Aries Season 2026: Saturn, Neptune & the Return of Responsible Leadership

TL;DR: What You Need to Know for Aries Season 2026

Aries Season 2026 – March 20, 2026 through April 19, 2026

Vibe of the Season: Feels like intense drive and dissolution of leadership ideals

🌕 Full Moon: 4/01/26 8:11p 12° Libra

🌑 New Moon: 4/17/26 5:51a 27° Aries

Mercury stations direct March 20, 2026

Crafted Tip: Retroflect on how Saturn has inspired your leadership 

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Welcome to Aries season!

Notice: The Quality of This Aries Season

This Aries season will prove to be intense and full of revelations and drive.

From day one, the Sun will be shining a spotlight on delusions or ideals that are ready to be dissolved and begin anew. You’ll see this collectively, as well as in your own life experience.

From Pisces Dissolution to Aries Drive

The shift from Pisces season to Aries season can feel like a jolt, as with most of the seasons.

The end of Pisces season was avoidant, maybe full of some addictive behaviors or avoiding adulting things while tuning into your dreaminess and creativity.

When the Sun crosses the 0 degree mark of Aries, it can feel like a poke in the ass with a hot prod.

Aries inspires us to be ready to go, to take risks, to move forward, to be impulsive, while sometimes operating with hostility and aggression.

You may already be feeling the shift from a dreamy avoidant Pisces energy to a go-get-‘em-and-slay energy that is Aries.

This Aries season is colored with a lot of second-guessing yourself and your leadership, and restrictions—whether they’re imposed on you by yourself or others. Neptune will be there helping you to dissolve those delusions and limitations so that you can move forward in a more empowered way. 

Mars in Pisces Rules Every Planet in Aries

All the planets in Aries right now—Neptune, Saturn, Venus, Chiron and the Moon (only as we begin the season,) are being ruled by Mars in his Pisces costume.

This feels like impulsivity tinged with ambiguity and wishful thinking.

Something to Muse:
How has the quality of energy of being avoidant, dreamy, and creative, shifted with the Sun moving into Aries. Do I now feel more direct and driven now that the Sun has moved into Aries?

Align: What This Season Is Asking of You

This Aries season, we are invited to align with clarity and responsibility, in a more profound way.

We’ll have this opportunity for the next 2 Aries seasons with Saturn’s presence in Aries, until Spring of 2028.

Three Cazimis Define the Arc of the Season

We start this Aries season with a Neptune cazimi, then a Saturn cazimi, and towards the end of the season, the Chiron cazimi.

This entire Aries season is inviting us to align with healing and recognizing our limitations then transforming those limitations to move forward and shine in the world. 

Neptune Cazimi — March 22, 2026

First, the cazimi with Neptune on March 22, 2026, in which illusions and delusions will dissolve in the ways that you have felt about your leadership and your drive.

Saturn Cazimi — March 25, 2026

A few days later, we have our first quarter moon in Cancer and the Saturn cazimi on March 25, 2026, which will be a very transformative, sobering and healing experience. Your limitations will be spotlighted this week.

Chiron Cazimi — April 16, 2026

The Chiron cazimi happening on April 16th, 2026, will be dealing with the wound of self. This will be the last one in Aries for another 50 years.

Expect that this will feel more like closure as this last Chiron cazimi in Aries spotlights your ego, sense of self and leadership abilities.

Jupiter in Cancer Amplifies Every Lunation

Jupiter will be amplifying each lunation and expanding what we need to learn and know, due to his presence in cardinal Cancer, at each point of the moon’s cycle this month. See below for more about Jupiter’s help.

Something to Muse:
How is this Aries season inviting me to align with the energy of pioneering and leadership through clarity and responsibility?

Craft: Saturn in Aries and Your 30-Year Leadership Cycle

Your crafted focus this month is to look into how Saturn has inspired your leadership over the course of your life.

The First Saturn–Sun Co-Presence in Aries Since 1999

This is our first Aries season in which Saturn and the Sun are co-present since 1999.

What that means is that the Sun will be shining a spotlight on responsibilities, boundaries, and structures that you need in order to lead.

This start of a new cycle is a culmination of how responsibility and leadership played out in your life over the last 30 years. You get to start a new cycle from a more mature and responsible lens than you did from April of 1996 to March of 1999.

In order to understand Saturn’s influence on your Aries house and area of your life over the next 2 years, it’s important to look back at what you experienced the last time.

Retroflect on the themes of leadership, impulsivity, drive, pioneering, being a warrior or protector, and how those themes played out during those 3 years.

Neptune, Chiron, and the Layers of This Cycle

There is a little bit of a different flavor this time around since Neptune and Chiron are also in Aries.

Neptune will be dissolving those old structures that you built, the last time Saturn was in Aries, and helping you reimagine what it looks like to be a leader.

Chiron will be healing the wounds that you’ve experienced over the years since Saturn was in your Aries house because these wounds are related to your sense of self and how you lead in the world.

Saturn in Aries: Key Dates to Retroflect On

Below are the dates to help you retroflect.

Take note of the future dates where Saturn will be moving through your Aries house.
If you have strong Aries in your chart meaning Sun, Moon, or Rising sign, you may want to take a closer look at how Saturn in Aries has challenged you with more responsibility, and tough love, in order to grow, mature, and build your legacy.

Saturn in Aries: April 1996 – March 1999

April 7, 1996 through June 9, 1998
October 26, 1998 through March 1, 1999

Saturn in Aries: May 2025 – April 2028

May 25, 2025 through September 1, 2025
Feb 14, 2026 through April 13, 2028

Something to Muse:
How was my leadership and pioneering spirit developed between 1996 to 1999 with the help of Saturn? How has my leadership changed over the last 30 years?

However you choose to work with the energy of this season, let what you notice inform your next steps, and allow the changes you experience to strengthen your resilience.

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Aries Season Lunations

(Full Catalog + Interpretations)

The full moon occurs before the new moon again this season. This means that we get to see the manifestations and meaning before we’ve even planted the seeds. (All times mountain)

🌕 Full Moon in Libra

Spotlight on relationship to self and others | 4/01/26 8:11p 12° Libra

This week’s full Moon in Libra, shines a spotlight on relationships—with ourselves and with others.

Amplification of tensions in relationships will be revealed this week. You’re being invited to change, don’t let the fear of change hold you back. You are supported by Venus, Jupiter and Pluto for healing, balance and transformation.

🌗 Last Quarter Moon in Capricorn

Release to build a stronger foundation | 4/09/26 10:51p 20° Capricorn

Jupiter is expanding the Sun’s drive and impulsivity, and the Moon’s, coldness, and cynicism.

Be careful of the cynicism that will cloud your thoughts this week. Notice what is holding you back and let it go. This time of release is the beginnings of your new, stronger foundation. Focus on the long-term goals that you want to turn your attention to after this month’s release.

🌑 New Moon in Aries

Healing leadership wounds | 4/17/26 5:51a 27° Aries

New Moon vibes, planting seeds for leadership and healing this week.

Chaos and conflict happening in your world right now are taking away the things that you no longer need. Healing your sense of self and how you take initiative are up for planting this week.