In ancient Mesopotamia, commercial dealings and debts were recorded on clay tablets.
With time, more and more records would accumulate across the tablet. At some point, these tablets would become almost impossible to decipher and make sense of, and no one could fully tell anymore who owed whom what.
That’s why, periodically, usually upon the ascendancy of new monarchs, the tablets would be cleared – the slate would be wiped clean. It no longer mattered what was recorded on the old tablet – what was owed, or to whom.
They simply started from zero. A new tablet.
And the world would go on, keep functioning, no massive collapse, no burden carried forward.
Back to 2026.
The world debt is over 300% of world GDP. States are in debt, corporations are in debt, individuals are in debt. Everyone owes something to someone.
Who owns this 300+ trillion debt? If only pension funds were that wealthy. It’s not sitting somewhere in real assets either – all megayachts in the world amount to something like 0.06% of the debt ledger.
Most debt is not really real. It is looped through financial institutions as a ‘claim’ on future value – a claim on tomorrow’s labor, tomorrow’s growth, tomorrow’s productivity.
A claim that keeps most of us living slightly ahead of ourselves, conditioned to consume before we create, to postpone the bill arriving, to build our lives on promises rather than presence.
How does this relate to astrology?
As always, when we look for meta-influences – the type of influences that shape society as a whole, rather than individual lives – we look at the outer planets. Outer planets describe what is happening at a collective level in the world, the slow-moving tides underneath history.
We have 3 outer planets, or 3 gods: Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Uranus is the sky. Pluto is the Earth.
And Neptune is everything in between – oceans, movement, currents, connection, the invisible spaces that link one shore to another.
And in our societies, Neptune represents exactly that: supply chains, trade routes, abstract systems, intermediaries, financial plumbing, the instruments that allow value to move across distance and time.
Neptune also represents financial abstraction – things like debt, credit, leverage, as well as the invisible mathematical ‘formulas’ through which modern economies operate.
Still think Neptune is a heads-in-the-clouds artist signature only?
Chart after chart reveals that many scientists, mathematicians, IT architects, systems thinkers, financial strategists – read Warren Buffett – people whose work involves abstract manipulation of reality – carry strong Neptune placements.
Saturn is the clay tablet – the place where reality is recorded, stored, and made concrete. Saturn is what makes something feel real through rules, frameworks, accountability, structure, and consequence.
If Saturn is the 3D reality we can relate to, Neptune is the meta-level reality – the deeper reality underneath the forms. It is the one we’ve been pretending not to see, or calling it ‘illusion’ whenever our personal reality didn’t align with it.
In the past decades, Neptune has moved through the last 3 signs of the zodiac – Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces – and we have watched entire systems of claims become instruments of power and control – corporate structures, financial abstraction, digital networks, invisible intermediaries.
The collective world has become so complex that meaning gets lost inside the machinery itself. Things become so abstract that the average person can no longer see where value begins, where obligation ends, or who is truly accountable.
Most of us have lost the thread, and have no idea how the world ‘works’.
And in these conditions, whoever controls the instruments controls the rules – and benefits from the fog.
This is not (only) about ‘institutions’ or ‘corrupt politicians’. Sure, whenever power is abused, there’s an imbalance, and someone carries the weight – unfairly.
But many times it is also our own participation: spending beyond our means, acquiring something that we haven’t created value for yet, living ‘dreams’ that have no possibility of being materialized, keeping ourselves busy with distraction instead of action, with consumption instead of creation.
Of course, the system is structurally incentivized to expand debt and control – banks, interest, monetary policy, asset inflation. The machinery thrives on forward promises.
But the individual is also complicit, because debt is a way of consuming a life we have not yet produced, instead of meeting the present with what is actually ours.
And really, here debt is not about “money.” It is about time.
Debt is dependence on the future cooperating. It is saying: “I will take now what belongs to later”. It is never only imposed from above – it is also chosen from below.
And what we’re really, really talking about here is energetic debt – the subtle ledger of self-betrayal, self-abandonment, and unclaimed agency. The feeling that something is “owed” back to life.
Debt, in its deepest sense, is living with an imbalance between what is dreamed, and what is true.
When left unconscious, debt becomes a quiet agreement: I will keep postponing. Society will keep rolling forward. The slate will never be called due.
Until it is.
Because these upward promises and deferred settlements can only lead to imbalances, and when these imbalances grow too high, there comes a correction. Something needs to happen to restore equilibrium.
At an individual level – which is really the only place where we have any control, and the only place we should care about, especially since we’re talking about 0° Aries – it’s about recognizing where we’ve been acting out of energetic debt.
Life knows when something is outstanding, and will eventually call it due.
Neptune and Saturn at 0° Aries in February 2026 is that moment when it gets called due.
The Aries 0 point – the equinox point, when day is equal to night everywhere on Earth – is the point-zero, inevitable place when the slate is wiped clean – and where something new must be inscribed.
This conjunction asks us to come back to ourselves, and live from who we are, in the now.
Living from who we are in the now means:
No longer allowing ourselves to be controlled by anything that is not real – no longer playing by the rules of the game when these rules are not honoring Truth.
No longer saying yes when we mean no, giving away life force because we were conditioned to please, or allowing others to write the terms of our inner contract.
It also means no longer hiding in complacency, postponing our calling, living beneath our potential, or consuming comfort without creating value.
Whether this comes upstream or downstream – whether it is due to others taking too much, or us giving too little – it means recognizing that living on borrowed terms pulls us away from full authorship of our life.
With Neptune and Saturn leaving Pisces and meeting at 0° Aries in February 2026, we are invited to cross the threshold – from illusion, into Reality. From borrowed time, into the Now.
If Neptune at 0° Aries comes to reveal: “This was never real”, Saturn says: “Then let’s build what is”.
Neptune conjunct Saturn at 0° Aries is a new tablet – a new contract, a new beginning.
It is the ending of a life lived on borrowed terms. It is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to return to essence, start from truth, and inscribe something real.
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