Just days into its Scorpio voyage, Saturn will trine Neptune in its respective Pisces waters at 10:38 pm EDT tomorrow. This first of three water trine aspects between Saturn and Neptune over the next nine months will initiate a rare and unusual period of relationship between the two planets. You may find a corresponding chapter opening in your own life as discovery and inspiration flow into every day’s existence, confronting you with creativity.
Trine aspects take place between objects moving through different signs that share the same element — fire, earth, air or water. Through a common element comes harmonious combination. For Saturn and Neptune to position in harmony is an event both rare and unusual.
Trines between Saturn and Neptune are rare because their apparent motion is slow. Saturn changes its field of expression only after ten seasons have elapsed. Even more deliberate, Neptune tends to favor the same costume continuously for nearly a decade and a half (planets changing sign are rather like actors taking on a new wardrobe with each character: still the same at the core, but expressing different exaggerated facets of themselves). Therefore, the watery collaboration just beginning between Saturn and Neptune will probably feel unfamiliar, which may be confronting.
The last time Saturn trined Neptune at all was an air trine from Saturn’s position in Gemini to Neptune’s place in Aquarius just after the Cancer Solstice of 2001. That event took place shortly before the world changed radically with the tragic events of September 11. In addition, the aspect happened but once, a brief memory obscured by its historical aftermath.