This page is about all Neptune-Pluto aspects, like Neptune Conjunct Pluto, Neptune Opposite Pluto, Neptune Trine Pluto, Neptune Square Pluto, Neptune Sextile Pluto, Neptune Inconjunct Pluto. 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-Pluto Aspects
Overview
Pluto represents power, transformation, and the cycles of life and death. Its 500 year cycle with Neptune underpins huge shifts in the spiritual and cultural paradigms of humanity. The current cycle started with the Neptune-Pluto conjunction in 1891. Broadly this cycle seems to be about becoming a global culture, and about the synthesizing of spirituality with psychology. If this sextile is highly connected in your chart, you will be more actively participating in the evolution of collective consciousness.
Gifts
- ability to see beyond superficial reality
- perception of underlying patterns in mass movements
- capacity to transmute darkness into light
- intuitive understanding of power dynamics
- insight into cultural paradigm shifts,
Challenges
- vulnerability to apocalyptic thinking
- difficulty distinguishing personal and collective concerns
- confrontation with the darkest aspects of human nature
- periods of intense psychological transformation
- encounters with collective despair or nihilism
- limerence (a combination of obsession and delusion)
Lessons
- personal and collective shadow work
- recognizing and rejecting polarized thinking and extremist ideologies
- confronting the darkness in human nature
- cultivating resilience in periods of collective transformation
Potential
- contributing to the evolution of cultural or spiritual paradigms
- healing collective trauma
- bringing light to collective shadow material
- developing new approaches to transpersonal psychology
- being a cultural pioneer and changemaker
- helping others navigate periods of intense transformation or spiritual crisis
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.
