Saturn in Capricorn

"I am capable of achieving great things through hard work and determination, regardless of the expectations placed upon me."

Opportunities
Contributing to the world
Redefining success
Goals
Finding your purpose
Deprogramming your past
 

Saturn in Capricorn


There’s much more to this placement than simply lessons and focus on material reality, power and public image. If this shows up in your natal chart, you could be one of the hardest working people on planet earth. It’s not uncommon for you to work extremely hard towards a goal unknowingly your whole life, where one thing leads you into the next thing into the next thing and as you age, you look back over your life and see just how much has been accomplished, all towards a central ambition.

You may place a very high priority on your public persona or image, which is something that may have been placed on you by your mothers expectations, wants and wishes. In your childhood, she may have been very busy or she may have had very high standards for what “acceptable” is. Your work life can mirror or match a sense of familial, emotional rejection and isolation from childhood, and you can have a very difficult time with authority or taking orders from anyone. It can be hard to get along with people who are lazy, who don’t have to work as hard as you do.

I do feel like deprogramming the parental view of success and meaning that came from the dominant parent, usually your mother, is very helpful because it allows for you to define what success, meaning and value mean for you as an individual. When you know what these mean for you, and you’re not caught up in what society sees as success or valuable, you’re able to really rise into a role that suits you within your career.

It’s very important for you to give voice to and not reject your feminine polarity. The ability to just be, to take breaks, to take some rest is a virtue and one that your stress levels and body will make sure you know about. Workaholism is a natural extension of this energy so learning to set it down and walk away. Sacrificing multiple parts of life for your work is often required in order to achieve your lofty but realistic ambitions and you don’t shy away from putting in the hours. Success and achievement is delayed, often an arduous process, but when it comes it can feel like the most fulfilling thing in the world.

The practices and explorations that are most recommended for you are yin yoga, which helps to strengthen the feminine, receptive and restful principle which will only allow you to return to your craft that much stronger. I’d also recommend divinatory endeavors like astrology, specifically an exploration of the house of the Sun and the lunar nodes, to find your purpose because you *need* a sense of purpose to get  out of bed in the morning. And often, a combination of what helps other people, with what you allow yourself to enjoy doing, can be what we think of as “our purpose.” Don’t let the search for meaning or purpose take you out of acting in the now.