Saturn in Pisces, Saturn in the 4th House

Saturn in Pisces ♓︎ in the natal chart

Work Style: Saturn in Pisces in the natal chart individuals do not like to be rushed. You want to find your work style in your own time. Finding a career through part time work, volunteering, or doing work that is related to your passions is very important to you. You are okay to work in groups and enjoy combining your ideas with others to create a finished product. 

Life Lesson: The life lesson of one with Saturn in Pisces is the search for meaning. This can take you down many roads and experiences. You may try on different religions, careers, or personas in the name of your search. People with this placement have a deep compassion for the human struggle and often you struggle to receive the compassion you need from others. Saturn in Pisces is there to assist you in understanding this shortfall and help you overcome any feelings of oppression or emptiness. At times you may struggle with “imposter syndrome,” the idea that you feel you are not qualified to be doing what you are doing. Recognizing that you are having an authentic experience and you are the authority of your own life is part of your journey. You were made for this!

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.