When I set up your chart for home, it took me a while to find the problem - I just kept noticing Jupiter and Uranus hanging around Ascendant, which is exactly square natal Venus - and finally realized you meant natal Saturn and Neptune on two different angles. Same with the example below, where natal Saturn is 5°18' above Dsc and natal Neptune is 4°00' below, meaning that their midpoint is 0°39' from the angle (half of 1°18').
Honest answer: We don't have a handle on midpoint importance in return charts. I've been putting off looking at it until Mike gets it built into TMSA because (especially natal planets) it's a pain. I also haven't been very motivated, since the fundamentally simple return charts have become increasingly complicated already AND extremely accurate with what we have.
But, if I had to guess based on experiences with solar and lunar ingresses, I'd expect that it would focus your natal Saturn/Neptune effect narrowly on the band where the midpoint is tightly angular and you'd feel it more obviously than if the midpoint weren't there. Not much of an answer, but it's the best I've got outside the context of a specific chart.
So... let's bring it inside the bounds of your specific chart
You've done the most important thing of putting a benefic closely angular. Since I don't see Asc longitude, I don't know exactly how close Jupiter is to Nadir - I've been using 5'-10' when I'm trying to overcome something rough in the chart - but natal Jupiter gets a 100% and transiting Jupiter is the strongest transiting planet. Natally, your Jupiter is seconded by natal Mars (which conjoins) it, and then by Neptune. Two transiting benefics are foreground, and natally your Jupiter is strongest then three malefics next; and there is the Moon-Neptune opposition. Here's a simplified breakdown.
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Pl Longitude Lat Speed RA Decl Azi Alt PVL Ang G
Transiting Planets
Ju 17Ar27'27" 1S11 + 7'48" 40°27' 14N28 67°11' - 2°32' 2°45' 98% A
Ur 27Ar25'17" 0S19 + 1'48" 50°10' 18N 5 57°48' - 6° 4' 7°10' 87% A
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Ju 13Cn59'33" 0N33 +13' 8" 131°39' 18N31 339°48' -25°24' 126° 1' 100% N
Ma 12Cn31'20" 1N 9 +38'21" 130°18' 19N29 341°25' -24°48' 124°36' 98% N
Ne 1Li23'33" 1N43 + 0'27" 205°10' 8S36 261°53' - 3°58' 176° 0' 96% D
Sa 20Li22'52" 2N18 + 0'14" 223°40' 14S16 245° 2' + 4°49' 185°18' 92% D
Ve 22Ge43'13" 0N22 + 1°14' 109°19' 22N37 3° 9' -23°41' 82°53' 87% I
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Class 1 Aspects
tMo op tNe 2°38' 87% M
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tMo sq rMe 1°19' 97% M
tJu op rSa 2°33' 87% M
tUr op rSa 1°51' 93% M
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rMa co rJu 1°26' 96% M
My main question would be: How does it normally work when your natal Mars-Jupiter is angular? We all have slightly different typical experiences when natal aspects recur to the angles frequently throughout life. Do you have notes or memories on how it is when your Mars-Jupiter comes to an angle with Jupiter stronger?
Without your answer, and without needing to consider the Sa/Ne midpoint (but it wouldn't change what I say), I'd take this as a predominantly good year with some troubles, but mostly troubles from inside of you - not from the world. Things bubbling around, security issues (material and psychological), etc. My real question on how your natal Mars-Jupiter usually works is whether to regard this as an "fundamentally positive but ultimately afflicted Jupiter." For example, I do better with my closely Jupiter-Uranus angular alone (or in one of its two local co angularities with natal Sun) than to have it angular in a way that also emphasizes natal Mars-Neptune's aspect to Jupiter-Uranus: At the very least, I am more likely to do stupid things with money or have big ideas I don't get around to doing anything about if my Mars-Neptune is foreground and in aspect to my Jupiter-Uranus than if they aren't part of the picture.
So I think it would be overall good and also have masochistic or half-advertently self-tripping elements to it since the natal Jupiter is very closely foreground but with three natal malefics chasing close behind it.
Meanwhile... you're going to have an awesome year anyway when the whole scope of your life is examined because you have Pluto opposite your Sun this year, and only 0°02' wide in your SSR. This would be felt simply as a transit, then simply because it's that close in the SSR - and some areas you're looking would have it at least widely foreground, I think. This is the big context of the SSR! Your sense of who you are is being redefined, your basic direction may shift, you walk through new doors which close permanently behind you so that your life starts down a clearly different road with only future ahead, and not much past behind. The conjunction was one of the coolest things that ever happened to me and the square at least as interesting. The landscape inside and outside of you is changing significantly. I would want a forward looking chart, not one that brought my insecurities and doubts to the fore even as secondary themes.
Your SSR for home has transiting Jupiter 1°31' from Asc, Uranus 2°22' on the other side (Ju/Ur midpoint 0°26' from Asc) and Mercury 1°29' Nadir. It does have natal Saturn 0°53' from Dsc, though (closest angularity in the chart) and natal Neptune 1°00' from WP (pesky natal planets spoiling a perfectly lovely SSR!). With Moon's mundane square to natal Venus (which you don't keep at the other location), I'd be tempted to stay nearby, and then fret about that natal Saturn - then I'd probably head for the nearest place
transiting Jupiter was exactly rising. This is along a line from Long Island curving northwest across eastern New York to somewhere near Ottawa. - Oh, Ottawa was a great guess, since (using the central city coordinates) transiting Jupiter is 0°00' from Asc and Saturn is knocked farther away. You still get natal Neptune (0°07') so this might not be the perfect choice; but here's the angularity context:
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Pl Longitude Lat Speed RA Decl Azi Alt PVL Ang G
Transiting Planets
Ju 17Ar27'27" 1S11 + 7'48" 40°27' 14N28 69°10' + 0° 0' 360° 0' 100% A
Ur 27Ar25'17" 0S19 + 1'48" 50°10' 18N 5 59°45' - 3°25' 3°57' 96% A
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Ne 1Li23'33" 1N43 + 0'27" 205°10' 8S36 264° 1' - 6°12' 173°46' 100% Wa
Sa 20Li22'52" 2N18 + 0'14" 223°40' 14S16 246°59' + 2°14' 182°26' 98% D
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Class 1 Aspects
tMo op tNe 2°27' 88% M
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tJu op rSa 2°26' 89% M
tUr op rSa 1°31' 96% M
Not perfect but, man, that 0°00' looks pretty good and the foreground aspects are benefics to your Saturn.
Another really bold move: Dive as deep into Pluto opposite your Sun (actually, opposite your Sun-Uranus) as possible, consciously committing to a complete reframing of your universe. You'll have to travel farther for this. To play up the ecliptical 0°02' aspect, put them on the Zenith-Nadir (read ecliptically). This line runs from the southern coastal edge of South Carolina, up across many areas including right through the middle of Michigan and the upper peninsula (by eyeball, probably closer to Newberry or Munising than Mackinaw) running through Ontario just east of Lake Nipigon. For example, halfway between Auden and Kowkash. (Asc changes rapidly across short distances: e.g., you'd want somewhere halfway between Macleod and Jellicoe if you stayed on highway 11.) West of Bankfield a bit on the 11? Here's the interesting mix at Bankfield (Asc 4°36' Aries), where the strongest natal set is Sun-Uranus-Neptune - way different than the Saturn-Neptune:
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Pl Longitude Lat Speed RA Decl Azi Alt PVL Ang G
Transiting Planets
Pl 4Cp 3'28" 2S41 - 1'26" 301°52' 22S58 162°50' +15°37' 316°34' 100% Z
Su 4Cn 5'37" 0N 0 +57'17" 121°18' 20N20 342°49' -18°18' 131°48' 100% N
Ju 17Ar27'27" 1S11 + 7'48" 40°27' 14N28 60°25' - 5° 8' 5°54' 91% A
Ur 27Ar25'17" 0S19 + 1'48" 50°10' 18N 5 50°36' - 7°18' 9°24' 78% A
Ne 2Pi29'56" 1S15 - 0'40" 358°16' 2S 7 103°24' + 8°24' 351°22' 81% A
Mo 22Le27'35" 3N20 +11°52' 169°51' 8N 0 293°45' - 8°55' 170°17' 76% D
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Su 4Cn 5'37" 0S 0 +57'18" 121°18' 20N19 342°49' -18°18' 131°47' 100% N
Ur 3Cn52' 5" 0N31 + 3'40" 121°11' 20N52 343° 3' -17°47' 132°17' 100% N
Ne 1Li23'33" 1N43 + 0'27" 205°10' 8S36 255°52' + 0°38' 180°39' 100% D
Me 18Ge16'54" 0S13 + 1°47' 104°29' 22N34 359°26' -17°45' 91°46' 99% I
Sa 20Li22'52" 2N18 + 0'14" 223°40' 14S16 237°58' + 7° 5' 188°21' 82% D
Pl 1Le25'30" 10N10 + 1'45" 152°26' 22N13 315°44' - 6°13' 171° 8' 80% D
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Class 1 Aspects
tMo op tNe 1° 5' 98% M
tSu op tPl 0° 2'100%
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tMo co rPl 0°52' 99% M
tJu op rSa 2°26' 89% M
tUr op rSa 1° 4' 98% M
tNe op rPl 0°14'100% M
tPl op rSu 0° 2'100%
tPl op rUr 0°11'100%
tPl sq rNe 2°40' 86%
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rSu co rUr 0°14'100%
rSu sq rNe 2°42' 86%
rMe sq rNe 1° 7' 98% M
rUr sq rNe 2°29' 88%
Again, that would be a really bold move since opening yourself wide to whatever the universe might do to reinvent you (and committing from these aspects to powerfully feel all of it) is a bold move. Don't take it lightly. I do, however, offer it as another idea. The safer-and-sounder move is to go to Ottawa or somewhere that transiting Jupiter is equally strong IMHO.