Make a Wish, Make it Real: The Saturn-Neptune Portal is Open

 

The sky is brewing something rare and luminous.  In February 2026, at 0° Aries, Saturn and Neptune will meet for the first time in over a generation. These two slow-moving planets meet every 36 years. Their union brings one of astrology’s most potent invitations:

If you listen to your soul now, you can build a cherished dream into reality.

I say, don’t wait until next year to begin. This spell has already started shaping the collective imagination. It may already be whispering, urging you toward meaningful action. Neptune entered Aries on March 30, 2025. Saturn followed on May 24. And by July, they came within 12 arc minutes of an exact conjunction.  The sky has opened a portal—and if you step through with purpose, you might find a great wind at your back.

This conjunction is one of heaven’s best transits for magical manifestation. Together, these planets supply the key ingredients for making magic: inspired creativity, focus, and determination. If you carry your Neptune dream with devotion, Saturn can help you structure its unfolding.

Saturn and Neptune: A Power Duo of Dream and Discipline

But there’s a catch.

Nothing is guaranteed. There’s hardly a pair of archetypes more dissimilar. Saturn is disciplined, hard-working, bossy, and pragmatic. Neptune is imaginative, fluid, transcendent, and deeply creative. These differing forces can just as easily swallow or dissolve each other.  Collaboration isn’t guaranteed. There’s plenty of room for humanity’s free will to tangle with these energies and shape them.

In 1989, under a Saturn/Neptune conjunction, students in Beijing—filled with Neptunian idealism—flooded Tiananmen Square with cries for freedom—yet were met, unfortunately, by Saturn’s tanks. That same year, the Berlin Wall crumbled. A very Saturn structure, it was brought down brick by brick, by the better world East Berliners were dreaming into reality. In 1917, another Saturn–Neptune meeting echoed through the streets of Petrograd, where Lenin stirred a revolution that would reshape the century.

During the conjunction of 1846, Karl Marx began drafting The Communist Manifesto, giving voice to a vision that would ignite movements across the globe. And in 1809, under this conjunction, two extraordinary visionaries were born: Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, each of whom would forever change the human story.

Which brings us back to this moment—where in the United States at least, the stage is already set. Our collective contract is already being reshaped.  Daily we watch assaults on constitutional protections, as the power of wealth, greed and corruption grows exponentially. Saturn will either strong arm us into an autocracy–or idealistic Neptune will spark passionate reinvention of our democracy. We don’t know yet which story history will finally tell.

That’s why it’s time to consciously engage with the energies.  If you feel passionately about what’s happening in the collective, do something about it! This same is true with your personal passions.  Has your own Saturn or Neptune been calling you? As the saying goes: “If you don’t do your planets—they’ll do you.”

Enter Aries: The Sign of Action

This conjunction begins in Aries—the warrior, the trailblazer, the sacred fire of new beginnings.  Aries doesn’t wait for permission. It initiates.

So this is your moment to start something. Not just anything—but something soul-aligned.
This is your moment to commit—not just with a wish, but with a plan.
This is your moment to move—even if you don’t feel ready, because readiness often comes from action.

Mars rules Aries, of course–which makes his opposition at this full moon extra pertinent.  He aims to provoke us!

Maybe you’ve been stirring with a yearning—something beautiful wants to emerge, but what exactly is still unclear. That’s perfectly okay. Inspiration often reveals itself through the act of creative devotion, coming not before, but after even a hazy Neptunian start.

Enter the 100-Day Project, a deceptively simple practice with extraordinary power.

The 100-Day Project: Dream Daily, Build Boldly

After 9/11, New York–based designer Michael Bierut found himself shaken, disoriented, and searching for meaning. To soothe and center himself, he began a quiet ritual: every day for a year, he drew something inspired by a photograph from The New York Times. This act grounded him. It gave shape to his grief and returned him to creative presence. Later, as a professor of graphic design at Yale, Bierut distilled this ritual into a single assignment. On the first day of class, he gave his students the following instruction:

“Starting tomorrow, do one creative act you can repeat for 100 days.”

That’s it. Just one small thing, done regularly.  For his students–even the few who couldn’t complete the full schedule–this practice was life-changing.

A 100-Day Project is:

• Small, consistent acts of creativity
• Daily devotion to your dream
• A way to bypass perfectionism and summon your inner muse

It can be anything:

• 100 days of writing, sketching, or photographing
• 100 days of spiritual practice or healing work
• 100 days of showing up for your dream one small step at a time

Neptune gives the vision. Saturn makes it real. Aries gets you started.

When to Begin?

Saturn and Neptune already dancing so closely in the heavens say you can start right now. Or on any upcoming new moon. One small act, repeated daily, can be a wonderful spell for becoming. If your internal readiness is already bursting, tomorrow morning is your moment. If you’d like the sky to do the scheduling:

You could begin on November 12, 2025,
and your 100th day will land on February 20, 2026,
the exact day of the Saturn–Neptune conjunction.

So make a wish.
Frame your dream.
Commit to your creative discipline.
And get going!

Curious if this rare Saturn–Neptune conjunction is personally activating your chart?
Check your transits with Steven Forrest’s SkyLog—a beautifully written, soul-centered guide to the cycles shaping your life right now.

Want to explore the creative voice inside you more deeply?
Unleash your Venus—and discover the style of beauty, love, and expression that’s uniquely yours—with my Venus Unleashed report.