The Autumnal Equinox on Monday September 22nd opens with transiting Mars squaring Pluto as Mars quincunxes both Saturn and Neptune who are conjunct each other this year into next Spring when the Solar Eclipse of March 19, 2026, opposes the degree of the September 21, 2025, Solar Eclipse just two days before the Spring Equinox as transiting Mercury turns direct. WHEW!

What does this intricate planetary dance mean (and there’s more)? The Mars, Saturn, Neptune aspect forms a YOD or finger of God configuration indicating a direct, specific intent on the path of evolution. Mars is the fiery, feisty planet of motivation, action, courage, and leadership. Mars in Scorpio quincunxing Saturn and Neptune in Aries “ruled by Mars” is a serious (Saturn) and soulful/intuitive (Neptune) demand to show up, act dynamically, step forward, lead courageously on your own behalf to move toward what is most important to you to achieve at this time in your life. Mars in Scorpio must dig deep into the source, the emotional need, the inner resistance, the profound need and desire to transform your life in an essential way right now. What do you, all of us, most need to do to move toward our most deeply felt purpose/goal? This is Shamanic level action to heal whatever is holding us back from our full potential. No, this level demand is not easy though it is necessary, possible and completely soul supported. 

Transiting Mercury will repeat this YOD on October 6th and 7th extending this energy field and support over the next two weeks until the full moon on October 7th. As the Sun moves into Libra signaling the Autumnal Equinox it will oppose the Saturn/Neptune conjunction which illuminates the rebirthing of our planet, our civilization, ourselves in the now present Age of Aquarius. Aquarius is new, revolutionary, next level, higher frequency, free from the old/stale/restrictive past. As Mercury is the mind, intelligence, message, we are being asked/given the moment to align our minds and our Mars actions with all that we envision for our future – the highest, most powerful vision we can imagine. Pluto in Aquarius is sextile Saturn and Neptune providing the creative energy to make this evolutionary leap forward. 

It’s GO TIME! It is also important to acknowledge that the world around us is reacting to/living these aspects too. Intelligence and action can be used and will be used unconsciously, destructively, even violently, however, it is imperative to maintain our trust in our own direction, the rightness of conscious purpose even and especially in demanding, revolutionary times. 

When Saturn and Neptune meet exactly at 0 degrees of Aries, the Creation degree, in February 2026, we are truly entering a new world. This profound meeting will be at the Ascendant degree of the Astrological chart for humanity declaring the birth of a new expression of humanity, a new world. Birth takes time, is serious labor, can be painful, but the result is better than any imagined possibility. This is the Great Work – to birth the renewed self who can fully participate in the renewal of the world we inhabit.