SATURN

Saturn is the furthest planet in the solar system visible to the naked eye. As such it represents limits. Saturn in the horoscope shows where the greatest challenges are to be found, and the hardest lessons learned. This planet shows where rigid systems restrict growth. It is connected with the parents, authorities and rules. Saturn brings strength through self-limitation, discipline and planning.

Saturn-Aries

Early experiences have undermined your faith in yourself as an independent person capable of taking care of your own life. Often when you try to be spontaneous or youthful you find yourself learning some painful lesson about restraint. You have been taught to stifle immaturity, but this can also cast a shadow over your ability to be carefree and dynamic. When you cast caution to the winds you do it clumsily and come to grief. Yet as you mature you have to learn to risk being spontaneous, and to take being snubbed or judged. Remember: nothing ventured nothing gained. You cannot get ahead without risking your reputation. You are very competitive, but tend to hide it for fear of being seen to lose. Your honor may be dear to you, but nobody else notices, so take a gamble. Dynamism combined with careful planning will yield good results.

1ST HOUSE INFLUENCE Difficult experiences connected with your family structure undermined your self-confidence as a child and have given you are rather negative picture of yourself. This lack of self-esteem will also have a tendency to dampen the spirits of those around you in your environment earlier in your life. Only when people get to know you and your self-deprecating humor, do they feel comfortable. The people you meet often feel that you rebuff them and misinterpret their good intentions. Experience has evoked in you a certain suspicion and skepticism, and you need plenty of time before you feel you can trust others. However, once you allow yourself to thaw, and let your barriers down, you can be a loyal and trustworthy friend and partner. By cultivating a positive attitude to yourself and your future, you can greatly speed up your personal development.

Saturn-Taurus

Self-worth is a major issue for you, and it is by no means easy for you to feel deserving. You may find yourself working extremely hard - for you are a persevering character - to attain material goals which can convince you of your worth as a human being. However there will be times in your life when you have to redefine your attitude towards material things as a yardstick for personal worth. One of the secrets of contentment is learning to feel an inner satisfaction and gratefulness for what you have got, rather than focusing on what you have not got. You can learn a lot by tuning into your physical senses and your bodily needs, and learning to appreciate simple sensory pleasures.

2ND HOUSE INFLUENCE Early family experiences will have undermined your self-worth and made you very sensitive to being judged. Material things take on disproportionate importance because they are seen as reflecting your personal status. You have strong convictions that security is something that you have to strive for day in, day out. You limit your potential through negative thinking and allowing financial preoccupations to dominate your planning. If you were more willing to lose what you have, you would create room for greater prosperity. A turning-point arises here at the age of 30. Personal relationships are also marred by your lack of faith in yourself, which actually comes from lack of encouragement as a child. When a person underrates himself, other people tend to lose respect, so it is up to you to learn to appreciate your own talents and resources.

Saturn-Gemini

You will experience special challenges in your life as regards overcoming learning difficulties or communication problems. Early schooling may have been affected by a trend of education policies which stunted your interest and intellectual curiosity or stifled your mental creativity. This can mean that you have learned mental discipline and important facts, but have lost touch with an overall view of the issue. This in turn can make you rather pedantic, as you are eager to prove your knowledge and appear intelligent. An older brother or sister may possibly have made you feel intellectually inferior. As you mature you will learn to give yourself a freer rein intellectually. You need to overcome an over-sensitivity as regards proving your mental capability.

3RD HOUSE INFLUENCE Family influences - particularly in connection with a brother or sister - and early painful experiences at school will have had a rather traumatic effect on your mental development. Your confidence in your intelligence will have been undermined, and you can feel uncomfortable when you meet people. Light conversation does not come naturally. Under pressure a sudden mental block descends, and fear of appearing dim-witted obstructs the mental flow. You work twice as hard as anyone else just to be sure you are not going to be shown up mentally. Mental confidence rarely comes before the age of 30, and if you have given up on an education as a young person, you may take it up again after this age. Your concern with getting the facts right can hinder your ability to get an overall view - often you can't see the wood for the trees. You can become an authority on a specific subject.

Saturn-Cancer

Your childhood was affected by a pervasive mood of struggle and difficulty which may make it difficult for you to express emotions in a natural or spontaneous way. You have the capacity to control and hide your feelings - this was probably the dominant trend in society as regards upbringing during your early years. In many ways you were probably asked to take too much responsibility at an early age, and though this gives you an aura of maturity, you may feel emotionally blocked. During the course of your life you will be challenged to come to terms with repressed emotions. You need to take the risk of showing what you really feel, without being afraid of being rejected. By building up a strong sense of emotional self-reliance, you will realize that you can afford to show that you are emotionally vulnerable. When you soften up emotionally, people will reach out to support you.

4TH HOUSE INFLUENCE Your early upbringing was something of a trial. The atmosphere was probably rather heavy, without any sense of enjoyment. Perhaps this was a result of genuine hardship, perhaps your father was something of a disciplinarian, perhaps you felt the relationship between your parents was cold and strained. But the result is that you are defensive emotionally, and have difficulty devoting yourself to potential partners, though you are certainly dutiful and prepared to live up to your family responsibilities. Emotional inhibitions arise from the bonds you had to impose on yourself in childhood, when you felt very vulnerable. Now those who want to get close to you find an impenetrable barrier. Later developments in the family will encourage you to loosen up and learn to trust those who want to give you their love, so that you rediscover a rewarding emotional life.

Saturn-Leo

A major area of challenge in your life is concerned with building up a strong sense of identity and overcoming a lack of confidence. You were born at a time of autocratic trends in child-rearing which may have stifled a sense of play and spontaneity, and this means that you tend to take yourself too seriously today. You are oversensitive as regards the impact you make on others, are over-concerned with standing on your dignity, and tend to be hung up on status symbols and gestures of respect or recognition. It is important for you to overcome creative blockages, and you can learn a lot from having children. A little self-irony will go a long way to making you more popular with other people, and it is also important for you to cut loose a little and risk being immature. As you mature you gain greater self-acceptance.

5TH HOUSE INFLUENCE A difficult childhood in which you were unable to fulfill exaggerated expectations on the part of your parents has left you feeling dissatisfied and frustrated with yourself. You long to be appreciated, but you will find that this is rather a negative foundation for relationships or romantic adventures. Generally speaking love affairs result in very complicated circumstances which end up making you feel even more negatively about yourself and your attractiveness. Romance will never fulfill your inner need to be appreciated. Self-acceptance can only come from within yourself. Having children can be a watershed in your life, though you may instinctively avoid the responsibility. Having had a difficult childhood yourself, it can be hard to imagine having children and they may come late in life. However dealing with children helps you overcome the blocks in your personal creativity, and having responsibility for someone who is dependent on you - and respects you - increases your personal confidence.

Saturn-Virgo

You were born in a period where there was great focus on principles of efficiency, hygiene and being of service to others. Many of the challenges in your life are concerned with how to make yourself useful to society, without becoming a slave of the system. On one level there is a need to be accepted and integrated in your environment, but on the other hand it can be difficult for you to find your place. It is a question of being able to set limits for when to offer your help, and when to refuse it. If you are too service-minded you will feel misused, if not enough, you will feel isolated. It is difficult for you to feel that the efforts you make are good enough, and you will often spend a lot of time trying to improve things and make them more efficient. In other words you can develop considerable perfectionism, and whilst this will often bring good results, it also creates inertia and prevents progress.

6TH HOUSE INFLUENCE You hate drudgery in your personal life, and often find yourself swamped by everyday tasks. As a child you may have had a lot of domestic responsibilities or family duties. Often you may feel you have to bear unfair burdens. Actually you learn a lot from working hard, because you train yourself to economize with your time and energy. This ability to be efficient will bring professional advantages later on. In relationships remember it is entirely up to you what tasks you do. You tend to automatically take on unnecessary work, because of habits picked up in your childhood as a result of strict parental expectations, and then complain that your partner does not bear his or her load. Be satisfied with things as they are, and plan your time so that you also can relax and enjoy. This will benefit your relationship. During the course of your life you will learn how important it is for your health - both mentally and emotionally - to cultivate a positive attitude to your everyday life.

Saturn-Libra

There was a general theme around the year of your birth in which commitment to others, particular in relationships, was an important issue. In your own relationships you will strive to overcome selfish needs and discipline yourself to take the needs of others into account before you take action. In this sense you are a person of your word when you make a relationship commitment. You are also characterized by fair-mindedness and patience when it comes to dealing with others. One of the major challenges in your life is to relax more with others, and to drop a defensive formal shield which prevents a deeper, emotional intimacy. Though you are good at dealing with people on a superficial level, you can be at a loss when emotional themes are broached. Though your early life will bring challenges and difficulties in partnerships, deeper devotion arises in your love life as you mature.

7TH HOUSE INFLUENCE You will spend the greater part of your life working on improving the way you relate to other people. You may cement a relationship out of a sense of duty, or to attain security and a sense of structure in life. Yet you are blocked as regards being spontaneous with your partner, and as time goes by there is a tendency to experience him or her as a restrictive influence. Actually what normally happens is that you force your partner to assert a parental role because you are reluctant to structure or take personal responsibility for your own life. By become more disciplined, you relieve the pressure on your partner to make all the rules. In this way your partner can change from being rather oppressive to being far more relaxed and tolerant. Partnership brings inescapable responsibility, and when you shoulder it you experience a deep sense of satisfaction.

Saturn-Scorpio

You were born at a time when there was a heaviness in the collective spirit, with many irrational fears, and you have probably integrated this spirit into your own emotional nature. There is a sense of controlled power and deep emotional discipline. Intimate emotional relationships are extremely important to you, but you may have great difficulty lowering the floodgates of your own emotions. Fear of emotional loss drives you to exert an almost hypnotic control in intimate partnership. You are both driven to investigate the deepest emotional motivations of others, and rather paranoid about revealing your own. There is a particular fascination with sexual taboos, and a great need to overcome your own sexual blockages. It is important for you to replace fear with trust, and to cultivate a relaxed emotional attitude instead of exhausting yourself trying to control the uncontrollable.

8TH HOUSE INFLUENCE The major challenge of your life is to break down the emotional barrier that prevents you from enjoying intimacy with others. Early emotional pain has taught you to protect yourself by building up a wall of indifference. This wall can bring despair and frustration to your partner. Behind this wall you are hungry for a deep emotional commitment. As long as the wall exists it is difficult for you to experience any deep satisfaction. Your defensiveness prevents you in particular from enjoying sex. Sexual satisfaction is dependent on showing emotional vulnerability - the thing which you fear most. Paradoxically it is only when you show your vulnerability that you discover you cannot be hurt. When you discover intimacy, the floodgates of emotional gratification open to you. Life is a long development process of liberation from emotional blockages.

Saturn-Sagittarius

There was a strong emphasis on world events at the time of your birth and you may have been subjected to strong opinions regarding politics, social issues or religion which will have had a formative effect on your personal convictions today. You will have been more or less affected by a tendency by your parents or society to moralize or exert ideological influence. This may be reflect negatively in your own character by your having restrictive and conventional views about everything, or positively by your overcoming this influence and developing your own convictions based on personal experience. It is particularly important that you build up a strong set of philosophical values which can help you explain the meaning of your existence. There is a tendency to be rather negative about the future, and therefore it will pay for you to learn something about the value of faith and the power of positive thinking.

9TH HOUSE INFLUENCE Gaining intelligence and understanding has a high priority for you. As a young person you were probably exposed to parents or teachers who had strong and rather inflexible opinions and you may have had difficulty because of some kind of orthodox dogmatism. Hindrances may have arisen as regards the pursuance of a further education. Ultimately a lack of intellectual confidence drives you to improve your mind, so that you become able to define your own beliefs about the meaning of your existence. You are attracted to some kind of spiritual system or hierarchy, and have a tendency to believe in a strict set of moral rules connected with spiritual growth. You have the capacity to study long and hard - you do not expect the way to understanding to be easy. Special challenges may be connected with abroad, or a spiritual teacher who demands personal discipline. It pays for you to be more receptive to the opinions of others, and less defensive about your own convictions.

Saturn-Capricorn

During the period around your birth, there was much emphasis placed on political developments in society. This may manifest personally in you in a strong inner drive to attain your goals and achieve results. As a young person you may have had difficulty defining your ambitions or believing that you could achieve them, but as time goes by you make steady progress towards your goals through a combination of hard work and planning. You may however be too attached to material progress and the status you achieve thereby, and you may have an exaggerated need for respect. When you overcome the need to prove yourself in your society and concentrate on aspects of social service, you can become a pillar in your community.

10TH HOUSE INFLUENCE You make high demands on yourself, and this is probably due to early parental expectations which are not easy to live up to. If you strive to fulfill other people's expectations, you may never be satisfied, and you may forget to relax and enjoy the results for which you have worked so hard. Relationships suffer from too much emphasis on ambitions. Success can also be measured by your ability to cater for and respect the needs of a partner. However, you have a certain destiny to fulfill, and your personal drive and sense of responsibility means that you can have considerable impact on the society you live in. People will automatically respect you and invest you with authority.

Saturn-Aquarius

During the time of your birth there was a strong collective spirit of internationalism, and powerful awareness of social interactions in society. You are probably more aware than most about social commitment to the group, and the responsibility which individuals must show to the whole for things to function in society. In your personal life you will focus on the energies at play in groups, and be keenly aware of your own ability to function socially. You may have to overcome a certain stiffness in relating to others. Particularly on an emotional level you can exhibit a cool distance which can make intimate friendship difficult. You are a very fair and democratically-minded person, and are strongly motivated to even out divisions in society. By overcoming your innate social inhibitions you can play an important role in the organization of groups. You function better relating to groups than to individuals.

11TH HOUSE INFLUENCE One of the major challenges for you in your life is learning to relax together with your friends. Early experiences at school will have isolated you socially, and the pain of being out in the cold will have made you careful in your choice of friends. You prefer companions you feel totally secure with and have known for a long time, and though you may have many acquaintances you have no time for friendships which are not deep-felt. Around the age of thirty major turning points can arise - perhaps at this time you get involved with a group which comes to mean a lot for you. You derive great benefit from overcoming shyness and integrating yourself with purposeful groups which may be concerned with social issues or consciousness development. You regain the social self-esteem you lost as a child through winning respect for the unselfish work you do for others later.

Saturn-Pisces

The spirit of the time around the period of your birth was suffused with an awareness of social difficulties on a global scale. To some extent there will have been a rather unhappy atmosphere, and at the deepest layers of your being you will be able to sense an inner despair, or at least a need to make sense of your life in relation to society. You are more aware than most people of the futility of ambition and egocentric desire, and early disappointments will force you to redefine your personal goals so as to give your life meaning. Being happy for you means learning to accept that which you cannot change, and helping those whose needs are greater than yours. Your greatest challenge is to overcome negativity and a sense of being oppressed by the world, and to create the spiritual foundations for a meaningful existence.

12TH HOUSE INFLUENCE Isolation can play an important role in your life because you need to spend a lot of time speculating about the nature of existence and your role in the world. You are on a reluctant search for a spiritual foundation in your life. Perhaps as a child you had unhappy experiences connected with religion or the concept of suffering so that now you have an instinctive mistrust of moral rules and religious injunctions. You do not want to reside in some religious dungeon. However if you have blocked the inner channels to personal salvation you will be afflicted by a sense of pointlessness about personal achievement. Only when you have the courage to turn within and learn about the inner laws of being can your truly experience satisfaction in your life.

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