Rising Sign Horoscopes for Saturn in Aries (2025–2028)
time to grind
Saturn enters Aries: May 24, 2025
Saturn re-enters Pisces: Sept 1, 2025
Saturn enters Aries for good: Feb 13, 2026
Welcome to another meditation from the Pisces/Aries threshold.
I’ve already said a lot about this potent zodiacal fulcrum point. Over the past few months, Neptune crossed it, the North Node crossed it backward, Venus and Mercury both criss-crossed it, and now Saturn looms at its edge. The Pisces/Aries threshold is the zodiac’s moment of death and rebirth, the place where the ouroboros’ mouth meets its tail. A special kind of alchemy happens here, and we happen to have access to it a lot of it right now, especially wherever it falls in your chart.
The most intense phase of thresholding begins now, and peaks at the conjunction between Saturn and Neptune at 00° Aries on Feb. 20, 2026. Collectively, or at least for America and the west, this is a massive wakeup call, a much-needed disruption from the distraction, delusion and dissociation that are shadows of Pisces. After the long lull of contiguous retrogrades that took us through mid-April, energies are moving forward again. Hopefully you feel the Aries fire in a good way — a little more courage, a little more motivation, a little more oomph in your step.
But you might also feel it in a challenging way. Aries can feel like anxiety, rage, restlessness, frustration and other inflammatory emotions. In Pisces we can numb out; in Aries we tend to be sharply, uncomfortably present.
As I wrote about in this longer piece, the Pisces/Aries threshold tracks with the transition from a “freeze” state in the autonomic nervous system to a “fight/flight” state. Neither is particularly pleasant — what we crave is ventral-vagal activation, or what some call “regulation”. In a ventral-vagal state we feel safe, curious, and resourced enough to care for others.
While it’s normal to want ventral-vagal activation — because it feels good, because it’s our birthright to experience life in its fullest breathtaking beauty — we might not help ourselves by pathologizing other states as “dysregulated”. And especially with so much Aries activation coming in, we might be smart to anticipate some dysregulation, in particular the type associated with fight/flight.
Late Pisces is a freeze response: when the body emulates death. Early Aries is the next step up the Poly-Vagal Ladder: a sympathetic response, when the body is primed to give every ounce of energy it has to save its own life.
When Saturn enters Aries, somewhere in your life, it will be time to grind. It will be time to channel a newly awake sense of urgency, maybe mixed in with Aries traits of anger, pride, courage, passion, and other fiery expressions. If you don’t actively channel this potent mixture of energies, it will manifest as too much cortisol and adrenaline. If you ride it, and if you invite in Saturn’s themes of boundaries, discipline and structure, the next few years could be some of the most generative and/or regenerative of your life.
Wherever you have Aries in your chart you’re likely to have a bold, independent way of expressing yourself. It might be somewhere you’re known for leadership, for breaking rules when they don’t make sense, for being authentic, for being fearless. With Saturn coming through, this same area of life will likely need to be restructured. Saturn generally asks us to wait, be patient, put in more effort, try a little harder, keep pushing, stick to it, nose to the grindstone, do the work, etc etc. It brings heavy lifts, and wants to see us put in effort day by day towards mastery, refusing to cut corners.
In other words, Saturn wants to know that we’re serious. It wants to see that we respect the fact of our own mortality. As it makes its way around the zodiac, it offers a spiritual pruning. It gives us a chance to make the cuts ourselves; if we don’t, Saturn does it for us, sometimes harshly. If you have personal planets in Aries, or if it’s angular in your natal chart, you’ll feel this most directly — I recommend to find the exact date(s) for the conjunction and pay close attention to the changes Saturn is asking you to make around that time.
Ultimately Aries asks us to claim a sense of ourselves as singular individuals, to own who we are at our root. This may relate to gender or sexuality, but it also transcends those things: who ARE you? What does the eternal spark at the core of your self feel like, and what does it want? What does it want from you?
For a video breaking down the general transit of Saturn in Aries in more detail, click here.
The horoscopes below are written for rising signs using a whole sign house system. Some of them reference the Pisces/Aries threshold, which, depending on what house system you use, might actually be a different house from the whole sign correspondence (for example, if the cusp of your 5th house is 6° Aries, the threshold is actually in your fourth). If you know the nuances of your chart, I’d start with reading for the house that has the threshold. If you read for your rising sign and it doesn’t resonate, try reading one sign back. If you only know your Sun sign, hopefully reading for that will work! You might also get something out of looking at the horoscope for the house of your natal Saturn.
ARIES RISING (first house Aries)
Find out the date(s) Saturn crosses your ascendant: this is the crucial, most visible part of the transit. Your ascendant is how you interface with the rest of the world, and major transits to it tend to be overt — especially Saturn transits. There may be a major external change you need to make, maybe an ending of some sort. It may have felt like a dream, something impossible to actually manifest, until recently. Or it may be the end of an old version of yourself. Gather your strength, friend, and your Aries fearlessness, because you’re probably going to have to deal with some disruption and make some waves. The ascendant also relates to your physical presentation. This is a powerful time to chop off all your hair, get a tattoo you’ve been contemplating for years, or say fuck it to a gender binary you’re finally done performing.
Click here to watch the Aries rising horoscope video, including two oracle cards for even more personalized advice.
TAURUS RISING (twelfth house Aries)
When a planet transits the twelfth house, it’s working on our invisible bodies. This means its effects can be hard to pin down or articulate. So unless you have personal planets in Aries, this transit might not be as obvious for you as for others. However, if you’re a trance or meditation practitioner, or someone who draws on your imagination or dream space a lot, you might start to feel Saturn’s presence when you try to access those other realms. You might feel like your creativity is stifled, or like you can’t reach deeper trances states as easily. If your vibe is already kinda low (which is normal, what with the state of the world), you might also experience a heavy sense of isolation or dissociation in some phases of this transit. Saturn wants you to lean into spiritual and psychic discipline: show up to the cushion, the dream journal or the altar regularly, even if you don’t feel like it’s “helping”. You might want to look into rituals, herbs, stones and other tools for protection and boundary-setting. Trust the timing — Saturn is pruning you, but you can’t see the new shape yet. Find out when Saturn crosses your ascendant to know when it’s likely to reveal itself.
Click here to watch the Taurus rising horoscope video, including two oracle cards for even more personalized advice.
GEMINI RISING (eleventh house Aries)
Saturn’s transit through your eleventh house is about the big, wide question of “where do I belong?” While it can encompass the local community spaces that fall in the third house, the eleventh is more about affinity, your “people”, your “tribe”, the wider circles of folks you share values and culture with, even if you don’t know everyone personally. Having Aries here means you’ve got an independent streak when it comes to communities and networks. You might be someone who criss-crosses communities and instigates new connections and collaborations (helped along by your Gemini gift of gab). But you might struggle to find an embodied sense of belonging, or community spaces that fully meet your standards or match your values. Saturn will ask for some kind of restructuring in this area of your life. Be discerning and trust your instinct, especially in situations where patriarchy, power trips, and lack of emotional management are present. Don’t be afraid to cut ties or set boundaries if needed. This could also be a good opportunity to formalize a community that’s been organically coming together.
Click here to watch the Gemini rising horoscope video, including two oracle cards for even more personalized advice.
CANCER RISING (tenth house Aries)
This might be a rougher Saturn transit than most, since it’s so public. The midheaven in particular is the most visible point in chart, but Saturn tends to bring the kind of experiences we’d rather not have witnessed by the world. This could relate to your career, or (because they don’t always align in late-stage capitalism) this could relate to your mission, the true way you know you’re here to serve the world, whether or not you can make a full-time living at it. Saturn is a downer, and this kind of transit could have you questioning your own competence, getting rejected or passed up, missing the “right” timing, or feeling generally unrecognized or misaligned. Saturn tends to make real what has been lurking in the background of our awareness, until we can’t deny anymore what we see. It usually asks us to restructure whatever area of life it’s impacting, and sometimes that means giving something up. If Saturn is popping a bubble of yours right now, let yourself grieve, and when you’re ready, say thank you. You haven’t lost your fire. Saturn just wants to make sure you’re using it correctly.
Click here to watch the Cancer rising horoscope video, including two oracle cards for even more personalized advice.
LEO RISING (ninth house Aries)
Sorry to be direct, but: the next few years will probably have a disillusioning effect on you. Saturn transits often ask us to reclaim authority where we’ve given it away. If you’re getting a degree, following a non-academic path of vocational development, or deepening into a spiritual or religious practice, you may find yourself jaded when it comes to people you’ve considered “teachers”. Work you’ve been previously passionate about might start to feel heavy. You might have the sense of “no forward movement”. Saturn is asking you what you really believe, what you really stand for — the “why” of your mission on earth. Eventually, a crystallization will happen, and you will find that “why” more embodied. But it will take a few years of heavy lifting — maybe continuing to study something, or to pursue mastery or clarity or autonomy around something. If you’re in the US and you’re planning international travel… be extra careful, since Saturn (borders) in Aries (police, emergency) in the ninth (international travel) is an uncomfortable combo in these times.
Click here to watch the Leo rising horoscope video, including two oracle cards for even more personalized advice.
VIRGO RISING (eighth house Aries)
This is the kind of transit that can stir up ghosts. The eighth house is connected to parts of yourself that aren’t so easily perceivable. It’s more the subconscious than the unconscious. Buried or suppressed emotions, memories and instincts live here. Beyond that, it’s connected to the ancestral realm, to your family constellation, both those alive and those who have passed. On the surface, a Saturn transit to the eighth house could mean you need to deal with issues of shared resources: shared bank accounts, shared assets, shared inheritances, shared genetics. Because it’s Saturn, there may need to be some restructuring here, maybe some hard conversations to be had. But it’s important to remember that it’s not just you and the individual(s) you are explicitly “sharing” with who are part of these negotiations. There are ghosts involved. You could also think of them as potent psychological drives, larger than one individual ego but acting through you. Don’t let them grab the wheel. Pick up a breathwork practice if you don’t have one, and be diligent about it over the next few years if you want to really gain Saturn’s respect. Lock in to your deepest core values, call them into your cells, and let them guide your actions.
Click here to watch the Virgo rising horoscope video, including two oracle cards for even more personalized advice.
LIBRA RISING (seventh house Aries)
As a Libra rising, you have an important soul-study when it comes to relationships, balance and harmony. With Saturn moving through Aries in your seventh house, this area of life will probably come to the forefront of your experience. If you’re in a long-term partnership, it will go through some restructuring over the next few years. Saturn is the planet of endings, but it’s also about commitments and contracts. It’s exalted in Libra, so while it doesn’t technically rule your chart, Saturn clicks with your rising sign, and may well bring you a supportive restructuring, like an engagement, marriage, or other transition that deepens your connection. If you’re single — this is the kind of transit a poorly trained or fear-based astrologer would say is going to suck for you. You might feel like dating is heavy, or bringing you down. For everyone, whether single, in a partnership, or in multiple partnerships: your study is to define your own needs and boundaries when it comes to relationships of all varieties, and to look at the mirror Saturn is holding up, even if the light is harsh. Find out when Saturn crosses your descendant — that’s likely to be the most challenging AND transformative period of time.
Click here to watch the Libra rising horoscope video, including two oracle cards for even more personalized advice.
SCORPIO RISING (sixth house Aries)
This is a placement that usually has a lot of energy to burn. For some it’s more physical: maybe you love running or biking or hot yoga or a martial art. Maybe you love to try new workouts and diets and to be proactive about your health. For others, it comes out in the work environment: you’re probably a naturally hard worker, but you also like independence, and you do NOT like to be told what to do. When Saturn comes through, you might have to grapple with the concept of authority either in your workspace, in your approach to health and self-care, or in other aspects of your daily routine. Who really gets to call the shots around how you spend your time? Do you trust your own instincts, and do you have the space to act on them? Have you been seduced by wellness influencers selling supplements and magic pills, or by some other authority figure to whom you gave away your power? It might be time to end some bad habits. Saturn has serious “cold turkey” vibes. At the same time, though, be gentle with yourself. You don’t have to change everything all at once.
Click here to watch the Scorpio rising horoscope video, including two oracle cards for even more personalized advice.
SAGITTARIUS RISING (fifth house Aries)
If the Pisces/Aries threshold is in your fifth house, you might have had some kind of a breakthrough recently. It might be creative, emotional, sexual, related to your nervous system, related to your kids or children in your life, or related to your own inner child. If you play a sport or are an artist, maybe you’ve noticed a shift in your ability to focus or get in the zone. If you’ve got a hobby or a project, something you want to get better at, maybe you’re feeling motivated and inspired right now. Focus on that — your Saturn transit is about cultivating some kind of mastery around your self-expression. You’re meant to break taboos by being unapologetically yourself. If it makes other people uncomfortable, well, to a certain extent there’s no avoiding that. But Saturn will also have lessons around discipline, teaching you how to harness the Aries fire that lives in your fifth house. Call in the right mentor, creative teacher or even a coach (but only like, a super highly-qualified one lol). Take a course or invest in lessons to get better at whatever, from guitar to gardening to dead-lifting. A lot of healing can happen in the fifth house, and it might also be a good time to work with a “healer”, but be cautious of anyone who shows up as too much of a moral authority. Sometimes Saturn is about reclaiming authority where you’ve given it away, so use this time to lock into your deepest core values.
Click here to watch the Sagittarius rising horoscope video, including two oracle cards for even more personalized advice.
CAPRICORN RISING (fourth house Aries)
If Aries is on your IC, find out the exact degree, and when Saturn crosses over: there may be a crucial turning point for you at that time. This area of the chart relates to childhood and ancestry, as well as your home and family as an adult. It’s about creating a solid root for yourself. Saturn here (especially when it crosses the IC) can bring up ancestral scarcity, fears around basic needs like food and shelter. You might make a change in your living situation — maybe a move, maybe a renovation, maybe an exhaustive cleaning out of the basement or attic. If you’re a parent, you might need to restructure something about home life in regards to your children and their evolving needs. You might need to do some “reparenting” for yourself, especially if you grew up in an overly-strict or abusive environment: a major theme of Saturn is authority, and reclaiming your own. Bottom line, the parent-child relationship within the home space is a sensitive spot for everyone. No one gets it exactly right, as a parent or a child. Use this transit to parse through some of your tangled, private psychology. The right psychotherapist could be exactly what you need for support.
Click here to watch the Capricorn rising horoscope video, including two oracle cards for even more personalized advice.
AQUARIUS RISING (third house Aries)
The third house speaks to a lot of things: your housemates, your neighbors, your local communities be they centered around aid, spirituality, recreation or anything else, your siblings, extended family and chosen family, your inner circle of friends (even if they’re not local — a group chat is very third house), possibly your polycule, and all the communication that happens in all of these spaces on a daily basis. If you do a lot of commuting by foot, car, train or bus, or if you’re a writer, those activities also fall in the third house. You may be a leader here in some way, a person who forges new trails. Saturn will ask for a restructuring in your third house, and it might be time to end your contact with groups or individuals that no longer support your growth. You may also get some reflections around the Aries shadow of selfishness — maybe in other people, or maybe in your self. However, if you’ve got a vision for your third house, and if there’s work to be done, something you want to build, choosing selfishness during this transit might be part of your growth process.
Click here to watch the Aquarius rising horoscope video, including two oracle cards for even more personalized advice.
PISCES RISING (second house Aries)
Saturn transiting the second house can feel like a contraction of self-worth and self-esteem… which aren’t the typical traits of second house Aries. This is a placement that is usually confident and independent. You probably craved financial independence from a young age, and you might be a bit of a hustler, always open to new ways to make a few bucks. You might struggle sometimes in long-term partnerships to balance a sharing of assets with your need for personal autonomy when it comes to what’s “yours”. Saturn may be bring imbalances in these areas of life to the surface. You may experience in real-time the correspondence between financial “abundance” and your inner sense of personal value. You may have to grapple with the deep distortions of our late-stage capitalistic mindset around these subjects. Saturn transiting the second house is a GREAT time to sell off an asset. If the moment is exactly right, it’s also a great time to buy, to make a big structural change in your financial situation. But if you’re looking to buy something, keep your expectations low on finding it and/or financing it during this transit.
Click here to watch the Pisces rising horoscope video, including two oracle cards for even more personalized advice.
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