SATURN IN ARIES: FOXFIRE, RESISTING OPPRESSION, BURNING AWAY WHAT ISN’T NECESSARY
Saturn moves into fiery, action-oriented, maverick Aries on February 13, 2026 where it will stay until 2028. We got a preview of Saturn in Aries last summer from May 24 until September 1st, 2025. What prominent themes, feelings, emotions, or events were present for you during that time? Saturn in Aries begins a new cycle in the Aries part of your chart. If you know your birth chart, you can look to the Aries house to identify the kinds of topics where you’ll be experiencing new beginnings in your life over the next few years. (Don’t know your birth chart? Then, I recommend booking an astrology reading and I would love to go over yours with you.)
Saturn is in its fall in Aries, and when a planet is in its “fall” or “detriment,” it indicates serious challenges and obstacles. We know more challenges are ahead, AND at the same time, Saturn in Aries could mean the FALL of oppressive leaders. Aries is leaders and leadership. The Sun is exalted in Aries, and the Sun also represents leaders, as well as celebrities, and kings/queens.
Our relationship to leaders and leadership is in the spotlight. This also applies to companies and the “heads” of corporations as Aries rules the head. Which companies are supporting fascism and socio-economic inequities and systemic oppression, and which aren’t? We will continue to divest from certain leaders and people in positions of power who are not meeting our needs or acting ethically. Mars, the ruler of Saturn in Aries, is all about cutting and separating.
Saturn in Aries can make us more discerning (a keyword for Saturn) about which leaders we support, but also inspire us to COMPLETELY re-imagine and re-do what leadership, business, and power mean. Get your punk rock playlist 🎸 ready because this is the fuel we’ll need to drive us forward into creating revolutionary changes for the people, by the people.
Saturn in Aries will pose great challenges, AND it is a great transit for resisting (another Saturn keyword) oppression and creating new paths that better serve humanity. Aries is all about creating something that hasn’t been done before, and we can use this creative energy to create the kind of world we want to live in and need to live in.
Saturn in Aries energy reminds me of one of my favorite movies, Foxfire, from 1996, during the period when Saturn was last in Aries. It’s one of Angelina Jolie’s (who has an Aries stellium) earliest films, and it’s written and directed by women filmed in Portland, Oregon. Foxfire revolves around nonbinary and women high schoolers who band together to fight sexual harassment and assault, and resist the oppressive authority and abuse in their life. It’s about the friendship and joy they find together in discovering their agency and power. It’s also about loneliness and struggle. It’s Saturn in Aries. Mars often represents sexual harassment, inappropriateness, and abuse. Saturn represents oppression struggle, and authority. Mars is a fighter and resists authority. Mars is agency and power. Saturn in Aries resists and fights oppressive authority and actions reclaiming its agency and exercising its power.
Foxfire from Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, is “a luminous fungus that causes decaying wood to glow.” Saturn represents decay and fungus. Aries, a fire sign where the Sun is exalted, represents luminosity and glow. Foxfire reminds us that the decay or falling away process can result in a glow, in light emerging from darkness. These women and gender expansive folks in Foxfire illuminated the shadows of authority and their experience, and glowed in the face of darkness.