Sun parallel Neptune
When the Sun is parallel Neptune in the Natal Chart
The Sun parallel to Neptune in your birth chart weaves a unique blend of Neptunian traits into your personality. Neptune, a multifaceted planet, imbues you with a creative, intuitive, idealistic, naive, dramatic, mysterious, and compassionate nature, and its influence on you is distinct, even if it’s subtle.
If this aspect occurs along with the Sun conjunct Neptune, you are more obviously easily touched, intuitive, compassionate, and artistic. These qualities are also present if the Sun doesn’t also conjunct Neptune, but tend to be less apparent.
Either way, you exude an intriguing charm, often adapting to different situations with ease. You can be somewhat of a chameleon in your presentation. Your refined taste and artistic talent are evident, with a higher source of consciousness seemingly guiding your creativity and preferences. Your vision is remarkable, almost clairvoyant, as you dream big and your imagination is rich. You have a deep appreciation for music, magic, color, fashion, fantasy, and drama, and your unique self-expression often carries a distinctively and uniquely ethereal, gentle, or subtle quality.
You are sensitive on a personal level as well as sensitive to others. Your awareness of and compassion for people are distinctive.
Sun parallel Neptune
Examples of Charts with the Sun parallel to Neptune
Famous people with Sun parallel Neptune and the Sun conjunct Neptune include Buddy Holly, Cass Elliot, Julio Iglesias, Michael Douglas, Martina Navratilova, LeBron James, and Broderick Hunter.
Famous people with Sun parallel Neptune and not conjunct include Billy Crystal, Barbara De Angelis, Ron Howard, Steve Jobs, John McEnroe, Britney Spears, and Aaron Rodgers.
What is a parallel?
Planets with the same or near-same declination are parallel to each other. Astrologers usually apply an orb or allowance of 1 degree for the parallel and contra-parallel. While a conjunction is an alignment in zodiacal longitude, the parallel is an alignment in the positions North or South of the celestial equator.
An example declination value is 8 N 23, or 4 S 54. A declination of zero degrees means the body is on the celestial equator.
For instance, if the Sun is at 12 S 31 and Neptune is at 13 S 07, they are said to be parallel, as they are within a 1-degree orb of alignment. Parallels occur between planets and points that are both North or both South and within a degree from one another. If, in this example, Neptune were instead at 13 N 07, the Sun and Neptune would be considered contra-parallel.
Note that the parallel often accompanies the conjunction, strengthening the combination greatly. However, it also occurs in the absence of the conjunction and can be thus a somewhat hidden influence when assessing a chart, but once discovered, its influence is usually undeniable.
Interpreting a parallel versus a conjunction: Both aspects represent a joining of forces of the energies of the planets or points in alignment. However, while the conjunction is a blend, the parallel is more of a partnership.
Alternate interpretation:
Sensitive and imaginative, you are attracted to artistic and creative pursuits and to mysticism. You are impressionable and receptive, and you often have experiences that are unusual and unexplainable by the rational mind. You have an abundance of dreams, visions, and longings, but do not always have the concentrated will and stamina to make them concrete. Gentle, idealistic, and peace-loving, you often seek to avoid the hard realities of life. You have an ethereal quality about you.
— Interpretation from the Merlin report.
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Interpretations written by Annie unless otherwise noted.
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