Saturn in 6th House in Cancer

This may be a soul in a process of emotional discernment, finding order in their emotional conditioning from early childhood and the way in which that echoes into daily life.  Understanding how our inner emotional landscape and our physiology are woven together may be of great focus for this soul.  This individual may give meticulous attention to the conditions of their inner world as a contributor to the programs that lead their daily life, routines and decision making regarding overall health and wellbeing.

Yes, and the simple daily rhythms and routines here are of essence. There is a learning to discipline a structural reality that continually tends to proper nourishment and care/ emotional wellness.

Where is the soul learning alignment? In what ways might we expect to see failure and the long journey of learning right action?

This soul may be learning alignment with how the internal emotional disposition influences our external physical decision making. To realize that our inner reality aligns with our outer reality.  Failure may manifest in this soul by way of challenges in their health.  They may be very conscious and active in tending to their well being through diet, exercise and many other forms of activities devoted to  what would be considered a healthy life style, yet If they neglect tending to the conditions of their emotions and don’t consider them as a contributing factor to health, they may experience continual challenges and limitations to what they are actually capable of. They may not thrive and feel misaligned as they do not see the interconnected design and layers of the human experience.

Excellent. The core of this is emotional health/ emotional well being - and this absolutely includes all of the things you mentioned. There can be an issue of creating emotional and health crisis by way of neglecting the necessary care. This soul is learning alignment in giving proper and ever-improving attention to what needs care and tending. An example of this, if this soul has a family, is improving the organization and stability of their parenting: are the kids fed, what are their eating and sleeping routines? Are there issues of neglect leading to emotional dysregulation etc? Where there is neglect this would lead to crisis, which is an essential thing to understand about the 6th house. Then it can become a life of constant management, cleaning up messes but never quite functional.

In their own life these same things would be of essence. The crisis here can be a feeling of being emotionally overwhelmed and  neglecting to give themselves proper care. Issues of avoidance by way of emotional overeating, not noticing the affect that too much sugar has on their emotions, all kinds of 6th house procrastination issues through the lens of Cancer: distract myself from my emotional state.

Saturn here is pushing this soul to embrace limits and discipline. The failures teach this soul that they have to put in ongoing effort to tend to and improve their wellbeing. Saturn in Cancer in general is also a matter of emotional maturity

What might shame look/feel like for this soul? What might the soul repress?

This soul may be dealing with early life conditioning from family, core beliefs, core imprints, society and culture of which created rules, constructs, judgements and an identity unauthentic to themselves. These limitations may influence their perceptions of where their strengths may or may not be. They may feel shame / guilt if they desire differently and may worry of being a disappoint. This could negatively effect their ability to provide service and execute tasks for others in an optimal way because they aren’t recognizing where their strengths truly lie or how their unique gifts could potentially shine. By repressing their unique skills / abilities and instead following some deeply embedded programs, they may experience further limitations and challenges that point to this misperception.

This could use some improvement. Shame here be an internal sense of inadequacy; imaging oneself to be a bad caretaker, bad parent, that their body is always a problem, that there is something inherently messed up/ unmanageable about them thus leading to a state of self-punishment and emotional neglect. They would repress their own emotions and instead try to keep it organized and all under wraps.

If this is a woman for example, it could be shame around their own moon cycles and how "dirty" or "messy" it is. Embarrassment about all things feminine. Always cleaning up and being "perfect" but repressing the natural feminine in the process.

Or a parent who has a child that is emotionally dysregulated and the parent might consider themself a failure because they can't "control" and adequately "care for" their child. In this case the inner judgment is rooted in a need for control and a discomfort relative to emotional chaos. The moon cycle, shifts in hormones, childen's emotional states etc are not to be controlled, but worked with, embraced.

Relative to social shame, this can express as the need to appear that everything is in order, but actually just repressed. An example would be punishing or suppressing a child that is crying or having a tantrum in public because it brings up embarrassment and inadequacy in the parent.

Another expression of all of this, there can be a deep sense of responsibility and guilt that keeps the soul in constant service. Always putting food on the table, cleaning the kitchen, vacuuming, seemingly tending to the details of home and nourishment - but to the point of being subservient to it. Constantly busy but in a self-defeating/ degrading kind of way. In this case there is too much of an emphasis on the Saturn "doing the right thing" but not necessarily the essence of care within it because there is a deeper shame and sense of inadequacy that the soul is compensating for by way of keeping busy all the time. They would be acclimated to living in crisis and constant stress. To let something slide would be to be a failure and not be responsible, so they are on top of all things constantly.

For example, if a child has a cold, they would immediately take them to the doctor and get a prescription for some medicine so the cold can go away. There would be a never ending list of tedious things that need tending to etc - but to a neurotic point and quite possibly totally unnecessary.

What are examples of boundaries and limitations that the soul must learn to respect and work with? How might discipline help with that?

1. They could be limited by dealing with some kind of inherent disability whether it be physical, mental or emotional and therefore effecting their capacity to provide service.

2. Limitations may be felt from obligations of the family lineage, expectations others would have because of name and or reputation. This could create a narrow path to what is expected of them. 

A strong contributing factor to their overall well-being would be to honestly see what programs are dictating, influencing and operating in their subconscious, creating how they orientate in their devoted service and day to day routines of life.

All that is a possibility and your last line is a great pointer for Saturn in the 6th in general. Boundaries and limits that this soul may be learning to respect would relate to anything that has to do with emotional regulation and the necessary daily routines/chores that are a part of maintaining a healthy emotional state. Diet, rest, tending to the body and the home, cleaning up. Giving attention to details and not rushing to get it all done. Noticing what happens when I eat this, or when I neglect the house etc.

The details are important, if this soul is working in the care proving field (such as nursing, or being a doula or midwife as an example), they need to train and practice and be thorough in learning how to properly provide care. It takes time, practice and discipline to learn this and all the various techniques this soul might learn. There can be morality issues for example if this soul is a care provider, or parent, but they are proving care that is sloppy and immature (such as just trying to get the problem to go away - 6th house avoidance - but not taking the time to diagnose the actual issues, or go slow and follow proper technique etc).

Describe how this soul might exemplify mastery of time and space?

Focusing on the the larger picture at play. By pulling in the polarity energy of 12th house Capricorn, developing and inner knowing with inner self reflection to personal preferences and strengthening awareness to personal tolerances that support creating their own boundaries.This may support this soul in setting limitations towards external opinions of others and conditions from the external world. Then they can truly master and align with there authentic path.Patience and an attitude that every day counts, every moment holds the energy that contributes to the whole.It is about effort rather then outcome. This will positively influence their inner emotional landscape and support bringing them closer to clarify their self identity and path of trajectory.

This is all true (though regarding the polarity, I don't entirely follow what you wrote. I'll address the polarity a bit more in my next post), but lets flesh out this mastery some more. As per the nature of the 6th house (apprenticeship) this soul is an apprentice to care and nourishment. They are ultimately here to learn mastery in tending to care. So if they are a healer, care provider, doctor, doula etc - all of those kinds of things, it means practice and training and repetition over a long period of time. Same if they are a parent. Tending to a life of care means cultivating greater and greater mastery in a growing toolbelt of skills and know how.

The mastery of time and space always equals not needing to repeat the same lesson over and over and over again but rather graduating to higher levels of learning that will strengthen the soul even more. So the lessons well learned here are the lessons around how to be responsive to the needs for caring, to be open to learning from mistakes, not skipping over details and being devotedly thorough in tending to what needs tending. Imagine an elder doula who trains women after having worked for 40 years and having tending to hundreds of birthing women. They have learned from a life of practice, and ideally, it happened because they allowed themselves to be an apprentice and to gradually cultivate mastery through ongoing life lessons and growth. They are not afraid to get dirty and to face complexities and challenges that will strengthen their ability to be responsive in providing the attention and care that is needed.

Really great job Ten - this is a really great effort considering that you coming at this for the first time. You got the essence, and I know my feedback will help it all land more for you. Thank you for your work.

Just a note on the Cap 12 polarity:

Can in the 12 is giving higher meaning and purpose to the structure and form. On the one hand a need to surrender to a system/structure that gives greater meaning to one's life. And on the other hand a dissolving of where the boundaries and rules have become a god in their own right.

Relative to Saturn in Cancer in the 6th his can speak to two things:

1, letting go of control. There can be a perfectionism and hyper attention to detail in one's providing of care and all things Cancer. Cap in the 12th invites a surrender to an already state of perfection; I can trust that life has me (Capricorn 21 = divine mother/father), I trust life and I don't need to control everything out of fear that something bad will happen, that it's all going to break down etc. If there are issues of shame or embarrassment, Cap 12 teaches to let go of judgment and consider there's nothing wrong with right now. Or if there are so many messes, Cap 12 is a state of heaven: referencing a structure of reality that is beyond time and space. This gives a much broader perspective where there may otherwise be too much narrowness.

2. Help in getting one's life together. In the case where we have the issue of neglect: not tending to one's life and avoiding one's responsibilities, this will naturally result in crisis and more and more things falling apart. The soul can feel like an inner mess, full of guilt, unworthy, inadequate. Why start? Why begin fixing anything? It's all so far gone? So Cap 12th is turning one's life over to a higher judge, something greater and beyond one's own narrow sense of control and judgment of inferiority. Cap 12 is a structure that serves forgiveness and a relationship to higher meaning. Things like AA for example.