Sun and Saturn aspects in the Birth Chart: How do you manage efforts and hardships in your tasks?

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efforts-hardships-goals-466.jpg Sun conjunct Saturn

You attitude toward reaching your goals is serious and responsible.

Discipline is a quality you have developed since an early age. You may have lacked a soft emotional connection with your parents and you might have absorbed the family’s motto that life is hard.

Anything you gained was through your personal efforts. You don't like to waste your time with banal conversations or with entertainment. You want to optimize your time by being as productive as you can.

Your goals are often met with delays, frustration and hardships, which you usually face with perseverance.

But sometimes you might feel disappointed and depressed if your efforts don't seem to achieve what you planned. Even in that case, you don't complain, keeping your feelings in check. Since your ambition is strong, you recover from failures with renewed discipline.

From time to time you should stop working and let yourself indulge by adopting a more relaxed lifestyle and having fun. Always being serious is going to take a toll on your health.

Sun sextile Saturn

You have a good sense of timing and structure, which allows you to organize big projects.

Since you carefully plan things, predictability and stability are needed for the development of your objectives. This seems quite rigid, but you are aware that your plans are rooted in accurate thinking.

Honesty and integrity drive your actions, and you need the same qualities in others.

You don't like to show off what you have achieved, preferring to stay quietly in the background and going on with your work and getting new insights from your experience.

Sun square Saturn

You often choose the hardest paths to reach your goals.

Your inner energy and enthusiasm are blocked by a low self-esteem. Unconsciously you expect failure and to not accomplish your objectives. This attitude can sabotage your plans and goals.

You might have had a severe or aloof father. This made you afraid of authority figures and insecure in your potential. Thus, you don't assert yourself and work instead in the shadows with a pessimistic attitude, always expecting rejection by so-called superiors. This temperament brings frustration.

Since your energy is often constricted and repressed, you need to let your inner energy flow. You might benefit from practices which spark and activate both your inner fire and relaxation, as in certain forms of yoga, in dynamic meditations or even in dancing.

Your lack of self-confidence has the potentiality to become self-affirmation once you heal your hardened feelings and accept your vulnerability with compassion.

Sun trine Saturn

You don't refrain from responsibilities and efforts. Once you set your goals, you tirelessly and methodically work to obtain them.

You have a perfect balance of creative vision and practical energy that allows you to pursue your goals with tenacity and realism.

You won’t be discouraged by obstacles, in fact you may embrace them and wear your struggles like a badge of what you have overcome through your intelligence and charm.

You may easily see the means to create stability and security and can excel in business thanks to your outgoing nature and perseverance.

Sun opposite Saturn

Your inner energy and enthusiasm are blocked by a low self-esteem. Unconsciously you expect failure and to not accomplish your objectives. This attitude can sabotage your plans and goals.

You might have conflicting feelings about your father and you may project these feelings onto authority figures. You may also feel insecure in your potential. Thus, you don't assert yourself and work instead in the shadows with a pessimistic attitude, always expecting rejection by so-called superiors. This temperament brings frustration.

Since your energy is often constricted and repressed, you need to let your inner energy flow. You might benefit from practices which spark and activate both your inner fire and relaxation, as in certain forms of yoga, in dynamic meditations or even in dancing.

Your lack of self-confidence has the potentiality to become self-affirmation once you heal your hardened feelings and accept your vulnerability with compassion.

Sun quincunx Saturn

You may spend part of your life avoiding responsibility or feeling burdened by your work rather than enjoying it. You may resist aspects of maturing process that feel limiting or oppressive.

You may also feel older than your years because of early life experiences that forced you to grow up before your time.

With experience and perspective you can grow to embrace responsibility and self-discipline as assets that contribute to your success rather than seeing these things as limitations that force you to sacrifice your ambitions.

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