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The Wheel Turns: Saturn and Neptune conjunct at Zero Aries

It was Heraclitus who noted in 500 b.c. that no one steps in the same river twice - you’ve changed since the last time your feet got wet, and the river itself isn’t the same. The original water has long flowed downstream.

As the Saturn Neptune conjunction approached I started to recognize a strange feeling within myself. At first I was slightly alarmed, because though the feeling was overall positive, an increase in energy, an increase in purpose, it also came with a corresponding decrease in concern for other people. Not that I actively was wishing harm on anyone but rather it was almost as if their worries and the things that mattered to them seemed to fade into the background. I love people, but I wondered a little bit if I was becoming a disanthrope.

But now I can see that it’s all of us that are changing. I can see that what is fading into the fog of memory is the conception of the world we all had prior to Feb 20, 2026.

This conjunction is so momentus, coming at the Zero Degree of Aries, that it seems almost hubristic to write about it, to attempt to contain it. But contain infinite energy is exactly what we are all here to do. Containing infinite energy for a finite duration is another way of describing what it means to incarnate here on Earth for our lifetime.

I have spent the last three years getting ready to contain it, and so have we all. Whatever we have been doing, has been in preparation for this.

The last time these two planets were conjunct was in 1989. I was 14 years old and I remember the fall of the Berlin Wall. Looking back now it seems almost unbelievable that an actual wall was built through the middle of Berlin which physically separated the freedom enjoying citizens of the West from the captured souls of the despotic totaltitarian East. How genuine was the joy on the faces of the youth who climbed atop the ramparts of the symbol of their oppression and began to take down the Wall, which had represented a false cap on the limits of their self expression, brick by brick? How lucky was I that I lived in the USA, a country with a government dedicated to the free flow of spirit and ideas?

Somehow Saturn conjunct Neptune was responsible.

Astrologers look back now and say with certainty, that yes, the fall of the Berlin Wall was, if not directly caused by, at least an expression of the Saturn Neptune conjunction that occured in Capricorn in the late 1980s. But it makes you think - what actually is a conjunction? It’s one of the beautiful parts of astrology that no one can really tell you. It means that the energies, the symbolic meaning attached to two Planets are somehow fused. When Saturn, the planet of Lessons, of Restriction, of Structure, of Disciple and Responsibility and Neptune, the planet of Dissolution, of Dreams, of Mysticism, of Music combine with each other, they become somehow more than themselves.

How Exactly Do they Combine?

Do they magnify each other? Not really, not the way you might think. Saturn isn’t somehow “more” Saturn, nor is Neptune “more” Neptune. And yet, something More is unleashed. Something is born out of their union. As below, so above. Their conjunction gives birth to a wave of energy which will be felt for years to come. Their conjunction results in the birth of something new. Just as a human child is clearly of both parents and yet also original and singular, a conjunction transcends it’s bare ingredients - especially when you consider where the act was consumated, at Aries Zero.

What then of the Child?

If we take from Saturn the clarifying force, and from Neptune the dissolving force, together they form a powerful lens, a crystal structure through which the dynamic expression of the Sign, in this case, Aries shines through. Historically, the resulting Spiritual Laser has had an era defining effect.

  • 1989, Capricorn, the Cold War Ends.
  • 1952, Libra, the Cold War Begins
  • 1917, Leo, Russian Revoluion
  • 1881, Taurus, Nietzsche Declares ‘God Is Dead’.
  • 1846 Aquarius, Marx, the Triumph of Materialism, discovery of Neptune
  • 1809 Sagittarius, Robert Fulton and the Steamboat
  • 1773 Virgo, The American Revolution

And what of 2026? It’s probably better to wait and see, but it’s hard not to think of the Epstein files. Saturn and Neptune conjunct at Aries Zero very much has ‘Jesus in the Temple’ energy. The disgust we all feel at revelations of rampant misconduct among our ruling elite calls to mind the outrage which made Jesus snap when he saw the money changers in his Father’s house. By what right do those with power wield it? Are not the people the source? By what means do the great and powerful become so?

In the first degree of Aries the symbolism has all the makings of a revolution. There was a world before Feb 20, 2026 and there will be a world after, but it won’t be the same. And neither will we.

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