What if the life you've been living was simply the prologue? As Saturn and Neptune meet in Aries, you may feel an old chapter closing and a new one demanding to be written—not in words, but in actions.
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This is a moment of real psychological threshold. We're exploring what "Aries karma" really means: those seasons where the soul requires us to be brave, to take a risk, and to stop deriving our worth from what others think. It's about the courage to lead your own life.
But the path of Aries never walks alone. As you feel the pull to assert your own direction, relationships become the mirror. The video explores how to navigate the line between healthy independence and impulsive reaction, and how to discover a sense of self that doesn't need to perform.
There is a profound difference between acting on impulse and acting with self-awareness. The shadow of Aries is the belief that speed equals strength. But the real work is in exploring the motivation behind the motion. Self-aware action carries the same fire, but it builds worlds rather than burning bridges.
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Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/].
Today we're going to take another look at Saturn's upcoming conjunction to Neptune in the sign of Aries. We're going to talk about why the soul sometimes needs seasons of Aries karma, so to speak. We're going to talk about what I mean by Aries karma, and why the soul needs different types of karma at different times.
We'll explain all of that and then take a look at the evolutionary kind of landscape of the sign of Aries. We'll incorporate some things from the modern evolutionary School of astrology and their perspective on why we need, why the soul might need to go through Aries like experiences. But we'll also blend that with what we know about the sign from ancient traditional astrology, and in this way, I think, add to our conversation about this major astrological event. So that's our agenda for the day.
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Well, on that note, let's turn our attention to the real time clock. Thanks for letting me get through my promotions for the day. Here we are. We are coming on Thursday, February 19. We are now just a little bit away, and notice what's going to happen today the moon later this afternoon, on Thursday, February 19. Here we are. Moon will enter Aries, connect with Saturn, connect with Neptune. So today we're getting an activation of the Saturn Neptune conjunction by the moon. That means a lot of people are going to feel it today, even though technically the two planets can join tomorrow, the moon's activation of that is close enough. So don't sleep on that, in other words, but you'll see that tomorrow, they actually can join.
And then I said yesterday, they really carry over all the way into May, late April, into May, where the two planets are within about three degrees. Now they're co present the same sign, which means these effects will be present the rest of the year and onward for a couple of years, with Saturn and Neptune, both in Aries. But there's a significant difference when the planets are real close together. So you will notice that peaking right now, and what I want to do today is talk about why the soul needs Aries, karma. What do we mean by that?
First of all, because that could just sound like a generic catch phrase, but it actually has a specific meaning, and we're going to explain that remind you of what karma is, the evolutionary perspective, what it is and and how it overlaps with ancient astrology. And then we're going to get into talking about Aries, karma and Aries evolutionary. Living and Learning. So that's that's where we're heading next. So let's start by just refreshing on the evolutionary perspective. The evolutionary perspective can be talked about in terms of the modern school of evolutionary astrology. If you watched an episode I did earlier this week on the evolutionary signature of Aquarius, same kind of talk today.
The evolutionary school in modern astrology has specific techniques and approaches that surround things like Pluto from Jeffrey wolf Green School, or the nodes of the moon as well as Pluto polarity points. Steven Forrest is another, like fountain head of the evolutionary wisdom. I've had Ari Moshe Wolf on my school. He comes from the Jeffrey wolf green approach. Either way, what's at the core of both modern schools is philosophically at the core of ancient astrology as well, which is the idea that the soul is evolving through many lifetimes toward a process of God realization, or of illumination, a light body realization of highest self, that kind of thing, and whatever language you feel comfortable with.
Now, when we think about that, alongside of astrology, what astrology is doing is giving us a picture of some of the evolutionary signatures of a lifetime, not just the karma, which is one part of it, meaning like the fate or the destiny because of the accumulation of past choices, patterns, events that are carrying over into this lifetime, but also the deeper, the deeper reason behind them. Why are we here? Why are we doing these things? What are we meant to learn, and how does it contribute to spiritualization of the of the soul, like the awakening so the modern schools of evolutionary astrology, with their techniques, technique specifics are a little different than say, what I practice, which is Hellenistic astrology, but we share the same concern, which is the growth and evolution and development of the soul through a kind of karmic curriculum that is shown in The birth chart. And astrologers have always believed that more or less different, little bit different language, different ways of holding that. But that's the idea.
Certainly this view of the transmigration of the soul is present all over ancient astrology, hermeticism, Platonism and so on and so forth. Yoga, obviously, Vedic philosophy. So we can, if this is useful for you, you can start thinking about what it might mean when major events, especially outer planetary events, are taking place in a specific sign, and what that sign is all about from a karmic and evolutionary perspective, what that means karma, really a simple way of putting it is that in the material world, everything is constantly fluctuating and changing in a vast web of interconnected causes and effects, and we can't usually see we only have certain glimpses or understandings of how that works.
And obviously there's certain level at which we can manipulate that for the sake of things like technology or science or what have you, but we're talking on the level of all of reality, the interconnectedness of everything, in the way that one choice among many interconnected choices are being orchestrated together into what we call a web of inter, inter dependent co arising. So all phenomenon is connected through a very mysterious web of cause and effect. It's not always as simple as physical cause and effect that can be about intentions within actions or motivations or psychological or emotional or energetic dynamics. So as Krishna says in the bhava Gita, like not even the wisest sages really understand karma in its totality.
But what we mean when we say, why does the soul need Aries karma right now is really just, why does the soul need Aries like experiences? Aries like experiences mean choices that you make within the archetypal field of Aries that have certain kinds of consequences or reaping what's been sown from the past, but seeing the results through the lens of Aries, right? So that's basically what we mean by, why does the soul need Aries karma right now? And deeper than just I mean, on some level, people are going to have this experience without any self reflection there. It's just going to happen. But we what we want as astrologers goes a little bit deeper than that.
What we want as astrologers is to use the tool of astrology to not just see the experiences, but to understand how they offer reflection, guidance and a deepening understanding of truth, of divinity, of ourselves, of love and of all the virtues that go along With love, like adornments, humility, kindness, patience, peacefulness, etc. So what kind of season is an Aries? Kind of season? And the real purpose of reflecting on it from evolutionary, evolutionary perspective, is to make sure that we stay aware of the kinds of things we're meant to be learning right now and seeing and growing through as this field unfolds in terms of mundane events circa. Stances, etc, which is why something like this can be applied, both collectively and personally in a way the world is going through an Aries moment, and you're going to see that inflections of that in the News, the news cycles, the collective trends that you notice, fads that are happening, the zeitgeist, all different ways of thinking about the collective reality for most of us, the level at which we engage with reality every day is personal and exists within a smaller ecosystem.
And so that really the the astrologers, for 1000s of years, have had ways of talking about the astrology, some focus much more on collective events and the arc and shape of the story of history, which is for collective purposes. Other astrologers have focused more personally, some on both. I tend to be more personal in my approach. As you all know, that's my lane. That's what I stay in. But then during really big moments like this, whenever there's major collective transits, meaning outer planetary configurations. For many, many many years now on my channel, that's when you tend to see me coming in to the crossover between the personal and the collective. So I say all of that just so that you know also kind of why you've been seeing more collective content on my channel recently. It's because of the astrological transits and also because it's really helpful when there are major outer planetary transits happening in the sky, and you're reflecting on their meaning, personally, karmically, from an evolutionary perspective, to see it mirrored in the world.
So all of that is to say that when you hear what I'm about to go through today, remember that any of it can be applied for yourself, but you may also be very helpful to consider how some of these things are unfolding collectively right now and extrapolate as you will. It's it. I always remind myself that I I'm not fundamentally a historian, and so usually I get glimpses of collective things in headlines, but my ability to place them in much larger sweeps of historical context is lacking because it's not something I've spent a ton of time studying, not like I'm ignorant of history, but it's not something like like Richard Tarnas. He's an example of someone who really he was a P I think he has a PhD in history from Harvard, if I remember correctly. Anyway, if you want more of that big sweep of historical understanding and context.
I highly recommend the work of Richard Tarnas, because he is, I think, one of the best historians and astrologers that we have in his take on collective transits and patterns is certainly the one I look up to the most. People have been asking me that a lot lately, so I figure I'll throw it out there for whatever it's worth. Anyway, let's get into it so and as I'm saying that I'm getting a notification popping up in another world and reality. So I'm going to mute those notifications. All right. Here we go, so and again, like just to shout out that these the takes that I'm presenting today really do come from my background as a modern evolutionary astrologer, but they're also saturated with my Hellenistic understanding of planets like Mars and the Sun, who are exalted in Aries, my understanding of the sign through its dignities, its place in the Zodiac, lots of things like that. So you're getting kind of a mash up. I was joking the other day saying I'm like a cover artist. I mean, when I mash up I mash up songs, I guess. Anyway, okay, so first of all, one of the things that happens when there are major events in the sign of Aries, from an evolutionary perspective, is usually it is sort of an announcement that a prior cycle has closed, because this is the first sign of the zodiac.
And so you really do feel like you're at the threshold of a new chapter in life, personally. And that chapter doesn't have to it doesn't have to sink in that you're in that new chapter all at once. But certainly there will be events this year that for many people will signal a very significant chapter change psychically, consciously, emotionally. And one of the ways that this is constantly framed in terms of modern psychological astrology with the sign of Aries is in terms of individuation. It's kind of a Jungian term, but a prior cycle has closed, and a new cycle of individuation has recently begun. What that means is that the soul is discovering something new and true about itself that was maybe in the periphery, maybe unconscious, maybe rising slowly to the surface, but not yet fully capable of being realized.
And so there's often in an airy cycle of karma and evolutionary activity, a sense that there is a new sense of self that must be both discovered and that life must be directed differently because of your contact with I am someone new. Something new is starting a new chapter or cycle. Of individuation, a prior cycle has closed. That's all very common for the sign of Aries, and that frequently will go along with the feeling of selfhood being different and new, because Aries is a very youthful sign, and with Mars and the Sun, so much of what Mars and the Sun are about as CO rulers of the sign have to do with our sense of direction and purpose. And when you think about direction, purpose, action, motivation, Omar, sun, kinds of things, they typically redirect when we feel like we are becoming something new.
And the way to realize that new thing we're becoming is to take a different kind of action and so initiating new cycles of karmic activity, meaning choices and experiences that will yield results for the sake of our evolutionary growth will come from a moment like this. So there's an emphasis in the sign of Aries as a fire sign Mars in the sun. The the evolutionary themes gravitate toward things like independence and freedom, the need for self discovery and feeling compelled to pursue like kind of like pioneering, trailblazing, risk taking, experiences that feel necessary for personal growth and personal truth. So sometimes there can be a compulsiveness, like, I need immediate action, or there's an unchecked sense of will and like, it can be kind of strong. What am I saying? Strong handed? Is that the phrase I'm thinking of so you can, kind of, you can, kind of, you can be, like, heavy handed. That's what I'm thinking. It's a little, it's a little like, blunt and like forceful.
Sometimes you have to be really careful of that. And so there's sometimes also at the this threshold space of new activity, a new cycle. Beginning is the juxtaposition between the desire to act immediately, and the need to be a little cautious and careful when endeavoring into something new that carries certain risks with it. And there is risk taking. There has to be, right? That's part of Aries. But also, there's a sense that either some impulsiveness, it's a bit like the fool card in the Tao, like, you know, it's kind of like a potential for harming yourself through a foolhardiness. You do have to be aware of that, but these seasons tend to constellate around these themes. Is the point.
Another thing that's really interesting about Aries, and this is something that Jeffrey wolf green mentioned that I've always found very, very true is that the the need to do something new to be something new, and the sense of selfhood that's trying to come about will often be drawn out through the attraction to someone else that appears rather suddenly and instantly, and has a kind of hypnotic, irrational level of pull. So it's like these are people who are meant to somehow catalyze our self awareness, but may appear in our lives where there's almost like a hypnotic level of attraction and draw to this person like a moth to the flame. And that person may or may not be someone that you end up with or partner with or work with or collaborate with, but there will often be someone who it feels like I have to go in the direction of this other person in order to enable or enact or step into some new version of myself, and that can be real, and it can be sort of a projection, and you have to be very careful, because sometimes it is just a projection, and the person represents something you're meant to become, but not someone you're literally meant to consummate a business partnership With, or a love affair with, or whatever on the other hand, there are also genuine people who will pull you into the next iteration of self relationships with them will be a part of it, and sort of a welcome part of it. And that's the polarity of Libra that's always engaged with with Aries, right? The sense of Venus on the other side of the spectrum, so to speak. So also a very powerful sense of what you don't want or what you reject is a part of this.
Aries will constantly bring up something new that you want to go toward. But attraction or repulsion, another word, can be a strong feature of how that new direction comes into your awareness. So you have to be really aware of that, because it's also possible to try to step into who you are by sort of overly emphasizing the rejection of something that repulses you or that you find. Find ugly or unattractive or that you don't like anymore. You have to be careful of projection in either direction anyway. There's, you know, the libre point during Aries times can bring up Hey, just as much as you are individuating right now and needing to step forward into a new phase of individuality that can happen alongside of equality in relationships. And sometimes the two things co arise, it's like I need to feel empowered, and in order to do that, I have to be in a new kind of relationship, one that features better equality, because the one I'm in is something I'm having to wrestle my autonomy from, if that makes sense.
So and then if I'm coming forward really, really strong, sometimes evolutionary relationships show up to say, hey, it's great that you're stepping into this new thing, but can you bring it into harmony, in relationship with others? And there'll be tests that come along with it, Aries energy will be about initiating things, but it's also about learning how to give, how to listen, how to have empathy, while you also are initiating. And there's a lot of centrifugal force coming out of you, my will, my way myself, right? So you can't these, these kind of this kind of Libra opposition will be like a shadow point of integration throughout the entire experience. Now, there are three reaction patterns that Jeffrey wolf green outlined when he talked about Pluto particularly, or the North Node, or evolutionary content moving in the direction of Aries. And he says that there are really three kinds of responses to the evolutionary pressure that happens when karma is constellating in the sign of Aries. Let's put it that way.
One will be a total rejection of relationship, so the individual will fear entanglement and avoid intimacy in order to protect their freedom. They'll pop in and out of relationships. They'll see others needs as a detour from what they want to do or where they're going, and sometimes, if they're already in a relationship, it's very easy for when your other, your spouse, your partner, really needs something from you, and you're in a potent window of Aries activity, you can suddenly meet someone who feels like they're aligned with your desires, your drive, your direction, and it can easily be a kind of fantasy, especially with Neptune, that says, Oh, well, my my partner or my lover's needs are a detour from my selfhood, but this person over here aligns with it, so I'm going to align with them. Yeah, most of the time. The problem is that it's very temporary, especially with Neptune, so you have to be super careful of that, because sometimes the pull to the needs of the people you care about and love and are in relationships will be exactly the kind of buffer or softening of the edges of impulsivity and selfishness that are unconsciously coming through.
It's really it's really like sometimes the individual really does need to reject relationships in order to be alone or individual or independent or protect their freedom or get out of problematic entanglements that take away a sense of of power or freedom of movement or action, right? So sometimes that's really real, and other times it's this really impatient where freedom becomes like a defense mechanism, and the pull to be free and in relationship with other people is really the the meeting ground of real evolutionary work. So it can look a little bit different for every individual. These are things to be aware of. Now this is Jeffrey wolf Green's second common reaction that he talks about to the evolutionary pressure of Aries. Dominant karma is submission. He calls it to domination, or he calls it kind of like a karmic guilt pattern. And this is a kind of extreme compensatory reaction.
So a person will seek relationships in which they are dominated. I know that sounds really strange, but they will there'll be the individual feels subconscious guilt from prior lifetimes of egocentricity or manipulation. Potentially, he talks about that, and then may, because of that subconscious carrying of like, I shouldn't be too selfish, or I have a tendency to be maybe a little egocentric or selfish, and they're knowing you know that you're trying to work on it, but then you may overcompensate and put your. Self into relationships where you constantly have to surrender or be overly submissive, and the power dynamic is basically unequal. So when Aries, karma pops up, one of the things that happens naturally is about the recalibration of freedom and responsibility to others, and so seeking relationships, if you this, in other words, this conjunction and the emphasis on Aries that's in the sky for the next couple of years can be about understanding the subconscious reasons that you have had for putting yourself into submissive dynamics.
Sometimes, in other words, when we know, like I can have a big ego. I can get a little over my skis. Then we try to put ourselves in situations where we can, I can demonstrate I'm humble, I'm I'm caring, I'm concerned about the other. I'll, I'll balance power. But then we put ourselves and we kind of overcompensate, right? We get in relationships, we have to, we kind of give away too much. And this is something that gets worked out or looked at during these periods. There will also be the potential to attract partners who try to reconstruct or reform who you are, um, it's, it's, and also, if you are like. So on the one hand, what's really cool about this is that the natural polarity with Libra can attract people into your life who, as we were just saying, can be like midwives in the new in the emergence of a new kind of self and existing relationships can start doing that as well. On the other hand, you have to be careful of trying to reconstruct your sense of identity through someone else, rather than on your own.
Doesn't mean people can't be involved, but sometimes you'll think, if I just go toward that person, then I'll be who I need to be, because that person represents something you're trying to become. You have to be very careful of that, although it also could be good to move in the direction of people that resemble more of what you're working to become. That's not a bad thing, but you can't give that responsibility to the other person. In other words, you just be that part of me, you know, also partnerships that try to reconstruct or constantly reform or shape you and the need to become free from something that you've submitted your to yourself to, where someone's always kind of trying to curate who you are, and then you say, No, I have to be free. I have to be autonomous. So anything that has to do with submission and domination, those dynamics and relationships really pop when things are happening in Aries that can also be collectively. We can see that in things happening in the collective and then the last thing he talks about is equal partnership.
The intended evolutionary path that he talks about is relationships based on equality, mutual, giving and receiving, each partner, encouraging and facilitating individuation and healthy independence in the other while also maintaining cooperation love and mutual work in life, mutual love and care. There's also something when Aries is activated that asks that we redefine relationship forms and structures in terms of power dynamics, and that doesn't, that doesn't always. That can look like very mundane. It can be about, you know, things like money or finances or bills or who splitting loads of responsibilities. Sometimes feeling more free just means having more space, which means renegotiating in your relationship duties and responsibilities so that more space can be had like it doesn't really have to be a lot of the times. I think we imagine that it has to be like a nuclear bomb going off in your love life or something.
But notice anyway, that the bottom line of the Aries dynamic has so much to do in the evolutionary from the evolutionary perspective with selfhood, identity, individuation, and how you inhabit that in a strong way, without being afraid that you know that the testing ground is you know you have it, if you can be in relationship and still have it. That's sort of a way of putting it. That doesn't necessarily mean a monogamous relation, a marriage, just relationship with other beings. If relationships are something you have to push away because they pull you out of your center, then a part of the evolutionary feedback is you need a stronger center, and Aries will help you cultivate that. Sometimes there will be themes of self centeredness and people who are primarily Allegiant to themselves to a detriment. And so this cycle can also address like narcissism, and it can address the perspectives and realities of others that are close to you or that you live with as important levels of your. Consciousness that need cultivating.
On the other hand, if you tend to be so wrapped up in I derive my value from being helpful, from being useful, from being good, from being likable, from being healing, and help helping to other people. Something about Aries just pulls you out, out of some of those dynamics, and says Your worth is found in the fact that you just exist. Sometimes people like to ascribe that I am kind of quality to Aries, just simple, I exist, and therefore I am strong, powerful, beautiful, wonderful, you know. And it's a little Mr. Rogers, you know, the beginning of spring. It's considered a very youthful sign. And in some ways, this is the free, independent, beautiful, somewhat naive, but like innocent, pure fire of youth and something in that always needs to stay alive and carefully tended within us.
The evolutionary tension in the sign of Aries, in my experience as a counselor, in seeing many different types of Aries trans is a lot when Uranus was in Aries, for example, will often show up in terms of identity crises, where you need to break away from roles that have been imposed upon you, and there will be rejection of external definitions or authority structures, not even so much, because you reject the principles that something stands for, for example, I would not be surprised if during the Saturn and Aries period, there are many people who might identify themselves strongly with certain ideological values, but dis identify with the authority of a group that tells them this is how you have to think about every single issue. They may continue to vote a certain way, for example, but not feel identified with a group that votes that way. Do you see what I mean? Things like that can be really interesting, where the need to just pull freedom out of expected roles or authority structures or traditions, anything that feels like it's co opting or erasing your sense of freedom and individuality becomes an irritant.
So anyway, this is all part of you know, acting on instinctual impulses because a new self feels like it has to emerge in a new cycle. So you follow experiences that catalyze growth, especially ones that require a little bit of risk, and pulling away from external structures, authorities or the expectations or demands of certain relationships that don't feel like they're going to be okay with the changes you're embodying, you're going to be taking responsibility for your desires and acting on them in ways that feel new and fresh and a little vulnerable. There's this overwhelming urge in the sign of Aries to not give a shit what anyone thinks about you. You don't compare yourself to other people in the sign of Aries. This is why I love like my wife has three planets in Aries. I've always been, like, attracted to that, I think because I have a lot of opinions that live in weird, marginal worlds, like philosophically, and I can move in a lot of Mars, and Gemini can move in a lot of different directions and explore things, and she's always just said what she thought. And I've never had to second guess that's something so nice about Aries is being able to stand in the truth.
It's just the truth is, it's just simple and pure, and you don't feel like you have to perform the Libra in calculus of how to present it to other people. A lot of that's very liberating, very freeing. If you go to an extreme, Libra will act as a counterbalance and say, Yeah, but you do need some some social awareness is going to help you here, because you could burn bridges or get yourself in trouble. Yeah, I can think of relationships where like themes that have come up for me frequently when Aries transits are activated in the lives of my clients, independence and avoidance of emotional intimacy, you know that's a real one. Issues with authority, how to handle it, how to stand in it, how to have your own while not constantly getting into fights with authority figures. That can be a almost like a pattern, a problematic pattern, emotional suppression or repression that leads to kind of like the need to rebel or fight back for freedom, yeah, intimate relationships that have to come up in order to force emotional integration and individuation that can only be realized in relationships.
These are all the things, I think also like there's very similar to Aquarius in many respects. These two signs really get along, the courage to be different, the courage. Courage to lead not as a performative act, but in the sense of like I'm leading my own life. When we say I'm leading my own life, it means that I am. I'm blazing a trail, I'm taking some risks, and that ends up often putting us into roles of leadership, not because we seek them, but because we're embodying the leading of one's own life, which then naturally may help other people with an example to follow in some space in our lives. That often happens very naturally, without seeking it. In fact, it tends to become more problematic, especially with Saturn in Aries, when you do seek it, when you do try to say, Look at me, I'm a leader. Ooh. Then the karma gets a little tricky. With Saturn and Aries, strong physical and psychological presence, not backing down, not feeling afraid, not being bullied, not being so anxious. There's like a strengthen up kind of quality, psychically becoming aware of your own motivations and knowing how and when to act with authenticity versus impulsivity.
And the the distinction is in Aries, not so much that there's one kind of action that's right or wrong as much as there is one kind of action that's self aware and one that's not. And that's a big part of Aries, because the impulsivity shadow is action that you think empowers you just because you act quickly or immediately or sort of raw, instinctual, libidinal forces coming out of you. So you think that must mean I'm strong, I'm confident, but that will break relationships, because you're not exploring motivations, and once you do explore motivations, then you can tap into the same thing, but it's self aware, and that's a big part of the Aries lesson.
All right, well, those are my notes for the day. I hope that you find that useful, as we're approaching a major astrological configuration in the sign of Aries, just to be aware of a lot of the things that commonly come up when there's activity in Aries, big activity eclipses in Aries, big transits to your birth chart from a planet transiting Aries or transits to your chart that you to a planet that you have in Aries, any of these things I said today could be applicable to a wide variety of like Aries placements, right? So I hope that it's useful. I hope you're having a great day. We will see you again tomorrow. Bye, everyone.



Is there an exact time of the conjunction of Saturn and Neptune at 0° Aries, cst on feb 20 in minneapolis.
I’d love to do something meaningful to honor the opening of this gateway energy.