In Roman mythology, Neptune is the the god of the sea and freshwater. His counterpart in Greek mythology is the the Greek god Poseidon, who is the brother of Jupiter and Pluto; the brothers preside over the realms of heaven, the earthly world (including the underworld), and the seas. Salacia, goddess of saltwater is his wife, and a trans-Neptunian object is named after her, see the Salacia blog. In Roman mythology, Neptune was likely associated with freshwater springs before the sea. Like Poseidon, he was also worshipped by the Romans as a god of horses, as Neptune struck his trident upon the ground and created a splendid horse to spring into existence, the first of its kind, meant to be a useful object to mankind. The Romans were not big seafarers like the ancient Greeks were, and so Neptune never quite rose to the prominence that Poseidon did in Greek mythology. Neptune had one known temple dedicated to him, located between the Aventine and Palatine Hills in Rome, where a freshwater stream once flowed. According to Ovid, Neptune always had a sullen expression, while Virgil wrote that he had a mild demeanour and that even when he was angered, he had a look of serenity and majesty on his face. He held a three-pronged trident which he used to smash rocks, make waves, create new bodies of water, and call forth fierce storms. Neptune was also one of the two gods who built the great wall of Troy…
The vast majority of astrologers completely ignore trans-Neptunian dwarf planets and Kuiper belt objects, because they are challenging energies. It takes courage to reach into the underworld of unawareness, which is the energy that the Kuiper belt objects and Sedna carry… Why?
A spiritual awakening is a call from the inner Self to come into the light. Yet many who start on that journey find that it often first entails a time of personal confusion, loneliness, cutting ties with the norms of society, a search for transcendence, and often having to come to terms with truths around extremes of dark and light; unawareness and consciousness. The dark is simply those things that are not part of our awareness yet; it is the lack of clarity, illusion, confusion, the blindspot, the stuffed-away emotional sorrow, the skewed perception around false lovers, the delusion, etc. Sometimes it is the GREAT LOSSES of life, RUDE AWAKENING or DIVINE DISCONTENT that can be a blessing in disguise eventually. And healing from the heartbreak, can lead to an accelerated motion and fast track to a more meaningful, aware life… releasing the confines of manmade beliefs that are outdated, or were never rooted in truth from the start anyway. Many artificially designed social structures were designed and put in place to hold people back from finding the light within. Those in the darkness of their own unawareness fear it.
Image: Neptune via Wikimedia Commons Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The planet Neptune was discovered by mathematical calculations based on its gravitational pull on the orbit of Uranus in 1846 and was only seen through a telescope later. It has a cloud cover with a vivid blue tint and dark vortices coast through its atmosphere. Like Uranus, Neptune has an off-kilter magnetic field. It has an oval-shaped orbit and every 248 years Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for 20 years or so. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are all classified as transpersonal planets, which means that they go beyond the realms of rationality and logical understanding; they are not visible with the naked eye.
Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, including the first principles of: being or existence, identity and change, space and time, cause and effect, necessity, and possibility. The word "metaphysics" derives from the Greek words (metá, "after") and (physiká, "physics").
NEPTUNE
In astrology, Neptune is the sensitive planet of ideals, intuition, spirituality. It is the domain of compassion for all, and of dreams, enchantment, and delusions. Neptune was named after Roman god Neptune, god of the sea. Neptune stays about 14 years in each sign, and is currently in its sign of rulership where its energy is potent. Neptune is in it’s home sign Pisces where it operates the strongest, about to move into Aries in 2025, to leave Pisces for the last time in January 2026. Neptune's symbol is a trident made of a receptive crescent pointing upward for spiritual receptivity, resting on the cross of matter. This glyph symbolises the human’s yearning to break free from the limitations of matter and earthly existence, and draw from the divine nature as the human. Neptune placement in the astrology chart reveals your innate connection to spirituality, mysticism, creativity, and divinity. Our Neptune placement exposes how we dissolve structures, systems, limiting beliefs; anything that stands in the way of accessing true transcendence.
The term theosophy came from the Greek theos ("god(s)") and sophia ("wisdom"), thus meaning "god-wisdom" or "divine wisdom". It’s the sacred esoteric knowledge from various cultures like Buddism etc. and mystical cosmology, that we know today as widely assimilated spirituality and the New Age, but spiritual seeker and mystic Helena was highly criticised in her day as these were very foreign concepts for mass consciousness. In 1849 she embarked on a series of world travels, visiting Europe, the Americas, and India. It is during this period she claimed to have encountered a group of spiritual masters, the "Masters of the Ancient Wisdom", who sent her to Shigatse, Tibet, where they trained her to develop a deeper understanding of the synthesis of religion, philosophy, and science. Madame Blavatsky was a controversial figure during her lifetime, championed by supporters as an enlightened Sage and derided as a charlatan by critics. Her Theosophical doctrines influenced the spread of Hindu and Buddhist ideas in the West as well as the development of Western esoteric currents like the NEW AGE MOVEMENT.
In its own discovery chart, Neptune is at 25 degrees Aquarius and in tight conjunction with Saturn, with Eris at 29 degrees Aquarius in the 8th house. The Sabian symbol for Neptune carries the image of a hydrometer, which is an instrument of measurement for assessing relative density of liquids on the concept of buoyancy. The principle operation of the hydrometer is based on Archimedes’ principle that “a solid suspended in a fluid is buoyed by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the submerged part of the suspended solid.” It’s a measurement and study of how gravity and other ‘things’ work, to learn to turn this to our advantage and optimum benefit, to be better off. It’s an intellectual exploration of the principles of natural forces regarding how something influences another, that we can take responsibility for, that results in an intangible reward in the mastering of our lives. It’s the optimism of being able to capitalise on changing ebbs and flows, and whatever challenges arise, and how displacement cause influence the effect. Curiously, Neptune conjunct Saturn is in the zodiac sign of Aquarius, the sign of the water bearer, yet this sign is about moisture being ‘in the air’, therefore this Sabian symbol carries more fluidity images, of water suspended in the air, and of a substance in fluid as it would be under a hydrometer, and how it is all influenced by density and gravity.
The calculation of this mathematical information with measured efficiency helps people control their environment and elements in it, to their advantage. In general, a hydrometer sinks deeper in low-density liquids such as kerosene, gasoline, and alcohol, and less deep in high-density liquids such as brine, milk, and acids. Some hydrometers may be calibrated in terms of “proof ” of an alcohol solution, or in terms of the percentage of sugar in a sugar solution. This scale tells the winemaker how much sugar, turning into alcohol, is in the juice at a given time, else the precious liquid turns into sour vinegar if not measured. This may also be seen as a metaphor for the amount of alcohol, sugar or even salty foods that people eat ‘to cope’ when feeling melancholy, and how these effect their mood, health, sense of gravity, their ability to make measurements, or their ability to intelligently discern what will improve their lives. It may also be seen for the level of vibrational quality of one’s experience, mental alertness, equilibrium in the body or body Ph, in terms of how healthy the internal ‘waters’ like the blood or the lymphatic fluids are; if they are toxic, sluggish or densely inhibited by substances meant to mind-or emotions numb. Neptune is in the 8th house, which carries a lot of underworld themes. Awareness and consciousness are strong underlying factors, when it comes to the symbol of the hydrometer, in Neptune’s ancient astromythology.
Curiously, Neptune in its own 1846 discovery chart conjunct Saturn is in tight sextile to Pluto in Aries, and makes a Yod aspect pattern apex directly on Mars in Virgo. This is a symbol of the great MASTERY and clear PERCEPTION that went into Neptune’s discovery; the diligent striving and assertion towards working and calculating towards perfection. Why? According to Wikipedia, “the planet Neptune was mathematically predicted before it was directly observed. With a prediction by Urbain Le Verrier, telescopic observations confirming the existence of a major planet were made on the night of September 23–24, 1846, at the Berlin Observatory, by astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle (assisted by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest), working from Le Verrier's calculations. It was a sensational moment of 19th-century science, and dramatic confirmation of Newtonian gravitational theory. In François Arago's apt phrase, Le Verrier had discovered a planet "with the point of his pen". In retrospect, after it was discovered, it turned out it had been observed many times before but not recognized, and there were others who made various calculations about its location which did not lead to its observation. By 1846, the planet Uranus had completed nearly one full orbit since its discovery by William Herschel in 1781, and astronomers had detected a series of irregularities in its path that could not be entirely explained by Newton's law of universal gravitation.”
It was the irregular influence observed in the orbit of planet Uranus, that led to the discovery of Neptune. The discovery of its moon, Triton, took place just seventeen days later. There is evidence that Neptune
was seen and recorded by Galileo Galilei in 1613, Jérôme Lalande in 1795, and John Herschel in 1830, but none are known to have recognised it as a planet at the time. These pre-discovery observations were important in accurately determining the orbit of Neptune. Neptune would appear prominently even in early telescopes so other pre-discovery observation records are likely. What a feat of an ability to perceive, discern, and analyse, without having so-called “solid evidence”? These scientists believed so passionately in their ability to PREDICT and KNOW that ‘it was there’, despite perhaps having been mocked or ridiculed for both their nebulous hypothesis, and their sharp precision. This is an interesting point to consider, because Neptune’s ruling sign is Pisces, the sign of two fish swimming in opposite directions. This is a colourful illustration of the great emotional intelligence rooted in the element of water, that are also able to draw great mental and intellectual understandings from the ‘unknown’ or sovereign soul domain. Think of Pisces sun Albert Einstein and his quote below. Also consider, that the Yod with Mars in Virgo at the apex in Neptune’s discovery chart, has a reaction point in opposition to Mars; asteroid Chariklo is at 23 degrees Pisces, and Sedna at 26 degrees Pisces. This Boomerang Yod speaks of that RUDE AWAKENING that accompanies the SPIRITUAL AWAKENING, and of the deep INTUITION and KNOWINGNESS that eventually comes for those who allow the soul integration with the human. All of this gives us tremendous symbolical insight into the energy signature of Neptune, as transcending the ‘normal’ or known human experience… See the discovery chart article for more.
PISCES
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
Neptune’s ruling zodiac sign is Pisces and rules the 12th astrological house of endings, surrender, hidden enemies, sorrow and the mysterious. This is the house of dreams, of our subconscious and everything mysterious and hidden from plain sight. It speaks of imprisonment and being bound to the GRAVITY of certain unhealthy situations.
2010 was recorded as the state of Queensland, Australia’s wettest spring since 1900, and the Australian continent's third-wettest year, which is interesting as Neptune first moved into Pisces in April 2011, its watery home sign, while conjunct Gonggong and Chiron, and most astrologers know what that means… lots of water issues… and conjunct Gonggong… watery disaster… Other articles listed in the Gonggong Blog also discuss other times of massive flooding when Gonggong and Neptune made some major tight aspect to each other… Pisces will leave home sign Neptune and the critical 29th degree for the last time in January 2026…
Neptune will move into Aries in 2025, retrograde back, but will leave Pisces for the last time in January 2026. Neptune in the last decan of Pisces, has seen a lot of rain and will perhaps continue to for the forseeable future. Neptune in Pisces/Aries sextile Sedna in Taurus/Gemini makes a Yod apex on Haumea, called the Haumea Yod. Eris also plays a part as the Boomerang reaction point from time to time, as Eris is conjunct Jupiter, Chiron and eventually Saturn. The Haumea Yod concludes in 2028. Neptune will also be in sextile with Pluto for a number of years. Object Varda conjunct the Galactic centre in Sagittarius also squares Neptune in Pisces and makes a Hammer of Thor aspect pattern apex on Varuna in Leo in 2023 and 2024. See the charts below.
One of the best ways to experience the energy of Neptune (or any of the other trans-Neptunian objects) is in the week leading up to an Neptune station to go retrograde, or station to go direct. Check your ephemeris or the Calendar of Events.
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Weather bureaus and weather prediction in general just keep getting it painfully wrong as of late, and they likely will for some years to come, with Neptune in the third decan and hovering around the 29th degree of its home sign Pisces until January 2026, before it leaves for Aries. And also Uranus in Taurus, which in astrology is associated with an extreme drying effect, which is why we see many parts of the world juggle a deluge of rain, when there is severe drought in other parts.
Read MoreNeptune first entered it’s home sign Pisces in April 2011, and we have seen significant rainfall events in Australia, especially when Jupiter and Venus conjunct Neptune around February - April 2022, called the 2022 Eastern Australia Floods, which was one of Australia’s most expensive floods. Neptune will leave home sign Pisces and the critical 29th degree for the last time in January 2026… but before then, expect a lot more rain, for the anarectic degree is likely to entail more deluge…
Read MoreNeptune moved into Pisces, its 'home' placement, in April 2011 and will leave it for the final time in January 2026. It’s the planet of dreams, inspiration, intuition and psychic vibes, and what we know today as the New Age Movement beyond its maturity, that has deep roots indeed. Wikipedia describes the New Age Movement is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the 1960s and 1970s.
Read MoreIt is from understanding Neptune, that one understands the trans-Neptunian objects and other objects like Sedna. Neptune is the planet of the unseen, subtle, intangible and ethereal. It’s spirituality, mysticism, inspiration, inner knowing, compassion, empathy, receptivity, awareness, heightened perceptions, and divine creativity. It’s empathy, understanding and compassion.
Read MoreIt is from understanding Neptune discovered in 1846, that one understands the trans-Neptunian objects and other objects like Sedna. Neptune is the planet of the unseen, subtle, intangible and ethereal. It’s spirituality, inspiration, inner knowing, compassion, empathy, receptivity, awareness and divine creativity. This website is about the soul purpose messages of the trans-Neptunian and Kuiper belt objects, especially the brightest KBOs that have already been named.
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