Saturn conjunct Midheaven natal is also termed Saturn culminating. It means hard work and responsibility are your karmic destiny. You will most likely feel a strong sense of duty and will strive with determination to do something significant with your life.

Depending on other aspects to your Midheaven and any fixed star conjunctions, Saturn conjunct Midheaven can manifest as outstanding achievement and success in your career or loss and disappointment. Fate and your early environment play their part, especially the influence of your dominant parent. But any alignment of stars and planets gives a certain amount of potential and free will to rise above limitations.

Saturn rewards hard work, and if you feel burdened by karma, it can also be paid off in one lifetime. Sometimes this aspect can indicate delays in your career, but it can also mean that you are given great responsibility from an early age.

It is essential not to be too hard on yourself. Even with achievement and success, this aspect can attract criticism from your parents and the public, as well as notoriety. However, your relationships with superiors and the authorities should be mutually respectful because you share a common goal. Respect is something you want, and you should earn. People will come to you for advice, and you may be a teacher or mentor.

The following case illustrates the intense sense of responsibility when Saturn is conjunct the Midheaven. Jennifer and June Gibbons were identical twins born with this aspect at 0°38′ and 1°56′ respectively. They were known as “The Silent Twins” because they only communicated with each other. After being severely bullied at school, they began writing works of fiction, but turned to crime when they started experiencing criminal tendencies. They were both admitted to Broadmoor Hospital, where they were held for 11 years.

the girls had a longstanding agreement that if one died, the other must begin to speak and live a normal life. During their stay in the hospital, they began to believe that it was necessary for one of them to die, and after much discussion, Jennifer agreed to be the sacrifice. [The tragedy of a double life]

You can see how Jennifer’s tighter conjunction gave her a stronger sense of duty, and she ultimately made the sacrifice in March 1993. Jennifer could not be roused after they were transferred from Broadmoor to a clinic, and she was taken to the hospital, where she died of an acute heart condition soon after. Her system had no evidence of drugs or poison, and her death remains a mystery.

Saturn Conjunct Midheaven Transit

Saturn conjunct Midheaven transit is a time of culmination in your career or long-term goal. You will have some essential duties and responsibilities involving one of your parents. This is not necessarily negative for you, but some expectations may be involved.

You are reaping the reward of at least seven and possibly 14 years of striving. The more responsible you have been and the harder you have worked, the greater the achievement and recognition. Extra responsibilities, promotion, or demotion may require some sacrifice in your home or private life.

Circumstances may force a significant review of your goals and where you are heading with your career. But past efforts will still be rewarded. If this were the case, it would not be a loss or failure, but your experience and achievements would carry over into a new area of specialization in your career.

The most important thing to take from this transit is to take responsibility for your past, present, and future. Avoid procrastination if you know that something needs doing. This even applies to the simplest things, like making an important phone call or paying a bill.

However, when the Mid-heaven is directed to the Body of Saturn it stirs up the wrath and indignation of Princes, Magistrates, Officers, and great men against the Native; it subverts the Natives honour, his commands, the favours and Offices of trust he formerly had with and under the King or People; he performes his matters with remisnesse; he is stirred up to scurvie and ungodly actions; his Servants are sturdy; sometimes death happens by the sentence of a Judge; this is understood when a violent death was portended; if he be King or Prince, let him beware his Subjects rise not against him; a Landlord or Nobleman must take heed of his Tenants, they will conspire against him. [Christian Astrology, William Lilly, 1647, p.668-669.]

Saturn Conjunct Midheaven Celebrities

Celine Dion 0°06′, Bernadette Peters 0°08′, Emily Dickson 0°09′, Cecilia Bartoli 0°12′, Gene Wilder 0°14′, Uri Geller 0°15′, Jennifer Gibbons 0°38′, Athol Rusden 0°39′, Reinhard Heydrich 0°57′, Madeleine of Scotland 0°58′, Lucky Luciano 1°01′, John Hurt 1°02′, Ilse Koch 1°04′, Elizabeth II 1°07′, Paddy Ashdown 1°30′, Lord Byron 1°31′, Mary MacArthur 1°46′, Oliver Stone 1°51′, Karen Silkwood 1°54′, June Gibbons 1°56′, Rudy Giuliani 2°36′, Jeane Dixon 2°39′, John Frawley 2°49.