Saturn and Neptune Conjunction

It’s getting to be that time. The exact conjunction (of Neptune and Saturn) is on February 20th, but Saturn just moved into Aries yesterday—so now both planets are both at 0 degrees Aries (different minutes until exact conjunction)! Saturn/Neptune conjunctions happen every @36 years.

This adjusts the energy quite a bit. It’s going to become increasingly more focused, as it’s just the very beginning. Aries is all about starts and beginnings as the first sign of the zodiac, so that energy is “doubly” new-new.

With the Solar Eclipse at 28 Aquarius on February 17, we have the beginning of the Chinese zodiac of the Fire Horse year. Interestingly I’ve had an expert Chinese medicine shamanic astrologer say in a zoom call within my Chinese medicine community say that these energies began as early as Feb 4. I suppose, and it’s been my experience, that exact dates and times can conflict depending on your resource, but also that individual sensitivities differ. Since Mercury is swimming in Pisces, and will be going retrograde at the end of the month: we still have plenty of Pisces influence for a bit longer— despite the majors moving out. Yes, Mercury is currently in its pre-shadow retrograde.. Pisces is gonna continue with the themes of endings and undoings, and the lacking of clarity and concreteness—yet filled with divinity, boundlessness and inspirational capacity.

Side note: It’s so cool to notice that astrological events are becoming increasingly “common knowledge,” as they are being more talked about on all platforms. The social world is full of it. My recommendation is you always confirm dates locally with astrology software and with an ephemeris. Also, don’t follow the hype! Nothing is rarely as dramatic as it’s hyped up to be; and, no one’s nervous system deserves the constant activation. ♥️

Back to my point about Pisces energy still being strong despite these other beginning transits and massive (long-term energy) transitions.

If you look at the solar eclipse chart below for the 17th, you can see that the Node is still in Pisces and conjunct Venus with a nice trine to Jupiter at 15+ Cancer. This keeps that water energy flowing strongly for a bit longer.

Change is definitely underway, however—in multiple domains—and for the long haul with the planets of Neptune (Aries) and Pluto (Aquarius), for certain.

The nodes will be changing soon in July of 2026, so this eclipse is just a “touch” of that Aquarius “soon to be” nodal vibe change. Nodes change approximately every 2 years and influence the dominant trends of society. We have personal nodes linked to our birth charts and they return every 18 years approximately. There’s the nodal opposition every 9 years, too. (This is all linked to the birth chart).

Astrological changes, as you can see, are like waves that overlap. Influences are no more black and white than the temperatures of water in the ocean are not exactly hot or cold, as there’s many areas of influence across the landscape. Plus, you get the floaty bits of mixed temperatures on different body parts! Also, you are moving and swimming within it. Your senses respond differently than others (even right next to you) based on how your nervous system interacts with the environment.

Since it’s Valentine’s Day and all, I’m seeing extra hearts. The one below, however, is from a group I’m in, organized around seeing hearts in nature. This one is by Courtney Antonucci. I had asked her if I could share it and give her credit. The image brought me joy. She said “Yes.” She says she hopes the image brings more joy to others, too.

That’s just the thing, right. We want to spread peace and joy. We want to build up where it’s torn down. We want to provide salve to the injury, and prevent more injury!

But we are living in dramatically uncertain times—that, in itself, creates a bit of an on-going injury around safety and confidence.

Mud can be such a metaphor for our days as so much beauty exists within the slop of this “becoming,”

Even mud with some water mixed in can give a lovely reflection. You can still see the real things: the reflected things. (Don’t get me started on reality, let’s save that for another post.)

I am sending you all love from my heart to you and yours on this Valentine’s Day. If anything, can we please all just love each other more and more! That’s my wish! And, May all beings be free from suffering. ♥️

As always, check your local time zone for the timing of the full moon in your area.

When I was tapping into the energy of this upcoming full moon, I was given a picture in my mind of a person with a bright yellow moon crescent under their shoulder, catching it and clutching it (the said moon looks like a football). This person is running for that touchdown, or running like a “run for your life” energy, or a “run with your life,” energy. It’s a wholesale: ‘go all in for it’ kind of feeling. Hold nothing back. You need to claim-your-space-in-order-to survive-this-challenge kind of energy.

So let’s break that down.

In a full moon the Sun always opposes the Moon. It’s symbolic for illumination, realization, the culmination of the previous work. Astronomically, its when the Earth is directly between the Sun and the Moon. They are distant from one another when viewed 2-dimensionally (astrology), and that kind of makes it easier to differentiate. One body, the Sun, is on one side, and the other body, the moon, is on the other side. Human minds are notorious for confusing things. A singularity may become a plurality and overgeneralized or vice versa. This confusion is also a tool that can be worked with, but not the point of this post. The point of this paragraph, however, is to say that a Full Moon (in general) is a developed and packaged, ready-to-deliver message. That message is *your* football, or personal moon in this scenario. It relates to the collective moon, but it is not that.

Here’s a tiny bit more about perspective.

This distant view, one body on the one side and on the other side, the other body : the opposition. It allows for contrast and distinction, like the way subject and object are not confounded with each other. One can “see” “other,” via cognitive contrast. Aries and Libra are actually a continuum (the astrological pairing of opposites). That’s right, the two sides of the same coin are really a continuum. The Aries energy is the “individual” the “self” and the Libra energy is the “other” or “object.” Libra is often expressed as the sign for “balance.” It’s important when talking about the energy of Libra, though, to signal the fact that ‘balance’ is dynamic and not settled. Settled would be done and dead. BalancING is an act of FINDING and maintaining equilibrium against moving forces, pulls, movements in disorienting directions. Therefore, one ‘could’ say, Libra is inherently unbalanced, moving towards balance. That’s the running part of my mental picture. The individual is RUNNING (moving toward) the goal line.

Let’s talk about the “fast” energy in the astrological picture above and why the mental image probably has the character/person running. Pluto forms a trine (120 degree angle)with Uranus and they are both in Air signs: Aquarius and Gemini. That’s a lot of fast moving Air energy. Air energy is associated with mental activities, but it’s also a transitional element. From its origination, this was debated.

Anaximenes, a Pre-Socratic philosopher, identified air as the fundamental principle of the world, transforming into fire when heated and into water, earth, and rock as it cools. Diogenes Apolloniates also associated air with intelligence and soul, although some sources suggest his principle was a substance between air and fire. Aristophanes satirized these ideas in his play The Clouds, featuring Socrates praying to air.¹

Let’s return to the fact that air is not as slow as, say, Earth. Earth is much slower and more material–it’s all about the atoms. Air particles are generally smaller and lighter than solid matter. In gases, particles move freely and rapidly, often at higher speeds than particles in solids.

But why, astrologically (besides the elemental part of astrology), are these air planets acting “fast“? It’s the aspects. A trine is the fastest, and the sextile is bit more “productive.” I’d like to you to think of the metaphor of a bicycle gear. When you are going uphill, you want your gear to be on a “work harder” and “productive” setting. (The work *quite hard* gear is the square or 90 degree angle/aspect). A trine is like the “easy” gear. There’s little to no resistance: you can fly…..weeeeee

On top of that, both Uranus and Pluto are both making a sextile (60 degree angle) aspect to Neptune and Saturn. A sextile aspect is slightly more productive, as it’s considered to have less resistance than a square, but more anchoring ability than the trine. When you push the bike pedal down you are gonna have some resistance, but there’s gonna be moderate progress with each push–that’s the sextile.

Enough about the aspects, let’s recall our planetary environment.

Neptune and Saturn have been very busy sussing out “reality” and building “fantasy” and working on those themes (and will continue to) and I have mentioned in this post, and in this post, reaching that pinnacle point of their actual exact conjunction in Februrary 2026. The conjunction works differently than the opposition because it’s confused/merged/fused as to which is which (in the collective consciousness–and for the individual). Reread those posts, and you will see the themes. So, the “objects” in our consciousness dream are difficult to differentiate: are they real or are they false (illusory). Is this dream a pipe dream, or a vision for the future that’s possible with the right kind of focused effort or alignment (no effort)? That’s the kind of thing that happens when Saturn and Neptune co-join and start a new synodic cycle. They create a new project, so to speak. WE are in the process of that. The synodic cycle of Saturn and Neptune is roughly 36 years. This February, 2026 is the exact conjunction, which is its start of the new synodic cycle in Aries (same sign as this full moon!). That is, in approx 36 years, Saturn and Neptune will form another conjunction in another sign. In June 2061, according to my ephemeris, Saturn and Neptune will conjoin in Gemini.

But let’s look now at ‘just this’ full moon in Aries for the individual.

The Aries Full Moon has a lot of “breaking free” energy. It’s a person who is now having their emotions in their hands, their life force, their history’s soul-story: the moon. This person is now in control. They are not in control of anyone else though, nope, not at all. They have to break free from the past (which might include other people, see below addendum). They have to break free from the “losing game.” The stories they have been telling themselves have to change and become more individuated. The stories are no longer going to help them stay idle, stagnant, and keep them from growing and moving into more “unknowns,” aka the future. They must individuate themselves and get very clear on how they are a unique flame who has come to Earth to make their own way. Truly this is the universe’s invitation. I do find that there’s different degrees of “coming with kicking and screaming,” according to the soul, that is. The soul is the one (like the football) that is motivating (the moon) everyone to act according to their own path and trajectory. As we saw from the eclipse, our souls’ growth and development was reconfigured.

So run with that ball!!!! Run for your life. Get your clarity and your message, and start to see the spark of promise that will be enhanced and advanced in February 2026. There’s a dream that can be realized, that is what I am claiming. You do have the ability to differentiate ‘even more’ from your lineage, from the collective, from the soul’s habituation, and make your dreams cut from a new cloth.

I hope you had some fun reading here. I certainly enjoyed writing it.

Addendum:

There’s another theme (that is not small) that I did not write about that of which I will only make a quick mention. During this Full Moon, Venus will be in Virgo and still conjoining the South Node in the karmic past (this aspect is ‘active’ and current forming)— and this will be loosely opposing Saturn in Pisces. Old relationships are deconstructed, along with the sense of disillusionment around them. It’s part of the puzzle leading up to this newfound freedom for new ways of relating (Libra and Venus) to our values, and with company we keep!

Whatever you face and however you are living right now, may your heart be wrapped in love–becoming more You, every day. This life game is fun. Thanks for being here! Thanks for playing.

Source:

Air_(classical_element). (2025). Chemeurope.com.

https://www.chemeurope.com/en/encyclopedia/Air_%28classical_element%29.html