I wrote about Saturn into Aries last spring when he made a quick visit and gave us a preview. That post is HERE by sign.
Saturn governs reality/what makes reality DURABLE. Saturn rules time - sequence, aging, patience, cause and effect/karma. Saturn rules 'rules' and boundaries - limits that allow things to function, where one thing ends and another begins. Saturn rules consequences - what happens after a choice is made. Saturn rules responsibilities - what we must do once we have said yes.
So, there is free will here, but it is not limitless. There are parameters.
Saturn has gotten a bad rap as a punisher, but what he really does is REVEAL. Without Saturn - think about his rings symbolically holding things together - nothing lasts. Saturn is what remains after the enthusiasm of our other middle planet/Jupiter, has faded.
Saturn rules patriarchal structures (lineage, authority, hierarchy, tradition, the father) and can get a bad rap here, too, but he is not inherently oppressive. He can also be - rules applied fairly (why he is exalted in the sign of Libra), earned authority through competence, elders/fathers who protect instead of dominating and the structures that outlive/outlast us.
Wherever Saturn is in our chart we are being asked - what are you willing to take responsibility for OVER TIME?
This isn't about what excites us or inspires us. This is NOT WHAT WE OPPOSE. Not what feels meaningful in the moment. Saturn is what we will maintain, show up for, fix, live with the consequences of. Someone having a baby at their first Saturn return, somewhere around age 28-30, is a perfect example of Saturn in action, because that baby isn't going anywhere ... for a couple decades :) at least.
So, on February 13th, Saturn is going to return to Aries until April 2028.
Saturn will enter Aries and bump right into Neptune (exact to the second on the 20th). Saturn leaving Pisces and entering Aries with Neptune (the ruler of Pisces) is not the same as Saturn leaving Pisces cleanly. Saturn doesn't get to just close that Pisces door. Saturn brings Pisces RESIDUE with him.
Their immediate pow-wow means that - Saturn does not arrive as a clean/straight-up authority figure. "Father" is confused, absent, IDEOLOGICAL, virtual or dissolving. Responsibility arrives before clarity/before we are ready for it.
Keep in mind Saturn is going to define Neptune’s tone in Aries far more than Neptune defines Saturn in these first years. Without Saturn this would be a much bigger mess.
Saturn's mandate here (with Neptune) isn't just - grow up/take responsibility, although he always brings this kind of energy with him - it is more something like hey dude we don't know what we don't know, it is time to "act without certainly, build without guarantees, lead without a map". And since we are mostly in the soup already this is kind of the only way we are going to be able to do anything anyway.
This isn't some classic Saturn in Aries or Saturn-in-anything GRIT.
Where Pisces asked us to end, Aries now asks us to BEGIN, even when the fog hasn't lifted because here is Neptune! Even when the ending isn't clear and maybe hasn't even happened yet. Saturn doesn't usually leave Pisces WITH the ruler of Pisces!
Pisces has told us to - let it dissolve, mourn it, forgive it, release it. But Pisces is not efficient. So, endings are symbolic, emotional, energetic but NOT always logistical.
This is like the divorce where the two people are still living in the same house. So when Saturn moves into Aries, many of us are standing in this exact moment - the job hasn’t ended, but you know you’re no longer aligned, the relationship isn’t over, but you’ve emotionally exited, the role still exists, but your identity doesn’t fit with it anymore, the belief hasn’t been disproven, but you no longer believe it.
Maybe nothing has actually COLLAPSED. But nothing is quite alive either. And we aren't so much dragging dead weight with us as we are outgrowing it faster than it can dissolve.
And keep in mind - Aries doesn't wait for closure. Aries doesn't wait for anything. We think of Aries as leadership energy, but what Aries actually is, is FIRST. So, we can expect these firsts/these new beginnings to be MESSY.
One thing that is probably going to collapse pretty quickly is anything that even smells like a BORROWED IDENTIITY because Aries is our collective first house of selfhood. With Saturn here selfhood itself is under audit. Who are we when the script is dissolving faster than the words can come out of our mouths? What do we start when no one is telling us who to be?
This is Saturn saying, “You don’t get to disappear into the dream anymore (exist Pisces stage left). You also don’t get a fully formed role handed to you (enter Aries stage right).”
Saturn isn't just carrying this Neptunian fog/the history we have forgotten/can't see/don't want to really look at - but he is also answering to future-focused Mars in Aquarius. Last year Mars was in a fire sign when Saturn took his vacation in Aries, this year with Saturn MOVING IN, Mars is in FIXED AIR. And he is sharing the sign with powerful Pluto, so he/we are very kind of 'system-aware'. So, Mars wants to act, it's just his nature and Aquarius is a sign that is friendly to Mars which is a good thing, but the Aqua energy is requiring him to be smart/strategic/not take things too personally.
So, we have this new individual responsibility within collective consequence. An example would be we post something online - maybe something quick, even flippant, a call-out/a joke that lands sideways. We chose the words. We hit publish. We meant one thing. Then the post is screenshotted. Shared without context. It activates other people's fears/angers/ideologies. Our words become part of a larger conversation that we didn't intend to have.
So we have the individual responsibility - Saturn in Aries - what we said and why we said it. And then we get a collective consequence (answering to Mars in Aquarius) - how it circulates, escalates and gets used.
Saturn in Aries says we are responsible for not just our intention, but for what our intention IGNITES. And, once it's in the system, it's not ours anymore.
In my last post about Saturn in Aries, I wrote - the boy becomes a man, but maybe a better way to say this is something like - the initiator becomes accountable for what he sets into motion. Saturn isn't growing up a tough-guy - he is growing someone who is consequence aware. He isn't teaching obedience here as much as SELF-GOVERNANCE.
(Sometimes, people born with Saturn in Aries have fathers who haven't grown up/disappear early/bring the war home - so what is this saying about babies being born now and what situations they are coming into because that might tell us what we are looking at with collective circumstances. And this is making me think about the AI 'babies' being born, too.)
And how we work with this will not be static, will not always be through Aquarius - because Saturn will be answering to a planet (Mars) that moves way faster than he does. Mars changes signs every few weeks. 22 Aquarius is the starting gate, but we aren't going to stay here.
In my last post I also wrote - it's like we have the general answering to the soldier and now I would add the general is half-myth/half-ghost and the soldier must decide what's real. We can't fake authority when Saturn and Neptune sit together in the sign of identity. But the old guard AND our lalaland ideologies are probably going to try.
Expect KARMA to show up though - delayed consequences, moral responsibility rather than punishment, the long arc of choices we made under pressure (this can even be part-life/ancestral).
Those with early degree placements will likely be more personally impacted - Aries/Libra placements (identity accountability/projection), early Cancer/Capricorn (leadership within nurturing and non-nurturing structures/systems), early Sag and Leos may get responsibility arriving through opportunity and not so much the obstruction, and then the Aqua, Gemini and Libras early placements get the sextiles, so again opportunities to build something lasting but you have to do something with this to get it going.
Back with Part II when we will look at the ideological war part of this/fighting for what isn't real being careful to fight for and not against, etc and then we will get into the spiritual war which I think is actually real.
I hope something here is helpful. Back with the weekly.
xo all
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