Pluto, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus are all changing signs — at the same time.
I changed schools as a kid — a lot. I vividly remember my first day of preschool in Oklahoma. My mom was worried about how I’d handle leaving home — for a precious half day. The moment I saw tubs overflowing with paints, crayons, and multi-colored construction paper, I made a beeline for the booty and never looked back. I probably hurt her feelings with how quickly I ditched her for school.
Then came 1970s desegregation-era Tulsa, when my mom enrolled me in a magnet school across town. I was one of eleven white kids bused into a predominantly Black school, opening my naive little green eyes. Later we moved to Aspen, and I switched to the Aspen Community School — suddenly spending much of my days outdoors, hiking, with backpacks, new territory for me.
From there, I attended a snooty, all-girls boarding school in Dallas — head-spinning culture shock after ACS. Followed by CRMS in Carbondale (back to my hippy roots) although I rushed into the initial wilderness camping trip with spiked city-girl hair and thick, Dallas-style make-up.
Next, I found myself on exchange for a semester in Surrey, England. Finally, I rounded out my secondary education at Aspen High, graduating with the “too cool for school” attitude of a senior girl in the Music Tent. Don’t even get me started on my circuitous college journey to my B.A.
The point is: I’m no stranger to change. Sometimes I even thrive on it — Uranus sits on my moon, after all. But even for me, the amount of change happening lately feels extreme. I find myself regularly asking, What the hell is going on in the world? How did we get here? I’m afraid to ask what could be coming next.
Every day brings another shocking headline. The hits keep coming, leaving me dazed — like an MMA fighter taking blow after blow with no chance to reset.
This feeling of “living in unprecedented times” is clearly written in the sky.
Four of the five outer planets — Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus — are all changing signs at nearly the same time. I can’t help but wonder if four out of five dentists would recommend not doing that.
Pluto began its back-and-forth dance between Capricorn and Aquarius throughout 2023–2024. Saturn and Neptune followed, oscillating between Pisces and Aries from 2025–2026. And Uranus joins the party, shifting from Taurus into Gemini during that same window.
I’ve been digging back through the millennia to see if I can find another time when Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus all changed signs within such a tight timeframe — even into different signs than now. So far, I haven’t found one. That’s the point. This is a massive, rare, once-in-many-lifetimes convergence of radically different energies shifting all at once.
If you feel like you’re floating in the ether of Never Never Land, you’re not imagining it.
This level of disruption feels untethering, out of control, scary, and wildly unfamiliar — like being shot out of a cannon without protective gear.
Today marks an important turning point: Neptune has officially entered Aries for good. Our dreamy, illusion-soaked planet will no longer retrograde back into Pisces. We can finally begin — slowly — to settle into this new energetic terrain. Pluto settled into Aquarius for good in November 2024. Saturn follows, anchoring into Aries in February, and Uranus will complete the quartet by moving fully into Gemini in April.
That’s a lot of planets and dates, so the bottom line is this: we’re nearing the end of the dizzying back-and-forth phase. Soon, we’ll be living inside the new normal, rather than swinging endlessly between worlds. This transition will course through our collective nervous system for years, but at least we’ll finally be able to ground, orient, and build from a more stable (albeit very newly poured) foundation.
So, what does Neptune in Aries actually offer us?
Neptune governs dreams, imagination, creativity, spirituality, and compassion — but also illusion, addiction, disconnection, and dissolution. Aries, on the other hand, is about cultivating strength, self-knowledge, and courage. Aries is the warrior. Neptune is the dreamer.
Together, they pose potent questions. Do we courageously fight for our visions of the future? Do we unite through compassion, taking inspired action? Or do we sink deeper into illusion, addiction, and reaction — fighting the wrong battles because we’re too scared to feel what needs healing?
It’s all up for grabs.
I do believe that as more of us turn toward conscious, internal healing — in whatever way we’re able — something new can begin to emerge as the planetary turbulence settles. As the constant energetic whiplash slows, there’s an opportunity for our nervous systems to calm — and for us to finally feel the fruits of the work we’ve been doing all along.
Only time will tell. In the meantime, we’ve got front-row seats to one seismic cosmic show.
For more astrology insights, you can find my regular astrology coaching columns in The Aspen Times.
🌙 Sheridan
Astrology Coach & Moon Sisters Circle Guide
She works with women to turn astrological insight into practical choices, healthier boundaries, and lasting change.