Neptune in Astrology

Think of the music that dissolves you, the film you cried through, the moment in nature when you felt part of something larger. Think of the person or the dream you idealised until reality arrived. That is Neptune in your chart: the longing for something beyond the ordinary, and the part of you that can dissolve into it.

Neptune is the most mysterious planet in astrology. It does not build or push. It dissolves boundaries, between you and others, between dream and reality, between the self and something greater.

What Neptune stands for

Neptune represents:

• Imagination and art: music, film, poetry, image, the creative dream.
• Spirituality and compassion: the sense of oneness, faith, mystical experience.
• Idealism: how things could be, how people might be.
• Dissolution: the softening of boundaries and the letting go of control.
• Confusion and escape: fog, illusion, addiction, avoidance.

Neptune takes about 165 years to circle the zodiac, spending around 14 years in each sign. Its sign is shared by everyone born in those years and describes the dreams and ideals of a generation.

Found by mathematics

Here is something most horoscope pages never mention. Neptune was the first planet discovered by calculation before anyone saw it. In the early nineteenth century, astronomers noticed that Uranus was not quite following its predicted path. Something unseen seemed to be pulling on it. Mathematicians worked out where that something should be, and in 1846 an astronomer pointed a telescope at the predicted spot and found Neptune almost exactly there.

It is a fitting story for the planet of the unseen. Neptune was felt long before it was seen, which is often how it works in a chart too.

Where is this planet in your chart?

Its sign says how it works, its house says where. See both, with the aspects that shape it.

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