I had transiting Uranus, Saturn, Neptune and Venus conjunct Natal Saturn in Capricorn in the 3rd house during my Saturn return. I've had people ask me about this before. I actually didn't experience anything bad. This was one of the best periods of my life and the happiest. I had just made a major jump in career the year before and had gone back to a private liberal arts college to study writing (3rd house). My marriage was at it's absolute best time. I was volunteering at a place for runaway/throwaway teenage girls and doing well with that.

That time was a time of enormous peace and contentment for me. I wasn't aware of Saturn return then. I remember feeling like all the stars must be aligned for me because things were so good at that. It had actually been very good for me since a little less than nine years before that and would remain that way for two more years. That's when my life disintegrated into major chaos. My transiting Pluto and Sun was opposition my Pluto Moon and square my Chiron and Natal Pluto/Venus. Transiting Saturn went into my 4th house (the only natal thing there is my Chiron) and every conceivable thing about my sense of home and belonging was systematically destroyed and my soul hurt wasn't just activated, it was stomped on over the next six years. At the same time transiting Chiron is passing over Natal Uranus in my 10th house. Uranus had created havoc in my husband's job and that's what led to the entire chain of events that tore my world (and his) asunder.

For the two of us it wasn't our Saturn returns that were horrible, it was the years following that. I think for us, it had more to do with Saturn getting close to and eventually conjuncting our Chiron because he had the same thing happen with that when his world fell apart. After it passed his Chiron it crossed his Sun and finished him off for quite awhile. He went through every single major life stressor but one within two years and for someone who can't handle change and is OCD that is not a good thing. And once Saturn started in on him, it got me as well. I've always thought the moral of the story is that our happiness was built on an illusion (Neptune). Remember that Neptune was right there by my Saturn return when I was at the happiest stage of my life. What made us happiest was setting up our downfall. The great deceiver. We were content, but we were also complacent and Saturn won't tolerate that, nor will Pluto. If you don't figure it out on your own, they'll take care of it for you with no mercy whatsoever. That is exactly what happened to the two of us. Pluto came through for me and Saturn for him and between the two they burned all of those illusions to the ground, stomped all over our Chirons (which are both in Aquarius) and left us with nothing to start all over.

Sometimes I think that Saturn return is about setting up the circumstances where you'll be exposed for what isn't right even if it doesn't have the "return" effect at exactly the time of the return. At least that was the case for us. Even if this seems to be an easy time for you (in fact the best time), you might want to take a good, hard look at what's going on because if it's not sound, it will eventually fall down around your head.