Neptune Transits
Neptune Transits: Predictive Astrology – Techniques for Predicting the Future
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Overview:
Neptune takes approximately 164 years to come full circle—too long to complete a cycle through our natal charts.
As such, this slow-moving planet’s transits are long-lasting, and each transit takes its time to unfold. As Neptune transits a point in our chart, retrogrades back over it, and then hits it again in direct motion, it imparts its own special wisdom upon the point in question—the areas of lives and parts of our psyches ruled by that point.
How Neptune affects our lives depends very much on whether we resist its influences or we try to work with the planet of illusion and spirituality. It is common for Neptune’s influence to be a confusing one in the first portion of the transit. Neptune’s ultimate “lesson” is to help connect us to the world of the intangible. This is in stark contrast to Saturn’s transits, which re-connect us to the tangible, material world.
Whichever part of our lives and psyches Neptune touches, especially by hard transit, is an area where we may feel “up in the air” and confused in the initial stages of the transit. Boundaries are unclear, commitments are elusive, and perception is confused.
If the Sun is involved, we don’t know where we are heading, and we have a hard time defining what we want and where we want to go. If Venus is involved, our love life is unusual or confused.
As the transit progresses, and certainly by the time it is over, we should have a more refined understanding of the affected areas of our lives. What begins as confusion can eventually actually augment our perception and our understanding.
Sometimes, people experience a burnout of sorts that eventually leads to taking a different path–often a more spiritually rewarding and fulfilling one. Neptune acts to dissolve what it touches.
The following are interpretations of Neptune’s transits to planets and points. Note that alternate meanings are indicated by a * and +.
Neptune-Sun Transits
Neptune transits conjunct Sun
Your personal sense of reality changes dramatically during the course of this transit. You are more sensitive than ever, and by transit’s end, you may tap into your devoted nature. There is a strong desire for peace and harmony and perhaps some sense that you have to make sacrifices for that end.
The body itself is sensitive, and you must be cautious with drugs. You may behave in an impractical manner, or you may be vulnerable to deception or betrayal from others. You may undergo a crisis of identity during the initial stages of this transit, and your experiences may lead you to a more refined understanding of yourself and the direction in which you want to head.
It can be a time of illusions and confusion, or it can be a very inspired period! Recognizing that you need more on a spiritual level can help you handle the transition more constructively.
Look for Leo in your natal chart, as the Sun rules Leo, and this is an area of life that will be directly affected by the transit (in addition to the house where the transit actually takes place).
Neptune transits sextile or trine Sun
At this time, a higher purpose to your life is what you seek, and you rely more heavily upon your intuition to achieve it. You could find that your intuition is subtly enhanced this year–you often find yourself in the right place at the right time, probably because your hunches are more likely to be correct.
This aspect softens your disposition somewhat as you tune into your imaginative and artistic side. You may often rely on your instinctual judgment.
This is a good year for self-improvement programs or efforts. The need to “get away from it all” — for some peace and quiet now and again — will be strong. You project a more sensitive–even mysterious–persona this year, which can attract pleasantly unusual circumstances (and people) into your life. You will want to reserve time alone–away from the hectic pace of life–for reflection, prayer, and meditation. Creativity runs high now.
Neptune transits square or opposition Sun
You are more vulnerable now to influence and illusion. Self-deception may be your biggest “enemy” during this period of your life, and for some, deception from others might be a theme now.
The body itself is sensitive, and you must be cautious with drugs. You may behave in an impractical manner, or you may be vulnerable to deception or betrayal from others. You may undergo a crisis of identity during the initial stages of this transit, and your experiences may lead you to a more refined understanding of yourself and the direction in which you want to head.
This can be a time of illusions and confusion, or it can be a very inspired time. Recognizing that you need more on a spiritual level can help you handle the transition more constructively.
Energy levels may be low or up and down, and you might be more inclined towards laziness or passivity–just letting things happen without fighting back. You might miss out on opportunities because of this approach to life. Placing faith in something higher than you is one thing, but if taken too far, you might regret letting life pass you by one day.
You are more idealistic than usual, which can cause a few problems if you’re not careful. You could be experiencing confusion about what you want from life, where you are headed, and how to go about satisfying your ego.
Some of you might feel that you’ve lost your edge or will to fight and take action. Some will be avoiding responsibilities which can negatively impact their lives. There is a reason behind this “identity crisis”–you are learning to let go of ego attachments. Your self-image is being reworked, and you are becoming more sensitive to a greater, perhaps more spiritual, sense of purpose.
Neptune-Moon Transits
Neptune transits to the Moon directly affect the feelings, the public image, and personal popularity. Other people and things affected by Neptune are the mother, important women in the native’s life, domestic life, and the home.
Neptune transits conjunct Moon
Ambiguity surrounds your emotional and domestic life at this time. You can be emotionally restless, but what it is you actually want is hard to pinpoint. You are more sensitive than ever, and through the course of this transit, your emotional life opens up to incorporate more refined, subtle and understated perceptions.
With this transit, you are “in tune” and pick up far more from your environment than usual. In fact, this can feel very much like emotional “commotion” until you accept that the essential purpose of this transit is to open up your feelings in order for you to ultimately become more compassionate, emotionally aware, and devoted.
As the emotional pipelines open up and the emotional walls come down, you can become more vulnerable to deception. Your ability to discriminate is compromised, simply because Neptune’s energy lacks definition and boundaries. Some measure of caution is advised.
Some unusual or unexpected problems with the mother, important women in your life, and/or your domestic life may occur during the course of the transit. There can be health issues that are psychosomatic in nature or hard to diagnose, although these are generally not serious. Your dreams are likely to become more vivid, and you can be quite susceptible to mood swings.
What does the Moon rule in your chart? Look to the house(s) of your natal chart with Cancer on the cusp for areas of your life where Neptune is acting to refine Look to planets in Cancer in your chart to see other parts of your personality that Neptune is now infusing with spirituality and sensitivity.
Neptune transits sextile Moon
Transiting Neptune forming a sextile with natal Moon is a softening and graceful influence. There is a wonderful sense of peace surrounding you during the course of this transit. You are more open and accepting on an emotional level. This emotional serenity, although subtle, helps you solve problems naturally and intuitively. Your dream life is richer than usual, and your imagination is boundless. It’s possible that you idealize a relationship, particularly with a female or family, and this connection inspires you to dream, believe, and wonder. Of course, going too far with this to the point of glamorizing a relationship could become problematic later.
Otherwise, you feel lighter and more hopeful. Improving your living conditions or arrangements might involve paying more attention to imaginative, colorful, peaceful, whimsical, romantic, or magical elements. During this period, you’re more sensitive in all the right ways. A greater understanding of one another and a willingness to be more yielding and helpful (at healthy levels) can significantly boost a relationship at this time.
Neptune transits square Moon
Transiting Neptune square natal Moon brings some up-in-the-air or ambiguous elements to your personal world. This transit heightens your sensitivity to levels well beyond your usual, and this can be surprising and perhaps disorienting. You’re more impressionable, and your moods can be swinging! It’s easier to laugh but also to cry or tear up. Your feelings are readily touched and hurt.
Ambiguity in your domestic world or regarding a key relationship, especially with family and/or a woman, can be a theme now, and it can feel rather destabilizing. Home life, living conditions, and living arrangements could be up in the air at this time. You’re also more vulnerable to the moods and atmosphere of the people and places around you. It can be a time when your imagination runs away with itself, and it isn’t easy to discern what’s real and what isn’t. It’s a good idea to acknowledge where your mind takes you and perhaps to assign symbolic meaning to these musings, but to avoid overemphasizing extreme views or ideas that arise during this period.
This period is one of increased sentimentality, and while your emotionality will regulate when you come out of this cycle, you can take with you a greater understanding of your neglected emotional needs.
Neptune transits trine Moon
With transiting Neptune trine natal Moon, there can be a wonderful sense of peace surrounding you. You are more open and accepting on an emotional level during the course of this transit. This emotional serenity, although subtle, helps you solve problems naturally and intuitively. Your dream life is richer than usual, and your imagination is boundless.
You’re picking up a lot more from your environment, especially emotional cues, and you can find yourself considerably more sensitive to the moods and atmosphere around you. This Neptune transit pulls out and highlights your innate idealism. Relationships, especially those with family, women, and children, and emotional ties, can be idealized, making them feel more vibrant, colorful, relevant, and meaningful. This transit can also highlight psychic, imaginative, and creative talents. Your fantasy world, imagination, compassion, and dreaming life also come to the foreground. This can be a period of greater sentimentality and nostalgia. The desire for more peace, harmony, gentleness, acceptance, and flair in your domestic life can come on strongly now.
Neptune transits opposite Moon
While transiting Neptune is in opposition to your natal Moon, you’re in a period of heightened sensitivity and sentimentality. You can be easy to tear up and easily touched. It can be a time when childhood traumas or fraught relationships with family, women, or children can weigh more heavily on you. Healing these things can now become important. It can be all too easy to let your household and personal environment fall out of order, and for you to stray from healthy habits and routines, particularly in areas such as eating and sleeping, which is something to watch for now.
During this transit, feelings of discouragement about a current relationship or your living arrangements and conditions may come to the forefront. The need for more rest, deeper sleep, and better nutrition can be pronounced. Consider this a period of reorientation, when you’re learning more about your emotional needs and wants, which can ultimately redirect you in helpful ways. Still, the extra sensitivity is real, and it’s best to boost your world around you in areas you can control to help manage expectations and deflated or up-and-down emotions. Healthy routines, decluttering, and regular breaks for emotional refreshment can be integral during this period.
*Emotions run very high and deep now. Strange, unusual, even obsessive, feelings grip you now. These feelings are often irrational and out of character, so you are likely to squelch them; they seem childish, exceedingly sentimental, foolish, and out of proportion.
Neptune-Mercury Transits
Neptune transits to Mercury directly affect your curiosity, learning, communication skills, self-promotion, ideas formulation, and ability to rationalize and think logically.
Neptune transits conjunct Mercury
Your thinking process becomes more animated, imaginative, and spirited during this transit. However, you can also find yourself mentally lazy and passive, finding it hard to concentrate on mundane matters. You might gloss over details in favor of the bigger picture, and you can find it hard to stick to systems or schedules. Even normally punctual people might find it hard to be on time during this transit.
If your work involves communications, advertising, publishing, or languages, you are able to breathe new life into these channels with increased intuition and imagination. Your writing and/or speech may become more poetic.
During this time, you may encounter mysterious, confused, unusual, or spiritual experiences surrounding Mercury-ruled people and things (such as siblings, neighbors, travel, studies, and so forth).
What does Mercury rule in your chart? Look to the houses of your natal chart with Gemini and Virgo on the cusp for areas of your life where Neptune is acting to refine. Look to planets in Gemini and Virgo in your chart to see other parts of your personality that Neptune is infusing with spirituality and sensitivity.
Neptune transits sextile or trine Mercury
This is an imaginative and inspired period when you’re solving problems intuitively and naturally. If you write or speak for a living, this is an especially beneficial time when you are able to infuse imagination and animation into your communications. You may discover your own psychic or clairvoyant talents during this transit.
At the very least, you have your finger on the pulse of what others want to hear and learn. This can mean that you are especially adept at advertising, but it also tremendously improves your relationships with others.
Your senses dramatically heighten in general, although attention to detail may be lacking. You may take up–or renew–an interest in the psychic or divining arts. Your speech may slow down as a reflection of your increased sensitivity to the world around you.
Certainly, you are absorbing things from your environment differently than before. You may be somewhat sensitive to criticism, and you may expect others to be as sincere as you are, so avoid subjecting yourself to situations that are too abrasive or harsh right now, if possible. This is a good time for writing fiction and any undertaking that requires imagination.
Neptune transits square or opposite Mercury
This transit can point to a lack of clarity and objectivity. You might make embarrassing errors, neglect important details, or you could carry some delusions now. It may be difficult for others to understand you, or you might be communicating in such a way that you are not clear. During the period of this transit, you are more imaginative and easily swayed by the opinions of others.
You can be highly creative and inspired under this influence, but you could also be overly sensitive, touchy, or impractical now. You might find it especially challenging to follow routines, concentrate or focus on monotonous tasks or work, and focus on academic subjects that require attention to detail or rote learning.
Neptune-Venus Transits
Neptune transits to Venus stimulate your desires to share pleasures with significant others and with friends in perhaps unusual or especially sensitive ways.
They urge you to find new meaning in your life through leisure activities and/or romance. These transits also affect your urge to acquire new material goods and your finances, in general.
Neptune transits conjunct Venus
You are more sensitive than ever to emotional stimuli at this time, as your love and pleasure nature is heightened, open, and perhaps vulnerable to influence.
You are opening up your heart, which can also mean you are more vulnerable to romantic illusions. During this period, you find yourself especially idealistic, romantic, and charming. As well, you can be very easily charmed. As such, you should watch for a tendency to see what you want to see in romantic partners. You may gloss over crucial details and practical concerns in favor of idealistic or romantic visions and perceptions.
Your desires are tender and compassionate, and you’re responsive to all things pleasurable. Finances can suffer under this transit if you tend to live on credit. Try not to borrow from your future, not just with regards to finances. Force yourself to consider practical matters, even though you may resist it, while opening your heart to new possibilities. And, while opening your heart to new possibilities, be sure to use some common sense.
What does Venus rule in your chart? Look to the houses of your natal chart with Taurus and Libra on the cusp for areas of your life. These are where Neptune is acting to dissolve outdated attitudes and refine perceptions. Look to planets in Taurus and Libra in your chart to see other parts of your personality that Neptune is now infusing with sensitivity and spirituality.
Neptune transits sextile Venus
While Neptune transits sextile to natal Venus, your senses are stirring, and you’re finding more wonder and magic in your life, especially with romantic or pleasurable pursuits.
Your values are shifting during the course of this long-term transit. You are learning to share yourself — especially your sympathy and compassion — with others and to give of yourself more openly. You are more attuned to the world of beauty, the arts, and the imagination. Compassion, harmony, kindness, and openness are themes now. Idealizing a person, connection, situation, object, or relationship can be a theme, as you’re more easily captivated at this time.
Gentleness with others is the best way to harness this energy. It can be a magical time on a romantic and social level, although also a dreamy, not especially realistic period. You experience the pleasures of life more fully. You now see the very best in people, easing your interactions and taking the pressure off in personal relationships. Romance is in high favor.
Your style, values, affections, and perceptions are also subtly changing, becoming more refined, cultivated, enlightened, or delicate. You can be quite turned off by the cruder aspects of people or life. However, you’re also more accepting and trusting during this cycle. You seem to need more imagination, flourish, or color in your life, particularly with hobbies, pleasurable pursuits, and love. This transit can be good for money matters, particularly for money flowing more easily or unblocking if there was a stoppage.
Neptune transits square Venus
You are more sensitive than ever to emotional stimuli during this transit, as your love and pleasure nature is heightened, open, and perhaps vulnerable to influence. Indeed, you are opening up your heart, which can also mean you are more vulnerable to romantic illusions, to being swayed, and perhaps misled.
You are easily charmed, and you must watch for a tendency to see what you want to see in romantic partners rather than for who or what they are. As well, you may gloss over crucial details and practical concerns in favor of idealistic visions and perceptions.
Your desires are tender and compassionate. You are responsive to all things pleasurable, possibly to the point of carelessness or laziness when it comes to tending to practical affairs. Finances can suffer under this transit if you tend to live on credit. Try not to borrow from your future, not just with finances, but also regarding emotional matters.
For example, you might throw yourself into a new romance that others warn you is not realistic. Force yourself to consider practical matters, even though you may resist it while opening your heart to new possibilities. And, while opening your heart to new possibilities, be sure to use some common sense.
Sometimes, this transit makes us so vulnerable that we can too easily be taken advantage of or deceived. Indeed, this can happen with money or love, and sometimes both. There can be a lot of sadness as this transit can stimulate a deep yearning for something more than “just ordinary” life.
We might attract challenging situations or relationships into our lives because of a deep longing for more drama or glamor in our lives or for a soulmate connection.
This transit can also do a number to your value system. The values you have cherished to date may change quite dramatically now, or you might be tempted to throw them away, or bend your morals, in pursuit of some pleasure or fantasy. As you chase something different, unusual, and otherworldly, you may lack discrimination in your choices of purchases, people, and pleasures.
Neptune transits trine Venus
Your values are shifting during the course of this long-term transit. You are learning to share yourself–your sympathy and compassion–with others and to give of yourself more openly. You are more attuned to the world of beauty, the arts, and the imagination. Compassion, harmony, kindness, and openness are themes now. Gentleness with others is the best way to harness this energy.
This can be a “magical” time on a romantic and social level. You soak in and experience the pleasures of life more fully. You see the very best in people now, which eases your interactions and takes the pressure off in personal relationships. Romance is highly favored.
Neptune transits opposition Venus
You are more sensitive than ever to emotional stimulus at this time, as your love and pleasure nature is heightened, open, and perhaps vulnerable to influence. Indeed, you are opening up your heart, which can also mean you are more vulnerable to romantic illusions, to being swayed, and perhaps to being misled.
You are easily charmed, and you must watch for a tendency to see what you want to see in romantic partners rather than for who or what they are. You may gloss over crucial details and practical concerns in favor of idealistic visions and perceptions. Your desires are tender and compassionate.
You are responsive to all things pleasurable, possibly to the point of carelessness or laziness when it comes to tending to practical affairs.
Finances can suffer under this transit if you tend to live on credit. Try not to borrow from your future, not just with regards to finances, but also when it comes to emotional matters. For example, you might throw yourself into a new romance that others warn is unrealistic.
Force yourself to consider practical matters, even though you may resist it, while opening your heart to new possibilities. And, while opening your heart to new possibilities, be sure to use some common sense. Sometimes, this transit makes us so vulnerable that we can too easily be taken advantage of or deceived, and this can happen with regard to money and in love, and sometimes both.
There can be a lot of sadness as this transit can stimulate a deep yearning for something more than “just ordinary” life. We might attract challenging situations or relationships into our lives because of a deep longing for more drama or glamor in our lives, or for a soulmate connection.
This transit can also do a number to your value system. The values you have cherished to date may change quite dramatically now, or you might be tempted to throw them away, or bend your morals, in pursuit of some pleasure or fantasy.
With the opposition, you might feel challenged by others on the level of values, love, or finances. You may feel distraught, lonely, or misunderstood by others as you seek something more from your life.
You may be overlooking important details with money, and neglect of material concerns could impact your life now. It’s not the best time to lend out money, to sweep material concerns under the carpet, to buy on credit, or to avoid paying attention to bank/tax matters.
When it comes to matters of the heart, the things you yearn for may not be mirrored in your experiences or romantic partner. While giving your heart to someone may feel wonderful and it might lead to a wonderful experience, it might also end up being a big learning experience if you are not also considering practical and realistic matters. Self-deception is perhaps your greatest enemy now.
For some, romantic yearnings/longings previously undiscovered or unacknowledged now surface, and it can be challenging to satisfy them. You might long for more romance, care, love, and sensitivity in your life, but have a hard time knowing how to get them.
If involved in a love relationship, the cruder, less refined, and overly practical or mundane elements of your relationship that you once accepted now become glaring and hard to stomach. Your soul now yearns for a more spiritual or romantic bond. Similarly for singles, your romantic and love needs are evolving.
For all, it’s a period in which a no-nonsense, overly practical, or overly sexual approach to relationships is now seen as crude and unsatisfying.
Neptune-Mars Transits
Neptune transits to Mars affect your drive and desire nature, strength, as well as your ability to assert yourself.
Neptune transits conjunct Mars
Although your focus may be compromised and physical energy scattered, there is a strong potential for you to improve your intuition and magnetic powers. You may be in the right place at the right time.
The effects of this transit will have much to do with the condition of Mars in your chart. You may, for example, be inclined to take shortcuts or to not know where you are headed exactly, and attract negative influences as a result. You may feel uninspired or lazy due to lack of motivation or a feeling of being without direction. Additionally, you may have a hard time drumming up the confidence to move forward.
On the other hand, you can be extremely inspired if your personality is extroverted, and/or if you work with Neptune instead of against it. Neptune is urging you to become more refined with regards to your desire nature, anger management, and assertive tendencies. Incorporating more imagination, compassion, and spirituality into these parts of your personality will help you to not only “manage” the transit, but to learn from it.
Neptune transits sextile Mars
The transit of Neptune, in sextile to natal Mars, has a smoothing and softening effect on your nature, particularly on your desires, motivation levels, and how you assert yourself. You’re going with the flow, but you’re also in a cycle that’s strong for feeling a new sense of mission. You’re more interested in building your inner life than in pushing for goals outside of yourself. Satisfying your ego is not as important to you during this transit. Instead, you’re seeking a good rhythm and sense of inner fulfillment.
This transit also sensitizes you to others’ journeys, and it’s a good time to develop and work on your patience. You might take meaningful action to help someone or devote energy to a special service or cause.
This can also be a time of idealizing or glamorizing a relationship, particularly with a male. A connection may elevate with more attention to imagination, or a new relationship begins that touches you and perhaps alters your life path, motivation levels, and/or how you assert your desires. Instead (or additionally), it’s a period when you’re seeking more magic in your experiences. It can be a great time to bring more grace or fluidity to your physical activities, such as through dance, Pilates, or yoga.
*You are more humble, receptive, and less aggressive in your work now. Others are more willing to give you advice and criticism because you are not as rigid and defensive as usual.
Neptune transits square Mars
Transiting Neptune square natal Mars can temporarily deflate you, as it signals a period of reorientation. You could feel discouraged or exhausted if your pursuits are no longer fulfilling you. This transit typically highlights the need for new, perhaps more authentic, sources of inspiration. In the meantime, you may be experiencing waning enthusiasm, feelings of boredom or fatigue, or a sense of discouragement. Life may feel dull or lacking in color or imagination. You may be only going through the motions.
It’s essential to fulfill your duties and avoid falling behind in your current pursuits, but also to pay special attention to resting and restoring your energy through creative or restful activities and a change of scenery. Connect with your need for wonder, magic, and a sense that your activities align with your values and ideals. It’s a “stop and smell the roses” period in your life! You might realize you’ve been ignoring or overlooking your need for imaginative, soulful, and spirit-feeding activities.
This can certainly be a time when you might struggle with up-and-down enthusiasm for physical pursuits, feelings of being burnt out, a general lack of vitality, and variable desires. It can be difficult to find the right time to assert yourself, and anger management can be more challenging during this period. Feeling listless, ineffective, and disoriented is possible until you find ways to reorient yourself. Aim to take things one step at a time, attending to your important tasks so that you don’t fall further behind, and avoiding taking on more, especially pursuits that require a leap of faith.
Managing disappointments is also essential, as a pursuit that once fulfilled or excited you may now fade away or no longer bring you joy. This can sometimes involve a relationship with a man, as a significant male figure in your life may be confused, uninspired, or undecided, which can impact your life. It’s best to find ways to slow down and accept that it will take some time to feel back on track. Additionally, protecting your health is crucial through adequate sleep and exercise, as well as attention to moderation. Keep in mind that, with this transit active, it can be all too tempting to waste your time or misdirect your energies into poorly researched pursuits.
*Work and important projects undergo difficult changes now. You are likely to feel very frustrated and disheartened at times, but don’t completely lose faith and throw everything out the window! This is certainly a time of questioning your values, goals, and directions in life, but try to come to rational decisions rather than act simply out of frustration.
Neptune transits trine Mars
With transiting Neptune trine natal Mars, you’re personally magnetic and appealing. During this cycle, you more often go with the flow rather than push things ahead, yet you get things done.
Neptune can inspire you to act on your compassion or ideals. You assert yourself more in your actions than your words. Physical art forms and healing can be a strong draw–you can excel at these activities during this cycle. Your desires at this time are less about material things and more about the intangibles and finding meaning and fulfillment in your activities.
You prefer not to define your desires and actions during this period, when a bit of mystery is possible, as you don’t want to paint yourself into a corner or feel bound or restricted. A more relaxed, free-form, instinctual approach is attractive to you during this period. As such, this transit doesn’t find you at your most committed. However, you’re certainly more creative and spontaneous than usual.
*Your motivations and personal ambitions become more elevated and idealistic now. You are able to see your work in better perspective. Rather than focusing on the strictly personally rewarding aspects of your efforts (for example, your income, amount of vacation time, and other amenities), you are more sensitive to the value of your service as a contribution to society.
Neptune transits opposite Mars
Transiting Neptune in opposition to your natal Mars can test your resolve, energy levels, drive, and sense of reality. It can be a time when you deviate from your routine or schedule, and it can be more challenging to stick to your exercise routine during this cycle.
During this transit, the need for more rest can be pronounced. Your energy levels often depend on inspiration, which may be temporarily compromised. It’s important to remember that feeling discouraged is a natural part of this cycle, and you’re likely to experience ups and downs. To navigate this, it’s best to adopt a more even-keel, moderate approach to your life. This includes prioritizing self-care and rest, as the tendency is to go from believing the impossible to feeling let down by reality, which can be a taxing rollercoaster ride.
Managing your expectations will be an important strategy for mitigating these issues. As well, it’s best not to invest too much of yourself in projects that aren’t yet sure things, as your judgment may not be up to par temporarily.
During this transit, certain areas of your life may be affected by a sense of confusion or fog. This can include your desire nature, energy levels, physical stamina, ability to assert yourself, sense of direction, and, to some extent, relationships with males. However, this can also be a period of reorientation as you refuel with more authentic inspiration, motivation, and incentive.
*You approach your work and important projects with an unusual degree of imagination, idealism, and optimism now. Be careful! You are prone to shoot for the stars now, but never get off the ground. You may speculate, gamble, or put all your eggs in one basket.
Neptune-Jupiter Transits
When Jupiter and Neptune connect, we deal with matters related to our outlook, spirit, beliefs, understanding, and perceptions. This planetary combination gives us a compassionate, spiritual, kind, and concerned outlook, belief system, or perspective.
Neptune Transits Conjunct Jupiter
When transiting Neptune conjuncts natal Jupiter, you tend to seek more magical, inspiring, rousing, or spiritual and expansive experiences during this period. Your are more hopeful and faithful. Rewards for past good deeds or special projects can seem to magically appear at this time.
This is a longer-term influence that can last for some time if Neptune transits and then retrogrades over your natal Jupiter. It expands your idealistic nature, and it can inspire a search for knowledge and truth. You should be more vigilant with plans, ventures, or schemes that have unrealistic components to them. Aim to keep things in reasonable proportions.
Areas of expansion but possibly some confusion or unreal elements can include publishing, advertising, long-distance connections or travel, drama, and higher education.
*Restlessness, expansiveness, travel, imagination, and philosophy are key issues now. This is the time to spread your wings and explore imaginative new possibilities.
Neptune Transits Sextile Jupiter
You seek out more expansive, magical, spiritual, and rousing experiences. Your attitude is a hopeful, faithful one during this period. Yoga, meditation, or spiritual studies can be appealing now. You may enjoy the fruits of past labor or good deeds.
Certainly, you are seeking more meaning from your life and expanding your worldview or perspective, and this quest is felt to enhance your life.
*You are in a generous and tolerant mood during this time period. You easily forgive others for their faults and are ready to overlook foibles in others’ personalities. Your tolerant, accepting attitude makes relationships with others pleasant and positive.
Neptune Transits Square Jupiter
You may become a victim of your own optimism! If taken too far, your sense that everything will work out could close your eyes to some essential practical details. This can be a time to watch for overshooting. Put new ideas to the test. You can be extra sensitive and impressionable during this transit. Fears or worries may be too vague to define but persistent at this time.
Remind yourself that every problem has a solution. Watch, too, for a lot of wasted time or wasted opportunities, as well as exaggeration. Look for ways to expand or improve your life step by step and in reasonable, small doses rather than attempting to make sweeping changes now.
*Extreme restlessness and discontent with the limitations of your current situation incline you to speculate and gamble on ways to quickly change your life. There is a strong tendency to exaggerate and put on a front to impress others and gain the advancement that you seek.
Neptune Transits Trine Jupiter
You seek out more expansive, magical, spiritual, and rousing experiences. Your attitude is a hopeful, faithful one during this period. Yoga, meditation, or spiritual studies can be appealing now. You may enjoy the fruits of past labor or good deeds. At the same time, your expectation of success can create positive situations. You’re trusting your intuition.
You’re also inclined to broaden your worldview or fill out your belief system. This can be a time of expanded learning or traveling. You’re connecting with your innate idealism. This transit tends to downplay the material side of your ambitions, as you’re striving for more meaningful, spirit-feeding experiences.
*Your imagination is stirred, you feel inspired, restless, and ready for bigger and better things in your life. You want to break out of your usual routine and explore more imaginative and creative options.
Neptune Transits Opposition Jupiter
When transiting Neptune forms an opposition with natal Jupiter, you may become a victim of your own optimism! If taken too far, your sense that everything will work out could close your eyes to some essential practical details. It’s best to watch for overshooting during this cycle. Put new ideas to the test.
You can be extra sensitive and impressionable during this transit. Fears or worries may be too vague to define, but are persistent at this time, especially if deep down you realize you are being impractical. Managing expectations is important, as this aspect can stir up considerable discontent. Look for elements of your life that are, in truth, fulfilling. Count your blessings and remind yourself that if your life is currently lacking in inspiration, it will take some time to rebuild. However, with patience, you can get there.
Importantly, remind yourself that every problem has a solution. Watch, too, for a lot of wasted time or wasted opportunities, as well as exaggeration. Look for ways to expand or improve your life step by step and in reasonable, small doses rather than attempting to make sweeping changes at this time.
*Speculation, optimism, restlessness, and perhaps downright foolhardiness are key issues now. Everyday life seems drab and dreary to you now, and you explore bigger, more exciting, more exotic alternatives. This is an excellent time to travel or go on vacation.
Neptune-Saturn Transits
When Saturn and Neptune connect, we attempt to integrate our needs for tradition, convention, and stability, with our needs for spirituality, imagination, and inspiration as well as to follow our ideals.
Neptune Transits Conjunct Saturn
When transiting Neptune conjuncts natal Saturn, it’s a time when the solid, secure elements of your life appear destabilized. It can be a period when you worry more about problems you previously glossed over, and it’s a time when you can feel less secure or certain of yourself and your plans or situation. You can also be a time of less willpower and strength, which can mean you’re more susceptible to environmental influences.
+Problems could lose some of their definition and appear less difficult now. You might have a sense of living in a dream world or of being awake in your own dream. Everything seems less solid and definite. The spirit world seems real and possible.
Neptune Transits Sextile Saturn
When transiting Neptune sextiles natal Saturn, you’re in a wonderful position to see your responsibilities in a new light and to feel a sense of a mission. You can feel more balanced, peaceful, content, and spiritually fulfilled at this time. It’s a good time for guidance, although you’re also more in tune with your intuition such that listening to your inner guide can work well. Bringing a dream to life can be in focus now.
+The problems and responsibilities of life may be seen in a new light, as part of a larger drama you are living (almost like a dream). You are able to handle difficulties more easily, seeing them as part of a larger story.
Neptune Transits Square Saturn
Transiting Neptune square natal Saturn can signal a period when your hard work, authority, responsibilities, or some of the stable structures in your life are changing. Temporarily, forces are dissolving, undermining, or confusing this part of your life, and it can be pretty disorienting. It’s not quite as dependable, straightforward, reliable, or clear.
Instead, this influence can operate on a psychological level, where you’re now questioning some of the traditions or structures in your life that made you feel secure, or even your own fitness to fulfill your responsibilities. Either way, it’s a period of reorientation, and you’re ultimately building toward more authenticity in these areas of your life. Finding more meaning and inspiration is a part of this process, as you seek more fulfillment rather than a dull, mindless following of traditions and habits.
+There could be a tendency to view your accomplishments as having almost no substance during this time. A false set of ideals may mislead you and cause you to neglect your responsibilities and get lost in what will amount to a bunch of nothing.
Neptune Transits Trine Saturn
You’re in a fantastic position to see your responsibilities in a new light and to feel a sense of mission during this impactful, longer-term transit. You can feel more balanced, peaceful, content, and spiritually fulfilled at this time. It’s a good time for guidance, although you’re also more in tune with your intuition, such that listening to your inner guide can work well. Bringing a dream to life is now in focus. This transit renews your belief in achieving your goals.
+The problems and responsibilities of life may be seen in a new light, as part of a larger drama you are living (almost like a dream). You are able to handle difficulties more easily, seeing them as part of a larger story.
Neptune Transits Opposition Saturn
When Neptune transits in opposition to natal Saturn, you may experience some changes, especially destabilizing ones, to some of the structures in your life. Confusion about something previously tried-and-true can figure strongly now. It’s not an easy time to bring plans to reality or fruition.
You could find that your willpower suffers a little during this period as you attempt to reorient yourself in the face of some discouragement or disillusionment. While this period can temporarily seem to erode your confidence, it’s also a time to identify problem areas that require adjustments, especially habits or attachments that have been subtly and insidiously dragging you down. Those things you’ve unquestioningly accepted as part of your life may seem less perfect or ideal to you now, for example. Aim to prioritize good eating and sleeping habits as you work on regaining inspiration.
+Misguided idealism and false spirituality could find you ignoring responsibilities in favor of a lot of high-sounding talk. You might find yourself losing your resolve or determination to take care of business and get things accomplished.
Neptune-Uranus Transits
When Uranus and Neptune connect in transit, we want to shake up the status quo. We can be visionary and inspired.
Neptune Transits Semi-square, Sesquiquadrate, or Square Uranus
When transiting Neptune semi-squares or squares natal Uranus, a subtle awakening is in store for you during the course of this transit that lasts at least a year. This is a period of revelations as you see life differently. It’s possible that through disappointments or disillusionments, you feel freer now that you’re “in the know.”
You may need to adjust some of the details of your plans and goals as unexpected events lead to detours. Staying open to changes in schedules is helpful. Do watch for a tendency to get carried away with distractions.
Neptune Transits Sextile or Trine Uranus
When transiting Neptune forms a trine or sextile with natal Uranus, your imagination is stirring, and you’re especially receptive to new ideas, experiences, and even dreams or ideals. It can be a time to get caught up in a social movement. You can be reshaping your ideas of what makes progress and improvement in your life, and there can be a softening of your rebellious impulses. You seek to create change in subtler and gentler ways during this period.
Neptune-Neptune Transits
Neptune Transits Sextile Neptune
While Neptune transits in sextile aspect to your natal Neptune, you’re beginning to get more in touch with your own dreams, intuition, and ideals, rather than simply flowing along with the ones you’ve held to date, and quietly going your own way. You’re asking yourself what you aspire to and believe in. This transit subtly brings out and enhances your innate attraction to imaginative, idealistic, and mysterious activities and topics. You can be more trusting of your intuition and follow it more confidently.
Neptune Transits Square Neptune
Transiting Neptune square natal Neptune can be temporarily disorienting, as current situations in your life emphasize the ways you’ve strayed from your innate beliefs and ideals, or they stand in stark contrast. Ultimately, this can lead to positive changes and improvements. However, during this cycle, your path is not yet intuitive or straightforward. Aim to wait and see as you feel things out. Feeling somewhat disconnected is likely now.
Neptune Transits Trine Neptune
With transiting Neptune trine natal Neptune, circumstances seem to highlight and enhance your innate spirituality, compassion, and idealism. It’s easier to find like-minded people or those who support your personal vision, and you can more readily express your sense of wonder and awe. It’s a period of being more easily touched by the magical aspects of your current situation or the world around you. Helpful life “lessons” enhance your imagination and de-emphasize your material goals and ego needs.
Neptune Transits Opposite Neptune
With transiting Neptune in opposition to natal Neptune, you’ve reached a turning point regarding your spiritual beliefs, ideals, sense of meaning or wonder, and wisdom. You may see the light in some manner, as you embrace new ideas in these areas or these matters fill out and unfold in your mind. Changing dreams and ideals can now be part of the picture.
Neptune-Pluto Transits
Neptune Transits Sextile Pluto
While Neptune transits in sextile aspect to your natal Pluto, you’re moving away from particular beliefs, pursuits, or goals as you begin to see them differently, through a softer, more sensitive lens or through the lens of your ideals and beliefs. At the same time, you’re coming into your own spiritual power and answering to your own inner promptings and intuition.
Neptune Transits Square Pluto
Transiting Neptune square natal Pluto can dissolve or change an aspect of your life that had previously given you a sense of power or control, which can be temporarily disorienting. In truth, you may be moving toward a new and improved, more authentic self-mage, sense of empowerment, inspiration, and attachments. However, in the meantime, you can experience confusing feelings of disconnection, particularly if something you’ve felt you’d mastered is now up in the air.
Neptune Transits Trine Pluto
With transiting Neptune trine natal Pluto, circumstances seem to soften and refine your life, particularly as you process and work through some of your deeper ambitions, fears, and defense mechanisms. This transit can awaken or boost your interest in metaphysical topics. Understanding your personal psychology can be a quest now. Belief in yourself, new inspiration, a stronger sense of meaning or purpose, and exciting special interests can be fulfilling during this cycle.
Neptune Transits Opposite Pluto
When transiting Neptune opposes natal Pluto, you can be going through a turning point regarding your attachments, and some disillusionment can be a big part of this process. You may no longer revere or glamorize some aspects of your life, especially your attachments to images in media and culture, as these things can fall from their pedestals in your eyes. These revelations, although about broad or collective matters, can affect you profoundly. In truth, you may be moving toward new and improved, more authentic inspiration and attachments. However, in the meantime, you can experience confusing feelings of disconnection.
Neptune-Ascendant Transits
Neptune Transits Conjunct Ascendant
You’re tuning in to your higher goals, ideals, and sense of meaning with Neptune transiting conjunct your Ascendant. You’re more impressionable and sensitive to how others perceive you and to your personal environment. As well, you’re resistant to labels and definitions, as you don’t want to feel that you’re painted into a corner. As well, you’re going through changes that are, in truth, hard to define.
Neptune Transits Sextile Ascendant
Circumstances are such that you’re tuning in to your need for more magic, romance, imagination, or spirit in your relationships during this transit. You’re more sensitive to nuance, and you seek like-minded people. It can be a time of pleasant awakening to a need for others or a stronger sense of purpose through your connections. A friend or group can be an uplifting force in your life at this time. You could be connecting or communicating in more imaginative ways.
*You encounter people now who are very considerate, understanding and nonjudgmental. You are also likely to form relationships with people based on a deep level of mutual appreciation and understanding for each other. You are in touch with your more sensitive, spiritual qualities, and you are able to express a greater level of sensitivity and greater empathy than usual.
Neptune Transits Square Ascendant
With the astrological event of transiting Neptune square your Ascendant, a phase may be underway where you’re feeling somewhat disconnected from the world around you, and possibly misunderstood. This aspect suggests a period of reorientation, during which you may not know what you want temporarily, and this ambiguity can hang in your aura. It can be a period when you’re misled or deceived and have to deal with the resulting disappointments. While your imagination is in the forefront during this cycle, it may not always be working in your favor.
Generally, this can be a time when you’re missing, overlooking, or shielded from important information, and it’s best to avoid making impactful decisions if possible. For example, check in with yourself when making significant choices during this period, asking whether you would be seriously stretching your usual boundaries and rules if you were to make that choice. If yes, it’s probably not wise!
It’s a very good idea to work on strengthening your boundaries by learning to say no when necessary, setting clear personal and professional limits, and practicing self-care. Pay closer attention to building up your physical and mental strength through healthy eating, resting, and sleeping habits and routines.
Watch also for escapist or procrastinating tendencies, while aiming to fulfill your increased needs for imagination, drama, and wonder in constructive ways. Feelings of discontent and dissatisfaction are real, and feeding your need for magic, idealism, and belief in your life is a worthy mission now.
*Some adjustments in the way you express yourself and treat others are required now. Others may complain that you are not sincere with them, you are too domineering or passive, or unfair in some respect. You may also find yourself feeling the need to approach others about the way they express themselves and treat others.
Neptune Transits Trine Ascendant
When transiting Neptune forms a trine to your Ascendant, your life and relationships can inspire you. It’s one indication of a peaceful, contented period, when you’re more in touch with your desire for whimsy, imagination, wonder, awe, and compassion in your life. Forgiveness and understanding come more readily. You also trust your intuition, feeling deeply in touch, and your psychic sensors are sharp, making you more self-aware and in tune with your inner self. It’s a time when you more naturally de-emphasize your ego needs and material goals.
*You encounter people now who are very considerate, understanding and nonjudgmental. You are also likely to form relationships with people based on a deep level of mutual appreciation and understanding for each other. You are in touch with your more sensitive, spiritual qualities, and you are able to express a greater level of sensitivity and greater empathy than usual.
Neptune Transits Opposition Ascendant
When transiting Neptune forms an opposition to your Ascendant, people aren’t seeing you clearly, or they see you as more persuadable. It can be a time of confusion, particularly about your path, personal identity, and close relationships. In truth, you are reorienting yourself, and a questioning period may be the initial step of this process.
It’s crucial to remind yourself of your usual boundaries and rules, as it can be tempting to stretch them, but it’s not a good time to do so due to a general lack of confidence and clarity. Maintaining these boundaries is important, albeit difficult, at this time. It’s essential to resist the strong tendency to glamorize or idealize people and relationships at this time, as your need for a more idyllic setup is so strong that it can skew your perceptions during this cycle.
*Be very careful and circumspect about any new relationship that forms now. You are likely to form new relationships of both a personal and business nature that you have high hopes for, but you are likely to eventually become disappointed by these relationships. You tend to project your ideals and fantasies on others now, and not really see them objectively and clearly.
Neptune-Midheaven Transits
Neptune Transits Conjunct Midheaven
Transiting Neptune conjunct natal Midheaven signals a period of ambiguity surrounding your career, reputation, responsibilities, or life path. You can be drawn to fields that involve illusions and mysteries, such as film, theater, photography, acting, magic, dancing, writing, and fashion, or to the healing or helping arts and professions.
This can be a period when your role, at least in the eyes of others and the world, is changing, shifting, and evolving. It’s important to avoid situations that could lead to scandal or misperceptions. Whether you’re put on a pedestal or the opposite, misrepresentation is not beneficial for you in the long term, so strive to live authentically.
During this cycle, you may be questioning your life path or direction. Although a feeling of limbo or dissatisfaction can be uncomfortable, it’s probably best to take notes and listen to your discontent while avoiding major decisions during this cycle. In truth, this transit tugs on the most idealistic and perhaps impractical side of your personality, and clarity is unlikely regarding your status, profession, or life direction. The temptation to pursue a more spiritually fulfilling path is real, but you may need to factor in practical considerations–looking before you leap may be the better choice, for example.
*Major changes in your career occur at this time. You are in a transition phase where you are more concerned with really bringing your ideals and dreams down to earth and implementing them in your life. You are likely to feel that your current employment involves too many compromises.
Neptune Transits Sextile Midheaven
When transiting Neptune forms a sextile to your Midheaven (shorthand: MC), you have the tools and motivation to bring more imagination or creativity to your vocation or long-term goals. You want what you do to reflect more of your ideals and higher beliefs, or you feel compelled to use and incorporate more of your imagination and intuition in your objectives, career, responsibilities, or life path.
This can instead be a time when a bit of mystery surrounds your reputation, and it benefits you, or your relationships with those in authority improve in terms of trust. Another possibility with this transit is that you now put more faith in achieving your goals and aspire to new heights — you’re inspired!
*A spirit of cooperation and shared ideals imbues your career pursuits with a satisfying, inspiring quality now. Supervisors, employers, employees, and co-workers show that they will extend themselves and make sacrifices “when the chips are down”. Consequently, your work and career gain a greater dimension of meaningfulness and importance to you.
Neptune Transits Square Midheaven
When Neptune transits square your Midheaven, you might grapple with up-in-the-air elements about domestic and career matters. Note that when Neptune squares your MC, it also squares your IC. Confusion about where you’re going and where you’re coming from can be in the spotlight! A sense of discontent or deep dissatisfaction with your direction is possible now. You may feel that something is missing, and if you scratch the surface, you’ll find that it’s probably related to spiritual, imaginative, romantic, or idealistic matters. You’ve been living in ways that haven’t satisfactorily taken into account your ideals and intangible needs.
*Changing attitudes and doubts about your career and overall situation in life can eat away at you now. This problem is particularly strong if you have not been honest with yourself, kidding yourself about where your current life is leading you, or ignoring your dreams and ideals because you feel they are unrealistic.
Neptune Transits Trine Midheaven
*Your approach to your work and career is highly imaginative at this time. You come up with interesting, creative ideas. Your intuition is excellent and the imaginative changes that you introduce now are likely to work very nicely.
Neptune Transits Opposition Midheaven
When Neptune transits opposite your Midheaven, you’re going through many changes regarding your grasp of the reality of your situation, particularly your emotional world and where you’re heading–your life path, career, or long-term goals. It can signal a period of feeling emotionally drained, prompting the need to refuel with more authentic inspiration. A sense of things being up in the air or a feeling of being untethered or unsupported may arise, which can impact your sense of direction during this transit.
Generally, this is not an auspicious time to make impactful decisions or changes. It may be best to aim to feel and acknowledge your discontent and discover your underlying, perhaps buried, needs for magic, spiritual or psychological fulfilment, and a sense of meaning.
*A shift in moods and attitudes occurs and will continue to affect you deeply for many years to come. You are emotionally and psychically very sensitive now, but often it is difficult for you to clearly express what you are feeling.
A general description of transiting Neptune – excerpt from the Sky Log report:
“The planet Neptune is presently tinting and shading your biography, adding its dreamlike quality to the existential stew. Close your eyes; there’s a world in there. That’s Neptune, the planet of consciousness itself. Now open your eyes.
There’s a world out there too, and it’s hard to ignore it. In fact, the outer world has become so pressing in its demands that you’ve partly lost contact with the inner one. But Neptune, transiting through sensitive territories for you now, is fixing that. Your inner world is so full it’s brimming over, overflowing its banks into your daily life. If you resist the process, you’ll find a host of Neptune problems plaguing you: losing the car keys, forgetting to pay the electric bill, having the attention span of a three-year-old on a sugar jag.
But there’s an alternative: trust the process. Slow down. Meditate. Let the images come. Mold opinions. Breathe in, breathe out. Why? Because your unconscious mind has a message for you. It has to do with the possibility of happiness for you over the next few years, about how old sources of joy are drying up and — critically — about new ones you must learn to recognize. How do you receive the message? You stop resisting. You simply let it in. That’s Neptune in the broad sense.”
Interpretations are written by Cafe Astrology’s Annie Heese, except those marked with *, which are samples from the Daily Forecast report.
References & suggested further reading:
How to Predict Your Future: Secrets of Eastern and Western Astrology by James Braha (affiliate link). This is an excellent resource for outer planet transits: Jupiter through Pluto.
Planets in Transits: Life Cycles for Living by Robert Hand (affiliate link). A classic transit “bible.”
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