This year, in 2025, the world will see a bunch of changes in planetary energy (which translates to things feeling different Earth-side). One of the big collective transits that will take place is the conjunction between transit Saturn & Neptune in Aries. Not only does this NOT happen very often (roughly every 36 years), but BOTH of these planets will have just moved into Aries when this takes place (meaning there is a whole bunch of “new” with this one).

Disclaimer: When looking at astroweather (transits), including transit Saturn conjunct Neptune in Aries, you HAVE to take YOUR OWN ASTROLOGY CHART into consideration to know HOW a transit might play out personally for you. If you want some help with that, you can get a reading from me by clicking on this text.

Let’s start this off with some dates and thaaaangs:
-Transit Saturn & Neptune conjunct one another in Aries (but not exact…yet!) from May 25, 2025 through September 1, 2025
-Transit Saturn & Neptune fuck each other (exactly!) in Aries on February 20, 2026
-Neptune has an orbital period of 164-years. It spends roughly 13 years in a sign
-Saturn has an orbital period of roughly 29 years. It spends 2.5 years in a sign
-Last time that transit Saturn & Neptune were conjunct one another was in 1989 in the sign of Capricorn. Before that, this conjunction took place in 1953 in Libra.

Over this past week I have had more thoughts come to me about transit Saturn conjunct transit Neptune in Aries (my first post on this topic can be found by clicking on this text). So lolololol without further ado, here they are:

Expectations (Neptune territory) also come up when I think about Saturn and Neptune coming together. Specifically, I think of “lowered expectations” or “limited expectations” because of Saturn. Is this a bad thing? No. I don’t think it’s a bad thing necessarily to lower expectations…. especially considering how the world seems to be functioning now-a-days. Does this mean that you cease to have any expectations? No, it doesn’t. But, if we lower our expectations it is harder to be disappointed (and again, with the state of the world anymore, I don’t think that’s a bad thing). While I made mention in the first post about this subject that this conjunction can give the ability to dream build (and I do think that’s the case – I’m not totally negative here 🤣), I also think there is SOMETHING as well about lowering/limiting expectations (and this tying into the dream building). Like, if you lower/limit your expectations, it does allow a release for some of the pressure that might come along while actively building your dreams (whatever that might be). Aries energy can be “ass on fire” and “pressuring” (and Saturn can be “pressing,” lol) so the Neptunian release is very useful here.

Authority/government subversion and weakness seems like another possible thing (along with the government/those in authority acting subversively themselves against some kind of leadership, along with the government/authority being weakened in some way). Authority and government are Saturnian expressions while subversion, weakening/weakness are Neptunian expressions, and leadership is Aries energy. There is historical precedent to what I’m saying – in 1989 we saw plenty of this stuff. All across eastern Europe (countries that were behind the Iron Curtain), countries saw their governments fall apart due to being weakened and even government subversion in some cases. Now, this was going on in Capricorn in 1989, which, while Capricorn is resilient energy, it doesn’t fight in the same way that Aries energy puts up a fight. This makes me think that any governments we see showing signs of falling apart (whether literally or figuratively), those governments/people in authority are NOT going to go down without a massive firefight.
–We are already seeing ripples of this across the world as I’m writing this in mid-June 2025.

Toxins are something that I keep thinking about in relation to this conjunction. Neptune has domain over toxins….but so does Saturn. I started thinking about the different plants that Saturn has rulership over for a completely unrelated reason (a lot of which are toxic), which got me to thinking about Saturn and toxins. Sure enough, the Rulership Book has BOTH Saturn and Neptune listed next to “toxins, that which is toxic, toxemia & toxic complaints” (Pluto and Scorpio are also listed). Now, we all know that there are so many toxins in the world around us. These can be found in the air that we breathe, in the food that we eat, etc. (especially here in the US – this might not be as much of an issue in other parts of the world). This really gets me thinking about the different ways that the self (Aries) comes into contact with these toxins on an everyday basis and what we might realize about toxicity in general under this conjunction. In 1989, the last time that transit Saturn and Neptune were conjunct one another (in Capricorn), the Toxic Release Inventory was established. This required certain types of manufacturing and industry to report the chemicals & toxins that were released into the environment. In 1953, the second-to-last time that transit Saturn & Neptune were conjunct one another (this time in Libra), the first poison control center was set up in Chicago (because so many children were ending up poisoned by, what seems like, the world around them). So…I guess the good thing about this particular conjunction is that it does seem to be a catalyst for things changing regarding toxicity in our environment/becoming more aware of such things (both on a collective and personal level). But it’s how much toxic shit is found that is concerning (or that could be found). 
–To kind of add on to the idea of toxicity with the Saturn/Neptune conjunction, I have to wonder if not only we will be tasked with facing the different toxins in the environment, but also facing ways that we have been toxic to ourselves (again, since Aries energy deal with “the self”). This could be ways that we have literally introduced ourselves to toxins, but also ways that we ourselves can be toxic (this could take place on both an individual and/or collective level). 

The idea of “real fake(s)” (or some kind of blending of “real” and “fake”) appears to be on the agenda. What do you consider to be real, and what do you consider to be fake? And not even what you consider to be real and fake – what the hell do the concepts of “real” and “fake” mean, anyway? The lines are blurring all over the place! Saturn deals in what’s real (and reality) while Neptune deals with what’s fake (and stuff like that). When I think about this particular element of Saturn conjunct Neptune my mind goes to AI (which has exploded in the past few years). Do I think we will see even more energy behind this….AI things that blur the lines between the real and unreal (almost to the point that we can’t even tell the fucking difference anymore)? Yeah, I do. If it doesn’t matter to you personally if something is real or fake, then this won’t be a problem for you (not everyone gives a shit about this). If you are the kind of person that the possibility of this bothers then start educating yourself on the “tells” (because AI does have tells that give away something was AI created).
–There is also the notion of creative (Neptune) excellence (Saturn) that comes up for me, too. While there is a massive benefit to AI (definitely NOT knocking it), we are also seeing AI replace human creative excellence at an exponential rate (or what feels that way to me). Instead of people writing things themselves they are having chatGPT or whatever write it for them. Instead of people creating their own works of art they are having Midjourney do it for them…this is the kind of shit I’m talking about. I almost wonder if down the line human creative excellence (such as the things that people create) will be worth more than their AI counterparts. That would be WAY down the line, though (probably)…..especially the more intellectual property issues that come up with AI (and I’d bet a little money that this will be a thing).
–Reality might also continue to be stranger than fiction under this transit…which would follow suit with how the world has been the past 10 years. Though, with this going on in Aries, it might have a whole bunch of oomph behind it.

Unhappiness hitting a sort of breaking point also seems like something that could be involved with Saturn conjunction Neptune (as the concept of “unhappiness” is considered under the domain of Saturn and the 12^th House; 12^th House has an affinity for Neptune energy). Now, that’s not to say that everyone is going to be unhappy under this particular transit – that would be ridiculous to say. However, there is much going on in the world at large that could make a person unhappy, and with this transit going on in Aries it’s not going to be people just bitching about what makes them unhappy but actually DOING something about what makes them unhappy. The “doing something” or action could be a really good thing individually and/or collectively, but it could also be a really bad thing individually and/or collectively. From an historical perspective, we saw this same kind of thing happen when the Saturn & Neptune conjunction happened in 1989 in Capricorn with the Tiananmen Square Massacre (Chinese students (among others) tired of the government’s bullshit and ending up massacred).  
–We are already seeing this come about in the US right now (minus the massacre part). This weekend (as I’m writing this) there have been several protests in different cities with people making it known loud and clear how unhappy they are with the state of things in the US and how unhappy they are with Trump’s policies. I imagine that once Uranus enters Gemini (making a mini-trine between Pluto in Aquarius and Saturn/Neptune in Aries) in a few weeks we will see even more action like this (maybe about different things, but action none-the-less). While I am giving a US current-event example here, this isn’t just a US thing – I would expect to see this kind of thing pop up all over the world.