Jupiter and Saturn in The Houses

JUPITER AND SATURN IN THE HOUSES
By
Wayman Stewart
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Copyright © 2019 By Wayman Stewart
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Jupiter in the 1st House 5
Jupiter in the 2nd House 8
Jupiter in the 3rd House 11
Jupiter in the 4th House 15
Saturn in the 1st House 49
Saturn in the 2nd House 52

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Saturn in the 3rd House 55
Saturn in the 4th House 58
About the Author 86

jupiter in the houses
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JUPITER IN THE 1ST HOUSE
If the 1st House is one’s individual perspective, your general way of seeing yourself, and your role in
life, then Jupiter in the 1st means that you have the point of view and the attitude of a highly
positive person. It would take a square or an opposition from Jupiter in order to offset this. Because,
even if Jupiter is in a sign like Virgo or Capricorn, its placement in the 1st indicates a person who
views and approaches the world with a remarkable, notable positivity. And this is even truer if
Jupiter also happens to be conjunct the Ascendant. Someone with Jupiter rising in the 1st will be like
a beacon of light and good energy.
But, of course, Jupiter is not all good. The downside of Jupiter is excess; its ability to go over-the-
top and not know how to rein itself in. If Jupiter resides in the 1st House of your birth chart, then
this is an issue that is evident right on the surface. The way you behave and appear paints the
picture of someone who is just “extra”. The thing is that you will probably be the first to admit how
extra you are because this excessive stance defines the way that you view yourself and life itself.
This will be expressed in at least twelve different ways, depending on the sign that your 1st House
Jupiter is in. If Jupiter is in Taurus in the 1st, you can come off as really, really self-indulgent,
stubborn, slow, and lazy. Jupiter being in the 1st in Aquarius would make you behave in an
excessively unpredictable, quirky, independent, and detached sort of way. One of the reasons why
you so instinctively go over the top in your behavior is because you feel like there are no real
limitations.
The 1st House is how we have always found our “place” in life, from the beginning; the way in
which we carve out our own niche as an individual. With Jupiter in the 1st House, your place in life
is one where you can do anything that you set out to do. It’s not like the grand self-confidence of
the 1st House Sun or the headstrong initiative of Mars in the 1st, although you can be quite grand 5
and daring yourself. It’s more so that you’ve carved out a niche for yourself that is Herculean, the
inspiring journey of a hero (or heroine) who prevails and comes out on top.
Therefore, there’s really no such thing as “too much of a good thing” to you. It’s why you take your
positive behavior traits and you exaggerate them. You think if you place no limits on your behavior,
you will be able to have the most amazing experiences and attract such wonderful opportunities.
The thing is that this works for you regularly enough that you find it too easy to overdo it. If you
have Jupiter in Taurus, being grounded, consistent, sensual, and fixed works out enough for you
that you take it to the utmost. You feel like you always, always have to dig in your heels and go at
your own slow, steady pace, even when good sense would encourage you to move at a faster pace.
1st House Jupiter people regularly do not heed good sense, even if Jupiter is in Earth or Air. You are
very willing to take the foolish approach, scoffing at those who label you a fool because they just
don’t have the level of faith or conviction that you have. But, sometimes, they are actually right. You
can very easily go down a ridiculous path and also be too self-righteous to admit that you are.
Jupiter is our belief system and with Jupiter being in the 1st House, those beliefs are right there for
everyone to see. You put yourself out there by standing up for what you believe in, even when
nobody else believes in it. It’s an admirable quality, even when you are making choices that are silly
or ill-advised. And in the end, none of that even sticks to you because, even when things don’t work
out, you have a way of finding the positive in what happened and moving on.
This highlights the fact that life is an endless slew of growing experiences for you and has been,
since the beginning. The 1st House shows us what our first several years were like, which instilled
impulses, attitudes, and patterns within us when we were still living at an unconscious level. The
earliest part of your life was very expansive and adventurous. It would not be surprising to see a 1st
House Jupiter person born into a rather carefree or free-spirited environment. This formative
atmosphere of yours could’ve taught you to live with the wind in the hair and not worry about much
of anything. You might have been swept away on numerous adventures, in one way or another.
This could be by parents who were always on the go, possibly to the point of being real world
travelers, or by constantly going from one place to the next. Moving a lot in the earliest parts of
childhood seems to be a common theme when Jupiter or Uranus are in or rule the 1st House.
Because of this, you were conditioned to see life as not something that you settle down into for too
long. Also, there was this early message you received that you should never have to hold back or,
again, limit yourself. From the start, you always felt “bigger” than most people, even when you were
a little kid. There was just something about your spirit that could not be contained and this was
encouraged by those around you. Jupiter in the 1st House children quickly fall into the role of the
one who lifts everyone’s spirits or the one who goes big when everyone else goes home. While this
may have been a bit too much to handle for some, you had the message ingrained in you that you
were this epic person and should settle for nothing less than a legendary life.
This is why there is this awe-inspiring air to just about everything you do. Having a 1st House
Jupiter doesn’t just give you a larger-than-life attitude and demeanor. Even your mannerisms and
body language, also ruled by the 1st, seem too big to be contained. Jupiter in the 1st House
individuals can be easily fall into huge gestures and movements without really thinking about it. You
might seem to need more room than other people and this can explain your famous clumsiness.
This placement gives you an accident-prone sort of style because your body needs all of the
freedom and open space that it can get. If not, you will definitely knock something over. Sometimes,
it can be a bit tiresome for you. You might get sick of feeling like you have two extra legs or arms or
that you’re like Godzilla, a giant stomping over everyone without even realizing it.
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In fact, that can be a problem for you. As much as people will love and gravitate toward your
positive energy, there may be times where you just don’t know how to turn it off. That doesn’t just
mean being annoyingly cheery. Someone could be having a seriously bad day and if your attempt to
cheer them up doesn’t work, you can just breezily move on to something or someone else. You are
so forward-moving that you can be careless or thoughtless. The Jupiter sign demonstrates how.
With Jupiter in the 1st in Gemini, you will quickly move on whenever a boring kind of negativity or
lack of communication settles in. Jupiter in the 1st in Pisces shows that if someone is trying to
shatter the illusions that you possess or is being negative in a way you deem as mean, you will
leave them in your dust. You have a distinct intolerance for people raining on your parade. Yet, you
might have to stop and remind yourself that life cannot be all positive all the time.
This can be a glaring flaw of yours, as such relentless positivity can instill a blind faith that keeps
you ignorant to what’s really going on in a situation. This doesn’t just extend to your way of dealing
with people, of course, because the 1st House is so general and touches everything you do. So, in
all situations, you can display a distinct resistance to dealing with the bad as well as the good. This
is a curious trait of yours because it contradicts your overall insistence on the truth. But, other
people can observe you and inform you that you only want a certain kind of truth: the kind that’s
not upsetting or disappointing. Otherwise, you can’t handle it! This also may be why you can be so
blunt or unfiltered with others because you think that as long as you’re expressing what you believe
in, it’s a good thing, even if it’s delivered in a way that could possibly hurt or offend someone.
So, you need to be a bit more moderate in your outlook by revising your idea of the truth, allowing
it to incorporate both the good and the bad. You can be so concerned with someone bursting your
bubble. But, the thing is that if you are as buoyant and resilient as you describe yourself as being,
then your bubble will quickly be inflated again. No one and nothing can get you down for long. So,
let that be a way for you to accept the negative while not giving it that much importance, either. In
the end, you can live your life as a wonderfully lucky person. Although assigning the word “luck” to
Jupiter is a bit too simplistic, you probably see and live life in terms of luckiness. This is something
that motivates you to count your blessings every day. Being so grateful and appreciative for the life
that you have allows positive opportunities to consistently manifest. I tell everyone else that life
opens up for them when they embrace their Jupiter. But, for you, life is constantly open. You just
have to acknowledge that and keep following this golden path.
Also, since the 1st House is about one’s individual self, the 1st House Jupiter indicates that you
believe very much in being an individual. You attract a lot of good things into your life when you are
self-reliant and self-starting. This powerful faith in your individuality will keep you moving ahead in
life even when no one is seemingly by your side. After all, sometimes, the adventurer has to fly solo.
In doing so, you can end up stumbling across findings you never would’ve discovered if you let a
resistance to going at it alone stop you. The instinctive self-awareness you possess is really sizeable.
Whatever sign your Jupiter is in, you take on that persona to the hilt.
If Jupiter is in Leo, you can shine with a tremendous charisma and magnetism that makes everyone
notice you or you can take command like a real leader amongst leaders, exerting your will with
great power. This is due to you having a basic belief in yourself that, again, pushes you to do it big.
People will not be able to not notice you. As I always say, I don’t take the physical appearance
element of the 1st House too literally. But, there is going to be something about your look that is
impossible to ignore. It could be actual physical features like being amazingly tall or having gigantic
eyes. It could be having an over-the-top style or walk that makes other stare. Jupiter in the 1st
House people also tend to be very loud, with either a speaking voice that you can hear across a
crowded room or a laugh that takes up all of the oxygen around them. Regardless, in one way or
another, you are an enormous presence and others are just forced to make room for you. 7
There is an inherent selfishness to the 1st House, as whatever is in this house wants to reap
personal benefits just for itself. So, you will actually experience great growth and positivity when
you just concern yourself with doing you and only worrying about you. Sure, you shouldn’t give up
being a great friend or partner. But, you need to believe that it’s important to make yourself your
first priority. As much as you can play the part of the Lucky Charm, spreading so much goodness to
other people, you need to be primarily concerned with the benefits you will receive as an individual.
Jupiter in the 1st House people treat life like they are out at a casino and are eager to win as much
as they can at the blackjack table. Even though you can get yourself into a few disastrous situations
because of some crazy gambles, your willingness to take these gambles with such faith and gusto
work out in the end, allowing you to walk away with fatter pockets that you started with.
JUPITER IN THE 2ND HOUSE
What does it mean to have Jupiter in the 2nd House of your birth chart? It can potentially be one of
the most misleading placements for Jupiter, the planet that is stereotyped to be all about luck, luck,
and more luck. Pair that up with the house that is often stereotyped as being just about money and
it makes it sound like having a 2nd House Jupiter means that you’re going to be filthy rich. The 2nd
House is not just about money and Jupiter is not just about luck. But, Jupiter is a planet that
represents the most positive and often the most effortless area of life for you. This is just where
amazing things naturally happen for you and while this can mean financial prosperity, it can also
mean just feeling good about yourself and having an overall sense of security.
The 2nd House is the house of security in numerous ways. It’s not just about being financially
secure but feeling secure within yourself. It follows up the self-image of the 1st House in order to
give you a solid sense of self-worth. One of the best ways I can describe the 2nd House is that
whatever is in this house shows what you have to love about yourself in order to feel comfortable
and at ease in your own skin. With Jupiter being the planet of faith and of belief, this planet being
positioned in the 2nd House indicates that you will have to not only have strong beliefs and
convictions but really value this part of yourself. This is what gives you that feeling of security.
Since Jupiter represents the potential excess in our lives, the influence of Jupiter in the 2nd means
that there can actual be an excessive amount of security in your life. This can manifest as having an
abundance of self-esteem. Many 2nd House Jupiter people can actually feel exceptionally good
about themselves and about their footing in life. It’s a self-loving attitude that can take place
regardless of how much money you actually make. But, this excessive security can also mean that
you end up making a lot of money. It is true that this placement can show someone who ends up
being very financially well-off and possibly even wealthy. However, it could also mean that you are 8
always just financially comfortable, never having to struggle or want for anything.
The drawback of the 2nd House Jupiter is that you can go overboard in your yearning for this level
of stability. It can create an excessive kind of greed or materialism that always leaves you wanting
more and more. Those with this placement can easily become shopaholics if they let themselves, as
your spending habits can get out of hand on a regular basis. The motivation for this can depend on
the sign that Jupiter is in. Jupiter being in Earth could mean that you just shop a lot to boost your
status while Jupiter in Fire could indicate impulsivity or immediate-gratification urges when it comes
to shopping. Either way, your spending can become flat-out ridiculous. You could max out your
credit card very quickly or spend everything in your checking account without even realizing it.
It’s the catch-22 that everyone experiences with Jupiter: it brings you these gifts and these fortune
circumstances but you can push your luck or take all of that good fortune for advantage. Jupiter in
the 2nd House people can be so accustomed to financial comfort and stability that they think that
they are always going to have it (although, of course, other placements and aspects can modify
this). You can have such faith that there will always be more resources, more money, and more
possessions around the corner that you take what you already have for granted, being wasteful or
careless with it. Jupiter in the 2nd could cause you to look forward to what’s on the horizon
financially so much that you neglect to appreciate and take good care of what you already have.
Therefore, it’s important for you to turn more of your energy toward having true gratitude for your
resources and possessions. Such gratitude will require you to manage your money well and spend it
with greater moderation, instead of just throwing it all out of the window. Still, there is something
deeply gratifying to you about spending and buying things. Making a new online purchase or going
out on an excursion to the mall can really lift your spirits, more than the average person. It would
be quite unlikely to see a stingy or cheap person with this placement. Money-minded? Yes.
Practical? Okay. But, you do not believe in being cheap. Jupiter in the 2nd House makes “treat
yourself” your motto because you believe that you deserve nice things and deserve to actually enjoy
your money. After all, the reason you make money is to use it.
The 2nd House is what you would call “the lifestyle you become accustomed to.” With a 2nd House
Jupiter, you will certainly become accustomed to a very comfortable lifestyle. Even if you aren’t rich,
you are going to want to live as richly as possible. That does not mean living beyond your means
but just having plenty of fine taste and living in true comfort. Jupiter does not want to be limited
and those with Jupiter in the 2nd don’t want to feel like their lifestyle is limited. You don’t do “broke”
very well. Even if you don’t make the most money, you can find a way to still live an enjoyable,
pleasurable lifestyle. Having to live in a terrible apartment, eating cheap food and never going out or
doing anything fun, would be a total nightmare to you. Not necessarily because you’re materialistic
(although the possibility is there) but because that hinders your Jupiter from all of its potential.
If our Jupiter house is where we are the most positive, then Jupiter in the 2nd means that you don’t
want money matters getting you down. In fact, it can be to the point where you really don’t seem to
care much, if at all, about money. In many ways, you don’t because it’s such a simple and
pleasurable matter to you that it’s not worth all of the stress. And this is an attitude that attracts
more of it your way. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think that a check will come in the mail if you wish
really hard for it. But, I do think that there is a general Law of Attraction at play when we venture
into the 2nd House. Whatever attitude you have surrounding money is how your financial situation
will play out. Jupiter in the 2nd House people prove that by having a genuine trust in their potential
for financial security and for living a lifestyle of abundance, this is what will end up happening.
This is all something that boosts your self-worth. The 2nd House Jupiter can actually result in so 9
much self-worth that it turns into complete self-indulgence. Again, you might be a little too eager to
treat yourself. You also may be so intent on sticking to your values that you aren’t even interested in
giving any other values a try. This can create an attitude of rigidity when it comes to others’
lifestyles. It’s not necessarily judgmental, unless Jupiter happens to be in Virgo or Capricorn. It’s
more so that you know what you love, so you can easily feel like there’s no point in trying anything
else because you’ve already found the pleasure and comfort you’re looking for. I could say,
metaphorically speaking, that you eat at the same restaurant all the time and don’t want to try any
other place. But, this could also literally be a problem that you have in your life.
Venus, the planet of love, is the natural ruler of the 2nd and the 7th. While the 7th House is who
you love, the 2nd House is what you love. Jupiter in the 2nd means that you really, really love these
things that you get attached to, whether it’s your favorite place to eat or that sweater you wear all
the time or the new bed set that you just bought. It’s just important to not place too much
importance on these possessions and patterns. It can easily feel as if there’s nothing you don’t own
(whether it’s an item or a way of living) that isn’t held on to with an absolute vise grip. People may
realize this, too late, when you absolutely cannot budge on these things. Moving in with you could
be overwhelming to some because it can become a question of what to do with all of that stuff.
Yes, Jupiter in the 2nd House can definitely make someone a candidate for being a complete
hoarder. Jupiter could be in Cancer in the 2nd, making the hoarding very sentimental or emotionally
motivated, or it could be in the sign of Aries, causing you to be willing to fight over all of these
accumulated possessions. In any case, you need to be able to let go of the things that you love,
only seeing it as an opportunity to accumulate more important possessions down the line. 2nd
House Jupiter people can actually benefit greatly from becoming excellent collectors of rare or
valued items, especially because of the monetary gain. Financial investments are also the way to go
for you and you could have many positive experiences in the stock market.
In making all of these financial and material gains, it’s just also important to remember that your
worth is not wrapped up in these things. With Jupiter in the 2nd, you must truly believe that your
personal value works from the inside out and not from the outside in. There are many people with
this placement who have to learn this but just as many who seem to inherently know it already. It’s
what puts you in a position to live such a lovely, cushy lifestyle because you already possess much
personal security. That inner security will attract the outer security that you seek.
Much of this security with yourself can be due to you not only having plenty of conviction behind
your values but really valuing your convictions. Jupiter in the 2nd can be the embodiment of that old
saying “if you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” Therefore, your beliefs are very
substantial and solid. Whatever you believe, you will believe it firmly and it will be tough for others
to dissuade you on it. Again, you can easily get too attached to and stuck on these beliefs, just
because they think they are worth standing up for or believing in. But, it’s important to check and
see if these convictions are past their use by date. If so, maybe you need to toss them in the trash
and find something else to believe in that will actually enhance your life.
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JUPITER IN THE 3RD HOUSE
Just what is the 3rd House? It is the house of the mind, that governs your comprehensive and
communicative skills. Having Jupiter in the 3rd House shows that you really need to believe in the
importance of developing and feeding your mind. Since Jupiter represents excess, Jupiter in the 3rd
can be a placement of someone who has enormous brainpower. This is a person who may have a
certain kind of “luck” when it comes to their intellect. At the same time, Jupiter is not just about
getting lucky. There are some potential drawbacks to the excesses of Jupiter, as well, like the
gambler who spends all night trying to hit it big and then ends up losing a lot of his money.
Jupiter in the 3rd House people can regularly expend a lot of energy in thinking, to the point
of over-thinking. Along with Mercury or Mars in the 3rd, Jupiter in the 3rd has the potential to create
an incredibly active mind that just doesn’t know how to stop. Jupiter is where you find your faith
and when you have Jupiter residing in your chart’s 3rd House, you are going to find your faith in the
realm of logic. What kind of logic it is depends on the sign that Jupiter is in. If the 3rd House Jupiter
is in the sign of Capricorn, it will be a very practical, efficient logic that gets you from point A to
point B successfully. If you have Jupiter in the 3rd and in Aquarius, you will display an unorthodox
yet objective logic that allows you to think outside of the box. Either way, you are going to spend a
lot of time thinking. But, just how do you shut that brain of yours off?
Jupiter can be described as how we expect good things to happen because the house that it’s in is
so effortless for us. With Jupiter in the 3rd, you do possess an effortless kind of intelligence. So, you
are constantly under the impression that if you just use your brain and really think, things will work
out in your favor. And while really using your head is going to be very beneficial for you, you also
might want to watch out for using your head a bit too much! This will cause you to become stuck in
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emotional response is needed or welcomed. If Jupiter is in the 3rd and in Cancer, Scorpio, or Pisces,
this might be less of a problem. Still, even you can end up wasting a lot of energy dwelling on
feelings in an intellectual way – thinking your way through them and over-analyzing them – instead
of just feeling them. So, it’s important for you to understand when being so logical is necessary and
when it’s maybe that not big of a deal.
The driving force behind being such a thinker is that you have this sense of virtually everything you
think being a big deal. Your thoughts and ideas (3rd House) are infused with a ton of enthusiasm
(Jupiter). If Jupiter is where we have conviction, you are able to think and communicate with a lot
of conviction. You also have really big ideas, as your mental scope is so expansive and adventurous.
Jupiter in the 3rd House people are very willing to follow a train of thought down a really exciting
path. How that mental path unfolds all depends on the sign of Jupiter, as it could be impressive
(Capricorn), unusual (Aquarius), stimulating (Gemini), or profound (Scorpio). But, you trust the
process of one idea leading to the next idea, willing to bounce around from thought to thought,
experiencing the amazing process of being intellectually engaged.
Jupiter in the 3rd definitely means that you seek a ton of stimulation, as well. It’s really as if you
can’t get enough of it! Your ability to bounce around from one interesting thing to the next can
make you a complete busybody. There is a certain curiosity to the energy of the 3rd House and with
Jupiter here, that curiosity can go overboard. In short, curiosity can kill the cat! You might end up
being a bit too nosy or gossipy for your own good, especially if Jupiter is in a sign like Gemini, Libra,
or Scorpio. The thing is that you are just so eager for information and so intent on sharing it! But,
since Jupiter is such an uplifting energy, you most likely are not going to spill any of this tea with
truly malicious intent. Jupiter would have to be in a square or opposition to something for that to be
true and, even then, you’d probably feel bad about it afterwards.
For the most part, when you communicate with people, you want it to be really positive. So, you will
share whatever information you’ve acquired just because you feel like it will interest other people.
You could be quite naïve in this way, not really understand the meaning of “I’m telling you this in
confidence” or “please don’t tell anyone this.” That promise could go out the window quite quickly if
someone else presses you a bit on said subject. Jupiter in the 3rd usually makes for a blabbermouth
and this is something that you may have to figure out how to rein in just a bit. This could be in
regards to you never knowing when to shut up or being over-the-top in the way you communicate.
A significant problem that those with this placement can have is forcing their thoughts and ideas on
others. Since you believe so much in what you have to say and have so much energy to
communicate it, your conversations can frequently turn into you trying too hard to sway others to
think what you think.
Your ideas aren’t just ideas. They can regularly turn into opinions and it can be hard for you to tell
the difference, at times. Your mode of thinking is so infused with your beliefs that even when you
think you’re just proposing an idea, you’re actually expressing an opinion and in a way that could be
overbearing or overwhelming. Those with a 3rd House Jupiter can also easily exaggerate their ideas
and thoughts, taking them beyond the realm of fact and often without realizing it. You make
everything bigger in your mind. Therefore, you are sometimes not as factual as you think you are.
You don’t stick to a dry recollection of what happened. Instead, you can magnify the facts and turn
any simple story into a really grand adventure. This is the kind of quality that makes you an
excellent storyteller but, at times, it also makes hard for others to take your words that seriously.
The 3rd House does also represent the “flip side” to you; a duality that emerges and often in an
unpredictable fashion. With Jupiter in the 3rd, this duality can either occur in the form of being on
an absolute high horse or becoming a total clown. The former option means that you can flip a 12
switch in your brain and suddenly start preaching to everyone about what’s right and wrong. You
might have rather foolish sense of knowing exactly what’s right and wrong. But, it usually takes
someone to burst your bubble and remind you of the facts, including that when and how you can be
in the wrong, for you to get down off of that soapbox. The latter option indicates that you can
switch into being absolutely silly and ridiculous as a conversationalist. There can be times where you
just don’t want to take the conversation seriously at all and feel the yearning to just lighten
everything up (although this can vary, depending on the sign of Jupiter). Yet, it’s something that can
also lead you to make a mockery out of the communication between you and someone else.
To be honest, a part of you will not like poking fun at people and a part of you will relish it. The 3rd
House is naturally ruled by Gemini and planets here have a certain “evil twin” quality. With Jupiter in
the 3rd, though, you will actually be able to greatly benefit from that evil twin inside of you. You’re
supposed to have a lot of faith in your duality. In doing so, you will keep your mind open and
remember that there is more than one way to think about something. Anything can be mentally
processed by you as either respectable or embarrassing, lovely or ugly, entertaining or boring,
hilarious or really unfunny. Sometimes, the same thing can be both things to you. If Jupiter is how
we attract positive opportunities our way, you are able to do so because you can think dualistically.
This broadens your ability to communicate, with many different people, which attracts good fortune.
Such a broad mode of thinking defined your grade school years, which is also represented by the
3rd House in the birth chart. Jupiter in the 3rd can certainly mean that grade school (kindergarten
through the 12th grade) was a breeze for you. It’s not necessarily true, though, depending on what
else may be in your 3rd or in aspect to your Jupiter, as well as your Mercury sign, house, and
aspects. But, since Jupiter is defined by its excess, you definitely made a huge splash throughout
these years, in one way or another. For many, it’s because you were an exceptional student,
constantly making the best grades and winning over all of your teachers. For others, it could have
been just because you were a really big deal around school. After all, school was a chance for you to
be endlessly stimulated, going from classes to the lunchroom to recess to extracurricular activities.
You might have been one of those kids who was endlessly involved in these after-school programs
or activities because they kept you interested and kept your mind occupied.
There is also quite a pattern, with this placement, of looking back on those grade school years as
your “glory days”. While many people don’t consider middle school or high school the best time of
their life, you could definitely harbor this idea. And it’s not necessarily because you were popular,
although you could have been. It’s more so because you dabbled in so many things. Life could have
felt so much more interesting as a kid! Now, as an adult, you have to work more to remain
stimulated and to stay out of the dullness of the everyday. It is crucial for you to keep learning, as
an adult; to continue to see yourself as a student. The thing about Jupiter in the 3rd is that life
opens up for you when you are educating yourself. But, no longer having homework doesn’t mean
that you can’t keep educating yourself. Read as many books as you can, learn different languages,
research various topics or things going on in the world. You need to keep feeding that brain!
Jupiter in the 3rd House kids can take to the classroom with great buoyancy and positivity. You
could have even been seen as a “model student” and, let’s face it, a brown-noser. But, you have
always benefited from being on your teachers’ good side. You really cherished your teachers
growing up and learned so much from them, beyond what you had to know on your final exam.
Even if you had questionable behavior or average grades, you still learned a lot from them. 3rd
House Jupiter people often had a teacher or two they particularly idolized or that they feel really
changed their life. Yet, this is something that instilled within you that you were a teacher with a lot
to instruct others on, even when you were just a child.
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We can’t forget to mention that the 3rd House is also the house of one’s siblings. The simple
interpretation of Jupiter in the 3rd is that you can come from a very large family with many siblings.
This can be true for many but, of course, not for all people with this placement. You might just have
one or two siblings. But, this is a bond that you will really cherish. 3rd House people usually have a
really wonderful, downright life-defining relationship with a brother or sister. If Jupiter is in the 3rd,
this is probably even truer. A lot of people with this placement see their sibling as one of their best
friends and it has always been that way, ever since you were little kids. You two had a special bond
and very often went off on your own little adventures together.
Sibling rivalry can be significantly minimized with this placement. However, it should also be said
that, depending on the aspects to your Jupiter, there is a ton of tension with the sibling that you are
always trying to alleviate somehow or move beyond. But, it may be hard to do so. In this sense,
your brother or sister will be a lot to handle in terms of being very dramatic, overwhelming,
demanding. In positive cases, though, there is just a lot of positivity between you two. Instead of
trying to kill each other all the time or selling each other out to Mom or Dad, you two probably really
stuck together. In fact, your parents might have been truly unable to come in-between this bond.
You two had a pact that no one else could break.
You may have spent a ton of time, growing up, with your sibling, as Jupiter gives us a lot of
whatever is in that house. This inseparability was probably much more educational and informative
than it was annoying. If you were the older sibling, you spent a lot of time teaching your younger
sibling certain things. They could’ve come to depend on you for plenty of guidance. If you were the
younger one in the relationship, you probably just learned a lot from your sibling and sought to
emulate them.
Either way, Jupiter in the 3rd House people are often the “anointed ones” amongst the birth order.
We all play out our birth-order role in certain ways. But, if you have this placement, you really
benefited from that rank. If you were the oldest, you set the bar of awesomeness really high for
everyone else that followed. If you were the middle child, you may have happily gotten lost amongst
the others, simply being very supportive of them and bringing out everyone’s best potential. And if
you happened to be the youngest, then, you just allowed yourself to be showered in the total ease
and specialness that typically comes with it, even enjoying the occasional jealousy.
In the end, you could be experienced as the best sibling one could ever have. But, you might also
see your sibling as the best anyone could have. Now, you may be an only child with this placement.
I feel like it is probably quite rare to see a 3rd House Jupiter person who has no siblings, since
Jupiter doesn’t skimp on the house it’s in. But, it’s not impossible! If that’s the case, you certainly
had plenty of cousins to keep you company. I’ve found that only children with 3rd House planets
usually have very brotherly or sisterly relationships with their cousins. This closeness and
camaraderie, therefore, made you feel like you weren’t really missing out because you had a
surrogate brother or sister. The same can also be true of childhood friends and/or kids in the
neighborhood who really blessed your life by being the brother or sister you never had.
Well into adulthood, the dynamic of your relationship with your brother or sister essentially remains
the same. Spending time together can make you feel like you’re 12 again. But, it’s also possible that
such regression is a little bit too much. At a family gathering, your mother might feel like she’s still
having to discipline you two like she did when you were kids… and you’re now in your 30’s. But,
there is this constant rapport of mischief that remains between the two of you. Inside jokes,
hilarious stories, and other info that only the two of you know about can be traded back and forth in
the blink of an eye.
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The 3rd House is also about your neighborhood and how you deal with it. Jupiter in the 3rd House
people regularly benefit from having wonderful neighbors, even if they are just renting throughout
their 20’s. The person across the hall can always seem to be so nice to you! This is an experience
that could stem from childhood, as you might have really liked your next-door neighbor while you
were growing up. They could have been one of the nicest adults you knew and very influential, in
this sense. Not only do you go into adulthood understanding that you should “love thy neighbor” but
you can really expect them to love you.
Jupiter in the 3rd House individuals often ease into their neighborhoods well throughout adulthood.
Your expansiveness only makes you more welcomed by those next door. At the same time, Jupiter
does not hold back! So, as nice as you are to your neighbors, you won’t hesitate at all to tell them to
keep down the noise or confront them about their dog pooping in your yard. After all, everything
your neighbor does – whether it’s a kind gesture or an annoying move – is a big deal to you. But,
once you’re honest and things get settled, you willingly move on and don’t allow it to ruin your
relations with them.
JUPITER IN THE 4TH HOUSE
This is a particularly significant place to have Jupiter because the 4th is one of the angular houses.
Anything that’s in the 4th represents something that you feel very rooted in; it makes you feel safe
and supported. So, those with Jupiter in the 4th House feel truly safe and supported through their
beliefs. You are really “at home” when you have something to believe in and this means that your
literal home is the place where you feel like you can express these beliefs. The home is seen as a
place of freedom for the 4th House Jupiter and it is also a place of discovery. But, you can also feel
free and feel a sense of discovery by finding lots of different homes.
There is an excess to Jupiter and whatever house this planet is in, you will have a lot of what that
house represents. If you have Jupiter in the 4th House, you can be the kind of person who moves
around a lot. Maybe you don’t live in a city longer than a couple of years before moving to another
or maybe you just do a lot of traveling, for leisure or for work. You could also constantly just move
from one residence to another. 4th House Jupiter people are often serial “renters” as adults,
enjoying the feeling of not having to be tied down to one place for longer than a year. Whatever the
case may be, you have a long personal history of being able to just pick up and go from one place
to the next. It’s something that began in childhood and has been carried over into adulthood.
So, this placement shows a childhood that may have felt like a constant adventure, traveling from
one place to the next. Some would say that this placement indicates a person who moved around a
lot as a child. This is not always the case, of course, but it is true in many cases. And while a lot of
children feel quite negatively impacted by an upbringing that involved constant moving, you were
thrilled and nourished by the perpetual exploration. Things was remained fresh and there was
always some new discovery to be had. This is not necessarily just in the context of moving. In your
family unit, you were the most adventurous one, the one who could not be contained or held back 15
for long. So, your place in the family helped to broaden everyone else’s horizons and lift their spirits.
You could be counted on to provide positive energy in the home.
At the same time, your family has also experienced you as being pretty over-the-top or extra. As a
child, they may have begged for you to develop an off switch and this feeling still probably
continues into adulthood. Yet, they may also not see enough of you to get as annoyed with you.
Jupiter in the 4th House individuals don’t want to be restrained by their families. In fact, on some
level, your family may have never been enough for you. This can create a huge sense of
restlessness whenever you’re with them. You would think that every person with this placement
would really love the idea of going back home for Christmas and sitting around to have dinner with
their family because, supposedly, everything is so lovely and rosy when it comes to Jupiter. But,
there are plenty of people with this placement who’d see that as a total prison sentence.
Why is that? Jupiter does not have limitations and when you limit yourself to having just this one
family, you feel like there is something else out there that you’re missing. So, you are very likely to
skip holidays with your biological family on a regular basis. Sometimes, you’d just rather have that
Thanksgiving feast with your friends. Close, long-term friends, of course, can come to be seen as
family. And this is what Jupiter in the 4th is all about: expanding your idea of family. Therefore, you
should not limit this notion to the people who you are related to, blood-wise. Jupiter in the 4th
makes you benefit significantly from cultivating surrogate families, whether it’s with your long-time
friends, your cherished co-workers, people in the same community, or possibly in-laws or your
partner’s family (many people with this placement can really luck out in terms of in-laws).
This is a pattern that began in childhood and should continue into adulthood. It’s another reason
why your biological family will feel like they cannot hold you back. You were constantly going off to
your home away from home. Children with this Jupiter can be the types who regularly spend the
whole weekend off at Ricky’s house. Ricky’s parents (or whoever your good friend was) were always
so happy to have you because they felt so at home with you and vice versa. You really believe in the
power of creating a feeling of family with lots of different people. So, you have a personal
background in being able to be “adopted” by those who you might not even be biologically related
to you. For you, blood is not thicker than water. It’s just blood.
However, it’s still good to be able to go back home to your blood relations. Some 4th House Jupiter
individuals can be so busy traveling from place to place, setting up one home after the next, that
they can forget about where they came from. Yet, it is important to know that this is all a case-by-
case basis. Sometimes, for some people, the family they were born into is not where they belong.
The 4th House represents a true support system for us. If your biological family is not that safe
support system for you, if they don’t make you feel good or feel accepted, then you should have
faith in the process of moving on from them. You should see it as your journey to find your real
family elsewhere, to choose these relatives instead of passively accepting people who aren’t healthy
influences in your life just because they are biologically related to you.
But, if you do have a family that is genuinely supportive and that you can have a healthy
relationship with, you should not get so wrapped up in your adventures elsewhere that you don’t
remain connected to them. Jupiter in the 4th can create such a search for your actual roots that it
turns into all-out rootlessness. Remember that being this restless and insatiable means that you
have some sort of hole that you’re trying to fill and, maybe, that hole can be filled by going back to
your original homeland. If they are really good to you, you should learn to appreciate your loved
ones a lot more because they can bring so many blessings into your life. Although Jupiter in the 4th
does not necessarily mean that you are going to have the best family and the best upbringing in the
world, it does mean that you will be able to manifest an excellent family unit for yourself, either 16
through being born into it or choosing it.
The 4th House Jupiter can also bring huge benefits in terms of starting a family, i.e. finding a
spouse/partner and/or having children. Parenting, in particular, is something that you can really
benefit from. The happy home that you’re constantly searching for may be something that you need
to give to someone else. In creating this great home environment for your child, you can also end
up inadvertently creating it for yourself. The benefits of parenting are different for Jupiter in the 4th
than they are for Jupiter in the 5th. The 5th House Jupiter person can receive good fortune from
being a parent thanks to the opportunities for play, self-expression, and enjoying life that they can
provide their child. With the 4th House Jupiter, the good fortune just comes from being able to
make sure your child is safe, provided for, and has the foundation that he or she needs.
The sign that Jupiter is in will show just how you’re able to do this. If Jupiter were in Scorpio and in
the 4th, you would be able to be this benevolent provider and protector with great perceptiveness,
emotional strength, and depth. Having your 4th House Jupiter in Leo means that you would create a
strong and safe support system for your child in a manner that boosts their confidence and that
gives you free rein to take command. You can also display this protectiveness toward your
significant other, old friend, family member, and anyone else who is a part of your private life. You
must really believe in your ability to create the kind of atmosphere, behind closed doors, that will
make people feel good and keep your familial unit thriving.
Jupiter in the 4th also means that you are supposed to invest a lot of energy in your personal life.
This is all even truer if Jupiter happens to be conjunct the Nadir, as well. You should have faith in
the importance and power of privacy. When you’re out in the world, it might be easy to slip into a
cynical state. You might feel the need to just hustle and bustle, do whatever you need to in order to
get by, even if it means paying some lip service to certain people. But, when you go home, literally
and metaphorically, you are reminded of how important it is to stay in touch with what you actually
believe. The 4th House represents our state of downtime, when we are disconnected from worldly
demands. And with Jupiter in the 4th, this downtime is extremely beneficial for you.
When you enter this reflective mindset, you will feel like you are on a real journey. It’s why not
being able to create a true work-life balance for yourself is actually going to really deplete you and
dishearten you. You cannot spend too much energy on your goals. You have to be able to unplug
and to turn inward in order to remain inspired. This is why you can be so opinionated, sometimes
even preachy, in your personal life because this is the time for you to be reminded of what your true
beliefs are. So, you are eager to share them with your loved ones. Behind closed doors, you are a
real philosopher. Only those who have special access to your private life will know this about you.
Seeing as how the 4th House is also one’s ancestry and personal lineage, you might also be
pleasantly surprised to know that you come from a long line of philosophers or believers. Jupiter in
the 4th House people can be descendants of those who have fiercely stood up for what they
believed in, even if it cost them. In exploring your ancestry, you could find that you had a great-
grandmother who notably fought for her equal rights or a great-great-uncle who was a prominent
figure in the religious community. Maybe it’s as early as your granddad being the first atheist in a
family of Catholics or your mom just having a really outspoken nature. Whatever the case, you are
tapping into this familial background of voicing one’s opinions and beliefs, thanks to Jupiter in the
4th. It’s a way of honoring those who came before you and drawing from their experiences.
Since you can put so much energy into your home life, you could also be a downright homebody.
Sometimes, going out into the world might not feel quite as exciting as exploring your options at
home. 4th House people are not always homebodies, as stereotyped. But, Jupiter in the 4th House 17
individuals are very likely to see a night of Netflix and wine as more promising than going out to that
bar. Seeing how the 4th House represents how you are to live with, you can also be an exceptional
roommate. You might be really easy to live with and the Jupiter sign can tell you why. If it’s in
Taurus, it’s because you are so laidback at home and if it’s in Gemini, it’s because you communicate
well with those who you live with. You could also experience some luck in terms of roommates.
While many of us have quite a few horror stories, you could have little to none regarding
roommates, even going back to your college days. Even if you have had some bad experiences in
terms of living with people, you look back on them as growing experiences that weren’t that bad.
The 4th House does represent all the “little things” in life that make up our private existence. And
with Jupiter here, this does mean that you can be quite exaggerated in terms of these little things.
Since virtually everything in your private life is magnified, you can attach symbolism and meaning to
the most mundane things. “The power just went out. This must be a sign! She didn’t take out the
trash. Is she trying to tell me something?” Not that you over-think, unless Jupiter is in Gemini or
Virgo. It’s more so that everything in your home life is quite a grand experience, to a point that can
make you believe these things are a bigger deal than they really are. But, maybe this is why you are
such an epic roommate. There really is something so larger-than-life about living with you. Nothing
remains mundane for long and this is probably why you love to move or live half your life out of a
suitcase. Once one home starts to get “old”, you are eager to find another one.
Jupiter is the planet that represents what you believe in and the 5th House is all about creative
energy. So, with Jupiter in the 5th, you have (or are meant to have) a lot of faith in your creative
abilities and skills, which can manifest in so many ways! When we talk about “creativity”, people
tend to think of that in terms of artistic talent. While Jupiter in the 5th House people are often gifted
with these talents, they are not limited to them. Artistic skill is the specific use of creativity, which
permeates anything and everything. Being creative is basically being able to make something out of
nothing. So, it can touch just about anything in your life. When you’re creative, you do something
with a special flair.
You inject life into what you’re touching, making it entertaining, dramatic, exciting, or colorful.
Jupiter in the 5th House people are blessed with this kind of Midas touch that can turn anything into
gold. It’s not necessarily cockiness, although a cocksure attitude can occur because of that which
can have some messy results (more on that later). It’s more so just about having this strong vision
and letting it dominate whatever you do, in a way that results in your own distinctive style, flair, or
approach.
The 5th House is the heart and how we act from it; it’s a place of lively passion and spirit. It’s why
it’s so associated with romance and love. With Jupiter in the 5th, it means that you can very easily
be a fool in love. In matters of the heart, you do downright silly things for someone who you have
feelings for. Sure, we all do. But, those of us with Jupiter in the 5th can believe so much in
romance, in passion, in putting our heart out there on the line, that we can get hurt more often than
others. This can also happen because we believed so much in the love affair that was brewing or
that could possibly brew between us and this person that we didn’t stop to be more sensible about
it. 5th House Jupiter people take a lot of gambles in their dating lives and can regularly end up in a 18
lot of disastrous or just plain disappointing romantic situations because of this.
Well into adulthood, there is something about the Jupiter in the 5th House person that is like a
crazed teenager in romantic situations. It’s like that side of you never dies. You still have outrageous
crushes where you pine over that special someone and obsess over how hot he or she is and start
mentally dating them before you actually date them. I think that this is what makes you so inclined
to take a risk on someone you are attracted to. You can be so caught in up the drama of your
attraction to them that you don’t slow down and figure out what’s actually going on. And if there
actually is drama? Watch out! This is the other side of the passion of the 5th House and it can turn
your teenage dream into an adolescent nightmare, which, as an adult, isn’t always so mature.
The drama will manifest differently, depending on the Jupiter sign. If the 5th House Jupiter is in
Virgo, the object of your affection is such an idiot to not feel the way you do and you have a long
list of how things could change and why! If you have Jupiter in the 5th in Aries, you may be
exploding all over the place when things don’t go your way romantically and get really aggressive
about it happening. In any case, your inner adolescent can come out in an embarrassing way that
just makes it all worse. The upside of the 5th House Jupiter is that you see matters of the heart as
growing experiences, so you can bounce back and move forward readily with an equally open heart.
You benefit a lot from believing in keeping your heart open and being eager to give love. Many
people describe the 5th House as the “love you give” (while the 11th is the “love you receive”). So,
with Jupiter in the 5th, you really have so much love to give someone else! This is something that
can potentially be overbearing or overwhelming if you try to force this love onto someone else. The
downside of Jupiter is that we can be so eager to get lucky in this area of life that we overdo it.
Jupiter in the 5th House people can all too easily not have much chill in the romance department.
You might not only try to make someone love you somehow but you can be guilty of forcing
someone into your ideal picture of a date or a lover. On a date, you might become a bit controlling
in terms of steering the conversation or the events toward the direction you want. The 5th House is
also about sex, in a general and often casual way, and with Jupiter here, you might be seeking an
ultra-passionate bout of sex that never really happens in reality, leaving you disappointed.
This all stems from your enormous creative energy, which goes back to my earlier point. Jupiter in
the 5th House individuals have such a skill for creating situations or injecting such fascinating life
into them that they feel like they always need to be doing that. So, you will constantly be trying to
turn situations into what you envision them to be. The 5th House is the inner command you can call
on to make something happen. Therefore, with this placement, you always feel like, “Things should
be going the way that I want them to go.” You often are very good at this, which is the tricky thing.
You can excel so much as a leader or entertainer or lover that you think that things should always
go according to your will. Yet, life isn’t going to happen that way. So, this can set you up for
foolishly believing that things will work out in your favor when the situation actually just explodes in
your face, especially if you force it. However, the way to overcome the downside of your Jupiter is
to just rein in it some. You should freely express this planet’s energy while still giving it some
limitations.
But, let’s get into more of the wonderful things about this placement. Jupiter in the 5th House does
give you a tremendous heart. Anyone who is lucky enough to be loved by you will be showered with
a ton of affection. Also, maintaining an open heart will bring you so many positive opportunities,
particularly in romance. 5th House Jupiter people can be highly attractive as they invest a lot of
energy in moving beyond their particular disappointments in love. Most with this placement are not
the kind of person to be held back by a bad string of lovers or dates. Even if you do go through a
spell of this attitude, it will be temporary and won’t last long. Jupiter’s expansiveness will make you 19
realize that there are too many people out there to give your heart to for you to be bogged down by
the fact that the last person was a nutcase or a jerk. The sign Jupiter is in will show just why exactly
you’re willing to keep your heart open, whether it’s because of a belief in self-improvement (Virgo),
bravery (Aries), pleasure (Taurus) or vulnerability (Cancer).
Since Jupiter can give you a lot of whatever it represents, Jupiter in the 5th can also mean going out
on an endless string of dates. It can get to the point of you becoming a real serial dater. But, I can
personally attest that this is often accidental. You are just so intent on “moving forward” in love that
when one lover drops out of the picture, it’s like you magically attract another one your way. You
can just fall right into these kinds of situations. As long as we keep the door open to our Jupiter’s
possibilities, things work out. So, as long as you remain open to dating, you will rarely be short of
dates. Yet, you can go through long periods of just remaining in the casual dating phase, which is
what the 5th House represents, without committing to an actual relationship.
This is not always intentional, either. It’s just that many of these brief love affairs, passionate flings,
or string of dates just don’t really reach the commitment phase. They are fun while they last but
they don’t last very long. So, you readily move on, chalking it up as just another experience under
your belt. Unsurprisingly, it can take a lot for you to actually commit to someone on a long-term
basis. This can be more or less of an issue, depending on the sign that Jupiter is in. But, Jupiter in
the 5th House people come to grow and learn throughout their lives that a lot of these romantic
situations are fleeting and not something to be taken too seriously. So, it can confuse you when
your love interests think a few dates means that you’re all of a sudden “together”. If taken too far,
though, it can cause you to be a downright player, bouncing from lover to lover just because.
Jupiter in the 5th also shows that you are very creatively talented. Sometimes, this can mean being
amazingly handy around the house, being able to put things together exceptionally well, having
strong leadership skills that allow you to take command of various projects, activities, or ventures.
You might be the go-to dinner party host amongst your friends, for example. However, this creative
skill can also mean being a wonderful actor, singer, writer, visual artist, etc. 5th House Jupiter
people who are into art are really, really into it. Thanks to the total ease of Jupiter, someone with
this placement can have an arsenal of artistic talent that is downright effortless, just as long as they
really believe in their skills and abilities.
Creative skills and projects of all kinds will bring you many positive opportunities. Jupiter in the 5th
gives you a larger-than-life “star quality” that will allow you to assume whatever stage you need to
in order to express your creativity and wow people. Your talents may actually be more noteworthy
than you realize. It is important for you to not hold back in this regard, even if you end up
outshining someone else in the process. Since the 5th House rules self-expression in childhood, as
well, children with Jupiter in the 5th tend to be obviously gifted and talented in some area of life,
especially the arts. Without even trying, you could outshine or outdo many of the kids around you,
particularly when you were in your element. But, sometimes, you did try to do so. These children
can potentially be “show-offs” but this is usually when they’re being ignored or their talents aren’t
being validated. You basically may have needed a lot of validation or recognition as a child.
This little show-off is still within you, as the 5th House represents our inner child. So, there is still
this part of you that threatens to jump out from behind the curtains and say, “Here I am!” Of
course, don’t be obnoxious about this. Yet, being such a performer is something that you really
benefit from. Few people gain such a high from entertaining as you do. It helps if you actually have
some outlet that allows you to literally entertain people. You’ll be really good at it and it can help
you chill out in other areas of your life. Since the 5th House represents a kind of personal charisma 20
or distinctiveness, you will need to really believe that you’re special and that you’re a star. But, you
have to do so without going overboard about it because, then, that’s just arrogant.
Yet, you won’t have to do much in order to convince others of your star power because something
about you just shines. In childhood, you might have gotten the “golden boy” or the “princess” label,
seeming to be the “chosen one” amongst other children. You might have also been a lot for the
adults around you to handle, in some capacity or another. Jupiter in the 5th House kids have so
much energy and such an excessive need for self-expression that they can downright exhaust
teachers or parents if all that energy doesn’t have a place to go. The 5th House is the level of self-
awareness that is willful and conscious, compared to the impulsive, behavioral self-awareness of the
1st House. So, with Jupiter in the 5th, even as a child, you possessed such a strong, vital self-
awareness that made you often feel hell-bent on expressing yourself. It’s why you were so creative
and needed such outlets. If not, you would totally explode!
If and when you actually have children of your own, you may find yourself getting some payback, in
that regard. Jupiter in the 5th House people can end up having children who are an absolute
handful. A person’s child will reflect their 5th House in some way. So, your child will probably have a
strong Jupiter or Sagittarius influence, making him or her a very candid, uncensored, irrepressible
sort of child. But, this reflects and speaks to your inner child because you might have spent a
portion of your childhood being told to be quiet, contain yourself, or reel it in. This will compel you
to urge your kids to really just express themselves and be themselves! Your ultra-honest little boy or
girl will appeal to the ultra-honest little boy or girl within you that you remain very in touch with.
Also, you can display a strong belief in really connecting with your children and getting on their
level. 5th House Jupiter people are usually downright amazing with kids and seem to speak their
very language. You may seem to understand children in a way that many adults do not. Kids can be
really magnetized toward you. Even before becoming a parent, you may be the total favorite aunt,
uncle, cousin, or family friend to the children in your life, mostly because you’re so warm and fun
with them. However, you do know when to set the playfulness aside and lay down the law when
needed. The fact that you are both a big kid and a boss means that you can develop a very special
relationship with your own children, understanding how to have a good time with them and allow
them to be free while still remaining in charge.
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Those with Jupiter in the 6th House are going to get the most positive energy out of life from their
day-to-day living. The house that Jupiter falls in is where things happen best for us, whether we
realize it or not. When we’re truly grateful for the gifts that Jupiter bestows upon us, we will find
ourselves reaping that famous “luck” that this planet is known for. The 6th House represents your
work ethic. Whatever is in our 6th House tells us the ways in which we will feel most productive and
efficient. Basically, it’s how you roll up your sleeves and get stuff done! Jupiter in the 6th House
individuals have a huge ability to roll up their sleeves and get stuff done. But, at the same time, they
can also go overboard with this, if they’re not careful.
With this placement, you feel most productive and efficient when you maintain a very positive
attitude. You must take a look at that to-do list and instead of sighing and complaining, simply say
“I can do this” and tackle all of those tasks. The thing is that few people have the ability to be on
top of their to-do list as much as a 6th House Jupiter person does. You can find yourself checking
off one item on the list after the next after the next until you look around and notice that everything
is taken care of. So, there must be more for you to do, right? This busy-bee syndrome can swell out
of control. As I keep saying through this series, Jupiter does represent excess. It’s how we can go
over-the-top and just be way too extra for our own good. With Jupiter in the 6th, your potential for
excess is to never know when to stop working, organizing, correcting, and/or doing.
There is that saying that goes “we’re called human beings, not human doings.” But, you, of all
people, would probably scoff at that. This is because life really opens up for you when you are
constantly doing something. Jupiter in the 6th House people feel very stagnant when they are
suffering from a case of idle hands. It’s to the point where you can create unnecessary things for
yourself to do. You just cleaned the shower? Oh, well, the kitchen needs to be straightened up. You 22
might have made a mess. Oh, no, you didn’t make a mess. Well, might as well clean out your closet.
You haven’t done that in about a week or so. But, not before you change the sheets on the bed!
It’s to the point where the people around you may wish that you could just take a break. Since the
6th House is the house of work ethic, Jupiter in the 6th House people can be downright workaholics.
However, it’s not exactly like how a Saturn in the 6th or Pluto in the 6th House people can be
obsessed with work. For you, it’s generally a very positive thing. Being busy with work combats all
sorts of feelings of anxiety or stress for you. Many people with this placement can even find
themselves overcoming or managing their depression just by remaining busy, especially if Jupiter is
in a square or opposition to another planet, representing a certain inner tension or imbalance that
needs to be worked through.
However, it can be a case of “the chicken or the egg”. Do you use work as a healthy antidote to
anxiety, stress, or depression or are those mental and emotional states the “withdrawal symptoms”
you experienced when you’re not doing something productive, showing the signs of some kind of
work addiction? Jupiter in the 6th can get a bit tricky, in that sense. But, either way, you are capable
of manifesting really positive results by just staying productive. You are also often the hardest
working person in the room, running circles around other people. I don’t exactly agree with the
interpretation that the 6th House is how you are “on the job”. That is more so the 10th House. The
6th House doesn’t just involve your literal work performance, though it can. Whether you’re finishing
up a project at the office, washing the dishes, or exercising at the gym, this irrepressible work
performance can manifest in many different ways, including you leaving other people in your dust.
In fact, you might be too much of a taskmaster in this sense, without even realizing it. Saturn in the
6th House folks can have nothing on you in terms of critiquing someone else’s efforts. They, at
least, know how to show some restraint. With you, if you see someone “getting it wrong”, you can
find it really, really hard to refrain from letting them know. “That’s not the way that you do it!” can
be one of your go-to phrases. It can be showing the new guy the ropes or telling your friend how to
best handle her diet and exercise regimen or insisting that your roommate get his act together when
it comes to cleaning the shower. There’s still a ring around the tub! Suffice to say, when your Jupiter
gets out of hand, you can become a complete nag.
But, the thing is that you aren’t doing it maliciously. Since Jupiter is such a positive energy, you nag
with really excellent intentions. It will often come off that way, as well. Even during the times where
you annoy the hell out of someone else, it will also be easy to point out that you’re just trying to
help. Jupiter in the 6th House just means that you believe in your own form of perfect order and
want not only to benefit from that yourself but to have other people benefit, as well. The sign that
Jupiter is in can show how this perfect order comes out. If Jupiter is in Cancer in the 6th, you have a
very intuitive gut-felt sense of how things should go. If the 6th House Jupiter is in Libra, this ideal of
correctness is to make things equal and lovely for everyone and if Jupiter happens to be in the sign
of Capricorn, it’s so things go very successfully and everything has a purpose.
It will help you, though, to remember that not everyone believes in the sense of correctness that
you do. So, when you correct them, you are more so just doing it according to your own beliefs.
And there will be times when people don’t appreciate that, even if you mean well! It’s also good for
you to remember that it’s impossible for everyone and everything to be correct all the time. This will
allow you to not freak out so much when you fall short of those high standards. As positive as you
are, in terms of getting things done, there are those recurring times where you are an absolute ball
of nerves. The 6th House represents stress and how we deal with it. While you are capable of
bouncing back very well from stress, you usually do because your stress levels can hit you like a
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This stress will inevitably end up manifesting on a very physical level. The 6th House is also the link
between the mind and the body. It’s how your thoughts end up affecting your health. And Jupiter in
the 6th House can show huge stress levels that mean that you are always getting sick. It can get to
the point where you end up having this nagging cough that just won’t go away or these sinus
reactions that just keep flaring up. The psychosomatic element of the 6th House shows that when
you aren’t being truly resilient and buoyant in the face of stress, you will feel by it getting sick.
It can just be these little symptoms that are easy to ignore until they get bigger and bigger and, one
day, absolutely can’t be ignored anymore. Jupiter also symbolizes how we can push our luck. With
Jupiter in the 6th, you can push your luck in terms of your health. Some people with this placement
can harbor the habit of never going to the doctor, even when it’s clear that they should. You might
believe that you’re being resilient by doing this but you’re really just believing that you’re utterly
immune to any sort of sickness or ailment. This is not true resilience and you will inevitably pay for it
with some disastrous health scare or emergency that forces you to see a doctor.
Still, even when this happens, you do have a knack for coming out of it unscathed. Unfortunately,
this is the kind of thing that can encourage or re-instill your foolishness in terms of your health, in
the future. It’s best for you to find a fine balance, putting in the practical efforts to stay healthy
while also knowing that certain times call for a mind-over-matter approach. In terms of something
mild like a cold or a sore throat, you can be one of those people who “thinks it away”, using the
power of your thoughts to eradicate those symptoms. Some may scoff at that but there is rather
substantial evidence that it’s possible. You inherently know that it’s possible and it’s been proven to
it. But, still, remember that everyone benefits from medicine and a regular check-up.
The other end of the spectrum is the 6th House Jupiter person who is an all-out hypochondriac.
Again, this is more likely if there is a square or opposition to Jupiter. But, since this is the planet of
going over-the-top, your concerns for your health can be highly unnecessary. You may either rush
to the doctor or hop online and browse WebMD at the slightest physical symptom or sign. You may
even begin making up certain symptoms in your head, especially if Jupiter is in Cancer, Scorpio, or
Pisces, which I imagine can express itself in rather neurotic or paranoid ways in the 6th House.
Instead of eliminating sickness with your mind, you can create sickness with your mind. So, of
course, this is something to watch out for. Your friends or family may get exhausted with reminding
you of this and it may take a professional to tell you, “This is all in your head.”
The hypochondriac-type Jupiter in the 6th House person may just be making all of this fuss over
their health just to keep their day-to-day life exciting. There is a humdrum element to the 6th
House; a kind of “not much interesting going on here” thing. We’ve all caught ourselves saying, at
least once, “Oh, the same old, same old” or “the usual” or “it was alright” when asked about our day
or how things are going. Jupiter in the 6th House people can experience a lot of that. In fact, this is
really the way they prefer it. With this placement, you get a lot of positivity out of having a
predictable schedule and an average daily rhythm that you can count on. It’s to a degree where you
don’t see it as boring, like others might. You see it as the thing that keeps you afloat.
And depending on the Jupiter sign, the day-to-day boringness may not even be all that dull. If
Jupiter is in the 6th in Aquarius, for instance, you will love being able to count on a certain
unpredictability, such as eagerly and abruptly changing your plans and always scheduling things
around the unexpected. Consistent inconsistency is what keeps you going on a daily basis; the
regular feeling of anything being able to happen at any time. In a way, you experience great
freedom through consistency and functionality. It’s why Jupiter in the 6th House people really
benefit from their lists, their schedules, their planners, their work calendars, or whatever else you 24
use to keep yourself organized. When you finally establish your own form of order, you feel free. In
fact, being able to schedule your day in any direction you like is your ticket to freedom.
We crave lots of different experiences through our Jupiter. The house that Jupiter is in is where we
have no limits. With Jupiter in the 6th, it’s as if the limits you impose gives you a sense of no
limitations. Once you know what you have to get done, once things have been laid out, you feel as
if you can do anything. When those with the 6th House Jupiter really get down to work, they gain a
sense of anything being possible. You believe that there is no limit to the tasks that you can
accomplish and may display a seemingly endless ability to be curious (Jupiter in Gemini), responsive
(Jupiter in Cancer), creative (Jupiter in Leo), thoughtful (Jupiter in Libra) or whatever skill your
Jupiter specializes in for the purpose of getting the job done. Jupiter in the 6th House people are
very multiskilled and life opens up for them when these skills are really being put to practical use.
If Jupiter is the place where we experience the most positive energy, the logic follows that having
Jupiter in the 7th, the house of relationships, means that relationships are where you experience the
most positive energy. While this can definitely be true, this placement also means that partnerships
are where you can go overboard and be prone to excess, in terms of either being a partner or the
partner that you choose to be with.
The 7th House is a tit-for-tat house, an endless reflection in which we see ourselves in those close
to us and they can see themselves in us. This applies to one’s wife or husband, boyfriend or
girlfriend, as well as to your best friend or close friend and also, potentially, your business partner.
Anyone who has to have close, long-time, one-on-one dealings with you is represented by your 7th
House. With Jupiter in the 7th, it seems as if you are always attracting a Lucky Charm in the form of
these partners. You are very drawn toward those who seem to embody a lot of positive energy.
They could be very optimistic, philosophical, or forward-moving, always taking life’s knocks with
resilience and good faith. These partners, therefore, bring a great deal of spiritedness and positivity
into your life. The 7th House indicates what our romantic and platonic companions will have to offer
and with Jupiter in the 7th, they will seem to offer you a lot of wonderful opportunities.
This could create the kind of dynamic where you have an amazing trust and faith in these people,
more than you usually do with people. If Jupiter is conjunct the Descendant in the 7th, this is even
truer. Since Jupiter is what we believe, Jupiter in the 7th naturally means that you want to believe in
other people greatly. But, you won’t believe in just anybody. I feel like 7th House Jupiter individuals
are generally not that trusting. You possess a natural attitude of skepticism, needing to be shown
something to truly believe it. As a result, you could actually have an individual perspective that is
either rather cynical or that requires a great deal of reasoning and evidence. In terms of your 25
singular point of view, just believing something for the sake of believing it may not be appealing and
may actually seem quite stupid to you. After all, that’s how people get conned!
However, when you get close to someone, something happens to you. Another side of you emerges
that really yearns to have faith and to have something to believe in. The 7th House shows how we
adjust our regular behavior in our close, one-on-one relationships. With your significant other or
close friend, your skepticism can subside in order for a more pure-hearted, uplifting, and even
surprisingly naïve side of you to emerge. The 7th House is not just about the sort of partners we
attract. As I say all the time, it’s also about the kind of partner we are to our romantic companion or
our best friend(s). So, Jupiter in the 7th means that in order to connect to these people, you
express more faith and more positivity. This is usually because of their own faith and positivity,
compelling you to meet them halfway and be more upbeat like them.
The sign that Jupiter is in shows exactly how this dynamic will occur. Jupiter in the 7th in Capricorn
means that you will display positive energy in your personal relationships in a way that focuses on
never giving up, being self-sufficient, and persevering with the right attitude. Jupiter in the 7th in
Libra, on the other hand, means that a connection will take place that brings out a positivity within
you that makes you focused on keeping things balanced, harmonious, and fair. In any case, it can
seem as if the partner gives you something to believe in. But, this is the potential drawback of the
7th House. It can breed co-dependency and with Jupiter here, you may be too dependent on the
other in order to feel positive and to have faith. You might feel like, without them, your spirits would
be flattened and you wouldn’t really know how to appreciate life.
The fact that Jupiter represents one’s beliefs means that there is also the potential that you could be
far too dependent on your partner to tell you what to believe. In your purely individual expression,
you can be so rational that you prefer logic over conviction. So, your partner can really convince you
of their point of view because they believe what they believe so strongly that they treat it as fact,
not opinion. Since you may have trouble having strong beliefs on your own, the sheer power of their
enthusiasm and opinionated energy can easily sway you. In spite of your skepticism, you also can
be very open to new ideas. This is because, as an individual, you don’t believe that strongly in
much. Your significant other or your best friend, however, can be so insistent on their beliefs that
they eventually wear you down because you generally don’t care that much, anyway.
On the flip side, the 7th House Jupiter also means that you can be the one wearing down the other
person with your overly opinionated ways. Since this outspoken side is the “other half” of your
nature that is less acknowledged by you, it can take some time for you to really understand this
about yourself. You might, instead, spend a lot of time complaining about how the other person is
always shoving his or her beliefs down your throat. Sometimes, you can believe so strongly that
you’re in the right that you don’t budge or you spend a lot of time trying to convince the other
person. This is quite antithetical to your overall behavior, so it can catch you by surprise. It’s not
until you start hearing the complaint that you’re overbearing, you’re too much, or that you always
think you’re right that you have to stop and do some reflecting.
In spite of the 7th House’s reputation for harmony, I think one of two outcomes are possible with
Jupiter in the 7th. Either you get into close relationships that are so peaceful, agreeable, and
harmonious that it’s all way too good to be true or your partnerships are so full of conflict that you
are constantly striving for harmony and compromise. The latter is going to be true if you have a
square or an opposition to Jupiter. The 7th House is, after all, a constant balancing act and we
should not forget that Jupiter is about excess. Because of this, Jupiter in the 7th could actually be
one of the more troublesome placements for Jupiter. Excess and harmony do not really go together.
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harmony, all of that compromise, niceness, and sweet talk will get old quickly. Plus, Jupiter is about
standing up for what you believe in. So, it’s actually very likely that a lot of conflict could occur
because both parties’ beliefs are so strong. This is when you get the constant arguing and the
constant insistence, from either side, that they’re right.
The thing is that you both may have the best of intentions. But, with the dark side of Jupiter, we
often see that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. You both may be trying your absolute
best to make it work and make each other happy. The thing is that you are both trying too hard to
make the relationship work, to the degree where you either go over-the-top to find happiness with
one another or you go overboard trying to resolve the conflicts between you. Jupiter in the 7th
House can manifest as a marriage where you are always talking about what’s gone wrong in the
marriage. It can be the two best friends who are always texting, always attached at the hip, always
interfering with each other’s lives. It can also be the couple who keep smiling their way through
their relationship, convinced that with enough positivity, all of these problems will go away.
I love the whole “marriage myth” that Dana Gerhardt, my favorite astrologer, came up with in
regards to the 7th House. I definitely have to credit her because this is not my idea and I love how
spot-on it is. She basically says that the 7th House is indicative of the way we viewed our parents’
relationship and how, as a result, we go about our own relationships as adults. There is so much
complex psychology involved in the 7th House and this is definitely one element. So, you would
think that, with Jupiter in the 7th, the person is the product of the best marriage ever. It could
certainly seem that way to many people with this placement growing up. Your parents may have
seemed like the best couple in the world and in your relationships, you are always striving hard to
meet their exceptional standard, which taught you to believe in love, compromise, and finding your
equal (even if you don’t realize it).
Yet, it could also definitely happen the other way. Jupiter can actually be a disastrous area of the
chart, in certain ways, if not undertaken with enough balance. And there are some 7th House
Jupiter folks who witnessed a marriage or a union that was highly unbalanced: too much fighting,
too much resentment, too much ego, too much insincerity, etc. It all can depend on the sign that
Jupiter is in. If the 7th House Jupiter is in Leo, it may seem as if the parents constantly tried to
dominate one another and if Jupiter is in the 7th in Cancer, there could have been too much
moodiness, neediness, or insecurity. And the thing is the child is usually caught in the middle. Kids
with 7th House planets usually act as the “go-between” figures for their parents in times of conflict,
helping them serve as the mediator figures that they grow up to be.
It's no wonder why, as an adult, you could feel so restless and so insatiable in your relationships.
Jupiter in the 7th isn’t always the best indicator for stable, long-lasting relationships. If you are a
product of the ideal marriage, you might always seek out partners, particularly romantic partners,
who live up to that ideal. If they don’t, you could easily look for the exit. If you are a child of a
messy marriage, then you might be so used to that messy way of connecting with people that you
don’t realize anything is wrong. The 7th House Jupiter can exhibit great foolishness or naivete in
thinking that fighting all the time, being totally passive-aggressive, or partaking in other forms of
psychological warfare is completely natural and fine in a relationship. You may be so accustomed to
these overblown relationships, thanks to your parents’ marriage myth, that when you’re in a
ridiculous relationship, you don’t believe that anything is wrong.
But, this is what could also lead to rampant divorces, a string of break-ups, or friendships that end
in just as much heartbreak. If not careful, Jupiter in the 7th House can become a total heartbreaker,
just because they are so ready to move on to another relationship. The good thing is that, well, you
can move on very easily. But, usually, it’s for the right reasons. If the other person is not allowing 27
you to grow, then you don’t see the point. Also, if you feel like you’re holding the other person back,
you can find it within yourself to let them go and with no hard feelings. This is a big part of your
expectation in relationships: you feel like both people should be growing. So, feeling stagnant with
your romantic partner or best friend is something you can usually take as a sign to move on with
your life, believing that this is all happening for a reason. Relationships are nothing but growing
experiences for you.
Life opens up for the 7th House Jupiter individual when they adopt this perspective. It means that
you can attract a limitless amount of people your way. As long as someone can bring something
good into your life, you don’t have much of a problem getting close to them. In fact, it can get to a
point where everyone is seemingly your best friend. Jupiter in the 7th usually makes for a very easy
person to connect with and get close to because you are so eager for companionship and so open
toward whoever comes your way. For this reason, finding yourself a mate is probably downright
effortless, as well. You are similar to Jupiter in the 5th, in this way. But, with the 5th House Jupiter,
the person finds it very easy to get dates, to gain general romantic attention, and to embark on
flings. The 7th House represents the commitment phase of romance. And it can be astonishingly
easy for you to commit; sometimes too easy. You can go out on a date with someone and a month
or two later, it’s like you’re already married (and I wouldn’t put it past you to actually get married
after a couple of months, either, if it seemed like the right person).
This is the potential recklessness of Jupiter at play because Jupiter in the 7th can be notorious for
moving too quickly. You can be so ready to benefit from the relationship that you completely jump
in. If anyone is prone to overeager engagements or too-soon milestones, like moving in together
very suddenly, that worry their friends or relatives, it’s this person. You might even take to
considering someone your best friend too quickly and want to be fully involved in their life. Yet, it is
not necessarily out of a desperation or neediness, although it could be the case, depending on the
Jupiter sign. It is more so that you see relationships as such an adventure and you don’t spend
nearly as much time hesitating as the rest of us do. Love is like skydiving or bungee-jumping to you.
If it’s not crazy or wild or risky, you don’t really want to do it.
In a way, it’s quite a beautiful philosophy because you are so willing to risk so much on someone if
you feel like they are important enough. In the end, Jupiter in the 7th House individuals can come
out on the other end with wonderful memories of a marriage or relationship, no matter when or
even how it ended. You can be the ideal co-parent, still engaging with your ex-husband or wife as if
all of that history never even happened. You might also just find it very easy to remain on amicable
terms even if there are no children involved and even if it’s a former friend we’re talking about.
Then, of course, you also get the Jupiter in the 7th House person who is a part of a really lovely
marriage that reminds them, every day, of how much they are loved. You can also see people with
this placement in wonderfully supportive long-term friendships that really go the distance. Your best
friend may be the most amazing person in the world to you, even more than your romantic partner,
and everyone else may agree that you two might as well be married because they are basically the
platonic love of your life.
All of this can remind you to keep loving yourself and valuing yourself. At the end of the day, we do
have to remind ourselves to be self-loving via the 7th House, instead of constantly seeking that love
from others. It has to start within and Jupiter in the 7th House people seem to really believe that.
For this self-love to happen, you have to acknowledge and appreciate the side of yourself that is
philosophical, expansive, irrepressible, and upbeat. You might be close to philosophical, expansive,
irrepressible, and upbeat people. But, your relationship will not be mutually fulfilling until you can
see and love those traits within yourself. When the 7th House Jupiter really cherishes their inner
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find true fulfillment in their relationships but within themselves. You can create a positive
relationship with yourself by knowing that, even when you have no one else, you still have an inner
faith and positivity that you can rely, being your own best friend or partner when needed.
To have Jupiter in the 8th means that your Jupiter is not going to manifest in an absolutely
benevolent way all the time. This is because the 8th House is the dark side of the birth chart. It’s
where all of our personal demons and emotional issues reside, creating the psychological shadow
material that can stay hidden until it rises to the surface destructively. So, it’s safe to say that there
is a fair share of darkness that manifests when one has this placement.
But, of course, the house that you have Jupiter in is also the place where the most positive things
happen for you and they can happen quite effortlessly. We can sometimes just fall right into the
circumstances of our Jupiter’s house, in the way that resembles the luck that is so associated with
Jupiter. When Jupiter is in the 8th House, it goes to show that you gain the most positive energy out
of life by exploring, confronting, and transforming these psychological problems of yours. Because of
this, life opens up for you when you are not afraid to dwell in the darkness inside of your own soul.
You must be eager to face your sadness, rage, grief, obsession, or paranoia. Ironically, these
seemingly threatening and dangerous emotional states are often a very good thing for you.
When you believe that it’s good to face that darkness within, you will be able to heal long-held
emotional wounds and conquer that internal instability. But, it may feel as if it takes a tremendous
amount of courage to do so. True to Jupiter’s form of going over-the-top, it might seem as if once
you unlock that emotional Pandora’s Box, it is very difficult for you to put a lid on it again. Jupiter in
the 8th House can make you feel highly overwhelmed by all sorts of grievances, resentments, and
compulsions. It’s enough to make you feel as if you have transformed into an outright monster. But,
the sign that Jupiter is in shows how this monstrous inner self can emerge. Jupiter is in the 8th in
Aquarius, you could become so utterly detached and indifferent that you wreak havoc all around
you. The 8th House Jupiter being in Cancer would turn you into a total emotional hurricane of ever- 29
changing moods while Jupiter in the 8th in the sign of Leo would bring out an inner pride and
willfulness that expresses itself in a downright dictatorial manner.
The funny thing is that Jupiter is what brings expansion into our lives. So, if you are not exploring
this dark side within yourself, you cannot truly broaden your horizons. This is why this can be a
particularly difficult placement for Jupiter because it may seem as if that’s really not going to benefit
you or your life. You might think, “What’s the good of being that hateful, depressed, enraged, or
fearful?” But, it’s when you are capable of exploring these inner depths of yours, no matter how
frightening they are, that you will awaken your ability to achieve and sustain magnificent emotional
healing. You have to confront those demons of yours because it’s only through doing this that you
will be able to confront the painful source of your demons; just where all of that hate, depression,
rage or fear is coming from.
The 8th House of the birth chart is what I like to think of as the deeply wounded part of ourselves.
No one escapes life without an emotional scar or two. We all have emotionally difficult and even
traumatic things occur to us that forever change us and can instill an inner pain that has to be dealt
with, sooner or later. If it’s not dealt with, this pain will keep repeating. The 8th House is also a
symbol of how “the cycle repeats”; not just the cycle of disappointment, turmoil, dysfunction, or
even abuse that we inherited from our family (depending on your family situation) but the situations
that will keep repeating until we deal with this inner wound and find a way to heal it.
So, with Jupiter in the 8th, you may actually be enormously wounded. Not everyone with this
placement will come from a very traumatic background. But, it’s quite a common pattern. However,
the difference between this placement and other planets in the 8th is that the positive energy of
Jupiter prevents the person from seeing their past as having been that traumatic. Jupiter in the 8th
House people can often lose a parent during childhood or endure abuse at some point in their
upbringing, either of the physical, mental/emotional, or sexual variety. Yet, these are people who
are true survivors. The 8th House also tells us how we can survive on a psychological level and
those with an 8th House Jupiter have some of the most amazing survival skills around.
Since the 8th House is about emotional resources, you have those in spades. No matter what
happens, you are capable of drawing on an inner resilience, hope, and faith. This is because
something happened to you, at some point in life, to really damage your faith. Often times, this is
being affected by death or abuse as a child. Many Jupiter in the 8th House children grow up quickly
by having their childish ideals shattered by the harsh inevitabilities of life, whether it’s the fact that
we are all going to die one day or the realization that people can be horribly cruel and destructive to
one another. Something happened to rob you of your innocence and it might even be something
that you’re not entirely conscious of. This consciousness doesn’t happen, though, until you have to
stop and realize just why you are so easily triggered when life proves itself to be not all that it’s
cracked up to be.
Whatever is in the 8th House feels really damaged until we can take it, reshape it, and bring it back
to life. With Jupiter representing your faith, you really have to revive your seemingly dead sense of
faith because, in the end, you are capable of extreme inspiration and hope. The 8th House’s energy
is extreme and whatever is in there is amplified with great intensity. It’s just that a person can also
stifle or even deaden their 8th House planet because they are too afraid of the pain that could come
with expressing it. Jupiter in the 8th means that you have to stop being afraid of being let down by
life. You can feel deeply tormented by this sense of the rug eventually getting pulled out from right
under you. So, why even bother? Everything’s going to go to ruins anyway. But, of course, this is
not the attitude to have. You have to be strong enough and resourceful enough to have hope.
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This is something that can heal those inner wounds of yours. If you’ve survived any sort of abuse,
which could also be a sexual assault of some kind in adulthood (another common experience of 8th
House people), you must dig deep and unlock the inner faith needed to overcome that. You have to
believe that you had to experience this pain in order to become a bigger, better person. By believing
this, you can regard the trauma with a certain positivity. This does not mean pretending that it
never happened, sweeping it under the rug, or being okay with it happening. It means knowing and
trusting that you’re a survivor and that whatever happened to you is done. You don’t need to let it
define you anymore. Just let the awareness of how you survived it give you strength. It's a strength
that will allow you to push through other emotional difficulties in your life, trusting that if you got
through one painful time period, you can get through another.
Jupiter in the 8th House can create an amazing release of any sort of built-up resentment, to the
point where you feel like a completely new person. The Jupiter sign shows why you will feel the
need to not hold on to any emotional pain from the past. If the 8th House Jupiter is in Pisces, it’s
because you believe it’s important to forgive, to let go, to let the Higher Power do its will. Jupiter in
Capricorn in the 8th means that you would release this inner pain because you want to be mature
and take responsibility for yourself and adopt the more efficient route. It’s an attitude that should
extend to anyone who’s hurt you, particularly anyone in your family. While your emotional issues
may be traced back to them, you have to make sure that they end with them, as well.
People with planets in the 8th have the power to be the one who breaks the cycle. Many can
struggle with this, though. But, with Jupiter in the 8th, as long as you take the positive approach to
your emotional issues, you will find it easy to rise above the emotional turmoil and dysfunction you
might have inherited. More than the average person, you can also benefit greatly from going to
therapy. Anything that requires you to be truly honest about your emotional issues and move on
from them will continually bring a lot of positive energy into your life. Also, journaling and just sheer
introspection can work in this regard, especially since you may have an effortless way of hashing
through all of your psychological “stuff.” But, you can also go overboard by being too immersed in
introspection and the analysis of your own psyche. It’s good to know when to give it a rest, so
you’re not constantly obsessing over your trust issues or fear of abandonment.
I always say that the infamous “deaths” of the 8th House can be metaphorical. It’s often not so
literal, simply meaning that, as someone with Jupiter in the 8th, you can possess a tremendous
knack for killing off a destructive part of yourself that is holding you back. At the same time, it is
also wise to remember that your dark side can be quite enriching, when properly accessed and
expressed. You can be the artist who is unafraid of primal, terrifying emotional states, getting lucky
in terms of knowing how to go deep, often because you’re all too familiar with trauma, loss, or
suffering. You can also use your rage as a motivator, in moderation, or find great compassion for
others through your recurring spells of sadness and despair. This is just another way for you to turn
those demons of yours around, killing off an unnecessary fear of them instead.
But, of course, the 8th House can also represent literal death. 8th House Jupiter people can go
through a time where it seems as if too many folks they love are passing away. It’d be tough to find
a person with this placement who wasn’t profoundly impacted by the death of a person they love.
It’s very possible that it’s more than one person but there will be one that feels especially tragic or
heartbreaking. Of course, we all unfortunately lose someone close to us or important to us at some
point and it is something that hits us all hard. However, the death of a loved one affects the Jupiter
in the 8th House individual in an incredibly powerful and undeniable manner. Your life will absolutely
never be the same after that person is gone but, again, you have this ability to turn that around.
If this loss occurs during childhood, this heightened awareness of your mortality can bring a 31
maturity and urgency to your perspective that most children don’t have. You might have spent a lot
of time dwelling on death but this could have positively prepared you for life. Because you knew
how fragile it was and how easily a life could be taken, you became empowered and intent on
always being appreciative and grateful. For Jupiter in the 8th, gratitude becomes a survival skill
because it not only helps you push through the bad times, it attracts the kind of situations your way
that show you that, while life can be depressing and sad and can end all too suddenly, there are still
plenty of reasons to appreciate and enjoy being alive.
I’m not going to tell you that this helps you avoid death because I just don’t think a person can
predict anyone’s death by looking at their birth chart. Jupiter in the 8th House people do not
necessarily live longer. I do feel like they have the potential to live more fully, though, to the degree
where at that moment when they die, when their life flashes before their eyes, they don’t have any
regret because they lived as wholeheartedly as they could. This is an attitude that can also help you
cope with someone else’s death. 8th House Jupiter people can be very positive presences at a
funeral or a wake. You might understand that they did all that they needed to do while they were
here. A lot of people can just say “it was their time” because it’s the standard phrase people say
when someone dies. But, you probably really believe that, even if their death really pains you.
Getting through the grief process can be much easier for those with Jupiter in the 8th, especially if
they happened to lose someone in their formative years. All of the stages of dealing with death can
happen quite seamlessly for you, especially if you are living with an embrace of your dark side. The
anger, denial, sadness, etc. can all hit you like a tremendous wave, though. In fact, when you
experience that first major death in your life, it may feel as if you are downright drowning in grief.
But, you can see that grieving period as a real growing experience that’ll teach you how to deal with
the deaths of other people with a greater perspective and understanding of the mysterious reasons
why these things just have to happen. You can see the positivity in letting someone go.
It's hard to tell which house is more mediumistic: the 8th House or the 12th. Both houses deal with
death and the dead, in different ways. The 8th is more about conjuring spirits, as in a séance, while
the 12th is about co-existing with them, as in a haunted house. Jupiter in the 8th can bring certain
experiences of speaking to the dead, especially if it’s a loved one. I’m not saying you can actually
speak to ghosts. Yet, it can just be through the form of certain signs or even visions. It can scare
you and freak you out or utterly fascinate you. Regardless, believing that there is an afterlife, that
we do go somewhere once we die (even if it’s not of the Heaven/Hell variety), is very beneficial for
you. If anything, you can gain a lot of comfort from the sense of knowing that the person who died
is “out there” somewhere and feeling their spirit with you, often times as a protector.
As far as the inheritance thing goes, I’m not going to tell you that Jupiter in the 8th means that you
will gain a huge inheritance financially from someone else. I just don’t like that interpretation of the
8th House, as I have said before, because I think it’s disempowering. Yet, it is a thread through 8th
House people’s lives. You might get the best part of your grandfather’s will when he passes. You
may also find yourself living off of someone else financially in a major way. It’s not uncommon for
those with this placement to very easily find themselves a sugar daddy or mama to live off of,
especially if Venus is involved here. Hopefully, you will eventually realize how that is just sucking the
power away from you in the situation and set up a financially independent life for yourself.
Jupiter in the 8th also amplifies the intimacy in your life, since the 8th House stands for how we
engage in emotional and sexual intimacy. The sexy part of the 8th House is legendary and you could
be so eager to be intimate with someone else that you do end up sleeping around. But, it can be
hard for the sex to remain casual because you expect so much else to come with it. There has to be 32
passion, intensity, ecstasy, thrills! You believe that a truly substantial, memorable sexual experience
should be mind-blowing. This should draw you toward a more secure, long-term relationship, where
the sex is more than casual hooking-up. However, this is why, on the flip side, you may adopt the
perspective of needing to abstain from sex until you find that really important sexual connection and
chemistry, which can happen after a string of lackluster or half-hearted lovers.
You will also find that you can have many positive experiences in terms of being intimate with
someone. I’m not just talking about great sex. I also mean being able to really share yourself
emotionally with another person. The chances of this are even greater if you have worked through
your emotional issues and are not held back by the pain of your past. In fact, Jupiter in the 8th
House individuals may want to share everything with their partner, to the point of them knowing
more than a few things about you that you’ve never told anyone. You also love being able to be a
vault for their secrets, gaining their trust and making them feel safe in an amazingly healing way.
Jupiter is the ruling planet of the 9th House. So, by the logic of dignities, the “best” place to have
your Jupiter is in the 9th House, right? Well, not necessarily but it is a really powerful placement that
can bring an abundance of positivity into your life. Jupiter already attracts positive energy into our
lives, expanding our horizons when we maintain the faith in what it represents. But, the 9th House
is about faith, about believing in something fully, and also being convinced that anything is possible.
So, the faith of someone with their Jupiter in the 9th can seem and be limitless. However, this
placement also makes for a person who is much more susceptible than the next person to the
excess, naivete, and blind faith that Jupiter represents.
The 9th House symbolizes the inner compass that gets us through life and keeps us moving forward.
We need this internal sense of right and wrong in order to know what direction to go in. Those with
Jupiter in the 9th, then, have an inner compass that speaks to them very loudly and undeniably.
Having this position means that you have ideas of right and wrong that are really well-defined, in
accordance to the sign that your Jupiter is in. If Jupiter is in Aquarius and in the 9th, then your
moral fiber comes from thinking freely and for yourself and being committed to equality, progress,
and the bigger picture. The 9th House being in Jupiter in Aries would show that your morality comes
from standing up for yourself, being independent, and fighting for what you desire.
Yet, since Jupiter can easily go overboard, those with Jupiter in the 9th can become so moralistic
that it turns into a real holier-than-thou attitude. Whatever your Jupiter sign believes in, you might
convince yourself of being on a higher level than others because of those beliefs. Jupiter in Scorpio
and in the 9th can make you very sanctimonious about anything that you deem as being shallow,
disempowering, or simple-minded. This placement is a real overload of Jupiter energy and as I
always say, in its more unevolved form, Jupiter never stops preaching and never gets off of its 33
soapbox. And you can spend so much time insisting on your beliefs and trying to force them on
people that your message ends up turning a lot of people away.
However, you have really good intentions. Even when you’re pushing these beliefs on to others so
overzealously, you are just trying to bring them some positivity. You feel so inspired and so uplifted
by these convictions of yours that you get all too easily carried away, assuming that everyone else is
going to be just as inspired and uplifted by your convictions. This is the huge naivete that you can
operate under. Jupiter in the 9th House individuals experience such life-affirming benefits from
following their particular path of faith that they feel like they need to sweep other people away with
them on the same path. But, the truth is that we all have our own paths toward knowledge,
honesty, empowerment, love, enlightenment, freedom, or whatever else. It’s not up to you to try
and play God, deciding how someone gets to that path. There can be quite a savior complex to you
but not in the same way as if Jupiter was in the 12th House. You can be eager to “save” people not
out of pity and self-sacrifice but in order to bring good things into their lives.
Yet, you have to step back and realize that person and that person only can save themselves. You
can give all the sermons you want. It might not change their mind or they may just end up telling
you what you want to hear to get you to shut up or tone it down (which people may do to you a lot,
unbeknownst to you). However, it is up to them to decide what they believe and to follow the path
that’s right for them. The best thing that a 9th House Jupiter person can do is to just provide
positive energy as far as pointing the person in the direction they want to go in. You may have a
bad pattern of “butting in” far too often. Someone can start talking about their relationship, without
looking for any advice, and then you can start rattling off things that they should and shouldn’t do.
People can regularly respond to you with a well-deserved “who asked you?”
But, they may become more understanding when they realize that you not only have good
intentions but you often just can’t help yourself. You have such strong beliefs that it’s hard for you
to not have an opinion about virtually everything. Not only that but you want to freely, honestly
share such opinions. The thing is that you might be able to dish it out yet not take it. Another
potential drawback of this placement is taking it very personally when others share their opinions
with you. At its worst, Jupiter in the 9th can see any opposing opinion as a threat. It can feel as if
this person is trying to rob you of your very belief system. But, in actuality, they are just voicing
their beliefs, as well. So, you have to be able to swallow a bit of your own medicine accepting that
having differing viewpoints or convictions does not have to lead to a holy war.
Speaking of holiness, I associate the 9th House with religion and it’s true that people with 9th House
planets usually have very religious upbringings. Regardless of whether or not they continue to follow
that religion into adulthood or go against it, that religious devotion and fervor instills a deep sense
of faith that constantly lets them move forward in life with the right attitude. Thanks to Jupiter in
the 9th House, you may have been particularly caught up in religion growing up, more than the next
9th House individual. Of course, this won’t be true of everyone with this placement but it is a major
pattern. That avid, undying sense of belief could’ve been instilled by a religion that consistently
made you feel like everything would be okay and that there was always some benevolent force
watching out for you.
Religion does always instill strong ideas of right and wrong. While this can be painful, stifling, or
bothersome for many 9th House people, the Jupiter in the 9th House person usually takes to this
moral code with great enthusiasm. Due to the fact that any given religion tells a person that they
will eventually benefit from adhering to this code of right and wrong and from believing in certain
things, you took that and ran with it. This sense that good things would happen for you because you
were Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, or whatever other religion became generalized and applied 34
to all beliefs. You felt as if having faith in things and more than enough of it would make everything
turn out okay. This is quite a simple concept: if you believe enough in something, it will manifest
and if it’s a positive belief, you will reap the rewards. But, a lot of us have to work to understand
this. Jupiter in the 9th House people understand this more effortlessly than anyone else.
Even if there are harsh aspects to Jupiter, that irrepressible positivity is still brewing inside and,
therefore, can emerge in really messy or haphazard ways, making a disaster out of things just out of
a desperate yearning to get lucky. And when you get in this state of mind, you might not care who
gets swept up in it or left behind. It should be said that when taken too far, Jupiter in the 9th can
become wildly, dangerously selfish. You might be so excessively concerned with good things
happening to you that you end up robbing other people of their share or not caring that much if
they reap the rewards. You can also be so blinded by your convictions that almost nothing or no one
else matters as much, causing you to run someone over on your way to that pot of gold. It’s a
single-mindedness that can be as much of a curse as it is a blessing. You know that you want to get
to Heaven and will do whatever is needed to get there.
Yet, when it’s managed well, this is the quality that makes you unstoppable. Whatever is in your 9th
House shows you how you can expand your vision and believe that anything is possible. Jupiter in
the 9th House people are often far more capable of this than most. There is this inner sense that
you can do absolutely whatever you set out to do. If Jupiter is in Libra in the 9th, this can make
finding love seem like a total inevitability, preventing you from ever getting discouraged about
relationships, no matter what happens. Jupiter in Capricorn and in the 9th would mean that your
ambitions know no bounds and you will work as hard as you can toward your goals, trusting that
you will inevitably achieve them. It’s a mindset that opens so many doors and presents so many
opportunities your way. While many other people are too busy dwelling on the negative or avoiding
their true path out of fear or passivity, you charge right toward that path, trusting that everything
will fall into a place in a way that allows things to almost always do.
I also see the 9th House as representing your college-aged self. It’s the time where you get your
first taste of true freedom around the age of 18, which is when the majority of people leave their
parents’ home and go to college. Of course, not everyone goes to school and everyone doesn’t have
to, either. But, with Jupiter in the 9th, you can actually completely relish the college experience,
taking to it with plenty of gusto. Living at home with your parents, in spite of how much you love
them, may have become a Hell you wanted to get out of for a long time while growing up. Since the
9th House gives us a feeling of freedom, in a way that lets us roam from one place to the next, you
really believed in having that freedom. And if your parents gave you too many restrictions and
limitations, it could’ve been enough to drive you crazy!
Although it’s common for people to move back in with their parents after initially moving out, Jupiter
in the 9th House individuals usually leave and never look back once they turn 18. You could’ve loved
your newfound freedom so much that you didn’t even visit that much during college or after. But,
you were also always on the run while growing up anyway, so your family was probably used to it.
Besides, college offered you a totally new world. You were presented with so many new
opportunities: all these great people to meet, interesting classes to take, groups to get involved in,
things to do in this new city. College is like a buffet of awesomeness for a lot of 9th House Jupiter
people and you want all you can eat and all the time.
There can be two outcomes for the college student with this placement: either they become a total
wild child at school or they are capable of keeping it together very well, in spite of having quite a bit
of wild child potential. The first option happens because, again, Jupiter is prone to taking it a bit too
far. College can be a time of too much partying and drinking for you, more than is typical for college 35
students, as there is so much fun to be had and too much freedom up for grabs. You can take
advantage of this freedom by not really doing what you’re supposed to be doing in college, like, you
know, studying or focusing academically. Yet, the thing is that Jupiter is where we are most
resilient, as well. So, even when you go too far with college life, you do have an amazing ability to
bounce back from all of that. You were that person who could pass their finals with flying colors
after drinking their face off all weekend.
That leads to the second path, which brings out the strength of your inner sense of direction. The
9th House tells us the path to take that will lead to good things and with Jupiter here, that internal
compass is heightened. So, if you went through a phase of going a bit too crazy in college, you were
also able to stop and say, “You need to get on the right track.” After all, you relished the inherent
meaningfulness of college in a way that many people these days do not. You believed the
experience should be about growing as a person and expanding your possibilities, not being
stagnant and stuck. Therefore, you were able to take advantage of your time in college in a life-
affirming way. You probably had a major that you genuinely liked, not just one that others told you
to study or that you just thought would make you money. You wanted to be enriched by class
discussions and lectures and may have grown significantly by writing certain essays or your thesis.
By the time your college experience ended (even if you didn’t finish or graduate), you felt like a
bigger, better person in a way that others, who just wanted the degree, may not have felt. This is
all carried with you in adulthood by giving you a hunger to constantly be a bigger, better person
than you were before. That strong sense of direction was honed in those days where you were truly
free for the first time and it has stayed with you. Your inner 21-year-old is always guiding you
toward what is ultimately good for you, even if it’s something that others don’t understand or
believe in. This is why life opens up for you when you really listen to that inner voice and trust it
above all of the other noise.
It's what makes you very adventurous, as well, because you are not afraid to go where you’ve never
gone before. You managed just fine when you were in new territory back in your early 20’s.
Therefore, you always relish new territory, having great confidence in that inner voice throughout
the journey. I could spout off the cliché that Jupiter in the 9th means that you will spend a lot of
time traveling. It’s true that you may backpack through Europe for weeks without hesitation or take
a job in Japan and not think twice. It also wouldn’t be surprising at all if you studied abroad or
traveled in college. The thing is that you really never get “homesick”, either, just like you didn’t in
college. It’s about the journey for you, not the destination. So, being stuck in one place feels like a
limiting destination. You would rather keep moving on to somewhere else.
Even if you find yourself living in the same city for a long time, you won’t stick to the same
neighborhood haunts. You dare to go someplace different, loving the exotic feel of the unknown. It
could be that dive bar you’ve never been to before, that side of town that none of your friends go
to, or some random happening that you just found out about tonight. Whatever it is, you’re pretty
much down for anything. And being the adventurer you are, you do not mind embarking on the
journey alone. Anyone who accompanies you better be ready to do some exploring and if they’re
not, you won’t hesitate to go in the other direction.
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Jupiter in the 10th is an interesting position because it can mean that it seems to the whole world
that you’ve got it made. It’s that idea that everyone who seems to have an absolutely amazing life
probably isn’t as well off as you think. That is especially the case for the 10th House Jupiter, as you
will give off this public image as being this person who hit the lottery or struck gold, in some way, or
a person who seems to have it all. Sure, this placement does mean that you can experience a
particular kind of “luck” in terms of your life goals and your standing in the world. But, all is not
going to be as well as it seems!
The 10th House is regularly described as the “fame” house. Of course, most people are not literally
famous. But, we do live in an age – with the Internet, with social media like Twitter and Instagram,
with viral sensations – where it can be very easy to feel as if you are a celebrity when you’re just a
regular person. Even before the explosion of the Internet, the 10th House, for non-celebs, was still
the way you became “the talk of the town.” It’s the widespread image that you have, the way that
people talk about you, the way that you’re known and remembered. For people with Jupiter in their
10th House, you are especially memorable. The positivity of Jupiter occurs because it gives us an
excess of whatever it stands for. With Jupiter in the 10th House, you can be excessively talked
about and excessively known, with a public image that happens to dwarf most people’s.
Everyone in your community and in your field – neighbors, bosses, co-workers, the people who work
at your favorite restaurant or your bank, admirers, friends of friends, the people you met at the bar
last weekend – comes together, almost unanimously, to form the 10th House opinion of you. In
terms of dealing with the public, the 7th House is the response of those in the public who adore
you. The 10th House is the response of those who adore you, admire you, don’t like you, and feel
indifferent toward you. It’s the collective view everyone has of you and with Jupiter in the 10th, it 37
feels as if everyone has an opinion of you. Everyone knows you and it’s because there’s just
something about you that cannot be denied. Out in the public sphere, you are a really major
presence and it’s to a degree that can feel as if this fame is being totally thrust upon you.
In many cases, for those famous people who have Jupiter in the 10th, their fame did come to them
effortlessly. It’s as if it was a gift that just dropped out of the sky. Even for non-celebrities with
Jupiter in the 10th, you do not have to do much in order to gain the public’s recognition. You are
constantly being seen through this epic, legendary image, making you “bigger” than most of the
other people in your public sphere. It’s due to the fact that they are often taking smaller measures
while your public actions go to almost mythological lengths. For those who become “overnight
sensations” or get “discovered” in a very fortuitous way, it’s as if you are some sort of fable or fairy
tale come true. For those who just have that larger-than-life persona, the same image remains, as
you are known for being grand in a way that most don’t allow themselves to be.
The thing about whatever is in our 10th House is that it’s a symbol of sorts that we become for the
public at large. Jupiter in the 10th House people become a symbol of hope, of faith, of grandiosity,
of trusting in the Universe. You can convey such a positive energy to the world that you make
people not only really believe in you but really believe in themselves. It’s a trait of yours that has
been present ever since high school. During the latter half of high school, when a person starts
having to think about what they want to do with their lives, the 10th House really kicks in. And the
thing is that, with Jupiter in the 10th, you may come from a background that didn’t really stress
having strong beliefs or having faith in the Universe. But, as a young adult, you suddenly began to
see the importance of doing so and made this a major goal of yours.
Also, starting from mid-to-late adolescence and onward into adulthood, you’ll find yourself in
positions in the world that will challenge you to have faith and to also stand up for what you believe
in. Jupiter in the 10th House teenagers can display far more conviction than their peers. The way
that they do depends on the sign that Jupiter is in. If Jupiter is in the 10th in Cancer, you’ll push
yourself to stand up for those who have been hurt or who feel like they haven’t been supported, as
well as to stand up for yourself when you feel this way. Jupiter in the 10th in Virgo can make you
voice your opinions during these years by speaking out on what needs to be fixed, corrected, or
improved, while the 10th House Jupiter in Scorpio can urge you to take a stand against any sort of
superficiality and express your beliefs about what’s really going on underneath the surface.
If Jupiter happens to be conjunct the Midheaven, as well, all of this is even truer. This is what starts
securing you the status of someone who is opinionated and does not hold back these opinions. At
the same time, you will also evoke a lot of positive energy in those in your public sphere because
they will see just how excellent your intentions really are. All in all, as you move into adulthood,
there will be this sense that you have no limitations that will motivate the ways in which you deal
with the public collectively. This influences the manner in which you tackle your life goals. It can
seem as if absolutely anything is possible, like you can achieve anything that you set out to achieve.
It’s this kind of attitude that attracts such fortuitous forms of success your way. If anyone can quit
their job today and find a new one next Thursday, end up meeting the exact right person that will
support their current project, or get discovered by going viral, it’s the 10th House Jupiter person.
But, the drawback to your Jupiter is that this can also make you wildly naïve in terms of how you
pursue success. Those with the 10th House Jupiter in a Fire or Water sign are more prone to this
naivete due to just being very self-absorbed (Fire) or very irrational (Water) about their goals. But,
even having Jupiter in this house in Earth or Air can make you take foolish measures in your
professional journey, either because you feel like hard work can overcome anything (Earth) or 38
because you’re overly eager to test out your ideas or theories (Air). In any case, you might need a
gentle reminder that while yes, generally, anything is possible, you should not believe that literally
anything is possible, in terms of achieving your goals. You may not have any limits, in this regard,
but the world does and it can often dish out a rather harsh reminder.
So, there will be select times where you become discouraged about what you want to do with your
life because your belief in this path has been rocked by worldly limitations. However, you have to
maintain this undying belief, no matter what happens. In the end, this is what can keep you going
long after other people have called it quits. If Jupiter in the 10th House people remain very
positively fixated on their goals, without paying much attention to the disappointments or the
setbacks, they will achieve said goals and with less strenuous effort than most other people. Having
such faith in your potential for success will make it all easier for you. Again, just why you think it’s
easy depends on the sign that Jupiter is in. It could be because you’re so fearless (Jupiter in Aries),
so cooperative (Jupiter in Libra), so clever (Jupiter in Gemini), or so imaginative (Jupiter in Pisces).
Those within your public sphere will also get the widespread idea that success came easily to you.
To some, it can seem as if it came too easily for you. This is because your easygoing, forward-
moving attitude toward success can seriously downplay or cover up the hard work that it took for
you to get there (unless you have Jupiter in Capricorn; but, even then, you can be such an effortless
“machine” that you break less of a sweat publicly than the majority). Jupiter in the 10th is the
classic person that makes it all look easy. It’s something you could possibly not like, as the actual
overnight success you experienced was more like over-a-hundred-nights success. Yet, your rise to
the top can happen so seamlessly or quickly and in such a huge manner that you gain a reputation
as someone who just got lucky, which, of course, can bring out the jealousy in certain folks.
Celebrities frequently complain about the public’s misconceptions of them and this all stems from
the 10th House. It’s how the image of you doesn’t even begin to sum up you are on a more
complex, personal scale. Jupiter in the 10th House people can actually deal with a ton of
misconceptions. It’s as if people love to project a bunch of fabulous (or maybe not-so-fabulous, at
times) things upon you that are quite off-base. Those with this placement usually feel like
celebrities, whether on a literal or metaphorical scale, and being projected on so much is the
byproduct of celebrity. On social media, you can seem to be that person who everyone thinks is
living such an awesome life. The fact that you probably have a huge amount of friends or followers
on these social media profiles only reinforces that image. Your every move on Twitter or Instagram
can be blown out of proportion by all those watching. Your memes are the best memes ever! You
are out on another glorious night on the town! You and your partner are relationship goals! Wow,
your posts are so hilarious!
In the end, we can be quite distanced from whatever is in our 10th House. Since the 10th is one of
the collective houses, we experience it on a more transpersonal level than a personal level. We
connect to it through the public’s responses to us. Everyone might think you’re so awesome and
living so large. But, you aren’t entirely convinced of that. It’s why, when you have your haters,
people wanting to bring you down just because they perceive you as being so full of greatness and
glory, you don’t really get it. This is why 10th House Jupiter people are able to bounce back well and
move on in the face of public criticism or opposition. Also, you feel as if they are too many people in
your public sphere to engage with in order for you to get caught up in some people’s negativity.
This works quite magically in your favor, as it has an effect that makes so many people like you.
Your haters may either be few and far between or get dismissed as being nothing but negative.
This is how you’re able to get lucky in terms of your reputation. Jupiter in the 10th House people
usually have a really wonderful reputation, unless there are some harsh squares or oppositions to 39
Jupiter, which only boosts the positivity of your public image. It’s because you bring so much
positivity to society. Your bosses and authority figures, from the beginning, can feel very blessed to
have you working for them. At the same token, since the 10th House is also the kind of authority
figure we turn out to be, you can end up really blessing those who work for you when you take on
authoritative positions. As either an employee or a boss, you may be quite restless or tough to rein
in or pin down. But, it’s because you will display such enthusiasm for what you do and also such a
desire to not be limited by what you do. Sometimes, you will be freewheeling your way through
corporate or professional boundaries. Yet, this doesn’t necessarily make you unprofessional, as you
can be an exceptional force in the workplace, once you are inspired enough.
With Jupiter in the 10th, you will essentially want for your professional journey to feel like an
endless adventure. The best career for you is something that offers you limitless opportunities and
options. You strive to be the kind of member of society who is an explorer, contributing new
discoveries and truths with your every outing. The best bet for you, career-wise, is something that
doesn’t feel “small” and isn’t going to hem you in. This is how you will find your place in the world,
in general. The reason why you will have such a larger-than-life public persona is because you
engage in society with such an adventurous, free attitude, cementing this reputation for yourself as
a person who is down for virtually anything.
Any planet that is placed in the 11th is going to be expressed in an interesting manner. The 11th
House is not predictable, conventional, or linear. It’s one of the most misunderstood houses in
astrology. I’m not going to sit here and talk to you about “wishes, hopes, and dreams” because I
really don’t even get that description, in relation to the 11th. What this house is about is turning
things upside down and defying your expectations. So, if you try to express a planet here in a
“normal” way, it is going to consistently blow up in your face. Planets in the 11th require a certain
detachment, a big-picture perspective, and an embrace of the unexpected.
If Jupiter represents our good fortune in life, then Jupiter in the 11th indicates a person who
receives all sorts of unexpected good fortune. More than most, it’s just when you think that you’re
not going to get lucky that you end up striking gold. At the same time, whenever you expect to get
lucky, it just doesn’t happen. It’s the reason why 11th House Jupiter people can be very nonchalant
or even blasé about the possibility of something really good happening to them. Throughout life,
they inevitably learn that whenever they have this kind of mindset, it’s the moment when they
become the butt of a big cosmic joke. “Things are really going to work out for me this time!” they
say to themselves. Then, things strangely don’t work out for them, even if the situation is seemingly
a sure thing. Yet, it might seem like others get their lucky breaks with a lot more ease, frequency, or
consistency, somehow leaving you to feel left out of the loop.
Since Jupiter represents our beliefs, Jupiter in the 11th can instill this belief that weird stuff happens
all the time and you often just don’t know why. Jupiter isn’t “all good”, as I will spend this series
pointing out, and with Jupiter being in the 11th, you can experience an excess of very odd or very
random experiences. If something is strange and out-of-the-ordinary, it is just bound to happen to
you. You’ve come to really believe this, over time, and it’s why you don’t mind regularly turning 40
things upside down in your life. There can be a sort of craziness and defiance about 11th House
Jupiter people that threatens to become downright out-of-control. It’s seemingly impossible for you
to follow the straight and narrow path because, somehow or someway, you are knocked right off of
it. But, you may also go down a path made of non-stop zigzags that make your head spin or others’
heads spin. Jupiter is how we can go overboard and Jupiter in the 11th means that you can go
overboard by creating too much chaos in your life.
You might also not have any sense of limitation when it comes to tolerating chaos in your life. The
11th House is such a haphazard place and with Jupiter here, you are all too resilient when it comes
to the wackiness and insanity that can come your way. But, this also means that you might put up
with too much of it. There is an element of the 11th House that I like to call “letting things happen”.
There is no interference or attempts to control. Planets in the 11th are just expressed in a highly
observant, nonjudgmental manner, watching all of the madness of life go by. Whatever happens
just happens! But, this “shit happens” attitude is also something that can become quite excessive.
Maybe you don’t take enough time to straighten up your messes or you possibly become too
nonchalant when you could be doing more about it. Your set of beliefs can get to the point where
they make you overly detached and this is something you have to watch out for.
On the other hand, you are capable of really benefiting from this detached mentality. The thing
about Jupiter is that it’s not pure luck and there is something about you that understands that. You
don’t expect to be totally showered in blessings and good fortune all the time, especially since you
feel as if other people are more blessed and fortunate than you are. But, if you adopt this attitude,
you will attract a lot of positive opportunities. It’s so ironic but life opens up for you when you don’t
care that much about life opening up for you. Those with Jupiter in the 11th House have to remain
detached from the need for everything to be great and for you to be on top of the world. The less
you are concerned with things paying off for you, the more things will pay off for you.
It will all seem random and out-of-nowhere, as if your good fortune is really just falling out of the
sky. We are not in control when we are in 11th House territory. We just have to let things happen
very randomly. So, putting in a lot of effort to make sure you are on top of the world is inevitably
going to fall flat. In fact, a dose of cynicism or apathy in regards to your own rewards ends up
working in your favor. The way I see the 11th is that it rebels against our expectations on a
constant basis. So, if you resist the process of believing a full-on believer and remaining kind of
skeptical or unaffected, experiences will keep coming your way to show you that, maybe, there is
something wonderful out there to believe in. Life will keep proving you wrong, often bringing you
positive results at the 11th hour (pun intended).
I’m not saying believe in nothing. I’m just saying that you need to maintain a loose hold on those
beliefs. In doing so, you will be able to remain broad-minded about the beliefs of other people.
Jupiter in the 11th House individuals eventually figure out how much they benefit from channeling
their energy toward the greater good. This is the best route for you because it urges you to forget
about self-centered concerns and remain focused on something that will benefit other people. You
will be less personally involved in these actions, not worrying so much about how they affect you.
This allows you to not be solely preoccupied with what you’re going to get out of the equation,
being more concerned with how everyone is going to benefit. Then, in unexpected and out-of-the-
blue ways, you will end up benefiting personally.
11th House Jupiter folks will derive a lot of positive energy from anything that is idealistic, empirical,
progressive, or alternative. Jupiter could be seen as the “good vibrations” you are capable of
bringing into your life. Jupiter in the 11th means that these good vibrations will be manifested and 41
maintained whenever you are doing something that requires objectivity, thinking outside the box, or
a feel for the big picture. Politics, activism, science, technology, sociology, and astrology are all
fields in which the 11th House Jupiter person can get plenty of positive vibes from. These are all
studies and practices that can help people, whether through enhancing their lives, observing them
and understanding what makes them tick, or broadening their minds and helping them move
forward into the future.
People with this placement are very in tune with the future and are capable of being two steps
ahead of everyone else, as a result. Jupiter in the 11th House people can be total trendsetters but
also without realizing they’re trendsetters. When you go down a path, you’re not really expecting
other people to follow you or emulate you or look up to you. Instead, you are just experimenting
with many different ideas, trying to bring your brilliant visions into fruition. You might experience a
lot of “flashes” in terms of what’s going to happen next. In fact, since this is Jupiter we’re talking
about, this can be downright overwhelming. Again, it’s something that can make you feel out-of-the-
loop in terms of how well everyone else is doing. It can seem as if other people are able to voice
their ideas without being misunderstood. But, since you are on a wavelength that is going to move
people forward and bring about change, you can often feel like an outcast because other people
often don’t really “get it” in the moment.
In a lot of ways, Jupiter in the 11th makes you like the person who knows the Emperor has on no
clothes. Few people accept that you’re speaking the truth until later on. In this sense, you can gain
a very positive sense of somehow being quicker than others. By the time other people catch up to
what you were trying to say, you are already on to the next thing. But, you have to believe that this
is a beneficial quality of yours and not something that makes you a loony. There is a stroke of
brilliance to whatever is in the 11th. And with Jupiter in the 11th, you actually can be exceptionally
brilliant. This doesn’t necessarily mean having a high IQ, although that wouldn’t exactly be
surprising. It just means that you can possess such an excess of inventive, intellectual energy and
it’s a challenge, at times, to know what to do with it all!
You certainly won’t be satisfied cooped up in your science lab, all alone with your “experiments”,
even though you will definitely need regular periods of this solitude in order to come up with these
unique ideas. Instead, you need to take your brilliance and spread it to all those who are willing to
listen and take it in. This is similar yet different to the messiah-like nature of the Jupiter in the 9th
person. While they can spread their sheer beliefs near and far, what you are spreading are your
visionary ideas, which you will certainly have a lot of conviction in. You must have faith and take
solace in sometimes being the odd one out, thinking differently than others, because this is what is
going to not only free you but free other people. You have to be willing to be on the cutting-edge,
experimenting with various concepts whether they are popular or not. The surprise (a key 11th
House word) is that these ideas and visions can not only end up being very popular but very
beneficial and useful to other people and their lives.
I use the word “inventive” in a general sense but it is also very possible to find 11th House Jupiter
people who hit it big, in some way, by literally inventing something remarkable. Technology is
represented by the 11th House and you can really utilize anything technological to your advantage.
These are the people who may end up finding excellent online opportunities that can boost their
social profile, allow them to brilliantly network, supplement or create their income, etc. You might
also put social media or online streaming services to really positive use. If anyone could get their big
break by going viral or being seen online, in a completely unplanned or unprecedented way, it’s you,
which would only affirm your belief that good things happen when you never expect it.
In any case, Jupiter in the 11th House people often end up using their technological devices a 42
lot. You might always be on your laptop, due to being a blogger or a YouTuber. You could live on
Instagram or Twitter, always updating and commenting and updating some more. You might also
just forever check your phone, with yet another email to respond to. But, thanks to the recklessness
of Jupiter, you can also go through a ton of devices. These are the people who constantly lose or
drop their phone, needing to replace it, or somehow go through more laptops in a few years than
anyone else. Yet, somehow, the Universe always has your back, giving you the funds or the
resources you need to make sure you have the proper device to fuel your highly active online life.
This recklessness can also manifest on a very social level. The 11th House tells us how we deal with
our social network. It’s our friends but not our close, intimate, life-defining friendships. They are the
peers, acquaintances, and random buddies that come in and out of our life; those bonds that are
formed through mutual friends, shared interests or goals, or a special sense of community, such as
hanging out at the same places. With Jupiter in the 11th, you have a ton of these peers and
acquaintances. This is due to the fact that when you don’t hold back, you are capable of befriending
absolutely anyone. You are lucky in the ability you possess to cut through all cliques and social
groups, unpretentiously connecting to the very person in front of you. Jupiter in the 11th House
people will also probably be very popular in their social scene for this reason, even though, true to
form, you might believe that you have very little luck in the social department.
So many people in your social network will like you because of how honest and unpretentious you
seem to be. Since Jupiter symbolizes a lack of limitation, you naturally don’t feel limited by whatever
your status or your image is. This can make you lack self-consciousness out in the social scene, not
really stopping to think of whether or not someone is judging you. Often times, you really just don’t
give a damn, convinced that they’re all going to judge you anyway. In fact, you might feel as if your
oddness is so hard to contain that people have already judged you and written you off as the village
weirdo. Therefore, you innately feel like you have nothing to lose and no need to really try hard to
get people to like you. But, it’s this very attitude that ends up making people like you. The 11th
House breaks social rules and with Jupiter here, you can conspicuously and overtly break them,
whether you’re wearing jeans to a formal party or not bothering to turn on your filter for the guy
you just met or spending a half-hour at the bar educating someone about Moon signs.
In the end, the more willing you are to be different, the more your life will be enhanced. Jupiter in
the 11th makes you quite a larger-than-life influence amongst your peers. In group settings, you
can have an outsized sort of presence, seeming to loom over everyone else or outdo their efforts.
You cannot be contained within the group. Peer pressure isn’t a problem for you (or, at least, it
shouldn’t be) because it is really impossible for people to tame you socially or place you on a leash.
As long as it’s not hurting anyone, you do your own thing and expect others to mind their business!
If they can’t, there are always more people to meet and, hopefully, they won’t try to pressure you to
do something you don’t want to do or be someone you don’t want to be.
In fact, you can be truly insatiable when it comes to making new acquaintances and forming new
associations. While this can sometimes just mean that you’re highly friendly, other times, it means
that you are so detached from your peers that you really don’t care. At an extreme, you may lack
any sort of personal investment at all in all of these people, just acting as this free-spirit, bouncing
from one person to the next and leaving other people in your dust, never thinking about the
consequences or who it could hurt. So, you should watch out for an all-out coldness toward people,
in this sense, especially if you act toward someone who you treated as your best buddy the other
day like you don’t even know them today. Yes, everyone is interesting and deserving of your time. It
is crucial for you to believe that. But, that doesn’t mean you have to leave other people behind,
either. In the end, you should use your friendliness to form positive connections everywhere. If you
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Having Jupiter in the 12th House is possibly the most confusing Jupiter placement because, well, it’s
in the 12th House. Any planet that is in the 12th is like a Universe unto itself, with multiple
dimensions and meanings and layers. It also doesn’t help that when we have a planet in our 12th, it
is hard to deal with it on a conscious level or allow it to completely rise to the surface. Therefore, it
can be expressed through states of denial, delusion, or obliviousness. Jupiter in the 12th House,
therefore, is the placement of someone who can live their life feeling quite blind to their good
fortune and to what they believe in. It is their task to “wake up” and shine a light on the positive
energy that they have deep within and to understand how this energy is a universal reflection of
humanity and also the Higher Power.
Prenatal experiences are described by the 12th House and it’s a very common pattern that the
mothers of those with 12th House planets usually had really dramatic pregnancies. Often times, this
is a more troubling experience, like a mother who was undergoing a rocky marriage while pregnant
or who struggled with depression, anxiety, or massive uncertainty about being a mother when she
was carrying her baby. It also can just mean that she was wildly, overwhelmingly hormonal during
this time. But, in any case, the mother’s emotional and mental states during pregnancy deeply affect
her child on a very unconscious level, thanks to the inextricable link between mother and child
throughout those nine months. This sets up 12th House people to live a life where they feel
overwhelmed by other people and also where these feelings come from a lack of psychic boundaries
between them and others.
However, with Jupiter in the 12th, the mother’s pregnancy might have been overwhelmingly
positive. Maybe she was just on an absolute high in regards to being a mom or she could have also
tried really hard to not let her pregnancy hold her back. In fact, this could have been the problem: 44
she didn’t hold back during these nine months. She may have had a tough time slowing down or
curbing her usual habits. Instead, the hormones may have sent her on overload. So, the child, in the
womb, becomes very used to these feelings of being on overload and going to excess. Jupiter in the
12th could also be a sign of a mother who indulged in some rather irresponsible patterns while she
was carrying her child. Maybe she didn’t follow all of her doctor’s orders, too intent on still being
free and not being weighed down or slowed down by her pregnancy. She may have also eaten way
too much or had a hard time no longer living in the fast lane.
All in all, Jupiter in the 12th means that your time in the womb was a really wild ride. And you come
into this world with this excessiveness that is quickly, consistently toned down by the world around
you. This is especially true of your early environment. Planets in the 12th House represent what was
denied, overlooked, or neglected by your caregivers and with Jupiter in the 12th, that overly positive
attitude and mindset was denied. Something about your early life taught you that life was too
difficult and too harsh for that. One or both of your parents were probably too busy pulling
themselves up by the bootstraps to give “luck” or “good fortune” any consideration. This is not only
because they valued hard work, above all else, but because they went through life feeling
particularly unlucky and untouched by much of life’s goodness.
There may be a secret, deep-seated pain in your parent(s) regarding them not feeling free or like
they had a good life. Deep down, all they want to do is rid themselves of the shackles they feel that
life has put on them. But, there is this agonizing sense that they cannot. However, this is something
that they may not express or even be consciously aware of. It’s just something you could feel in the
air growing up and you deeply internalized it. Although Jupiter in the 12th House means that you
are actually capable of a remarkable level of faith, you were conditioned, while growing up, to not
express or act on any of that. There might have even been a feeling of cynicism in the atmosphere,
as if life is a miserable experience or God is dead. It’s quite common for those with this placement
to grow up in an atheist/agnostic household or just without any spiritual ties.
This has profoundly affected you by making you go through life in a state of denial in regards to the
goodness around you. Jupiter in the 12th House people can really struggle with gratitude but can
also fail to see how they are struggling with it. The thing is that the idea of eternal gratitude and
appreciation, of always being thankful for what you have, may not even cross your mind. All you
might consciously be able to focus on are the complaints that you have. But, 12th House planets
are always being expressed. It’s just a matter of it being a conscious or unconscious expression. If
you are repressing your 12th House energy, it is going to come out somehow. And Jupiter in the
12th House can come out by giving you a secret wild, irresponsible side that comes to the light in
ways that can be really messy and, sometimes, downright self-destructive.
You might strive to be contained, to have your act together, and to approach life in realistic terms.
Instead of hoping for something good to happen, you work hard to make it happen. At the same
time, there is this part of your psyche that is absolutely desperate to throw caution to the wind. This
is because you have bottled up and ignored it for so long that, when it comes out, it comes out
intensely. It’s like you button yourself up and then you rip all of those buttons off and run down the
street naked. I don’t mean this literally (unless you’ve actually done this). I just mean that you easily
fall into these destructive patterns of holding yourself back and holding yourself back and then
letting it all hang out. And when you let it hang out, you absolutely let it hang out.
12th House Jupiter people can be surprisingly sloppy drunks because of this. You might keep it
together while sober but when you get some of that liquor in you, it’s like a whole new person
emerges. Suddenly, you are free and you can do whatever you want! Since Jupiter represents
excess and the 12th House is quite synonymous with alcohol and drugs, Jupiter in the 12th House 45
individuals could easily struggle with over-relying on substances. I hate to be that person to tell a
fellow 12th House person that they could become an alcoholic or do too many drugs. But, your inner
freedom can be so suppressed that it finds the outlet that it needs via these substances. The good
thing is that since Jupiter’s energy is so positive, you can usually pull yourself out of these addictive
states just as easily. Your conscious self is so controlled and so in command that you do know how
to pull it together if you have let yourself get a little bit too loose lately.
The thing is that you do still need to get in touch with that inner looseness and freedom. You are
carrying memories from the womb in terms of having no limitations. Some people even interpret
12th House planets in terms of past lives. You can if you want but I reserve that for the South Node.
In any case, there are these unconscious feelings that make you feel like you should be able to do
whatever you want. But, the world you came into has told you that this is not the case and that
there are limits and guidelines to be followed. The thing about 12th House planets, though, is that
they can never be satisfied by the day-to-day world. They are so idealistic and so transcendent that
the “real world” is often too harsh, too limiting, or too disillusioning to fulfill them.
In the case of Jupiter in the 12th, there will never be enough positive energy in the real world to
satisfy you. There is always something saddening or disheartening around the corner. It’s what can
allow you to easily sink into states of melancholy. But, the 12th House Jupiter shows that, deep
down, there is an absolutely boundless positivity within you. It’s this positivity that can come out in
utterly oblivious ways. You might find yourself feeling mysteriously compelled to strike out and do
something risky, crazy, irresponsible, or careless and you don’t even know why. Even worse, you
might not even realize you’re doing it, totally convinced that you’re playing by the book. When we’re
living unconsciously, 12th House planets are like sleepwalking. We don’t know what we’re doing
until the lights are turned on and we see the mess we made. And with Jupiter in the 12th, in
particular, you can make a giant mess without even consciously being aware of it.
This placement can definitely represent an excessive amount of denial. But, it also leaves that much
more room for huge healing and a massive spiritual awakening. We have to “stay awake” in terms
of our 12th House planets. We can’t afford to be oblivious to how they manifest in our lives, even
though there will always be an element of mystery and the unknown to them. With Jupiter in the
12th, you must stop and realize just how badly you want to be free. You have locked yourself in a
cage for so long because you grew up in an environment that told you how limiting and difficult life
was. And the world around you regularly affirms that, with all of the terrible things that happen. In
the 12th House, perception is truly reality. If you think life is inherently awful, then it will be. The
12th House Jupiter, though, also shows you the utter magic that can be achieved when you realize
that life can also be as wonderful and as positive as you make it.
It's an awakening that will be further defined by the sign that your Jupiter is in. The 12th House
Jupiter in Aries means that you must consciously accept that positivity can allow you to conquer
challenges and face your fears. Jupiter in the 12th in Virgo means that when you shine a conscious
light on your inner faith, you will see how constructive and effective positive thinking can be. This
removes the harsh limitations that you feel have been placed on you throughout life and shows you
that you can rise above the difficulties of the day-to-day world. There is something very pure and
untainted about 12th House planets because they can never fully integrate with everyday life. So,
for you, your faith can be downright untouchable and unharmable, as there is already not much for
you to believe in when it comes to the real world. Instead, all of your beliefs will be invested in what
is eternal, timeless, and transcendent; the things that are not of this earth.
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to a higher plane of consciousness and awareness. You really do need a spiritual anchor in your life
because it keeps you buoyant and forward-moving. But, when I say spirituality, I don’t mean
religion. I think religion can have a way of really letting 12th House Jupiter people down because it
can be used too often as a tool of negativity here on earth in the wrong hands. Spirituality is a purer
kind of belief that only requires you to be receptive, humble, open, and tuned into love and light.
This can bring about a massive transformation within you. All 12th House people go through some
sort of major metamorphosis once they come to a place of acceptance about the planet in this
house. For you, this can mean letting go of bitterness, cynicism, and complaining.
So, for Jupiter in the 12th, an over-attachment to negativity and unhappiness has to be released.
Your form of self-sacrifice comes from the mindset of never complaining and always being grateful.
The free-flow of the 12th House combined with the positivity of Jupiter gives you the power to be an
unusually resilient soul, capable of seeing the silver lining in the darkest of clouds. You already know
how dark those clouds can be and you now truly understand that the storm is only temporary.
Unhappiness is only temporary. Therefore, you possess this deep-seated faith in the eternal
elements of life and this will keep you amazingly buoyant. The 12th House does represent hidden
talents that, when expressed, can seem out of this world. Your hidden talent is the ability to rise
above any hardship, any setback, and any disappointment with your faith intact.
And this is a talent that has to be used for others. Jupiter in the 12th House shows that you will
attract the most benefits in life due to selflessness. But, these are benefits that will not be about
personal gain. The true reward, for you, will just be in the act of giving. You can be a healing
presence in the day-to-day world by bringing a wonderfully positive, uplifting, and encouraging
energy to others, without expecting the same in return. You are meant to be a beacon of hope and
of light for other people, thanks to the compassion that you are becoming increasingly in touch with.
You understand what it’s like for someone to feel limited and hopeless and also like they are
thrashing against the walls because of that (an empathic experience dating back to your time in the
womb). So, you can rise above the ego and above your individual self by providing a sense of
inspiration and higher meaning for people in a world that can often seem downright meaningless.
Another interesting thing about the 12th House that I’ve recently realized is that the person can
embody all of the higher traits of the planet with very little of the lower traits in display, just as long
as he or she is spiritually evolved. Once you bring this planet into the light, the deep darkness of it
disappears. Jupiter in the 12th means that you can actually display very little excess, naivete, and
recklessness yourself, all while being deeply attuned to the faith, positivity, and conviction of this
planet. But, this can only happen once the 12th House planet has been a complete mess, thanks to
this planet. So, you actually have to go through stages of total excess and foolishness in your life
before waking up and becoming enlightened. Then, you can find redemption and transcendence by
rising above all of that, especially since you’re not attached to the rewards on this earth anyway.
When you channel this positive energy, you are not just speaking for yourself. You are speaking for
all of humanity and also for the Higher Power. Jupiter in the 12th means that you will really benefit
from being this vessel or mouthpiece for something much bigger than yourself. Spiritual practices
keep you very in touch with this mindset. The hope that all human beings yearn for and the eternal
benevolence of the Creator are what you are profoundly in touch with. This can manifest in terms of
artistic talents, which I think are represented by the 12th House. Artists with Jupiter in the 12th
enter another Universe in their work where there are no limits and where anything is possible. The
day-to-day world feels restricting to you. This is why you find blissful escape in the adventures you
can embark on in your artistic life. You can express something universal and transcendent,
disappearing into a world where there are many explorations and discoveries to be made. In doing
so, as an artist, your work can deeply resonant with people, embodying the freedom that we all 47
yearn for and the good faith that we are all capable of.
Jupiter in the 12th can actually make a person limitlessly talented in terms of the arts, in a way that
is similar to Jupiter in the 5th House. You might have to get over the idea that it’s not “practical”
because, in the end, you have an immense amount of compassion that should be utilized. You may
not want everyone to know it and you don’t have to. The thing is that you get to be rather low-key
about your 12th House planets. But, still, they definitely need expression and an outlet. Jupiter in
the 12th can also bring a beautifully peaceful kind of solitude into your life. The 12th House is how
we need to be alone and you get a blissful recharge from alone time. You will gain a lot of positive
energy from withdrawing from the world, especially since it allows you to maintain some individual
boundaries. It is quite possible for you to give and give and give without any limit. So, remember to
check in with yourself and pull back when needed.
With this placement, sleeping is also enormously important. You absolutely need your eight hours of
rest every night, at least. There may be days where you aim for nine or ten hours. The truth is that,
with Jupiter in the 12th, you understand all the positives of sleep. The sleep cycle is represented by
the 12th because this house represents “the end”, in many ways, and in simplistic terms, it can be
the end of our day. You will strongly believe that you need to end your day right to start the new
one right. So, getting enough sleep is a part of that. Your dreams are probably grand and larger-
than life, in a way that can make your regular life feel dull in comparison, and you can display great
faith in the wild, imaginative symbolism in these dreams, really understanding what they mean.
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SATURN IN THE 1ST HOUSE
Those with Saturn in the 1st House of their birth chart are overcoming fears and doubts in terms of
putting themselves out there. The 1st House is how you tackle this thing called life and with Saturn
there, you don’t necessarily tackle it. You cautiously walk up to it and try and figure out the right
way to do it. And by the time you’ve done all of this, the right moment or opportunity has already
passed you by! Therefore, Saturn in the 1st House people need to make it their purpose in life to
develop true courage and initiative. With this placement, you possess an ambitious, goal-oriented
outlook on life. Yet, you are also all too easily fixated on the hurdles you have to jump over to
accomplish those goals. But, you just need to jump and without all of the excess worrying. If you
don’t, you will end up sabotaging yourself, falling flat on your face, which is your worst fear.
The 1st House represents the conditioning of one’s early life. How you learned to behave within
those first several years is indicated by whatever is in your 1st House, making this your particular
“role” in life; the set of behaviors, attitudes, and mannerisms that make up your overall demeanor.
And with Saturn in the 1st, there is a real gravitas to your demeanor, to the point where it might
make you appear to be overly serious, melancholy, or bogged down. This stems from an early life
where you were expected to be self-sufficient, to take responsibility for yourself, and to also,
somehow, not make many mistakes, if at all.
Early childhood is a time where most children freely act on their impulses. But, when you have a 1st
House Saturn, there is a certain restriction over the impulses that is conditioned and learned. This
could stem from being born into a really controlling, judgmental, or harsh environment. You could
have constantly feared being “punished” as a child, in some literal or metaphorical way, just for
acting on your impulses. A lot of this stemmed from your father. You experienced your father figure
as The Punisher and the strictness of your formative years was due to how patriarchal your early 49
environment was. Dad probably ruled with an iron fist and even if he wasn’t an obviously stern
disciplinarian, you still harbored this sense that, no matter how much he loved you, he was always
judging you and that you were rarely measuring up. The pressure of being your father’s child could
have felt like too much because his shoes were just too big to fill.
This is a feeling that extends well into adulthood. If the 1st House is one’s individual viewpoint,
having Saturn in the 1st can make you feel as if you are constantly being judged. You see life in
Saturn-like terms, always anticipating some sort of punishment or failure. This can manifest on a
social level, making you very awkward, shy, reserved, or unsure of yourself. Saturn does represent
one’s doubts and with it in this part of your birth chart, it’s like your whole demeanor is one of
terrible self-doubt. You could take the smallest social cue as a sign of rejection, whether it’s
someone saying a slightly critical thing about you or not receiving you in the warmest manner. You
are a highly sensitive person, dealing with huge anxiety or insecurity at any given moment. But, this
is something you may overcompensate for by trying to maintain a tough, cool exterior.
In fact, there is something stately, elegant, and respectable about you. It’s really because of the
reserve or self-containment that you give off. While everyone else is just all over the place, you will
appear to have your stuff together, even when you are feeling like an absolute wreck. That’s what
happens when you have such tight control over your behavior. But, this is also something that can
end up being intimidating or unnerving. The 1st House is also people’s impression of you. With
Saturn in the 1st, you can easily seem to be the cold one who is always judging people. In fact,
that’s something that you might not entirely understand. You can feel so insecure, afraid, or
rejected by your environment that you carry yourself in ways that invoke feelings of insecurity, fear,
or rejection in other people. It becomes a rather unconscious defense: judge or be judged.
While the 1st House can represent our intentions, there is also an unconscious element to this
house, as it is so defined by our first several years of life, where we were largely unconscious
beings. So, as a child, you unconsciously learned how to assimilate the judgmental attitudes of
those around you, including your Dad. Therefore, now, your outlook can be much harsher than you
intend. Trying to navigate social situations, especially ones where you have to meet people, can
become particularly painful. The “resting bitch face” syndrome is a common complaint of Saturn in
the 1st, as the 1st House is the face we show others, often without realizing it. So, you might
appear to be rather cold, unreceptive, or rigid, unbeknownst to you, feeling somewhat hopeless at
how much you scare people off or are unable to be as freely, easily social as other people.
This only contributes to that fear you have of putting yourself out there. Any given situation can
seem fraught with difficulties and obstacles. This is what you see all around you: obstacles. Of
course, that only ends up making life harder for you. 1st House Saturn individuals can suffer from a
depressive, cynical, or bitter outlook because of this. It’s like there is this dark cloud that is always
following you around and you don’t know how to get rid of it. Little do you know that it is your
attitude that is attracting this darkness and sadness. Those with this placement feel like they have
to do everything the hard way, keeping themselves highly, and almost totally, self-sufficient. But,
the thing is that no one is entirely self-sufficient. We all have to depend on others, to an extent.
Putting your vulnerabilities and weaknesses out there is particularly terrifying because, as a small
child, when you’re at your most vulnerable, you were never allowed to be so.
All of these issues are going to be magnified during your Saturn Return and you’re going to be
forced to come face-to-face with them. The Saturn Return in the 1st House, like in the 4th or the
5th, can bring many childhood difficulties to light. You are going to have to confront those early
years and just why you were under the pressure you were under at that time. We can’t remember a
lot about our first several years of life. But, during this period, you might find yourself making 50
several breakthroughs in terms of remembering and understanding what you experienced as a child.
Were you not comforted or nurtured enough? Were you placed under unfair pressure? Was the
environment you grew up in just too bleak, bitter, or unforgiving for comfort? Coming to terms with
these issues will help you confront your conditioning and eventually overcome it.
I feel like the essential purpose of Saturn in the 1st is to deprogram yourself. The house that Saturn
is in is where we have to find our strength and our structure. With Saturn in the 1st, the key is to
restructure your overall outlook on life. Figure out just why you are seeing so much darkness and
difficulty around you and how you can discipline yourself to change your point of view. It will
definitely take self-discipline, as it is all too easy for you to get down in the dumps. But, this only
reinforces the purpose of you playing the part in life of a person with great self-discipline. You have
a very diligent and hardworking approach to whatever you do. Yet, you just need to figure out just
what to pour that disciplined energy into: something that will really help turn your life around.
In fact, the Saturn Return in the 1st is going to be all about turning your life around, as the 1st
House represents how you approach and experience life. So, this can either be a time where you
become even harder on yourself and more miserable or where you become dramatically and
amazingly reborn, which most with this placement end up doing because they’re so driven to
succeed anyway. That is a good way to look at this time period: it is going to be a real “rebirth” for
you, especially if it’s your first Saturn Return. Before the first Saturn Return, you might feel as if you
rarely ever catch a break. As harsh as it might seem, I think this is the purpose of this placement.
Your Saturn in the 1st wants you to experience hardship and know what it feels like, not only so you
can develop the strength to push through it but also so you can figure out how to avoid it. More
times than you realize, you are just making your own bed and being forced to lie in it.
A personal perspective that is focused on consequences is the result. But, when I say consequences,
I don’t mean being overly anxious about the approval of others. You have to stop feeling as if you
need to constantly prove yourself, at every turn and in every situation. You will find the true
strength you need when you give yourself that approval and learn to see yourself as a success. You
can easily suffer from a lot of worries over failure, even if that failure hasn’t happened yet. It’s like
you are always waiting for the other shoe to drop. But, you need to just realize that you’re only
worrying yourself sick! It helps for you to really redefine your ideas of failure. When you can see the
success in every determined, dedicated step you take, regardless of the outcome (since you can’t
control the outcome anyway, no matter how hard you try), you will feel a lot more successful.
I think your Saturn Return in the 1st could also potentially bring many momentary flops your way, if
you have continued to live life so seriously up to this point. You might feel, during this period, that
you cannot walk very far without stumbling somehow, either literally or metaphorically. But, this is a
good thing for you! There must come a point in adulthood where you really learn to lighten up, to
take yourself and life less seriously. You can be so intent on gaining respect and recognition that
being laughed at or not taken as seriously can feel threatening and uncomfortable to you, as if your
dignity is being stolen. The key is knowing how to laugh at yourself, trusting that you’re already a
respectable, substantial person who doesn’t need to try so hard to win others’ confidence. When you
do, you will learn how to view life with less gravity and with more of a sense of humor.
You are actually capable of being wonderfully humorous, since all great humor comes from some
sort of painful truth. 1st House Saturn people can be downright comedians in their ability to give a
deadpanned yet hilarious account of what’s going on around them. In many ways, humor will be a
much-needed remedy for your grave outlook. This actually results in Saturn in the 1st House folks
who, when they are in their thirties or older, end up defying the overly-serious stereotype of this
placement. The more mature you are, the freer you feel. This is the irony of your existence, a sort 51
of Benjamin Button, backwards-aging way of living. You didn’t feel very free at all when you were in
your youth. But, the older you get, the lighter of an experience life is. You’ve already been through
serious difficulties, way before your time. So, now, you get to enjoy life more!
It’s not talked about as much but there can also be a remarkable attractiveness to having Saturn in
the 1st. When you’re younger, you’ll probably feel a marked discomfort with your body and your
appearance, even if other factors in your chart make you seem more confident or vain. These
insecurities can really haunt you and this placement is often called the ugly-duckling syndrome. As
with everything, you may just be a late bloomer. It’s often not until the late twenties and later that
1st House Saturn people start coming into their own, appearance-wise. It might have a lot to do
with becoming more self-assured and sophisticated in your demeanor. That soon expresses itself as
a very distinguished air that others find striking. You grow into a very classy being, a person who
seems to be of high class and elegance, often because this is something you worked for. You
weren’t born with it. Saturn in the 1st makes it your purpose to work toward this sophisticated
manner, eventually cultivating an aura of success in everything that you do.
Basically, you mature into someone who appears to be very impressive. The 1st House is your life
story and with Saturn in the 1st, you are a living, breathing success story. Your biography would be
that of someone who came from nothing, who pushed through one hardship after the next, and who
eventually “made it.” Approaching every situation with this grit, tenacity, and perseverance, as well
as with the well-earned wisdom of a person who’s been through it, is your duty in life. So, while the
first couple decades or so of life can truly suck, you will be able to look back and appreciate all that
you’ve been through, as you wouldn’t have been able to achieve half as much otherwise.
SATURN IN THE 2ND HOUSE
Those who are born with Saturn in their 2nd House are creating structure for themselves in this life
through solid self-worth. Self-esteem is a necessary part of all of our lives, so long as we want to be
stable and healthy individuals. Whatever is in your 2nd House, whether it’s the sign on the cusp or
any potential planets in this house, shows how you can build strong self-esteem. But, what happens
when you have Saturn in the 2nd House? It means that, more than the average individual,
cultivating this self-worth is going to be more challenging for you. There are many blockages
standing in the way of you truly loving yourself and feeling at ease in your own skin. The wisdom of
this placement stems from realizing that a lot of these blockages are self-created.
It’s not enough to say that you suffer from not feeling “good enough.” That is quite a general
statement that can apply to everyone at some point in their life. It’s that having Saturn in the 2nd
House might make you deeply resistant to even overcoming this feeling. When you’re caught up in
your fears, insecurities, and doubts, without doing the work involved to better yourself, it’s as if no
amount of self-help statements, compliments, affection from others, money, or nice things will ever
compensate for that crippling feeling of lack. It’s just this emptiness inside that nothing can really
fill. But, many 2nd House Saturn people can desperately attempt to fill it. It’s not uncommon to see
some with this placement become massive, compulsive consumers, under the misguided belief that
buying all of this stuff is going to make them a better person.
The age-old phrase “money doesn’t buy happiness” applies to Saturn in the 2nd House for so many
reasons. The first being that, yes, going down the route of extreme materialism isn’t going to get
you anywhere, with this placement. The reason for that is because it’s immature and Saturn just
doesn’t do immaturity. If you foolishly think that your worth is tied up in the car you drive, how
much money you make, or the house you have, you’ll soon realize how mistaken you are. It’s 52
actually quite a pattern for people with a 2nd House Saturn to see their material things repossessed
or taken away, in some way, that brings their worst fears to life. Eviction or foreclosure notices can
plague you, that beautiful car could get wrecked or totaled, and you may even regularly become the
victim of theft, major or minor. This is especially true if you have Uranus or Neptune in the 2nd
House, as well. Your wallet may constantly get lost or stolen or maybe people are just always
“borrowing” your stuff, often without even asking and never returning it.
All this does is exaggerate the green-eyed monster of greed and possessiveness within you. If
Saturn represents what we fear and what inner difficulties we have to face, as a result, Saturn in the
2nd House indicates a fear of just losing your shit. Not necessarily losing your mind, unless, again,
you have Neptune in the 2nd, as well. I mean literally losing what you have. It’s enough to give you
a very neurotic case of “what’s mine is mine.” If you run into someone with this placement who
freaks out if you so much as move their laptop or rearrange their books or anything else that’s
seemingly harmless, they are still operating out of a place of fear and worry. The root of all of this is
your poor self-esteem; the feeling that these possessions are an extension of yourself. While the 1st
House represents one’s point of view and way of behaving, the 2nd House follows this house by
attaching that sense of individuality to something solid and substantial. But, because Saturn is here,
it can be tough to feel solid and substantial, which is what makes you desperately possessive.
Also, the potential for cheapness and stinginess of this placement is legendary. Saturn in the 2nd
House can make a person feel depressed for having to spend $25 at the grocery store; for groceries
that they most certainly needed. The sheer act of just spending money can be disheartening for
you. It’s as if you look at your bank account and want it to remain perfect and only want to build
from there. So, any form of spending is seen as a threat to your security. But, of course, this can
get absurd. It’s to the point where you can truly worry about ending up in the poorhouse. Saturn is
our worst fear and Saturn in the 2nd House means that one’s worst fear is poverty, ending up some
homeless beggar on the street without a cent to one’s name. This is a worry that can continue far
into adulthood, even when the person has cultivated financial security for themselves. The truth is,
when they are acting out of fear and anxiety, there is never enough security for these people. All
they can think about is wanting more and hoarding what they already own.
This is another definition of the “money does not equal happiness” mantra. You can spend all that
time pinching your pennies and still end up feeling insecure and unhappy, often because you’ve
become such a curmudgeon that you can’t help but feel unhappy. It’s quite a breakthrough for
Saturn in the 2nd House individuals to understand that money has to be enjoyed. You cannot just
earn and save in such a rigid fashion without taking the time to not only use your money with an
attitude of joy but have a true attitude of appreciation for what you already own. This is a wisdom
that dawns on you during your Saturn Return in the 2nd, particularly the first time around. With this
placement, the Saturn Return can make you feel broker than ever. But, it also might make you stop
and realize just how silly you’re being because you already own so much.
It’s a compulsive feeling for you to feel like you don’t have much. When it comes to your income,
you might always say, “I don’t make much money…” When it comes to your home, you might think,
“Well, it’s not the nicest place…” In terms of the car you’ve just bought, “Well, it’s not the newest
model…” And so on and so forth. It takes maturity for you to realize how you keep undermining
yourself by diminishing the worth of whatever you own. In your Saturn Return, this will make it
harder and harder for you to manifest anything. The 2nd House rules our power of attraction yet in
a strictly financial, material sense. It’s the attitude that you have toward money and possessions
that attracts these things into your life. So, guess what? If Saturn in the 2nd gives you this
compulsive sense that you’re living such a basic, broke lifestyle, even when you’re doing perfectly
okay for yourself, you’re going to feel less and less resources coming in during your Saturn Return. 53
It can get to the point where you make even less money than you did before, where you have to
downsize to an even smaller, less comfortable place, and where you can’t even afford your car.
Saturn teaches us the consequences of our actions and our attitudes. So, don’t believe that crises
like this are a curse; a sign that there is never enough to go around. It’s the fact that you believe
this that makes you feel like there is not enough, especially when you compare your lifestyle to
others’ (another downfall of this placement). Someone else may have no trouble at all experiencing
gratitude and appreciation for what they have, causing them to live very comfortably, even if it’s still
quite a modest lifestyle. But, you might feel like no one suffers like you do financially. The truth is
that many people just don’t obsess over their financial standing like you do. Once you ease up on
yourself, in this way, you will find it increasingly easier to attract the resources you need.
In fact, if anyone can learn to master this Law of Attraction, it’s the Saturn in the 2nd House person.
The life area represented by our Saturn’s house becomes something that we are a true master at,
through plenty of effort, persistence, and discipline, as well as through many stumbles and setbacks.
You can experience wonderful success by taking the right attitude toward money. Of course, you
have to be practical and disciplined about how you save and spend. At the same time, don’t be too
rigid or controlling. If you trust that there is more money coming your way, you will find your
income being strengthened significantly. The less the 2nd House Saturn individual worries about
money, the more they’ll have, especially since you already possess a skill for handling money
efficiently. This combined with your newfound gratitude will bring a steady cash flow your way.
Now, you do get the cases where the 2nd House Saturn person starts off life as the other extreme
and is actually just a mess with money and has no idea how to save or spend it (which goes back to
my theory of this placement being capable of mass consumption or consumerism). But, I’ve found
that this is rarer than the stingy type. Still, being particularly reckless and irresponsible with money
is also a sign of a low level of appreciation for it. It is coming from the same place of fear and low
self-esteem. You might not believe you deserve what you have, so you are very foolish with it,
creating self-destructive patterns. For either the ones who are very cheap or very reckless, this
attitude can stem from the relationship with the father figure; something that Saturn represents, in
the sense of what one learns from the paternal parent. This is usually a parent who may not have
felt like he (or she) got everything that was deserved. Maybe the father had trouble maintaining a
steady income or, conversely, was so money-hungry that nothing was ever enough. Either way, this
imparted a sense to the child that finances were to be obsessed over and were always a struggle.
This goes back to the issues of self-esteem. The 2nd House, after all, isn’t all about money. But, the
relationship between money and self-love ties into the theme of one’s worth. Yet, Saturn in the 2nd
House people often get it backwards, believing that their financial worth defines their personal
worth. If you take it upon yourself to see that it’s, in fact, your personal worth that causes your
financial worth to skyrocket, you will be expressing this placement with strength and maturity. You
need to discipline yourself to truly, deeply love yourself, to want to experience real peace of mind.
The stability you seek first has to come from within. Then, it can manifest externally. So, I think the
only way you will be able to worry less about money or be less neurotic or destructive about it is to
be much more comfortable in your skin and worry less about yourself.
Doing lots of affirmations to tell yourself that you’re good enough is crucial and will very likely help
you through that Saturn Return in the 2nd House. This is a time where you may be so full of
negative inner voices that it’s hard to see anything good about yourself. So, this is when the good
sense and simplicity of the 2nd House must be channeled. Just don’t listen to any of those voices!
Saturn in the 2nd House people are very susceptible to people’s input over their worth. The society
we live in can be very judgmental and for very superficial reasons. Someone just dropping a hint 54
that you don’t make enough money, for example, is enough to lead you to feel terribly unsure of
your worth. Do not look to others for this validation. Find structure in the simplicity of listening to
that one voice – your own voice – and making sure this voice is full of love and appreciation for
whatever you have and whatever you stand for. It doesn’t matter if it’s “enough” for others. Is it
enough for you? This allows you to cultivate the strong values you need to feel accomplished.
Saturn in the 2nd means that your purpose in life does revolve around whatever it is that you truly
value and enjoy. When it comes to career choices, it wouldn’t be surprising to see you go into
something very business-like and practical, where managing resources is an essential skill.
However, you also need to go after something that you will find genuinely pleasurable. But, of
course, it also needs to keep you feeling secure. The sweet spot is something that brings you plenty
of joy and that also delivers a steady income. It doesn’t always have to start out as a steady paying
job, however. 2nd House Saturn people can often greatly succeed in careers that seem quite
unstable, like the arts, freelancing, or self-employment. You are finding your purpose through being
a solid “builder.” This means that you can tap into the patience and the determination needed to
take all the steps toward turning this path of yours into a very tangible and sustainable reality.
Again, this is another result of your manifestation mojo. You can create financial security for yourself
doing something that someone else would find daunting, intimidating, or impossible, due to the lack
of certainty. But, you have a way of steadying yourself in the face of material uncertainty. Saturn in
the 2nd gives one a knack for making a dollar out of fifteen cents, mostly because many of these
folks spend a major part of their lives as such cheapskates (or “frugal”, if you want to put it nicely).
Such firm resourcefulness can potentially cause you to become very financially comfortable, if not
wealthy. As long as you value yourself, you can create a good lifestyle for yourself.
SATURN IN THE 3RD HOUSE
When you have Saturn in the 3rd House of your birth chart, you’re managing your fears, doubts,
and worries when it comes to communicating and learning. I feel like everyone has heard pretty
fatalistic and awful things about their Saturn placement. No one’s really immune to it because
astrologers have so historically seen Saturn from such a harsh point of view. It brings difficult
experiences, for sure. But, let’s see it from a different light. Saturn in the 3rd isn’t going to make
you stupid or slow. It doesn’t doom you to awful conversation. In fact, it’s probably gut-wrenching
for you to read those kinds of descriptions because those are the exact things that you fear.
People with their Saturn in the 3rd House never want to be looked at as dumb or boring. But, it can
be easy to feel that way with this placement. It’s something that can lead you to try harder and
harder in the intellectual realm, to only feel like you keep falling down a slippery slope. 3rd House
Saturn individuals often feel like frauds when they try to be intellectual, even though it’s your real
purpose in life to be this impressive intellectual. But, you might hear some nagging little voice inside
of yourself saying, “Who do you think you are? You’re not that smart. What you have to say is not
that important.” It doesn’t help at all that there is a duality to anything in the 3rd House. So, with
this placement, your fears and insecurities really feel like the mischievous Devil on your shoulder
who won’t shut up and who keeps discouraging you or turning you in the wrong direction.
Well, you’re not stupid and you’re not a terrible communicator. You just have to develop a trust in
your ability to communicate and in your intelligence. When we work hard in our Saturn’s house, we
realize just how capable we’ve always been in this area of life. These are where our strengths lie
and we just need to learn how to develop them, discipline them, and capitalize on them. So, you’ve
always been smart and you’ve always been interesting. It’s just that you’re going to need to work
harder than the rest of us when it comes to honing your brainpower. If not, your negative thought 55
patterns will get in the way and trip you up. And I think Saturn in the 3rd might be more prone than
Saturn in any other house to set oneself up for failure through negative thinking.
The 3rd House represents one’s siblings and how this relationship influenced the way that you learn
and communicate. Now, I don’t think that a 3rd House Saturn means that you’re going to hate your
brother or your sister. There can certainly be people with this placement who have difficult, strained,
or contentious relationships with their siblings. Maybe you two were just never close growing up and
you never had a chance to really bond. This can also show a distinct separation with siblings, like a
parent who takes them away or a stepbrother or stepsister you rarely ever see. Without this sibling
connection, you might have struggled with learning, as a result. If the 3rd House is what we learn
from our siblings, maybe you were so disconnected and cut off from your brother or sister as a child
that there was nothing to learn. This later on influenced you by easily making your mind go blank
when you were faced with new information, setting up your insecurities about learning.
But, another outcome is just as possible: it’s not that the relationship with the sibling was difficult
but the sibling went through some significant struggles, often in the school system. Saturn in the
3rd can symbolize a brother or sister who had a really hard time in school. They might have actually
been very smart. But, they experienced obstacles and difficulties in the classroom. It could’ve been
through serious anxieties over tests, behavioral issues, clashes with teachers, or just an overall
feeling that they didn’t belong in school. Because of this, you can often get a sibling who slacked off
academically or didn’t care about their education that much. They might have also become
homeschooled, graduated early just get out of there, or dropped out of high school.
In any case, your sibling just wasn’t the academic one in the family. They were either the artistic
one, the one with the great personality, the beautiful one, or the funny one. Every child in a family
does get assigned a certain area of achievement and recognition, whether the parents realize it or
not. So, the difficulties with your sibling do not have to add up to you somehow hating them or
being mistreated by them. You two can get along relatively fine or it may even be a very close,
strong relationship. But, at the same time, you felt a ton of pressure because they definitely passed
the baton of having to be “the smart one” to you, which is especially true if they were older than
you (which is often the case here) and you were the next one in line.
Saturn does bring limitations, so this often shows someone who comes from the typically nuclear
family. There could’ve been just two kids in your family. Therefore, if your sibling wasn’t going to
care much about their academic achievements, then you were somehow molded as having to be the
brainiac. Since Saturn is a symbol of the father figure, you might have especially gotten this kind of
message from your more paternal parent. Now, you can also find only children with this placement.
If that’s the case, then the pressure to get ahead in school was just as intense because you were
the only child in the house that your parents could expect that from. Like many only children, this
made you feel more grown-up and advanced but it also really terrified you.
Since the 3rd House says a lot about our schooling years, the classroom was always a place of high
anxiety for you. You couldn’t rest as easily as your friends and classmates once you sat down at that
desk. It might have even been a feeling of being okay during recess or lunch. But, as soon as that
bell rang, you felt a knot in your stomach. Saturn in the 3rd House drove you as a child with that
little voice of “be smart, be good in school.” Yet, this level of pressure could’ve backfired, paralyzing
you when it came time to prove yourself. You might have had a hard time spitting out the right
answer, even when you knew it, and you could have struggled to perform well on tests. The grade
school years are not an easy, smooth side for people with this placement.
This could’ve instilled a resistance to and dislike of school that made your parents feel like history 56
was repeating itself, as it’s like your sibling’s educational issues were being passed down to you. It’s
why it may feel like they were harder on you in this area than your brother or sister. In this sense,
the sibling’s karma becomes your karma. Since they took such a flippant or negative attitude toward
learning, they might have taught you to see learning the same way, acting as a less-than-great
influence, in this regard, even if they didn’t mean to. You can see a lot of Saturn in the 3rd House
kids not trying their best in school and then feeling the harsh consequences of it from teachers or
parents, which only continues the cycle. On the flip side, maybe you worked really hard in school
and performed well. But, it was so exhausting that you couldn’t wait for it to be over with.
As an adult, this is all still being carried with you. The 3rd House shows how we teach people
information and how we learn it, in a conversational way. So, even now, you might still be resisting
the educational process. Saturn in the 3rd House is a placement that can produce awkward
conversationalists. It doesn’t mean that you’re hopeless when it comes to talking to others. But, you
might see a lot of what people say as useless or stupid, just like you saw what your teacher was
saying as useless and stupid. This can make you loathe small talk to a degree that’s very unsociable.
It’s also something that can make you downright fearful of really voicing what’s on your mind
because maybe they’ll think of what you’re saying as useless and stupid.
This all comes to a head during your Saturn Return in the 3rd House. During this time, especially the
first time around, you can easily feel like you’re back in the 8th grade. Everyone around you can feel
like the judgmental teacher, expecting the right answer and failing you when you don’t give it. You
will constantly feel “tested” during your Saturn Return. Well, we all do but you will literally feel
tested on your intelligence and your verbal skills. Many misunderstandings and miscommunications
can occur during this time. But, this will all happen in order for you to see that it’s not the end of the
world. Your worst fear is failing the test of intelligence. Yet, situations may happen to make you feel
less than smart so you can see that it’s not the end of the world. None of us ever stop learning.
Grade school makes getting an A feel like a rigid goal. But, you can find maturity by taking some of
that pressure off of yourself and letting yourself learn and communicate in a way that suits you.
This is why Saturn in the 3rd is a very interesting placement. Your purpose is found on a very
mental level yet it’s something that will affect your every interaction with others. Instead of
approaching conversations with a rigid agenda or with a pessimistic attitude, you can truly let these
exchanges just happen, without fear, resistance, or control. The less you worry about being
interesting or intelligent, the more your interesting, intelligent mind will emerge. You’ve got a really
solid brain up there because you’ve had to spend so much energy working hard at developing it.
Therefore, don’t try to control the stream of ideas that you have and how they’re expressed.
Instead, just let yourself be inquisitive and talkative, without worrying so much about how it’ll land.
You’ll also learn how to do the same thing with other people, truly listening to them and being
curious and open-minded without judging what they’re saying and how necessary or useful it is.
But, I would say that this placement can really excel at using and expressing information. Saturn in
the 3rd House gives you a responsibility to be a strong communicator. As a result, you can carve out
a purposeful career in anything like journalism, advertising, marketing, creative writing, or public
speaking. Yes, you might also want to look into teaching. If you do become a teacher, it can feel like
a karmic cycle, with you ending up in the same position that you once loathed, from the outside
looking in. But, teachers with a 3rd House Saturn can understand the frustrations of their students
like no other teacher and will patiently work with them, taking on a mentor-like role to get them to
be their best academic self. You can become that teacher that people remember for years after.
In any case, your duty is to be a teacher to others and instill substantial concepts and ideas within
them. I always say that the 3rd House has an unpredictable flip side. So, you just have to watch out 57
for suddenly switching into Debbie Downer mode, doing nothing but thinking negatively and
bringing people down with your words. Your Saturn Return in the 3rd can bring crises into your life
because of this. You may burn a few bridges with your speech or you get into such a loop of anxiety
and worry that you become depressed or shoot yourself in the foot. Yet, when you learn to keep
thoughts of success and positivity in your head, you can do anything. More than most, you have to
really remember the power of your thoughts and your words to develop as a person.
This also translates into your relationships with your neighbors, as the 3rd House also symbolizes
how we deal with our neighborhood. Saturn in the 3rd House people often resist bonding with their
neighbors because it just feels silly or pointless to them. But, I’ve heard of people with this
placement enduring truly painful interactions with their neighbors during their Saturn Return like
insane gossip, alienation, harsh judgment, and even harassment. It’s these experiences that will
allow you to see that everyone needs kind neighbors and will cause you to rethink your attitude
toward the person next door. You can learn to find structure in positive relations with neighbors.
At the same time, you have to remember to be a kind neighbor yourself. After years of being used
to comparing your achievements with your sibling's, you can get too wrapped up in status when you
communicate with others. It’s common for Saturn in the 3rd House people to gossip quite ruthlessly,
either with total disregard or through a manipulative desire to bring someone else down and make
themselves look good. But, this two-facedness is not going to work for you and if you don’t learn
that by your Saturn Return, gossip will become your downfall, leading to dramatic scandals or
destroyed relationships. Again, your words affect people more than you realize. You have to use
these words wisely, to teach, guide and strengthen people. Work hard on keeping negativity out of
your mouth. As the old saying goes, if you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all.
SATURN IN THE 4TH HOUSE
The 4th House represents your personal background. You can think of it as your history. Your
ancestry is often linked to the 4th House and this makes a lot of sense. It’s the place that represents
where you came from. But, that can be interpreted in many different ways, whether it’s your
ancestors, your hometown, the person you’ve always been in your family unit, or the way your
home life has been since the beginning. Saturn is the planet of challenges, doubts, and worries.
When you have Saturn in the 4th House, a great deal of insecurity and fear can surround one’s
personal history. But, Saturn is also the planet of hard-earned rewards, which means that you need
to face that history or else it’s bound to repeat itself.
Saturn in the 4th House means that one’s childhood was not all smooth and easy, to say the least.
In this sense, having this placement gives you a difficult personal background, in some sense or
another. One of the most common indicators of a 4th House Saturn to me is the loss of a parent.
This parent may have died at some point in the person’s childhood or may have just abandoned the
family. But, either way, it throws the household into disarray. This theme of parental loss makes so
much sense when you consider that the 4th House is about family. Thanks to the championing of
things like same-sex marriage, cultural ideas of family are progressing and modernizing in many
ways. Yet, no matter what the sex of either parent is, we still tend to first consider a family as
involving two parents, both of them trading off and contributing different energies to the household
in order to create a balanced, safe environment for their kids.
But, this idea is often shattered when you have Saturn in the 4th House. Because so many people
with this placement end up losing a parent, their notion of family ends up becoming strained or a
source of sorrow. It is the classic “broken home” placement. It is usually the father who ends up
passing away or being erased out of the picture, since Saturn is the father figure. As I have 58
frequently said, I don’t believe in the idea that the 4th House/10th House axis has to represent your
parents unless you have one or more of your “parental” planets (the Sun, Moon, or Saturn) in either
the 4th or the 10th. Then, this becomes the case. But, there are certain examples where the mother
figure of the 4th House Saturn ends up dying or leaving the picture.
In either case, there is this feeling, while growing up, that the traditional happy home has been
taken away from you and taken away too soon. So, well into adulthood, there is this unhappy child
that the Saturn in the 4th House person goes home to, who just wants to feel safe and protected
and stable. The energy of our 4th House follows us into adulthood and it’s essentially what we
cannot escape. When we are in the privacy of our own home, when holidays or other family events
exert a gravitational pull over us toward our relatives, and when we have nothing to do but just be
with ourselves, the 4th House speaks through us. Therefore, having Saturn in the 4th means that
this unhappiness can haunt you in these private, intimate, and familial moments because it is such a
part of your history. But, if you don’t deal with these difficult feelings, they will be an endless cycle
that you seem fated to live out in your personal life.
I think this is the more nuanced interpretation of the whole “Saturn in the 4th House means that
you don’t like your family” profile. I feel like there are some 4th House Saturn folks who were
conditioned to play out some repressive, restrictive role in their family unit, in order to avoid the
harsh consequences of not doing so, and it prevented a deeply loving connection to the family from
developing. Behind closed doors, you may have felt this suffocating demand to live up to your
family’s expectations that didn’t make you very happy. But, this can also be the case if you have a
relatively healthy, functional relationship with your family, as well. There was still this sense that you
had to constantly be up to par, maybe feeling like if you didn’t put in enough effort, everything
around you would crumble. Sometimes, this is an expectation you put unto yourself.
Since many people with this placement suffered the loss of a parental figure, they spent a lot of
their childhood in a single-parent household. The significant stress of being a single parent could
have taken such a toll on this parent that the 4th House Saturn child felt a strong compulsion to chip
in and help out. Possibly the most defining characteristic of this position is the child who grows up
quickly and becomes the “surrogate adult” in the household: working as soon as they could to help
out, taking their household chores very seriously, organizing and structuring a lot around the house,
and playing a very parental role with siblings. But, these past experiences have carried over into the
present by making you feel like you still need to be responsible for everything around the house.
Saturn in the 4th House people are very skillful providers and this can make them highly family-
oriented at a young age, often getting married and/or having children in their early to mid-twenties.
Even someone with this placement who spends their youth without children or marriage will still be
very domestic and “play house” with the people they love with a great amount of seriousness. This
is also often a placement that symbolizes an upbringing that was financially difficult and unstable,
with the parent(s) never having much money to work with, often because of being a single-parent
home. Growing up poor is one of the biggest motivators for anyone toward success, whether they
have this placement or not. But, Saturn in the 4th House people can bend over backwards to avoid
being impoverished and privately struggling as adults, in ways that end up wearing them out.
If Saturn is your worst fear, Saturn in the 4th House means that your worst fear is having what
happened to you as a kid happen again, whether this means losing someone close to you, living
under constant stress and instability, or failing to provide a certain happiness or security for your
family members. But, because of the neurotic pressure you put yourself under, the tragic thing is
that this history often will repeat itself in some way. This is something that especially occurs during
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You could endure a home life that doesn’t allow you to truly relax and take a break. You may even
find that you end up pushing a member of your family away because the controlling, anxious, or
insecure quality you display at home becomes too much for them to handle.
All of this happens in order for you to stop and reflect. Saturn in the Water Houses (the 4th, 8th,
and 12th) means that it’s a person’s responsibility in this life to be very reflective and introspective.
While Saturn in the 8th must do so for transformation and empowerment and Saturn in the 12th
House engages in this for spiritual strength and healing, Saturn in the 4th House means that you
must simply become rooted in this duty to be reflective. If you can stop and look back at your past,
you will realize how you have or haven’t created a solid foundation for yourself in the present. Then,
you can go about doing what you can to change that. You cannot rewrite your history, though, and
I think many Saturn in the 4th House people have to accept that. It’s not about changing the fact
that you lost your father, that your family was poor, or that you just didn’t like your home life. It’s
about working with those things of the past in order to create a better present.
This is what gives Saturn in the 4th House individuals such amazing strength, fortitude, and wisdom.
The 4th House represents our most personal qualities that make us feel at home and comfortable
with ourselves. With a 4th House Saturn, that feeling of being at home with yourself (and I’m not
talking about your literal home) stems from being persevering and capable. At the end of the day,
you are one tough cookie. You’ve had to be, because of the various challenges you faced while
growing up. So, you must stay in touch with that foundational quality of strength. During your
Saturn Return in the 4th, you can endure many struggles that go on strictly behind closed doors.
This may also mean closed doors within closed doors, as you often prefer to deal with your
problems in ways that don’t make you dependent on your family. In some ways, this is beneficial for
you, as it allows you to constantly draw on that toughness when you need it.
But, I also think Saturn in the 4th is about drawing on the support of your family members, as well,
to give you that strength. Many people with this placement establish a solid relationship with a
relative who helps them develop their self-sufficiency and wisdom. Since the traditional family
structure is often challenged because of this placement, it usually isn’t a parent. It is often a
grandparent who the 4th House Saturn child learns to gravitate toward for that strength.
Sometimes, it’s easier for these people to lean on their grandmother or grandfather. If they are in a
single-parent situation, the grandparent usually steps in to help, trying to alleviate the parent’s
stress. But, because of that stress, there can be subtle feelings of guilt on the 4th House Saturn
child’s part for trying to turn to them for comfort. Therefore, the special grandma or grandpa in their
life can end up taking on a more parental role than the actual parent. The same thing can also occur
with an aunt or uncle in the person’s life who may not be around as much but who, when they are,
can provide them with the right guidance or reinforcement to evolve into strong young adults.
Whatever the relationship is with your parent(s), any unresolved feelings definitely need to be
resolved. This is why you have this responsibility to reflect and to overcome the painful emotions
that can come up during that reflection. You might see some 4th House Saturn people claim (a bit
too insistently) that they absolutely love their parent and that their relationship is so wonderful. But,
if they allow themselves to stop and be truly present with themselves in their private time, they will
begin realizing that there’s more to the picture. Unresolved or unacknowledged anger, sadness,
fear, resentment, and even hatred can emerge; a theme that can dominate the Saturn Return in the
4th. This placement can often be like having a crying child, locked in a room in your house, who
you’ve been ignoring for years, until you finally unlock the door and listen to them. On the other
hand, maybe you can’t get out of that room with that crying child, instead too caught up in
resentment at what happened in the past. Either way, an attitude of both honesty and forgiveness
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Saturn is our karma and with Saturn in the 4th House, if you spend too much time hung-up on the
painful stuff that happened when you were twelve, very similar events will begin occurring in your
adult life. It will feel like the time your mother embarrassed you at the family reunion all over again!
So, the letting go process is crucial, preventing you from living in the past. Also, you may be living in
the past in a mysterious way, thanks to the ancestral theme of the 4th House. Some may say that
one’s ancestors speak to you through the 12th House. I don’t believe that as the 12th House is
inherently universal. It is the voice of the collective unconscious; people who don’t share our blood
but share our humanity. But, the 4th House is so personal, which means that it would make sense
that your actual blood relatives are going to somehow be lived out through your 4th House energy.
The 4th House Saturn person can find it life-changing to discover a great-aunt who had ongoing
depression, like them, or a great-great-grandfather who never had a good marriage, like them. It’s
not so much skeletons in the closet, like the 8th House. It’s just the exploration of where you came
from. A lot of your karma you’re living out may not be your own! This is why exploring your family
tree can be so eye-opening and allow you to grow and mature. You may discover that the issues
that are plaguing your life plagued one of your ancestors’, including either of your parents. Sudden
discoveries can occur, particularly during the Saturn Return in the 4th, that makes you learn things
about your parent’s past (possibly occurring during your childhood) that you see reflected in your
own adult life. If it’s negative, it can help you prevent that personal history from being lived out
through you or speed up the forgiveness process, through an identification with their struggle. If it’s
positive, though, it can be another part of your background that you can draw strength from.
Saturn in the 5th House of your birth chart is going to be a contradiction. The 5th House is where
we have fun and Saturn is not all fun and games. But, does this mean that you’ll never have fun or
experience joy? No. It just means that you’re going to have to work toward having fun. Whatever
house Saturn is in represents what we need to really work on. So, the contradiction of Saturn in the
5th House means that you will have to work hard toward spontaneity, pleasure, and play. The trick
is doing this hard work without straining too much or then it just becomes, well, work.
The 5th House, by sign or planets, represents our inner child. This is who we were as children when
we were just expressing ourselves and enjoying life. But, Saturn in the 5th shows that this ability
was quite stunted in childhood. People with this placement have an inner child that’s dead-serious:
mature, responsible, focused on goals. There wasn’t much time for silliness and carefree laughs.
Unlike Saturn in the 4th, this grown-up child-self doesn’t seem to be the product of circumstances or
environment. Instead, it was just the way you were. Our 5th House is who we are when we’re just
living in the moment. And it’s difficult for you to simply live in the moment.
Making friends in childhood may be tough when you have Saturn in the 5th. During recess, you
were hesitant to just get in there and play. Instead, you may have wanted to just sit on the sidelines
and read or do some homework. It’s not to say that you didn’t have any friends as a kid. But, you
may have felt uncomfortable in other children’s company because you just weren’t as lighthearted
as they were. As a result, you could’ve preferred the companionship of adults. In fact, Saturn in the
5th House children fully enjoy pretending like they’re adults, taking it so seriously that you end up
being quite convinced. They know how to play house very well and often get joy from imagining the
days when they’ll finally be a grown-up and get to pay the bills and have a house of their own.
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There is a true seriousness to one’s creative spirit, then, when Saturn is in the 5th House of the birth
chart. This placement doesn’t mean that a person lacks creativity. In fact, most people with Saturn
in this house can be amazingly creative. The problem for them is all of the anxieties and fears
(which is what Saturn represents) that surrounds creativity. With this placement, creative blockages
can become a serious thing. It’s not because you’re lacking in creative talent but because you’re
worried too much about the result. The most truly satisfying creativity is spontaneous and Saturn in
the 5th struggles with true spontaneity. So, here, you can find the writer who is unable to start his
novel for weeks or the cook who keeps tossing out her dishes because none of them are just right.
Unable to freely express your creativity, too obsessed with making it all flawless and too worried
about how it will be received, your efforts can feel like they’re withering and dying. Saturn in the 5th
House represents this kind of stage fright, on all levels. Don’t forget that creativity is a very general
thing. Everything we do requires creative energy. So, this doesn’t just apply to artistic things. It can
mean that you just freeze up when you’re around people, unsure of what to say or do, because
you’re too worried about the “script” you’re supposed to be following.
When unevolved, Saturn in the 5th scripts life neurotically and compulsively, to the point of never
being able to improvise. There may be some of these people who convince you that they’re more
easygoing and fun-loving. But, they are following a carefully written script of being easygoing and
fun-loving. And when someone deviates from the lines of dialogue in their head, they can be
paralyzed. With this position, it’s about developing the strength and self-sufficiency to be able to
engage in improvisation. You must learn how to hit the ball back however it’s thrown to you,
trusting that whatever you do or say will be good enough, instead of trying to plan all of it.
The cliché thing that’s also said about a 5th House Saturn is that you won’t have children or you
won’t like children. Neither has to be the case. Plenty of loving parents have a 5th House Saturn. It
just means general issues with children that need to be worked out. Saturn is what makes us worry
and kids really worry you and freak you out. It comes from having never been a total kid yourself.
So, you don’t understand why these little people have to be so loud and restless and uninhibited.
Most children worry about very little and that worries you. They run everywhere, they can’t stop
jumping on furniture, they can’t stop talking, they can’t stop singing those silly songs! It can be
enough to give you a headache but it does not mean that you hate kids.
In fact, we can surprise ourselves through our Saturn because once we work on it, we can discover
that we’re really skilled in this area of life. So, you actually can be very good with children. You just
have to overcome your insecurities around them. A big part of this is also the fact that you worry
about screwing up as a parent. This is what can cause delays in parenting because you’re convinced
you’re going to fail and end up raising some messed-up kid who needs a lifetime of therapy. The
fact that you aren’t exactly effortless with children doesn’t help you, in this regard. You can also
somehow be haunted by children. Their carefree, unrestricted nature only reminds you of how
restricted you felt as a child and it can bring up a lot of sadness you don’t want to deal with.
This is why you not only learn a lot by being a parent but you can actually learn a lot from children.
They end up being your wise teachers because they show you how to let go. It’s something that
really comes to a head during your Saturn Return, especially the first. Many people dread and fear
the Saturn Return. And it’s true that this can be a really challenging time. But, Saturn in the other 11
houses isn’t really going to make a person “have fun” during their Saturn Return. However, with a
Saturn Return in the 5th House, your difficulties are going to come from a demand from the
Universe to have fun. As a result, this is probably the lightest Saturn Return one can have, although
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I imagine one’s Saturn Return in the 5th being like a long invite to a party that you keep turning
down. You keep coming up with excuses: you have to go to bed early, you have to clean, you have
to watch your cat. But, while sitting at home, you’re miserable because all you want to do is go to
the party. During this time, you’ll learn that the only person who’s stopping you from going is you!
So, circumstances in life will be pushing you to loosen up and be freer. Your old ways of being very
clamped down and something of a party pooper will no longer work during this time. Now, you’ve
got to get out there and learn how to shake off your troubles for a while and be free.
As I said before, Saturn in the 5th is teaching you how to live in the moment. You can do so with an
attitude of competence and strength. You already know how to be responsible. But, you are seeing
the importance of truly living. It doesn’t mean that you can’t still be an adult. Too often, people see
responsibility and fun as mutually exclusive. However, the beauty of having Saturn in the 5th is that
they are one and the same for you. It’s your responsibility to have fun and you can find the sense of
fun in being responsible. So, becoming a true adult allows you to get in touch with your inner child.
Adulthood very often feels like a second childhood for people with Saturn in the 5th House.
You grow up by taking yourself less seriously. Saturn in the 5th House people can feel
embarrassment on a profound level. The smallest mistake on your part can make you want to crawl
into a hole and not come back out. During your Saturn Return, you’ll probably feel yourself
“slipping” quite frequently. You might say and do things that make you feel foolish, as your level of
self-control can be relaxing right now. But, instead of wanting to die of humiliation, you have to just
let it all happen. When you learn to live in the moment, you can brush these silly moments off and
move on. This is how your true maturity comes to the surface: by not freaking out every time you
happen to stumble or slip. Accidents happen and they’re often the source of amazing creativity.
So, this approach of taking yourself less seriously will benefit you creatively, as well. It’s very
common for Saturn in the 5th House people to take this powerful creative energy of theirs and make
it artistic. A career in the visual and performing arts will be very lucrative for you. Saturn is where
we gain our purpose and with Saturn in the 5th, your purpose is gained through this life of solid
self-expression. It can get to the point where you find much less structure in that practical grind
you’ve been trying to stick to for so long. Instead, you find structure in anything that helps you feel
free and like you can express yourself anyway you see fit. There are boundaries in art that you can
respect, which allow you to go to all sorts of places of expression in a very responsible way.
Let’s also not forget that the 5th House represents dating and general romance. Therefore, it’s
typical to hear Saturn in the 5th House forever talking about their dry spells on this front. It can be
difficult for you to date, prior to your Saturn Return, because it may give you serious anxiety. You
worry in this area of life, unable to just be casual when it comes to meeting people and hooking up
and hanging out. In fact, you can be so serious with the people you date that it ends up scaring
them off. This is when you’re unable to see the fun that’s inherent in dating. And since it’s your duty
to have fun, your Saturn Return in the 5th can be a time where this part of your life finally
flourishes, so long as you’re heeding the lessons of Saturn and getting on the right track.
You’re never going to be flighty when you date someone but you can find a solid joy in just seeing
where it all goes. Saturn takes a slow, steady progress. And your problem, earlier in life, may be
that you try to jump the gun, going from zero to complete commitment by the end of the first date.
Instead, you can find the strength in simply taking it all step by step. In the process, you can see
how much fun you can experience through romance. So, don’t despair. Those profiles of Saturn in
the 5th having a terrible love life are off-base. This placement can become an expert flirter and lover
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Dating someone with kids can often happen with Saturn in the 5th, challenging you to not see
children as a burden but as an appealing part of the whole package. When it comes to parenting,
unless you’re in a truly mature and self-aware place, it’s best to wait to have children until your first
Saturn Return. Then, you’ll find these little people changing your life. If and when you have kids,
they’ll probably remind you a lot of you as a child, in that they’ll be capable, knowing mini-adults.
They will feed off of the dedication and reliability they sense from you, as parenting is another true
duty of yours. Yet, it’s not something that you should take on too heavily. It’s important to
encourage an atmosphere of play and honest, open expression with your children, especially if
they’re self-conscious and self-restricting themselves. In this way, you can stop the cycle.
At the same time, there are certain Saturn in the 5th House people who learn that they’re okay
waiting a while to become parents. In their case, their “children” are their creative projects. That is
the double meaning of the 5th House, anyway: your literal child and your metaphorical child. So,
they can channel a lot of that parental energy into their creativity, not having actual kids until later
in life, if at all. Another strong possibility with this placement is working with kids, in some capacity,
either in daycare or elementary school. Quite a few 5th House Saturn folks can structure their lives
by dealing successfully with other people’s kids while not having their own.
Saturn has the potential to be very content in the 6th House. This is the house of efficiency, after
all; of being productive, organized, healthy, and on-track. But, the challenge here is truly embracing
this as one’s responsibility in life. People with Saturn in the 6th House are dealing with a lot of issues
surrounding just how well they manage their day-to-day lives. While we all have to work to feel like
functioning adults, I would say that those with a 6th House Saturn have to work even harder to feel
this way. The 6th House is all about “functioning” and wherever Saturn is, we have quite a few
hurdles and obstacles to overcome in this life area. So, with this placement, you can feel particularly
dysfunctional in your daily living until you resolve to really get your act together.
Since Saturn represents one’s father figure and the kind of example that was set, having Saturn in
the 6th House shows a dad who really embodied the “health and work” concerns of this house,
positively or negatively. It doesn’t necessarily mean that your father was super-healthy and
intensely hard-working. That can be the result of this placement, for many people. Insecurities were
instilled within you because your father provided such an example of being on top of everything that
you were constantly worried of falling short of those very high and often severe expectations. This
parent can be obsessive about health issues as well as a total workaholic. But, just as often, you see
a father figure who really struggled in this area of life. Maybe your Dad had serious health issues,
like weight problems, diabetes, heart health, blood pressure, etc., and never developed the strength
and dedication to truly manage or overcome them. Maybe your fathering parent was also just a
procrastinator or slacker of the first order, unable to develop consistent self-discipline.
In either case, a message was reinforced within you that work and dedication were major parts of
life. For many of us, we attempt, for some time, to avoid the guidelines and the lessons that our
Saturn is trying to teach us. This is when we end up feeling the consequences. With Saturn in the 64
6th House, those consequences can stem from not being invested in your daily duties. You can see
many people with this placement who repeat the patterns of procrastination, half-hearted effort, or
unreliability that they witnessed from the father figure. This can create problems on the job, of
course. But, the 6th House is not just about your “job”, as in your regular way of earning income.
It’s about all of the little jobs you have to do throughout the day. Unless you have a maid or a
personal assistant, the work does not end when you go home. There are plenty of chores that need
to be done, errands that need to be run, and other things that need to be straightened out.
Yet, at the immature level, Saturn in the 6th House people can act as if they expect a maid or an
assistant to run up behind them and do everything that needs to be done. This creates all sorts of
little conflicts for you throughout the day. People can easily get frustrated with the feeling that you
want them to clean up behind you or organize their life. “I’m not your servant” can be something
you hear, directly or indirectly, on a regular basis. This tension can bog a lot of things down in your
life. The 6th House is about the mundane sphere of existence, all of those everyday concerns and
details that comprise our life. It’s about going to the grocery store and picking up your dry cleaning
and making the dentist appointment. Yet, if Saturn represents anxiety and fear and worry, then it
shows that you will experience a lot of worries over all of these little details. That’s why you can try
so hard to avoid all of your chores and errands. They can seriously overwhelm you.
This is when you get the 6th House Saturn individual who goes the opposite route: trying to control
absolutely everything. While the other type becomes painfully unproductive, too paralyzed by fear to
get anything done, this type becomes obsessively productive, striving hard to make sure everything
is done just right. But, while you might think that this just makes you hard-working and capable, it’s
actually another form of immaturity, if it’s taken too far. It can give you a very rigid, inflexible idea
of perfection that pushes you to never rest until every little detail is taken care of and exactly the
way that you want it. In this mode of expression, all the little things in life then become
utterly exhausting. But, you keep pushing, harboring this masochistic sense that you somehow need
to punish yourself and break your back in order to do a good job and keep your life on-track.
Still, this can leave you with a feeling that you’re not functional, just like it does with the slacker-
type of Saturn in the 6th House people. It’s because your issues will end up manifesting on a health
level. The 6th House also represents our health. Since this house is naturally ruled by Mercury, it
shows the powerful, profound influence that our thoughts (Mercury) have on our health. Mental
health and bodily health are highly linked. So, whatever is in your 6th House will impact your
immune system through its thought patterns, for better or for worse. With the challenging planet of
Saturn in the 6th, your health can become a major problem. Even if you manage to convince
yourself that things are going fine because you’re such a hard worker and so on top of everything,
you will get a nagging sense that you’re slowly breaking down. Well, your body is what’s slowly
breaking down. Since you can get so negatively wrapped up and obsessed with in everything that’s
“wrong” around you, this energy can definitely manifest physically by always making you sick.
The worse thing is that you can push on, anyway, only making your health worse. 6th House Saturn
folks are often the people who refuse to take sick days. You can virtually have the flu and still insist
on showing up to work. You might also just have persistent health issues, like frequent headaches
and migraines or this cough that just won’t go away, yet brush it all off. Being sick would require
you to rest which would stop you from working. And you can’t have that! On the flip side, you do
get the Saturn in the 6th House people who somehow want to be sick. It can mean being such a
hypochondriac, so convinced that something is wrong with you physically, that those thoughts end
up actually making you sick, repeating the cycle. It could also mean exaggerating health issues, just
to get out of doing things you don’t want to do, or being dangerously careless about your health.
Eating terribly, not getting enough rest, or compulsive smoking are all intentional ways that Saturn 65
in the 6th House people can be pushing the self-destruct button.
All of these issues will come to a head during your Saturn Return in the 6th House. During one’s
Saturn Return, any problems you haven’t admitted to, taken responsibility for, or worked through
will become magnified, to a degree where they absolutely can’t be ignored and must, hopefully, be
dealt with and conquered. With a Saturn Return in the 6th, a person can feel like they are totally
drowning in their busy life. But, in a way, you’ve done it to yourself, either by having an unhealthy
obsession with always staying busy and doing things flawlessly or by avoiding all of the day-to-day
tasks that you have to get done. Either way, it all piles up into a mountain that’s really hard to
climb. Your purpose in life is to be neither a workaholic nor a slacker. It’s to meet somewhere in the
middle, developing the self-discipline to understand that there is work to be done while also trusting
that it all will eventually get done and fall into place perfectly.
In adopting this attitude, you will heal your mind-body connection. Those with Saturn in the 6th
House can finally experience a breakthrough moment of understanding, during their Saturn Return,
in regards to how their negative thought patterns have been making them sick. Whether it’s through
ignoring health issues, not taking them seriously, or blowing them out of proportions, the Saturn
Return in the 6th, especially the first, can teach you the consequences of such a mentality. Many
people with this placement don’t start committing to things like going to the doctor until this time in
their life. Something can occur to show you that you’re not physically invincible or that you really
need some help and some guidelines in terms of tending to your health. So, being dedicated to
getting your regular check-up can be a major part of the maturity process for you.
Essentially, it is your purpose in life to provide the kind of daily structure that will keep your life
functioning but not rigid. It’s why it takes living with a ton of anxiety, fear, and chaos on a day-to-
day level for you to understand this. The stress you are capable of is like a runaway train and can do
a tremendous amount of damage. It is crucial for Saturn in the 6th House people to understand how
to manage their stress. It’s important for all of us but it is highly important for you, as this is how
you establish your structure in life. Those stressful thoughts are going to nag at you on a regular
basis. But, it’s up to you to develop the discipline to know what to do with them. Remaining aware
of the thoughts, things, people, or situations that trigger that stress and anxiety and taking the
proper steps to either avoid them or counteract them will keep you feeling solid and strong.
If you’re the recovering-procrastinator type of 6th House Saturn, a to-do list will be your best friend.
You have to take command of your life by understanding just what needs to get done and when to
do it, checking everything off in a timely manner. At the same time, don’t become a slave to all of
your lists, either. That’s something to remember if you’re the recovering-workaholic type. In this
case, you might actually benefit from making less lists and organizing things less. This attitude only
keeps you in a rigid mind frame, as far as your sense of order goes. It might do you some good to
write down everything that you need to get done, store it all in your brain, and then throw it away.
Trust that you’ve got an amazing sense of order already going on in your head. You can think and
analyze things to death. So, mentally keep track of what you must get done without worrying about
it too much. And if you don’t get absolutely everything finished? So, what? You did the best you
could. For you, maturity comes from truly doing your best and believing you did your best, without
beating yourself up in regards to what you fell short at or didn’t accomplish.
Since you gain your purpose from applying the right amount of structure and organization to your
days, self-employment could do wonders for you. It forces you to stay on task and keep your level
of productivity high and consistent. Yet, if you have to do it all yourself, you are also forced to not
stress out or pressure yourself too much, understanding that Rome was not built in a day. Your
Saturn Return in the 6th House might be a time where you end up finding great success by working 66
for yourself. You could also excel in anything that involves physical health, of course, as well as
assisting other people. We often experience our Saturn’s karma by getting involved in work that is
associated with that house and sign. So, if you’ve either demanded the assistance of other people,
to a degree of not pulling your own weight, or if you’ve endlessly criticized the efforts of others,
feeling like they’re subpar, being in a line of work where you actually have to assist or help people
can open your eyes. Then, you can actually feel the weight of the responsibility of that title and
develop a great respect for the thanklessness that the helpers of the world often live with.
As a result, you can become a very humble helper in your own right. Just as you must be dedicated
to organizing your life, you can take that same attitude of efficiency and apply it toward helping
people straighten out their own lives. And this doesn’t have to be an actual paid job, either. Saturn
in the 6th House people benefit just as much, if not more, from doing volunteer work, as well as
from simply helping out their friends and family, however they can. This challenges you to take the
work seriously, even when you’re not making a dime from it, and shows you how important your
helping hand can be, in all aspects of life. You can find deep purpose in anything that’s “work”,
which is why your career choices can be so broad and versatile. Sure, we can all do whatever we
choose to do. But, you’re developing the strength and maturity to do any line of honest, hard work.
It doesn’t matter how unglamorous, routine, overlooked, or messy it is. While others may complain,
shuffle their feet, or get bored, you will be busy keeping your nose to the grindstone.
Relationships aren’t easy for anyone but they’re a particular amount of hard work when you have
Saturn in your 7th House. This placement means that you have to establish a dynamic with those
close to you that has to do with putting more than enough time, effort, and dedication into the
partnership in order to make it work. But, because of this, these partnerships can feel like they
come loaded with a lot of pressure. It can get to a point where it feels like too much work and that
you keep dealing with these people who are real pieces of work. Is that completely true, though?
You receive what you put in when you have this placement. So, if you keep attracting people who
seem so difficult, this is because you’re very difficult to be in a relationship with. In fact, much of the
time, they’re not the problem. It’s not them, it’s you.
Many people find it hard to be entirely aware of their 7th House qualities, even when they are
obviously expressing them. Sometimes, the 7th House is what is clear about you to everyone but
you. It’s other people’s perspective of you that you might not share but that you also should be
open to if you want to learn more about yourself. So, with Saturn in the 7th, you might not think
that you’re all that defensive or that you have many walls up. You might not believe that you’re hard
to get to know or get close to. However, close friends, significant others, or any other important
person in your life can attest to how unavailable you can be. More than the average person, you
have a deep-seated fear that if someone else really got to know you, they wouldn’t like what they
saw and they would reject you. So, you have a way of rejecting others or shutting them out before
they can do the same to you.
However, you can also enact this pattern by attracting people who are going to reject you. This is
what draws you toward those who are emotionally unavailable themselves and not easy to get close
to. You might have also a thing for romantic partners who are chronic liars, cheaters, or even 67
abusers. Their poor treatment of you affirms what you feel about yourself and your lovability.
However, in less negative or dramatic cases, someone’s perceived rejection may not even actually
be rejection. Maybe they have their moments where they’re more distant or not so demonstrative.
But, it doesn’t mean that they can’t connect to you. In this instance, you’re projecting your own
issues, your inability to connect, on to them. This ends up pushing them away, more and more,
because they feel a sense of futility with you, as if no matter what they do, they’re just going to
keep hitting this wall. Because of this, many people with this placement go at it alone a lot in life,
remaining single for very long periods of time and seeming to have few to no close relationships.
But, this is all due to a deep inner resistance to closeness that you may not even fully recognize.
7th House Saturn individuals get very caught up in the blame game with others. It can feel as if
everything that’s going wrong is the other person’s fault. Even if you don’t directly put it all on them,
you draw people into your life who will readily put all the blame on themselves and shoulder all of
the responsibility. This is something you can just go along with, eager to be free of accountability.
Yet, you also can have people in your life who do hold you accountable, to the point where they dish
out some tough-love in order to make a point or teach you the consequences of your actions. It’s
easy to feel like they’re being mean or insensitive or cold by doing this. However, it’s often for your
own good. At the same time, you can be attracted to a dynamic where someone is punishing you
consistently for things that you haven’t done wrong. In this sort of relationship, you will be the one
shouldering all the responsibility for what goes wrong between you two, beating yourself up over
things you shouldn’t be blaming yourself for.
When we look at the 7th House, we see how we experienced the relationship between our parents
(if you come from a single-parent home, it’s how you witnessed that parent going about romantic
relationships). This is our first example of what love is and it sets the stage for how we go about our
own relationships in life. Saturn being in the 7th House tends to go to one extreme or the other. In
one case, there is a very contentious, strained partnership between the parents. But, there may
have been no divorce involved. Interestingly, those with this placement can have parents that seem
more “stuck together” than “in love” during much of the upbringing. It have seemed like there isn’t
a healthy amount of affection or appreciation between them. There might have even been forms of
abuse, dishonesty, or infidelity on display that deeply affected you and that you later enact and
attract in your own romances. Their example makes you feel like staying with someone through
thick-and-thin means remaining with someone who is mistreating you or who you’re unhappy with,
feeling too committed to the relationship to leave.
On the other hand, a person with Saturn in the 7th can have a highly idealized view of their parents’
marriage. This becomes detrimental because they don’t take enough time to recognize the faults of
this seemingly incredible union. Even when they do, they may side much more with one parent than
the other. As a result, you see relationships too idealistically. You’re unable to handle the faults of
other people without pushing them away. Also, you have a hard time admitting to your faults within
the relationship because you feel like you’re supposed to get everything right. This is what causes
you to project on to the other person and to have a hard time seeing things from their point of view.
It may feel much easier to be alone because being with someone else seems so demanding, when it
was seemingly so easy for your parents to make it work. But, it wasn’t. It’s not easy for anyone.
When you don’t want to put enough work into your relationships, this is because you had a father
figure (Saturn) who you constantly leaned on for strength and guidance. You didn’t feel as effective,
as strong, or as successful without his influence. This attracts you to very powerful, competent
people who you consciously or unconsciously expect to handle everything. But, everyone has their
breaking point and when people reach theirs with you, you feel bewildered. On the other hand, you
may have had a father who pushed you a lot or who was so much work that the relationship was 68
exhausting, in some way. So, you have attracted many exhausting relationships into your life that
make you feel like nothing you do is ever going to be good enough.
Some things can be fixed between people and some things can’t. You must understand this to know
how to navigate your relationships. If you’re operating without a true understanding of both other
people and how you deal with them, your Saturn Return in the 7th will involve some sort of
breakdown of an important relationship in your life. It could mean a divorce, a major break-up, an
ended friendship, or an estrangement from a loved one. Regardless of the situation, you’re going to
have to step back and take stock of what happened. Were they not getting what they needed? Were
you not getting what you needed? Were you as present and as available as you could be? Are you
scared of getting close or truly letting people love you? All of these questions must be pondered and
answered in order for you to successfully go about your life. Your relationships require real and solid
closure, often times because they’re so fraught or unstable.
In the process, you’ll discover whether you lack accountability for your actions as a partner or you
keep getting involved with people who lack serious accountability. If the former is true, then you
have to find the inner strength to apologize, to own your mistakes, to truly see things from the other
person’s point of view. This is a part of having real integrity in relationships. You cannot just do
whatever you want, whenever you want it, and think you’re going to get away with it with them.
During your Saturn Return, it may feel like someone in your life is punishing you when they’re really
just insisting on necessary boundaries. Conversely, if you are constantly attracting people who are
very negative, burdensome, or harsh influences, you’ve got to learn how to let them go. You
deserve real happiness with someone and not this constant, unnecessary struggle. Even though
relationships are hard work, they do not have to put so much stress and pressure on to you, either.
Be aware of who you’re attracting into your life and what that says about you. Projecting only gets
you into trouble as you spend so much time focusing on someone else’s issues that you’re not
worrying enough about your own. Being responsible for yourself in a relationship means
understanding why you’re with this person, why you formed a relationship with them in the first
place. Being so drawn to people who aren’t good for you is an indicator that you don’t think you’re
good enough, as is pushing people away who really haven’t done anything to you and only want you
to love you and know you. It’s easy to feel like you’re that person who is offering nothing but love to
someone when you’re actually making their life more difficult. It’s also easy for you to feel like
you’re no good for someone else when you have such amazing love to give them. So, keep in mind
that working out your issues as an individual allows you to see your relationships clearly and wisely.
It’s your purpose in life to relate, to bond and connect, and you’ll find that your partnerships lead
you to success in many ways. Your best friend or romantic partner will be an especially ambitious
person, someone who is goal-oriented and intent on being a highly successful, effective person. By
bonding with them, you’ll be able to access that side of you. 7th House Saturn people often do not
know what they want to accomplish unless they have the right partner by their side. You’re not as
efficient when you’re flying solo. This doesn’t just mean when you’re romantically unattached or free
of company but when you’re attempting professional ventures alone. You need someone by your
side to consistently push you toward greatness. Yet, it’s also crucial to remember that you don’t stop
being great because you don’t have these influences around you. They just significantly help take
your goals and shape them into something that is workable and achievable.
But, you also have to understand how to acknowledge your own strength. You’ll have an excellent
relationship with yourself that shows you how capable and respectable you are. It’s just that you
must use your capability and respectability in order to bond with someone else. Knowing the
strengths you have to bring to the table in a relationship allow you to really contribute all that you 69
can and to also recognize and encourage the strengths in someone else. This is when the positive
form of 7th House projection happens. You’ll see the power in the other person and reflect that back
to them, showing them that they can achieve anything they want to achieve. You both are meant to
take the reins at the appropriate times. No one person should “wear the pants” in your relationship.
Instead, you both need to wear your own pants. Since you will end up succeeding by either turning
your personal relationships into professional ones or vice versa, you both need to be strong in your
own right in order to make it work on multiple levels.
Saturn in the 7th House people will eventually need to come to terms with how much they are
looking for their Dad in their platonic and romantic partners. You’ll be surprised to note that the
exact same issues you have with your Dad are experienced in these close companionships. Your
Saturn Return is a time where you should fully come to terms with the reality of that relationship so
you can understand the reality of all of your other relationships. Ultimately, having a 7th House
Saturn means that you’ll go from looking for a Daddy, which can also mean being attracted to older,
very paternal figures at a young age (to a sugar-baby degree), to becoming the Daddy, whether
male or female. The 7th House indicates your influence on the public and why they’ll love you. Your
fans love you because of how strong, sophisticated, and wise you seem, how you’re a very
grounding influence on them. Your appeal and attractiveness lies in how secure you can make
others feel. On the job, you can provide great authority and exert control in palatable, even likable
ways. Developing a constant awareness of how other people respond will lead to many in the public
really respecting you and turning to you for wise, expertly delivered advice and guidance.
Having Saturn in the 8th House of your birth chart can be scary. It can be really scary, in fact.
Saturn rules fears, worries, and anxieties, while the 8th House pushes everything in it to extremes.
Therefore, unless they have other strong 8th House, Scorpio, or Pluto placements, a person with
their Saturn in the 8th will probably spend a significant amount of their lives avoiding this placement
altogether. When Saturn’s in the majority of the other houses, the person may get away with
avoidance of their responsibility and purpose. But, Saturn in the 8th House is the house where
Saturn absolutely cannot be avoided. That is, unless you want to spend the rest of your life, writhing
in pain and agony. It’s either that or amazing transformation and self-empowerment. The 8th House
is all-or-nothing. So, Saturn in the 8th requires nothing less. The choice is up to you.
We see the true face of 8th House placements in intimacy, sexually and emotionally. A person’s 8th
House planets can seem opaque or mysterious or even deceptively simple until we get intimately
involved with them. Then, a whole other side of this planet emerges. So, Saturn in the 8th House
people might not seem that overwhelmed with worry, at the outset. Sure, they may not always be
“happy” but you can consider them fairly free of anxiety. That is, until you become intimate with
them. Then, you meet a very different person who worries obsessively over all sorts of things that
you’d never even think they worried about, like when they’re going to die and if having sex with you
will somehow change their life and if you really actually love them or are just pretending to love
them until you inevitably stab them in the back.
So, 8th House Saturn people can become bottomless pits of worry and fear, in this negative state,
letting the feelings of doom cycle and cycle until they spin out of control. Yet, this really intense,
overwhelming fear of being out of control leads to a deep compulsion to be in control of everything.
We discover control issues in the 8th House and they manifest very heavily for those with Saturn in 70
the 8th House. Instead of letting life flow freely, they can feel driven to always be in command of
every little thing, particularly in their intimate relations with others. This involves the feelings of the
other person and the sex that goes on between the two of them. It’s the kind of thing that can
become nastily manipulative, if taken too far, as Saturn in the 8th House people, at their worst, can
be sexually withholding and unresponsive, just as a way to control their partner. And at the same
time, there may be huge anxieties surrounding sex because they feel their partner somehow uses
sexuality to control them, which will paralyze them. Any idea of someone “being in control” will just
ruin the sex for those with Saturn in the 8th, because real intimacy isn’t about control.
All of these hang-ups around sex can very often be linked back to a traumatic experience in their
life, like being raped or molested, where they felt painfully disempowered on a sexual level. 8th
House Saturn people also typically aren’t eased into puberty by the adults around them. Maybe they
had a father figure, in particular, who had a repressive or avoidant attitude surrounding the subject.
The way parents have “the talk” really does impact their child, for better or worse. So, with Saturn
in the 8th, the talk might have been totally avoided, giving the person an equally avoidant or fearful
attitude toward their sexuality as an adolescent. On the other hand, maybe the talk was too much,
too soon. The opposite extreme is a father figure who exposes the child to sex inappropriately,
maybe far before puberty even hits. It then becomes too much to handle and really overwhelms the
child, which is an attitude that continues through adulthood until these issues are resolved.
A premature familiarity with death can also settle in at this early age. Saturn in the 8th House
people frequently experience the passing of an immediate or close family member or of a friend as
children that impacts them very deeply. But, at the same time, we try to run from the things of our
Saturn until we’re mature enough and strong enough to handle these issues. So, with Saturn in the
8th, you may try to desperately avoid the reality of death and your mortality. It’s something that
haunts you yet that you can attempt to block out with the sunny, happy elements of life. But, this
placement’s major lesson is that true joy cannot be experienced without acknowledging true pain
and loss.
During your Saturn Return in the 8th, especially the first, how well you can handle and confront
these painful losses will be tested. With Saturn in this house, your Saturn Return can rock you to
your very core. It can feel really traumatizing, in some way or another. You may experience back-to-
back deaths in your life, seeming unable to get out of the grief. In some way, you’ve been living
with grief your whole life: over being hurt, betrayed, abused, abandoned, or whatever else. In your
Saturn Return, the grief will become so overwhelming that you’ll be forced to find a way out of it.
And this is when you end up discovering your power. If you stand up to the challenge, your Saturn
Return in the 8th will be a wonderfully, intensely transformative time where you shed all the old
skins that have held you back. At the end, you can look back and not even recognize that old self.
Some sort of terrible betrayal or unexpected emotional pain can very well hit you during this time,
as well. Someone who you believed was your “friend” can dramatically stab you in the back. You
might also see a very close relationship crumble before your eyes or anything else come into your
life that feels like a knife’s being jabbed into your heart. But, these situations enter into your life in
order for you to not only find your strength but your ability to forgive. Not just to forgive those who
wrong you but to forgive the chaos of life that you can’t control. You have no control over who dies,
who lives, who betrays you, who loves you, or anything else that happens. You just have control
over how you deal with these situations. In knowing that, you’ll be able to not only find an amazing
inner strength and resourcefulness but develop the skill of letting go and cultivating forgiveness.
Why hold on to grudges? The bad things that happened only made you stronger.
The 8th House is always described as “other people’s money” and I’m not too interested in this 71
perspective. I think it’s not good for 8th House people to think too much about other people’s
money because it robs them of their power. If anything, other people’s money just brings more
issues. Saturn in the 8th House folks know this better than anyone. You can go out and get a loan.
But, then, you’re in deep debt if you can’t pay it. You can open a joint bank account with your
spouse. And then, you find yourself financially tight if they can’t spend well. And you can gain an
inheritance from your dead father or aunt or grandparent. But, then… Well, they just died. Do you
really want to rejoice over the money you received from your loved one who’s no longer living?
The complications of these matters become very clear to you during your Saturn Return in the 8th.
There can be quite a few situations where other people’s money only brings more turmoil into your
life. I’ve read that this 8th House placement needs to be the least concerned with the financial
resources of others. I think that’s true because Saturn is all about self-mastery and you can’t master
what doesn’t belong to you. Therefore, you have to learn how to become financially empowered on
your own. And when you’re in a strong enough of a place, then maybe you can apply for that loan
or combine your resources with others’. This may be a time where a marriage falls apart just
because you realized that you’ve been sponging off of your spouse in some way, or vice versa,
instead of taking responsibility for your own money.
Yet, you can excel when it comes to paying off any possible debts. Most Saturn in the 8th House
people have probably amassed a terrible credit history that they never want you to know about.
However, they really don’t have much of a choice but to tell their partner. This is a challenge area
for you but one you must rise to. You have to face your debts and I know, in this day and age,
confronting debt is an anxiety-inducing thing for most people, no matter where their Saturn is. But,
the more you do so, the more financially resourceful you’ll be. Then, when it comes time to merge
with other people on a financial level, you’ll have the strength to do so successfully.
Paying off debt and gaining inheritance is not just a financial thing. It becomes a very emotional,
psychological thing. The “inheritances” of the 8th are not solely the money that your mother left you
in her will. That’s just a small fraction of it. It’s also the issues that have been passed down, from
one generation to the next. After all, don’t we “inherit” our parents’ issues and then find ourselves
figuring out what to do with them? Saturn in the 8th House people keenly feel the dysfunctional or
unhappy element of their family line. So, your responsibility is to learn what to do with this
psychological inheritance. You have to learn how to transform these issues, in some way, letting
them go and often truly letting them die. With an 8th House Saturn, you cannot go through life
being carelessly, willingly screwed-up. You have to confront the emotional debt you’ve racked up
throughout life: who you’ve hurt and how you’ve hurt yourself and how to heal from it all.
In doing so, you’ll be diving into some deeper, darker matters. But, you cannot be afraid of what lies
in your shadow. Being unwilling to face up to your dark side is like being unwilling to pay off your
credit card bills. The interest will just keep piling up and piling up until you’re completely buried in it.
So, Saturn in the 8th House have to confront all of it: their rage, their fear, their lust, their
obsession, as well as the incredible love and devotion they’re capable of. This will be demanded of
you during your Saturn Return in the 8th. Events will happen that may make you consumed with
anger and hatred or fall into a severe depression or get totally lost in obsessive-compulsiveness.
Through this time, you’ll be faced with your demons and also learn to see them as friends, not
things to be feared. As long as you acknowledge and work with them, they’re not so bad.
This inevitably affects your intimate relationships. Any connection in your life that is not a real
connection has to fall by the wayside. At the same time, if you’re not willing to truly, deeply connect
with others, you’ll see those relationships dying because of you. So, you can no longer be afraid to
get real, trusting that the person who really loves you is the one who can witness your shadow side 72
and not leave you because of it. Being abandoned is a huge fear of yours. But, you’re also learning
that people who leave you aren’t actually supposed to be there in your life, anyway. The deaths of
the 8th House are way more metaphorical, most of the time. A relationship that’s meant to die is
just going to die. Accept it, grieve for it, and move on.
Being able to effectively connect to other people means that your attitude toward your sexuality will
heal, as well. You can stop feeling shameful or dirty for the intense desires that you possess. Those
with Saturn in the 8th can actually become true masters of sex-positive living. At this evolved level,
you know how to help your partner air out their sexual frustrations because you’ve had to go
through that same process. Sex is something that you learn to take very seriously. The healing that
you find through the sexual act brings a lot of purpose into your life. Saturn in the 8th is all about
mastering the process of digging up all that’s buried, unhealed, unsolved, or holds great emotional
power. So, you can make a career out of that by getting into the arts, the occult, research or
investigation, or psychology/anthropology. You have a duty in life to interpret the mysteries around
you that others cannot see and the shadows and the secrets that all human beings possess.
Those with Saturn in the 9th House can suffer from a feeling of being trapped, caged in, with
nowhere to really go. The 9th House is where you go when you want to feel free, inspired, like the
world is at your fingertips. This is a feeling that can be difficult to come by when you have a 9th
House Saturn. But, this is also the exact attitude that you need to cultivate in life, as the house
where our Saturn falls is where we find our sense of purpose and duty. So, with Saturn in the 9th, it
is your duty to free yourself and to not be held back by life. Because when you really stop to think
about it, the only thing that’s holding you back is what you believe.
The 9th House is symbolic of our college-age self and how we carry this newly liberated 20-year-old
version of ourselves throughout life. College is the time where we get a true taste of freedom and
where we have the chance to finally develop our own convictions about life. Through this process,
we hone the inner compass that the 9th House represents and that guides us throughout the rest of
our lives. But, when you have Saturn in the 9th House, college is not an easy experience. For many
people with this placement, something occurred during the college years – or, if the person didn’t
attend college, between the age of about 18 to 22 – that makes them feel like freedom is a very
precarious thing that can come equipped with some terrible consequences.
There are some 9th House Saturn people who nail themselves down during this time. While their
friends were all out going wild and having a good time, they were back at their dorm room, studying
the night away. All of the possibilities that college offered – partying, drinking, making new friends,
traveling abroad – just seemed to terrify them. Those with this placement routinely grow up feeling
like they don’t have any freedom, often because of a father figure who was forced by life to settle
down somehow with limited options. So, how this experience impacted them is shown through their 73
college years. These young adults could be so used to not being free, to always having rules and
regulations, that they just can’t handle the option of doing whatever they want. They stick firmly to
the straight-and-narrow path, which unfortunately means that they cut themselves off from
embarking on the wonderful explorations that college offers us.
Instead of being enriched and empowered by the experience of finally being out in the world, on
their own, they just take to the college experience with a very ho-hum kind of attitude. In fact,
some of these people don’t even want to move away when they go to school. They could’ve
remained living at home or just attended a community college on the side, all while paying more
attention to their full-time job. For these types of people with Saturn in the 9th, the full-on college
experience was just scary. They were so used to being given guidelines that a life where they had to
establish their own guidelines was unnerving. For this same reason, they could’ve struggled in their
college courses that were more about thinking for themselves instead of just spitting out facts and
memorizing answers, which they could’ve been very good at growing up. It’s no surprise, then, that
many 9th House Saturn individuals end up not going to college at all.
Yet, there is the other type with this placement: the one who suffered a serious backlash from their
newfound freedom. These types also grew up feeling restricted and like they didn’t have any
freedom. Life was not an adventure for them, while under their parents’ roofs. But, suddenly, once
they went off into the world, they could do whatever they wanted! So, they went to the other
extreme: going really wild and crazy. However, we experience consequences in our Saturn’s house
when we don’t abide by certain rules. And with Saturn in the 9th House, the rule is to cultivate an
inner compass that will effectively guide you through life, instead of just making you roam the world
like a wild animal. And for those with this placement, you can only be a boy or girl gone wild for so
long before you experience the consequences.
That’s true for most party girls or boys. But, Saturn in the 9th House people get hit much harder
when they let themselves roam too freely. So, during the college-age years, something devastating
could’ve happened, as a result, like a DUI incident, a totaled car, failing a class, getting arrested,
etc. And it might take a couple of these terrible events to occur for these people to slow down, if
they do. By the time they have, they’ve ended up with a giant mess on their hands. Then, being free
becomes a struggle because these people don’t realize they’ve taken it too far until disaster
happens. If Saturn happens to be conjunct the Midheaven, this can really impact their reputation
and social status, as well as their burgeoning careers. So, the terrible irony can be that they begin
ruining all of their possibilities just because they feel like they can do anything that they want.
This can bring issues with their actual education, as well. For the types who go too wild in college, it
becomes difficult to focus on what they’re actually there for. Many delays can be experienced in
terms of getting their degree. Questioning and doubting one’s education and why they’re actually
even in college is a very common experience for the 9th House Saturn, which is why a lot of these
people end up either dropping out or finishing their education quite late. They become infected with
this feeling that the grass will be greener elsewhere. Then, they shoot off in a different direction and
are horrified to discover that they’re just as miserable there as they were before. Troubles with
traveling is also a hallmark of having Saturn in the 9th. These people may move to a different city or
country, desperate to find their happiness, and realize that they’re still terribly lonely, empty,
misguided, or restless, creating a terrible cycle that prevents them from settling down.
It doesn’t help that the age of 21, which is when many of them are still in school, is when the
Saturn square Saturn transit is experienced. This is what I like to call the “pre-Saturn Return”, a
time of serious challenges and doubts in a person’s life that brings them face-to-face with the issues
of their Saturn, several years before their first Saturn Return. All that being said, looking back on 74
being in college can be very painful for these folks, as it just reminds them of their failures and their
setbacks. Maybe the whole experience left them cold or maybe they are somehow still yearning to
have those glory days back, now too resistant to settling into the humdrum routine of adulthood.
Saturn in the 9th House can feel like such a contradiction and to have this placement means that
you may feel, more than most, that responsibility (Saturn) somehow limits your freedom (9th
House). How can you be free and responsible at the same time? During the beginning stages of
adulthood, most 9th House Saturn people never learn how to, over-doing one or the other.
This carries on into their post-college life by making them feel like they either have to be super-
responsible or not care at all about their responsibilities. So, you either get the person who is still a
complete wild thing when they should be focusing on growing up, acting like a modern day sort of
Peter Pan, or the person who is so intent on growing up that they never allow themselves to really
enjoy the journey of life that they’re on. The latter types are living with no sense of inspiration,
which prevents them from following a path that’s actually fulfilling to them. In either case, these
issues will come to a head during the Saturn Return in the 9th House. I think that, more than most
people, these individuals will feel their first Saturn Return very strongly because the issues that it
brings up are going to be relatively recent and fresh. Having left school just several years before,
their first Saturn Return in the 9th will remind them of everything that’s come to pass.
It can be a time of enormous regret for these individuals. They can particularly regret not making
the most of the time they were in school, of not having more fun and allowing themselves to take
advantage of more opportunities or of having such a good time that they didn’t stop to find the true
meaning of why they were in school in the first place. It’s no surprise that many of them end up
going back to school during their first Saturn Return, often times to get their Master’s or maybe to
just study something else. The point of the first Saturn Return is to get you to buckle up and move
toward the right path. But, it shouldn’t be a time of feeling old and washed up. At the age of 28 or
29, you still have so many possibilities ahead of you. Saturn in the 9th House people learn this
lesson probably more than anybody during their first Saturn Return.
Since the 9th House brings us inspiration, this is a time for that inspiration to be renewed. Saturn is
our purpose and with this placement, you find purpose in life through traveling the road to
inspiration. You must be pursuing something that brings you genuine enthusiasm. You’ll find that if
you’re engaged in a career that is dull, deadening, and doesn’t excite your spirit, it won’t be able to
work. You might lose your job or feel like you’re increasingly going insane at work. Eventually, you
may even just break free, like an animal busting out of captivity. You need to use this feeling of
struggle to figure out what is truly meaningful to you. Start a journey for yourself that is going to
make you feel on top of the world, like anything is possible! It’s why career options are quite
limitless for you, just as long as you’re doing something that genuinely inspires you.
With this placement, you can all too easily operate under the false conviction that being an adult
means that the good times are over, causing you to either never want to be an adult or desperately
attempt to grow up and limit yourself, in the process. It all stems from a few of those nasty
experiences in those college years of yours where you transgressed and then paid a heavy price. So,
your concept of freedom can be either fearful or self-destructive, making you think that you can
never go too far again or that you’re going to screw up, anyway, so who cares? You will have to
learn that it’s not that black-or-white. There is a way to be responsible and to also live life fully and
freely. This is why your Saturn Return in the 9th may feel like it’s slowly killing your spirit. It’s doing
so in order for you to realize that it’s your purpose to live life in an adventurous way.
At the same time, your adventures must have purpose. So, being the party-animal type with this
placement can be just as empty and unfulfilling. You can have a good time but you must do so in a 75
way that, again, feels meaningful. Therefore, the endless merry-go-round of going out and drinking
the night away can eventually begin to wear thin for you and cause you to seek something more
substantial. Saturn gives us structure and with Saturn in the 9th, your structure comes from having
various explorations and adventures. These exciting acts give you strength. So, go skydiving or
travel Europe for a couple of months or move to that city you’ve always dreamed of moving to! On a
less extreme end of the spectrum, you can also find strength in just being adventurous enough to
make that career move you’ve always dreamed of or trying out new places and events in your town.
Anything that makes life feel exciting will make you grow as a person.
People also associate religion with the 9th House all too often. And yes, sometimes, you can see a
Saturn in the 9th House individual, particularly after their Saturn Return, take up a certain religion
that gives them newfound strength. In many cases, this placement shows a person who grew up
without a religious background. Even if you did, there was probably a personal rebellion against it,
at some point. But, the issue comes from not believing in anything. With Saturn in the 9th, it is your
duty in life to truly find something to believe in. This doesn’t have to be religion. But, you will find
maturity by cultivating some sort of philosophy that will get you through life. You need certain
convictions to guide you and keep you going. A lack of faith can be another central issue of this
placement that needs sorting out. Without this faith, life can easily feel bleak and cause you to feel
or seem directionless. But, with this strong, solid sense of faith, you’ll know exactly where to go.
Having Saturn in the 10th House of your birth chart indicates that your purpose in life involves an
endless climb. Saturn naturally rules the 10th, which should make it “at home” in this house. But,
Saturn is never too nice and easy, especially when it’s in the 10th. These people are deeply aware of
having “big shoes to fill.” Those shoes could be anyone’s shoes: one of their parents’, one of their
siblings’, a certain role model, a mentor, etc. It’s just about anyone who came before you. 10th
House Saturn people live with this heavy sense that the world is watching their every move. It’s not
in an egotistical way, either. The 10th House is the house of one’s “celebrity”. Even if you’re not a
Hollywood actor, just about everyone has a certain kind of fame, as in your reputation, public
image, social standing, etc. The 10th House represents the way that one’s community views them.
We all have an awareness of how we’re being perceived and responded to by everyone. It’s just
that, when someone has Saturn in their 10th, that awareness can be really difficult to live with.
The judgment we receive from the world at large at can be harsh. A lot of people don’t get that
invested in what people have to say about them. Those with a 10th House Saturn? They can’t really
live that way, even if they try. In fact, it’s a really common thing for Saturn in the 10th House folks
to act as if they don’t care at all what their peers and authorities think of them. In this way, they’re
avoiding their essential responsibility. With this placement, you have to care about people think of
you. Not in an insecure or self-conscious way but in a way that is responsible. It’s your purpose in
life and how you develop your structure. Having a 10th House Saturn means that you have to
establish an effective, powerful barometer when it comes to public response. You have to be truly
aware of whenever you “flop”, professionally or socially, and take complete responsibility for it. It
can be very tempting to just try and nonchalantly brush it off, acting like none of that matters. If
you do, you’re just putting on a brave face because it’s actually deeply painful for you to feel like a
failure, on any level. But, with this placement, personal fulfillment and strength stem from knowing 76
just what “failure” and “success” mean.
What’s interesting about the 10th House is that it shows us what we didn’t have much of while we
were growing up, which is represented by the 4th House. So, by the time we near adulthood, we’ve
created this life goal (10th House) for ourselves in order to accomplish what we didn’t have. With
Saturn in the 10th House, there is almost always this sense of growing up without a sense of
structure and guidance. I think the exception would be if you also have a Capricorn Nadir, as Saturn
would, therefore, rule the 4th House. But, even in that case, it would be a sense of playing the
responsible role at home while not really living in a responsible atmosphere. With this placement,
your home life just wasn’t that regimented, disciplined, or stressful. You became very comfortable
with just being comfortable and not having to worry about much of anything. In fact, it could have
gone to the extreme of you living in a total madhouse where there were no rules or regulations.
But, a person’s 10th House placements (by sign or planet) really kick in once we reach the teenage
years, as this is when the process of individuation starts. If the 4th House is the role you play when
you are with your family, the 10th House is who you are when you’re out in the world. It stems from
this feeling of lack and this need to start becoming your own authority. What do you really want to
do with your life? What do you want to contribute to society? In the high school years, one’s 10th
House takes over because, as graduation and college increasingly approach, you have to start
thinking about the kind of person you want to be in society. You also become highly aware of the
rules of the social game and how you do or don’t want to establish your reputation.
Yet, Saturn is where things are difficult for us and it’s where our fears are found. So, this was all a
really difficult process for you, if you have Saturn in the 10th House. I feel like adolescents with this
placement can be divided into two groups. The first group is the teenagers who feel terribly
paralyzed when it comes to all of this adult stuff. It’s always been very safe (4th House) for you to
not have to worry about all of that seriousness. Therefore, the pressure that comes from having to
display, follow, and prove your ambition to everyone else can just be far too much to handle. This
can produce a slacker of the first order, which can be highly frustrating to your teachers and
authorities but the most frustrating to yourself. Deep down, it is actually your mission in life to feel
accomplished, respectable, and at the top of the chain. But, it’s a life goal that can feel so
ridiculously out of reach that you don’t even bother.
The other type of adolescent with Saturn in the 10th House is one who goes the total opposite
direction: becoming a workaholic far before their time. Some teenagers with this placement can be
so consumed with their goals and ambitions that it’s all they think about. This can get them sucked
into a mode of always working, juggling a full-time job with AP classes and extracurricular activities,
and putting far too much pressure on themselves. But, this is all driven by that deep-seated fear of
failure. While the slacker types show extreme avoidance because of this fear, the overachiever types
show extreme dedication because of it. It keeps pushing them and pushing them. So, they might
not see any reason why it’s a problem until the stress slowly starts eating away at them, making it
harder and harder to fulfill their slew of responsibilities.
These are patterns that are carried into adulthood, all the way up until the first Saturn Return. This
is when your attitude toward success is going to be really challenged. The 10th House is a
challenging house, in general, and pushes us to achieve certain things. So, one could say that
having a Saturn Return in the 10th House can be one of the most challenging of all the Saturn
Returns, if not the most. However, you’re also really used to being pushed, whether you respond to
it by breaking your back or by trying to avoid all the critical voices. A Saturn Return is not a
“punishment” for everything you’ve done wrong. But, if anyone could take it as such, it’s someone
with Saturn in the 10th. You might feel, during this time, that all of your hard work has come to 77
nothing. A Saturn Return in the 10th often times really stalls career matters, to the point of putting
a person in a professional slump. And no matter what you do, you keep hitting a wall. This either
results in relentless frustration or the resigned feeling of, “Yep, I’m a failure. It’s confirmed.”
And since you are plagued with the sense of the whole world watching, any sort of perceived
failures or experienced setbacks can feel like a complete gut-punch. While many people can handle
such obstacles with a more sanguine attitude, it is downright devastating to you. What Saturn in the
10th House people really want out of life is to just be a success, to be someone who is looked up to
and seen as important. Any evidence that you’re not this person can be terribly upsetting. It stems
from the father figure element of Saturn, as well. With Saturn in the 10th, one’s father figure looms
large over their life. It is often because he is either a real “big shot” or someone who has constantly
struggled to get to the top. The struggle of the father figure to become successful and “be
somebody” can seriously haunt many 10th House Saturn individuals. But, so can the difficulties the
father figure may have cost others. In the case of the highly ambitious, successful father, he might
have hardened on his way to the top-rung. Maybe he exerted his authority in the world in a ruthless
manner, displayed cutthroat competitiveness, or cared only about the bottom line. Whether the
father figure never really made it or made himself into stone to get ahead, there is often a certain
notoriety around one’s father, with a 10th House Saturn, that’s hard to live down.
If this parent acquired a negative reputation, in some way, you will worry a lot about gaining a
negative reputation yourself. Since the 10th House also influences us in a widespread social manner,
you harbor a lot of fears and doubts (Saturn) regarding what people think of you. These issues can
really come to a head during your Saturn Return in the 10th, particularly the first. There might be a
certain scandal attached to your name that makes you feel like you’re on the cover of People
Magazine. In some cases, it can be damaging enough to make you lose friends or to threaten your
career. It’s very possible, particularly if Neptune is also in the 10th or in aspect to Saturn, for certain
secrets about you to be exposed to the light of day, making the whole town talk. If you have the
ruthless father figure and have negatively followed in his footsteps, then you will feel the
consequences of screwing people over to get to the top. If you have the struggling father figure and
have remained just as ineffectual in the pursuit of your goals, then you will also experience the
consequences, making everything in the world seem like an uphill battle.
As I said, Saturn doesn’t punish. He just allows us to reap the natural consequences of our actions,
good or bad. Saturn in the 10th House people learn a lot about those consequences because
whatever is in your 10th House has no place to hide. It’s out there for everyone to see. So, you will
reap what you sow in such a public way that you are forced to straighten up and fly right.
Understanding the true meaning of responsibility is the key here for Saturn in the 10th House. It
means knowing how to pursue achievement and responsibility with true dedication but also with a
true sense of right and wrong. With this placement, you have to understand the steps you need to
take in order to be a success. But, while you have to work hard and be determined and persevering,
you also have to know that there are certain steps you shouldn’t take in order to get ahead. This
includes anything that will harm others as well as anything that will harm yourself. Figuring out how
to achieve your life goals with a reduced amount of pressure and stress is very important.
Another key element of this placement is knowing what success truly means. You can be too
desperate to be seen as a success in the world’s eyes. But, are you a success in your eyes? The
10th House Saturn is urging you to cultivate more structure by celebrating and honoring every step
you take toward your goals. You can be way too outcome-focused and this fixation with the results
can be too stressful or make you too intimidated to bother. Focusing on the process will help you
enormously. It will allow you to not be so obsessed with “the goal” and to fully appreciate the
process of getting to the goal. This will not only make you consistently feel like a success, so long as 78
you’re working hard and staying dedicated, but will reduce those worries about “failing.” If you can
believe that the only failure is giving up or not trying, you will be able to develop a thicker skin and
a more positive attitude. It’s very important for 10th House Saturn people to change their perception
of failure, seeing these professional stumbles as opportunities to become stronger and wiser.
A lot of wisdom and inner strength will be gained when you accept that “getting there” is an endless
process. This is something that does produce a certain kind of weariness or cynicism within you. You
understand the scariness that can come from reaching the pinnacle. The 10th House is the highest
point in our chart and with Saturn here, you may be very hesitant to reach the top. Some with this
placement deal with this by slacking while others deal with it by sabotaging themselves right before
accomplishing what they want to accomplish. Either way, you’re not understanding and fulfilling
your purpose. If you can forget about getting to or being at the top and just focus on the here and
now of what you’re doing in the world, you will handle the success that you do receive with a level
head. Even at their most powerful and influential, the mature, self-aware Saturn in the 10th House
person can maintain exceptional humility, gracefully accepting that they still have a long way to go.
This contributes to your reputation as being a wise, sophisticated, strong individual. It is your
responsibility to be a member of your community and of society, in general, who provides good
sense, structure, and consistency. You are being called upon to be someone who others can depend
on. So, obviously, having Saturn in the 10th can bring you wonderful success in any sort of
authoritative position. Being the boss will allow you to reap great rewards, as well as teach you the
balance of assuming control and being ambitious yet without driving yourself or others too hard.
But, whatever career you do take on, as long as you feel like you are partaking in it with a strong
sense of responsibility and a substantial vision, you will get very far with it.
The 11th House can be a confusing place. The best way I can explain this house is that whatever is
in your 11th House (planet or sign) cannot be expressed in a “normal” fashion. The more you try to
express that energy in a straight line, the more chaotic it will become. That’s why being born with
Saturn in the 11th House is not easy to wrap your head around. Basically, it’s your responsibility to
find different ways to be responsible. You cannot pursue your purpose in life in a conventional
manner. The more you do, the harder it’s going to become. For 11th House Saturn people, the
challenge revolves around releasing preconceived notions or rigid expectations: of yourself, of other
people, and of life itself. Whatever happens, you have to have the strength to just go with it.
It’s why this is actually one of the lighter, freer Saturn placements you can have. With Saturn in the
11th, growing up does not involve the traditional measures of growing up. There is no room for
tradition or convention in the 11th House, even when we’re dealing with rule-bound Saturn. This is
the place in your birth chart where many of those rules just don’t matter or make sense. So, it’s
why, with this placement, you are going to experience a deep feeling of fear or doubt regarding
embracing a lack of rules or guidelines. The backwards nature of the 11th House shows that, when
Saturn in the 11th House individuals are avoiding their responsibility in life, they are actually trying
their hardest to be responsible.
At this stage of their development, these folks try to dot all their i’s and cross all their t’s. There can
be a resistance to either being unconventional or to embracing the unexpected in life. Instead, they
seek to be control freaks who have everything planned out or in order. They might also strive to be
seen as supposedly normal, not gaining too much attention for being different or out of the
ordinary. In their mind, they might feel as if they are truly being responsible and adult-like. But,
those with Saturn in the 11th truly grow up when they learn to throw the rule book out the window 79
some and not care that much what other people think.
After all, a certain amount of maturity comes from making your own rules and standing strong in the
face of people’s disapproval or judgment. It’s that judgment, that feeling of being looked at as such
a weirdo or unacceptable person, that haunts the 11th House Saturn. There can be early social
instances where they were painfully reminded of just how different they are. Bullying, peer pressure,
or social ostracizing are quite common for many people growing up. For some people, they can end
up leaving some serious scars. That’s often the case for those with Saturn in the 11th House. Many
of these folks often have a tale or two from childhood or adolescence that has haunted them ever
since. While some people can look back and laugh at memories of social awkwardness or
embarrassment, it hits those with this placement on a level that’s rather traumatic. Being teased for
being a bookworm, poor, overweight, uncool, or anything else that went against their peers’
standards can be harsh words that they still hear in their head well into adulthood.
So, this can lead to the overcompensation: the desperate attempt to be super-cool, super-
successful, or all-around popular. But, while Saturn is ambitious and goal-oriented, its principles do
not get conventionally expressed in the 11th House. Instead, they’re turned upside down. This can
lead to a very frustrating feeling that Saturn in the 11th House people have of never getting the
respect or the success that they want. As long as they are focused on getting respect and success,
it’s not really going to happen for them the way that they want it. This is something that comes to a
head during their Saturn Return in the 11th. It can be a time where they keep trying to climb that
mountain of esteem and popularity and do nothing but slip and fall. Projects crumble, social events
become a disaster, goals start feeling more and more ridiculous. It will continue to feel that way, so
long as they keep trying to gain their success in the conventional way.
This series of tests will bring them face-to-face with their true purpose, if they should, hopefully,
accept it. This purpose is to not define their success and their awesomeness based on what society
thinks. It’s to think outside the box when it comes to their goals and their purpose in life. The more
Saturn in the 11th House people stop seeking recognition and achievement, the more recognized
and accomplished they will be. It’s a crazy thing but that’s just how the 11th House works. It rebels
against our expectations, so we have to learn to have none in this part of our chart. When it comes
to Saturn in the 11th, you must develop the strength to expect little to nothing, at least in a self-
focused way. The 11th House is about other people. So, having Saturn in the 11th House is about
learning how to strive for other people’s success while remaining detached about your own.
It’s an attitude that manifests in two ways. First off, it turns 11th House Saturn folks into veritable
genies out in the world. Your wish is their command. With this placement, you will end up feeling far
more accomplished when you can dedicate yourself to things that will help other people get ahead.
Even if you are working on something that’s more so about you, you absolutely must develop this
collaborative spirit. That’s your responsibility: to be a strong, successful collaborator. In return, not
getting attached to what you’re going to get out of the process will end up causing amazing success
to manifest in your life without you even expecting it. When you release those expectations, it has a
magical effect. Awesome things happen without you having to try that hard.
We live in a world where so many people are trying way too hard: to impress, to gain approval, to
get to the top. But, those with Saturn in the 11th gain their strength and structure from, basically,
learning when it’s necessary to not give a shit, which is the second positive way this position can
manifest. If you approve of the path that you’re on, then that’s all that matters. You don’t have to
perform for anyone anymore. Your Saturn Return in the 11th House should teach you that. It’s
going to be a very liberating time for you, even though it might initially feel like the stress of
people’s expectations is weighing on you more heavily than ever. But, hopefully, you will experience 80
a real breakthrough (an 11th House word) during your Saturn Return in the 11th. This can be a time
where you just wake up one day and say, “To hell with what people think”, totally changing your
life. You can stop being that bullied little boy or girl, so obsessed with the cool kids’ approval, and
learn that all you need is your own approval. This is the road to true adulthood, for you.
Therefore, it’s basically a part of your responsibility to be quite the rebel. You will know that you’re
finding the structure you need in life when you stop becoming so invested in what people say about
you, whether it’s people on the job, in your community, or even your family and friends. It’s a
healthy kind of detachment and lack of caring. As long as you’re being a kind, respectful person who
treats others equally, then who cares what they say? This compels you to embrace your inner freak,
allowing yourself to get weird and wild when needed. Saturn in the 11th is a very intriguing
combination of authority and free-spiritedness. You have the inner authority to make up and follow
your own rules, as long as they’re not getting you into too much trouble, of course. Yet, it’s also
your duty to cause a bit of trouble or mischief, to shake things up and challenge people’s thinking.
In doing so, you will learn how to liberate other people, as well. With this placement, once you come
to a place of healing for your own inner bullying victim, you can come to see just how much of an
epidemic bullying is. It certainly doesn’t end in high school. People ostracize, judge, cut down, and
mock people well into adulthood for all sorts of superficial reasons. We’re all pretty aware of that.
But, those with Saturn in the 11th House have a responsibility to do something about this. You are
not living up to your calling in life when you stand back and watch someone else get picked on or
excluded. Instead, you have to see it as a social calling to be that person who knows how to show
kindness and lack of judgment, to make everyone feel like they’re an important person who
deserves respect. You have to step up to the plate by becoming a true egalitarian.
The 11th House is so associated with groups. But, I think, in the end, we should see the 11th House
as being concerned with the massive, collective group that is humanity. As we’re all human beings,
there’s no reason why any of us should be excluded from the “group.” We all have the same
qualifications, when you take away any arrogance or snobbery. This is why I believe many Saturn in
the 11th House individuals are somehow scared of or skeptical of groups. It’s because they don’t like
anything that feels exclusive, sometimes even if it’s an organization or a company that’s working
toward a higher cause or ideal. But, it’s your responsibility to work hard (Saturn) toward these
higher causes (11th House). So, you’ve got to get over that skepticism, understanding that a group
isn’t exclusive if it’s working for the greater good of everyone. And it’s your personal obligation to
dedicate yourself to anything that will make a difference in the world.
Yet, you’re also supposed to resist exclusivity. It’s interesting because I often read that an 11th
House Saturn brings restriction to friendships. It does but not because the 11th House represents
“friends”, as we’re so repeatedly told. At least, not your close, personal friendships. That’s your 7th
House. In the 11th House, we meet a lot of people who we have common ground with, who we
enjoy being around, and who we’re very friendly with. But, there’s a detachment to this house. The
social connections we make via our 11th House are the buddies who we’re not that intimate with or
close to. We don’t get attached to them. We just see them when we see them and go on about our
lives. And with Saturn in the 11th, you’re fated to experience most of your social bonds this way.
So, you are mastering the ability to be really cool with just about everyone; that is, the people you
truly like and get along with. Even the people who you might dislike have to be treated with a light
cordiality if you happen to run into them. You’re becoming a master networker, complete with no
bad vibes and no drama. But, what this is going to do is bring some distance to those close
friendships. Saturn in the 11th House people cannot have a squad or a crew that they compulsively
stick to. You can’t hang around the same people all the time. Then, your attitude becomes cliquey 81
and exclusive, which is not the purpose of this placement. So, as painful as it may be, you’re going
to have to learn to not be too attached to old friends or best friends. You’re going to have to treat
them exactly the same as the people you just met at the bar; no better or worse.
This can come to define your Saturn Return in the 11th. Old friendships can become more and more
distant. But, it doesn’t have to be a dramatic thing. The 11th House, after all, doesn’t do drama. It
just means that you’ve got to let that buddy of yours go, in order to embrace your duty of
connecting with all of humanity. And if you don’t let them go, something will happen to end the ties.
These close friendships may abruptly break apart. Maybe you suddenly realize that you two just
don’t have anything in common anymore and you want to start associating more with people who
are more like-minded. Maybe you just suddenly stop texting each other or answering each other’s
calls. But, when it happens, you can come to see that it’s not that tragic. There are so many more
people that you’re destined to connect to. Your purpose is to be everyone’s buddy. So, if that old
friend comes back into your life, great. If not, there are other people to meet. No hard feelings.
It also highlights the idea that you’re supposed to just go with it when challenging or difficult things
occur. Trying to fight it and keep everything under control will only result in more chaos and drive
you even crazier. But, this brings out your inner genius. You will develop your brilliance by learning
to objectively, intelligently deal with whatever hard times happen. In doing so, you will find
inventive ways around these situations that bring out your inner experimenter. Since you find such
purpose in going against the grain, career options can truly go any which way for you. Whatever
you do, you’re going to need to feel free to throw whatever you can to the wall and see what sticks.
A profession where you’re a truly equal collaborator is your best bet. And as long as you keep
disciplining yourself to connect with others with an open mind, things will pay off.
People with Saturn in the 12th House find their greatest strength and their true purpose when they
find genuine healing and peace. In order to get to this place, they must go through plenty of
sadness, loneliness, confusion, and denial. With this Saturn placement, you are being required to
experience a deep amount of pain and suffering and come out on the other side of it all, stronger
and wiser. But, an expression of that maturity will involve displaying compassion for the pain and
suffering of other people and doing what you can to alleviate it. Once you understand how to heal
yourself and bring yourself peace, you will succeed at guiding other people toward a sense of
healing and peace, as well.
A profound understanding of how we are all connected stems from this influence, which can both
the source of your purpose and your pain. Since the 12th House is connected to the experience in
the womb, you probably had a mother who had a particularly difficult pregnancy. It was stressful in
some major way, often due to problems with the father or unresolved issues that she could not
admit to or acknowledge. Coming into this world, you experienced a powerful connection to the
suffering of others. The type of child to cry when others cried, to be moved by the smallest of
things, you were very sensitive in a way that often made life more difficult. This is especially
because you weren’t encouraged by your early environment to honestly and openly deal with
whatever was troubling you. Instead, you were taught to act like everything was fine. The major
problems that were going on were never addressed, ignored and swept under the rug. Growing up,
12th House Saturn people are haunted by these deeper issues in a hard-to-articulate way, which
creates a lot of inner anguish.
A lot of this can have to do with your father figure. Your relationship with your father has always 82
been plagued by some unacknowledged, under-the-surface problem that you may not fully
understand. This is largely due to how much he represses his emotional problems or the other
dilemmas he needs to overcome, whether that means substance abuse, mental health struggles, or
just a total inability to hold himself accountable for his behavior. With Saturn in the 12th, one’s
father can be a very sensitive, selfless person. But, this is often the underlying issue, as he may
seem too fragile for you to rely on for strength or so busy making himself a martyr that you feel
guilty for looking to him for help. Commonly, the Dad is physically there while being very
emotionally checked out or unavailable. But, your father might have also passed away or walked out
on you at some point in your childhood. In this case, he’s literally not present, a truly invisible entity.
So, who do you look to for guidance? Where do you turn? The process of making it in the world is
especially overwhelming for you. You’ll have to endure circumstances that make you feel invisible,
with your hard work going unrecognized or unnoticed when you believe you should be succeeding.
The process of getting your act together, of being an organized and responsible member of society,
can seem so futile when it all amounts to nothing anyway. You’re also easily worn down by the
hustle and bustle of everyday life. You don’t work well within too many constraints and rigid rules,
which can make adapting to the nine-to-five life truly depressing. But, how else are you going to
carve out stability for yourself? The 12th House shows us what feels elusive to us. With Saturn in
the 12th, the worldly goals of security, career success, and public recognition feel all too elusive, to
the point where you wonder if it’s all meaningless and useless. When you factor in how much you
can drown yourself in work or inwardly punish yourself for failing or falling short, it’s no wonder that
work can cause you to lose your mind much more intensely than the average person.
Feeling so easily depleted by the demands of the world, you will need plenty of time to retreat and
regroup. Whether you realize it or not, you absorb the emotional energies of people very easily and
it causes you to feel drained, disoriented, or consumed with feelings and thoughts that you don’t
even understand. When you investigate this further, you’ll realize how much negative energy you’ve
absorbed from your early environment. Everything that your loved ones could not deal with in
themselves was put on you, either through projection and manipulation and guilt-tripping or
because you felt so much for them that you empathically took on their problems for them. This is
especially a part of your relationship with your father. It’s a pattern that has extended toward
everyone else. You have a hard time ignoring the turmoil beneath people’s facades that you sense
and that tells you that everything isn’t as alright with them as they are trying to present.
Being alone can be your solution to blocking out all of the confusion and turbulence. But, it doesn’t
do anything to take away those troubling feelings. In fact, solitude can end up increasing your inner
troubles, especially if you’re seeking alone time to the point of sheer isolation. This is when the
Saturn in the 12th House person feels terribly alone in life, saddened over how people seem to care
so little about them. You can’t do much to escape your sadness, either. While the 12th House is the
house of escape from everyday life, it works differently for you. Saturn’s realism affects this house in
a way that means that you aren’t allowed much escapism, if any. Even when you’re getting lost in
your fantasies or your inner world, you’re still going to that difficult place within. Most people with
this placement come off, in general, as silly, light-hearted, fun-loving, or carefree individuals. But,
the 12th House asks us to transcend ourselves. So, when you do so, things get heavier.
Yet, you also cannot personally identify with whatever is in your 12th House. When you do, then
you’ll find yourself becoming increasingly isolated from the world as well as more and more
disconnected from yourself. This creates the legendary confusion, pain, and chaos of the 12th. So,
when you are allowing yourself to be preoccupied with your personal problems, you will also be
swept up in turmoil. When this happens, you find yourself in a depressive state you cannot get out
of, with even therapy or medication proving itself to be ineffective, or when you start seeing the 83
negative in everything so much that you create your own obstacles. Your inner suffering (12th
House) is your greatest obstacle (Saturn), especially since it makes it harder and harder for you to
reach out to people or believe that they’ll be there for you. Those with Saturn in the 12th create
their own isolation more than they realize, putting themselves in a form of solitary confinement and
throwing away the key.
Your Saturn Return is a time in your life where you will come to realize that so much that you have
believed to be reality is simply an illusion. This might have to do with things about the world, life, or
society that you have always believed that prove to be false, empty, or dissatisfying. It could also
indicate that there are many ways that your reality has been manipulated by toxic people in your
life. You might spend this part of your life realizing that your father has been consistently
undermining you through the illusions he’s spun around himself or the projections that he has made
on to you. A lot of the things you beat yourself up over are things that he could never deal with
himself. Maybe you were made to feel guilty about your competency or your ambitions, possibly
because of his own struggles to succeed, or you were, conversely, made to feel like you were
incompetent and like a failure. You might also have an excellent relationship with your Dad yet you
are too prone to seeing him unclearly and unrealistically, projecting this savior archetype on to him
and failing to see him as a fallible human, often due to guilt over those judgments.
Regardless of your relationship with your father, you’ll find that your Saturn Return in the 12th is a
time where you are meant to develop a better relationship with your Divine Father. This will be
either because you feel like your physical Dad was never there for you or because you’re
misguidedly worshipping him as if he can do no wrong. Your God, your Higher Power, is who can do
no wrong and turning to this spiritual force for the constant guidance and strength you’ve always
needed from your father is a major way you’ll find healing. At the same time, you’ll need to come to
terms with all of these unresolved issues with your father figure through a sense of forgiveness and
compassion. Anything less than that causes you to maintain emotionally attached to him. Most
Saturn in the 12th House people feel like fatherless children on some level but don’t realize that this
is because they can only find peace by truly letting go of their fathers. Remember your love for him
and accept him for who he is while also recognizing that you don’t really need him.
Spirituality gives you such strength because it provides you with the clear, strict guidelines you need
to follow in order to succeed. You aren’t going to accomplish things in a “normal” or “realistic” way.
You’re blessed with a virtually supernatural work ethic that would drain and daunt most mere
mortals, going into complete trances when you’re in the zone or seeming to be downright
possessed. It is a true magical power of yours. But, the expression of magic requires fluidity and
intuitiveness. So, you are being challenged to put as much hard work as you can into whatever your
calling is while also having no attachment to the outcome. Let go of a demand for how and when
success should come. Envision what you want to achieve and manifest it into existence through your
relationship with your Higher Power. Trust that you are divinely guided and protected, that these
Spirit Guides want you to excel in life. With this consciousness, you don’t have to try so hard. Being
spiritually disciplined is how you will succeed because you will understand how to channel that
magic and be in tune with the greater forces at play.
Bringing your dreams to life can translate into being a professional artist of some kind. A lot of
Saturn in the 12th House people go on to be well-respected, serious artists. You will find a deep
sense of purpose in being able to express your compassion and your intuition through what you do
for a living, which can also lead you into the realm of the healing arts, metaphysical or spiritual
teaching, being a doctor to animals or humans, or any sort of counseling. It will be your job to
exhibit empathy in some fashion. Since your sensitivity feels so burdensome, it’s easy to try and
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others in the world. Since you are seriously affected by this energy, it’s another way you contribute
to your own suffering. You are not only saddened by inhumane acts but you accumulate heavy
karma when you engage in them. For this reason, your Saturn Return will most likely show you the
much kinder, more compassionate person that you really are.
You know, better than most, that everyone is going through some sort of silent struggle. You have
had so many breakdowns, defeats, and existential crises that few people would even guess at. It’s
why you’re so private, so intent on quietly working out your problems. Yet, you are also being
challenged to share what you have been through with your fellow man. This is another reason why
you so readily gravitate toward the arts. Being artistic gives you an opportunity to express those
difficult emotions and feel strongly connected to people, at the same time. You must fully
comprehend that everything you have felt or experienced is something that anyone at any given
time has felt or experienced. By understanding this, you reach a state of transcendence where you
can be a vessel for others’ suffering. This does not mean being a target for suffering. It means
knowing how to feel other people’s pain and then release it. While this may lead you toward literal
healing, it also can cause your artistic endeavors to have a particularly healing impact.
Artists with this placement excel at delving into serious subject matter. You can create characters
and worlds or tell stories that have to do with heavy issues, hard times or people striving to move
beyond their problems. Even if you lean toward lighter work, it will still have a very substantial
quality to it; something that reflects people’s everyday realities. This goes back to the fact that even
when you’re escaping into something, you’re still very much grounded. The 12th House also shows
what someone is like when they’re “under the influence”. But, you still probably seem rather sober
when you’re high or drunk. Most Saturn in the 12th House people hold their liquor really well, very
rarely displaying any sloppy-drunk behavior, and have an ability to know exactly what they’re doing
when they’re on something. In fact, there is a deep, unconscious fear of being a drug addict or an
alcoholic with this placement that translates into a need to really control one’s intake. You might
never even try any drug in order to avoid getting hooked on it or going off of the deep end.
Those with this placement who do find themselves abusing substances will learn that nothing they
take ever numbs the pain. This is the essential lesson of addiction, anyway, but it manifests very
powerfully when Saturn is in the 12th. So, the pattern of constantly upping the intake in order to
feel something or to stop feeling something can be observed. It just makes the addiction worse and
worse until you’re truly forced to quit. But, whenever your Saturn Return in the 12th rolls around,
anything that has become an addiction for you will need to be released. This might also mean
compulsive solitude or never-ending introspection. You can waste a lot of time looking inwardly in
order to find the answers and figure yourself out enough to be ready for the world. Yet, you’ll never
be truly ready! You just have to embrace yourself with unconditional love.
While some with this placement can avoid introspection like the plague and must learn to reflect,
others can be so reflective that it becomes a way of compensating for a lack of external control. By
trying to know all of the depths of your soul, you’re trying to not be caught off-guard by anything
that rises to the surface, like all of the unknown elements of life catch you off-guard. There are
many parts of your inner life that scare you, especially since you are constantly feeling things that
aren’t exactly your feelings. So, the opposite response of repressing those states is wrestling with
them until you are utterly exhausted. But, then, this just leaves you stuck in a state of confusion,
not understanding how to overcome this inner dilemma. If this is the case, when you embrace the
feeling of not knowing or understanding everything within you, you’ll be able to handle all of the
things in life that you don’t truly know or understand. When you let go and let yourself feel
everything you’re feeling without identifying with it or being attached to it, you’ll breathe easier.
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Your dreams are also not going to be entirely understood by you. But, trying to interpret your
dreams is important because they speak to you so vividly. Having a dream journal or analyzing the
symbolism in your dreams can bring you greater clarity. Yet, everything won’t always add up and
that’s okay. Some Saturn in the 12th House people are literally scared to dream because of a fear of
what will rise up out of their unconscious mind. Bedtime then becomes a time of torment for you.
Insomnia, sleep paralysis, sleepwalking, or recurring nightmares may all make it hard to rest easily.
You might even go through a period of barely dreaming, if at all. But, others with this placement can
go to the other extreme and seek complete refuge in sleep. You might even be a very heavy
sleeper, to the point of going into a proverbial coma that is hard to wake you from. Positively, you
can also have many vivid dreams of success, recognition, or even fame. Taking the time each night,
before you go to bed, to take note of what you have achieved and what you want to achieve can
lead to these kinds of dreams. This can also become a nightly ritual that allows you to remain
spiritually, internally aligned with your true goals, experiencing them on an unconscious level that
reminds you of how real they are and will be.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Wayman Stewart was born in 1989. A Leo with a Scorpio Moon and Aquarius Ascendant, he has
been studying astrology since 2008. Having worked as a professional astrologer for several years, he
has self-published many e-books on various topics. He published The Descendant – The Other Half
Of You in 2017, an e-book focusing on the Descendant in astrology and its effects on people’s
relationships with others. Other works followed in 2019, including The Rising Sign – Welcome To
Your Life, Aspects in Astrology, and The North Node – Your Soul’s Purpose, with the latter two being
comprised largely of previous blog articles of his.
Stewart currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Although he is an astrologer by day, he is also an actor
and writer who is focusing on producing his own content.
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Jupiter in the 2nd House 8

Jupiter in the 3rd House 11

Jupiter in the 4th House 15

Jupiter in the 5th House 18

Jupiter in the 6th House 22

Jupiter in the 7th House 25

Jupiter in the 8th House 29

Jupiter in the 9th House 33

Jupiter in the 10th House 37

Jupiter in the 11th House 40

Jupiter in the 12th House 44

Saturn in the 1st House 49

Saturn in the 2nd House 52

Saturn in the 4th House 58

Saturn in the 5th House 61

Saturn in the 6th House 64

Saturn in the 7th House 67

Saturn in the 8th House 70

Saturn in the 9th House 73

Saturn in the 10th House 76

Saturn in the 11th House 79

Saturn in the 12th House 82

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