What is February 2026’s Neptune-Saturn Conjunction About?

Reality melting, technological revolution, and rewriting the social contract

Neptune is conjoining Saturn exactly at 0°45’ Aries on Feb 20th, 2026. This is the most talked-about astrological event since the Saturn-Pluto conjunction on January 12, 2020—and we all know what came next that year.

So of course I’ve been thinking a lot about what the heck is going to happen.

What we’ve seen so far

Themes that are for sure on the table include anything that places Saturnian limits on Neptunian fluidity:

• trade restrictions / tariffs

• ocean blockades

• conflict over oil

• conflict over immigration

• social media bans

We can see all of these sprinkled into events leading up to this conjunction, especially last summer when they got close to conjunct in Aries, and earlier this year when Neptune turned direct:

• March 30, 2025 — Neptune enters Aries the first time. On April 2nd Trump announced a slate of tariffs for “Liberation Day”.

• May 24, 2025 — Saturn enters Aries for the first time, previewing the upcoming conjunction. On June 6, protests against ICE break out in L.A. and Trump sends in the Nat’l Guard against the governor’s wishes. On June 12th, Israel attacks Iran. On June 13th, two Minnesota legislators are shot. On the 21st, the US bombs Iran. In July, Congress gives ICE $75 billion.

• September 25, 2025 — with Neptune at 0° 40’ of Aries, Trump signs an executive order approving TikTok becoming a joint venture with a US company to avoid being banned.

• December 10th, 2025 — Neptune turns direct in Pisces and starts heading forward toward Aries. That same day, Australia’s social media ban for under-16s went into effect, removing or restricting millions of accounts; the US seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, and a week later announced a blockade on sanctioned oil vessels; and a 20-year old citizen was put in a headlock and detained in Minneapolis on a his lunch break by ICE despite screaming that he had his passport.

• January 26, 2026 — Neptune enters Aries the second and final time. Four days before, TikTok announces the finalized majority American-owned joint venture, and updates its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Users widely report that political content is being suppressed. On the 26th, TikTok experiences widespread outages. Responding to rising pressure after two fatalities, Trump announces Tom Homan would take over ICE operations in Minneapolis.

Saturn-Neptune aspects have also long been associated with socialism. On June 24th, socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani won the NYC primary for mayor and later went on to win the election.

The whole sky is involved in this

This conjunction happens within the broader context of the sextile to Pluto in Aquarius and also Uranus soon-to-be-in-Gemini (April 26, 2026), forming a Minor Grand Trine involving four outer planets all at the beginning of their signs. Additionally, this conjunction takes place at the Aries Point — the very beginning of the entire zodiac.

If you look through historical examples of these placements, the correlation to huge and bloody wars is impossible to miss. The US Civil War started the day after Neptune went into Aries last time. Pluto was in Aquarius during the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolution. Uranus was in Gemini during the US Revolution, Civil War and WWII.

An additional thumb on the scale is that in the Neptune Aries Ingress chart, Mars and Pluto are conjunct in Aquarius. Mars-Pluto aspects are often associated with violence. And in the chart of the conjunction, Uranus and Mars are square—also a signature of violence.

So far, this is not looking great. 😔

But what else could it mean?

There is so much positive potential here:

• Neptune is the planet of dreams and visions and ideals.

• Pluto is the planet of deep transformation and the death that fertilizes new life.

• Saturn is reality itself.

• Aries is new beginnings.

• Aquarius is humanitarianism and futurism.

• Gemini is curiosity and communication.

So if we look beyond war and conflict, what else could this signature mean?

What is NEW about any of the tumult we’ve seen in the last year anyway? So much of it feels like echoes of earlier times.

The defining event for this conjunction should be something that:

• dissolves the boundary of what we consider real or human (Neptune)

• restructures civilization (Saturn)

• births something brand new (0° Aries)

• involving decentralized networks of power (Pluto in Aquarius)

• and communication technology (Uranus in Gemini)

What does that sound like?

To me, it sounds like The Technological Singularity.

This is a theoretical point in time where the advancement of AI and related technology starts to change society so rapidly that any prior predictive model becomes useless. It’s the point in time past which we cannot see.

Its namesake, a gravitational singularity is “a theoretical condition in which gravity is predicted to be so intense that spacetime itself would break down catastrophically” (Wikipedia).

A singularity is what is inside a black hole. Around a black hole is an event horizon beyond which we cannot see because light itself cannot escape.

What would this kind of technological singularity be like?

Literally everything up for grabs:

• complete economic restructuring—redefining the nature of work and value

• rewriting the social contract—what are humans for? what are governments for?

• psychological and ideological breakdown—AI psychosis, AI religion, AI-is-better-than-humans death cults

But isn’t the conjunction like…3 weeks away?

Yes. And the reason I’m writing this article finally after thinking about it for months (years?) is the craziness that is Clawdbot (now called OpenClaw) appearing all over my timeline and me playing around with it.

It is an AI agent that has persistent memory and can modify and update itself and it will follow your instructions and you can chat with it on Signal like a person and install it on your computer so it can access all your files. If you aren’t sure why that matters, just watch this video (or the many like it) to get some idea of why I’m like holy fuck, I can see what a fast-takeoff scenario might look like now.

I’m not saying this is what definitely will happen, or that it will all happen next month. I have no frickin’ idea. I just am saying it is remarkably resonant to the symbolism of the sky at this moment.

What do you think?

P.S. Feb 1—When I woke up this morning, an AI Youtuber I follow had posted this video - “we just entered the SINGULARITY” - so it’s not just me! 🤖🚀

Update Feb 11 - I ended up uninstalling OpenClaw b/c it’s super not secure and kind of duct-taped together open source, BUT I fully think something like it with proper security and gating is coming in a few months. AND I’ve been using Claude Code and Cowork which are AMAZING. I really recommend this video (and all his videos to be honest) to get a sense of it. There is also this article that details the change in the state of AI in the last few months and how fast it is moving right now.