Saturn in Cancer, Saturn in the 1st House

Saturn in Cancer ♋︎ in the natal chart

Work Style: The Saturn in Cancer in the natal chart individuals are very disciplined in their work style. They are extremely hard workers tending to work in food service, public service, or caregiving. Being in the public eye is okay with you and you feel duty bound to take on responsibilities in your community. You often like to work in fields that allow you to read and study history, politics, and mysteries. People with this placement can find themselves working in politics or in service to the government. 

Life Lesson: The Saturn in Cancer individual is working to overcome feelings of insecurity regarding their authentic and internal feelings. You may find life circumstances put you in situations that force you to deny your authentic self. Saturn in Cancer is providing you support in learning this life lesson. On your life journey you are understanding to recognize and honor your experience. You are learning to feel like a whole person without the emotional support from a close partner or family member. Saturn in Cancer is helping you to not worry so much and perceive that your emotions, psychic experiences, and dreams are all credible aspects of human existence.

1st House

Keywords: The keywords associated with the first house are individualism, identity, selfishness, ego, personality, infancy, imitating, starting line, and destiny. 

Angular House Type: An Angular house is ruled by a cardinal sign. Aries is the cardinal fire sign ruling the 1st house. 

The 1st house in astrology is representative of how you express your self identity. The sign on the 1st house in the natal chart symbolizes the energy through which you tend to filter all of your experiences. 

Here you get to know yourself, your basic needs, and desire to be seen as an individual. In the 1st house you are having a “me” experience. This house is symbolic of initiation and impulsivity. 

Planets placed in the 1st house in the natal chart tend to be very heavily emphasized. These planets will be expressed more easily in your personal expression and circumstances. This is the house is symbolic of where we first breath life into ourselves, where existence first begins. This part of the astrological chart is ego driven in the search for self identity. Here you get to perform or act out the person you are or want to be.