2022 was a year. I had already been feeling disconnected from myself ever since Neptune started moving over my Pisces Ascendant in 2018, but 2022… it hit in a way nothing else had. There was this strange tension in the air, like everything around me was shifting and sliding out of place. Life stopped making sense. It felt like trying to hold sand in my hands, slow, subtle, but slipping away no matter how hard I tried to grip it.
In my natal chart, Saturn sits in the 1st house, the house of identity, my whole sense of self. And in August 2022, Neptune made an exact conjunction to Saturn, the most important planet in my chart. That was the moment everything emptied out, like the very last grain of sand finally fell.
My Experience With This Transit
In August 2022, everything started falling apart in the most surreal way. It began with an email from Amazon thanking me for an order I never placed. Then another. When I tried to log into my business email to check what was going on, the password didn’t work. While I was trying to recover it, I went to check my website, and that’s when I realized it was completely down. Hacked. Compromised. Gone.
A short while later, an email arrived in my personal Gmail: “Thank you for your Netflix subscription.” Again, something I never ordered. Within three or four hours, I was flooded with messages from crypto platforms, random services, emails from companies I’d never heard of, either warning me about “suspicious activity” or thanking me for payments I didn’t make. It was chaos.
And as if that wasn’t enough, the very next day one of my cats developed a UTI. I rushed to the vet, paid for tests and meds, and came home to discover that my freezer had stopped working too. I don’t believe in coincidences, and this didn’t feel like one. It was too much at once, too targeted, too overwhelming.
By the end of the week, I had lost a lot of money, my stability, my work, and something I had spent over a decade building. I fell into a deep depression. Not the kind where you feel directionless… the kind where you don’t even know where to turn first. Do I call Netflix? Amazon? My host? My bank? I felt like I was standing in thick fog, unable to see the next step.
Looking back now, three years later, one thing stands out: during that exact period, the only major transit touching my chart was Neptune conjunct my natal Saturn in the 1st house in Pisces. No Uranus (even though it would make sense with online chaos), no Mercury, no Mars, no Venus. Just Neptune. And to make it worse, Neptune wasn’t even exact yet, it was applying, only 0.10 degrees away, which is often more powerful than the exact hit.
For me, Neptune conjunct Saturn manifested as the dissolution of everything I’d built, created, earned, or structured. Decade-long work dissolved in days. My sense of stability dissolved. And in many ways, I dissolved too.
I kept wondering why it hit me so brutally. But the answer was there all along: Saturn sits in my 1st house, deeply personal territory, and Neptune is my chart ruler. Saturn in Pisces is already uncomfortable, like a stone wall trying to stay upright in water. And Neptune? Neptune is a tidal wave. It presses, softens, erodes, and eventually breaks what no longer aligns.
In 2022, that wave finally crashed through the wall. It wasn’t just an event. It was an unraveling of identity, of stability, of everything I thought I knew about myself. And only now do I understand what that transit was trying to strip away.
How It Can Manifest For You
Neptune conjunct Saturn is one of the most confusing, dissolving, and transformative transits you can experience. It blurs the lines between what you thought was stable and what truly matters. Structures you relied on start to feel shaky, routines stop working, and parts of your identity you believed were permanent begin to soften or slip away.
Saturn represents structure, stability, discipline, hard work, and everything you’ve built over time. Neptune represents the opposite, dreams, intuition, illusions, sensitivity, spirituality, and the slow erosion of anything that isn’t authentic.
When these two planets meet by transit, Neptune starts dissolving Saturn’s walls. Anything built on shaky foundations weakens. Anything rigid becomes soft. Anything you cling to for safety gets tested. This transit is known for creating fog, uncertainty, and a sense of losing control because Neptune blurs Saturn’s boundaries.
This transit often brings:
- loss of stability
- confusion about identity or direction
- dissolving of old structures (career, relationships, routines, beliefs)
- unexpected setbacks that force you to slow down
- emotional overwhelm
- situations that feel “fated” or out of your hands
- a need for surrender rather than control
For many people, Neptune conjunct Saturn feels like the ground dissolving under their feet. Plans fall apart. Long-held goals stop making sense. You may feel directionless, disappointed, or unsure who you are without the structures you depended on. It’s common to experience fraud, leaks, mistakes, misunderstandings, or things slipping through your fingers. But beneath the confusion, this transit has a purpose.
The Deeper Lesson
Neptune conjunct Saturn clears away anything that isn’t aligned with your soul. It strips down the ego, softens limiting beliefs, and pushes you to rebuild your life on something real, not fear, not obligation, not habit, and not old trauma.
This transit tears down what’s false so you can eventually build something stronger. It’s not an easy experience, for me, it was brutal, but it’s one of the most spiritually significant cycles Saturn ever goes through. Neptune dissolves the old, and Saturn later rebuilds the new.
If you’re going through this transit, remember that you’re being rewritten, not punished. And if you’re not ruled by Saturn (Capricorn, Aquarius) or Neptune (Pisces), or your natal Saturn is strongly aspected, you might barely notice this transit at all.
