Ghost in the Machine said:
I know exactly what you mean by interest in the macabre and darkness. I really wonder if this is truly a universal thing for Saturnians in some way, though I'm sure it can be lesser or greater depending on the individual and other planets. However I am also a Martian. Mars is my primary ruler, Saturn is my co-ruler, hand in hand they make quite the destructive bunch and definitely feed into each other with my personality; I used to be quite immoral and negatively driven in terrible ways by their aspects when I was young and before I began freeing my soul.
Satan helped and guided me a lot to better my personality with these characteristics. I've had to force myself to change a lot about the kind of person I was and removed several interests and things I enjoyed that were virtually sociopathic that today I find disgusting and in disbelief that I ever held enjoyment in such. Used to do very terrible and cruel things that upon having corrected so much over the years, now brings me severe guilt, remorse and despair when I think back on them. It crushes my heart every time and I wish I could take it all back, I would give so much to, but what's done is done and even the akasha knows it. Anyways, those are problems and hangups for me to deal with, not you, but it goes to show how these planets affect us, both positively and negatively.
Some of these traits still hold though just as they are by my nature, but I always vent them at their worst upon the enemy nowadays. Mars leans towards violence, aggression, battle, blood, massacres.
We're actually quite similar in that regard, then. Mars is my chart ruler with Saturn retrograde lamentably conjunct my Ascendant. There's also, from what I read, an inclination towards cruelty by virtue of my Sun's placement. I do genuinely try to be amicable with others, but I'm extraordinarily quick to anger and have this strong, longing need to see people be punished for their wrongs. I do my best to channel this towards those who actually deserve it - like the enemy and absolute degenerates - but throughout my life it did worry me. I don't just want the punishment to fit the crime; I want the person who committed that crime to suffer so tremendously that they will always regret whatever it was they did. This feeling of mine is much more pronounced right now due to a current Pluto transit and the fact that I'm admittedly only just building myself out of a state of spiritual lowliness. Through my own faults I've allowed myself to degrade and become weak, thus I have less control over my intense emotions. I'll always feel intensely, which is something I like about myself, but I'd rather it be my own mind directing how I feel about a matter rather than my instinctual flashes of rage. I've never done anything excessive to anyone, thankfully; if anything I've always been too meek to react more when I should have, and I beat myself up for it now. That old self is gone now, and in the spirit of honesty, I'll take a version of me that reacts with excess than the one that didn't react at all. I just need to ensure that I don't slip up again and that I continue to mold who I am with a Satanic mindset in mind, so I can sublimate my Saturnian, Martian and Neptunian energies into something that allows me to accomplish much.
My chart's rather unfortunate in a number of ways. I used to get so angry feeling like I'm always getting the short end of the stick if I get any end of the stick at all; seeing my natal chart made me feel like this was just one of countless examples, 'til I realized that it was really my chart causing these things in my life and in my own self, and years of being left to astrological fate. I can do something about that now, and I'm a fool for not doing it sooner. Now, on some level, I enjoy what I see in my natal chart. There's a sense of pride in knowing I need to work harder to accomplish things. Harder work, sweeter fruit and what-have-you.
I still find fascinating interest in paintings or artist depictions of grotesque blood and gore and love the horror game Fran Bow for heavily emphasizing this aspect, and it's likely my Mars is responsible for this, but Saturn also seems to put in it's piece with this. I also get what you mean regarding Ironforge, though I was more drawn to hanging out in Duskwood, the Plague Lands and Tirisfall Glades, you could probably deduce I loved my Death Knight, hah.
Though when I played a lot of Minecraft back when I had the time for games, I always lived underground or would dig as deep as I could. I spent more time beneath the surface than anything., building vast dark underground chambers to call home. I always thought even if people shared the same planetary influences they would be more... different... but it seems we can be categorized under a general 'stereotype', which is kind of surprising. I suppose it depends on our strongest planets. If it wasn't for my Jupiter though additionally making me a very optimistic, positive and life-loving individual in spite of the two stronger malefic influences, I think I'd be far worse of a person.
I very much enjoy almost every aspect of Fran Bow's aesthetic for that reason. Grotesque really is the best way to put it. I also spent a lot of time in Duskwood specifically, and Undercity was arguably my favorite Horde city. I refuse to even consider playing WoW again given that Undercity is now gone and Teldrassil, my favorite Alliance zone, is destroyed. That whole "me getting the short end of the stick" thing, feeling like fate is just going out of its way to shit on
me in particular, I got that vibe again when they destroyed my favorite zones. Never mind I had that feeling my entire WoW experience because I loved Draenei, and someone at Blizz obviously had a hard-on for completely ignoring Draenei and then genociding them and making them look like incompetent weaklings whenever they
did get attention. Now my favorite zones are destroyed. Fuck them.
I think Venus does for me what Jupiter does for you, what with Venus chilling less than three degrees away from my Mars. I love ornate, beautiful, lightly things as much as I enjoy dark aesthetics. Silvermoon City ranked up there for me for that reason, as well as any beautifully forested regions. I'd spend a lot of time in Minecraft making temples and libraries in forest biomes, with the remainder of my time building hidden, underground shrines with a big Nether portal which would lead to another underground temple. Felt safe down there.
Out of curiousity, have you ever felt that the planetary days seem to empower the influence your planet's aspects have on you or even your elements? I can't say for certain but I swear on Saturdays, the day of Saturn, I'm far more reclusive, withdrawn, seeking dark interests (often listen to horror ambience) and sadistic. And on Sundays, day of the Sun, I'm far more aggressive, short-tempered and explosive, easily agitated, likely the Sun enforcing my fire element. I also notice on Mondays, day of the Moon, I'm much colder in bodily temperature, feel an uncomfortable 'wetness' to my soul, and though I have to manually manage my water element, it seems the day affects this to really raise it as the Moon rulers over water.
Just a thought.
I haven't noticed this myself, but this likely stems from me not being as advanced and sensitive to these energies, in addition to the placement of my Neptune. Not only am I prone to rapid emotional extremes in the first place, but it can be very difficult for me to really "know myself." I've always felt a sense of hazy confusion when trying to assess my emotional state and hunt for patterns. I'm pretty much always angry so that one's easy to pin down, but trying to define my personality and who I really am has always been particularly difficult. Prior to really digging deep into my natal chart, I'm not so sure I'd be able to answer many questions about who I am, what it is I feel and like to do, etc.. Lo and behold, Neptune retrograde forms a fairly tight hard aspect to my Mars. That was very discouraging when I first realized that, albeit eye-opening. I wouldn't be surprised at all though to learn that the days of the week affect me in a similar manner once I build myself to a higher level of spiritual self-awareness and ability. Neptune will hopefully prove useful in that endeavor as I learn to sublimate its bullshit.