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What Has Happened in Previous Neptune in Aries Periods?

Today we look at some historical events involving Neptune in Aries periods so we may get a better grasp of these active Fire energies.

To sum up the transition we’re going through this year with Neptune in Pisces and then Neptune in Aries and then Neptune in Pisces and then back in Aries in 2026, as I gave you in March when Neptune Enters Aries,

Imagine you’ve been in a dreamscape for many years, an ocean enveloped in fogs and storms with no clear direction. This was Neptune in Pisces. We’ve been in a place where shapes and forms blurred together in a vast feeling field, swimming in an all-enveloping fluid environment.

In this dreamscape we’ve navigated feelings of oneness and distinctness, togetherness and separateness, where past, present and future merged in an all-encompassing experience, where any pollution or disturbance in the field is felt by all creatures in that field simultaneously. In the ocean of Pisces, the dreams of past, present, and future all exist at the same time.

With Neptune entering Aries, we now find ourselves stepping out of the ocean on to the beach, where we can finally stand on solid ground instead of drifting with the tides. While Pisces can be disoriented in its vastness, Aries has a one pointed focus in the here and now. The past slips away as the present moment comes forth. Ambivalence gives way to direct action. Concealment gives way to self-initiated honest responses.

While Neptune in Pisces was in one of the signs it rules on the spiritual level, Neptune in fiery Aries finds itself in a favorable sign to express Neptune’s Sagittarius energies and a confirmatory sign for its Pisces energies. Neptune in Aries replaces any tendency to suffer with an urgency to correct whatever is causing the suffering. It is grounded, expressive, and dynamic. Aries awakens to the NOW!

Neptune’s entry into Aries will bring new collective mythologies into fashion, new ideas and attitudes globally which will be far different than any we’ve known for many decades. The last time Neptune was in a Fire sign was when it was in Sagittarius between 1970 and 1984, which offered all of us a clearer promise than anything we’ve seen in the last 14 years during its time in Pisces.

Neptune is the common feeling-field, Aries is the sign of direct action. We can expect a lot more natural, unedited, and direct thinking, feeling, and doing than we have in many years. Whereas Capricorn and Aquarius are more calculated, and Pisces is surrounded by fogs and ghosts, Aries “breaks on through to the other side.”

With Neptune’s station at 3 Aries, the “avatar” degree, we will begin to see new leaders, new collective waves of thought, with all that is new more “in fashion” than whatever was in fashion before now. And because the collective atmosphere now favors Aries energies and people, we can expect exciting new developments to spring forward in 2026!

This shift will profoundly affect those with Neptune in an angle, who will face a new landscape in that house. As that affects hundreds of millions, it would seem that when Neptune changes signs it will bring forth entire new ideals, new ways of relating in the collective field, and bring pioneering new developments in all realms of art, science, and philosophy.

Historical Developments When Neptune was in Aries

So when were other Neptune in Aries periods? Since we can assume Neptune in Aries theoretically begin new long term eras of change through old ideals slipping away and the introduction of new and pioneering ways of being, when did these happen in past centuries? Over the past 1000 years, these 164 year eras that began when Neptune was in Aries are as follows, with primary events noted:

1042-1057 - 2 popes were dethroned, beginning of democracy in Milan, Macbeth murdered, Normans take England and south Italy, Egypt collapsed under a dictatorship, lots of wars in Europe, split between Rome and the Eastern Orthodox church was complete, building began on Westminster Abbey and Winchester Cathedral, oldest monasteries founded in Kiev, polyphonic singing replaced Gregorian chants, astrolabes came to Europe, and time values were given to musical notes.

1206-1220 - Genghis Khan born, Delhi declared a sultanate, King John invaded Scotland and was excommunicated, King Otto was excommunicated, St. Francis issued his first rules of his brotherhood, Genghis Khan invaded China, the Children’s crusade, John forced to sign the Magna Carta, France invades England, the end of trial by ordeal, Dominican order founded, tiles replaced thatched roofs in London, Salamanca University was founded, Newgate prison opened, the oldest national flag in the world was adopted by Denmark, and Roger Bacon was born.

1370-1384 - England and France fighting in France, Oxford became the spiritual center of England, Robin Hood appeared in English literature, the “Great Schism” when two pope were elected, one in Rome, one in Avignon, steel crossbows became a weapon, Timurlane began his 35 successful campaigns in Persia, Russia, Georgia, Egypt, etc., Peasant’s revolt in England, Venice flourishing in commerce, arts, and sciences, Thomas a Kempis born, Chaucer’s “The Parlement of Foules.”

1533-1548 - Henry VIII married Anne Boleyn and the Archbishop of Canterbury declared prev marriage to Catherine of Aragon void, Henry is excommunicated by the pope, Queen Elizabeth I born, Sir Thomas More executed, Queen Anne Boleyn executed, Henry marries Jane Seymour, she dies in childbirth, Henry marries his other two wives, becomes head of the Church of England, lots more executions, Pizarro slaughters the Incans, Jesuits founded, Luther translates the Bible into German, Order of Ursulines founded, Michelangelo paints “Last Judgment” on the Sistine Chapel, Titian painting during his prime, first conservatories of music founded in Naples and Venice, first Mercator map, Bogota founded, Cartier’s voyages to Labrador, Quebec and Montreal, first diving bells, the beginning of the London Exchange, Calvin, Spanish explorations of the Americas, Spanish discovered Florida, Grand Canyon first Christmas tree at Strasbourg Cathedral, silver found in Peru, Portuguese brought guns to Japan, Copernicus died, Henry VIII died, Pizarro defeated, Cervantes born, Giordano Bruno born, Martin Luther died, Tycho Brahe born, first predictions of Nostradamus.

1697-1712 - Peter the Great ruled, made war, and laid foundations for St. Petersburg, China conquered Mongolia, French in west Africa, Spanish destroyed last remains of Maya civilization in Yucatan, Court of Versailles, Whitehall Palace burned down, chaos in Europe as rulers all die in rapid succession leading to years of war, Spencer Dryden, Racine died, Kabuki developed in Japan, Daniel Defoe, first form of English pantomime, Popul Vuh first translated, Cotton Mather, New East India Trading Company founded, University of Venice and Yale founded, paper manufacturing began in North America, American protest against slavery, first daily newspaper in London, Moscow, Delaware split from PA and became its own colony, England takes Gibraltar, Benjamin Franklin born, Samuel Pepys dies, Jonathan Swift, first English dictionary, John Wesley born, John Locke died, Buckingham Palace began to be built, Bach wrote first cantata, Handel, Pachelbel died, Isaac Newton elected President of the Royal society, wrote Optics, Halley predicted the return in 1758 of the comet seen in 1682, Bernoulli died, first evening paper issued in London, Union of England and Scotland, more wars, 14,000 Europeans emigrated to North America, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson born, Leibniz, Handel, invention of the pianoforte, High pressure boiler invented, billiards catch on in Germany, last eruption of Mt. Fujiyama, first Siberian camps, first copyright act, invention of tuning fork, last execution for witchcraft in England, Stamp act in England, St. Petersburg becomes capitol of Russia.

1861-1875 - Formation of the Confederacy and US civil war, Italy proclaimed a kingdom, emancipation of Russian serfs, Bismark became Prussian Prime minister, Elizabeth Barrett Browning died, Dickens great works published, Dostoevsky, George Eliot, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Rabindranath Tagore born, Turgenev, Sarah Bernhardt debut in France, Flaubert, Victor Hugo, Thoreau died, Maeterlinck born, Herbert Spencer, Rudolph Steiner born, Manet, Berlioz, Debussy born, first machine-chilled cold storage unit, Pasteur introduces germ theory of fermentation, typewriter invented, daily weather forecasts began in England, first horse drawn trams in London, US introduces passport system, Red Cross founded, French capture Mexico City, wars between Denmark, Saxons, Austria, Prussia, first International Workingmen’s Assn founded by Marx, Edith Wharton, D’Annunzio born, Jakob Grimm died, Longfellow writing, Stanislavsky born, Thackeray died, Hawthorne died, Ibsen, Tolstoi wrote “War and Peace,” Thomas Huxley, JS Mill, Whistler, Toulouse-Lautrec born, Munch born, Verdi operas, Stephen Foster died, First paper dress patterns, National Academy of Sciences founded, first railroad in NZ, Pasteur invented pasteurization, first stolen base in baseball, roller skating introduced in the US, Geneva Convention established, French troops leave Mexico and Maximillian executed, US buys Alaska from Russia, Shogunate abolished, Spanish revolution, Turgenev, Zola, Ibsen, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Robert Browning, Gorki born, Strauss, Toscannini born, Brahms, Moussorgsky, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Faraday died, discovery of diamonds in South Africa, Armour meatpacking factory opens in Chicago, badminton invented in England, first professional US baseball club founded, opening of Suez Canal, Gandhi born, Franco-Prussian war, Lenin born, treaty of Washington, Manitoba and BC join Canada, Rasputin born, Bret Harte, Dickens died, Disraeli, Lewis Carroll, Theodore Dreiser born, Proust born, Alfred Adler born, Schliemann excavates Troy, Matisse born, Frank Lloyd Wright born, Berlioz died, Wagner born, periodic table created, beginning of intercollegiate football in US, Robert E Lee died, Rockefeller founds Standard Oil, PT Barnum opened the Greatest Show on Earth, the Great Chicago Fire, first modern luxury liner launched, civil war in Spain, Disraeli became Prime minister, Churchill born, Robert Frost born, W. Somerset Maugham born, John Stuart Mill died, Whistler’s “The Artist’s Mother,” Cezanne, beginning of Impressionism, Bizet, Caruso born, Rachmaninoff born, Rimsky-Korsakov, Brooklyn Bridge opened, Westinghouse created railroad air brake, first color photos, first commercial typewriters, Marconi born, first US zoo, tennis introduced to the US, Hans Christian Andersen died, Rilke born, Theosophical Society founded, Mary Baker Eddy, Jung born, Bizet died, first Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, Albert Schweitzer born, Schliemann published his findings on Troy.

And of course, lots and lots of various wars, efforts at colonization, indigenous revolts, founding of religious orders and colleges, church schisms, founding of international corporations, and innovations. Examining these periods indicates a lot of pioneering efforts, breakthroughs, and "firsts" in many areas, though I'm sure Neptune in other signs also awakens new things.

I'll only say here that the number of wars of independence versus unity, sects battling for supremacy only to find they confront different shifting alliances when Neptune has been in Aries is more than a bit unsettling, given the global economic problems and oppressive conditions under which so many suffer in our world. I'd say we're in for a number of years of tremendous change, with social, cultural and artistic breakthroughs and a lot of social upheaval. It seems to me that each of the periods listed above represented a new era, a new beginning, with new ideas (Twain, Dickens, Swift) new music, new philosophies, and new social and political orders a feature of these eras.

Neptune enters Aries

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