On March 30th, Neptune, our planet of dreams and delusions, psychics, the spiritual and the supernatural, poetry, high art, high hopes and just plain getting high, is climbing out of the Jell-O ponds of Pisces and into the flame-throwing, high-fiving porno for pyros sign of Aries.
Neptune astrology
Neptune is a slow-moving outer planet, meaning its energy is felt across a generation and beyond the realm of the individual. It takes 165 years for the planet to transit the entire zodiac, and it spends roughly 14 years in each sign.
Neptune is the planetary ruler of doe-eyed, heart-forward Pisces and the 12th House of the Unconscious mind and hidden enemies.
Named for the god of water and the creator of horses, Neptune is emblematic of divine potential, universal love and cosmic consciousness. At its highest swell, it shows us what is possible when we dissolve boundaries and seek the source.
Sounds groovy and not unlike an at-home water birth, right? Ideally, yes, but on the dark side — or ocean floor — of Neptune lies deception, disillusionment, propaganda, escapism through addiction and utter oblivion.
While Neptune is rightly associated with compassion and a certain gentility, it is worth noting that the trident-wielding daddy god for which the planet is named was not without his edges, making waves and birthing storms and dealing and being health mythic punishments.
Since 2011, Neptune has been in its home headwaters of Pisces, where it enhances our imagination, encourages flights of fancy, ecstatic dancing, blindfolded pottery and ramps up the whimsical f–kery.
Here, Neptune makes us creative and apt to dream the dream without thought for the fallout.
In short, Neptune in Pisces is a hell of a drug and an appealing Instagram filter. Is it any wonder this transit has swung high and low and given rise to the proliferation of plant medicine, manifestation practices, the opioid epidemic and the normalization of talk therapy, AI and dangerous political idolatry?
Neptune enters Aries 2025
Neptune is meant to cloud our judgment, dull our doubts and hinder our instincts; it suspends reality so that we might imagine the impossible.
In the fire sign of Aries, that imagination takes on a hot-blooded hue.
Neptune will move into Aries on March 30th where the planet will remain until October 22, 2025. Neptune will then backslide into Pisces until January 26, 2026, when it will settle in for a long infernal reign in Aries that extends until March 23, 2039.
Because Aries is the first sign in the zodiac, not only is Neptune changing signs when it moves into these cardinal fires, it is also initiating a brand-new astrological cycle.
Neptune in Aries meaning
Neptune in Aries is intense, impulsive and entitled, and its legacy is marked by serious and even violent struggles.
When Neptune was last in Aries (1862 to 1875), America was entrenched in the Civil War, a conflict of ideals and humanitarian principles that gave rise to a new, fledgling nation.
Fittingly, this era coincided with the development of war photography, marrying the horror of combat with the ephemera of the captured image.
In relation to the ‘go, more, and now’ energy of Aries, Neptune’s last tour through the sign corresponds with the opening of the New York Stock Exchange and the London Subway.
Neptune in Aries 2025
On a personal level, Neptune in Aries provokes and provides, baiting the bold b–ch within so that we might believe in and actively move toward our true purpose. On the downside, Neptune in Aries can make us power-hungry and short on compassion and patience.
Yikes.
We are entering a brand-new 14-year chapter – look to the house in your birth chart ruled by Aries to see how this saga will play out for you.
On the collective tip, astrologer Babs Cheung tells The Post that because Neptune is the planet of creativity, it will have a direct bearing on how art is made and received.
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She predicts, “Music moves away from escapism and yearning and straight to confrontation and self-boosting anthems. Music will be forceful, empowering and motivating with tempos that are faster pace, instead of the Piscean dreamy and whispery vocals that have dominated the charts in recent memory.”
Accelerated drum beats, political anthems and putting the power back in power chords? Can dig.
Cheung notes that because Aries is ruled by Mars, the planet of war, aggression and activation, we could see fashion lean more into the masculine and the militaristic.
In terms of the cultural landscape, Cheung notes, “As we get deeper into the shift, there will be more direct confrontations of illusory and deceptive authority figures and a shift from passive disillusionment to active defiance.”
Fight the power, burn the boats and look the nightmare in the throat, folks; good luck out there.
Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, pop culture and personal experience. To book a reading, visit her website.
