynical, ignorant world and belief systems.
Furthermore, under the ancient Egyptian secret Brotherhood, commonly known today as Freemasonry, the number 13 had special meaning and significance with regard to the establishment of complete freedom of worship, governance, social order and esoteric philosophy.
Apparently all the early US presidents were Masons steeped in the teachings and philosophy of the ancient Egyptian Mystery System.
These individuals then transferred all the positive aspects of the number 13 to rule, govern as well as protect life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in the US.
To begin with, when the US Constitution was signed on September 17 1787, 13 out of the 40 signatories were freemasons.
Second, the independence of US falls on July 4 1776.
This date was timed by Masonic ‘founding fathers’ to coincide with the astrological sign of Cancer which also ruled ancient Egypt.
Now, July 4 follows exactly 13 days after the Sun enters the sign of Cancer during the summer solstice beginning June 21 and July 4.
Thus, the US was founded on ancient Egyptian (Kemetic) spiritual principles and beliefs.
The ‘founding fathers’ of the US did not arbitrarily select July 4 1776 as Independence Day.
In the tradition of Kemetic spirituality, philosophy and belief systems in the BC era, July 4 1776 then gave America a new life, a rebirth, a transformation and resurrection from its status as a colony of Britain to that of a new sovereign and independent nation-state.
As I said above, see how African symbology has been stolen and used by foreigners while back home here everything about our ancestry is bastardised.