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I want to start with something I keep coming back to.
In January 2020, Saturn and Pluto met in Capricorn for the first time since 1518. Astrologers had been writing about that conjunction for years before it happened, flagging it as a marker of foundational collapse, of old systems being dismantled at the root. Two months later, the world shut down. A global pandemic rewired every institution we’d taken for granted: healthcare, governance, the economy, how we work, how we grieve, how we gather.
You can call that a coincidence. A lot of people do.
But here’s what I find myself sitting with: if that conjunction announced the dismantling, then what do the skies of 2024 through 2026 announce? Because what’s happening right now, the wars, the shifting alliances, the sense that the post-WWII world order is quietly coming apart at the seams, the astrology of this moment is not subtle about it.
What’s Actually Happening in the Sky Right Now
To understand this period, you need to know about three planets: Pluto, Uranus, and Neptune. They move slowly. Pluto takes 248 years to complete one orbit. Neptune takes 165. Uranus, 84. When they change signs, the shift isn’t personal, it’s civilizational. And right now, all three of them are changing signs within a few years of each other — something that hasn’t happened since the mid-18th century.
Pluto entered Aquarius in 2023, where it will remain until 2044. The last time Pluto was in Aquarius was 1778 to 1798, the era of the American and French Revolutions. Pluto rules power, death, and transformation. Aquarius rules the collective, technology, rebellion, and the dismantling of hierarchies. What Pluto does to any sign is strip it down to its core and rebuild it from scratch. The question Pluto in Aquarius is asking is: who actually holds power, and what happens when ordinary people decide they want it back?
Uranus is moving into Gemini in 2025, where it will stay until 2033. Uranus governs sudden disruption, revolution, and the shattering of existing structures. Gemini rules communication, information, duality, and airspace. Every time Uranus has transited Gemini, the world has been at war. The American Revolutionary War. The Civil War. World War II. That’s not a comfortable pattern to sit with, but it’s documented, and I think it deserves to be named directly.
Neptune enters Aries in March 2025, a sign it last occupied during the mid-19th century, a period marked by nationalist movements sweeping across Europe, ideological wars, and the complete redrawing of borders. Neptune dissolves. Aries acts. Together they tend to produce conflicts fueled by ideology and belief rather than clear political logic — wars where nobody’s entirely sure what they’re fighting for, but the feeling of it is overwhelming.
The Historical Patterns Astrologers Are Watching
Mundane astrology, the branch of astrology concerned with world events rather than individual charts, has been mapping war cycles for centuries. And the patterns are striking enough that they’re hard to dismiss once you’ve looked at them.
The Saturn-Pluto conjunction in 2020 is understood as the trigger. Historian-astrologers have noted that current planetary positions bear a structural resemblance to the period between 1937 and 1939, when tensions were building toward global conflict before most of the world was willing to name what was coming. The Uranus-Pluto cycle, which runs approximately 127 years, has historically coincided with periods of major geopolitical upheaval. We’re in a phase of that cycle right now.
And then there’s the Saturn-Neptune conjunction coming in 2026, when both planets meet in Aries. Aries is ruled by Mars, the planet of war. Saturn governs structure, government, and order. Neptune governs illusion, ideology, and the blurring of truth. When these two meet in a Mars-ruled sign, astrologers consistently flag it as a period where military action gets justified by ideology, where the fog of belief makes it hard to see clearly what’s actually happening and why.
What’s Actually Going On in the World Right Now
The war in Ukraine began in February 2022, as Pluto was making its final degrees through Capricorn, the sign of established institutions and existing power structures. Russia’s move was, in astrological terms, a last-gasp assertion of old-world power before the ground shifted beneath it.
Gaza, the tensions in the South China Sea, the fracturing of Western alliances, the internal divisions tearing through the United States — these aren’t isolated events. They feel like pieces of the same reconfiguration. The post-WWII international order, the one built on specific assumptions about who holds power and how that power is maintained, is being stress-tested in real time. Whether what we’re watching is the opening chapter of something larger, or the chaotic labour pains of a new world being born, is the question nobody can fully answer yet.
What I keep thinking about is this: the last time Pluto entered Aquarius, it didn’t just produce revolutions. It produced the Declaration of Independence, the Rights of Man, the end of absolute monarchy as the default form of governance. The disruption was real and it was violent. But what came out of it changed everything. The question isn’t only what we’re losing right now. It’s also what we might be building.
Why Astrology Is Worth Taking Seriously Here
I understand the skepticism. I’ve been on the other side of that conversation. But here’s what I’ve come to believe: astrology isn’t a prediction machine. It doesn’t tell you exactly what will happen or when. What it does is map cycles — and the cycles of human behavior, war, revolution, and transformation have been running on recognizable patterns for longer than we’ve been keeping records.
When an astrologer in 2019 looked at the January 2020 Saturn-Pluto conjunction and wrote about foundational collapse, they weren’t guessing. They were reading a pattern that had repeated across history and trusting that it would repeat again. And it did.
The sky right now is carrying a particular weight. Three outer planets changing signs simultaneously. Uranus entering Gemini for the first time since WWII. Neptune entering Aries for the first time since nationalist wars rewrote the map of Europe. A Saturn-Neptune conjunction in a Mars-ruled sign arriving in 2026.
This doesn’t mean war is inevitable. Every astrologer worth their practice will tell you that free will operates within these cycles, that the same planetary energy that produces destruction can produce renaissance. The 1960s Uranus-Pluto conjunction brought both Vietnam and the civil rights movement. The French Revolution brought both the guillotine and the idea that all people are born equal.
What the sky is saying right now is that we’re in a hinge moment. That the structures of the world we were born into are giving way. That something new is forming, even if we can’t see its shape yet.
What we do with that is still, to some extent, ours to decide.
