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Name : Prison
Planet : Saturn
Sign : Pisces
Medieval: Saturn (D)/Pisces
Agrippa: Saturn/Capricorn
Valence: Moderately bad
Time: Years
Day: Nocturnal
Element: Earth
Gender: Feminine
Humor: Melancholy
Numbers: 10 o p q r s
Stability : Both
Direction : Both

Carcer means "prison, bondage" and suggests delays, restrictions, or confinement. Carcer's connection with Saturn implies that the querent with be confronted by reality and the laws of the external world. Carcer often shows a learning experience. Generally unfavorable but favorable for questions involving stability or security. Good for contracts and mortgages …. As a Judge, Saturn-ruled Carcer means something will be made real ("real-ized") or made manifest on the physical plane; the querent will get just what he or she has earned.

Ascendant - Evil except to fortify a place.
Second House - Good in Saturnine questions; else evil.
Third House - Evil.
Fourth House - Good only for melancholy.
Fifth House - Receive a letter within three days. Evil.
Sixth House - Very evil.
Seventh House - Evil.
Eighth House - Very evil.
Ninth House - Evil in all.
Tenth House - Evil save for hidden treasure.
Eleventh House - Much anxiety.
Twelfth House - Rather good.

If you obtain Carcer as an answer to a relationship question: loneliness might be visiting your life for some time, or a relationship might be stuck in first gear due to obstacles, difficulty to communicate or psychological inability to relate. You might be experiencing mental block, inhibition, feeling excluded like you don't belong anywhere. If you already have a partner, you might be plagued by this bitter "together-but-alone" feeling, living with a man who is unable or refuses to communicate. Do not feed this pessimism; let it run through you, but do not grant it too much importance. And try to bond with someone: an animal, a child, an elderly person, somebody who might need you a little--or a lot. This will be a step towards reestablishing normal communication between you and the world.
 

If you obtain Carcer as an answer to a professional question, it announces a period of professional tedium and gnawing demotivation: maybe you are stuck in a thankless job, without appreciation or promotion. You may doubt your usefulness, feel frustrated for not using your skills and letting your creative juices rot. Or you might have to put up with a dictatorial, rigid boss who stifles you and denies you initiative; or be caught in the giant red tape web of a mammoth bureaucracy. In any case, you still can use this difficult time for introspection and putting yourself into question professionally. Draw another figure for advice.

If you obtain Carcer as an answer to a spiritual question: constraints and obstacles can help you understand the nature of what keeps you from realizing your full potential. Pressure builds strength, and lava would not have such an eruptive power without the rocks blocking its way. If you work at redefining yourself during this crossing of the desert, you will find in yourself news powers you did not know you had .