Neptune and Saturn in Aries - at the edge of a New Era.

Here we are, my wild hearts, at the beginning of a new era…

There are seasons in astrology that whisper, and there are seasons that arrive like a tide turning under your feet.

Neptune re-entering Aries on Jan 26 was one of those moments. Subtle in appearance but immense in consequence. A shift in the dream-body of humanity and recalibration of how spirit moves through our will, identity, courage, desire.

Neptune first entered Aries on March 30, 2025, offering a preview of this new era, a kind of spiritual overture, a first breath of what is coming. It moved back into Pisces later in 2025, inviting further integration and completion, before fully committing to Aries on January 26th, 2026, where it will remain until 2039.

So yes… this is a long initiation, a generational passage, soul-era shift for humanity..

Neptune last traveled through Aries from 1861 to 1875, a period marked by collective upheaval and wars over identity and sovereignty, spiritual awakenings braided with deep illusion, the collapse of old orders, birth of new narratives about freedom, individuality.

Humanity was wrestling, painfully and visibly, with the question of who gets to exist fully, who gets to claim agency.

Before that, Neptune moved through Aries in the late 1600s, another era of spiritual revolution, religious fracture, philosophical rebellion, and redefinition of authority. Each time Neptune enters Aries, something in the collective psyche is reborn through fire, courage, and longing.

And now… here you are, alive for this one, breathing inside this threshold.

Neptune, the planet of dreams, mysticism, compassion, illusion, transcendence, and collective consciousness, moving into Aries, the archetype of initiation, identity, desire, instinct, raw life force. Spirit meets fire. The infinite stepping into our human body.

This is where the mystic meets the warrior.

You feel it in subtle ways… restlessness that does not feel anxious, more like a soul itch, inner stirring, a sense that something inside you is preparing to move, even if you cannot yet name where or how. Old dreams feel thin, hollow. Old identities no longer hold the same gravity. There is a gentle but persistent question rising in the background of your life: What am I here to embody now?

Neptune dissolves, Aries initiates.

So this era does not hand you a ready-made vision. It dissolves the false ones first. It melts borrowed desires, inherited missions, outdated spiritual identities, unconscious martyrdom, unconscious heroism, unconscious savior patterns… the Piscean shadow. Anything that once gave meaning but no longer carries life-force begins to blur, soften, loosen its grip. and this can feel disorienting…

You may notice moments of deep inspiration followed by periods of fog, surges of courage followed by waves of doubt, a longing to begin something new without a clear map… paired with sensitivity, vulnerability, uncertainty.

That is Neptune in Aries teaching you how to move from soul-truth rather than ego-performance.

In Evolutionary Astrology, Neptune speaks to where the soul remembers unity, Source, and being more than a personality. Aries speaks to incarnation,  individuation, courage of being separate, embodied, alive in a specific body with specific desires and needs.

This transit asks you to explore whether you can be spiritual without disappearing. Can you remain kind and sensitive without dissolving your boundaries.

For many of you, this marks the beginning of a long process of re-spiritualizing your identity… not through ideology, aesthetics, or bypassing, but lived embodiment. How you choose,  rest, how you say yes, how you say no.

You are learning to trust the subtle voice that moves before logic arrives.

Pluto in Aquarius is simultaneously dismantling collective power structures, technological myths, and social illusions.

Chiron continues to remind us where our right to exist, desire, and assert has been wounded.

The Nodes keep pulling us toward emotional truth and relational maturity. Lilith continues to awaken raw sovereignty in the body.

So Neptune entering Aries does not happen in isolation… it happens inside a larger evolutionary story, humanity remembering how to be both conscious and courageous.

You may feel this especially in your sense of purpose.

Many of you have spent years healing, clearing, releasing, understanding patterns, tending wounds, excavating the past. This work matters. It has shaped your nervous system, relational capacity. And now… Neptune in Aries gently asks what comes next.

What wants to move through you now that you are no longer living in survival mode?

This transit favors soulful pioneers and you who are willing to begin without perfection,  follow intuition even when the path is nonlinear, willing to let their spirituality inform their leadership, creativity, sexuality.

It also reveals where fantasy has replaced embodiment.

If you have been waiting for clarity before acting, Neptune in Aries reminds you that clarity emerges through movement. If you have been hiding behind spiritual language to avoid conflict, this transit bringsfriction. If you have been over-identifying with being “the healer,” “the strong one,” “the awakened one,” “the helper,” you may feel those roles asking to be replaced with something more honest,

This is a long initiation, Neptune moves slowly. You are not meant to master it quickly… live it.

There is also a collective dimension here. Neptune in Aries can inspire visionary movements, spiritual activism, new expressions of sacred leadership, new languages for healing and embodiment. It can also expose ideological illusions, charismatic distortions, and false prophets.

Discernment becomes a spiritual practice. Learning to feel truth in the body becomes essential. Your intuition is being trained…

You are learning to recognize when something feels expansive, rooted, and alive, and when it feels intoxicating but hollow.

And because this is Aries, the work happens through experience. You do not need to know the whole story… you need to listen to the next honest impulse.

For some of you, this will show up as creative rebirth or relational reorientation. For others, vocational awakening or deeper reclamation of sexuality, vitality, physical presence, and desire as sacred.

Spirit wants to live in you more fully… inside your choices and your daily rhythms.

And so, as this new cycle begins, you may find yourself shedding old skins quietly, without drama or announcement. You may feel called to protect your energy more carefully. simpler rituals, you crave environments that feel clean, honest. You may feel less tolerance for performative spirituality and  empty productivity.

You are aligning with something truer…

Let it take time…

Saturn enters Aries on Saturday, February 14th, adding weight and direction to the fire that Neptune has already begun to stir. Where Neptune dissolves and spiritualizes, Saturn crystallizes and commits, shaping inspiration into responsibility and asking you to stand inside what you claim to believe. As Aries awakens instinct and identity, Saturn refines that impulse into something durable, something you are willing to carry with maturity rather than excitement alone.

This shift brings a steadier tone into the collective field. There is a growing awareness of personal agency, of the need to define yourself through action rather than intention. Courage becomes less about dramatic declarations and more about sustained presence… choosing, again and again, to act from integrity even when the path feels new.

As these two planets move toward each other, the atmosphere thickens with purpose. Neptune opens the vision; Saturn strengthens the backbone required to live it. Together they are preparing the ground for a rare meeting point.

On February 2026, Saturn and Neptune conjoin at 0° Aries, the first degree of the zodiac - a symbolic reset of our reality, identity, direction, and collective will.

This alignment carries both sensitivity and gravity. It marks the beginning of a cycle in which faith must be embodied and leadership must be rooted in lived experience. Vision seeks form.

I will be writing much more about this meeting..  how it shapes personal charts, how it influences collective systems, and how to work consciously with its momentum.

For now, allow yourself to sense the beginning of it as we shed the last remaining parts that we no longer require to carry in The Fire Horse Lunar year on February 17th.

Love xx

Inese