Neptune to Pisces: 2011/12 to 2025/26

 

Neptune moved into its own sign on April 4 2011, something that occurs once each cycle of 165 years. Neptune spends around 14 years in each sign and will transit Pisces until the year 2025 to 2026. The key dates are:

  • Enters Pisces on April 4 2011
  • Retrogrades back into Aquarius August 5 to February 2012 
  • Moves into Aries 27 January 2026 

Neptune's change of sign is very significant - it always has a big impact on the collective consciousness - and it will highlight all things Piscean and Neptunian. The Piscean realm is the realm of compassion, intuition, imagination and spirituality. Neptune's transit of Pisces will provide a counter balance to some of the challenging cardinal energies that will be around over the next few years. Neptune and Pisces seek to open our hearts and minds to the transpersonal and imaginal realms, to re-awaken us to the power of our dreams and the power of love and compassion…to see all life forms as one.  

Neptune and Pisces are both highly sensitive so this energy will heighten the sensitivity [both in positive and negative ways] of those of us who identify as sensitive. All of us have Neptune/Pisces ruled areas of our chart so we all may find our sensitivity enhanced in these areas. You may find you need :

  • more time out
  • more time to be
  • more time to smell the roses, meditate and reflect on WHAT YOU ARE FEELING
  • more time to hold the tension of opposites and embrace PARADOX… ] 

Neptune and Pisces both need time to process feelings so they do not feel torn [remember Pisces is the two fish pulling in opposite directions] and dismembered by life. If we can allow ourselves to embrace paradox and reconcile inner splits so we can

  • FEEL this AND that, not just this OR that
  • BE this AND that, not just this or that 

… then the healing power of this transit can be profound.

Neptune by transit seeks to dissolve and refine old patterns, structures and forms so something new can emerge. As part of this process Neptune can sensitize, idealize and romanticize our vision, sometimes to the extent that we can put on the rose coloured glasses and only see what we want to see. There is always the danger of falling into denial, delusion, [self] deception, and eventual disappointment and cynicism.  Neptune challenges us to find the middle path between cynicism and idealization. Its transit of Pisces  suggests an encounter with all things Neptunian and Piscean in both constructive and destructive ways. 

Constructively it seeks to:

  1. Expand and sensitize our awareness and consciousness.
  2. Enhance our compassion for all life forms.
  3. Encourage us to trust our intuition.
  4. Open our awareness to the power of imagination and altered states of consciousness.
  5. Explore altered states of consciousness.
  6. Tap us into the transpersonal realm / collective consciousness… source of all wisdom
  7. Enhance our creativity. 

The more destructive encounter with the Neptunian and Piscean realms could emphasize:

  1. Personal or collective illusions, delusions.
  2. Escapist and addictive patterns.
  3. Sacrifice [self sacrifice] and victimization.
  4. Increased sensitization of the immune systems of both individuals and Mother Earth [environmental toxins].
  5. Disappointment, scepticism and cynicism.
  6. People / movements / beliefs [especially spiritual teachers] that have been idealized falling off their pedestals.  

Neptune is also the God of the Sea and rules not only the oceans but all the world's waters and oil supplies. During his time in his own sign I am sure the importance of these realms will come to the fore as clean water becomes more scarce and global warming melts the polar caps.

Neptune / Pisces rules the following and its transit of Pisces may play out in any of the areas below in both constructive and destructive ways.

  • Reserves of oil and gas
  • Water supplies and the oceans.
  • Spirituality.
  • The Arts: including design, clothing, architecture, film, music and dance.
  • The psychic and intuitive realms: E.S.P., energy healing, telepathy.
  • Altered states of conscious: meditation, dreams and mind altering drugs.
  • The search for ecstasy and transcendence of ego boundaries.
  • New visions of world peace.

Healing methods that access the Neptunian /Piscean realms may become more acknowledged as well as more necessary. Neptunian healing modalities include:

  • Dreamwork.
  • Homeopathy.
  • Art Therapy / Dance Thearpy.
  • All forms of Spiritual Healing and Energy Work.