Is low self-esteem a static characteristic? How low is low and how disabling would it have to be? Is it a situation where someone believes one or more aspect of their life or personality is doomed or poor or bad?
I’m thinking of my own chart and life. I agree with people saying some sort of Saturn and Saturian placement and aspect. I have Saturn on my DC and Mercury and Venus in Capricorn. My early life had me feeling so insecure or unsure and maybe that was low self-esteem. Over time I probably navigated my way around and around my first Saturn return I felt a huge shift of perception. My first SR was a mess but it was a benefit in the long run.
Maybe I’m unsure of what low self esteem is or, if one has other abilities to work on it, is it not something that can be eliminated or severely reduced? Or it comes and goes, as we feel unsure about ourselves or abilities from time to time?
It’s funny because at the end if this dialogue I wonder if I’m just a dumb dumb. But even if so, I guess it still doesn’t bother me.
@allie120 The questions you have raised are good/valid. I’ll try to answer them the best I can after just one coffee (need 2 to get me firing).
Our self esteem tends to fluctuate. Some people may have a strong genetic predisposition towards shyness/ low self esteem so it can be a life time struggle.
Yes, we can fortunately work on our self esteem. Achieving goals, living with integrity..etc can help raise and sustain it.
Sometimes we can have high self esteem in one area (eg our career), and low self esteem in another (eg love life).
It’s normal for our self perception to change overtime and be dependent on the situation/s we may find ourselves in.
Generally speaking, high self esteem for many, is a lifetime project.
Self esteem is basically how we feel about ourselves.
@hades-moon Thank you! I wondered if I had popped in with some tangent but I was really curious.
The self-esteem question is one that I don’t recall much until I was a little older, certainly not before my teens, if not my 20’s. What I mean is, I don’t remember it being a widely used, commonly used term.
Our self esteem tends to fluctuate.
For people like me, it changes every hour or so. 😉
I love this question. I suspect Saturn in the 2nd house in my case for the self-esteem issues I've been long dealing with plus lots of Virgo planets.
I’m very hard on myself which can easily translate to not accepting myself as I am or constantly trying to become a better person. I have struggled with self-worth issues all my life. Not very low self-esteem, but not very good/ balanced either. I think that 2nd house Scorpio Saturn didn’t give me peace at all, I felt constantly pushed to work on my inner system which I did quite obsessively (Saturn conjuncts Pluto in the 1st).
I used to be quite shy when I was very young. During the last few years, I’ve been through a lot of difficult situations that threatened my self-esteem or pushed me to rethink/ re-question how I define myself and my boundaries and made me build a stronger inner structure.
I’m not saying I don’t have my moments of struggling with self-esteem anymore, but it's less and I feel now that there is an anchor inside that doesn’t let me go too low or not as much as before.
My natal Saturn conjunct sun has contributed to a lack of confidence, low self esteem and finding compliments difficult to accept graciously. It improves with maturity