This page is about all Saturn-Neptune aspects, like Saturn Conjunct Neptune, Saturn Opposite Neptune, Saturn Trine Neptune, Saturn Square Neptune, Saturn Sextile Neptune, Saturn Inconjunct Neptune. 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 Saturn. I also highly recommend Liz Greene’s book Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil, which is the basis for a lot of my thoughts on Saturn.
About Saturn-Neptune
Lessons
- harnessing the imagination to express archetypal experiences
- use of collective feelings as a creative tool
- achieving a balance between individual identity and collective consciousness
- integrating the realms of imagination and reality
Challenges
- susceptibility to drug and alcohol addiction
- inflation of the ego (megalomania
- delusions of grandeur
- becoming a self-appointed messiah)
- tendency towards self-sacrifice or martyrdom
- difficulty maintaining healthy ego boundaries
- navigating the line between artistic genius and madness
- “drowning” in collective emotions
Mastery
- touching the masses by becoming a transmitter of archetypal experiences and collective feelings through creative expression
- experiencing moments of mystical unity or spiritual ecstasy
- purification over time through acts of sacrifice
- transcendence of personal ego
About the Saturn Growth Journey
Saturn in our natal chart represents a place where we can feel limited, painfully inadequate, fearful, or experience delays. But there is a purpose behind Saturn’s seemingly negative effect on our life: Saturn wants us to grow up, take responsibility, and develop our inner authority. If we are willing to face ourselves and do the work to overcome our fears, we develop the strength and power we wanted all along.
The Saturn journey involves a coupling of need and fear. There can be shyness, stiff awkwardness, and/or emotional coldness and a sense of inadequacy in an area where we badly want to feel confident and capable. And we just don’t. Where others experience ease, we struggle. Where others find things obvious, we have to painstakingly puzzle things out. Where others dance, we stumble. That’s just the way Saturn feels.
If we can’t face our pain, we can end up projecting our unowned negative qualities onto others, or trying to satisfy emotional needs with physical ones and replacing inner work with outer achievement. We look outside ourselves for what we need to develop within ourselves.
Eventually, we realize there is no shortcut. The only way to our goal is to just do the work, by ourselves, for as long as it takes.
