Neptune in Pisces
2011/12 to 2025/6

Neptune moved into its own sign on April 4 2011, something that occurs once each cycle of 165 years. Neptune spends around 14 years in each sign and will transit Pisces until the year 2025 to 2026. 

Neptune’s change of sign is very significant - it always has a big impact on the collective consciousness – and it highligs  all things Piscean and Neptunian. The Piscean realm is the realm of compassion, intuition, imagination and spirituality. Neptune’s transit of Pisces will provide a counter balance to some of the challenging energies that will be around over the next few years. Neptune and Pisces seek to open our hearts and minds to the transpersonal and imaginal realms, to re-awaken us to the power of our dreams and the power of love and compassion…to see all life forms as one.

Neptune by transit seeks to dissolve and refine old patterns, structures and forms so something new can emerge. As part of this process Neptune can sensitize, idealize and romanticize our vision, sometimes to the extent that we can put on the rose coloured glasses and only see what we want to see. There is always the danger of falling into denial, delusion, [self] deception, and eventual disappointment and cynicism.

Neptune always challenges us to find the middle path between cynicism and idealization and its transit of Pisces challenges us in this domain and suggests an encounter with all things Neptunian and Piscean in both constructive and destructive ways.

Constructively it seeks to

1. Expand  and sensitize our awareness and consciousness
2. Enhance our compassion for all life forms
3. Encourage us to trust our intuition
4. Open our awareness to the power of imagination and altered states of consciousness
5. Explore altered states of consciousness
6. Tap us into the transpersonal realm / collective consciousness… source of all wisdom
7. Enhance our creativity

 
The more destructive encounter with the Neptunian and Piscean realms could emphasize

1. Personal or collective illusions, delusions
2. Escapist and addictive patterns
3. Sacrifice and victimization
4. Increased sensitization of the immune systems of both individuals and Mother Earth [environmental toxins]
5. Disappointment, skepticism and cynicism
6. People / movements / beliefs that have been idealized falling off their pedestals

 
Neptune / Pisces rules the following and its transit of Pisces may play out in any of the areas below in both constructive and destructive ways.

·         Reserves  of oil and gas

·         Water supplies and the oceans

·         Spirituality

·         The Arts: including design, clothing, architecture, film, music and dance

·         The psychic and intuitive realms: E.S.P., energy healing, telepathy

·         Altered states of conscious: meditation, dreams and mind altering drugs

·         The search for ecstasy and transcendence of ego boundaries

·         New visions of world peace

This may play out as greater prominence of the Piscean archetypes of savior, victim, martyr and spiritual warrior and a greater sensitizing of the earth’s and individual’s immune system through exposure to pollution and environmental toxins.


Neptune is also the God of the Sea and rules not only the oceans but all the world’s waters and oil supplies. During his time in his own sign I am sure the importance of these realms will come to the fore.