Shani and the Architecture of Time: Saturn Cycles in History and Society This book presents a rigorous study of Saturn (Shani) as a structural principle of time. Drawing from classical Jyotiṣa, long-duration historical analysis, and social theory, it examines how Saturn cycles relate to institutional change, moral reordering, economic contraction, discipline, and delayed consequence across societies and individuals. The work situates Saturn within extended temporal frameworks, examining how its transits and major cycles correspond with periods of systemic stress, legal consolidation, social stratification, labor redefinition, and ethical reckoning. Through historical case studies, the book traces patterns of civilizational restructuring, including shifts in governance, economic systems, cultural austerity, and societal maturation. These correlations are presented as symbolic models of long-cycle causality, illustrating how duration and consequence shape collective and individual experience over time. Shani is framed as time's regulator, a planetary function associated with endurance, accountability, and structural coherence. Intended for readers engaged in astrological research, history, sociology, and the philosophy of time, the book offers a disciplined framework for understanding how long temporal cycles organize continuity and transformation across societies and individuals. In essence, the book positions Saturn as the grammar of long time-slow, exacting, and formative-through which history acquires structure and meaning.