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Saturn in the 1st house
Saturn in the first gives a serious, disciplined, slow-maturing person — someone who looks older young and younger old. Life is structured by responsibility from early on. Shasha yoga forms if Saturn is here in his own or exalted sign. The texts note a lean constitution and a life that improves after the mid-thirties.
What it gives
- •Discipline and endurance
- •Matures early; taken seriously
- •Shasha yoga when dignified; late-life strength
What to watch
- •Early responsibility; a heavy start
- •Pessimism; slow to trust
- •Health and vitality need maintenance
Where Saturn actually is today
Computed at sunrise for the reference place. A planet sits in a given house for exactly one ascendant at a time — the sign it occupies is the 1st house of only one lagna.
Saturn right now
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Who has Saturn in the 1st today
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It depends on your ascendant
The same placement reads differently from each of the twelve ascendants, because the 1st house is a different sign for each — and Saturn is exalted in one sign and debilitated in another. This table is computed from the classical rulership and dignity tables, not written by hand.
| Ascendant | 1st house sign | Sign lord | Saturn’s dignity | Saturn rules |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aries | Aries | Mars | Debilitated | 10th, 11th |
| TaurusYogakaraka | Taurus | Venus | Friend’s sign | 9th, 10th |
| Gemini | Gemini | Mercury | Friend’s sign | 8th, 9th |
| Cancer | Cancer | Moon | Enemy’s sign | 7th, 8th |
| Leo | Leo | Sun | Enemy’s sign | 6th, 7th |
| Virgo | Virgo | Mercury | Friend’s sign | 5th, 6th |
| LibraYogakaraka | Libra | Venus | Exalted | 4th, 5th |
| Scorpio | Scorpio | Mars | Enemy’s sign | 3rd, 4th |
| Sagittarius | Sagittarius | Jupiter | Neutral | 2nd, 3rd |
| Capricorn | Capricorn | Saturn(own house) | Own sign | 1st, 2nd |
| Aquarius | Aquarius | Saturn(own house) | Moolatrikona | 1st, 12th |
| Pisces | Pisces | Jupiter | Neutral | 11th, 12th |
Strongest from Libra — Saturn is exalted in Libra. Weakest from Aries, where it falls in Aries. For Taurus and Libra ascendants Saturn is a yogakaraka, ruling both a kendra and a trikona — a placement that outweighs most other considerations.
What it aspects from here
From the 1st house, Saturn aspects the 3rd, 7th, 10th houses. Saturn has special 3rd and 10th aspects in addition to the 7th. An aspect carries the planet's nature into those houses, so a placement is never confined to the house it sits in.
The 1st house
The first house is the ascendant itself — the sign rising on the eastern horizon at birth. It is read before anything else, because it fixes every other house and rules the body that lives out the chart. A planet here colours appearance, temperament and the impression a person makes before they speak.
Karaka: Sun · Signifies: physical body and constitution; personality and self-image; vitality, longevity and general fortune; head and complexion
Saturn as a planet
Shani is time itself — delay, endurance, discipline, old age, servants and the poor. The greatest malefic, and the greatest teacher: he denies until the work is done, then gives something that lasts. Slowest of the visible planets, he stays two and a half years in a sign, so his transits are seasons rather than moods.
Nature: Malefic · Karaka of: discipline, delay, labour and longevity · Day: Saturday
Related placements
FAQ
Saturn in the 1st house — common questions
What does Saturn in the 1st house mean?
Saturn in the first gives a serious, disciplined, slow-maturing person — someone who looks older young and younger old. Life is structured by responsibility from early on. Shasha yoga forms if Saturn is here in his own or exalted sign. The texts note a lean constitution and a life that improves after the mid-thirties. The 1st house (Tanu Bhava) rules physical body and constitution, personality and self-image, vitality, longevity and general fortune, and Saturn is the karaka of discipline, delay, labour and longevity. Classically it is a kendra, trikona, dharma trine house, which shapes how a malefic planet behaves there.
Is Saturn in the 1st house good or bad?
It depends on the ascendant, and this is where most articles stop. From an Libra ascendant the 1st house is Libra, where Saturn is exalted. From Aries it is Aries, where Saturn is debilitated. Saturn is a yogakaraka for Taurus and Libra ascendants, which changes the reading considerably. The table on this page gives the dignity and rulership for all twelve ascendants.
Which houses does Saturn aspect from the 1st house?
The 3rd, the 7th, the 10th houses. Saturn has special 3rd and 10th aspects in addition to the 7th.
Which ascendant has Saturn in the 1st house right now?
Exactly one at any moment: the sign Saturn currently occupies is the 1st house of a single ascendant. The card on this page computes it from today's ephemeris and says when Saturn moves on. In a birth chart, though, what matters is where Saturn stood at your birth — the free kundli calculator gives that.
Does Saturn in the 1st house affect marriage?
Not directly. Marriage is read from the 7th house, its lord, Venus and the Navamsa. A 1st-house placement matters only through the houses Saturn rules and aspects from there — which this page's table sets out per ascendant.