Ascendant Square Saturn

Ascendant represents your body, your make-up and how you present yourself and begin things; Saturn, your responsible side, your limits and what you build through effort.

Saturn square the Ascendant checks the expression of self: inhibition, insecurity, and a weight hard to shake off, with the sense of not being equal to things. It asks that one overcome one’s own fear; the doubt once conquered, it gives a rare firmness.

The square places Saturn near the Midheaven or the Imum Coeli. Near the Midheaven, the career weighs on identity, with demanding bosses and the feeling of never doing enough; near the Imum Coeli, family or father impose limits that mark the way of being. Tradition sees here a trial that ripens with time. The early years tend to be the hardest. Whoever crosses this tension without closing up arrives at a firmness of character few people have.

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