Saturn in Cancer

Saturn in Cancer tests you for empathy and the value of responsibility—with the hard and unyielding teacher Saturn in the sentimental and vulnerable sign Cancer. An emotional wound experienced as a child may cause you to be fearful and rigid in your feelings, or to be frozen at an earlier stage of development or experience. You may thus fear being too close to others, and withdraw and build a self-protective barrier around yourself, like the crab. No matter how kind and well disposed you may be, this withdrawal can make it all but impossible to put yourself in anyone else's shoes. Understanding your early childhood experiences: finding, loving and taking care of that frightened child within yourself, can go a long way to healing these wounds. Saturn returns to each sign once every 29 or 30 years for about a three-year stay. Saturn was in Cancer from 8/1914 to 6/1917, from 6/1944 to 7/1946, from 8/1973 to 6/1976, and from 6/2003 to 7/2005.