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Saturn Enters Aries — Achtung, Baby
Good afternoon —
On Friday, the mighty Saturn — guardian of the edge of the solar system, and the outermost planet until 1781 — turns over a new cycle by entering Aries. The first thing it does is form a conjunction to Neptune — the current official foggy edge of the solar system — the first since 1989. This is a real moment, though for many reasons, you might not be feeling it.
But there’s a good chance you are and don’t know it.
In this week’s article, I describe the New Berlin Wall, which is digital consciousness. You know, the “bubble” effect. Everyone in their “silo.” Everything happening as part of a little tribe or cult, or “compartmentalized.”
Why the Berlin Wall? Well, the last time Saturn and Neptune kissed, the wall fell down, was breached, smashed with hammers and carted off somewhere in dump trucks. I write about the nature of consciousness in our time and how to think of your own existence, your self, in our time of digital overwhelm.
In the Starcast episode above (the third this week), I describe the astrology and also look at the missing element in every single discussion of “artificial intelligence” that I hear, which is the omission of what it’s already done to us and to society.
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Faithfully,
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Planet Waves for ARIES Sun + Rising, Feb. 12, 2026
It’s difficult to have a firm concept of who you are when there are thousands of external influences trying to define you — and often succeeding. Yet the truth only emerges from your inner being. And for that, you need a boundary between inner and outer. Such is the theme of Saturn entering your birth sign Friday, where it will be until 2028. In the physical body, Saturn represents two important concepts, needed for survival on Planet Earth: bones, and skin. Saturn provides both internal structure and external containment. Often associated with walls, the more important concept is the permeable boundary. With Neptune already in your sign (that lasts until 2039), you will be extra-porous, and you need to continuously have a sense of where you end and others begin. And then learn to work that border zone effectively. This will take constant attention and emotional discipline.
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Planet Waves for Feb. 12, 2026 — By Eric Francis
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