In historical Mesopotamia, industrial dealings and money owed have been recorded on clay tablets.
With time, an increasing number of data would accumulate throughout the pill. Sooner or later, these tablets would change into virtually unattainable to decipher and make sense of, and nobody may totally inform anymore who owed whom what.
That’s why, periodically, often upon the ascendancy of recent monarchs, the tablets can be cleared – the slate can be cleaned. It now not mattered what was recorded on the previous pill – what was owed, or to whom.
They merely began from zero. A brand new pill.
And the world would go on, hold functioning, no large collapse, no burden carried ahead.
Again to 2026.
The world debt is over 300% of world GDP. States are in debt, companies are in debt, people are in debt. Everybody owes one thing to somebody.
Who owns this 300+ trillion debt? If solely pension funds have been that rich. It’s not sitting someplace in actual belongings both – all megayachts on the planet quantity to one thing like 0.06% of the debt ledger.
Most debt isn’t actually actual. It’s looped via monetary establishments as a ‘declare’ on future worth – a declare on tomorrow’s labor, tomorrow’s development, tomorrow’s productiveness.
A declare that retains most of us dwelling barely forward of ourselves, conditioned to eat earlier than we create, to postpone the invoice arriving, to construct our lives on guarantees somewhat than presence.
How does this relate to astrology?
As at all times, after we search for meta-influences – the kind of influences that form society as an entire, somewhat than particular person lives – we have a look at the outer planets. Outer planets describe what is occurring at a collective stage on the planet, the slow-moving tides beneath historical past.
We now have 3 outer planets, or 3 gods: Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Uranus is the sky. Pluto is the Earth.
And Neptune is the whole lot in between – oceans, motion, currents, connection, the invisible areas that hyperlink one shore to a different.
And in our societies, Neptune represents precisely that: provide chains, commerce routes, summary programs, intermediaries, monetary plumbing, the devices that permit worth to maneuver throughout distance and time.
Neptune additionally represents monetary abstraction – issues like debt, credit score, leverage, in addition to the invisible mathematical ‘formulation’ via which trendy economies function.
Nonetheless suppose Neptune is a heads-in-the-clouds artist signature solely?
Chart after chart reveals that many scientists, mathematicians, IT architects, programs thinkers, monetary strategists – learn Warren Buffett – individuals whose work entails summary manipulation of actuality – carry robust Neptune placements.
Saturn is the clay pill – the place the place actuality is recorded, saved, and made concrete. Saturn is what makes one thing really feel actual via guidelines, frameworks, accountability, construction, and consequence.
If Saturn is the 3D actuality we are able to relate to, Neptune is the meta-level actuality – the deeper actuality beneath the types. It’s the one we’ve been pretending to not see, or calling it ‘phantasm’ each time our private actuality didn’t align with it.
Prior to now many years, Neptune has moved via the final 3 indicators of the zodiac – Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces – and we have now watched complete programs of claims change into devices of energy and management – company buildings, monetary abstraction, digital networks, invisible intermediaries.
The collective world has change into so complicated that which means will get misplaced contained in the equipment itself. Issues change into so summary that the common individual can now not see the place worth begins, the place obligation ends, or who is really accountable.
Most of us have misplaced the thread, and don’t know how the world ‘works’.
And in these circumstances, whoever controls the devices controls the foundations – and advantages from the fog.
This isn’t (solely) about ‘establishments’ or ‘corrupt politicians’. Positive, each time energy is abused, there’s an imbalance, and somebody carries the load – unfairly.
However many occasions additionally it is our personal participation: spending past our means, buying one thing that we haven’t created worth for but, dwelling ‘desires’ that haven’t any risk of being materialized, holding ourselves busy with distraction as a substitute of motion, with consumption as a substitute of creation.
After all, the system is structurally incentivized to develop debt and management – banks, curiosity, financial coverage, asset inflation. The equipment thrives on ahead guarantees.
However the person can be complicit, as a result of debt is a manner of consuming a life we have now not but produced, as a substitute of assembly the current with what is definitely ours.
And actually, right here debt isn’t about “cash.” It’s about time.
Debt is dependence on the longer term cooperating. It’s saying: “I’ll take now what belongs to later”. It’s by no means solely imposed from above – additionally it is chosen from under.
And what we’re actually, actually speaking about right here is energetic debt – the refined ledger of self-betrayal, self-abandonment, and unclaimed company. The sensation that one thing is “owed” again to life.
Debt, in its deepest sense, resides with an imbalance between what’s dreamed, and what’s true.
When left unconscious, debt turns into a quiet settlement: I’ll hold suspending. Society will hold rolling ahead. The slate won’t ever be referred to as due.
Till it’s.
As a result of these upward guarantees and deferred settlements can solely result in imbalances, and when these imbalances develop too excessive, there comes a correction. One thing must occur to revive equilibrium.
At a person stage – which is actually the one place the place we have now any management, and the one place we must always care about, particularly since we’re speaking about 0° Aries – it’s about recognizing the place we’ve been appearing out of energetic debt.
Life is aware of when one thing is excellent, and can finally name it due.
Neptune and Saturn at 0° Aries in February 2026 is that second when it will get referred to as due.
The Aries 0 level – the equinox level, when day is the same as night time in every single place on Earth – is the point-zero, inevitable place when the slate is cleaned – and the place one thing new have to be inscribed.
This conjunction asks us to come back again to ourselves, and reside from who we’re, within the now.
Dwelling from who we’re within the now means:
Not permitting ourselves to be managed by something that’s not actual – now not enjoying by the foundations of the sport when these guidelines should not honoring Fact.
Not saying sure after we imply no, freely giving life power as a result of we have been conditioned to please, or permitting others to put in writing the phrases of our internal contract.
It additionally means now not hiding in complacency, suspending our calling, dwelling beneath our potential, or consuming consolation with out creating worth.
Whether or not this comes upstream or downstream – whether or not it is because of others taking an excessive amount of, or us giving too little – it means recognizing that dwelling on borrowed phrases pulls us away from full authorship of our life.
With Neptune and Saturn leaving Pisces and assembly at 0° Aries in February 2026, we’re invited to cross the edge – from phantasm, into Actuality. From borrowed time, into the Now.
If Neptune at 0° Aries involves reveal: “This was by no means actual”, Saturn says: “Then let’s construct what’s”.
Neptune conjunct Saturn at 0° Aries is a new pill – a brand new contract, a brand new starting.
It’s the ending of a life lived on borrowed phrases. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime likelihood to return to essence, begin from fact, and inscribe one thing actual.
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