Saturn Enters Aries. May 24, 2025 8:35 pm PDT

 

Saturn.  Photo: NASA Cassini 

Saturn enters Aries

 

May 24, 2025

8:35pm PDT 

5/24: Saturn enters Aries

7/12:              Saturn station retrograde 2 Aries 10

9/1:                Saturn re-enters Pisces 

11/27:           Saturn station direct 25 Pisces 09

2/13/26:       Saturn re-enters Pisces 

2/16/26:       Saturn conjunct Neptune 00 Aries 46

 

And here we are.   Saturn enters Aries.  Another piece of the puzzle is put in place that makes 2025/26 an extraordinary astrological year.  

 

Every 29 years Saturn transits a sign and the last time it was in Aries was between April 7, 1996, through Jun 9, 1998.  Then after a retrograde it finalized its trip in Aries October 25, 1998 – Feb 28, 1999.   You may want to consider what was going on in your life at that time to see if there are any themes that might be repeated this year.   Or if the stuff that came then is not possible now (e.g. entering college, having a baby) can you pull wider and consider a bigger theme (maybe college or parenthood theme then is a new adventure in responsibility now)?   

 

Because Aries is the first sign of the zodiac and Pisces is the last sign, Saturn’s move into Aries will no doubt announce itself in some way to us as a release and or a goodbye.  Something may feel done, completed or just in need of a serious pause.  Saturn rules limitations, boundaries and Aries is new territory, new paths and independence.   Saturn leaving watery Pisces welcomes the heat of Aries.   “Enough with the tears, let’s get going.”   This is roughly a two and half/three-year process so we will be doing a lot with Saturn’s transit in Aries.    Saturn will retrograde in the summer and return to Pisces in fall which gives us an opportunity to reconnect with our intuitive and humanitarian compassionate self.   It will be our last touchstone to our inner mystic.  If we have pushed things too far in our Aries bravado, we may tweak it after the Saturn retrograde.   

 

Once Saturn enters Aries on May 24^th it will head for a conjunction with Neptune at zero Aries.   This conjunction will be felt long before its exact date of Feb 20, 2026.  In July it will get super close and despite a retrograde of both planets, they never get that far from each other even when they both return to Pisces.   

In some form or another we will see the themes of the conjunction revealed all year.   For a point of reference, previous conjunctions were: 

November 21, 1952, May 17 1953, July 21 1953 (Libra)

March 3, June 23, November 13 1989 (Capricorn) and our current one Feb 20, 2026 (Aries).   

 

 

What makes this conjunction of Saturn and Neptune different than the usual conjunctions is that it has only one exact date.   Which is interesting that we only get one bite of the apple.   But also, these two have not formed a conjunction at zero Aries at any time in the last five thousand years.   So, we have no historical references.   Gulp.  We may have only our intuition to guide us and perhaps that is why we spent March and April with Mercury and Venus going back and forth over zero Aries and late Pisces multiple times.  What did we learn about our intuition?   How did it sharpen up?   What is it telling us now?  What prompts did we feel about new beginnings?  Saturn at zero Aries is telling everyone, “I’ve brought my tools, let’s get to work.”  

  

I have been writing about Saturn/Neptune a lot for the last year, and last month’s Aries report I was very detailed.   Having said that I think it is good for readers to get other points of view on this extraordinary period.  Many astrologers have thoughtful takes on this period.  Astrologers like Jessica Adams and Lady Cazimi are worth reading.   S.J. Anderson is a mundane astrologer whose videos I always find thoughtful and deep plus he's likes to do it from different locations.  Go take a look at his video on Saturn in Aries.