But not all ownership can be quantified in the material. What belongs to you feels unclear, or at the whim of others. Neptune’s presence here may indicate a blurriness around personal finances or a propensity for debt and insolvency. The second house deals with our values and possessions. You’ll need some definiteness in your life, likely collected by working with Saturn, to give you stability and a sense of consistent identity, lest you lose the thread. But beneath the beauty, mystery, and majesty, Neptune’s presence in the first house can be profoundly ungrounding. Who are you, exactly? With the great mystifier in your first house of intrinsic selfhood, you may emerge in the world as an ever-evolving artist, a sphinx with the allure of Björk and a penchant for reinvention. Check out our guides to the sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter for more on Neptune’s dynamic with the personal planets, but to really reckon with the ocean master’s impact, you’ll need to know its location in your chart, namely by house. Look to Neptune’s interaction with other planets to understand how your creative, spiritual, or even psychic faculties emerge, and to understand where blurriness, addiction, and insobriety run roughshod over your chart. You can think of Jupiter as the manic and Neptune as the depressive. NEPTUNE IN YOUR CHARTĪlong with Jupiter, Neptune co-rules Pisces and the 12th house, the domain of the invisible and empathic. Neptune is also the patron of the ballet, who causes the dancer to merge herself with rhythm and to become an extension of the sound…bringing the individual into contact with those Master Souls who govern the evolutionary processes of the universe.” If you can build a craft to withstand the storm, the passage will be worth it. In his Complete Astrology, Alan Oken writes that “Neptune is the celestial musician, the force which makes men dream while hearing a beautiful symphony. As the higher vibration of Venus, Neptune awakens your individual talents and feeds them into the source. ![]() To encounter Neptune is to cross the gates of abstraction and altered consciousness, a trip which can yield world-altering results…or leave you shipwrecked, stranded, and delirious.īut for all its dangers, Neptune promises ego dissolution through spiritual surrender the possibility of wading into something vast and eternal. Those artists who have ridden a creative high in their studio, only to feel devastated and enervated immediately after knowing the power - and danger - of higher inspiration. ![]() If you’ve ever encountered infinite bliss at a rave, then spent the following day cursing your life while hugging a toilet bowl, congratulations: you’ve encountered Neptune in all its aspects. In Cosmos & Psyche: Intimations of a New Worldview, Richard Tarnas defines Neptune’s domain as “transcendental, spiritual, ideal, symbolic…subtle, formless, intangible,” ruling over “myth and religion, art and inspiration, dreams and visions, universal compassion melted ecstasy, illusion and delusion escapism, intoxication,” and “enchantment, in both positive and negative senses.” Named after Poseidon, the king of seas, storms, and winds, Neptune’s arrival coincided with the rise of global spiritual movements, unifying technologies, and the possibility of a coalescing, singular human consciousness. Neptune moves about one or two degrees per year, and spends approximately 14 years per sign. Following Uranus and preceding Pluto, Neptune orbits the sun at an extremely slow clip, taking 165 years to make a full revolution. ![]() Neptune’s discovery was confirmed in 1846, during a groundbreaking Neptune-Saturn conjunction in Aquarius. To hone Neptune’s power (and ensure you don’t get washed away), consult our guide below. Neptune’s placement in your chart will open the way to your creative gifts, and warn of your self-sabotaging tendencies. As a generational planet, orbiting the sun from the furthest edges of our solar system, Neptune’s rays are felt collectively, affecting the evolution of the cultural consciousness. ![]() Over the rainbow and beyond the Source Wall reigns Neptune, the great planet of imagination, elevated consciousness, and inebriation. Welcome to NYLON’s planetary explainer series, in which astrologer David Odyssey helps you get to know your chart and its key players, one planet at a time.
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