Saturn is a slow and ponderous planet at best and its four and a half months of retrograde motion can make upsets and delays a common part of life. Time-consuming, unfinished affairs can appear unexpectedly and interfere with your normal routine, adding extra responsibilities, commitments, and time-wasters. Expectations of progress may have to be temporarily revised. This is not the time to make bold new strides or start experimental projects. Instead, this is the time to re-evaluate and underpin that which already exists. Saturn retrograde can expose limiting and unproductive mechanisms that exist within, as well as those that exist in your environment. This can, in the long term, help you in optimising your life.