NEW BEGINNING Pluto in Aquarius and Saturn - Neptune in Aries, January 24 - April 17, 2026

A Time of New Cycles, Spiritual Testing, and Collective Transformation

This update is dedicated to several major planetary transits unfolding over the coming tree months of 2026.

As I am writing this article, we are entering a powerful new cycle marked by the conjunction of Venus, Mercury, Mars, Pluto, and the Sun in Aquarius. At the same time, Neptune is preparing to begin its journey into Aries, while Saturn spends its final weeks in Pisces.

Together, these shifts signal a clear movement toward Air and Fire elements from Water and Earth. This means less emotional fog, less collective merging and much more confrontation, clarity, choice, direction, and consequence.

Pluto in Aquarius: Collective Responsibility and Radical Transformation

Pluto’s transit through Aquarius challenges existing systems, restructures alliances, and awakens collective responsibility.

Pluto in Aquarius does not care about personal comfort.

It cares about upgrade to Social Progress.

We may be joining new groups or being eliminated from the existing ones. When conjunct the Sun, Pluto eliminates what is no longer needed in our lives, what no longer have a life force behind, whether we are ready or not. Something must end, there is no negotiation. Its conjunctions with personal planets can affect us deeply on a personal level, initiating profound inner change. You feel it in your body, your nervous system, your thoughts, your breath. Aquarius rules the lungs and the brain, and many people will feel this transit through anxiety, pressure in the chest, overstimulation, or sudden mental clarity that cannot be ignored.

Aquarius wants progress, but not the soft, idealistic kind. It wants functional progress. It wants systems that work. It wants community, but only if the individual takes responsibility for themselves. It promotes social justice, equality, and collective standards that support the greater good. This sign is future oriented and connected to advanced technology, artificial intelligence, aerospace, weather systems, and space exploration. 

We are clearly beginning a new cycle, one that demands both personal and collective transformation, will it begun with loss first ?

What is being challenged now is not only political or collective, it is deeply personal. Our values. Our relationship to money. Our health. Our daily functioning. Our work. Our relationships.

The ways we survive, cope with reality.

Pluto asks question:

Who are you when everything false is taken away?

This is may not be a comfortable process. It is necessary.

This process is to bring forth the best possible version of yourselves, to rediscover our unique genius, to co-create a better future.

Pluto, the Underworld, and the Journey of Initiation

Pluto, the lord of the underworld, invites us beneath the surface, to confront shadows, endings, death, and rebirth. Through this descent, we are offered deep empowerment. Pluto reveals our darkness, our power, our hidden resources, and also our vulnerability and powerlessness.

With Black Moon Lilith moving through Scorpio, Sagittarius, and Capricorn over the coming year, this energy echoes the Journey of Inanna, stripping away titles, identities, beliefs, roles, attachments, until only truth remains. Truth about what must end, what is meaningful, and what lies beyond our control.

This journey may removes:

False power

False morality

False spirituality

False innocence

Pluto’s actions are rarely rational or linear. When it touches personal planets, it pulls us into intense emotional experiences, raw presence, deep feeling, and profound transformation. Integration takes time. In Evolutionary Astrology, Pluto represents the desire of the Soul itself. Sometimes this desire is difficult to understand or accept, yet it is clearly encoded in the birth chart long before incarnation.

Saturn and Neptune: Ending One Era, Beginning Another

Saturn in Pisces is tired.

It has been dissolving structures that were already hollow. Beliefs that were no longer real. Relationships that survived only through fantasy, guilt, or obligation. Authority figures that lost legitimacy long ago.

Meanwhile, Neptune is about to begin a new 14-year cycle in Aries, initiating spirituality and idealism into action. This marks a shift from the last 14 years of Neptune in Pisces a watery, collective, “peace and love” era, toward something far more raw, direct, and confrontational.

Aries is bold, instinctive, survival driven, and action oriented. Spirituality may become more personal, more instinctual, and more fiercely defended. This is a time of spiritual battles, more Spiritual Ego and Fanaticism, where faith and belief are tested through lived experience. 

Neptune shows us where our beliefs turn out to be illusions or simply wishful thinking. Through disappointment and disillusionment, it reconnects us with a higher truth and forces beyond our control, inviting us to mature spiritually.

Soon, Saturn and Neptune will join together in Aries, beginning a new 36-year cycle. This conjunction will test our visions, beliefs, and ideals against reality.

Historical Echoes of the Saturn–Neptune Cycle

The last Saturn–Neptune conjunction occurred in 1989 in Pisces, coinciding with major global transformations:

• The fall of the Berlin Wall

• The collapse of the Eastern Bloc

• Revolutions in South Africa, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and China (Tiananmen Square)

• The dissolution of borders and political systems

Saturn represents structure and boundaries; Neptune dissolves them in the name of vision, spirituality, and idealism. 

Together, they often bring:

• Disillusionment with existing systems

• Loss, grief, and crises of faith

• Epidemics or natural disasters

• New artistic, spiritual and utopian movements

• Political and cultural idealism

Eastern Europe’s post-1989 transition from communism toward democracy and capitalism raised powerful questions:

Were these utopian ideals?

Has centralised power simply taken a new form under the banner of democracy?

These unresolved tensions suggest we are now approaching another transformation point through the Saturn–Neptune cycle.

Saturn Neptune in Aries: Past Conjunctions

28 March 1703

• Spanish War of Succession (often described as a “first world war in modern times”)

• Rákóczi Uprising (Hungarian independence struggles)

• Great Northern War (Russia–Sweden)

• War of the Cévennes in France

21 March 1380

• Hundred Years’ War (France–England)

• Aftermath of the Black Death

• Wars between Russia and Mongols

• The Great Schism of the Catholic Church

• First English Bible

17 March 555 AD

• Expansion of the Byzantine Empire under Justinian Ist

• Aftermath of the Plague of Justinian

• Rise of the Göktürks in Central Asia

• Severe climate crises and famine

• Decline of the Gupta and Sassanid Empires

Across these cycles, common themes emerge:

• Struggles for independence and sovereignty

• Religious wars and persecution

• Social reform and human rights movements

• New religious and spiritual ideas

A Much Older Turning Point

The last Saturn–Neptune conjunction at 1° Aries occurred approximately 6,000–6,500 years ago, coinciding with the end of the Matriarchal era and the beginning of the Bronze Age Patriarchy.

The first degree of the zodiac represents absolute beginning, the birth point.

Are we now witnessing another fundamental shift?

A return to the Mother principle?

A rise in feminine leadership and values?

A collapse of patriarchal power structures?

Only lived experience will answer this question.

Personal and National Implications

On a personal level, we can examine where this conjunction falls in our birth chart to understand:

• Where old structures must dissolve

• Where a new vision can be given form

• How Neptune’s dreams can become Saturn’s reality

Collective Examples

• United States: The conjunction falls on the IC, suggesting deep changes in the roots of the nation’s foundations and global standing.

• US Dollar Chart: Activation of the 8th house points to endings, transformation, and possible new financial mechanisms, potentially New Digital First Aid to support falling currency.

• Poland: Strong activations exactly on the Chiron in 3rd house suggest wounds around neighbors, shocking information, border issues, communication disruptions, or mobilisation themes.

• Spain: For Spain conjunction happened in the 2nd house. Focus on resources, values, power structures, self sufficiency, Transiting Pluto on Ascendent opposing Saturn speak about themes of national identity, raising questions around ethics, control, and equality.

If you would like me to analyse your country, I am happy to add it here.

Eclipses: The Portal Around the Conjunction

The Saturn–Neptune conjunction at 1° Aries is sandwiched between two eclipses, intensifying its impact. Eclipses create portals where karmic, fated events can unfold few months before and after Eclipse.

Solar Eclipse – 17 February

28°49′ Aquarius, conjunct Venus in Pisces. This Eclipse may bring big changes in employment, health, service and the most with what we values, possible market crash, internet or power cuts, we may feel disillusion about our values and need to let go some of them to be able to start appreciate simple pleasures of life.

Lunar Eclipse – 3 March

12°52′ Virgo, opposite the Sun in Pisces, conjunct Mars and Mercury.

We may feel like we need to sacrifice to the greater whole, like we have been used and taken advantage of our innocence. We may have internal battles around meaning, God, Life. This could be time to let go of and heal our functionality to open Eyes and hearth to something bigger in our life, the Truth.

“ Fire on Babylon” - New Moon in Aries 17 of April

This is one of the most significant New Moons in the first half of the year with 7 planets in Aries (Fire Sign) including Chiron. This is very rare alignment happening in the Sky.

Speaks about ultimate initiation, cycles where we are forced to mature very fast, break habits, patterns. Demolition and rebuild for stronger foundation. Healing our basic right to exist,

to choose right,

to become,

to do what Im here for.

I will definitely expand in the near future on this events separately.

Saturn Neptune in Aries with Pluto in Aquarius Stellium and Eclipses offers New Beginning, Reset of the Old System, Inner and Outer and creation of the New One.

Work Consciously with the Fire–Air Energy

As we move into this intensified Fire–Air cycle, grounding and nervous system regulation become essential. Fire accelerates, Air disperses, together they can overstimulate the mind, exhaust the body, and disconnect us from embodied presence and feelings if not used consciously.

Sound Healing, Breath Work, Meditation and connection with Nature is crucial this time.

Above all, move with conscious routine. This cycle rewards authenticity, presence, and nervous system intelligence more than constant action. When Fire and Air are grounded through the body, they become forces of inspired creation rather than burnout or chaos.

I will leave you here for now and return to my garden.

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Tom Soltron Czartoryski

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