Well, that's interesting.
Interview with Steven and Jodie Forrest. This has possibly the cheeriest take on Saturn in relationships that I ever saw. Especially with regards to The Dreaded Saturn Return!
"Saturn is such a great bugaboo with people who take a traditional approach to synastry - the greater malefic, the lord of solitude, the bringer of coldness and distance. This is very misleading. A critical observation about Saturn is that it is the planet of commitment. The ability to take a vow is utterly Saturnian, and if the relationship is going to become a marriage, or anything like that, it requires a commitment. I'm thinking of M. Scott Peck in The Road Less Traveled, in which he titled one of his chapters, "Love Is Not a Feeling." There is obviously some extremity in that - of course love is a feeling. But his point was that it is more than that. Love is a set of promises and commitments between two people, and those are very much in the domain of Saturn. I find that in long lasting relationships, it is fairly typical to find strong Saturn contacts. It gives that sobriety, and the ability to let the vow help you through the threadbare patches when you are not feeling love for each other. I find Saturn precious. Something I have observed in the practicalities of everyday astrological practice is that in the charts of younger people, say, before their Saturn return, if Saturn crosses Venus or reaches the 7th house by transit, it often correlates with a breakup. However, as people get older, often those same Saturn events correlate with a commitment or marriage. I'm
talking about a pattern here, and of course there are individual exceptions. I'm no fortuneteller. I wouldn't want anyone to presume that this is what it always means. But the patterns are there, and it does say something. When we get past the youthful "fools rush in where angels fear to tread" kind of love, and we know what we are getting into with another human being, Saturn comes in and steels our nerves and sobers us up and helps us make the promise."
This is pretty cheerful as well:
"Creative Prediction, as I call it, is not about saying that you've got transiting Saturn square your Venus and this is a great time to party. It is, rather, a means of finding positive value in any transit, progression, etc. The key to this is meaning. What is the meaning of transiting Saturn? If you believe that its only meaning is punishment, then you might as well stop reading now. Certainly, Saturn has its demanding side. It holds us accountable and places us up against limits. But, it also has the potential to help us build, construct and shape ourselves and our lives with conscious purpose.
Saturn's square to Venus is about reshaping love. The form can come with challenges, that's the most common expression of the square. But, these challenges are most likely to be fair, within your capacity to meet them and, thus, to strengthen Venus in your life. A more detailed description of how this might be done would come through the sign and house placements of Saturn and Venus, as well as other aspects
and chart factors."
