Saturn in Aries

Saturn entered the sign of Aries on 26 May 2025 and will stay there until 1 September 2025. It will continue to retrograde until it goes direct on 28 November 2025. It will re-enter Aries on 15 February 2026, and it will remain there until 13 April 2028.

SATURN

Saturn has an approximate twenty-nine-year cycle, which means it spends approximately two and a half years per sign. Saturn in astrology represents structure, limits, and order. It is also a time marker, as the Greek version of Saturn is Cronos, from which we get the word chronology. Our life is demarked by our Saturn returns, where we are considered youth up to 29, middle-aged until 58, and then a senior or elder. If you can make it past 87, then you can be considered a living ancestor.

This planet requires serious effort, as it is a taskmaster. If you put in the effort, things will turn out fine. Saturn transits to your natal planets can represent difficulties because you will be asked to re-examine aspects of your life.

The negative manifestation of Saturn can represent difficulties, pessimism, or limited response. In mundane astrology, it rules leaders, jails/jailors, cold things, zealots, slaves, science, Africans, and oppression, to name a few.

You have heard of the term, the seven-year itch. Since Saturn has a 29-year cycle, every seven years, Saturn will conjoin, square, oppose, and square your Venus, the planet of relationships. It will make you question your relationship.

ARIES

The sign of Aries is energetic, action-oriented, and can be full of conflict. Ares was the Greek God of War, and the sign is ruled by the planet Mars, named after the Roman God of War. Therefore Aires are not afraid to butt heads and do not shy from confrontation. In its negative manifestation, it can look for conflict just for its own sake.

Aries has a me-first energy, which can translate into a pioneering mentality. Aries, therefore, can be the essence of go-getter energy.

NOW WHAT?

History tends to repeat itself, but with astrology, the good thing is we can examine the past to give us an idea of what can happen.

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April 1849-May 1851, November 1851-February 1852

Saturn rules slavery and Aries wars, so the energy of this period could be the fight against oppression. It is fitting that during this period, debates over slavery started to intensify in the United States, setting the stage for the Civil War.  With that, Harriet Tubman began her work on the Underground Railroad to help slaves escape to freedom. In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe published her anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Boston. However, these challenges were not limited to the USA only but also to Suriname, where the new regulations went into effect to improve conditions for slaves and led to the eventual abolition a few years later.

The stage was being set for women’s suffrage. Women have been suppressed for millennia, but they started to stand up for themselves, holding the very several women’s rights conventions in the United States in Seneca Falls, New York and Worcester, Massachusetts. This period brought the rise of key activist figures like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Also, the escaped slave, Sojourner Truth, addressed the first Black Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, giving her famous ‘Ain’t I a Woman?’ speech.

Saturn is about leaders, and with Aries, we get rebellions against leaders. This period saw the Taiping rebellion against the Qing Dynasty in China begin in 1850, which caused widespread chaos to escalate for years. Canada was not a country then, but the governor of Canada, Lord Elgin, had his carriage stoned by Tories because he sanctioned the Rebellion Losses Bill. They subsequently burned the Parliament House in Montreal. Meanwhile, in France, President Charles Louis Bonaparte staged a coup d’etat to overthrow the Second Republic and established himself as Emperor of France.

Robert Mcclure represents the pioneering aspect, having made the first expedition across the Northwest Passage, including some of the journey over ice (Saturn). French engineer Henri Giffard made the first engine-powered dirigible flight using steam power.

May – September 1878, February 1879-April 1881

Some countries ceded the power of their territories to other countries during this period. The Treaty of San Stefano gave Russia less influence within the old Ottoman Empire. In West Pondoland, the tribal chief signed a treaty ceding sovereign rights and shipping to the Cape government of Southern Africa, and Turkey ceded Cyprus to Britain for administrative purposes.

The themes from the last Saturn in Aries continued during this period, with the first feminist newspaper published in Paris in 1881 and the athlete Andrew Watson becoming the world’s first Black international football player and captain of the Scottish national team.

On a less positive note, the switch from the slavery of Blacks to anti-Jewish sentiments started around this period with the anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem. Germans started a petition to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany, garnering 250,000 signatures. In Russia, it was worse as the pogroms against Russian Jews started in Elisabethgrad. There were more than 250 anti-Jewish riots during this period.

Despite the negativity, there were also significant technological advances:

• Scottish Canadian Sir Sanford Fleming proposed that the world be divided into 24 sections, which we now refer to as time zones.
• This period saw the first phonograph produced and the first moving picture
• The first artificial ice rink in North America was built in Madison Square Garden, New York City
• The first horse-drawn mobile home, which was used for a journey from London to Cyprus
• In 1879, Thomas Edison perfected the cotton filament light bulb
• Thomas Elkins patents a refrigerating apparatus.
• Construction of the Panama Canal begins.

March 1908-May 1910, mid-December 1910 to mid-January 1911

In 1910, Portugal, which is a Piscean/Arian country, became a republic as King Manuel II fled to England.

In the USA, February 1909 saw the creation of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP), which continued the theme of emancipation from the previous Saturn in Aries. Meanwhile, in Britain, the Old Age Pension Law was passed, providing a pension for every British subject over 70 with a low income. Keep in mind Saturn rules old things.

As far as women’s movements go, the first National Woman’s Day is observed in honour of the 1908 garment workers’ strike in New York. In March 1908, Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris became the first licensed female pilot, the same year the warrior (Aries) Joan of Arc received beatification by the Roman Catholic Church at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.

Saturn in Aries brings out more inventions. Some of the ones that came out in this period are as follows:

• The first airship with passengers, the Zeppelin LZ7Deutschland
• Orville Wright successfully tests the Wright Military Flyer, the world’s first military aeroplane, making a record flight of 72 minutes, flying a distance of approximately 64 km
• the first patent for synthetic rubber was granted to German chemist Fritz Hofmann
• Alva Fisher receives US patent for an electric washing machine
• Inventor Leo Baekeland patents the first thermosetting plastic, Bakelite. This sparked the birth of the plastics industry
• The first commercially successful electric bus line opens in Los Angeles
• Eugene Ely pilots the first aeroplane to take off from the deck of a ship in Norfolk, Virginia

April 1937-October 1937, January 1938-July 1939, September 1939–March 1940

This transit demarks the events leading to the beginning of World War II, with Benito Mussolini publishing his anti-Jewish/African manifesto. Adolf Hitler seized control of the German army and posted his Nazi party members in key political posts. Germany seizes Czechoslovakia Austria, and starts the war with the invasion of Poland. Italy invaded Albania, and the Spanish Civil War continued, but with Francisco Franco’s army taking Madrid. Japan and China began the Second Sino-Japanese War with the battle of Shanghai, which involved one million troops. On the other hand, Mahatma Gandhi begins his hunger strike to protest autocratic rule, taking the path of peace.

Continuing with the anti-Jewish sentiment of the last Saturn in the Aries cycle, since Jews are ruled by Saturn and in the war like Aries, the Nazis started to murder Jews in Warsaw in November of 1939.

Saturn can also bring about some technological advancements, such as

• American chemist Roy J. Plunkett invented Teflon at DuPont
• LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) is developed by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland
• The first helicopter, the VS-300, was designed by Igor Sikorsky in Stratford, Connecticut
• German dirigible Hindenburg explodes at Lakehurst, New Jersey, which was made famous in pop culture being on Led Zeppelin’s first album cover. This disaster shifted the public away from airships.
• Pan Am operates the first trans-Pacific flight.

In pop culture, hardened superheroes Batman and Superman first appear. Both reflect the fighting nature of Aries and the hardened stance of Saturn, with Batman as the Dark Knight and the serious Superman. Another major literary release came out in 1937, the Hobbit—a story of suppression with the Saturn in Aries themes.

March 1967- April 1969

This next entry of Saturn in Aries continued some similar themes. Although this period contained the Summer of Love, it wasn’t so all the time.

While Australians hold a constitutional referendum to make changes to benefit Indigenous Australians and count them in the national census, and the UK To Sir With Love is released, in the USA, race riots were starting in Newark, New Jersey, then Cairo, Illinois, and then in July in Detroit which was sung about in Gordon Lightfoot’s song Black Day in July overshadowing the achievement of Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. being named the first black astronaut. Those events were followed by the 4 April 1968 assassination of African-American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., resulting in riots in over 100 cities in the United States. On 5 June 1968, Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert F. Kennedy and wounded five others in Los Angeles, California. Kennedy died the next day.

Saturn represents the leader, and that boss needs to be changed at times. Hence, in this period, Dominica, St Lucia, and Uganda gained independence from Britain. One million French demonstrated against Charles De Gaulle & Georges Pompidou, and a few weeks later, President De Gaulle disbanded the French parliament. Joseph Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Allilueva defected from the USSR to the USA, scoring a major public relations victory for the USA during the Cold War. In August 1968, 250,000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia to put down the Prague Spring, a victory for the other side.

Northern Ireland’s first civil rights march was held in August 1968, with more marches held over the following year. The Loyalists organized counter-demonstrations to get the marches banned, which launched the beginning of the Troubles.

With the invention of the atomic bomb during World War II, there was no interest in developing the bomb further, especially during the Cold War. The USA, the USSR, and France all performed tests.

The US and USSR are in the space race sending missions to the Moon. The USA succeeded in landing Surveyor 3 on the surface and also sending three Apollo 8 astronauts on a mission to circle the Moon. The Mariner 6 was launched for a Mars flyby to study the planet’s atmosphere.

Some medical advances happened during this period. The first and second heart transplants were performed within months of each other, and the first DNA was created in a test tube.

April 1996–June 1998, November 1998-February 1999

On 1 January 1999, the Euro was officially introduced as an electronic currency for banking and financial transactions in 11 member states of the European Union. A new leader in the terrorist world entered the stage with Osama bin Laden issuing a message entitled “A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places”, which would start years of terrorist activity.

As seen in Saturn in Aries, territories being handed over seems to be a theme. The big one in this period was the handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the People’s Republic of China at midnight on 1 July 1997.

The leadership (Saturn) under threat is another theme, and while this one was not violent, there was an impeachment of the US president as a result of the fallout with the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky scandal.

In April 1998, the British and Irish governments sign the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement for Northern Ireland. The agreement ended most of the Troubles violence which had started during the last Saturn in Aries period. In May, 75% of people vote in favour of the Good Friday Agreement in a referendum in Northern Ireland.

China is testing nuclear weapons, and in September 1996, US President Bill Clinton signed the “Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty” at the United Nations. On 11 December 1997, the Kyoto Protocol was signed, where nations pledged to reduce greenhouse gasses.

Mad cow disease had spread across the world, resulting in the culling of millions of cows worldwide.

Scientific advancements during this period include Dolly, the successful cloning of a sheep, and the landing of two vehicles on Mars, the Pathfinder and Sojourner.

26 May 2025-1 September 2025, 15 February 2026-13 April 2028

What will happen next? Will Ukraine cede territory to Russia and Taiwan to China? Will there be another world war?  What world leader or dictator will fall due to the will of the people? What scientific advancements will happen? Will a base on Mars be possible?