Star Struck Style

As promised in my previous post, I’m going to take a deep dive into what Saturn’s house position symbolizes in my natal chart.

I was born with Saturn in the fifth house. “Café Astrology” describes the placement as follows:

“The fifth house is the house of play and self-expression. Saturn’s influences in this house compare in importance to those in the first house. The fifth house is all about spontaneity. Saturn seriously impedes spontaneity. You might be recognized as the ‘party pooper’ or a bad date. Don’t let that happen to you! Individuals with Saturn in the fifth house might find it difficult to ‘play’ or do fun things. Saturnine guilt and responsibility might make you search for a ‘good’ reason to have fun. All work and no play might stress you out to the point of neurosis.

Recognize that you don’t always need a cause to relax and enjoy life. Better still use this influence to your advantage. Get into an activity like raising money for a charity. That way you have a cause and the fund-raising events can be turned into fun occasions.

While dating, allow your date lead you a little. If your date happens to have a fifth house Saturn then you have nothing to worry about. The two of you may hit it off discussing the ramifications of the ozone layer depletion on your first date. If your date does not have Saturn in the fifth then he or she might have other ideas about ways to have a good time!”

I’m not the most romantic person in the world, so the commentary on my dating style immediately makes my eyes roll back into my head. But I also was born when Mars and Venus were conjoined in emotionally distant Aquarius, so that explains why I’m not particularly interested in that part of this mostly-reasonable interpretation of Saturn’s influence on my horoscope.

Nevertheless, I do understand the ‘party pooper’ comment because I never force myself to have a good time. If I’m having fun, it shows. If I’m not having fun, it also shows. However, I do possess enough self-awareness and self-respect to remove myself from situations where I’m not having fun. For that reason, I don’t really believe that I’m a party pooper. You have to show up to the party to ruin it with a bad attitude.

I’m also not a workaholic. I’m actually quite fun to be around at work. The line “All work and no play might stress you out to the point of neurosis” does not describe me at all.

What does describe me, though, is the part where the author claims that “Saturn seriously impedes spontaneity.” I get that! I’m sure that everyone I know gets that. But what I am is remarkably dependable. That’s why I spend so much time on this blog congratulating myself when I’m able to break out of my routine. That is definitely something I find difficult to do.

Yet I do find something missing from this interpretation, and that is Saturn’s relationship to my sense of self-expression. I have spent years and years honing my ability to express myself accurately through words. I’ve developed my writing talent by writing almost every day for the last twenty-five years. I always go back to the phrase “ultimately productive” to describe Saturn’s influence, and I’m going to use it again to describe the manner in which my fifth-house Saturn has manifested itself in my natal chart. Slowly but steadily, I have become a wordsmith and fulfilled the promise of my third-house Capricorn sun. Like the fitness classes that I have been leading for over three decades, writing is something I do naturally and easily without a lot of effort. It’s no longer work, but rather play. It’s how I enjoy myself.

Now, to put that explanation of Saturn’s house placement into the context of my upcoming second Saturn return is something I need to think about. More about that tomorrow . . .