Mars conjunct Saturn in Capricorn is perfecting at 1:44 am Tuesday April 3 AEDT
With Saturn dignified and Mars exalted in Capricorn, the traditional view of these two being a difficult, negative or even malefic combination may well not apply. On that point, here’s an amplification of how Mars and Saturn in combination may manifest.
Images and Metaphors
– driving a car with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake

• banging your head against a brick wall

• a teen-ager arguing with a parent

• a military parade; a martial arts demonstration

• turtle beating the hare
  Negative Manifestations

• hard labour; doing it the hard way; stress, frustration, wear and tear

• self-defeating action; self sabotage; unconsciousness

• fear of taking action, of getting it wrong, making a mistake, failure or rejection;

paralysis of will, hesitancy; stop/start

• over or under assertion; explosion = anger, rage, violence ..

implosion = impotence, inadequacy, failure, resignation, breakdown ..

• blocked energy; impeded movement; delayed gratification; frustrated desire;

lack of progress or achievement
Positive Manifestations
– contained energy; bounded desire; voluntary restraint; appropriate caution

• structured-disciplined-focused action or movement

• considered-precise-intelligent-effective action

• long term strategy

• leadership, authority, responsibility, respect, wisdom, awareness

• good timing based on experience; ‘there’s a time to push forward and a time to retreat’

• ‘neither make haste nor postpone’; the ‘longest way around is the shortest way there’

• working smarter rather than harder; economy of movement; effort without stress

• ergonomic design

• energy conservation, sex without ejaculation, retention of semen

• patience, endurance, acceptance of what is, of how things are, of limits

• success in mature age; well earned success

• lasting achievement