I meant to post in this thread a while back. I'm another Scorpio rising, and Saturn has traipsed across my ascendant, and now I think it's headed back over it again during its retrograde period. To be honest, I haven't even figured out how exactly it's affecting me. I have had some "get my act together" stuff happening lately, but nothing major. Perhaps that's it?
I'm basically expecting that this transit will just bring to the fore all of the many ways that I don't "do" Saturn very well. Looking at Minderwiz's list, I'm reminded that I have trouble with Saturn things like diligence, persistance, and constructiveness, mostly in connection with my schooling and therefore career. Saturn is retrograde and weak in Cancer in my 9th house, so I guess that makes sense. I like to start projects, and don't like to finish them (I'm an INTP/INXP, if you're into the Myers-Briggs.)
Another major factor for me is that Saturn is trine my Mercury/Mars conjunction at 20-21 degrees Scorpio, so it will be hitting those planets soon as well, and I have a hard time separating what is about my ascendant and what is about them. I do have some of the analytical and thoughtfulness qualities from that list, and many would say I'm serious, somewhat of an autodidact, and very educational
to others. But if one could consider perfectionism and the resulting paralysis to be Saturnian, I'd say that's the main expression of its trine for me! I always read descriptions about how I'm supposed to be a very productive, ambitious type with this aspect configuration, and I always laugh. It's only since learning some traditional methods that explain my "weak" Saturn that I have begun to make sense of it.
One thing that could be connected to this transit: I did make my first ever major foreign travel trip in December (India!). Using Ben Dykes' method for profections, Saturn rules my yearly chart (Capricorn profected ascendant). It's also the chart ruler of my Solar Return chart for the year. With Saturn natally in my 9th, and then also transiting my ascendant, is that an emphasis of "foreign travel" for me? (And on a fun note, I did magically lose weight even while on that trip, while eating lots of "vacation foods." People sometimes say that can be an effect of Saturn in the 1st.
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So that was a lot of rambling about myself, sorry. I've just been reading so much about "scary Saturn in Scorpio," and yet I haven't really felt any dramatic energies so far. Maybe with the Scorpio energy that I already have, it's just not so scary for me?