Saturn in Aries. We. Are. Here.

Saturn in Aries

Feb 13, 2026
4:11pm PST

May 24, 2025 Saturn enters Aries
July 12, 2025 Saturn retrograde (1° AR 56)
Sept 1, 2025 Saturn re-enters Pisces
Nov 27, 2025 Saturn stations direct (25° PI 09)
Feb 13, 2026 Saturn re-enters Aries
Feb 20, 2026 Saturn conjunct Neptune (00° Aries 45)

On February 13, Saturn re-enters Aries. Saturn dipped into Aries last year between May and September, so we’ve already had a preview. But now it is officially here for the long haul, staying put until 2028.

Saturn is not exactly on his best game in Aries. Or maybe better said, it is not his most comfortable arena. Saturn is disciplined. The timekeeper. The long-view strategist. Aries is hot. Immediate. Impatient.

Aries rushes. Saturn is patient. Aries hates delays. Saturn hates wasted time. They both want results, they just disagree on pacing. Big time disagree.

Fiery Aries has new projects, new missions, new mountains. Saturn says,"show me the plan."

Aries taps the inner warrior. Saturn is the inner CEO.

Can you feel the conundrum?

The classic analogy is one foot on the gas and one foot on the brake. I’ve been in those cabs.  They are the worst.

And yet Saturn in hot Aries may be exactly what the zodiac doctor ordered. Fire follows Water. Action follows emotion.

Whatever has been percolating during Saturn’s two-and-a-half-year tour through Pisces, all the processing, dissolving, forgiving, drifting, dreaming, now wants form. Now Saturn wants structure. Now Saturn wants movement.

Aries is the first sign of the zodiac. It signals beginnings. Not theoretical actual ones.

The last time Saturn moved through Aries was April 7, 1996 through June 9, 1998 and then October 25, 1998 through February 28, 1999.

What was happening in your life then?

How did responsibility show up? Were you forced to make swift, definitive decisions? How were you claiming self-agency? What era were you closing?

Themes from that time may echo now, not identical but a similarity. 

Some questions to consider during Saturn in Aries:

What work do you need to do to claim more independence?
Where are you wasting time?
What new endeavor needs a structured plan?
What emotional debris from the last two and a half years needs to be left behind?
Where are new paths opening?
How can discipline sharpen desire?
Where do you need to be a serious soldier?
What wisdom can older voices offer?
How are you maturing into fresh authority?
When is pause the actual power?

During Saturn in Pisces you may have been swimming in emotion, kindness, compassion, creative overflow, existential fog, humanitarian awareness. Now with Saturn in Aries those emotions do not disappear. They move into your bloods and beat through your heart felt action.  

At first the shift may feel different. Sharper. More direct.

Trust the difference.

And of course, because astrologers including me have been talking about it for years, Saturn does not get a clean entrance. On February 20 it immediately conjoins Neptune at zero Aries.

So no, we are not abandoning art, compassion, or ideals. Neptune is still in the room. But now the fog meets fire. And fire tends to move.

Swift action plans may emerge. Some ideal dissolves. Some new structure forms. Something ends. Something begins. Welcome to Saturn in Aries.