In the final days now of this SSR before it gives way to the next one...
Let's take a look back and see how things all played out.
The "deep, powerful feelings" of r. Venus and t. Moon both foreground and conjunct has certainly been accurate, and them both showing up on IC has been rather accurate as well: I've consistently found planets on the IC (in return charts and via transits) to manifest strongly, but privately, where I'm feeling their effects quite a lot, but I don't think that most of it is obvious to others or in the outer world of my life. This year, the emotions have flowed freely, easily, without being pent up for the most part, and, particularly during a progressed Moon-Venus aspect that passed by within the last few months, I've been struck by (and freely channeled) feelings of generalized, outward-directed love that needed no particular target. "Wonderful and miserable" has characterized a lot of the emotional experience. Not Neptunian at all in the sense that I am familiar with Moon-Neptune emotionality. (I know Neptune isn't directly involved in this SSR, but it's my natal context.)
The focus on IC has really led me to pay much more attention to my inner patterns of relationship and emotional expectations around myself and others, as the primary field of manifestation for the Venus/Moon conjunction has been my private world represented by the IC. I've been very introspective about the whole thing. Lots of philosophizing, meditating on it, sitting and feeling it.
Transiting Mars foreground on Asc (or square MC in longitude on the EP side) has, by itself, described much of the year for me: it's been really hectic, pushing me into combative states without really thinking about it; I've been really fiery at my current job (which I'm now leaving) for pretty much the entire year, contesting others quite liberally and confidently - which, as I read it, strikes me as something that is
definitely not typical of me in most years! I do think that Mars on Asc/"EP" specifically is rather descriptive: I have
felt provoked by others, but I'm very cognizant that I'm the one who has been doing the fighting in most cases.
That Mars-Venus square feels a lot to me like the response I've gotten to my emotional openness: all of it has been generally intense, and for the most part, I've elicited a strong response in those who I've shared with. "Harsh" isn't the right word for the response; it wasn't Saturn; but it was decidedly non-Venusian (Venereal?), and Mars feels quite right for it. As I think about it, I think the most appropriate word is "blunt."
This aspect didn't manifest as sex, but I did have some surprising and unexpected flirtation (most of it pretty physical) with the opposite sex.
Transiting Uranus on Dsc has been surprisingly internal for me. For most of the year, my life
wasn't throwing unexpected curveballs at me; instead, I was
craving freedom, release, and renewal, and pursuing it passionately. My relationships evolved, and, consistent with Uranus, the central factor in that evolution has been emphasized self-determination and room to move freely for all parties. There has been very little internal or external resistance in that, though; all of it has fit into the natural context of "we're all getting older and redefining our patterns and boundaries." Despite the fact that I and some close friends are near the peak of our Saturn Returns, I've found this sort of thing to occur even with younger friends who aren't close to that threshold yet. In short - Uranus on Dsc has felt mostly internalized, and has gone so smoothly that it hasn't felt much like Uranus despite checking the boxes (perhaps
because I internalized it so much).
Still, old patterns have definitely failed, and I've worked to replace them.
Hard to call the Venus-Uranus partile trine. It
feels right, as an aspect present for the year, but I am having trouble identifying specifically why it feels that way.
I just realized - maybe this is why Uranus's manifestation has been so "gentle" this year!
I do also think that my suddenly getting a new job at the end of the year is the final outward hurrah of this placement at the tail end of this SSR's story, supported by transits, progs, and lunars.
The Moon-Uranus mundane square seems to have manifested quite well, but not in the ways I was expecting. I was visualizing, alongside foreground Uranus, lots of outer life upheaval, but this was not the case.
The "emotional excitement" certainly applies to most of the year for me at work, in the broader context of Mars pushing all of my buttons and rousing me into combat mode. I've definitely responded better to variety than in previous years. "Time of change" seems to have been mostly internal, and mostly in the context of that Pluto conjunction to natal Mercury that has been within 1* nearly every time I've checked it all year (and is so in the SSR as well): the way I think of myself and of my life has totally changed. Emotional stress is certainly true! I think we can say that extra creativity has also been present, mostly in my programming ventures.
That Saturn conjunction to natal Sun has been
killing me all year long, although I can add some observations on top of that: first, I have grown quite a lot under it, and "way more work than I can possibly handle" is now a life state that I understand and can navigate much better than before. Secondly, it's still not as severe in the SSR as it was as an active transit, when I got sick as a dog and had the largest, most daunting and disheartening programming assignment I've ever worked on, coupled with a crap ton of other time-sensitive things that all had to be done at the same time. The rest of the year had bursts of that, but not encompassing so much of my deeper personal goals and definitely not making me as ill as that. Finally, while my health has only been a bit worse than usual, a defining factor for much of this year has been the incredible mind-body-spirit exhaustion I've experienced, and which I attribute to this aspect/transit; much worse than any other time in my life. I've mostly recovered from it, but it lasted for months and months.
Observable outer progress has taken all year, but it has indeed taken place, by virtue of the hard work I've put in during the year; seems to justify the mixture of Mars, Uranus, and Sun/Saturn/Jupiter indicators.
I think the Neptune transit to natal Dsc has been on point as well, and I think I understand it better now than when I made this thread a year ago. I've generally just had a hard time reading people and figuring out where I stand, and have found myself ruminating myself into the wrong conclusion more than in recent years, though it hasn't been year-defining by itself.
I wish I wasn't so sick! 
