Aries Saturn
Now, this is a challenging placement. Saturn in Aries is debilitated, and these natives, although have good concentration and reasoning skills, have to learn (the hard way) how to be patient, and calculated, and how to respect the rules, and law and order. And this is not an easy task, not at all.
Saturn in Aries gives these natives an inner urge of haste but at the same time the inability to act when that urge arises. This is a very complex and deep placement, as Saturn is teaching a very powerful and heavy lesson through the sign of Aries.
That lesson is – you cannot rush anything, you have to follow the rules and be patient when it comes to the things you want and desire to achieve. It’s very important to observe what Mars is doing and where it is placed in a chart that holds Saturn in Aries. This observation can help the native achieve his/her goals and ideas easier and faster.
This is the image of a metalhead or a rocker with tattoos and a fast outfit traveling back through time to the dark ages. Not only would he feel and be out of place in that era, but the ruling forces would burn him at the stake at their earliest convenience for being Satan’s spawn.
This is why these natives have to learn patience, methodical steps to each process, and discipline when it comes to executing their ideas and visions into tangible results. No Saturn placement is easy, but this is one of the hardest ones to have.
Taurus Saturn
This placement gives grounded, humble, and socially secretive natives. These natives don’t like to be the center of the stage, nor do they like for their social status to be public knowledge. This Saturn placement likes to take its time achieving its goals, and it can get very, extremely stubborn about the manner in which it achieves its goal.
This Saturn placement creates a strong need to feel emotional and financial security in order for the native to feel happy and comfortable. The hardest lesson here to master is to combat one’s own laziness and work-ethic deficiency.
In order to work less, these natives can be very thrifty and savings-oriented. With time, as Saturn is the lord of time, these natives can fatten their savings account nicely, but others around them won’t appreciate them for their stingy behavior. These natives need to learn how to work hard in order to spend money even harder.
The lesson here is that money can’t buy everything, and sometimes feeling secure and loved doesn’t have to do with money, it has to do with your kindness and generosity. How do you expect someone to fall in love with you if the only love you show is towards money and tangible (material) things?
Change your values in order to change how others perceive you, and finally how you are loved. Saturn in Taurus is teaching you to avoid laziness in order to be able to receive the love that isn’t lazy and based on superficial attributes like money.
Gemini Saturn
Oof, Saturn does not feel good in Gemini. Gemini is a quick-witted sign that is represented by the Knight of Swords – fast-thinking energy that accumulates and fuses massive amounts of information, often all at once. And Saturn… Saturn is the begrudging old man who prefers to take things as slowly as possible and he also likes to use his walking stick to beat those around him.
So, you can imagine why Saturn is not having the time of his life in Gemini. This is the image of an old man being stuck in the children’s playground with loud music, hectic games, and screaming, and some teenagers are smoking pot on the bench next to him. He’s not liking this scenery at all.
These natives can be narrow-minded, but they have a sharp mind for chemical and mechanical sciences. Their gift is their systematic and logical way of thinking and approaching problems, this placement also bestows exceptional logic and reasoning abilities on its natives.
The trouble with this placement is that the mind overpowers the heart, aka logic and reason overpower your feelings, and this is the root cause of your misery and unhappiness, especially in relationships. You suffer being stuck in situations that are not good or cheerful for you, and you keep finding logical reasons behind it, instead of just following your intuition, or your heart and finding your happiness instead.
These natives tend to be their own worst enemy, as they think they’re the smartest ones (they often are, very smart), thus they don’t heed good advice and continue to be stuck in miserable situations and relationships because they perceive it as a superior solution just because it fits their emotionally-devoid logic.
Cancer Saturn
Saturn is in detriment in Cancer, and thus it feels the worst in this sign. It’s no wonder, since Cancer is all about emotions and empathy, and Saturn is all about structure, order, and success.
These natives have a hard childhood, they were either raised by their grandparents, or by absent parents who didn’t have a lot of love to spare for them. This is a placement that puts obstacles in how one expresses love, empathy, and caring within a family.
The biggest challenge here is to respect emotions without blocking them, or allowing them to spill over into every area of life. The lesson here is to learn how to control your emotions and how to compartmentalize – something in which Capricorn excels, but Cancer miserably fails.
This is one of the most challenging placements for Saturn for a reason. Cancer is all about family love, nurturing, nourishing, and empathy, this is a flowing sign that needs to be in their emotions, to feel them, to express them, to spill them out, and Saturn doesn’t allow that.
Saturn in Cancer natives need to learn how to love themselves and how to give themselves the love and care they didn’t have as children. Once they’ve learned and healed that, they’ll be “allowed” to express their emotions more freely and openly, especially with their family.
This is the image of a thirsty man wandering through the desert, seeing Fata Morganas in the distance and believing the illusion until he drops from exhaustion and gets angry and frustrated.
Leo Saturn
Oof, Saturn does not feel good in Leo. Leo is the sign of happiness, grandeur, theatrics, and drama; Saturn is the planet of asceticism, humbleness, and restrictions, double oof. Leo Saturn natives feel out of place, they have a lot of inner conflicts that are preventing them from expressing their true and unique selves.
This is the image of a poor queen or an exiled king. Someone who knows and feels royal and deserving, but he can’t have it all. This is one of the most humbling experiences one can have in their natal chart. Saturn in Leo asks for humbleness and for accepting one’s fate.
These natives often have a deep sense of deserving more than they’ve got in life. It’s not rare to see these natives with a memory from a past life where they had much richer domains and lifestyles, but suddenly, they’ve found themselves in an incarnation that asks of them to live below their means and capabilities.
The lesson here is to retain your royal mannerisms and high class but to be humble and accessible to others at the same time. Learning to work for the benefit of others, to work for others simply put, is the main theme of this placement.
Once you learn humbleness and true generosity from the heart, Saturn may allow it for you to rise through the ranks, and perhaps even to fame that you’ve always felt deserving of.
Virgo Saturn
Saturn in Virgo placement may struggle with feelings of being used and abused. These natives might experience being under someone’s thumb. The real lesson here is to find personal power through self-healing and self-respect.
To be fair, Saturn might feel much easier in Virgo, than in Cancer or Leo for example. And these natives have an inborn ability to practice patience and endurance when Saturn is teaching them hard life lessons.
Virgo is the sign of servitude and being helpful to others, Saturn is teaching how to be capable but not abused, how to be professional and used, how to be polite but stern, and how to fend for yourself and your work against those who overlook your true value.
This is a very potent placement, and it can produce amazing workers that will rise through the ranks with much elegance and ease. The main lesson here is to learn your own self-worth, value, and self-respect.
These natives also have a tendency to work for lesser wages. Saturn is teaching you how to stand up for yourself, and how to believe in your own strengths without fearing your own weaknesses. The main challenge here is to heal yourself and to learn to value yourself properly, as well as your skills.
Don’t let others trample you as Saturn is a harsh teacher, and he won’t give you a hand while you’re down, instead, he’ll kick you in the teeth while you’re lying because you didn’t stand up faster.
Libra Saturn
Saturn is exalted in Libra. He, the planet of rules, authority, and structure, feels great in the sign of balance, justice, and fairness. This is a very good placement that will always seek to exact justice and will reward fairness every chance it gets.
This is the image of a stern judge dressed all in black but with nicely rimmed spectacles and a beautiful brooch. The hammer of justice might seem meek and wooden, but when it strikes – it strikes hard and unforgivingly.
The main challenge with this placement is to not get lost in judging others and forgetting about oneself. These natives need to remember that judging is not everything there is and that there are other parameters for evaluating relationships aside from dry and stern Saturn rules.
These natives need to learn to get over themselves and to be fair even when they are in the wrong, and to make them see and admit that they are wrong, is Sisyphus’ work.
These natives tend to avoid feelings and they prefer to use logic and justice as a measurement of someone’s worth. Which is completely fine, when you’re judging someone objectively and that’s your job. But this becomes a problem in subjective experiences and in personal relationships.
This is why Saturn in Libra needs to learn humbleness when it comes to judging others, and they need to let themselves feel the actual feelings instead of just measuring them on the scales.
Scorpio Saturn
This is actually not all that bad placement to have. With Saturn in Scorpio, strong will meets fierce focus and the result is persistence. Alongside persistence also comes endurance and ruthlessness in one’s pursuit of goals.
These natives can be very fixed and unyielding when they set their eyes on something that they want. They know how to channel their inner power in psychic ways in order to get their way or what they want.
The trick with this placement is to not get ahead of yourself and to practice moderation. Saturn is a planet of rules, and if your break too many of them, your karma will find its way to you, and it won’t be pretty.
The hard lesson with this placement is using your innate powers for good. Don’t play dirty, and smith your own moral compass. Saturn feels exalted in Libra – the sign of fairness and fair play, Scorpio is a very “dirty” sign that is known to bend and break all the rules if they see fit to do so in pursuit of their desires.
It’s true that Saturn gives you great innate powers and magnetic force to do as you please, but he is hoping you will rise above the given powers and use them for good, instead of for what is easy and convenient.
The main lesson here is to not fall into the trap of power. The scales of karma are always seeking to find balance, so you might have it all in this lifetime, but in the next, Saturn will find its way to make the scales balanced, and you can rest assured that you will be on the receiving end of everything you’ve done in this lifetime. Tick-tock, left-right, and find the golden middle.
Sagittarius Saturn
Saturn does not find it well in this sign of expansion. With this placement, natives can get overly preachy, despotic, and zealotic. Saturn in Sagittarius is not a good look most of the time. The lesson here is not to fall into the trap of believing in and enforcing outmoded principles, otherwise, you might crash and burn under the same rules and philosophies you’ve perched.
This is the image of a double-edged sword, what you cut with one side, cuts you with the other. So be careful of your deeds, words, and machinations. Saturn feels alienated in Sagittarius, this sign likes to explore, throw the law and order out of the window, expand, be optimistic and share its knowledge.
Saturn might demand from you to pass several tests before you get to spread your knowledge. It also can stop you from exploring the world, or from being as free as you would love to.
The main lesson with this placement is to learn to respect the (necessary) process and to do things when the time is right, not when you want to do it just because you felt like it. Learning to subdue your impulses in the favor of law and order, is also a big topic with this placement.
Capricorn Saturn
This is Saturn’s home turf, he feels right at home in this sign, and this is where he can express his might the most. Saturn in Capricorn is all about growing up, working hard, and getting ahead in life, but in a legit and lawful manner.
Saturn in Capricorn placement finds it easier than other placements to establish its balance, discipline, and dominance. These natives, similarly to Saturn in Cancer, don’t have easy childhoods, nor are they particularly garnished with love and empathy, but unlike Saturn in Cancer, Saturn in Capricorn doesn’t make a big deal out of it, instead these natives use this early experience as fuel to get ahead in life.
Unlike Saturn in Libra, Saturn in Capricorn natives don’t have a predicament of getting ahead of themselves, since Saturn is not exalted, but in domicile in Capricorn, thus, these natives are naturally humble, hard-working, and patient.
They know that all good things take time, and they have a farfetched vision for the future that keeps them going even when things get tough. This placement is the epitome of tough love, and these natives are the most reliable and loyal ones, even though you couldn’t deduce that from simply observing them and their mannerisms.
Saturn in Capricorn placement is perhaps the best combination and Saturn placement of them all. These natives carry a lot of Saturnine qualities as their front, despite the other placement, Saturn in Capricorn somehow always finds a way to insert itself as the main attribute in one’s chart.
This is the image of a person focused on his work, working hard and dedicated and later receiving honors and achievements that are due.
Aquarius Saturn
Saturn feels pretty good in Aquarius as it used to be its ruler before the discovery of Uranus. Now we know better, but he still feels much more at home and better than in other signs (aside from Capricorn and Libra).
Saturn in Aquarius gives brutal honesty, freedom of thought, wisdom through intelligence and intelligent pursuits, good logic and reasoning, and accumulated knowledge. He is similar to Jupiter in Sagittarius, only in a colder, detached, and stern way.
Saturn in Aquarius has the necessary qualities to be the humanitarian of the Zodiac and to stick to his noble social ideals. Unlike in Leo, for example, where he struggles to achieve that self-sacrifice and humble state.
This placement gives very mature and far-seeing natives who have the ability and patience to build things that will benefit many. There’s an inborn humbleness, or rather selflessness in Aquarius that plays a big part in Saturn’s lessons. Since Aquarius is a sign that possesses a humble approach to life, these natives are able to use Saturn’s gifts from an early age, and thus prosper and get ahead in life much sooner than other Saturn placements.
This is the image of a mad scientist who invents, experiments and works for his own pleasure, but also for the benefit of all humanity. It’s a good thing that most personal goals and desires align with those for the betterment of humanity, thus Saturn is merciful and kind towards the natives with this placement.
Pisces Saturn
Saturn finds it hard in Pisces. These natives have a lot of hard lessons before them. Pisces is the sign of spirituality, peace, sleeping, dreams, intuition, psychic gifts, and otherworldliness, and Saturn is the planet of harsh reality, truth, grounding, discipline, and hard work.
When Saturn finds itself in Pisces, it imposes disciplinary methods and lessons on its natives. These people need to learn how to be disciplined and how to be sacrificial in waking life, as opposed to being there for others in a psychic and energetic sense.
Saturn is asking his natives here to perform miracles in the form of actual hard work, concentration, focus on a task at hand, and working instead of daydreaming. Once a stable law and order are established in one’s daily routine, Saturn is ready to give out his gifts.
The gifts of Saturn in Pisces include practical imagination, tangible spirituality, acts of meditation, and transformation of one’s body through Kriya yoga and pranayama. This is the image of Moses who walked the desert and defeated those far above him in power in order to save his people. This is the image of miracles physically manifested (parting the sea for example) through the hard work, sweat, and tears (effort) previously invested in getting to that level of being able to physically manifest miracles.
Saturn is also the ultimate test of one’s faith. If you have the strength and willpower to endure all the harsher things in life, and still retain the belief in something beyond yourself, something good and positive, then you’ve mastered the hardest lesson Saturn in Pisces has had in store for you. Bravo!
Saturn in the 1st house
Gives mature individuals who look more handsome and prettier with age. “Aged like fine wine” is what is usually said of these natives. This placement puts a lot of burdens on its natives’ shoulders and makes them grow up very early. They have great bone structure and aristocratic-looking facial features.
Saturn in the 2nd house
Gives money lessons to its natives. These people probably grew up with money struggles, but later on in life, they learn how to manage money and they increase their fortune. People who know how to save and live in scarcity in order to have for “older days”.
Saturn in the 3rd house
Natives who experienced some form of confinement in their elementary years. This placement gives natives who went to private schools with crumbling walls and strict rules. Raised by grandparents or having very old teachers at a very young age. Learning to “live by the rules” when one’s supposed to be free to play. A big year gap between the siblings.
Saturn in the 4th house
Growing up in poverty, in a very old house with old installations. Going through hardships from a very young age, joyless childhood. Finding joy in small things and spending a lot of time with elderly people. Taking care of old parents at a young age. Going back to one’s roots.
Saturn in the 5th house
Having “old-fashioned” hobbies, and things that have history entertain the mind of the native. Not having a lot of fun in the ‘common’ sense of a word. Hanging out with older people, finding interest in “old” topics, such as history or paleontology. Preferring the companionship of fossils rather than live, noisy people and places.
Saturn in the 6th house
Gives problems with bones, mostly with the spine of a native. Working in an elderly environment, not a lot of fun at work, strict rules, harsh conditions, and scarce salary. Spending money on medicine and other pharma. Prospering by following the rules and traditions of a working place.
Saturn in the 7th house
Usually gives either a very older or a very younger spouse. These natives have a hard time saying “yes” to marriage, but once they do – it lasts a lifetime. Dedicated to their partners, very serious when it comes to emotions, humble but loyal. Choosing a partner with one’s high standards and set of morals, rather than with one’s eyes.
Saturn in the 8th house
Gives karma that seeped into this life from the previous one. The battle over inheritance, ancestral spirits looking over one’s shoulder, and a lot of family secrets, and taboos. Hidden treasures on family’s land, small houses, and damp walls. A strong bond with one’s grandparents.
Saturn in the 9th house
This placement gives higher education that comes later in life. Harsh, but fair teachers, scarce opportunity to travel. Traveling to history-ridden places, visiting old ruins and crumbling castles. Finding God through the harshness of mundane life. Reaching a high academic calling in later years.
Saturn in the 10th house
This is a very good placement since Saturn is the natural ruler of the 10th house. It gives honors, renown, and affirmations through one’s career and hard work. But, there are no shortcuts to the top ladder with Saturn in the 10th house, hard work pays off, and slacking off is being punished, severely.
Saturn in the 11th house
Gives friendships with older people. Harsh life lessons through friends. Involvement with government institutions, reaching high places by being fair, just, and hardworking. Sacrificing with ease for just causes and others in need.
Saturn in the 12th house
This placement gives prophetic dreams, night terrors, sleep paralysis, lucid dreams, and involuntary astral travel to either the past or the future. Many psychic natives have this placement as it represents a very strong bond and connection to one’s past life. Righting one’s wrongs from a previous l