Fire and Ice - Saturn Moves Into Aries Tomorrow

“I should have rescheduled that call with you,” the email from my father started. He sent it a few days after our 90-minute phone conversation, when the worst of his Sun in Aries aspects were on full display - speaking-without-thinking, overinflated ego, cruelty, and the all-about-him shadow side.

There was no apology for or acknowledgment of his meanness toward me. My ninety-two-year-old father never apologizes for anything and never has. He is always the victim in his version of events.

Saturn moves into Aries tomorrow after being in Pisces for over two years. The last time Saturn was in Aries was April 1996 - October 1998. It moved back into Pisces in October 1998, remaining there until moving through Aries and into Taurus on February 28, 1999.

This time, Saturn will move into Aries on May 24th. It will go retrograde on July 13th, move back into Pisces on September 1, and remain in Pisces while it goes direct on November 28. Saturn will move forward again into Aries on February 13, 2026, and stay there until April 12, 2028.

For the past two years and two months, Saturn has been swimming in the Piscean energy - water with a bunch of ice floes in the way - creating less ease and more obstacles and distractions in the spiritual, out of the body, artsy, emotional side of things, whether these be lack of connection/information, outright misinformation and disinformation, or major flights of fancy taking us into delusions. It’s encouraged more psychedelics in place of grounded heart-centered connections, and facilitated the explosion of AI moving into spiritual spaces and everywhere else.

We’re all coming out of this one dazed and confused, and the fuck around and find out moment is about to magnify as the dreamy, dissocociated energy the collective has been playing with is about to come to a screeching halt as Saturn moves into Aries.

Aries is about action, confidence, and beginnings, being the first sign in astrology. Pisces is often about endings, being the last.

Saturn moving into Aries gives us all a “new rules” moment (it will be many moments and many trying on of many new rules) as this back and forth is the fire and ice I am speaking of in the title. Aries is fire, and Saturn is ice, cooling our jets so we don’t take too many radical movements too quickly that knock us into realities we don’t desire.

So, when the Saturn obstacles come, take a breath, as the Pleiadians like to say, and just be. The change energy of fire is powerful and effective; the out-of-control and unhindered energy of fire is destructive. Be grateful for the slowdowns when they happen. It’ll give you the time to look more deeply and integrate pieces that have come up for healing and reconciliation.

To catch a glimpse of what the next few years may have in store for you, take a look back at what played out between the spring of 1996 through the winter of 1999, factoring in that you’ve now got twenty-nine more years of healing, emotional growth, maturity, and confidence than you did then.

That period, for me, came on the heels of my first Saturn Return, so it was a dramatic time of change and external implementation of all the new ideas and structures I had created on multiple levels of consciousness during my return. It was fun and exciting with a big helping of drama that took me into layers of grief, and the expression of this grief, all triggered by the explosive end of a relationship, losing out on what I thought was the theatrical opportunity I was destined for, and losing my housing.

Loss was the theme for the first nine months.

I’d be lying if I said I was not nervous, as I am now fully immersed in my second Saturn Return. However, this one differs from my first as Saturn bounces back and forth from Pisces to Aries to Pisces and back to Aries for the next nine months. So I sense that this time of integration and change will look very different from that one. I guess I’ll know much more by February 2026.

I am excited about the opportunities I can see ahead, and am also dealing with some major resistance to taking action on anything right now. I think it’s about timing, but it also could be my fear of making a mistake. I’ve been exploring the origins of this fear lately and have remembered that it was not okay for me to make mistakes as a child. I could not be wrong, which is ridiculous, as we all are wrong at times and do make mistakes, yet this is the energy I lived in while very young - the illusion of perfection at all costs, which leaves me paralyzed at times when it comes to doing something simple like choosing a new company to use for digital distribution of my work, an actual activity I am currently engaged in. I already know who I am going with, I just can’t pay the money due to a fear of making a mistake.

“What’s the big deal?” Jon asked? “If it’s not right, you’ll just do something else.”

Yeah, it’s not a big deal to 58-year-old me, but a younger me is still running the show when it comes to this one. Once Saturn moves into Aries, making mistakes will feel less terrifying. Aries fosters courage across the board.

As far as the bigger picture goes, the last time Saturn was in Aries, Gen X (my generation) stepped fully into adulthood as the internet took over our reality and the dot-com boom happened. The energy back then enforced a model of individualism, which has led to the abuses of power and the excesses we see today, along with the magnification of the class war.

The shadow energy of Aries can be selfishness, lack of impulse control, entitlement, thoughtlessness, burnout, and greed. Saturn will highlight the problematic aspects of these traits, magnified by justice-seeking Aquarius using the transformative energy of Pluto as its fuel.

This, coupled with all of the outer planets changing signs within a matter of months (Pluto’s move into Aquarius - November 19, 2024, Neptune’s move into Aries - March 30, 2025, Saturn’s move into Aries - May 24, 2025, Jupiter’s move into Cancer - June 9, 2025, and Uranus’s move into Gemini - July 7, 2025), means we are headed into a period of change unlike any we’ve experienced before in this lifetime.

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