The First Mystery of 2026

You can already kind of feel it, can’t you?

You may have seen on the internet that 2026 is supposed to be a momentus year astrologicaly with multiple outer planets changing signs all within a few months of each other.

The first change that we are expecting is going to set the stage for the rest, when Neptune moves into Aries on January 26th.

Neptune in Aries - What does it mean?

Such a fitting question.

What is Neptune, or rather what kind of energy does Neptune represent? It represents the ultimate mystery of existence itself, the question that lies behind every answer. Thinking too much about the laws of nature, the rules of logic and the conventions of society can start to constrict your worldview and Neptune is there to help dissolve all the certainty back into mystery and mysticicsm.

For the past 15 years Neptune has been in it’s home sign of Pisces and casting our minds back over this period we can see the softening and melting influence it has had. Social conventions have disssovled. Reality itself has dissolved. During this perioid we saw the rise of the “extremely online”, we saw Instagram explode and felt our attention moved from the physical world more and more into the digital one, into the virtual world, especially among the younger generations.

Politically we have seen dissolution of old world orders. Socially we have seen the dissolution of biological categories once thought to be largely unchangeable. The pandemic sent us all into our respective caves for a year and some of us never came out. Work from home went from a perk to what most of us expect to do 2 to 3 days a week.

Curtain Coming Down

And now it’s coming to an end.

Of course it will always be with us, in the form of a layer of psychic history that has now been sewn into the fabric of our customs. The beauty and the power of the slower planets comes from exactly their lingering presence. Neptune in Pisces has taken it’s time and changed the trajectory of civilization itself. This is how evolution works.

And now it’s time for something completely different.

During these next couple of weeks we are starting to feel the curtain coming down on our illusions. As Neptune moves through the final degrees of Pisces we may glimpse a clearing, we may be given over to moments of clarity as we let go of outdated fantasies in favor of what comes next.

The Mystery of Birth

The ultimate question which Neptune represents is - “Why is there something rather than nothing?” - but just a step beyond that is the question of where do babies come from? How does the Spring always come after the Winter? Where does the power of nature reside? What is it’s source?

Once we accept, as we must, that we live in physical world as an incarnated soul, the questions don’t cease, they proliferate. We have to seek shelter, where do we find food? Who are we? What is the spark which shines behind our eyes undimmed every morning?

If we consider Pisces to be the great undifferentiated ocean of cosmic mystery, then Aries is the seal’s head popping up over the waves. The first Sabian symbol is ‘A woman just risen from the sea; a seal is embracing her’.

It’s still a mystery, but one of the beautiful things about astrology is the way it gives mysteries names that don’t resolve them, but allow us to integrate them, to dance with them, to play with them. How does the Spring come after Winter? I don’t know exactly how, but I do know what it’s called. The Spring comes after Winter because of Aries. Aries is the First Sign, the Originator. The power of birth. The initiative, the initiation, the innate erupting power of a volcano. Aries is unpredictable and impulsive. Aries represents the Will in it’s purest form.

So what does Neptune moving into Aries mean? It means the planet of mysticism is going to be reborn. Neptune moving into Aries is an end of a long cyle, a beacon transformation and a time of rebirth. Neptune in Pisces is content to sit on the couch and dream. Neptune in Aries will be setting the couch on fire, and igniting the softened reality with the burning flame of the future. Aries Zero means the start of something new.

It’s almost time to get up.

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