Revisiting Spiritual Discipline

On Sunday February 15th 2026, Saturn will enter Aries for a two year stay. It already popped in but then popped back into Pisces. I asked Nano Bananas to create a graphic using this prompt:

Create an image around the theme of SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE. The image should contain the astrological glyphs and physical images of Saturn and Neptune. The emphasis should be on the synergy between these two very different planetary energies: the materialism and concreteness of Saturn meets the etherealness and diffuseness of Neptune. The image should be in a 1 : 1 aspect ratio. Colours should be warm and a golden brown should suffuse the scene.

Here is what it came up with:

A conjunction of the two planets will occur on February 20th 2026 in the first degree of Aries. The last occurrence was about 9000 years ago.

Looking ahead to my 77th birthday, a chart drawn up for that time is shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1

Outstanding features are:

• transiting Uranus conjunct natal Moon
• transiting Neptune conjunct natal Mercury
• transiting Chiron conjunct Ascendant

74th Solar Return

Figure 1 shows the chart cast for my 74th solar return that will occur on my birthday April 3rd 2023 at 2:17 am in Jakarta. Often the solar return occurs on April 2nd, the day before my official birthday, but this year the two coincide.

Figure 1: created using Astrolog

The chart is noticeable for its preponderance of planets in Aries. Apart from the Sun, there is Chiron in 15°41', Jupiter in 19°33' and Mercury in 28°32'. Jupiter will cross my Ascendant around April 26th so promises to be an expansive month where I have the opportunity to set my sights on new horizons and explore hitherto unrealised possibilities. Chiron remains behind in my twelfth house, maintaining a focus on healing, behind the scenes, both physically and psychically.

Figure 2 shows the transits to my natal chart at the time of the solar return.

Figure 2: created using Astrolog

The T-square formed by transiting Saturn's opposition to its natal position with the natal Moon at its apex is a dominant influence as I've discussed in related posts.

Solar Return 2021

As near as I can determine, the transiting Sun will return to its original position in my natal chart on Friday, April 2nd 2021 at 2:39pm. This day corresponds with Good Friday and adds to the theme of death in the chart. See Figure 1.

Figure 1

The 8th house is heavily occupied with six occupants: Neptune, Mercury, Chiron, Sun, Venus and Ceres. The stellium of Chiron, Sun, Venus and Ceres forms a kind of right-angled triangle with the Moon and Mars. Leo is rising and so the ruler of the chart in the 8th house and the cusp of this house is roughly at the T-square position to the Moon-Mars opposition.

Figure 2 shows the same transits but this time superimposed on my natal chart.

I've only marked the positions of transiting Chiron (9°05' of Aries), transiting Uranus (9°05' of Taurus) and natal Chiron (8°57'R of Sagittarius). This year and this year's solar return places transiting Chiron almost exactly conjunct my natal Mars-Venus. This planetary body is associated with healing and perhaps I can use its energy to develop my abilities in this area of psychic healing.