"If Saturn should fall into the sea. Saturn is merely a mass of hot gas and if he should fall into a sea big enough to hold him, he would float like a big cork."
Pictured Knowledge, 1916 via Yesterday's Print tumblr
we're not even going to list off every astrophysical problem with this
the more we chew on this the more we feel like the only aspect of it we can't let go of because we understand what it's going for is that, in our head, Saturn is "she". or more likely "it" when we're not being anthropomorphic, but definitely not "he"
(we understand why the source probably said "he" - by analogy to the Roman god that the planet takes its name from - but yeah)
okay I can articulate one problem with the idea of Saturn floating in a giant sea—I feel like any world large enough to have a liquid ocean big enough for Saturn to float in like a cork in a bathtub would, in fact, be so enormous that it literally couldn't be a planet. it would be so massive that it'd need to be some variety of star. ~Chara
This is actually a topic of discussion in astrological circles because some of the older sources use she, but at some point he started getting used more. I think the consensus is back to saturn using she/her pronouns, I guess she's genderfluid.
in an archetypal sense Saturn is like an old stern grandmother
