in ancient times Mesopotamiabusiness transactions and debts were recorded in clay tablets.
Over time, more and more records would accumulate on the tablet. At some point, these tablets would become almost impossible to decipher and make sense of it, and no one could fully say anymore who owed what to whom.
That is why, periodically, usually after the accession of new monarchs, the tables were cleaned: the slate was wiped clean. It no longer mattered what was written on the old tablet: what it was owed or to whom.
They just started from scratch. A new tablet.
And the world would continue, would continue functioning, without a massive collapse, without any burden.
Back to 2026.
World debt exceeds 300% of world GDP. States are in debt, corporations are in debt, individuals are in debt. Everyone owes someone something.
Who owns this debt of more than 300 billion? If only pension funds were as rich. It’s also not somewhere in the real assets: all the world’s megayachts represent something like 0.06% of the debt book.
Most debt is not really real. It is transmitted through financial institutions as a ‘claim’ about future value – a claim about tomorrow’s workforce, tomorrow’s growth, tomorrow’s productivity.
A statement that keeps most of us living a little in front of ourselvesconditioned to consume before creating, to postpone the arrival of the invoiceto build our lives promises instead of presence.
How does this relate to astrology?
As always, when we look for meta-influences (the kinds of influences that shape society as a whole, rather than individual lives), we look at the outer planets. The outer planets describe what is happening on a collective level in the world, the slowly moving tides beneath history.
We have 3 outer planets, or 3 gods: Uranus, Neptuneand Pluto. Uranus is the sky. Pluto is the Earth.
AND Neptune is everything in between – oceans, movement, currents, connection, the invisible spaces that connect one coast to another.
And in our societies, Neptune represents exactly that: supply chains, trade routes, abstract systems, intermediaries, financial pipelines, the instruments that allow value to move across distance and time.
Neptune also represents financial abstraction: things like debt, credit, leverage, as well as the invisible mathematical “formulas” by which modern economies operate.
Do you still think Neptune is just an artist’s label with their heads in the clouds?
Chart after chart reveals that many scientists, mathematicians, IT architects, systems thinkers, financial strategists (read Warren Buffett)—people whose work involves abstract manipulation of reality – have strong Neptune placements.
Saturn is the clay tablet. – the place where reality is recorded, stored and concreted. Saturn is what makes something seem real through rules, frameworks, responsibility, structure and consequences.
Yeah Saturn is 3D reality we can relate, Neptune is the meta-level reality. – the deeper reality beneath the forms. It’s the one we’ve been pretending not to see, or calling it an “illusion” whenever our personal reality didn’t align with it.
In recent decades, Neptune has traveled through the last 3 signs of the zodiac – Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces – and we have seen entire systems of claims become instruments of power and control – corporate structures, financial abstraction, digital networks, invisible intermediaries.
He The collective world has become so complex. that meaning is lost within the machinery itself. things turn so abstract that the average person can no longer see where value begins, where obligation ends, or who is truly responsible.
Most of us have lost track and have no idea how the world “works.”
And in these conditions, whoever controls the instruments controls the rules and benefits from the fog.
It’s not (just) about “institutions” or “corrupt politicians.” Of course, whenever power is abused, there is an imbalance and someone bears the burden, unfairly.
But many times it is also our own participation: spending beyond our means, acquiring something for which we have not yet created value, living ‘dreams’ that have no chance of materializing, keeping ourselves busy with distraction instead of action, with consumption instead of creation.
Of course, the system is structurally incentivized to expand debt and control (banks, interest, monetary policy, asset inflation). The machinery is nourished by promises for the future.
But the individual is also an accomplice, because debt is a form of consuming a life we have not yet producedrather find the present with what is really ours.
And really, debt here is not about “money.” it’s about time.
Debt is dependence on the future cooperator. That is to say: “I will take now what is later.” It is never imposed only from above: it is also chosen from below.
And who we really are, In fact speaking here is energy debt – the subtle ledger of self-betrayal, self-abandonment, and unclaimed agency. The feeling that you “owe” something to life.
Debt, in its deepest sense, is living with a Imbalance between what is dreamed and what is true.
When knocked out, debt becomes a silent agreement: I will keep procrastinating. Society will continue to advance. The board will never be cancelled.
Until it is.
Because these bullish promises and deferred deals can only lead to imbalances, and when these imbalances grow too large, a correction occurs. Something needs to happen to restore balance.
On an individual level, which is really the only place where we have control and the only place we should care about, especially since we’re talking about 0° Aries – it is about Recognize where we have been acting due to energy debt..
Life knows when something is outstanding and eventually it will. call it due.
Neptune and Saturn at 0° Aries February 2026 is that time when it is called due.
He Aries 0 points – the point of the equinox, when Day is equal to night everywhere on Earth. – is the zero pointinevitable place when the slate is wiped clean and where something new must be registered.
This conjunction asks us to return to ourselves and live from who we are, in the now.
Living from what we are in the now means:
No longer allowing ourselves to be controlled by anything that is not real; no longer follow the rules of the game when these rules do not honor the Truth.
We no longer say yes when we mean no, give away life force because we were conditioned to please, or allow others to write the terms of our internal contract.
It also means stopping hiding in complacency, postponing our calling, living below our potential, or consuming comfort without creating value.
Whether this happens upward or downward, whether because others receive too much or because we give too little, it means Recognize that living on borrowed terms distances us from full authorship of our lives..
With Neptune and Saturn leaving Pisces and meeting at 0° Aries in February 2026we are invited to cross the threshold: from illusion to Reality. From borrowed time to Now.
If Neptune at 0° Aries comes to reveal, “This was never real,” Saturn says, “Then let’s construct what is.”
Neptune conjunct Saturn at 0° Aries is a new tablet – a new contract, a new beginning.
is he end of a life lived on borrowed terms. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity return to the essence, start from the truth and inscribe something real.
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