Saturn in Leo, Saturn in the 4th House

Saturn in Leo ♌︎ in the natal chart

Work Style: Saturn in Leo in the natal chart individuals often spend a lot of their energy on their career. You will have a tendency to work late hours, put in excessive amounts of effort, and take on multiple projects at once. With Saturn in Leo you have fixed goals set and once your focus is locked in you rarely waiver from your path. You are generally tenacious and strong-willed. At work you will tend to be ambitions striving for promotions or recognition.

Life Lesson: With Saturn in Leo in the natal chart you are learning the value of self love. Appreciation and admiration for yourself will lead to others feeling the same about you. When you do not meet your expectations you tend to be very hard on yourself. With this placement you may feel blocked occasionally in accessing your full personality or creativity.  Your desire is to see your personality blossom fully in the achievement of your goals and aspirations. You want to express yourself and Saturn is giving you this lesson that you do have to work for it. With patience and self-love you will have better acceptance of your creative life journey.

4th House

Keywords: Keywords for the 4th house include home, home life, parents, ancestry, relatives, privacy, birth place, nurturing, self-care, self-love, security, and spiritual initiation. 

Angular House Type: An Angular house type means it is ruled by a cardinal sign. In this case Cancer is the cardinal water sign ruling the 4th house. 

The 4th house in astrology is symbolic of our most private self. It is the part that is the hardest to express, representing things we often keep hidden from others. This house can also be representative of one’s parents, typically one or the other. It can represent what the earliest relationships in one’s life were life and home life environment. The 4th house is representative of one’s relationship with authority, thus the association with a parental figure. 

The areas of life the 4th house oversees include the ways in which you create a home for yourself. It looks at how important having a home base is for you. The 4th house is the security blanket of your natal chart. The sign on the 4th house is symbolic of how you take care of your deepest needs, where you need the most nurturing, support, and comfort. If you have an emphasis of planets in the 4th house in your natal chart this may indicate you tend to be shy or keep things to yourself, only revealing your true self to a select few individuals.