Transits
Your Natal Saturn
In each of our natal charts, provided we know our birth
time, we know where Saturn resides—in one of the
twelve houses—at the moment of our birth, and it is
from this point that Saturn continues to move around the
chart, always in a counter clock-wise direction. Earlier in
this article we learned of the four sectors, as well as
something of what they portend in relation to the transit
of Saturn through them. Here we are looking at the idea
that, as Saturn starts in a particular sector (and house)
of your chart, at the moment of your birth, this
placement can tell us something about how the flow of
your life may go. In other words, for some of us Saturn
may start out at the bottom of our chart, say at the 4th
house cusp, and go up during the first 15 years of our
life, thus entering the first or obscure sector when we
are around 21 years of age. This is a very different birth
chart than one with Saturn starting at the top of the