18/02/2026
Today, February 17, the world observes Ramadan, Mardi Gras, and Chinese New Year, all happening under a solar eclipse in Aquarius.
The fast.
The last feast
The clean slate.
The blackout.
All on the same day.
Four traditions, from four corners of the globe, from four corners of human spiritual practice, all saying the same thing: the old story ends here. The calendar doesn't converge like this by accident. We are just days away from Saturn and Neptune meeting at 0° Aries - an unprecedented alignment that signals major change. Something is resetting, not just metaphorically. Structurally.
As Chinese New Year dawns, we welcome the blazing hooves of the Fire Horse, one of the most volatile and catalytic archetypes in the entire Chinese cycle - a system that has tracked time through elemental rhythm and natural law for over two thousand years.
Horse years are never subtle. They break stalemates, shatter inertia, and move on instinct rather than permission. When the Horse carries the Fire element - as it does only once every sixty years - that motion turns combustible. Fire Horse years don’t evolve the world - they ignite it.
The last Fire Horse year was in 1966, when everything caught fire at once. Mao launched the Cultural Revolution. Youth revolt erupted across the West. Civil rights and anti-war movements surged. The world tipped into a new psychological era.
In January 1967, at the very end of that Fire Horse year, 30,000 people gathered in Golden Gate Park for the Human Be-In, flowers in their hair, acid dissolving their egos, certainty flooding their nervous systems that a new world was being born. By June, the Summer of Love was in full bloom, and the musical Hair opened off-Broadway later that year with a song that would become the anthem of a generation: “This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.” An entire generation believed they were about to incarnate the vision.
Saturn was in Aries back then - just as it is now - ready to build, pioneer, and move. But Neptune was in Scorpio, the sign of death, shadow, and transformation. The vision wasn’t ready to incarnate yet - it was still being accessed through the underworld: ego death through psychedelics, sexual revolution, confronting America’s darkness in Vietnam.
And critically, Saturn and Neptune were not conjunct, as they will be this week. They were misaligned. The structure wanted to move forward. The consciousness was still processing through death. They were working at cross-purposes. They couldn't integrate.
That’s why the communes collapsed. That’s why the new world they sang about didn’t arrive. The Fire Horse brought the ignition. Saturn in Aries brought the will to build. But Neptune was still doing the death work. It wasn’t ready to incarnate yet.
The vision was real, but the timing wasn’t.
Now, a lifetime later, another Fire Horse year arrives, and this time, the cosmic alignment completes what began in the 1960s as the solar eclipse in Aquarius sweeps across the southern hemisphere - the same Aquarius the elders sang about, eclipsing the old structures to make room for what’s next.
Then on Friday, February 20, Saturn meets Neptune at 0° Aries. Not misaligned. In conjunction. Together. Both in the sign of action.
The death work is complete.
The vision is ready to move.
The structure and the dream are finally aligned.
If the Fire Horse year in 1966 was the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, then the Fire Horse year in 2026 is the dawn actually breaking. Saturn and Neptune are ready to run together.
The generation that lived the preview in the 1960s didn’t imagine it. They just caught the vision early and walked through the necessary death so the resurrection could happen. They held the memory when everyone else forgot and carried the seed through decades of backlash, burying it deep enough to survive the winter.
They built the bridge to the new world that we must now walk across.
The Aquarian Age they sang about wasn’t metaphor.
It was prophecy.
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