Saturn, which stays in each sign for around two and a half years, indicates the rules, regulations, and traditions that are very likely to affect the people born during this period. It can also indicate the most important things that help us grow into who we are meant to be.
It is often said that while Jupiter expands, Saturn constricts, and it can be an indication of the most important challenges that you will need to overcome in life.
If you are born under Saturn in Cancer, you probably grew up in an environment where caring and protecting the people close to you was important. As a result, you have developed a very caring attitude, and naturally tend to take responsibility for those around you.
Your default mode is to keep your emotions under control and never show anyone hurt or weakness, despite the fact that you are actually very sensitive. Bottling things up in this way can often lead to emotional distress. But you find growth when you identify healthy outlets for your emotions.
Your caring and generous nature means that you are not always critical about who you let into your life, and you may have toxic relationships that you can’t let go of. Realizing that you can’t help everyone is an important life lesson for you.
Saturn in Cancer Transit
While the position of Saturn in our natal chart affects us on an individual level, the planet’s continual transit through the signs impacts us all with its overarching influence. Saturn takes two to two and a half years to transit through each sign.
When Saturn transits through Cancer, we tend to find our focus drawn to family, and our role within our family. We often feel a need to get closer to our roots, and start to plant new roots.
During this transit we can also have a tendency to become defensive and territorial. Our desire to protect what is ours can lead us to develop and exclusive “us and them” mentality, which carries its own dangers.
We may also find that we allow ourselves to be restricted by the rules and regulations of our chosen group and start suppressing our own needs for some idea of the greater good.
It may also be that we notice things from the past repeating themselves. But at this time, we have the unique ability to apply the lessons from the past to make essential changes.
Saturn in Cancer Retrograde
During each of its transits, Saturn also retrogrades in the same sign for around 140 days. During any retrograde of Saturn, we tend to find ourselves feeling restricted and the urge to make changes.
When Saturn retrogrades through Cancer, we might find that we start to identify important relationships in our lives that have become toxic. We can see them with new clarity, and realize the negative impact that they are having on our wellbeing.
This is also a time when we tend to feel more equipped to deal with ghosts and hurts from the past. We are better able to be honest with ourselves about what our role in a conflict may have been, and better able to forgive someone else for their part.
Saturn in Cancer Rules and Traditions
People born under Saturn in Cancer tend to have grown up in an environment where people had to rely on one another. It could be that you had to care for younger siblings or older relatives or pool your resources for protection or prosperity.
As a result, you tend to naturally step into the role of a caregiver and take on the responsibility for protecting or nurturing others. You tend to create a “pack” that you feel responsible for, and you consider almost to be an extension of yourself.
You are incredibly generous and giving, and you are better than most at putting the needs of the community ahead of your own interests.
Saturn in Cancer Growth
You are a sensitive soul with deep running emotions, but you have learnt that it is better to keep your emotions hidden than show them freely to others. This can lead to blockages and stagnation. But you find that you grow quickly when you find appropriate outlets for your emotions.
You will often discover that you find your “niche” in an artistic pursuit that lets you transform your emotions into something that is shareable in a sage way, whether then be music, visual art, or something else.
You are very good at giving an audience just enough of a framework that they can project their own emotions into your creations and make it personal to them.
Saturn in Cancer Challenges
For you, the community of people that you gather around you is incredibly important and you tend to define yourself by your role within a community. But once you adopt someone, you are rarely able to let them go, even when that relationship has become toxic.
Identifying relationships that have become negative for you in some way is one of your biggest challenges. Your genuine affection means that you cannot always see when someone doesn’t have your best interests at heart.
When you do identify a problem, letting go is also difficult. You tend to think that you can change people or “fix” them. It is hard for you to admit that people will only change for themselves, and only if they are genuinely motivated to do so.
Saturn in Cancer Life Lessons
The energy of Saturn in Cancer has important life lessons to teach us all, and not only those who are born with this astrological combination in their natal chart.
Sharing is Caring.
Saturn in Cancer tends to have a “we’re all in this together” attitude that urges us to help our fellow man. It reminds us that if you want someone to lend you a hand when you need it, you need to be willing to give a hand as well. However it may seem, no one ever does anything alone. There is always someone who helped in some way.
You are defined by your pack.
It is true that we become like the people that we spend the most time with and that we rise or fall to the level of the people that we surround ourselves with. This is why it is important that we choose our pack carefully, as this is how we choose who we want to be.
Find emotional catharsis.
While there is definite value to being in command of your emotions, bottling things up and failing to deal with them can cause emotional trauma that can be hard to recover from. This is why it is important to find outlets for facing and dealing with emotions. For every person this is different, but it is important that you find yours.
Remember that there are two sides to every story.
When we find ourselves in conflict, it is very easy to blame the other party for the situation. But it always takes two for conflict to develop, and it is important that we identify our role. This is not to remove blame from the other person, but rather to help us realize that we have power over the situation, and that we can move on if we wish to.
Learn the lessons of the past.
We often feel like we are constantly repeating the same mistakes. But when this happens, it is because we have not learned the important lessons that experience is trying to teach us. If you find yourself in a repeating pattern, take the time to self-reflect and try and identity and take on the lessons from the past that you might be ignoring.
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