Saturn in Leo, Saturn in the 5th 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.

5th House

Keywords: The keywords associated with the 5th house include love affairs, romance, sex, sexuality, creativity, art, dating, play, playfulness, children, spontaneity, fun, diversity, and the spotlight. 

Succedent House Type: The Succedent house type is ruled by a fixed sign. Leo is the fixed fire sign ruling the 5th house. 

The 5th house in astrology is symbolic of creativity, sexuality, and children. The reason all of these themes come together in the 5th house is due to the fact that they all of them are related to making or creating something outside of oneself. Creativity brings forth something new and imaginative. Your relationship to sexuality or how you express your sexuality can be a creative act or viewed as the reproductive act that creates babies. 

Having an emphasis of planets or lack of planets in the 5th house speaks more to what you make and create in life and less literally to how many children you will or will not have. When you are playing in the 5th house it is all about finding your creative spark, what enlivens you, and how you can bring your true identity forward. 

The focus of the 5th house is what unique experience do you want to share with others, what makes you special. The 5th house is also associated with affairs, flings, and romance due to the playful and often spontaneous nature of this area of the chart.