Planet
Neptune
Where the edges dissolve: imagination, longing, and self-deception in one place.
- Speed
- about fourteen years in each sign
- Retrograde
- once a year, for about five months
- Rules
- nothing traditionally, modern astrology assigns it Pisces
- Keywords
- imagination · longing · illusion
Neptune is the chart's fog and its art. Where it falls, things are hard to see clearly and easy to feel intensely: it is the register of music, devotion, escape, and the specific blindness of wanting something to be true.
Fourteen years to a sign makes it thoroughly generational (everyone your age shares it) so what matters in your own chart is the house and the aspects. Read Neptune honestly and it gives access to something real; read it flatteringly and it is where you will believe your own account of yourself for longest.
Where to go next
Right now
Where Neptune stands at this hour is on the sky today, with every other body beside it.
When it turns
Whether Neptune is retrograde today, and when it next stations, is on the retrograde tracker, computed rather than copied from a table.
In your chart
Where it stood the day you were born: cast the chart. Free, no account, and it draws the whole wheel.