Saturn/Neptune in Aries: HUGE SURPRISE, FOR ME.

May 26, 2025

After I published the last post, on Thursday May 22 (I’m taking Fridays through Sundays off, for the time being) my astute friend and astrologer Laura Bruno noticed that some of my dates were off as to when transits would occur. Off by as much as three days, she claimed! What followed was a search, on both our parts, through different ephemerides and what they all said about current transits. Still haven’t figured it out (are old ephemerides from the 20th century off by as much as three days? Are there no constants in life?). So just know that if you are relying on important transit dates from that post, then just think of that date as “on or about.”

On the other hand, I just went back to edit those dates somewhat. However, not at all sure they are correct! Talk about an “epistemological collapse”!

In any case, I wanted to let you know what “happened” to me on the day that Saturn entered Aries, to conjunct Neptune. That point, 1° Aries, happens to be nearly exactly opposite my Neptune and MC, both in Libra, at 2° and 5°.

So what happened?

Well, on Saturday last, my two young female housemates, both scheduled to move out, did! So there I was, alone. Saturn, in Aries! on the IC of my chart, conjunct transit Neptune, in the 4th house of the home.

By the very next day, Sunday, I woke up in the morning and realized I wanted to live alone! At least for the time being. That the subtle, pervasive energies of others (Neptune) had become too much for me. That I needed to sever the cord with others (Saturn) in my own place of residence so that I could relax enough to invite spiritual, visionary, mystical Neptune in!

Whew!

Sunday, May 25th just happened to be the date that at least the printed ephemeris that I’ve relied on since the millennium shift (Neil Michaelson, The American Ephemeris for the 21st century 2001-2050) has transit Saturn entering Aries, beginning its exact conjunct with transit Neptune.

As the first child of eight, I’ve always longed to be alone. So interesting that I’ve rarely lived alone, though there were times when I certainly could have. It seems that I am pretty much destined to continuously work through one of the contradictions, contrasts, polarities which I’m continuously speaking and writing about — learning how, in this case, to occupy and expand the dynamic space between individuality (Aries, the sign on my 4th house of the home and family naturally ruled by Cancer) and community (signified by not just the Neptune on the Libra MC, but even more by ultra-powerful 8th house Jupiter, ruler of my Sagittarius Sun, Asc and Mars, in the sign of Cancer.

Individuality vs Community: I lived in my own individual yurt inside a community of yurts back in the early to late 80s, when Jeff (later my husband) arrived to live with me there; before that, plenty of community (commune) settings as well. After that, when I moved here to Bloomington IN, I lived alone for only one year (grieving Jeff’s sudden death), before inviting a very inappropriate lover to live with me. That lasted for one year, and then was almost immediately followed by me inviting two idealistic souls to live in my two vacant bedrooms, as I began inchoately to build the larger transformational retrofit community now known as Green Acres Permaculture Village.

Ever since then, I have lived with people, all sorts of people, both trustworthy and not; both helpful and not; both young and old, male and female, on and on. Truly, a parade of wonderfully fractious humans, of various talents, abilities and expertise, most of us trying like hell to get along! Many of us actually working to recognize our own personal shadows whenever we find ourselves projecting qualities we dislike or deny in ourselves onto others.

Probably at least 50 people total have lived in this house with me! Never, ever, for over 20 years, have I lived alone! Thank you, Saturn in Aries, for nudging me in that direction, at least for now and especially since, despite my fiery nature, natal Neptune at the Libra Midheaven (raining its aspects on just about every other planet in the chart), continuously erodes personal boundaries and makes it difficult to get and keep my own center.

However, as an 82-year-old woman, I also know that it’s important to challenge myself continuously as I go forward, lest I succumb to the ever-present danger of calcification, rigidity.  I want to remain flexible, in all ways. But for now, my physical practices (4 miles walk daily, plus yoga, chikung and taichi) will have to provide that flexibility (BTW: just as, when people live with me, these practices help me remain centered inside the melee).

Saturn conjunct Neptune in Aries. So far, very very interesting. Especially since I had no idea that I would wake up this past Sunday and realize that I wanted, needed, to live alone.

 

Are We Undergoing an Epistemological Collapse?!?

May 22, 2025

Let me begin slowly.

Have you ever considered the significance of the Aries point, i.e., 1° Aries?

Sabian symbol:

A woman just rising from the sea. A seal is embracing her.

Keynote: Emergence of new forms, and of the potentiality of consciousness.

I find the Aries point especially significant, given that we are heading into an unprecedented era when Neptune (which rules the sea) has just risen from Piscean immersion and entered fiery Aries, to be followed shortly (four days from now!) by Saturn; and then two more planets, on June 12th and July 9th, both making aspects to each other and the Neptune/Saturn conjunction, namely Uranus at 1° Gemini and Jupiter at 1° Cancer.

All of these placements will be new (to us), and as Eric Francis Cappolino reminds us, these four planets comprise 99% of the mass of the planetary bodies in our solar system. I.e., this coming configuration of four planets all while entering new signs,  is a BIG DEAL.

Let’s break it down a bit:

Neptune entered Aries on March 31, 2025, for the first time since the Civil War.

Uranus enters Gemini on July 9 2025, for the first time since World War II.

These are the two big ones, because their cycles are so very long. And I must say, no wonder our entire world appears poised on the edge of conflagration!

 

Then there’s Saturn which enters Aries, on May 26, 2025, for the first time in nearly 30 years. That’s four days from now! Hopefully, Saturn will serve to discipline the fiery energy.

And finally Jupiter, which enters Cancer, on June 12, 2025 for the first time in 12 years. Expansive Jupiter in Cancer is the sign of its exaltation, and thus works even more powerfully. Enormous Jupiterian emotionality adds fuel to the Neptune/Saturn Aries fire? Well, yes, unless we do manage to hold on to ourselves, remain centered and grounded in our own bodies. Only barely possible, from now on. Plus, even our bodies threaten to be overtaken by what’s coming, given the transhumanist agenda.

 

In other words, between March 31 and July 9, this year, the four planets which comprise 99% of the mass of our solar system have and will change signs. That’s slightly over three months total, for a massive shift in the atmosphere within which we live and move and have our being.

Furthermore, as they change signs, they will also  enter into a precise triangular configuration, one which I (seemingly alone among astrologers?) call a “triangle of continuous growth.” By which I mean, for anything to grow, it needs an energetic stimulus, a way to channel the energy, and a way to help it subtly adjust over time. The energy is provided by the frictional (90°) angle, in this case between Saturn/Neptune and Jupiter; the channel by the harmonious sextile (60° between Saturn/Neptune and Uranus, and subtle adjustment by semi-sextile (30°) between Uranus and Jupiter.

I have two of these continuous growth triangles in my own natal chart. So perhaps it’s not surprising that I was the one to name them.

(Note: this triangle of continuous growth (square, semi-sextile, sextile) is paired by another, larger one, also created by three different types of aspects: trine, square, and inconjunct.)

This shift, I repeat, is a big deal. Check out Eric Francis Cappolino, his take on the unprecedented shift in the Neptunian atmosphere that both calls out individuality (Aries) and yet immerses each of us in confusion and chaos (Neptune). Thanks to AI; thanks to deep fakes; thanks to a reduced, or perhaps even complete epistemological collapse of our former ways of determining what is true and what false, what real and what not.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-164126944

BTW: this four planet configuration follows the shift of Pluto into airy, mental Aquarius, early this year. In other words, Pluto lends more power to the epistemological collapse we appear to be entering.

Here’s the relevant planetary placements as of earlier this morning:

Notice the Moon, at 28° Pisces, conjunct Saturn at 29° Pisces, about to enter Aries. Neptune at 1° Aries, Jupiter at 25° Gemini, and Uranus at 27° Taurus; one has already shifted signs (Neptune), and three more (Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter) are getting ready to do so.

Interesting that I should write this post on the day the Sun goes into Gemini. Information, folks, we need it. Plus, though it doesn’t show here, Sun is entering a harmonious trine with Pluto, exact the day after tomorrow.

I repeat: please get, and remain, grounded.