posted March 24, 2016 06:05 PM            

As I got older in school, teachers kept repeating a similar pattern with me that essentially meant I could read books or write stories in class if I didn't ask questions or participate in class discussions. Even other kids noticed this (as they pointed it out when they got in trouble for reading, writing notes, etc). Though it's worth pointing out that my 3H Saturn is in a stellium with Pluto, sextile to another stellium (that includes Sag Mars-Uranus), so it's not just Saturn playing by itself.

I got in trouble for what I asked, no matter how innocent (nor did the faculty have a sense of humor when I was having fun, even when I backed it with well researched footnotes). There were few teachers who encouraged me (though one teacher, not of any school I went to, thought I should've been in a school for the gifted, and that my problem was that I was bored).

But I had no problem with learning or memorization. If anything, I remembered far too much. One amusing story is when I questioned the date in a textbook because an Iron Maiden song gave a different year. Of course the teacher (who was actually an unqualified teacher given a teaching job--letting the qualified teacher go--so he could continue to be a coach by Texas law) mocked me horribly for that, so I went and got books from both the school library and public library that agreed with Iron Maiden over the book (and that seems like a Saturn thing to do, especially spurred on by Sag fire with Mars-Uranus). After confronting the wannabe teacher I was sent to the office and the school library books were taken from me and never returned to the library (the librarian told me not to worry about it, she knew it wasn't my fault). Later, the multiple choice test written up by the coach had that particular date brought up that included the correct date and the incorrect date given in the textbook. I marked the correct date and it was the only one marked "wrong" on the test.

If there's any "negative" effect on me directly then it was I didn't realize how intelligent I was. When I was given tests to measure my IQ and academic ability, I figured I was about average but I wanted to be placed in "resource" which is in between normal and special ed (as that's where most of my friends usually were), so I breezed through it until it got harder, missing a few on purpose, and the rest being random (multiple choice, graded by a computer). I was as surprised as the counselor when the results came back that I was a borderline genius at college level (save math in which I was right where I was supposed to be). That blew my chances of getting put into "resource."

posted March 24, 2016 11:47 PM            

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Originally posted by MahaKali:
How would you describe this placement? If someone has Saturn here, does it mean that he/she will be less intelligent or?

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What sign is Mercury in? What aspects are there? What cusp is Gemini and Virgo at?

posted March 25, 2016 12:11 AM            

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Originally posted by MahaKali:
How would you describe this placement? If someone has Saturn here, does it mean that he/she will be less intelligent or?

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posted March 25, 2016 10:09 AM            

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Originally posted by LaceyLeigh:
Less intelligent? Not really. Being seen as less intelligent because of how quiet they are is a better possibility.

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True. I don't really like to associate Saturn as making one less intelligent because I would be really stupid if that were true (Merc-Saturn square).