Saturn’s History in Aries Plus Horoscopes

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/].

This week, Saturn is entering the sign of Aries today. We're going to look back at the last time that Saturn was in the sign of Aries in the late 1990s we're going to revisit that period. I'm going to give you some ideas for how you can track if you were alive, if you were old enough to remember, how you can track that period and do some meaningful connecting of threads karmically between that period and this upcoming Saturn in Aries period.

And then we're going to do horoscopes for all 12 signs that focus purely on two, two and a half years of Saturn in that whole sign house of your birth chart. This is apart from the obvious conjunction with Neptune that's about to occur. We're kind of taking a bigger view of what Saturn is going to be up to in that whole sign house for a couple of years, even beyond the Saturn Neptune conjunction. And hopefully give you a parallel timeline to work with, going going backward again, to the late 90s. So that is our agenda for the day.

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We want to make sure astrology is accessible. All right. On that note, let's turn our attention to the real time clock. Saturn's entering Aries this week. It's happening Friday the 13th. And I've never been a big Friday the 13th person. Maybe, maybe it is. Maybe it's something that you've had experience with. I've never really had any synchronicities on that date, certainly not any unlucky ones.

But I'm going to knock on wood now, because as soon as I say that, you know, but anyway, it enters Aries this Friday, and let's just take a look. We're going to do horoscopes in a minute here. But, I mean, we've got this is all the way to February of 2028 and then we're going to see Saturn in the sign of Aries, entering Taurus around April of 2028 and then let's see, does it retrograde back?

It doesn't look like it's going to retrograde back into Aries. So, yeah, it's already had a little stay in the sign of Aries in 2025 so, you know, we've got, it's always like about two and a half years a little, I think it's just like a little less than that, anyway. So that's happening, and what we're looking at this week is the. You know the opening moments now, those opening moments are going to be colored by the conjunction to Neptune, which is going to be where most of our focus is, is placed the rest of this month.

But today, what I wanted to do is just purely think about Saturn in Aries over the next couple of years, and what that might mean kind of taking Saturn and pulling it out of the conjunction with Neptune for a moment. And certainly we'll be covering the conjunction in horoscopes as well. But first, what I want to do before we do horoscopes is also give you a parallel timeline to work with.

So if we back this up, we're going to take Saturn in the sign of Aries back in the 90s. So you can see here, this is April of 1996 so I want you to mark down these general dates and timelines. April of 96 is when Saturn's entrance into Aries begins. And then you can see here, it doesn't leave the sign of Aries after entering in April of 96 it's kind of moving along throughout all of 97 it's got some long retrograde periods.

Enters that final Deccan in the spring of 98 and then enters Taurus in June of 98 now it's going to retrograde back into Aries, has a little bit left at the end of 98 in the beginning of 99 and then it finally enters Taurus to Stay in like March of 1999 so 96 to 99 with some periods of Taurus in the in the middle, there is, again, like two and a half years, roughly.

So if you think about spring of 96 to about the spring of 99 you're going to get a lot of that period defined by Saturn in Aries. That's the point. Now what I recommend doing, for starters with that information is to look back at what was happening in your life and sort of compare it to the themes that we're going to cover today in horoscopes.

In other words, when I give you the horoscopic topics of your whole sign house of Aries today. Think about how those topics were also active during those years in the late 90s, and maybe you can see some meaningful connections between things that were happening in your life at that time and things that may come about now. Sometimes that awareness makes you that awareness, that Hindsight is what I'm trying to say, makes you more aware of how certain themes are coming in right now and that they have an echo, can help you raise your awareness of them.

So that's why I suggest doing a little bit of memory work. For me, I was in late high school. I have Saturn in Aries during that time, in my whole sign 12th house during the first week that it entered that 12th house, my family announced that we were moving to a much bigger church. My dad was a pastor in a much bigger suburban community, a much bigger school, and essentially from there through the end of high school, I became something of an outcast, where I had a sense of place and belonging and knew who I was and had friends, I suddenly had none.

And worse than that was went through a period of being bullied at in high school, was a bit of an outcast, but it was also specifically during that period of time that I ended up leaving high school going to a community college, and because I could pick whatever I wanted to study, because the community college credits would double in Minnesota and go toward your bachelor's degree and your high school diploma, I ended up taking All philosophy classes and basically became sort of a philosophical monk, because I was, I was very isolated, and sort of dropped out of school and became like very inward, and there's a period of solitude and study and stuff like that.

So that 12th house theme for me, I can see all of it now in hindsight, which is so beautiful, how that would be such a 12th house period of time. There was loss, there was alienation, there was a feeling of exile, ostracization. There was also a deep spiritual sense of place in the world that started emerging from that kind of liminal space that opened up. So we'll see. We'll see what happens during that, but you see how that space?

I'm like, Oh, wow, that's that was an interesting space of feeling like, I, you know, I was in a 12th house world for a couple of years. Now, I can see that coming in again, but in a totally different way, because I'm in a totally different time of season of life. Yeah, but it puts it into context. So I highly recommend doing that work in your chart if you were old enough to remember.

Now, if you weren't old enough to remember, don't worry about it. But even like what was happening in your family if you were young, if you ask your parents, tell me what was happening around those years, sometimes the psychic atmosphere around you will be a part of the story, even if you were very young and can't remember. So anyway, I hope that that memory work is valuable.

What we're going to do next is some horoscopes. So I'm going to put the chart back up on the screen, and we're going to get into whole sign house, one whole sign house at a time. And let's bring, let me bring this back to the present moment. And let's get, let me get February 13. That might be the 14th on the screen. Be a nice, lovely Valentine's Day present, Saturn entering Aries.

So anyway, here are some whole sign horoscopes. So the point of these horoscopes is really simple. It is not to be exhaustive. It's to throw a handful of darts at the dart board and hope that one lands close to the bullseye. In terms of what your experience might be. That's always what we're doing with horoscopes, trying to get close to what themes will be most important.

This is several years that we're talking about now with these themes being present, with Saturn entering a new whole sign house in your chart. So let's start and now you can listen to these for sun or rising, as always, I recommend rising for reasons that you've heard me say a million times, so I won't repeat them. Rising signs are just as good, though, is sun. If you're used to listening to one of the other, just do what you usually do, Aries rising Saturn in the first house.

So we're talking about a period of reckoning when it comes to identity, self concept. Old versions of self definition fall away when Saturn enters first because they reach their limit or their end or their winter or their death. But also Saturn asks in the first house for you to mature, your presence, your maybe your leadership style, your relation to independence or autonomy, anything from physical vitality to confidence, life direction can feel a little heavier or weightier the consequences more severe.

But this is about forging greater authority, maturity through restraint, discipline and another. Another way of thinking about it is, you know, you're learning a deeper level of what it means to be you and how to be a more veteran version of you. You're learning when to not act, how to stand firmly in who you are, how to be strong but not heavy handed, how to be free but not aloof.

This is self mastery replacing a raw or more naive or immature version of yourself, discipline of body and character, putting limits on impulsivity. The gifts might be greater self mastery, authority, more durable, more confident, but it's slow, hard work here in the first house. And don't underestimate the power of taking care of yourself physically during this transit. Right? That's Saturn in the first let's roll along to Taurus rising, which places Saturn in the 12th now this is something I can speak to because I'm a Taurus rising.

So I remember very well, like I was just telling you guys about my own 12th house experience. But I think a way of thinking about the 12th house in Indian astrology is moksha, a place of liberation. Is important here, because Saturn in the 12th is naturally in its joy. This is a place of endings and karmic composting. Saturn in Aries here will expose places where you are secretly exhausted, or where there is unresolved anger or unconscious habits that drain you.

There may be a greater emphasis on things like meditation, Prayer, solitude, a more monastic style of life. Reflection on things that are otherworldly becomes more important and serious and maybe even more disciplined is required. I think, for example, the fact that you know at Nightlight, we're about to open up daily, the daily spiritual practice that I have is about to be opened up for people to share in every morning if they want to.

That feels very sad and entering my 12th old battles might be released. I remember when I decided to leave high school and go to the community college because I just was sick of fighting the same old social hierarchy battles that existed there every day. You know, it's just constant and relentless, like a caste system, not not a healthy place for the psyche. Well, let's just let go of that.

Let's not fight fights that are draining the ego learns to surrender when Saturn's in the 12th it's a place of spiritual discipline, psychological clearing that will shake. Shape the future and a brand new sense of identity and selfhood that is gaining ground and gaining more gravitas and centeredness and maturity. But it's a deep inner space that comes before Saturn enters the first inner discipline, closure, releasing things retreat, what kinds of fights are worth it and what are not?

Dealing with alienation, maybe dealing with some people who want to undermine you, and figuring out how to release certain kinds of karmic cycles of conflict, looking at what you're avoiding, unconscious resistance. These are all 12th house kinds of things for Saturn. So Tauruses, we all have that looked for to look forward to, yay. All right, let's go to Geminis with Gemini rising, Saturn is going to be in your 11th house.

That's a place of friendships and communities and long term dreams, visions and ambitions. And Saturn will ask in this house, which of the alliances that you have are real and trustworthy and sustainable, which long term goals or visions are worth building and even sort of fighting for some social ties that are not rooted in enough or the right kind of commitment will probably fall away.

You may be learning to step into certain positions of leadership within groups, or step away from groups that dilute your focus or aren't in line with the kinds of creative endeavors that feel most satisfying. This is about what long range goals are the best ones or the right ones for this time in your life, and who are the people best aligned with them.

It's also about developing greater maturity socially and in a way like publicly, what do you have that connects you to other people, versus what isolates you or separates you from other people? How much you know? How much do you need social approval, and in what way are you willing to walk a path, despite whether you receive it or not. Those are also Saturn in Aries. 11th house.

Kinds of concerns. Let's go to cancer. So cancer rising. You'll have Saturn in the 10th. That's the career house, obviously. So a defining career and authority cycle for you, Saturn will demand more accountability for your public role, your reputation, the leadership that you take in the world, the influence that you have recognition during this period may come slowly or only after a lot of hard, visible effort.

You may also come under some degree of scrutiny or even attack publicly. I don't mean to sound like really. I don't mean for that to sound scary, but like criticism that you face is what maybe a softer way of putting it. Criticism that you face and how you meet it and how you respond to it, are opportunities here to have greater mastery over yourself, over what you do and your impact in the world.

It can feel like a heavy transit, but it's where you're building a legacy, and the things that you start professionally during this period will require a lot of hard work and effort, but we're talking about a long, slow process of building things that will last professionally, and maybe separating and letting things die or reach their limit professionally at the same time that, you know, things that have just reached their expiration date.

The emphasis is on your vocation, your responsibility, your influence, or authority, or level of public notoriety or influence. And we're talking about things that are durable will last, and that the things that you're working on that earn respect in time, in the way you handle and face conflicts in the public or professional realm. All right, for Leos, we're talking about Saturn in the ninth house, a place of beliefs, philosophy, higher learning, your guiding life, principles and convictions.

And we're getting down to brass Tao here. What is actually true? Saturn is bringing about the need for more discipline to study, more commitment to your ideals. Are you walking your talk? Are you grounding wisdom in actual live disciplines? The emphasis on things like teaching or publishing or long term study will be here, but also they require commitment with Saturn, not just excitement or enthusiasm.

Faith with Saturn in the ninth house becomes about practice and discipline, not just inspiration. The work here is about becoming more mature in your understanding and your wisdom and your learning, whether you're a student or a teacher. It's about looking at the shadows of beliefs, or the need for beliefs or the lack of beliefs. It's about doubt and faith. It's about embodying wisdom and testing truth.

So for Leo's powerful placement here in your ninth house of higher wisdom, for Virgos, we're looking at this in your age. Eighth house. This is a place of you could say karmic accountability. It's like the accounting books karmically exist in the eighth house. There's questions about shared resources, debts, power dynamics, emotional entanglements, Saturn exposes, where things like dependence and avoidance or unspoken resentments have accumulated, and now you have to deal with them.

This is why sometimes the eighth house is called the place of karmic debts. There's a lot of deep work that's required here that could be financial, psychological, but usually relational, insofar as there's a giver and a receiver, a giver and a taker, or or two people trying to have the most fair, reciprocal dynamic that they can. And Saturn here is going to clear debts in this in this regard, it's going to settle debts that you owe, and it's going to clear you out from spaces where you give too much.

So you know, this is not a placement that will let you avoid difficult truths in the karmic exchanges of your life, in the sort of ledger book of those exchanges, there's an emphasis on cleaning and clearing entanglements that that harm or oppress and sometimes that means getting out of dynamics where people are trying to control you or are domineering. That can also be a real thing here.

So watch for some of these eighth house dynamics, if you're a Virgo rising. Now, if we're talking about Libra rising, we put Saturn into the seventh relationships, right? They become serious and committed at a deeper level, or they fall away and die. That tends to be a very like clear binary that comes up when Saturn enters the seventh Saturn in Aries will test relationships, karmic contracts with in more like interpersonal relationships.

It will ask about the balance between two people and the power that's shared or expressed within partnerships, weak agreements, including every level of the agreement, emotional, sexual, financial, weak agreements will fracture. Strong ones will deepen. That tends to be what Saturn does when it comes into the seventh I'll remember forever when Saturn entered my own seventh house. I realized at the commitment with my wife was deep, and I realized I wanted to go ahead and get married.

She was the person I knew I wanted to spend my life with. And it was a Saturday in our seventh transit, my seventh transit, when we actually got married. Some people are way too scared of Saturday the seventh thinking, Oh, it's just bad. No, it can be about things reaching an inflection point of greater seriousness and depth and commitment, as much as it can be a kind of come to Jesus moment for things that aren't working.

But whatever it is, the wisdom is coming through love, pleasure, sex relationships over a couple of years now, and about the balance of power in those spaces. Scorpio rising put Saturn into the sixth. I think Saturn in the sixth is super helpful in terms of really getting your shit together, if you're someone who struggles with health or getting your being more organized, or, you know, being more effective getting things done if you practice things Saturn in the sixth can be so helpful at creating discipline or deepening habits and practices so that success comes like Saturn in the sixth delivers so many good benefits and rewards for people who work hard.

If you work hard with Saturn in the six on things that matter, that you actually care about, that you feel aligned with, that represent some greater sense of sacrifice, service or belief in your life. Saturn pays off here, man, it's, it's an incredible rewarder of good habits, self care, skilled labor, resilience, mastery, through routine. It just kicks ass in this house, to be honest.

Now, the downside is that if you don't have discipline, it'll it'll drag you a little bit. If you don't have good health practices, it'll bring up health, a little bit of health issues. You might have burnout, if you're not, if your heart isn't in things or structure is lacking. So anything that needs to be refined in this space too, that's draining, taxing, unhealthy will also come up.

All right, that's Scorpios. Let's go forward to Sagittarians, where we have Saturn in your fifth I love describing this house like everybody knows what it's like to feel a level of enthusiasm coming from the combination of words entheos, which means the God within when you are in alignment with something that feels authentic, joyful, creative. It's not just I'm painting something or I'm writing a book or I'm making a podcast.

It could be an everyday moment where you just feel happy and alive and connected and joyful. This part of life needs tending. It's like its own little plant in a garden that needs watering. Well, let me tell you, when Saturn comes into that house, if you. Haven't been watering that plant, you're going to start feeling unhappy. And that measurement, that the little dose of unhappiness that you get while Saturn's in your fifth will be refining and insisting that you figure out how to water that plant so that joy, creative fulfillment, connection, romance, happiness, childlike excitement, is occurring.

This is why the house is also connected with fertility and pregnancy. It's the same basic idea. So whatever it is here for sag is you have to figure out, like, what's killing your joy, what's oppressing you and making you unhappy. It's going to make you more unhappy during this period if you're not doing something about it. Pleasure needs a direction. It needs a little bit of bravery.

It needs a sense of a mission. It needs to free itself from oppressive forces or energies that limit freedom or happiness of expression. That's what you're working on. All right. Let's go forward to Capricorns, where we have Saturn in the fourth This is the foundation of your chart, right? This is the place of home and property and family and ancestral roots and emotional security and that kind of emotional base of the chart, so old family patterns can end, or you have to have some like karmic reckonings around home, family ancestry, living environment and things happening in the home, responsibilities in the home.

What? What is a solid, healthy, happy base? What does that look like? Emotional maturity comes to mind here, rootedness, avoidance of vulnerability. If you are someone who avoids being vulnerable, this will be a thing you'll have to look more deeply at what is in the innermost, private sphere that maybe you're afraid to touch or look at it's a great time for therapy, inner authority, stable foundations.

Do you have a well to draw from deep within a private sphere of life? It's great for meditation if you don't have a practice. But consider that the base of your life, the ancestral foundations, the familial karma. This is what's coming up right now. All right, for Aquarian, Saturn's in the third a place that's connected to the mind and speech and intellect and the healthy formation of an ego, insofar as the ego occupies a kind of a place of mind and communication and emotion, that center of processing that is part, a critical part of our psychology and our sense of identity.

Here in the third house, Saturn will focus on things like how to become more serious or more mature or more disciplined or more focused, mentally, emotionally, intellectually, fantastic transit for skill development or acquisition, for learning, thinking, becoming bolder or braver, but also strong, but not mean in speech or words. If you have problems with impulse control, verbally, mentally or emotionally, that karma may blossom and you may have to deal with it, but it will.

It will teach you how to be a wiser and like no less strong, but also grounded and more mature strong thinker, like if you're a strong thinker, but you tend to lash out. This will help you, if you tend to be a strong thinker, but you get angry too easy. This will help you, but it'll help you in ways that are not always easy, because it'll bring that karma up.

So you know, this is also emphasis on sibling and peer dynamics and the potential for things like competition around peers and siblings. Be careful of that. But otherwise, I love this transit for just kind of deepening your mind and bringing you into a space where you really have to figure out who you are independent of anyone else. All right, so Pisces rising, Saturn's in your second house.

Last but not least, material reality becomes unavoidable. You've had Saturn in the first you've had a lot of time to think about selfhood psychology, what your yeses and nos are now it's in your second, and it's more about income, self sufficiency, skills, material resources and assets. Fears around scarcity often arise when Saturn's in the second, but they're really about what's sustainable and how to live with the constant, uncertain element of material, life and survival in the material world, and safety and security in the material world, you're here to level up with those things now, which might mean that you cultivate more assets and resources during this time, but you have to do it against the feeling like you're being tested.

And things are sometimes feeling like a little scarce or tough, but also, if that's not a concern, and things are more or less stable, then this is a time to look at things like financial discipline or material responsibility, deepening self reliance, talking about how you can cultivate greater security, refining what defines happiness, materially in terms of what you buy or what you own.

Or what you possess, certain things are going to change in this respect, and you're going to realize, oh, there's things I just don't need that I thought I did that make me happy. They don't make me happy. That's great refinement that Saturn can bring into the second house, sort of spiritual discourse with your material things and values. So watch for a real deepening of those conversations and those topics in your life over the next couple of years.

All right, we got through it pretty well today. But remember, if you were around in the late 90s, compare these topics with where you were at then, and you might find some echoes that give you some hints or clues as to where things are heading. I always hope that this material is practically and spiritually helpful for you, and so I'll leave it there today, and we'll see you again tomorrow. Bye.