ALMUTEMSaturn in Cancer
Saturn represents your responsible side, your limits and what you build through effort. In Cancer, it expresses itself with sensitivity and a wish to look after your own.
Saturn is in its detriment in Cancer — a cardinal water sign ruled by the Moon —, its gravest essential debility: the cold, dry planet acts against its nature in the sign of affection, home, and nurture. Here it dries the spring that feeds. In childhood there may be a want of support and sustenance, or a surplus of luxury felt to be the fruit of others’ sacrifice, leaving a mark of privation and some resentment. The theme is dependence and care, with family burdens that drag on across generations and weigh upon the native. It acts at a cost and with unstable results in the affairs of the heart and the home. With maturity, though, one learns to value the little one has and to tame the inner hungers that return from time to time — a severe tenderness, won against the current.