# Saturn in Scorpio
Het Monster: Saturn in Scorpio Children with Saturn in Scorpio may have deeply suppressed emotions. Their need for self-control can create obstacles to close, intimate relationships with others. Alternatively, this may result in power struggles. Relationships are especially important: through communication, they learn to share and trust. They accept responsibility with emotional intensity and a strong sense of purpose.
Indubala. Planets in Signs. (Indian Tradition)
This sign is hostile to Saturn, which manifests as reckless, impulsive behavior, sarcastic speech, interest in the occult, and associations with impure people or immoral activities. Such individuals may be active, aggressive, and competitive; they may face fines, imprisonment, or hospitalization. Their lives are full of excitement. Sometimes they may depend on others, experience anxiety related to fire or weapons.
Pavel Globa. Planets in the Zodiac Signs
Saturn in Scorpio—in a water sign, in the house of Mars and Pluto—is a very interesting placement. A person’s system can only be developed after enduring prolonged extreme trials, as Mars and Pluto influence Saturn in this way. Serious and protracted challenges will always contribute to the formation of your life system. You often find yourself face-to-face with death or on the brink of significant loss. Your system of values is as if perceived by otherworldly forms of life, creating special criteria for moral and spiritual values.
In the best case, you may become an explorer of hidden circumstances, the most difficult places in life, certain abysses, the very underbelly of existence, extreme situations, and problem knots. You can be an excellent psychologist who understands the most unattractive and terrifying aspects of the human psyche. Generally, these are very strong people; no trials can break them, and they have a complete absence of fear. Perhaps you are capable of conducting research that penetrates to the very essence of the most difficult phenomena, even if such research threatens your life or leads to severe defeats. You must and will go through all the filth, burning it away and remaining unharmed. The most difficult trials cannot break you; more often, you seek them out yourself. You have no fear of anything and no forbidden topics that would not undergo thorough investigation.
These people are not intellectual in the conventional sense; here, clear, concrete research takes place. They often explore areas of life connected to death, necessarily passing through problems of the other world or even having contact with it. In the best case, you will never use the knowledge you have gained for evil, though you may be drawn to the study of magic, energy, death, and what is hidden and mysterious to others. If you are highly developed, you may be willing to renounce everything earthly for this purpose.
If Saturn is afflicted, this awareness is usually acquired after severe trials. Your system may be built on other intangible values. Earthly values lose their meaning, and you are ready to abandon them, perhaps constructing your system according to higher criteria, guided by eternal spiritual values. Moreover, your system often undergoes a stress test when confronted with the other world.
For your own development, you are capable of being strict with yourself, carefully studying and researching your flaws and complexes, and ruthlessly destroying them. In the worst case, this ruthlessness may be directed toward other people. Without finding a higher system of values, you may become a negativist and pessimist, losing faith that anything can be changed, fixating on grievances, becoming a destructive, vengeful fanatic. Such people destroy everything earthly because they believe it has no meaning. They seek, but simply cannot find a higher system of values; earthly matters do not suit them because they see no sense in them.
On this basis, fanatics and villains emerge. In general, for people with Saturn in Scorpio, the motto is: “What does not destroy me makes me stronger.” Thus, you test any life system for its strength and value. If a person rejects a system during their lifetime without trying it on themselves, and after living in various systems, they settle on one, you can be sure that the system is vital and strong.
In the best case, you are completely devoid of the fear of death and destruction, can be utterly fearless, and willing to go to any lengths to achieve your goals. Passing through death, through problems of the other world, through what others consider impossible, is entirely normal for you. You should remember that any severe trial can be anticipated and prevented from occurring, and if, under the pressure of malevolent Saturn, it is inevitable, try to perceive it as a blessing, as a lesson—then it will lose its destructive power.
Saturn in Scorpio teaches fearlessness, orientation toward higher values, and the destruction of everything outdated. In society, during the transit of Saturn through Scorpio, an extreme form of destructiveness may manifest, as well as the need for higher development. A merciless separation from the past must occur—everything that hinders development must be destroyed.
Het Monster. Planets in the Zodiac Signs
Danger of violent premature death (if Saturn is in the 8th house—from the bite of venomous animals). Tendency to infectious diseases. Inflammatory nature. Reckless actions. Unsuccessful travels. In general, a life full of anxieties. Responsibility and activity in matters, especially financial ones. With bad aspects, legal issues over inheritance, property division, etc. Cannot tolerate idlers and parasites. In work, they like to lecture others. They fight for the satisfaction of their ambitions and their authority. The means depend on the aspects. With bad aspects—resentment, scheming. In health, also constipation and sclerosis.
Catherine Aubier. Astrological Dictionary
Saturn restrains the expression of Scorpio’s instincts, especially in the sexual realm; this may lead to inhibition, a sense of dissatisfaction, and guilt. Such a person may also exhibit a passion for seeking occult and mysterious forces. Fanaticism is possible.
Avesalom Podvodny. Planets in the Zodiac Signs
Unprocessed Saturn gives Scorpio greater rigidity: in perception, expression, and subconscious programs. Here, the Gray Lizard phase is particularly prolonged and painful. Saturn also emphasizes Scorpio’s ruthlessness, both toward others and toward itself. When Saturn is defeated, neither the external nor the internal world satisfies the person completely, and it must be said, they have some grounds for this. It is very important here to avoid the edge of nihilism and understand that this position of Saturn actually signifies great responsibility for one’s behavior, particularly regarding attention in all situations. Saturn inhibits both perception and the expression of emotions, which flow only through a limited spectrum of narrow channels that are difficult to work through (hence emotional frustrations or emotional coldness). Instead, through the processed channels, Scorpio’s transforming influence flows powerfully and crudely.
Working through Saturn in Scorpio follows three directions. First, Saturnian Scorpio begins to understand that many restrictions are imposed either by themselves, their past, or society, but at least these are surmountable if they cultivate a sense of responsibility for their actions and energy. Second, they begin to value their limitations, realizing they have a karmic nature—organizing their life by preventing distractions. And third, they learn to channel strong energetic flows through their narrow but precisely directed channels, but at a high level (in psychoanalysis, this is called sublimation), thereby resolving the issue of self-expression and adequate influence on their environment.
Harmonious Saturn gives Scorpio a sense of responsibility and proportion, which they so need, but the limitations and problems described above remain, though in a mitigated form. During the working-through process, this position produces true magicians capable of deep and precise transformation of any reality, whether coarse or subtle.
Frances Sakoian. Planets in Signs
Responsibility, activity in financial matters (associations, companies, taxes, inheritances, insurance, etc.). Stubbornness in affairs. Seriousness bordering on melancholy. Self-overestimation leading to rigidity. Indifference to religion. As a rule, friends are older in age; friendship brings success. Possible disputes over inheritance or taxes; shared finances are often the subject of court proceedings that end in losses. In work, they enjoy lecturing. If taken to an extreme, they may gain a reputation as strict employers. They tolerate neither laziness nor idleness. They do not excuse lack of diligence in themselves or others. They are very energetic in achieving concrete successes. Success comes after difficulties. They take responsibility so seriously that it becomes a burden. They must learn to approach their duties calmly and methodically. Thoroughness, perseverance, decisiveness—qualities necessary for success. They love authority and are willing to fight for the satisfaction of their ambitions. In doing so, they may resort to improper means. If they are wronged, they are vindictive and may fanatically adhere to principles. Possible scheming, inability to forget old grievances, an instinctive need for revenge. Sad love experiences; death sudden and under mysterious circumstances. You simultaneously strive for and fear being open to others, for close emotional contact. It is not easy for you to trust others, to allow them to get to know you deeply, and as a result, you may experience difficulties in sexual life. You are constantly concerned with how to protect yourself and may be very secretive. An important task for you is to learn not to control yourself in personal relationships and to be completely open.
In terms of health—constipation, hemorrhoids, prolapse of the rectum, tissue hardening with age, sclerosis.
Planets in Signs: The Art of Forecasting. Semira and V. Vetas
Your serious attitude toward something quickly becomes tense and demanding: you tend to dig to the very core of things.
