Courage Maker: Saturn in Aries Dramatically Shifts Your Playing Field in 2026
Saturn in Aries doubles up the notion of authority. Yours. Author=Authority. It helps now to imagine the rewards that appear after completing the labor.
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“Laugh. Love. Create. Grow things. Build beauty. Find grace. That’s the act of rebellion now.” —William A. Finnegan
ON FEBRUARY 13, 2026, SATURN will (finally) begin a two-plus-year transit through Aries. As 2025 winds down, now’s the time to consider how the planet shifting into a new element will intersect with your natal Saturn.
I’m going to run these ideas and possibilities through the Golden Dawn’s alchemical teachings on the elements. How seemingly opposite or discordant elements interact with and then transform each other. In this schema, the Fire element is in union with the Water element, which creates the Air element—as a set of solutions to reconcile those adversaries.
The airy harmonization of Fire and Water eventually creates something ‘tangible’ within the world of the Earth element. Something you can see, touch, hear, feel, taste through the senses. No longer ideas, feelings, or forces but tangible some’things.’ But this process requires objectivity and dis-identification to achieve it, you need skin in the game to support the transformation—which is always the central tenet with Saturn.
Saturn transits impart a feeling of pressure and confinement. “You really need to look at this and take care of it, nurture it.” Or conversely, kill it off before progressing. “When is this condition going to fucking change?” That’s a very Saturn-transiting-somewhere question.
In all the ways we try to escape from the cycles of the human body, Saturn puts us back into the driver’s seat, where, as Earthlings—attuned to the general rhythms in the solar system—our body knows best. Consider the necessity for pressure that moves the contents out of a tube of toothpaste. No pressure, and you’re without a means to brush your teeth.