NEPTUNE IN ARIES 2025-2039

NEPTUNE IN ARIES 2025-2039

On 30 March Neptune will make its first timid entrance into the sign of Aries after being in Pisces since 2011. Neptune will begin its annual 5-month retrograde period on 4 July at 02°10’ Aries (antiscion 27°50’ Virgo) and will remain in Aries until 22 October when it re-enters Pisces once more and lingers at 29° Pisces from late October to late January 2026! Giving the best and the worst of its characteristics in this sign.

Certainly, after all those years in the Watery sign the planet rules, having to step forward into Aries fiery realm can’t be a joyride so better to take baby steps first!

Neptune spends approximately 14 years in each sign taking approximately 165 years to orbit the Sun (so none of us will have a Neptune return!)

Neptune in the myth

After deposing their father Kronos (Saturn) the three brothers Zeus (Jupiter), Hades (Pluto) and Poseidon (Neptune) drew lots to decide who ruled which realm. Zeus was given the Heavens, Hades the Underworld and Neptune the seas, lakes and rivers. Neptune is portrayed with a trident which he used to calm waters, create storms or earthquakes etc. Like the emotive states he rules, Poseidon had anger-control issues with his brothers particularly when he didn’t get his own way and he caused floods and droughts.

After a refusal and a rape, Poseidon married the goddess Amphitrite who shared his kingdom and is often depicted at his side. Poseidon fathered many children, legitimately and non, many of them were monsters, among which: Triton (from Amphitrite) who was half-fish, Orion the horse (from Demeter) and Pegasus the winged-horse (from Medusa).

Thoughts from three past astrologers about Neptune:

Alan Leo (1860-1917) admitted that “Neptune is at present little understood (the planet was discovered in 1846)” and adds notes by close colleagues who had studied the planet more in depth. He named it “the planet of chaos and the mystic”.

He also commented upon the placement in the natal chart of Neptune: “When in an angle Neptune will affect actions of the native according to the sign it is in and the nature of the aspects it receives but cautions that these people should exercise great care in regard to personal cleanliness and should avoid associating with those who are morally not accountable for their actions. In a succedent house, Neptune will affect feelings giving subtle and unaccountable attractions and aversions even unpleasantness in the society of others. In a cadent house, Neptune affects the mind giving physic and/or artistic tastes of exalted order.”

Ivy Goldstein Jacobson (1893-1990) wrote “Neptune is the shadow planet, elusive and delusive, throwing a veil over what is real so that it appears more desirable and more ideal. Neptune rules misinformation and subversion, defrauding schemes that collapse, fading away and disappearances. Where Neptune is by house, there you will in danger of being defrauded by persons of that house when Neptune is transited by progressed or current malefic planets.

Howard Sasportas (1948-1992) wrote “Neptune is the urge to lose ourselves, to dissolve or transcend the boundaries of the isolated ego. Losing our existing ego-boundaries can sometimes feel like coming apart at the seams… and thus confused about who we really are, we no longer know what we want in life…leading to escapism.”

Back to today to talk about past events when Neptune was in Aries

Astrology is all about time and planetary cycles so we always tend to look back into the past to see what happened during other transits of planets in a particular sign, particularly the slower moving planets which are known as generational planets.

The last times that Neptune was in Aries were about religious and territorial warfare:

1533-1548 – Henry VIII, there were massive religious changes and rebellion in 1536, As Neptune entered Aries in 1533 there was the split with Catholic Rome and also the Buggery Act!

1697-1712 – War of Spanish succession and Queen Anne’s war which also involved the European colonies in America.

1861-1875 – The American Civil war. On a good note, the Suez Canal was inaugurated in 1869, cutting a path for water.

What can we expect now with Neptune transiting Aries from 2025 until 2039? Probably (as already is happening in many parts of the world) – warfare, less from the seas and more from the air in the like of small aircrafts and drones. Some may believe this to be the only way to obtain their ideals. We may also see other wars of a religious nature or people wanting to be free from tyranny but Neptune dissolves slowly yet steadily, no solutions are on hand immediately in this scenario.

Since Neptune also rules poisons, viruses, contamination of various nature and disease in general we may also expect water pollution (intentional probably with Aries involved) or biological warfare hidden under the name of epidemies etc.

On a more personal level we may be more courageous and passionate in stating and fighting for our ideals, or our energy could be very scattered as the warrior loses his strength. As always, many possibilities always come with a planetary sign change.

The chart for the first ingress of Neptune into Aries is not particularly heartwarming. Neptune is parallel the South Lunar Node and c// retrograde Mercury all on the Fixed Star Scheat. The possibility of accidents on water or more deception due to many truths and facts still being hidden is particularly strong during the first week of this ingress. Dispositor of Neptune now becomes an OOB Mars in Cancer trine a peregrine Saturn in Pisces, it’s difficult to put boundaries where they don’t exist and the mutual reception between Mars and Moon is now weak since the square aspect between the two is already separating and would only have led to further emotional conflict.

Not without consequence on the effects of Neptune in Aries during the early part of the sojourn will certainly be the subsequent ingress of Saturn into Aries on the 24/25 May. Although
both planets will be in a tight orb of conjunction from May to August this year, the exactness will be reached only on 20 February 2026 at 00°45’ Aries when both planets have entered the sign to stay. Saturn, in fall in Aries, and thus more inclined to be “strict” if not “nasty” could lead to self-assertion and aggression at any cost but also to fear of defeat. That however will be the topic of another post later on this year!

“There is no path toward oneself that leads away from the pain.” Gabor Maté, Scattered: How attention deficit disorder originates and what you can do about it.

Bibliography

Goldstein Jacobson I. (1961) “Here and There in Astrology”, pp 44-45, Chapter “My notebook for Neptune”, Pasadena Lithographers, Pasadena US

Leo A. (1949) “The Art of Synthesis” pp. 103-123, Chapter “Neptune the Mystic”, International Publishing Company, Edinburgh UK

Sasportas H. (1989), re-edition 2007, “The Gods of Change”, Part Three, “Neptune Transits” pp. 97-109, The Wessex Astrologer Ltd., Bournemouth UK

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