When Saturn transits the 4th house the need for security and achievement influences your home, family and roots. You’re moving away from dealing with the inner processes of thought and self-knowledge, and towards your domestic world and feelings.
When Saturn enters the 4th house it brings up issues around basic security and survival, and your need for belonging and putting down roots. It encourages you to take your position in the community more seriously and build a more stable home environment. How this plays out depends on your age and circumstances.
You might decide to move house or make changes to your living conditions. Where you live might not feel like home anymore – perhaps it’s too small, or you want to live in a different neighbourhood. Other possibilities include buying or inheriting land, building your own home or renovating, the death or loss of a parent, and the birth of a child. You may become more aware of your obligations to your family, or perhaps need to define your boundaries more clearly as an individual.
Whatever happens, how you feel about it is important because the outer event reflects inner changes. You’re returning home to yourself so you can establish a firm foundation from which to continue growing. It’s an opportunity to explore your security needs and to find true security within yourself. You may feel like withdrawing from the world to contemplate the issues and feelings that come up now.
You may become more interested in your family’s roots and past, and psychological or physical problems that you’ve inherited may come up and demand to be understood and dealt with. Saturn encourages you to come to terms with the family fate and to reconcile yourself to its legacy. This could be a positive legacy, as well as a more challenging one. You can discover how your life has become what it is, and how you have become who you are in relation to your roots.
You can also free yourself from emotional patterns that shaped your life from childhood. This will allow you to grow into the individual you want to become. Of course, how much you can free yourself depends on the age you are when this transit happens. If you’re young, it will mark a time of the family fate acting upon you, the legacy of which you’ll deal with in about 29 years.
Possibilities with Saturn transiting the 4th:
- Tracing the family tree
- Old memories resurfacing
- Redecorating or renovating your home
- Moving home
- Undergoing psychotherapy
Watch out for:
- Death of a parent
- Haunted by the past
- Getting trapped in co-dependency
- Home a burden, perhaps unable to sell
Ultimately, this transit is about building a more secure foundation of inner security from which you can launch yourself out into the world. You have the opportunity to discover what nourishes your soul and makes you feel safe, and gives you a sense of belonging.
It’s also about laying the foundations for long-term ambitions in your career because this is the lowest position in the chart and from this point on Saturn begins to move upward. Any inner problems that you don’t deal with now will cause difficulties for you in about 14 years when Saturn crosses your Midheaven.
To get the best out of your Saturn transits it helps to prepare in advance and get organised. You can do this using the Saturn Transits Workbook available here! This is a comprehensive guide to working with Saturn transits that includes worksheets to track and explore your experience. For more details click the image to visit the store!
References:
- Planets in Transit – Robert Hand
- Saturn in Transit – Erin Sullivan
- Astrology, Karma, & Transformation – Stephen Arroyo
More Transits: 1st house – 2nd house – 3rd house – 4th house – 5th house – 6th house – 7th house – 8th house – 9th house – 10th house – 11th house – 12th house
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Jessica Davidson 
OMG, reading about my birth placement blew me away, my issues mostly have squarely been about my mother who died 9 months ago. I talk with my therapist a couple of hours ago, and the things he said made me have an epiphany. I realize the reason why I haven’t been able to move to a new city, is because that means officially being an adult. And I was never given the tools how to become an adult. I’ve been neglected and overlooked my whole life, therefore, I don’t know how to quite be an adult despite being over 40. Now I’m left with picking up the pieces both literally and emotionally. My mom is still holding me down, and not in a supportive sense, and it’s causing a hold-up in my life. I want to move away from this apartment that I’ve been living in since my early 20s, but I can’t. I still have my mother on my back. Saturn in the 4th house.
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you are simply fantastic, My Saturn although moved through 4th House having Sagittarius, it triggered very Dangerous situation for my father, he suffered from cancer, luckily recovered, almost died Doctor had given up with Esophageal cancer being deadliest cancer in the world, I had to perform lot of spiritual rituals to save my father and he is still alive, but your posts are absolutely spot on with 4th house transit of Saturn.
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Really resognates. My mother became ill some months ago she has recovered beautifully thank God. Im currently in the market for a home i have the need to set down roots.
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How long it takes ? My mother has fallen sick too. And i think my mother is poisoned my my dad. but unfortunately i have no prove
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Saturn takes about 2 and half years to move through one sign but how long he spends in one house in your chart will depend on which house system you use. If you’re using Whole Signs it’ll take 2 and half years, but other house systems will vary.
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Wow, you truly do have a problem. That’s where hidden cameras come into play, you might want to buy some and place them around the house.
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Saturn joined pluto in transiting my 4th house in October 2017. I got pregnant with my first child a month later. I really want to move, I feel l like my current place is not where I want to be any longer, nor raise my child. I’m actually thinking about moving states. I also feel a strong need to establish a foundation for myself and future family, something I didn’t really deal with before now. I am going back to school and figuring out the path for my career.
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Thanks for sharing your experience, Judy and good luck finding a new home :)
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Hi Jessica. I just discovered your writing recently. Although I have been studying astrology for more than half my life, only in depth for the past 10 years or so. There is still much to learn. However, I really appreciate that you have taken the time to write out each transit/aspect. I looked for this as I am a Libra (10.18.84, 6:20a, EDT) and Saturn is about to transit my 4th house. I have a love/hate relationship w Saturn and feel the need to brace for him.
I also shared your Saturn in the 10th house with my partner and I could already tell how dead-on accurate hers was as well.
I look forward to reading more of your work and learning more about each transit.
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Thanks Izzie – glad you’ve found these posts helpful :)
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Reblogged this on Lost Dudeist Astrology.
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