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Saturn in House 4

Saturn in House 4 feels like trying to grow an apple tree in a room with no windows. What should be a warm womb often feels more like a cold prison or a heavy weight. Where there should be a mountain spring, there is a desert. Where there should be a home, there is only a house, or perhaps just a tumbleweed blowing in the wind. The fourth house indicates the way you relate to your family, both as a child and adult. It indicates your attitude to giving and receiving “mothering” or nurturing. Saturn in the fourth house can limit the nurturing that you yourself are capable of. Your style of nurturing may come across as slightly cold and impersonal. You might remember your childhood as one that lacked warmth and affection. Saturn’s influence adds a sense of responsibility to fourth house functions. One might feel the need to nurture more than most, perhaps to overcompensate for their own feelings of being neglected. The truth is mothering and nurturing can be fun. Saturn might take away that element of fun and make it a chore. Don’t let that happen to you. Recognize your style and make up your mind to enjoy yourself! In a broader sense, the fourth house extends to the community, home town, and country. With Saturn influences, you will choose to be quietly patriotic and loyal.

Saturn in House 4

Saturn in House 4 indicates for some people is as simple as having parents who were hard on you, had high standards or expectations for you, or were cautionary tales themselves – fuck-ups who acted as symbolic (or literal) reminders of what can happen to you if you do not achieve and do your best. For others, Saturn in House 4 shows up as all kinds of family issues; deep psychological issues, fears and anxieties; having to grow up fast; having to carry a ton of responsibility at a young age (in tangible or intangible ways); or parents who were unkind (or worse), overprotective, did not trust you, or who you could not trust. Trust is a big topic for people with Saturn in House 4, as this is rarely an easy placement. There is no “good” place to have Saturn – it’s heavy! But with all of the difficult parts of this placement, it can manifest in more positive ways too, especially if there are more positive planets (Venus and Jupiter in particular) in the 4th house as well. Despite its more challenging qualities, Saturn can also be beautifully protective, practical, and sturdy, so while maybe there were some challenging emotional components to childhood, perhaps your basic needs were always provided for, or maybe your family struggled with money, but there was always plenty of love, etc. Saturn in House 4 can indicate a person who experienced a strict and cold upbringing. They may have grown up feeling restricted or burdened by familial responsibilities. These individuals may have had to mature or take on adult-like roles early in life, or they may have faced challenges or obstacles within their family relationships. However, this placement can also give individuals a strong sense of responsibility towards their family, making them reliable and dependable individuals. 

Natives of Saturn in House 4 experience unexpected gains and karmic consequences in their lives. These people are also known for their good deeds and patience with others. Individuals with Saturn in House 4 are intelligent, mature, and responsible, according to research. Their intelligence is sufficient to deal with adversity, and they are aware of how to overcome hurdles in life. Relationships with their mother and wife are essential in natives’ lives because they help them achieve their business affairs milestones. Natives with such a placement in their birth chart have strong emotions, but they are also kind-hearted and show empathy towards others, as Saturn predicted in the 4th house. Saturn’s placement in the fourth house is considered lucky for natives, helping them achieve unexpected gains in business outcomes. It also positively impacts the natives’ way of life by providing them with luxury comforts, wealth, wisdom, and a high-end lifestyle. However, on the conflict side, Saturn in House 4 is considered detrimental to relationships and business matters. It has been discovered that natives with this placement are self-centred, depressed, and lack the proper attitude in life. Their emotional intelligence deteriorates over time, resulting in chaos in their life. Natives’ childhoods may not have been pleasant, and they may not have received enough love and closeness from their parents. Individuals with Saturn in House 4 experience an unbalanced financial relationship and a loss of wealth due to Saturn’s karmic impact. According to Vedic astrology, these people struggle a lot and, in some cases, sell their homes to become financially viable or to pay their debts. The natives lack affection for their wife and mother, which leads to the breakdown of their relationships. These people may suffer due to the financial crisis and a significant loss in real estate transactions. Aside from that, the natives immigrate regularly to various locations and maintain long-distance relationships with their life partners.

Saturn in House 4 people were very often molded into adults, one way or another, through overt expectation or by silent force or necessity, before their small body could catch up, and made to carry responsibility that no child could ever successfully carry. This can really fuck up a person’s ability to trust themselves, to take initiative, and to lead; in one way or another, it can feel like you were set up to fail. This has to be recognized, accepted, and healed from. You never could have been asked to carry what you were told or felt you had to, and that should not have been a problem. Natives of Saturn in House 4 also has a tendency to feel very, very ashamed of their failures. That shame must be eradicated or it has the potential to run your life. One of the best ways to do so is to talk to your “inner child” (I know you’re likely rolling your eyes because you have never felt like a child, but there is a small child inside of you somewhere, no matter how early on in life they were silenced and hidden away) out loud in ways that are gentle, nurturing, and supportive. A “You are safe now, and I’ll always be here to love you and keep you safe. You have nothing to fear because I will always be here. You don’t have to hide your imperfections in the closet under the stairs. You are allowed to be both seen and flawed at the same time. You’re allowed to try” sort of thing. The next step in the process may be to actively try to humanize yourself, to allow other people to see that you are actually flawed, in order to reprogram the part of your mind that says “your failures are hideously shameful and must be hidden” to see that, actually, you may be loved for your very human nature, not in spite of it. You do not have to be good at everything right off the bat. You are allowed to try, and ot not do everything perfect the first time, and it may even be safe to do this out in public, despite what your inner Saturn may say.

Saturn in House 4 people tend to struggle with establishing their own family

People with Saturn in House 4 have a complex life and family dynamic. They are invested in their home environment, especially family matters and bring the voice of reason in conflictual situations. The energy of Saturn wants to protect everything that happens in the 4th house and support the native in developing a balanced family life. If Saturn is in harmony with other planets in the chart, it could manifest this protective, mature, and responsible energy.  Saturn is not an emotional planet. The native might struggle to express or even receive affection in their love life or at home. This doesn’t show a lack of emotional connection; on the contrary. With Saturn being so determined to help and bring structure to the home aspect and the family dynamic, interest, involvement, and care are present.  Saturn might also want to heal their home life from energetic blockages and set it back on a progressive track by implementing healthy boundaries. The presence of Saturn in House 4 can signify a notable shift or increase in the level of importance that this house holds in the individual’s life. An interesting aspect that we have to look at is Saturn’s parental authority and how it interacts with the nurturing parent symbolized by the 4th house. Saturn is often looked at as the father’s energy, while the 4th house typically represents the mother’s energy. In the favourable energetic mix, this can mean that the native brings both an authoritarian and nurturing energy to their family. Or that they received both parental energies as a child. However, it can mean that Saturn’s influence restricts the nurturing energy of the mother. It could also be a sign that a child missed the maternal energy in their life altogether. The native could have a karmic connection with their mother and struggle to heal it during this lifetime. 

Saturn in House 4 e is not an easy placement. Saturn is never easy to deal with: in astrology, it represents limitations, blockages, hardships. In the natal chart, the house of Saturn is usually a problematic life area, and Saturn in fourth house is no exception. People with this placement often come from a cold family. As a child, you felt that you cannot get the love you need and want from your parents. Sometimes your parents were not available to you. Saturn in fourth house people had to go up very quickly in some cases. This placement is characterized by an inner insecurity. This placement suggests a strong karmic bond with one of your parents, usually the more nurturing one. These relationships are rarely easy. Because of their childhood memories, Saturn in House 4 people tend to struggle with establishing their own family, and especially making their family life work and create a happy, loving atmosphere at home. You can also have a past-oriented way of thinking, what sometimes stops you from living in the present and embracing innovations. In astrology, the fourth house is not just about your family and home. It also shows your homeland, the country where you grew up. Some planets in the fourth house tend to make you emotionally attached to it. Sometimes Saturn in fourth house people work with real estate or with land, for example, through agriculture. Saturn in House 4 people are drawn to the past. In some cases, they collect old things, and they find it hard to let go of their possessions, especially in their home. You want your house to stay the same for ever (the fourth house is the house of your home environment). Saturn here is usually conservative, which is not necessarily bad unless combined with a lack of understanding. However, Saturn in House 4 suggests that your views are rigid and you fail to understand where the other person is coming from. There is a tendency to impose your views on others. You are a nostalgic person, which is again, not a bad thing, but it’s important to see that the past was not easy or better either, and learn that we have to live in the present moment.

Individuals born with Saturn in House 4, typically have an unconscious sense that they are solely responsible for and to blame for everything. This is likely because you had to carry so much emotional/psychological weight as a child, because you had to act like an adult when you should have been able to play, and/or because you want to feel like you are always in control. Saturn in House 4 comes with a lot of self-control. You may have learned early on that you had to be in control because the people around you proved again and again that they could not be trusted to run things properly. Or maybe you didn’t have any say over your own life growing up and now you desperately want the autonomy, control and respect that you never had before. Whatever the cause, it is important to recognize the value of self-control, but also to free yourself from the cage you learned to see as home. Is it possible that there is life outside of it, and that it may even be safe to venture out into the world? Can you develop a sense of trust in yourself or in the world? Do you truly need to be caged in order to be safe?

 

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