

I’ve been delayed in getting sections written for all the personal planets so I’ve decided to do it as a series and deliver part 1.

I’ll elaborate most on the strongest major aspects: conjunction and parallel, square, opposition and contra-parallel; not as much with the flowing, gentler transits.

Neptune is the higher octave of Venus and its energy and purpose is a transpersonal response to life, the faculty of imagination, subconscious/superconscious, heightened sensitivity to what lies outside the narrow ray of conscious focus.

Neptune’s stimulus of imagination can get confused with illusions, disappointments, or letdowns during these hard transits, but the whole process is a learning experience of a subjective nature. What matters is getting out of the beta state and into the deeper, more open, creative states of consciousness as shown here:

So we tap into Neptune’s energetic potential when we relax, let go of conscious ordering of our existence and utilize creative states of mind, hypnosis, meditation, prayer, etc.

Neptune’s transits of longitude become active within 5.5° degrees of exact conjunction, square, trine, or opposition of a natal planet, lasting 3-5 years. Sextiles are active within about 4° of exact aspect and usually last around 3 years. In declination, parallels and contra-parallels are active within roughly 0°50′ – 1° of exact, lasting 2-3 years.

Neptune transits to natal Moon

These transits can produce unusual moods and alterations of perception. You may have shifts in perceptions of your past through memory resurgence. A sense of alienation, euphoria or dysphoria are common, but can change quickly with changes in environment, patterns of sleep or self care. Treat all such transits as periods of a few years of heightened sensitivity which may produce ideas that should not necessarily be believed, but simply allowed as a phase of your current growth.

Neptune conjunct or parallel natal Moon

This transit brings a trans-personal influence of the ineffable, so don’t try to capture any of it with words. It’ll be hard enough for me to describe it here in a useful way.

It greatly heightens sensitivity to your own feeling nuances, even your dream life. Dream life and waking life may seem to merge at times. So make use of it by keeping a bedside notebook for anything that comes through. A dream interpretation book may also be helpful. If dream-like metaphoric perceptions intrude upon your waking life, just understand that we are all participating in a co-created dream in material dimensions that mean intuition and perception are just as important as logic or reason, that they can be integrated.

Latent extra-sensory perception can now be developed. You may not be psychic, but you can at least develop your basic intuition during this transit. You can develop a more finely tuned emotional experience of yourself, life, and others. It comes with the potential to create a whole new inner fertility of artful and spiritual perception.

You will change emotionally, at least temporarily, but hopefully retain the greater sensitivity you experience. You may feel moods you never had before. It is a good time to get in touch with sadness or grief that you’ve stuffed. It is good to cry and let it out. Don’t be afraid of such feelings; make room for them each day if they come up, but don’t drown in them. They do not constitute your whole reality or identity, just an essential part of your life experience. So if you feel emotionally overwhelmed it is more appropriate to get professional help rather than numbing your feelings with drugs (or alcohol).

But most likely the extra sensitivity will simply have you retreating more into the spiritual and creative part of your life. A world oriented towards busyness and production cannot understand this, so don’t try to justify it to others. Just alter your priorities as seem fitting for you for now.

The key is in what you do with fears, anxieties, worries inside you. Do you amplify them all the more in fantasy or will you find ways of tapping into your intuition or dreams for a sense of guidance? Will you use your conscious imagination to envision peaceful, desirable outcomes in your life?

Boundaries and definitions can be understood in new spiritual ways as you grow through this transit. The process can be confusing and will only be more complicated if you don’t allow various feelings to pass through you as a vehicle of sensitivity.

You do have control in your use of these energies, but on a purely emotional level you will probably not feel that you do. That is why it is important to step in with conscious direction of the heightened sensitivity and focus it on something positive in meditation, prayer, guided imagery, or creative processes that get you into the deeper states of mind (

Stay grounded. If you don’t know practical methods of grounding now is the time to learn them. A grounded person is not overwhelmed with anxiety or fear.

Beware of falling under the spell of anything or anyone especially fascinating. You may be far more receptive to the apparent magical qualities in others or some intoxicating substance or idea during this time. Just remember it is your capacity to feel and sense what cannot be described in words that matters. You hold just as much magic within you as anyone or anything else.

Neptune’s square to natal Moon

This a moody time of thinner emotional boundaries both with others and your own subconscious. The highest achievement during this period is the development of greater compassion for self and others, or at least the experience of a changed home environment that will allow for some spiritual growth or creativity.

Healthy boundaries need to be enacted with those who who are close to you or want to get close to you. Otherwise, you’ll confuse your emotions with those of others, and make poor decisions. Consider it a very subjective period and let these moods pass without letting them ruin your days or trying to interpret all of them.

Under this transit you find out how secure you actually are in yourself, because it can involve self-doubt and internal confusion masked by false ideas. It is easier than usual to be misled, especially by dishonesty with yourself and relations with others, even at home are fogged up by misunderstandings. It is more important than ever to avoid engaging in exaggeration, lies, and shady dealings.

Consider how you may be an unwitting receptacle of toxic influences or psychic energies that are detrimental to your well being. This is a time to avoid pushy people while your inner confidence is lower than usual; time to beware of negative or manipulative persons and remove yourself from such interactions that could further contaminate your ability to process internally.

It is also a time to reconsider some of your habits and make sure you have some that emphasize healing, spiritual connections.

It a time for more healing or subjective creative work, less efforts that require risk and high confidence. It is not a good time for far-reaching decisions. So any involvement with big projects or public work now must be done with willingness to be transparent with others and to sacrifice ego.

It may be tempting to feel as if you must sacrifice your needs to keep the peace or just get by. However, if you have a real duty to someone, then stretch your capacity as needed and go about it with compassion and an attitude of service.

What misbeliefs and harmful mental-emotional patterns are still affecting you? Have you let toxic ideas or reaction patterns from society affect you negatively? Beware of pity parties thrown by yourself or others.

Relationships with women and mother in particular can take on a different tone during this time. Do what you can to reach out with greater sensitivity and find emotional resolution as is mutually beneficial.

Intuition can become more problematic as it gets interference from confusion at the emotional level. Confusion and insecurity can grow all too easily if you allow it to creep into your thoughts and further pollute images of others and the future. Then that big idea or all-in-one fix seems necessary.

It is time to rebuild and reinforce positive images that affirm your inner worth and access to spiritual wisdom. It is worth the effort to seek out connection and resolution in your dreams even if they are somewhat troubling. Regain clarity from within instead of expecting it externally.

Neptune’s opposition/contra-parallel to natal Moon

This transit is a period of changing moods and emotional interactions, as well as temporary changes in your home/family life to enable some internal growth. It is a test of one’s emotional stability and sensitivity to others.

Changing interactions with others will bring up different feelings and sensitivities you may not have known you had within you. Let them pass through you and avoid or at least lessen involvement with those who put you in a bad mood or create confusion around you.

Some disappointment may be unavoidable during this time, but don’t let it become an emotional callous or a pity party. Disappointments are likely due as much to unrealistic expectations or unspoken insecurities as to any wrong done to you by another.

Moods can vary widely from feeling upbeat and open to others to feeling misunderstood or not appreciated. Yet they are fleeting. Neptune’s message is that transcendent love and beauty is available through others who are willing to extend themselves to help. This brings an opportunity for healing interactions with others. Aim for that instead of sacrificing your needs to placate others. You are just as deserving as they are.

Build upon those opportunities where there is mutual understanding and contribute to it however you can. Mutual understanding is harder to achieve now and emotional transparency is a better way to it than deception or evasion.

There will likely be significant changes in relation to at least one female in your life and in your domestic situation, at least temporarily.

This relational dynamic of Neptune in the opposition or contra-parallel alters your feelings towards others and yourself. If you’ve been over-confident you may be humbled during this time by circumstances and others’ responses to you. If you’ve languished in low confidence and assertiveness too long this transit can show you that being a doormat is even worse and solves nothing. Your needs are just as important as anyone else’s and so is your domestic harmony.

However, this may mean that you’ll have to de-emphasize or turn away from relationships in which persons are not able to understand or accept where you are emotionally. It could feel like alienation, but don’t let that feeling sink in. That could be an echo of earlier life insecurities, rejection, or unmet needs that can now be expressed. This is very inconvenient for adult life, but many adults in modern life have not allowed themselves to feel grief or other emotions that were not considered acceptable when they were children.

This transit can allow for emotional softening that can lead to a growing vulnerable feeling. That is where healthy boundaries and good grounding come in to create balance.

You are also more easily susceptible to infections or chemical substances during this time. So make sure you’re not breathing or ingesting any substance that is inappropriate or wrongly dosed. Just correcting any such problem could by itself make a huge difference in how you feel.

Neptune’s softer flowing transits (sextile, trine) to natal Moon allow for intuition, sensitivity, and creativity to flow more readily than usual. These can be further developed with greater ease during these periods. Both transits should be understood as an opportunity to extend the hand of compassion to others, to exercise and stretch it as an essential way of enacting the spiritual growth you’ve achieved thus far.

Dream life can especially be clearer and bring spiritual benefits to your waking life if only you initiate it with your intention and keep it going. However, a bit of organized effort in this wil get you much better results. Both the sextile and trine are aspects of ease and don’t contain within them their own energetic drive. So utilizing their window of opportunity requires a bit more push. The sextile transit is helpful on the mental level in better coordinating with others and integrating more intuition with intellect. Both transits can allow you to proceed with more a more finely tund feel for your needs and intuition, to further develop creative flourish.

Neptune transits to natal Sun

These transits can produce alterations of identity through lower energy and confidence, diminishing ego. Existential questions regarding your place in the world and purpose can creep into your mind. The Sun as the big “I” of your own life force occasionally needs ego checks and Neptune transits play that role as Neptune is a transpersonal energy of creative unity (compassion) with life and cares nothing about individualized ego. So this may be a time of spiritual accounting, not to a standard carved in stone by society, but to the higher self which is both originator and grower of your potential. It can also be a time of great creativity, starting new or allowing an enormous growth spurt in creative pursuits you’ve already begun.

Neptune conjunct/parallel natal Sun

This transit starts a new cycle of identity with spiritual insights and expanded perceptions of who you are. Sun represents force of will — strength of self. Neptune brings the energy of merging selves, selflessness, spiritual good. So this is a transit that overrides the ego in your notion of yourself with a more supple, spiritual, creative feel for who you really are or can be.

Lower confidence and energy can even result in fatigue that returns or persists, but even this is useful in allowing you to let go of any unnecessary ego. You may not have realized how much you relied on ego or narrow notions of yourself to get by.

Now is a time for your energies to tune in to more of the subtleties around you and within you. There is more there than you thought, and you are more capable of expressing an ideal such as compassion through yourself. Just don’t confuse an ideal with perfection standards or you’ll find your confidence flattened.

Neptune teaches us to look beyond improvements defined by mere survival, to look away from the ladders of upward mobility and instead feel out what we’re missing that is not provided by conventional notions of “better”. In other words, the spiritual realm of greater meaning and metaphysical reality. If you don’t come to your own understanding of this in honest terms you may feel you have to fake it, putting out that you’re it when inside you know you aren’t.

That brings up one of those worst potentials of this transit — conning yourself or others. If you are reading this you are unlikely to do this, but it is a potential to the degree you attempt to leverage Neptune’s energies for ego hidden behind shiny ideals or promises. Do that and the results will be even more devastating to your ego and real self.

Neptune square natal Sun

This transit brings into question who you are and intend to become, and tests your inner resolve. So it holds some potential for feeling deflated or disillusioned, but you can work through it with some adjustments and personal allowances. So do what you must to bolster your bodily and psychic energies during this time with nutritional or herbal supplements or spiritual practices that tone up your energies and confidence. It is better to add in something you’ve been missing and really need rather than to allow a deflated sense of ego/self lead you to sacrifice nutrition or other needs in favor of a vaporous idealism.

Your confidence may lag at times and you may doubt you have what it takes to fulfill your potential. Just bring the focus back to what you can do today in the direction of an ideal or vision that you can change as needed. Everyone needs hope, so start with what brings you a hopeful feeling and develop your ideal or vision from there. Fatigue or feelings of futility are common for many people during this transit, so don’t be surprised if these are part of your process.

It is okay to question your intentions or direction. Life’s travels require all of us to take turns at times. There is no linear path to any ideal. Detours and unpaved roads are all part of the journey. Whereas you may have been speeding along at a good pace previously, you are now having to slow down and tune in to intuition, like when you’ve gone to a place you can’t find on the map. It’s okay to get outside insight on this as a process. Don’t expect others to have the answers. Those are yours to develop in time as you allow the necessary changes in perception of yourself and how you fit into the world.

It is quite possible that as you attempt to continue an already established effort (job, project, etc) you will encounter some failures, or at least a sense that you are failing even if you aren’t. The latter would point to unreasonable expectations in which the ideal is confused perfection standards. If you do find real success hard to achieve consider that your heart is not fully into it. You may no longer believe in what you are working towards. The problem may not be the job or project, but neglect of some other area of your life that needs your attention and dedication. Working this out is an intuitive process facilitated by self-acceptance.

Neptune opposite/contra-parallel natal Sun

This transit tests your sense of yourself through changing views of others and how they interact with you. Ego defenses are lowered and temporarily the adjustment can mean your immune system is more susceptible. However, don’t take on an attitude of avoidance or apprehension of health issues, or of denying your body the nutrition or rest it needs. Bolster your strength with body friendly tools or supplements and spiritual practices (like creative visualization, guided meditation, etc).

Sun here is in the “self” position in this I-thou dynamic, and Neptune in the “others” position. So let others help you learn more about compassion and how it can be more effective at getting results than ego. Just beware that some may approach you with idealism or unhealthy notions of self-sacrifice, especially if these are themes you already are carrying subconsciously. You need renewed sensitivity to them as extensions of your own humanity, but not at the expense of your well being.

It is important to communicate effectively during this period and not misrepresent yourself to others. That could happen accidentally in spite of your best intentions, so try not to blame. Just correct the misunderstanding with compassion and be honest about your own internal process. You don’t have to project confidence or a definitive understanding of who you are at all times.

You may find at least one person during this period that stirs your creativity and imagination. It may simply be the work of someone you don’t meet face-to-face, so don’t get so enamored with them (or trying to befriend them) that you miss the point. The point is the inspiration to see more, imagine things in a new way, and experience your greater power as a creator. That is not an ego game, but essential to being a fully fleshed out spiritual human being.

Neptune’s softer flowing transits (sextile, trine) to natal Sun allow for significant steps in realizing your dreams or enacting creative visions. Will power can be enacted with greater nuance, less reliant on force. You can reach out in compassion more fluidly and enjoyably than usual, so do take advantage of this opportunity to do so.

These transits are also opportunities for your creativity to be expressed, developed, and shared. It may take a little push to do so. Otherwise, an opportunity can be lost in which the ready inspiration from Neptune may be experienced only passively (as in watching lots of movies or television). However, you may need that as a rest period for regenerating your imagination if you have been through a difficult time leading up to the transit.