Saturn in Sagittarius, Saturn in the 4th House

Saturn in Sagittarius ♐︎ in the natal chart

Work Style: Saturn in Sagittarius in the natal chart gives you a highly perceptive nature in your work style. You tend to dedicate yourself to a search for meaning in the work you do, desiring purpose in the career you choose. Individuals with this placement like to have faith in the mission believing what you are doing is serving the greater good. This gives you a deep sense of justice. You like to have freedom in your work life being able to autonomously make choices and schedule out your tasks. You may have a tendency to shift careers or areas of study throughout you life. 

Life Lesson: Saturn brings us life lessons and represents the road blocks that are put up in our lives in order to help bring us to a greater sense of awareness regarding our true nature. You desire expanded consciousness and find this through various means of travel or spiritual seeking. People with this position often grew up in a family with strict religious practices and may come to a period of disillusionment in your adult life through a crisis of faith. Saturn in Sagittarius is teaching you the life lesson of being your own authority and deciding for yourself what is just and true for you.

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.