This page is about all Neptune-Moon aspects, like Neptune Conjunct Moon, Neptune Opposite Moon, Neptune Trine Moon, Neptune Square Moon, Neptune Sextile Moon, Neptune Inconjunct Moon. Hard aspects like conjunctions, squares, and oppositions tend to be more difficult than soft aspects like trines or sextiles. The closer the orb, the more intense the aspect.
We have a page about Neptune. I also recommend Liz Greene’s book The Astrological Neptune and the Quest for Redemption and The Book of Neptune by Steven Forrest.
About Neptune-Moon Aspects
Overview
The Moon represents your emotional core, instinctual needs, and felt sense of security and comfort. Neptune deepens the Moon’s natural empathy and sensitivity. This combination is capable of great compassion, but is prone to getting lost in the needs and feelings of others. The work here is to put your personal needs first, so you don’t end up sacrificing them for the sake of redemption or merging with another.
Gifts
- extraordinary compassion
- kindness
- understanding and empathy for human loneliness and fear
- heightened intuition
- vivid sensory experience
- imagination
- gentleness and nurturing
- receptivity to subtle energies
- ability to provide spiritual comfort to others
- connection to the Divine feminine
- intense devotion
- visceral sense of the Divine
Challenges
- pervasive guilt
- feeling that self-care is selfish
- needing to relieve suffering even at your own expense
- absorbing others pain
- martyrdom and self-sacrifice
- needing to be needed
- addiction
- codependency
- self-neglect
- allergic sensitivities
- eating disorders
- feeling overwhelmed by the harshness of the world
- emotional fantasy as an escape
- susceptibility to emotional manipulation
Lessons
- learning to say no to emotional demands
- acknowledging and expressing personal needs and desires
- developing healthy emotional boundaries
- re-parenting/self-mothering
- self-soothing
- healing early experiences with the mother
- integrating unconscious emotional patterns
- releasing emotional idealization and staying grounded in relationships
- releasing guilt and affirming right to self-care
- finding a spiritual path with heart
Potential
- offering solace to the suffering through compassionate presence
- serving as a conduit for divine comfort
- channeling emotional and sensory sensitivity into art or music that touches the soul
- experiencing profound states of mystical unity
The Neptune Growth Journey
Neptune is the planet of dreams, imagination, and Divine inspiration. It is also the planet of delusions, addictions, and a forlorn yearning for the unattainable.When the Neptunian longing for transcendence and bliss fuse with unmet needs for love, belonging, safety, or self-worth, we can get lost in an emotional fog. We end up chasing illusions and sacrificing our real life for a fantasy. As painful as it is, disillusionment is the key to waking up from Neptunian confusion. We have to let go of what isn’t real to be able to build on solid ground.
Neptune shows us where we are attached, clinging to illusions, trying to escape our existence, or hiding from reality. When the illusions dissolve, we are left with what is real and what actually matters. We are left with the raw truth, and our real self. And that is where the real magic is found.
Faced with the truth we were trying to avoid, we finally have to take responsibility for meeting our own needs. We take off the rose-colored glasses and come to terms with life as it is.
As we make peace with reality, we find that it is where we can actually meet our needs. We can, step by step, find real fulfillment in the real world, which feels far more solid and satisfying than our fantasy.
Once we know how to meet our needs in a more Saturnian way, we can then access the imaginative and dreamy side of Neptune without getting lost in the fog.
The desire for transcendence doesn't go away, but we are able to direct our feelings of existential longing toward what is truly boundless: spiritual practice, creativity, and communion with nature. We become channels for grace, Divine inspiration, and the feeling of Oneness we wanted all along. We’ve finally become a vessel who can receive Neptune’s magic without dissolving or drowning.
