Saturn in our natal chart represents a place where we can feel limited, painfully inadequate, fearful, or experience delays. But there is a purpose behind Saturn’s seemingly negative effect on our life: Saturn wants us to grow up, take responsibility, and develop our inner authority. If we are willing to face ourselves and do the work to overcome our fears, we develop the strength and power we wanted all along.
We have a page about Saturn if you want to learn more. I also highly recommend Liz Greene’s book Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil, which is the basis for a lot of my thoughts on Saturn.
Saturn in Scorpio in the Natal Chart
Core Conflict
Vulnerabilities
- fears or feelings of inadequacy around sexual expression
- fear of losing control or being rejected or violated within intimacy
- fascination with death & sex combined with fear or disgust
- a childhood without deep emotional contact or affection
- scars from emotional traumas or abuse
- a feeling of isolation with one’s pain
Defenses
- avoidance of emotional intimacy during sex
- promiscuity without real connection
- avoidance of sexuality through religious intolerance
- financial struggles with intimate partners (often as a proxy for intimacy struggles)
The Work
- work through childhood traumas & develop healthy trust and openness in emotional connections
- develop self-intimacy and deep knowledge of one’s unconscious
- pursue inner transformation and higher consciousness
Transformation
- mastery of the unconscious
- transformational relationships
- true union
- becoming an emotional midwife for others transformative processes
The Saturn Growth Journey
The Saturn journey involves a coupling of need and fear. There can be shyness, stiff awkwardness, and/or emotional coldness and a sense of inadequacy in an area where we badly want to feel confident and capable. And we just don’t. Where others experience ease, we struggle. Where others find things obvious, we have to painstakingly puzzle things out. Where others dance, we stumble. That’s just the way Saturn feels.
If we can’t face our pain, we can end up projecting our unowned negative qualities onto others, or trying to satisfy emotional needs with physical ones and replacing inner work with outer achievement. We look outside ourselves for what we need to develop within ourselves.
Eventually, we realize there is no shortcut. The only way to our goal is to just do the work, by ourselves, for as long as it takes.
