2026

Barry Goddard
6 January at 12:12
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It seems to me that 3 of the 4 major world powers - the US, China and Russia - are all aggressively taking care of their immediate spheres of influence, their 'backyards', while the 4th, Europe, stands by wringing its hands. It represents a return to realpolitik, and a breakdown of the post war UN agreement that one country mustn't invade another. This collective breakdown and assertion of individual power is one way we can read the upcoming Saturn-Neptune conjunction in Aries.

Meanwhile Pluto is finishing his square to the UN Sun - its goals - and Neptune is coming up to oppose the exact Venus-Neptune conjunction in Libra. The 7th House Sun and Venus in Libra both speak of international friendship and co-operation, and that is going to have to be interpreted in a new way.
Meanwhile Saturn and Neptune are about to make their final transit across the EU Angles, which are at the end of the mutable signs. Hence the current hand-wringing. Saturn-Neptune is asking the EU whether or not it still wishes to be a world power.

26 pisces n UN

Symbolic Resonance of 25° Pisces With the UN Situation
🕊️ Dissolution Before Reform

25° Pisces — “The purging of the priesthood” — strongly reflects the crisis and clearing out of clouded authority:

Institutional roles and legitimacy are being questioned.

Bodies that once commanded broad consensus (climate action, human rights agencies, development programs) are now under pressure or being exited.

This degree emphasizes truth being forced into the open, for better or worse.

⚖️ Breakdown and Reassessment

Pisces late degrees aren’t about building systems — they’re about confronting illusions, hidden pressures, and the emotional cost of what hasn’t worked:

The UN is facing existential questions about its relevance, funding, and ability to enforce norms.

What has been assumed consensus (climate obligations, peacekeeping norms) is being challenged publicly.

25° Pisces mirrors a period of de-idealization — where comfortable narratives about global cooperation are dissolving, and members are scrambling to define new terms of engagement.

🧠 Emotional and Moral Exposure

This degree also reflects moral ambiguity and ethical stress:

Diplomacy is straining under public frustration, ideological divides, and geopolitical competition.

Leaders are forced to reveal actual priorities rather than rhetorical commitments.

That “purging” isn’t just about clearing out corruption. It’s about facing disillusionment with institutions that once seemed stable.

🔁 Before a New Phase

Pisces endings often precede a new beginning (symbolically, the next sign Aries starts fresh). In UN terms this aligns with:

Debates over reforming Security Council membership.

Epochal questions about peacekeeping.

The need to redefine global governance for the next decade.

You’re seeing old frameworks break down before new ones can coalesce — exactly what dramatic late-Pisces energies point to.

📌 Real-World Flashpoints That Echo the Degree

Climate governance undermined (UNFCCC withdrawals).
The Guardian

Security architecture tested (Venezuela and international law debates).
Reuters

Budget and legitimacy crises internally.
Reuters

Continuing multilateral wins in niche but symbolically critical areas like ocean law.
Le Monde.fr

All of these are Piscean dismantling and exposure themes rather than stable, creative solutions — which fits 25° Pisces very well.

🧠 Bottom Line

At 25° Pisces, the UN’s energy isn’t one of confident agency or visionary leadership so much as:

“We’re confronting what isn’t working—sometimes painfully—before we can reinvent collective purpose.”

That tension — between breakdown and potential rebirth — is the defining vibe of the degree and echoes in how the UN is being publicly tested, debated, and reimagined at this moment in 2026.

If you want, I can map this degree onto the UN’s natal chart or key transits (e.g., UNGA start, security leadership placements) for a more precise reading.