SATURN-NEPTUNE: FOUNDATIONS, EMPIRES CRUMBLING, GETTING CREATIVE TO BUILD A BETTER WORLD

Walls, structures, and foundations are crumbling. This is because we’re in a Saturn-Neptune conjunction period. Saturn represents the foundations, boundaries, and structures. Neptune dissolves. Saturn-Neptune conjunction periods dissolve empires, walls, structures, boundaries, and faulty foundations.

Saturn-Neptune conjunctions happen roughly every 36 years. Some examples of previous Saturn-Neptune periods include the dissolving of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Soviet Union in 1989, the end of World War 1, the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917, and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. There was also a Saturn-Neptune conjunction period during the time of the American Revolutionary War when America absolved itself from British control fighting to rule its own land in the late 1700s dissolving that control and boundary. And, perhaps we’re currently seeing the fall of the American “empire.”

Saturn and Neptune have been in close encounters with each other since Saturn first moved into Pisces in March 2023 where Neptune had been since 2012. Saturn and Neptune have been in each other’s presence for a few years, now, and are inching closer and closer to an exact conjunction, especially, with Saturn now in Aries joining Neptune. Neptune first ingressed into Aries on March 29th, 2025, and Saturn moved there on May 24th, 2025. Their exact conjunction won’t take place until February 20, 2026, but we have been, and currently are in what’s known as a Saturn-Neptune conjunction period. This period will last until Saturn leaves Aries in 2028, so this includes several years of dissolving old structures, foundations, and boundaries that make up our world in order to create new ones.

When the exact conjunction happens in February 2026, it will be at 0 degrees of Aries. 0 degrees is the first degree and Aries is the first sign of the zodiac signifying new beginnings. 2026 ignites a whole new era that we’ve been leading up to over the last few years. Saturn-Neptune periods dissolve structures, boundaries, and divisions. These periods can feel more unstable because of this. While Saturn will revert back into Pisces in the fall 2025, it will mostly be in Aries until 2028. The next few years are likely to be full of more crumbling and instability.

Saturn-Neptune periods coincide with times of war as war is all about boundaries, borders, and divisions. Since the current Saturn-Neptune conjunction period began, we’ve seen the war on Ukraine heat up, Israel wanting to completely destroy and take over Gaza, and other violence and wars increase. And, now that Saturn and Neptune are in the sign of war, Aries, ruled by warrior, Mars, themes of war, conflict, strife, cutting, and separating (all Mars traits) are even more prominent, and, unfortunately, will continue to be.

As we know, you-know-who has been creating a war on the American people wanting to destroy democracy, the economy, healthcare, and human rights, as well as a war with the whole world with his war on immigration and trade, and being an example of fascism. The last time Neptune was in Aries was during the U.S. Civil War. Are we experiencing another civil war? It seems pretty evident with these multiple wars that have been initiated. There’s also a war on facts, truth, and science.

Richard Tarnas in his book, Cosmos and Psyche, points out major themes of Saturn-Neptune periods including the conflict between religion and science, truth versus illusion, faith-based beliefs verses science-based beliefs, criticism of religion, and skepticism of conspiracy theories, but also the tension between those who believe in fantastical theories and those who believe in facts. We’ve seen these themes brew over the years, and they will continue to heat up combined with the multiple wars that have been going on in the world for the last few years. It’s an intense time to be alive.

But, we have the power to change things…

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