This year Neptune changes its sign for the first time in 14 years. Uranus and Saturn also change sign this year. Uranus goes into Gemini and Saturn is about to follow Neptune into Aries, making this shift particularly dramatic. What is even more dramatic is that sign they are leaving, Pisces, is the last sign of the zodiac and sign they entering is first one, Aries. Saturn about to begin anew its 29 years long cycle and for Neptune its whole 164 yearlong one, more than a human lifetime even longer than a century and a half.
So, what all that does mean for an average human being on this planet. To put it simply we are about to enter a new epoch of human life and development. A lot is about to change, more than ever since the 1861.
To explain what exactly is going to happen I need to first explain what signs in question represent in astrology. Many heard of so called Apri's Fools Day, but few know the origin story of that day. April Fool's Day begun as an effort to mock some people who celebrate New Year in April instead of January like most of us do nowadays.
However, why April was a New Year Day in the first place and why some would stubbornly celebrate New Year during this month. The reason for that is April is when spring begins, snow melts and it gets warm enough to start growing crops. In short life comes back alive. Until then in February and March it is too cold for crops to grow, and people have to wait for warmer days to start next agricultural cycle. This is not as relevant for modern agriculture as technology allows growing crops all year long, but for early human civilizations that inverted astrology and calendar this was of paramount importance. Until it gets warm enough you cannot start new agricultural cycle as crops will simply die due to cold. Thus, until the time is right to start planting, ancient people had to wait patiently, if they start too early crops will die and they will starve or even die out completely. To make sure they get time and seasons right, they invented calendar and by extension astrology.
While calendar we use to measure days have since been altered in many ways, astrology still keeps to the original roots of the early calendars. Astrological signs not only align with month of Babylonian calendar but also reflect the original purpose each month played in life of ancient Babylonians. Half of the months of Babylonian calendar even share names with astrological signs. Back then calendar and astrology were one and same. Nowadays calendar have changed where month begin, how they are called and so on. Zodiac however keeps the original boundaries.
Thus, Aries is the month where new agricultural cycle begins. Time finally comes to break the earth, plant the seeds and do other things to make sure the year's harvest will be bountiful. In contrast preceding Pisces is the last month of the dying year, month where winter slowly fades away to give way to spring. It's a month of dreams and hopes for the future, but it's also month of conclusion where everything from the past year gets finished off in preparation for a new.
If you look at any astrological depictions of people born in Aries or Pisces, you can clearly notice parallels. People with Sun in Aries are enthusiastic and energetic go getters who do not hesitate to start something new. People with Sun in Pisces are instead mystical and absent-minded dreamers. Clearly the sign they were born in reflects on the role that month played in lives of ancient Babylonians.
If you apply these principles to such abstract concept such as decades, centuries and eras. Then Pisces is a sign that concludes era, and Aries is one that begins a new one.
Last time Saturn crossed that threshold was in 1996, back then world have finally moved on from the end of Cold War and dissolution of the USSR. I lived in Russia back then and Zyuganov promised in his 1996 electoral bid to bring back Soviet times and roll back everything that changed since Gorbachev took power. Zyuganov had a loud choir of loyal supporters who geared up to finally boot "bandit" Yeltsin out and then put him and every other enemy of the people before firing squad. They were certain they would win.
Zyuganov's resounding defeat in 1996 election finally put a final nail in the coffin of the past. Back in 1996 there was no clear idea what shape future will take under Yeltsin and other reformers, but it was clear, there would be no going back anymore. Over the course of next several years future gradually took shape, and we entered new Millenium with a different understanding what world around us is like. There was no longer Cold War or Iron Curtain.
Saturn upcoming crossing into Aries also means burning of the past and a fresh new start of a new yet to be shaped era. Its Aries role to shape it and give it form out of something as abstract as idea or principle. Its building on the ruins of the old world again.
Last time Neptune crossed Pisces-Aries threshold was much further ago compared to Saturn, all the way in the middle of the 19th century. Back then the date was marked by beginning of American Civil War and abolition of slavery. Current crossing may as well lead to something as dramatic as abolition of wage-slavery by adoption of UBI.
Neptune was in Pisces ever since 2011. The previous Neptune in Aquarius era was full of technological progress. New computers, phones and other tech gismos were released almost daily. Every passing year things were more advanced compared to the last one, nowhere else were it as obvious as in video games that came from idea to photorealistic models in a decade and a half. Every year graphics were getting more and more detailed and realistic.
From 2012 it all seems, froze. Tech, we have in 2025 hardly any more advanced compared to what we had in 2012. For 14 whole years things suddenly halted and everyone was hanged in suspense. To explain why, I need to give more details about nature of Pisces.
Pisces is the sign of the end, but not of sudden of violent death, that is Scorpio. Scorpio either causes sudden death or an equally sudden starting of life from a scratch and a dramatic change associated with it. As if person died metaphorically and was reborn into someone new.
Pisces is instead a slow and gradual death of old age, as if person slowly fades away. Actual death however comes at the end of the sign of Pisces, at the crossing the threshold with Aries. Before death comes slow and increasingly agonizing attempts to staff off death for just a little bit more.
During last 14 years we saw several rather well-known people experience this gradual fading away, most recently Pope Francis. He went through life threatening illness, was hospitalized, cured and released only to die in a few weeks. There was a clear desire to save him at least somewhat and maybe in a wheelchair but let him live a little longer. His predecessor, Pope Benedict also went through the same, so were Prince Phillip, Queen Elizabeth II, Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp media empire and many more.
During 2010s and first half of 2020s we experienced just such slow death of the old world. World, created in 19th century and pretty much the only world any of us alive ever known. World that grew out of Industrial Revolution and population boom. World that created mega factories that employed tenth of thousands of people under a single roof. Factories that created boom of commodities and needed employ nearly as many people as women could possibly give birth to. That led towards amalgamation of small states into larger entities and population grows for a time was equated with prosperity.
However, all things that exist are destined to end. Invention of computers allowed automation. Modern robotized factories can work 24/7 and produce many more than human powered ones could. Factories no longer need human labor and that leaves lots of unneeded people we have no idea what to do with.
Until now governments avoided facing this new reality. Instead of thinking how to transition into future, they would try to patch up and preserve the past as much as they could. They would invent new "jobs" to replace ones lost to automation. This industrial world is all they ever knew, and change frightens them.
However, no one lives forever, eras do not last forever either. Death cannot be averted, only delayed. With each new surgery or treatment patient increasingly does not look themselves anymore, but treating doctors insist they still can put them together for another year or so.
New jobs only provide appearance of business as usual. Useless job that is not needed for economy does not give employee the same leverage as the one that does. Employers know that and use their newfound power to abuse employees, who have a lot more to lose. It's a disability employment in a sense that holding a job is a miserable as living without an arm and a leg.
Back in 90s USSR also did not end with a bang (even though there were a few bangs along the way), but gradually faded away, shedding Berlin Wall first, Warsaw Pact later, then Baltic States, then other Soviet Republics, then eventually everything. Each stage felt like a small setback and next cure will finally patch up what is left together for good. In the end all these attempts to salvage something were for naught.
As old industrial world around us dying, we increasingly see its past flashing in our eyes. Neptune governs media, such as TVs or other forms of entertainment. Last decade saw huge spike in nostalgia and interest in various retro or vintage things. Victorian Era, Great War, WWII, Prohibition Era, 60s and even 80s are all across our screens. Older history gets covered as well but somewhat less so.
Technology is actually moving forward at fast pace, robots that can function in human world and help humans daily are already there. Yet no one talks about that and instead wallow in the nostalgia about past.
It's like a stereotype where 80+ grandpa who likes to tell stories about his youth to his grandsons. Such stories often bore then to death, but they do not stop him out of respect. Grandpa increasingly confuses dates and other facts as he grows more senile, but he is so absorbed in this that he loses track of time an everything else. In our case some did die or took their lives as government mostly took ostrich approach to facing problems by hiding head in the sand.
As of April 2025, grandpa old Industrial world is not yet completely dead, he is in intensive care. Closer to the end of the year he will be briefly back, as both Neptune and Saturn will retrograde back into Pisces for a few months. In early 2026 however they both will leave Pisces for good and will move into Aries for good.
Nonetheless talk about succession should start very soon. By now writing is clearly on the wall. It's almost over.
Wery soon we will see first glances of the new Era of Information. I cannot wait.
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