A high-powered conjunction is coming up with Saturn and Neptune. The cycle that started in 1989 comes to an end and the next cycle begins with the conjunction in 2025–26. These conjunctions happen about every 36 years and the entire cycle represents how we manifest our collective ideals through religion, politics, society and culture. It tests how well our beliefs and visions work in reality and often coincides with periods of dissolution and profound change.
Neptune entered Aries 30 March 2025, and returned to Pisces on October 22th and then made its return to Aries in January 2026. Saturn moved into Aries on May 25, 2025 and returned to Pisces on September the 1st; finally moving back into Aries in the middle of February 2026.
Saturn and Neptune have been aligned in the early degrees during May 2025 and stayed in close proximity in Aries until September the 1st.
Saturn has to do with reality, focus, is serious in nature, disciplined, organised, structured and reliable. Saturn is driven by the conscious mind and is in tune with the material world and what the material world has to offer.
Neptune is illusive, mystical, spiritual, psychic, can be somewhat vague, can also be unreliable and often has to do with dreams, the meditative experience and is driven by the unconscious.
Neptune’s influence in Pisces for many years has been meandering, and when Saturn entered the picture, it was likely quite intense as it was about tidying things up, organizing, and creating rules and boundaries where none of these things have been in place. In fact, Neptune resisted these structures and boundaries for years while it visited the sign. So, Saturn’s transit may have felt particularly stark at times. At other times, we might have felt some relief that more clarity and realism entered the life departments presided over by Pisces in our charts.
But with Saturn and Neptune in Aries, we’re looking at completely different structures. Neptune will stick around much longer than Saturn, and in some ways, we won’t feel quite the same experience with both planets in the sign for the first couple of years.
So how will Saturn affect Neptune?
Saturn tends to create stability and will clarify exactly what the psychic realms mean on a personal basis, due to both planets being in Aries. Saturn will ask you if you are seeing things clearly as they are. Saturn wants you to focus. It will want you to ensure that you can depend on what you feel and see in front of you. Saturn wants a solid foundation and for things to work out over the long haul.
On the other hand, how will Neptune’s energy affect Saturn?
Neptune will ask Saturn to step out of its comfort zone and look at things from a different perspective. There will be a lot of “what-ifs” and will also tell Saturn to not be so serious and stop worrying about the outcome, because in fact we might not know the outcome. Neptune will ask Saturn to look inside for the answers and rely more on intuition and its senses.
Together Neptune and Saturn will mold with one another seeking out facts, reach for assistance from higher sources, gain understanding although at times things will be vague and perhaps misunderstood. Over time, things will solidify and make sense although turmoil will be a result until everything settles. All things taking hold under this influence will affect us on a personal level, likely causing anxiety and concern for those who tend to allow this. A part of us will hold on and even possibly martyr ourselves but we will gain wisdom because of the experience. Reality and the mystical will try to find solace in what is unfolding as they join forces, pushing towards the greater good for all concerned.
The houses in the astrology chart that are being enhanced by these two planetary links will define what areas of life are involved.
The final results will be tied to fluctuations and mistrust and at the same time an understanding that this will align itself and likely teach a lesson that will not be forgotten. How we confront this in our own personal terms, how we push for change that affects us, as well as the influence from those we are close to, will influence how this all works out.
Saturn and Neptune conjunction in Aries are unusual partners but with diligent efforts and concern for others in the coming months, our life events focused on the practical and merging with the mystical will be energised.
When Saturn and Neptune align, we tend to see these kinds of events:
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Utopian ideals in politics and culture
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Seeing through illusion and revelations of truth
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Death or loss of a dream or ideal
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Disillusionment with established structures or events
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Collective experiences of loss, depression, and grief
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Natural disasters involving water, earthquakes, and flooding
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Pollution, poisoning, epidemics of disease, addiction, and drug reactions
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Outpourings of compassion, sacrifice and aid to help those in need
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Loss of faith and/or renewal of faith and visionary spirituality
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New forms of culture in the arts, music and film that embody romanticism and transcendence
To get a feel for how this Saturn Neptune conjunction could manifest, let’s explore some examples from history. Weirdly, most of these conjunctions happened in March, with one in April and the current one breaking the pattern by falling in both July 2025 and February 2026.
28th March 1703
Saturn Neptune conjunction at 11° Aries conjunct the Sun and trine Pluto in Leo, while Uranus was in Cancer. It ran from April 1702 to April 1704.
This conjunction coincided with the War of Spanish Succession which started in 1701 when Charles II died without an heir. The war impacted several countries who were fighting over the balance of power in Europe. It spread to North America in 1702 where it was called Queen Anne’s War and the British colonists were fighting the French colonists. The Recruiting Act 1703 came into force in March in England forcing all able-bodied unemployed men to enlist and fight in America. The Act expired in February 1704 as this transit came to an end.
Over in Sweden the Great Northern War had started in 1700 where the young and inexperienced King Charles XII was seen as an easy target. He was opposed by Russia, Denmark, Poland, and Saxony, and although Charles surprised them by fighting back, Sweden lost and Russia increased its power. Meanwhile, Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg in Russia in 1703.
In Japan, 47 ronin avenged the death of their former master Asano Naganori by assassinating his enemy Kira Yoshinaka. A year earlier Naganori had been forced to commit ritual suicide, seppuku, for assaulting Yoshinaka after Yoshinaka had insulted him. Due to public support for the ronin’s actions they weren’t executed but were allowed to commit seppuku instead which was more honourable. This happened a week before the exact aspect on 20th March 1703!
The religious persecution of the Reformation continued in the south of France where nine Roman Catholics were massacred in a village called Sainte-Cecile-d’Andorge by a mob of more than 800 French Huguenot Protestants. This was followed by a reprisal a few weeks later against 47 Protestants in a nearby village. (47 again.)
The Great Storm of 1703 is regarded as one of the most extreme and destructive weather events in British history. On 26–27 November 1703, violent winds and massive waves battered southern England, Wales, and the North Sea, devastating towns, ports, and rural areas. Dozens of naval ships were wrecked or sunk, thousands of people lost their lives, and vast forests were uprooted, exposing how fragile early modern infrastructure was in the face of nature’s power. Beyond its historical impact, the storm also carries symbolic meaning. On a cosmic level, the period aligns with the Saturn–Neptune conjunction in Aries, an astrological signature often associated with the collapse of structures, collective shock, and large-scale chaotic events. Neptune is linked with the sea and storms, while Saturn represents limits and systems pushed to breaking point. The Great Storm became a stark reminder that human confidence in control can be illusory—and that every era faces its own trials before a new cycle begins.
21st March 1380
Saturn-Neptune conjunction at 21° Aries conjunct Venus, while Uranus was in Virgo trine Pluto in Taurus. It ran from April 1379 to March 1381, although Saturn dipped into Taurus from June to October 1380, and then again from February 1381. 21st March 1380 falls within one of the most unstable phases of the late Middle Ages, a time when Europe’s social, political, and spiritual structures were under severe strain. The aftermath of the Black Death continued to weigh heavily on populations, with recurring outbreaks of disease, food shortages, and widespread insecurity. Prolonged wars and internal conflicts between kingdoms and dynasties further weakened state systems, while large segments of society faced poverty and social marginalisation.
This conjunction coincided with the Hundred Years War between France and England that started in 1337 and didn’t end until 1453. During this transit France lost control of Brittany to the English. The war was fuelled by growing nationalism and feudal disputes over land and it brought many innovations in military technology and tactics. The chivalric code of conduct and idealisation of bravery reached its peak during the war and declined once it was over, fed by stories of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
Part of this war included an incident in the summer of 1380 when a Spanish-French fleet raided Gravesend in Kent where they looted and burned several towns in the south east of England. This was set in motion by John I who became King of Castile and Leon in the Iberian Peninsula in 1379. He was known for creating the Order of the Pigeon which had huge feasts where they ate pigeons.
There were also a couple of very young kings at this time. When Charles V of France died, he was succeeded by his 11-year-old son Charles VI. He was placed under the regency of his uncles who squandered the resources that the previous king had built. Over in Denmark, King Olaf II also became King of Norway in 1380 while only 9 years old. He had become king of Denmark at age 5 when his grandfather died and his mother ruled as regent.
Ottoman expansion in the Balkans and the gradual weakening of the Byzantine Empire reinforced the sense that an old geopolitical model was reaching its end. While 13 March 1380 is not marked by a single defining event, it symbolically belongs to a broader historical phase of disillusionment and restructuring of the world, in line with the archetypal themes of the Saturn–Neptune cycle.
Here’s a summary of the events seen during Saturn Neptune conjunctions in Aries:
Weak or young or inexperienced leaders
Religious war and religious persecution
Criticism of religious ideas.
Betrayal, backstabbing, revenge and mutiny
Contentious social reforms and fighting for citizen’s rights
Fighting for independence and sovereignty
Active religious movements helping the oppressed
New religious institutions and ideas.
