Saturn Neptune in Aries The Return of Might Makes Right

This is a time of myth-breaking and myth-making. Right now in front of our eyes we're watching an old world order disintegrate and a new one take its place. It's yet another loud vindication of astrology because there's an historic conjunction of Saturn and Neptune forming in the sky right now to accompany the historic events that are happening on the ground. It's chaotic, it's confusing and it's a little hard to make sense of what's really going on. That's why looking back into the past to the events that accompanied previous Saturn-Neptune conjunctions can help to make sense of what's happening now. And so in this episode I'm joined once again by my longtime collaborator S.J. Anderson who's going to bring us some deep insights into this remarkable astrological event and the times that are accompanying it. We've made it to maybe the most important transit of our time and I think as I've gotten closer to this transit and sat with this transit it's become very clear to me that there's some heavy grave powerful new beginnings that are being seeded right now with the Saturn-Neptune conjunction. It's heavier and heavier and more profound as I get closer and closer to this moment and I've done a lot more research and have sat with the energies yeah a realization of wow this is going to change our world dramatically. It's something that it's very hard to oversell or overestimate because of how potent powerful and deeply foundational it has been in the past. This is World Astrology Report, I'm your host Dan Waits and welcome to another journey into the past to understand the present and the future. Saturn and Neptune meet every 36 years. We're going to focus on two core aspects of what these conjunctions represent in this video. The first is that they seem to reset the world order and the myths that we tell ourselves about how the world works. And the second is that they're accompanied by new technologies, particularly those that are rolled out to the masses. But before we look at the present time, we're going to look back into the past so that we can see the patterns of history and better identify them as they're expressing themselves now. And so if you go back to 1882, you had a conjunction of Saturn and Neptune on the 12th of May 1882, 16 degrees Taurus. But there is also a sense of looking at when Saturn and Neptune were co-present together, meaning in the same sign, because often these events are triggered during the co-presence as much as they're triggered very close to the conjunction. And that 1882 emergence was so potent to decide future reality. You had in May of 1882, the Triple Alliance was formed in Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Italy joining geopolitically such that if one is threatened, all are threatened. This age of alliances and nations that emerges during the Saturn-Neptune conjunction and co-presence culminates in peaks by the time you get to the next Saturn-Neptune conjunction in 1917 and the co-presence that extends even in the 1919 with World War I and the resolutions of World War I, which is the destruction of that Triple Alliance system and the birth of the system that comes after. You also had, from the technological perspective, Edison's Pearl Street electric station open. It's the first commercial power plant. It's in New York City. Think about how important that is to have a plant that's sending electricity to a city so people can tap into the electric grid and power their lives. Saturn is certainly a planet you can associate with science and technology. It's less about the inspiration that can give rise to new technologies, which is Uranus's domain, and more about the slow process of empirical observation of reality that leads to new understanding. It's about building things. Neptune is a planet we can associate with collectivism and universality. It seems to me that a lot of the technologies that we see coming online at Saturn-Neptune conjunctions are things that connect people together or that function through networks. The electricity grid is a good example. The next time Saturn and Neptune come together, conjoin and have a co-presence is in 1916, 17 October, Saturn entered Leo. The conjunction of Saturn and Neptune was at four degrees of Leo on the 1st of August 1917, and then they remained there co-present until 12 August 1919 when Saturn entered Virgo. So you had a period from late 1916 until August 1919 where Saturn and Neptune were in Leo, creating a new reality, laying the foundation of the possible, and setting us up for whole new worlds to come, including maybe the peak year 1917 August when they can join. Just one conjunction that cycle. But check out what happens during this time that lays the foundation for our whole new world. You had the Battle of the Somme, November 1916, a million plus casualties, the real darkness of the world that emerged at that time. Tanks were used in combat for the first time in the Battle of the Somme, and that's the idea that the technology and the geopolitics kind of merge in this sort of war-like expression. In 1917, you had the February Revolution where Tsar Nicholas abdicates. 1917 November, you had the Bolshevik Revolution, the October Revolution, which the Bolsheviks arise and they emerge, and out of the Bolsheviks taking power, the USSR is formed a few years later. That becomes a central component of the next 35-year cycle, and then the following 35-year cycle until the USSR collapses in 1989 with the Saturn-Neptune conjunction then. And so you see we have new foundations emerging with the Saturn-Neptune conjunction or co-presence that then define cycles following, sometimes multiple cycles following. The concept is that this conjunction can fundamentally change reality, can formulate and layer new structures that everything will depend on going forward. You have the Armistice sign on 11-11-1918, World War I ends, and then they're still co-present in the 1919, so they still continue on creating these new foundations. Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles signed, and then the Weimar Constitution adopted in Germany, all while that co-presence still exists. That is again this notion, Saturn and Neptune come together in the 19-teens and lay the foundation for the world that will follow for the 35-year cycle or cycles beyond. This is what kids are taught in grade school, that World War I's resolution leads to World War II. In November 1917, you get the Balfour Declaration where there's a promise by Britain to give a so-called homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine written to Lord Rashad. We're still living in the aftermath of that. I mean, that's front and center on our contemporary moment. That peaked last summer as Saturn and Neptune continued to be together in Aries or began to be together in Aries. This was a front and center thing. Is there a genocide in Palestine? What will the world do? What are the new layers being set up now in our world related to Palestine? Well, that has roots in 1917 with the Saturn-Neptune conjunction. That's some of the deeper history of these conjunctions. Let's move forward in time to the conjunctions in 1952 and 1953 in the early years of the Cold War. 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In 1952 and 53, Saturn and Neptune conjoined in the sign of Libra, the sign of the scales. These conjunctions came as the Cold War was getting going. That whole period was defined by tension and contention between the US and the USSR. You might think here about the idea of the balance of power with two great entities in opposition, each striving to avoid being outweighed by the other. The thing about this period in 1950 to 1953 is the Korean War. And this is almost a forgotten war. The seeds that are planted during this time really set up the next 35 years because you had an idea of an armistice or a stalemate. The Korean War never resolved. They just stopped fighting. And then you had this idea of kind of a permanent war with the USSR sponsoring North Korea and America sponsoring South Korea. It's a proxy war and a permanent proxy war which defines the period for the next 35 years. Another country that was in the news back then and now is Iran. On 19 August 1953, CIA-backed coup on behalf of MI6 ousts the democratically elected leader of Iran, Mossadegh. And that was MI6 sending the CIA to overthrow this government on behalf of British Petroleum to capture the oil so that that oil revenue could flow to the West. Of course, they installed their puppet. And that is a defining feature of some of the next cycle. But I think it's more evocative of notions of Cold War, of subterfuge, of intelligence being central, and of running the world through proxy. The technology from this period is so potent. On 14 June 1951, UNIVAC delivered the first commercial computer. So commercial computers become available during this time. Talk about a new foundation and talk about relating to the electricity of 1882 and Edison putting the first electric grid online in New York City. Well, now we've got computers being delivered. Then we have the detonations of the hydrogen bombs. The U.S. detonates the first hydrogen bomb, Ivy Mike, on 1 November 1952. And the Soviet Union detonates its first hydrogen bomb on 12 August 1953. So right in the pocket of these triple pass conjunctions of Saturn and Neptune and Libra. And what we have emerging clearly is this bipolar world driven by superpowers, which have the most deadly weapon known to man at the time. And there it is, right? That defines the cultural geopolitical context for the next 35 years until the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union at another Saturn-Neptune conjunction period in 1989. So the other thing about this period from a technological perspective, which is so fascinating, is that 1951 U.S. television ownership explodes. 1.5 million to 15 million sets. And so it's during this time you get the entry of television. The first commercial computer was made available and the television was made available. And then we saw another round of Saturn-Neptune conjunctions in 1989 and those brought that Libra era to an end. This was actually a triple conjunction with the Promethean planet of Uranus. So it had more of a dramatic and fast acting feel to it than is typical. And a period around that conjunction brought the world we live in today, or at least were living in until recently, into being. Basically, as I've already covered, you get the collapse of the Berlin Wall, you get the breakup of the USSR, you get a whole bunch of huge events that set reality up for the next cycle. New geopolitical structures, old ones die, new ones are born, and new cultural and technological emergences. Tim Berners-Lee proposes the World Wide Web in March 1989, same year. Think of technology, Uranus, a structure, Saturn, and connectivity, Neptune. The conjunction happened in the sign of Capricorn, which as an Earth sign has to do with how commerce is organized. You get the Nintendo Game Boy released April 1989, so you can see computers are becoming more personalized. Laser foundation, it's highly relevant in our world now. We all have a Game Boy-like device that's way more powerful than a Game Boy in our hands. Surfing the net, right? That all comes from the 1989 Neptune-Saturn conjunction, building out new worlds and new realities technologically. This was after the conjunctions had happened, so the triple-pass conjunctions, the final one is 13 November 1989. But just in the aftermath of that into 1990, you had Mandela released from prison, you had Bush on September 11th, 1990, saying that there's a new world order in a speech to Congress. It's a big idea, it's a new world order, and he's talking about the unipolar age of the American-dominated globe. Also published in 1989 that summer was Francis Fukuyama, his article, The End of History, proposing that the liberal democratic institutions win. I think this period from 1989 up through the present that we're living in is defined by like a rules-based order, a so-called Western democratic rules-based order, which is really proxy for America runs everything and does everything, and if you don't do what America says, or America and its powerful allies, I don't think it's just America, I don't mean to pick on America, but effectively you have a unipolar Pax Americana that is operating under this shroud of rules-based order Western democracy. All right, let's now focus on the present and consider what the current conjunction is bringing to the world. What I've noticed on social media is that there seem to be three main conversations going on right now. One of them is about the Epstein files, one is about geopolitics including peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia and a potential US attack on Iran, and one is about AI. And I think all three have to do with this Saturn-Neptune conjunction. The Epstein files, in my opinion, are hugely important. They're revealing the nature of the utterly amoral power structures that stand above politics in the world today. They've revealed that the West and its leaders have been compromised and influenced to act against the interests of their countries. They've laid bare the moral bankruptcy of the Davos class and everything it stands for. If you're playing those files and their revelations down, I think that's a mistake. Bear in mind that they're coming at a time of this massively important conjunction. That right there should clue you into the fact that they're very important. But I already covered this subject in another video on this channel so I suggest you head there for more if you haven't seen that one before you join this stream later this month. What we tend to find in astrology is that people and entities are born at particular conjunctions or aspects between planets are strongly affected when the same planets come into contact again later. Interestingly, many of the people making the news right now were born at those Saturn-Neptune conjunctions of 1952 and 53. Chinese President Xi Jinping is one of them, as is Russian President Vladimir Putin. So was Jeffrey Epstein, and so was Peter Mandelson, his good buddy, whose appointment as a U.S. ambassador for the UK may well end up bringing down Kirstein's government. Another of these figures is a certain Tony Blair. The astrology leads me to suspect that a lot of trouble is in the post of Tony. His new labor project is in the process of being, let's just say, critically re-evaluated. But we're also seeing tectonic shifts in geopolitics. So we're witnessing and living through one of the most important events to seed reality, to lay a new foundation in our reality, both geopolitically and technologically. And it's so exciting because most humans will only ever see two of these, 35 plus 35 is 70. So it's such an exciting, rare thing for a human being to be living through. You get to live through that. I get to live through that. What an exciting thing to be witnessing a new world that's being born and geopolitical and technological emergencies that create the reality that will be here until 2061 when Saturn and Neptune can join in Gemini, whatever that will be to end what's being born now, some of what's being born now. So you're here for this. It's super exciting. Let's continue. What I think is ending from the old cycles is the notion of the unipolar American hegemony under the shroud of rules-based order. Whether you get a more fascistic form of like an American unleashed, dominant, violent, not following rules explicitly, we're seeing some of that emerge, or whether it's just pure multipolarity and there is not a single American power left. It's China rising, Russia asserting itself, and it becomes clear that going out from here, we don't have America being able just to intervene whenever it wants, wherever it wants, under the shroud or cover of the rules-based order or cover of democracy. Russia famously resonates to this cycle. My research has shown me that these conjunctions tend to bring redefining of the Russian border or to Russia's sphere of influence. And as SJ and I covered in this old video, when these conjunctions have happened in Aries, Russia has tended to win victories. Think of 1703 and the founding of St. Petersburg and 1380, the Battle of Kulikovo. We received quite a lot of abuse online for saying that back in 2022. All we're doing is looking at patterns and making educated conjectures. Frankly, some people are so used to consuming propaganda, they think that's all there is. Anyway, what's Russia this year? I think we may well see its frontier with the West recrystallized post-Cold War institutional order, where Russia's down on its luck and NATO can just take over Europe as much as it wants. And China is used to exploit the labor of the Chinese for Western capital ingratiation. This is kind of what we think about as the post-Cold War order, 89 through the present. That's ending, it seems to be ending. I mean, certainly China has emerged. The economy of China has graduated. It's quite mature and they've asserted themselves and their kind of domain over Asia. Now, another of the countries that resonates to the Saturn-Neptune cycle is Japan. The modern Japanese state was reestablished when the Allied occupation ended at a Saturn-Neptune conjunction in 1952. In 1989, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito died and the Emperor Akihito took over. That year, the Japanese Nikkei index reached a peak, but the economy never returned to those heights. And now in 2026, the conservative Japanese Prime Minister Sane Takahichi has just won a landslide victory. One way people are interpreting this election is as a resounding rejection by the Japanese of liberalism and multiculturalism, which Takahichi vocally opposes. She's also promising to revise Article 9 of the Japanese constitution, which says that Japan will not maintain the military. So Japan is probably re-militarizing and this is a big shift. Of course, so is Germany, Japan's World War II ally. So it looks like we're returning to an era of great power competition. Think again of Ares, this sign of the exercise and expression of the will and of power. Of course, the rise of China is part of this story. Chinese President Xi Jinping just this month called for the Chinese currency, the yuan, to become a global reserve currency for international trade. So that's geopolitics, but there are also very interesting things happening in the tech world. It's been clear for some time that some kind of milestone relating to AI was going to come in 2026 and the big question has been, what will it be? We had the birth of the web the last time Saturn and Neptune came together in Capricorn. So what is now ending as it relates to that birth and what's being born or seeded now that will be a new form of technology? And clearly these are AI concepts and AI tools and technologies that are being born right here, 2025, 2026, new tech that will define the next cycle. It's starting to look very much like all the hype about AGI by 2026 was bullshit by hype merchants like Sam Altman. It was designed to stimulate investment in AI companies. I think the solar eclipse of September 2025 in Virgo signaled that the popping of the AI bubble is coming soon, either this year or 2027. But we have seen a seemingly big development in 2026. One of the biggest stories that came out recently has been this MOLT book or an AI agent swarm technology that comes online here just days after Neptune entered Aries, literally two or three days. And it's so profoundly important because if we're looking for like a Thomas Edison style new electric grid technology, what could it be? Well, it is, I think, AI agents, at least partially from what we know now. These AI agents are operating autonomously or semi-autonomously. They're operating continuously with the right programming. And then now these agents communicate together and these open-claw AIs are just running continuously building and doing and making at the behest and instruction of their human masters. What I find interesting here is the resonance of this theme to the sign of Aries, which is the first sign of the zodiac and carries with it the idea of emergence and birth. And also it's a martial sign, so it relates to desire and action. That fits very well with the idea of agents, which are quite literally programs that take action on behalf of humans. One of the aspects of Saturn-Neptune in combination that we should keep in mind is that there seems to be a certain trickiness or slipperiness about what happens under its auspices and how to interpret things. Things happen that are difficult to define and we get a variety of interpretations of them. And so we have a situation now where certain voices are crying loudly that we're awakening some all-powerful artificial entity that's going to replace us all, while others are saying it's all no big deal. My guess is the truth is probably somewhere between those two extremes. AI on the upside can help extend the reach. I mean you can go farther, you can maybe do more, you can have multiple AIs thinking for you or researching for you. Everybody's got PhD level researchers at your fingertips. You just say go research something and it comes back with a report that's really good and improving every day. And so it will extend our capacity as human beings. This is one maybe light side of what's being born here. We're looking for new paradigms, new emergences, new ways of life. This is the archetype of Aries. The birth of the new, the breakthrough, the seed breaking ground and coming out of its shell and then the beginning of the plant that emerges. That's what Aries is. And so at any layer or level we're looking for this idea of the new birth. Alright, thanks for watching this video. Thanks so much to SJ for joining me in this episode. Do seek him out here on YouTube and Instagram. Links to find him are in the description below. In the bonus section of this video, available for members of World Astrology Report, whether here on YouTube or at my website, we look at some of the more troubling things that seem to be emergent right now, including resurgent fascism, communism and eugenics. Thanks for watching and see you again on this channel very soon.