Neptune Retrograde
Neptune completes a cycle around the Sun in approximately 165 years, which means that he stays about 14 years in each sign of the Zodiac. Neptune has been in Pisces since August 2011 and will leave in 2025. He’s retrograde 150 days every year, now from June 26 to December 1st .
Neptune indicates a number of themes mainly related to our unconscious mind. Dreams, intuition, spiritual experiences, and creative inspiration are all associated with the Neptune archetype. However, that’s not all. Neptune issues may also manifest as isolation, seclusion, fears, delusion, losses, and those vulnerabilities one is completely unaware of, among other subjects.
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| Touching ground during low tide at Mount Saint Michel, France. |
As Neptune turns retrograde in his own Pisces home (in spite of some opinions that Neptune doesn’t rule anything), the landscape changes similarly to the low tide time of the day. The ocean retreats, and the beach shows its secrets. Translated into plain human life, it means that certain illusory perceptions, the mind fog and cloudy thinking, is lifted, allowing you to discover the reality underneath. You may be up for some unwanted surprises. Here are some examples of treasures and dangers of real low tides.
Fears may arise when you suffer a harsh reality check that bring you back down from the ‘clouds’ with a loud crash. You may discover that your idealization of a situation or person has allowed you to fall victim of them. In a way, your self-deceptive ideations become your own hidden enemies.
With Neptune, enemies come in all shapes and sizes. They could be from microscopic germs, an elusive unexplained illness, a deceptive person, or undetected environmental circumstances or elements potentially affecting you without your knowledge. Even your own beliefs are sometimes your hidden enemies, which sometimes prove to be fatal. Any of those may show up now for you to see their ugly faces.
Neptune retrograde brings an inability to grasp the spiritual reality for what it is. You may feel vulnerable to the products of your imagination, to your haunches, to fantasy or even to your spiritual practice. Neptune in Pisces exacerbates the dissolution of boundaries of all kinds, which makes you feel that you are floating in space like an astronaut who got disconnected from the International Space Station while in space walk. If you use alcohol or drugs, you run the risk of overdose, or of a wrong ‘trip’ from which it’s difficult to come back. So, my advice would be to avoid using any substance that may contribute to further distorting your mind.
Even spiritual experiences through transcendental meditation, out of the body travel, or deep dream states may be a source of fear as well, especially if they are new to you, because with Neptune retrograde you’re able to be aware of both planes at the same time, however unable to make sense of them.
There may be a tendency to avoid spiritual activities, keep your fantasy land to yourself, because you are now disillusioned. Something popped your bubble. Either you’ve fallen victim of your imagination or your imagined reality has been shattered. Under Neptune retrograde is hard to keep up the faith; you tend to mistrust what’s ahead, and doubt your intuition.
You may not feel confident about your hope for the future, not even about your creative muses and expressing your soul through artistic endeavors. However, it is a good time to give physical shape to your visions. Thanks to the constant sextile to Pluto, you have the opportunity to mix Earth and Water work and imagination, adding material power to your spiritual expansion. Consequently, artists could take advantage of Neptune retrograde.
Regarding the material reality, Neptune retrograde exposes the lack of boundaries, hence you’re aware of your bodily vulnerability, and possibly of material losses. Now, you will realize the importance of strengthening the immune system, maintaining safety precautions to protect yourself from bugs, germs, bacteria, viruses, and most especially mold and fungi (Water). Keep in mind that they are unseen enemies. Having the traditional ruler of Pisces, Jupiter, and the modern ruler, Neptune, both retrograde at the same time, magnifies this kind of energy. It’s not unlikely to have new mutations of the present viruses that become stronger and more problematic.
With Saturn retrograde in Aquarius, in square to Uranus with Mars opposing, there is a great struggle for freedom of movement, fight against social restrictions, and the great urge to enjoy the summer vacations (in the Northern hemisphere). Many people will enjoy the new opportunities, and most will forget prudence and throw caution through the window. You may think that viruses are an ‘invention’, which may or may not be scientifically accurate, nonetheless they are not less real. In my astrological opinion, this is something Neptune retrograde may reveal and confirm during the next five months until December 1st, 2021.
By the end of the retrograde motion, you may have come to realize that your fanciful ideas, the misinformation (patent during this Mercury retrograde period square Neptune) and misunderstanding of reality prove to be dangerous in the unforeseen future. Neptune retrograde may confront your ideas and wake you up to face your delusions. The next five months will give you an opportunity to open your mind and become more receptive to the truth, in spite of your unwillingness to see reality for what it is.
In conclusion, Neptune retrograde is a great time to shake off useless or dangerous fantasies and come to terms with your creativity, and healthy spirituality. Enjoy and take advantage of this time. Observe the issues related to the house where Neptune is transiting in your chart and keep a journal, so you can later let me know if you have experienced anything of what I described above.
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