Saturn in the 4th House

Sukh Bhav — mother, home, comfort

Favourable Results

The native (the person whose chart it is) is virtuous, wealthy, generous, grave of temperament, patient, just, and free of vices. He is benevolent, devoted to the good of others. Because of journeys to foreign lands (videsha), he is often away from his home. The native earns his wealth through service (salaried employment), for excellent wealth-yogas (combinations that produce wealth) generally do not form for him through trade. He spends his wealth on founding or running large institutions. Such a native obtains gain and comfort even from his enemies (shatru). In illness and the like, bitter medicines benefit him. If Shani (Saturn, the slow, disciplinary, karmic graha) is exalted (ucca, at peak strength), he enjoys the comfort of mother, vehicles, and home, and he inherits ancestral property as well. In the closing days of his life, the native becomes fond of solitude and takes to renunciation, turning sannyasi (an ascetic who has renounced worldly life).

Unfavourable Results

The native is sorrowful, care-worn, indolent, quarrelsome, of bad conduct, unclean, devoid of comfort, and deceitful, and he keeps the company of wicked people. He suffers from vata disorders (ailments of the wind humour) and heart disease, and remains afflicted in body. In childhood he is sickly. He carries a fear of water. Such a native does not come into ancestral wealth, nor into immovable or movable property. Even among his brothers, kinsmen, and relatives, blame falls on him without cause. This trouble becomes a source of grief for his mother and father too, an inauspicious result. There is loss in the matter of cattle, vehicles, and the like. He is forced to leave his home and hearth. A yoga of two wives (dvibharya yoga, a combination indicating a second marriage) is formed. The moment the native turns adulterous, Shani produces still more inauspicious results. If Shani is retrograde (vakri), there follows the ruin of wife, sons, and servants as well. The native wanders from place to place, from door to door, destitute. Building a house or the like himself ruins his mother's health, and indeed even her longevity (ayu).