there have only been a couple of passages in my life ( turning 69 in a month from today) where my dreaming has been this intense. I've a stellium in Libra in the 12th and am adept at the dreaming thing ( natal neptune conj asc, moon etc) but man, this past month has been exhausting. i am moving, packing, traveling, missing trains and planes, old dead friends come visiting in startling presence. i wake up pooped. just ordered some mushroom gummies. hope they help. the Sat/ Nep conjuction smacks around my Merc in Libra, hence all the travel to the underworlds.
Well, if there’s one key planet traveling the bardos it’s Mercury, so you’re mainlining the effects of this transit in a succinct way. The transit in general is very much a lived experience of the Tao, for those who can open to that process.
And Mercury in Libra knows how the feminine and the masculine support each other.
The opp will force you to look at the side of the equation you haven’t considered or have a blind spot toward.
Track back fourteen years to see what seeds were planted during your Saturn return. What started then as an idea or new stance is coming to fruition now.
Establish a new set of values and that might remake your spiritual/philosophical beliefs.
This might feel like a tough love phase but it will resolve into tears of relief and a welcome respite.
I can only focus on one aspect as I detailed in the video. I’ll consider the trine to Mars. This is a wonderful way to reconnect to the Martian drive you came into this life to champion. Unfettered truth telling, and fighting for clarity amidst a world that is DISCONNECTED from reality. You can remind us of the noble and honorable parts of being human.
So it’s Saturn retrograding that will give chapters 2 and 3 of the opposition.
Also, Saturn being succinct you’ll be able parse out much better the individual expression of each of the planets and light in the stellium—for a Virgo this is great news (the pinpointing). Perhaps different people, representing each of the points will show up in your life now.
Saturn wants to clarify and make concrete your relationship to the universe — to challenge your belief systems — this might mean claiming your own voice and finding ways to communicate it with others (given the 3rd/9th houses).
This is like discovering your dream partner who also is a teacher — and who might just be the Wise Woman within yourself (to use that Jungian concept).
Your ascendant is being opposed…and after the Neptune transit that’s finishing up, Saturn is returning to put pressure on defining yourself with more clarity.
Virgo ascendants are interested in refinement as an expression of beauty — not perfection, but refinement.
This is a wonderful opposition that can reveal for you viscerally the power of self-expression when shared within a group or school or in public service.
Jupiter in the 11th can really shine in this regard, although Saturn in the mix by transit is bringing an adjustment or balance into play after a bout of depression/deflation.
Saturn (order) and Neptune (chaos) is an opportunity to strengthen resolve in powers and process that are larger than the control of the ego. In other words aligning with something akin to the Tao.
Your Sagittarius moon will help mitigate some of the contradictory signals radiating from the transit occurring in your 10th house. As you’ll need to bring your innate philosophical approach to counter depression or confusion. There’s no avoiding that alchemy as fire signs are involved.
Saturn at the midheaven denotes optimal strength in giving full expression to all of the skills you’ve developed since birth. but they must be forged into a brand new enterprise. This is about discretion/discrimination making way for a bold leap into the unknown.
There should also be a focus applied to your maternal lineage, and what some of the various traits and artistic expressions/temperaments have come down to you from the matriarchal gene pool in your family.
Let me see if I say this correctly: the Saturn/Neptune conjunction (?) is moving towards my Mars at 16 degrees Aries in my second house. I always associate the second house with resources. My husband and I have been "downsizing," getting rid of possessions that no longer hold meaning for us. Finding good homes for these lovely things that are weighing us down. Having dealt with dead relatives who were hoarders, I have vowed to clean up my act before I pass so I won't burden my step-son with tons of crap that's meaningless to him.
So you're a couple of years away from Saturn actually conjuncting your Mars in the second, BUT, you are definitely riding out the bardo vibes (with its association to the death phase) by heightening awareness about 1. the reality of death, 2. the truth of 'you can't take it with you' and 3. your consideration and sensitivity towards those who will be in charge after 'lift-off.'
The keyword I focused on in your comment is 'meaning' -- and this is one of the more profound teachings of the Sat/Nep conjunction.
Saturn is involved with how we establish meaning in our lives (in very literal ways: career, achievement, legacy, etc.), but Neptune puts all of that into question and makes us ask who/what am I when void of meaning?
This is an excellent meditation to take on. This is why I keep repeating to all of my clients now: study the Tao; more than it being a 'way' as it's often called, but as a continual PROCESS.
Thanks, Frederick. It's interesting because I have a self-help guru character in my book who believes he's "mastered" the spiritual process, which he uses to fuel his ego. I call it Enlightened Self-Interest. As opposed to the true seeker who is always questioning, because once you think you know the answer, you stop inquiring. Keep up the great work, I have been telling all my friends how great it is to watch your videos, and how you put all the political brou-ha-ha into a cosmic perspective.
Thanks for the prompt. I've done a lot of naval gazing at my chart so I think I know what it is about but if you have any additional insights, lay them on me!
I'm a Libra rising so in the whole house system, it's in my 7th house. Saturn is in Cancer, Mars in Cap, and Neptune on my North Node in the 2nd. I was the 4th of 9 kids in a chaotic religious home with lots of fighting... so it appears I'm being brought back home to take a deeper look at this via the national stage. I have to say that it's pretty much the same hell as I had growing up, but I'm determined to break on through to the other side. My time with Gurdjieff was definitely helpful.
You've highlighted the hot spot in your details about family; namely, Saturn in Cancer. Not an easy placement to integrate as one must (usually) develop a sense of family beyond or outside the clan of origin. This takes courage in a culture that puts inordinate pressure on nuclear families as happens in a Cancer culture like the United States.
Confusion/clarity, confusion/clarity -- that's the pulse of the Sat/Nep conjunction. In your seventh that's like those experiences/qualities staring you right in the face. And you're correct to assign credit to your Fourth Way teachings as a way to DISIDENTIFY. Actually, that's the key to Saturn in Cancer as well--disidentification, meaning: Yes, I came from this family, but I'm not required to remain in it.
Yes, too many markers -- pick one planet to focus on, as I requested in the video, and reply to this comment with it, and I'll analyze it. Also, I do not work with Black Moons, asteroids, etc.
When Jupiter and Saturn become entangled it is a tussle between adventure and conservatism.
With Neptune in the mix that will turn this koan into a new spiritual or philosophical understanding for you, but it will take time and applied effort (Saturn). This can feel drawn out as the conjunction doesn't finalize until Feb of next year, so you're in a preparatory (ready, set, go) phase right now.
Depression or loss of faith can accompany the Jup/Saturn square, but try and see that downward arc as a way of divesting yourself from BS (belief systems) that limit you by (perhaps) keeping you aligned with dogma, which always kill off Jupiter's expansive optimism and curiosity for the new.
This is high-octane alchemy at play, taken to a mythic level with Neptune involved.
These aspects to the Pisces and Virgo placements have already occured, so I'll talk about the transit moving from your 10th to your 11th house.
This shifts attention to developing spiritual friendships. Finding allies within your community, social circle, school, clubs, etc. that offer support to expressing your personal insights and 'visions' related to the Saturn-Neptune conjunction. Because Saturn in Aries is involved you could be required to step up as a leader, or teacher or example within said group.
But first comes the two conjunctions, the one currently playing out and then when the planets are exactly conjunct in February of 2026. So this is a warm-up phase for you.
Get off the internet and move back into the real world of people and gatherings and organizations that interest you and require physical presence (Saturn) for the inspirational (Neptune) transmissions to be received.
So the pressure is on to give expression to the Jupiter in Leo placement, which finds optimal ease when the self steps forward as an inspirational visionary. This can play out in myriad ways, depending on the rest of your chart placements, but the square to the ascendant will force you to develop a structure of some kind that can channel or house the energy related to the trine to Jupiter.
Leo placements often unnerve Capricorn placements, so you'll need to get a handle on your inner critic to allow you the freedom of expression that's seeded into the promise of this transit.
Saturn Neptune conjunction in 1st House conjunct 5° ASC. But I am most curious to see how the Quincunx to my 8th house ♏ plays out with my N. Node at 2° then Uranus at 8°.
I don't work with quincunx aspects, so I'll focus on the conjunction setting off your ascendant.
This remakes one's relationship to time and time's impact on our physical presence, meaning: our body.
The process of aging and the psychological states that accompany that awareness are critical now. This makes you a sort of 'poster child' for the bardo elements related to this transit.
There's a rhythm to Saturn/Neptune that matches the contractions that accompany birth and the phases that accompany death. Learn more about these in a visceral way now through yoga, meditation, contemplation, or anything that involves the body in the process of opening up to new Neptunian channels.
Consider exploring Tibetan books that detail the various phases associated with the bardos.
Thank you 🙏💜 It sounds like I'm already ahead of (working with) this transit. I follow the Tao and have read many Tibetan and Buddhist texts, I also have practiced meditation, Qigong and Yoga daily for going on 12 years now. I have had to adjust some of my practices due to age and a torn rotator cuff- I just can't Mars (force/push) my way through anymore. I find following the Tao to be quite beneficial to many transits as I am already allowing what is as well as aware that the only constant is change. Being a Scorpio (8th) I know that death is not only a part of life, but that the many "deaths" I've faced in my life have given me the opportunities to go deep and do soul work in order to evolve and to be able to better stay centered when the outside world is in Chaos. ☯️💫🔥
So this will touch off or perhaps undo your tendency to defer to the emotional needs of others before owning and honoring your own emotional responses.
Moon in the 8th needs to find a way to be at peace with death, and once that becomes more of a conscious meditation/contemplation in life the sort of security that moon desires will configure.
The opposition in effect now and then again in February next year should galvanize deeper explorations into esoterica, the occult, psychotherapy, or any expression that works with taboo topics or realms considered off the beaten path in life.
But first comes the more mature alignment with the reality of death, the bardo conjuring of the Sat/Nep conjunction will help conjure this.
The 12th house transit puts a focus on surrender. Never an easy dance for the control-obsessed, security-driven ego. Having Taurus rising (perhaps) can make the transit feel like TMI, when it comes to your dream life and relationship to the unconscious.
The trine aspect can assist by finding ways to channel the 12th house transmissions.
Moon and Mercury together are wonderful compliments/playmates, espeically when it comes to crafting (Mercury) your various lunar skill sets.
This could also show up by fine-tuning your keen ability to articulate emotions through writing, poetry, puzzle solving, and things that unite the left and right hemispheres of the brain. This makes you a sort of receiving agent (antennae) for the Sat/Nep conjunction, a mouthpiece if you will.
Saturn Neptune conjunction is 1) trining Moon; 2) squaring Mars; 3) sextiling Chiron. Thanks
The need to refine how your physical energy works to deepen your sense of comfort and domesticity.
Galvanize your efforts to clean up and clear out what adds confusion in your life, ie: habits, clutter, anything nonessential should be phased out.
I do not work with Chiron or sextiles.
there have only been a couple of passages in my life ( turning 69 in a month from today) where my dreaming has been this intense. I've a stellium in Libra in the 12th and am adept at the dreaming thing ( natal neptune conj asc, moon etc) but man, this past month has been exhausting. i am moving, packing, traveling, missing trains and planes, old dead friends come visiting in startling presence. i wake up pooped. just ordered some mushroom gummies. hope they help. the Sat/ Nep conjuction smacks around my Merc in Libra, hence all the travel to the underworlds.
Well, if there’s one key planet traveling the bardos it’s Mercury, so you’re mainlining the effects of this transit in a succinct way. The transit in general is very much a lived experience of the Tao, for those who can open to that process.
And Mercury in Libra knows how the feminine and the masculine support each other.
The opp will force you to look at the side of the equation you haven’t considered or have a blind spot toward.
Saturn/Neptune: Conjunct Venus, Opposite Saturn
Track back fourteen years to see what seeds were planted during your Saturn return. What started then as an idea or new stance is coming to fruition now.
Establish a new set of values and that might remake your spiritual/philosophical beliefs.
This might feel like a tough love phase but it will resolve into tears of relief and a welcome respite.
The two goliaths are slogging their way through the basement (4th H). They're both trine to
Mars in Sagittarius @ the ASC. Meanwhile, they square the Cancer Moon/Uranus conjunction
over in the 8th H.
I can only focus on one aspect as I detailed in the video. I’ll consider the trine to Mars. This is a wonderful way to reconnect to the Martian drive you came into this life to champion. Unfettered truth telling, and fighting for clarity amidst a world that is DISCONNECTED from reality. You can remind us of the noble and honorable parts of being human.
Saturn Neptune conjunction in 3rd house opposing lunar stellium (Moon, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto) which are in the late degrees of Virgo
So it’s Saturn retrograding that will give chapters 2 and 3 of the opposition.
Also, Saturn being succinct you’ll be able parse out much better the individual expression of each of the planets and light in the stellium—for a Virgo this is great news (the pinpointing). Perhaps different people, representing each of the points will show up in your life now.
Saturn wants to clarify and make concrete your relationship to the universe — to challenge your belief systems — this might mean claiming your own voice and finding ways to communicate it with others (given the 3rd/9th houses).
Thanks!
Conjunction is on my descendant of 29 degrees Pisces.
This is like discovering your dream partner who also is a teacher — and who might just be the Wise Woman within yourself (to use that Jungian concept).
Your ascendant is being opposed…and after the Neptune transit that’s finishing up, Saturn is returning to put pressure on defining yourself with more clarity.
Virgo ascendants are interested in refinement as an expression of beauty — not perfection, but refinement.
Thank you for this Frederick. And thank you for all your interesting videos and such insightful astrology. I love your work.
♥️♥️♥️
Saturn & Neptune in 5th House opposing Jupiter in the 11th. Thank you!
This is a wonderful opposition that can reveal for you viscerally the power of self-expression when shared within a group or school or in public service.
Jupiter in the 11th can really shine in this regard, although Saturn in the mix by transit is bringing an adjustment or balance into play after a bout of depression/deflation.
Saturn (order) and Neptune (chaos) is an opportunity to strengthen resolve in powers and process that are larger than the control of the ego. In other words aligning with something akin to the Tao.
Thank you so much Frederick!
♥️♥️♥️
Saturn/Neptune are in my 10th house squaring my 6th house Sagg Moon. Thanks!!!
Your Sagittarius moon will help mitigate some of the contradictory signals radiating from the transit occurring in your 10th house. As you’ll need to bring your innate philosophical approach to counter depression or confusion. There’s no avoiding that alchemy as fire signs are involved.
Saturn at the midheaven denotes optimal strength in giving full expression to all of the skills you’ve developed since birth. but they must be forged into a brand new enterprise. This is about discretion/discrimination making way for a bold leap into the unknown.
There should also be a focus applied to your maternal lineage, and what some of the various traits and artistic expressions/temperaments have come down to you from the matriarchal gene pool in your family.
Let me see if I say this correctly: the Saturn/Neptune conjunction (?) is moving towards my Mars at 16 degrees Aries in my second house. I always associate the second house with resources. My husband and I have been "downsizing," getting rid of possessions that no longer hold meaning for us. Finding good homes for these lovely things that are weighing us down. Having dealt with dead relatives who were hoarders, I have vowed to clean up my act before I pass so I won't burden my step-son with tons of crap that's meaningless to him.
So you're a couple of years away from Saturn actually conjuncting your Mars in the second, BUT, you are definitely riding out the bardo vibes (with its association to the death phase) by heightening awareness about 1. the reality of death, 2. the truth of 'you can't take it with you' and 3. your consideration and sensitivity towards those who will be in charge after 'lift-off.'
The keyword I focused on in your comment is 'meaning' -- and this is one of the more profound teachings of the Sat/Nep conjunction.
Saturn is involved with how we establish meaning in our lives (in very literal ways: career, achievement, legacy, etc.), but Neptune puts all of that into question and makes us ask who/what am I when void of meaning?
This is an excellent meditation to take on. This is why I keep repeating to all of my clients now: study the Tao; more than it being a 'way' as it's often called, but as a continual PROCESS.
Thanks, Frederick. It's interesting because I have a self-help guru character in my book who believes he's "mastered" the spiritual process, which he uses to fuel his ego. I call it Enlightened Self-Interest. As opposed to the true seeker who is always questioning, because once you think you know the answer, you stop inquiring. Keep up the great work, I have been telling all my friends how great it is to watch your videos, and how you put all the political brou-ha-ha into a cosmic perspective.
I need to schedule you for later this month to come on and do a video cast with me, Rachel. So I’ll be in touch with you about that.
Thanks for the prompt. I've done a lot of naval gazing at my chart so I think I know what it is about but if you have any additional insights, lay them on me!
I'm a Libra rising so in the whole house system, it's in my 7th house. Saturn is in Cancer, Mars in Cap, and Neptune on my North Node in the 2nd. I was the 4th of 9 kids in a chaotic religious home with lots of fighting... so it appears I'm being brought back home to take a deeper look at this via the national stage. I have to say that it's pretty much the same hell as I had growing up, but I'm determined to break on through to the other side. My time with Gurdjieff was definitely helpful.
You've highlighted the hot spot in your details about family; namely, Saturn in Cancer. Not an easy placement to integrate as one must (usually) develop a sense of family beyond or outside the clan of origin. This takes courage in a culture that puts inordinate pressure on nuclear families as happens in a Cancer culture like the United States.
Confusion/clarity, confusion/clarity -- that's the pulse of the Sat/Nep conjunction. In your seventh that's like those experiences/qualities staring you right in the face. And you're correct to assign credit to your Fourth Way teachings as a way to DISIDENTIFY. Actually, that's the key to Saturn in Cancer as well--disidentification, meaning: Yes, I came from this family, but I'm not required to remain in it.
Amazing. Thank you!
Like the bardo reference
Saturn /Neptune are transiting my 4 house squaring my Jupiter in 2nd (Cap) and Part of Fortune and Black Moon Lilith in 7th house (Gemini).
They are trining my sun in 1 st Sagg.
Too complicated? 🤓
Yes, too many markers -- pick one planet to focus on, as I requested in the video, and reply to this comment with it, and I'll analyze it. Also, I do not work with Black Moons, asteroids, etc.
Square to Jupiter
When Jupiter and Saturn become entangled it is a tussle between adventure and conservatism.
With Neptune in the mix that will turn this koan into a new spiritual or philosophical understanding for you, but it will take time and applied effort (Saturn). This can feel drawn out as the conjunction doesn't finalize until Feb of next year, so you're in a preparatory (ready, set, go) phase right now.
Depression or loss of faith can accompany the Jup/Saturn square, but try and see that downward arc as a way of divesting yourself from BS (belief systems) that limit you by (perhaps) keeping you aligned with dogma, which always kill off Jupiter's expansive optimism and curiosity for the new.
This is high-octane alchemy at play, taken to a mythic level with Neptune involved.
They are at the end of my 10th house. They’ve gone over my moon at 17 Pisces. North node 20 Pisces and oppose Pluto 26 Virgo. Thank you!!
These aspects to the Pisces and Virgo placements have already occured, so I'll talk about the transit moving from your 10th to your 11th house.
This shifts attention to developing spiritual friendships. Finding allies within your community, social circle, school, clubs, etc. that offer support to expressing your personal insights and 'visions' related to the Saturn-Neptune conjunction. Because Saturn in Aries is involved you could be required to step up as a leader, or teacher or example within said group.
But first comes the two conjunctions, the one currently playing out and then when the planets are exactly conjunct in February of 2026. So this is a warm-up phase for you.
Get off the internet and move back into the real world of people and gatherings and organizations that interest you and require physical presence (Saturn) for the inspirational (Neptune) transmissions to be received.
Thank you! That all feels right. So easy to get off track and distracted right now. Thank you for doing this. :)
This Saturn/ Neptune combo is traveling through my 3rd and closely (1 degree) trining my Jupiter at 2 Leo, while squaring my Ascendant at 2 Capricorn.
So the pressure is on to give expression to the Jupiter in Leo placement, which finds optimal ease when the self steps forward as an inspirational visionary. This can play out in myriad ways, depending on the rest of your chart placements, but the square to the ascendant will force you to develop a structure of some kind that can channel or house the energy related to the trine to Jupiter.
Leo placements often unnerve Capricorn placements, so you'll need to get a handle on your inner critic to allow you the freedom of expression that's seeded into the promise of this transit.
Noted! Thank you so much ⚡️💖
Saturn Neptune conjunction in 1st House conjunct 5° ASC. But I am most curious to see how the Quincunx to my 8th house ♏ plays out with my N. Node at 2° then Uranus at 8°.
Thank you Frederick🙏💫
I don't work with quincunx aspects, so I'll focus on the conjunction setting off your ascendant.
This remakes one's relationship to time and time's impact on our physical presence, meaning: our body.
The process of aging and the psychological states that accompany that awareness are critical now. This makes you a sort of 'poster child' for the bardo elements related to this transit.
There's a rhythm to Saturn/Neptune that matches the contractions that accompany birth and the phases that accompany death. Learn more about these in a visceral way now through yoga, meditation, contemplation, or anything that involves the body in the process of opening up to new Neptunian channels.
Consider exploring Tibetan books that detail the various phases associated with the bardos.
Thank you 🙏💜 It sounds like I'm already ahead of (working with) this transit. I follow the Tao and have read many Tibetan and Buddhist texts, I also have practiced meditation, Qigong and Yoga daily for going on 12 years now. I have had to adjust some of my practices due to age and a torn rotator cuff- I just can't Mars (force/push) my way through anymore. I find following the Tao to be quite beneficial to many transits as I am already allowing what is as well as aware that the only constant is change. Being a Scorpio (8th) I know that death is not only a part of life, but that the many "deaths" I've faced in my life have given me the opportunities to go deep and do soul work in order to evolve and to be able to better stay centered when the outside world is in Chaos. ☯️💫🔥
Hi! Love your work. Anyway I'm at 27 degree Pisces rising w Saturn Neptune in the 1st house. Moon at 1 degree libra.
So this will touch off or perhaps undo your tendency to defer to the emotional needs of others before owning and honoring your own emotional responses.
Moon in the 8th needs to find a way to be at peace with death, and once that becomes more of a conscious meditation/contemplation in life the sort of security that moon desires will configure.
The opposition in effect now and then again in February next year should galvanize deeper explorations into esoterica, the occult, psychotherapy, or any expression that works with taboo topics or realms considered off the beaten path in life.
But first comes the more mature alignment with the reality of death, the bardo conjuring of the Sat/Nep conjunction will help conjure this.
Saturn Neptune conjunction is in my 12th trining my Moon and Mercury
The 12th house transit puts a focus on surrender. Never an easy dance for the control-obsessed, security-driven ego. Having Taurus rising (perhaps) can make the transit feel like TMI, when it comes to your dream life and relationship to the unconscious.
The trine aspect can assist by finding ways to channel the 12th house transmissions.
Moon and Mercury together are wonderful compliments/playmates, espeically when it comes to crafting (Mercury) your various lunar skill sets.
This could also show up by fine-tuning your keen ability to articulate emotions through writing, poetry, puzzle solving, and things that unite the left and right hemispheres of the brain. This makes you a sort of receiving agent (antennae) for the Sat/Nep conjunction, a mouthpiece if you will.