Neptune in astrology

Neptune is where the veil is thin: the part of you that dissolves into when it is given room. What it is ultimately after is devotion and something larger than you.

It is at home in Pisces, so the affairs of Pisces tend to be where it has the clearest hand.

The sign tells you the manner: the same dream looks bold in Aries and careful in Cancer without changing what it wants. The house tells you the arena: the part of life where you will actually meet it, whether that is money, partnership or reputation.

Aspects then tell you who it has to negotiate with. A Neptune squared by Saturn and a Neptune trined by Jupiter behave very differently even in the same sign.

Moving overhead, Neptune blurs and enchants whatever it touches, for 165 years for one full circuit. Slower bodies make chapters, faster ones make days — which is why a Moon transit is a mood and a Saturn transit is a re-write.

Astro Nox reads your own transits against your birth chart rather than against a Sun sign, so a Neptune pass is dated to your degrees.

The Golden Dawn ties Neptune to the cards below — the trump that carries the planet, and the decans it rules among the pips.