I recorded this video on March 6, 2026 soon after the conjunction of Saturn and Neptune in the first degree of Aries on February 20, 2026. This video serves as a way to orient to some of the major themes of Saturn and Neptune conjunctions that go back across time, as part of making sense of how your own world and the world around you is shifting.

This video especially focuses on how the Saturn and Neptune cycle moves through a series of conjunctions in cardinal signs, followed by mutable signs, fixed signs, and then a return to cardinal signs. Previous eras of Saturn and Neptune forming conjunctions in cardinal signs correlate with the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. We are living through a cardinal period of Saturn and Neptune conjunctions that began in Libra in 1952 - 1953 and then continued with Capricorn conjunctions in 1989. I go over some of the major themes we can associate with the Libra conjunction in the early 1950s that continued through the 1989 conjunction until now.

Saturn and Neptune form conjunctions approximately every thirty-five to thirty-six years, profoundly altering collective notions of reality each time their cycle ends and begins. Their powerful capacity to reshape reality comes from Saturn and Neptune being the threshold guardians between the visible and invisible worlds: Saturn as the outermost planet visible to the naked eye, and Neptune as the most distant planet in the solar system. Their conjunctions dramatize the tension between form and formlessness, certainty and ambiguity, boundaries and dissolution. Saturn represents structure, limits, and material reality, while Neptune dissolves boundaries and opens us to imagination, interconnectedness, and the unseen dimensions of life.

When Saturn insists that “seeing is believing,” Neptune reminds us that perception itself is shaped by belief. Their conjunctions test our frameworks of reality by exposing deception, illusion, and self-deception. As old beliefs fall away, we are given the chance to rewrite the story of our lives. Yet this opportunity is not without risk. Hopelessness and depression can constellate over the death of previous dreams as old systems and structures that brought a sense of stability wash away. In order to effectively navigate through the ending and beginning of their cycle, we must combine the idealistic imagination of Neptune that can envision potential beyond the limits of present circumstances with the patient pragmatism of Saturn that can deliberately construct a new foundation upon which to pursue aspirations and bring imaginal dreams into form.

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