Saturn Neptune Conjunction - Feb 20. It is a big one

 

Saturn & Neptune Conjunction 

 

Feb 20, 2026

8:53am PST

00 Aries 45 

 

I don’t think I can say much about this aspect that I haven’t already said in previous write ups.  This has been on astrologers’ radar for many years.    

 

Saturn and Neptune get together roughly every 36 years and usually there are couple exact dates.  Going back a two hundred years the dates are:

1989 (CAP)

1952-1953) (LIB)

1917-1918 (LEO)

 

1881-1883 (TAU)

1846 (AQ)

1809-1810 (SAG)

 

In the case of our 2026 conjunction, it is only one exact hit.  Obviously, this is not about that one date, it is an influence that carries a punch and ripples out.  There are many astrologers who have gone long on the history but no one more than Chris Brennan & Nick Degan Best who recently gave a master class  Saturn/Neptune in world history.   If you want a good background watch their video.  You can fly from LA to Dublin and listen to them the whole way, it is that long.   But more to the point you can grab the time stamps and pick and choose which event you want more data.  

 

For a shorthand (which I have covered over the last year) 1989 is the fall of Berlin Wall and collapse of USSR.   In 1953 Senator Joe McCarthy “Red” USA scare #2 and witch hunt (there’s that theme again).  1917 was the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and Red Scare #1 in USA.  In 1846 the Discovery of Neptune along with the Irish potato famine and Lenin’s writing of the Communist Manifesto.   In 1809 Spanish empire started to crumble thanks to Simon Bolivar in Venezuela (curious how that theme is up again) and it was peak war powering by Napoleon who was trying to design a new Europe that was long on France.   That did not work out so well for Napoleon or Communism.   

 

What does this all mean for our 2026 Saturn Neptune?  Only a fool would say with exactitude.  One, it is Neptune who is foggy and fuzzy and all that is seeing is not necessarily to be believed.  Two, our Saturn Neptune conjunction is at Zero Aries which is the very beginning of the zodiac.  This has only happened once (that we can calculate) and that was 4700 BC. Unless we are switching back to hunters and gatherers, I’m not sure what that era has in common with us now.  

 

However, we can say that something is going to dissolve and break down, and something will be building up.   Will it be based on illusions and grandeurs in certain people’s heads?   Maybe.   Will it be an ideal that people want to join and make a reality?  Maybe.   Will it be so secretive we have no idea what is happening?     Back to Chris Brennan for another (short) video, Yes.  Will it feel fiery?  Yes.  Will it tap independence and new beginnings?   Yes.   As it ripples out, we will see the themes, and we will be able to tie them back to this Saturn conjunct Neptune at Zero Aries.    

 

I think for us humans living through this Saturn/Neptune conjunction we should look at the house that contains ZERO Aries for some important clues.   I will go personal.   I was an adult in only one previous Saturn and Neptune conjunction and that was 1989.  The conjunction was in my 10^th house of career near my natal Mercury in Capricorn.    My job had started in 1981 with one company, and I had pivoted to freelancing and worked steady for the next nine years.   I took a break to try something different in the mid80s but then returned to my old job since the money was better.   In 1989 I started to feel very dissatisfied. The job did not line up with my creative desires, it was loaded with stress, and I could feel a wall coming into view.   I wanted to write.    A seed got planted with the conjunction so close to my Mercury.  By the time Saturn moved into Aquarius I left the job and was only focused on writing.   My trust as a freelancer gave me the confidence to get out there, along with my work colleagues and community who were kind enough to help me. Did it happen right away?  No.   But did something get planted?  Yes. Neptune worked with Saturn and got me where I needed to go.  I encourage everyone to look at zero Aries in your chart and see if something emerges this year that gets you ‘going.’ When it manifests, is hard to tell but I would trust that something is germinating.   Give it a beat and see how it plays out.  

 

In the meantime, god speed to all of us as we ride this new Saturn/Neptune Zero Aries era.