...and so what boon does Saturn in Scorpio provide, you ask?

Honesty. Determination. Capacity to do what is needed.

Saturn in Scorpio can lend you the strength and determination needed to go deeply into yourself and come to grips with an important truth that you haven't felt ready to grapple with. Not only that, but in doing so harden your resolve to make the adjustments in your life and in your psyche necessary to accommodate those truths.

Scorpio has an intense focus. It can be very single minded in its expression of energy. Saturn is comfortable with that. It wants to see tangible results and wants those results to be lasting.

There is a stark quality to this combination. It can be very cut and dried. The paths it tends to choose are not necessarily complicated ones; they can feel dark and hard and barren. This can be daunting. It is meant to be. This energy combination is very much about stripping down to the crux. Where Scorpio can want to cut straight down to the bone in one deep unhesitating slash, Saturn - while no less hesitant - lends a slow, patient thoroughness to this process. How that will manifest for you depends very much on where it falls in your chart and what it aspects along the way.

Saturn is often "feared" for his "hard lessons", but i have found that Saturn mostly requires from us a willingness - a True and Honest willingness for sure - not always easy to come by, especially in the dark and shadowy territory Scorpio frequents. And while Saturn's tasks and lessons feel impossible, they also have that element of seeming so only until we truly embrace them fully and then take the first small unaided step on that long and daunting path. Then Saturn usually offers a helping hand - often in the form of a mentor or guide, or a logical sequence of steps and hoops that have been traveled by others many times before us.

Pay attention to your elders - however they might present themselves. Listen to the hints and clues they might have for you about whatever you are wrestling with. Saturn will often wear the guise of "grandparent" as much as he will wear the mantle of unbending authority. When we refuse to listen to the quieter messages, it often invites him to use less avoidable means.

And if you are needing some "relief" from the strictures Saturn is placing on you, look to the house opposite of where he falls by transit. Remember that there is an innate balance to the universe... nothing acts in isolation and everything moves together in a beautiful dance of give and take.

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