A Brave New World- Neptune entered Aries

Tonight, on January 26, 2026, Neptune entered Aries, where it will remain until May 2038. It is now crossing the Aries Point — a moment of profound significance.

The Aries Point symbolizes the threshold: the birth of a new cycle, the emergence of a new era, and the moment when something entirely unprecedented begins to take form. It is the place where collective history turns a corner and the future starts to announce itself.

With Neptune — the planet of dreams, ideals, spirituality, and collective consciousness — activating this point, humanity is stepping into uncharted territory. This is the first time in our lifetime that we will experience this energy: a dissolving of old paradigms paired with the ignition of a new vision, asking us to imagine, embody, and initiate a different way of being.

Neptune in Aries is ruled by Mars.

We see the exact conjunction of Mars and Pluto in Aquarius too. This is not an isolated event, and it is not something that happens suddenly. It represents the culmination of a long process in which the collective consciousness has been making compromises with its own autonomy. People have accepted systems that promised safety, order, or belonging, while requiring the surrender of personal power in return.

Pluto in Aquarius is not only about tearing down systems from the outside. It is about revealing where we have given them authority internally. When Pluto is activated, what breaks down is the inner reason we have continued to support it. Mars in this conjunction does not symbolize “unnecessary” rage or violence, but an instinct that can no longer be suppressed. The body reacts because a boundary has been crossed. The mind can no longer rationalize what the soul already knows.

This experience is not new for the collective. There is memory here. There are repeating patterns. We have lived through times when ideologies were presented as liberation and ended as mechanisms of control. The difference now is that there is no longer enough inner energy to sustain this pattern without crisis.

Pluto in Aquarius exposes false ideas of freedom by pushing them to their limits. The external conflicts we see are reflections of internal dynamics: fear, the habit of looking outside ourselves for authority, and the expectation that a system will take responsibility for us.

Neptune at Aries Point marks the end of a deep collective dream — but it does not automatically bring clarity, at least not while Neptune is at the Aries Point. This is where confusion arises between the impulses of the soul and the impulses of the ego. Many will believe they are acting from a higher calling (even to go to war), but therein lies the danger of sacrifice — even mass sacrifice.

That is why Saturn enters Aries after Neptune (mid-February), as an evolutionary corrective. Saturn will not prevent action, but it will demand responsibility for its consequences. Those who attempt to provoke a major war or assume leadership roles with arrogance and without inner maturity will face rapid and direct karmic repercussions.

With Saturn and Neptune in Aries, any authority that is not based on integrity simply cannot endure. What we are witnessing is not a collective awakening in the romantic sense…

The evolutionary leap now happens individually — but within the collective.

If the inner hierarchy does not change its foundation, the external system will be rebuilt again — the same as before, only under a different name.

Throughout February 2026, Neptune remains at the Aries Point, Saturn joins, and in April we see a stellium of seven planets in Aries. This is a powerful historical pattern in which individual identity easily merges with collective narratives. Ideals, projections, and unconscious material can become concrete events that affect large numbers of people.

History already shows us how this works. During 1861–1862, with Neptune at the begging of Aries, many wars occured, including the American Civil War.

Neptune in Aries has the capacity to idealize conflict, to turn suffering into myth, and death into a story with “higher meaning.”

But no transit determines outcomes on its own.

Astrology describes energy; it does not replace free will.

If this energy is lived unconsciously, it can manifest as collective tragedy. If lived with awareness, the same energy can become a channel for creativity, spiritual development, revolutions, innovation, and concrete humanitarian action that supports life.

This period leaves a lasting imprint on collective consciousness.

Courage and wisdom will be required of us!

By Tea Franca