On March 20th, 2026, the Sun enters Aries – the beginning of the solar year. 0° Aries is the zero point of the zodiac, where a new yearly cycle begins.
Since ancient times, astrologers have used the Aries ingress – the moment the Sun enters Aries – to read the tone of the year ahead, as a snapshot of how this new cycle is likely to unfold – like a solar return for the world itself.
Sun’s ingress into Aries is the yearly reset – the start of a new astrological year. The moment life presses restart.
But this time it feels a little bit different.
While the previous 365-day journey now comes to an end, we’re still under the echoes of the New Moon at 28° Pisces – still carrying the memories and unfinished threads of where we’ve been.
A new year, without remembering what has shaped us, is just another unconscious spin around the Sun.
The same impulse to begin again. The same urge for a “fresh start.” The same belief that by turning the page we somehow reset the story – as if a new beginning could erase what came before.
But a new solar year does not erase the past.
A new beginning means nothing if it’s not rooted in what truly matters.
Mercury Goes Direct In Pisces
Soon after the new astrological year starts, and the world presses the reset button once again, in the same rhythm as it has always done – something unexpected happens:
Mercury turns direct.
And this is not the usual Mercury station → Mercury changes direction in an exact conjunction with the North Node in Pisces.
Mercury and North Node linger here together for days, digging deeper than their usual motion allows, giving weight and meaning to the direction ahead.
A new year, a new beginning – ok. But why am I doing this? What is this really for? What actually matters?
Sun Conjunct Neptune In Aries
The Aries ingress – conjunct Neptune in Aries – carries a different kind of beginning.
For the first time in our lifetime, the Sun meets Neptune at the very start of the zodiac. A new cycle doesn’t just ‘begin’ – it begins with meaning.
Neptune brings something the Aries ingress doesn’t usually carry: a sense that this beginning is not random, not isolated, not just another turn of the wheel.
That there is something behind it. Something that connects it to a deeper layer of existence.
The highest potential of this alignment is a remembering of something fundamental – that the very fact that we are here, in flesh and bones, means something.
This is the first time in our lifetime when we step into a new cycle not only with momentum, but with a sense of direction that comes from something beyond us.
Chiron Conjunct Eris In Aries
With Chiron conjunct Eris at 24° Aries, the point where it hurts meets the part of us that refuses to stay quiet about it. What we’ve tolerated, minimized, or explained away is no longer something we can ignore. We can no longer pretend it doesn’t matter.
Just like Eris exposed the hypocrisy of the gods, restoring cosmic order with the Golden Apple, we can too flip the script – and stand up for what is true.
Because nothing – no conditioning, no story we’ve been living by – can withstand the power of truth once we stop turning away from it.
Sun At Zero Aries – Crossing The Rubicon
When the Sun crosses the Rubicon, we are invited to ask not what’s new, what do I want to manifest, what’s the next shiny thing to chase – but what it is beyond all this that truly calls me.
Sun at Zero Aries is an invitation to fuse with the origin – and let that fusion spark something inside us that feels both personal and connected to something greater – a direction that already knows where it’s going.
For the first time, stepping into Zero no longer feels like we’re thrown into the wild, fighting for survival – but like something we belong to.
This is perhaps the first time when we begin to feel drawn, not just driven. When the new journey feels a little bit different – not the same loop repeating itself under the same old exhausted expectations.
And when something larger begins to hold us, the question is no longer where we’re going, but what has always felt true, even before we had the words for it.
What is it about who I am that, if everything else fell away, would still remain?
If you knew the universe was on your side, would you take different risks? What would you do differently?
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