Neptune in Aries: Pioneering Visions and Tilting at Windmills
"Neptune takes about 165 years to transit the whole zodiac and he’s been happily swimming through his own sign of Pisces since 2011. Neptune will transit Aries from 2025 to 2039, spending about 12 and a half years there in total, with a few dips in and out at either end. This represents the start of a new cycle of inspiration and change. Here are the dates for your diary:
- Enters Aries on 30 March 2025
- Retrogrades into Pisces on 22 October 2025
- Re-enters Aries to stay from 26 January 2026
- Dips into Taurus on 21 May 2038
- Final visit to Aries from 21 October 2038
- Enters Taurus to stay on 23 March 2039
This transit marks the start of a new 165 year cycle where Neptune will begin to dissolve the systems and structures that have become too rigid or riddled with illusions. Its action is subtle so you often don’t see it coming. It seeps in and changes things outside of your awareness. The foundations are dissolved and only when the building collapses do you realise what’s going on.
The last cycle started in 1861 just after Neptune was discovered in 1846 while it was in Aquarius. This period saw the continued dissolution of the Monarchy, Church, and State and the traditional thinking that went along with them. The challenge came from two directions at once – via science and spirituality – and new ideas surfaced that would reshape the world.
The science and technology of the industrial revolution was already transforming people’s lives. But then along came Darwin and his theory of evolution which dissolved belief in the Bible as literal truth. This contributed to the collapse in the power of the Church and people began to think for themselves and search for their own spiritual paths.
Some parts of the Church responded to this by modernising and becoming more liberal. They introduced new ideas and interpretations of the teachings, focusing on the individual’s experience of God rather than obedience to the Bible. Some got involved in social activism and developed missionary movements, and new groups emerged, such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Salvation Army.
New Age spirituality was also beginning to spread, fed by the growth of spiritualism and mediumship, and the ideas of the New Thought movement. Debunkers also proliferated and many took a scientific approach, such as Arthur Conan Doyle who founded the Ghost Club in 1862 to study paranormal activities. Helena Blavatsky was involved in spiritualism at this time and in 1875 she founded the Theosophical Society, but by this point, Neptune had moved into Taurus.
Aside: this transit of Neptune in Aries coincided with the Uranus Neptune square in 1868-70. However, spiritualism started under the Uranus Pluto conjunction of 1850, and Theosophy started at the following square in 1876. We’ll look at these alignments later.
Spiritualism also had strong connections with socialism and new ideas about society were spreading rapidly. Karl Marx made a big impact with his economic theories which eroded political thinking and the foundations of capitalism. The focus began to shift towards the people and the workers and they started to demand improved rights and working conditions.
The changes that happened at the start of the 1861 cycle were pioneering at the time. But now they’re ripe for change. A new vision is needed.
Don Quixote sets off on a grand adventure…
Neptune in Aries could bring pioneering visions that reach into every part of society, with lots of new ideas and progressive thinking. There could be idealistic revolutions and social activism, visionary rebellions, crusades for truth, and religious wars. Wars may be fought based on lies and deception (nothing new there then), or fought with bioweapons, chemicals and viruses.
Perhaps we’ll see another world war fought on idealistic grounds – a war to save the world, or perhaps a war against climate change, against nature (business as usual), or against a virus (!), or a war against the individual. Imagine the insanity!
At best, Neptune could inspire compassionate action and leadership that takes us away from the potential for war. But it could just as easily reveal the corruption and weakness of leaders that create power vacuums and trigger war by accident. We may delude ourselves that whatever we’re fighting over, is worth fighting and dying for. But like Don Quixote, we could be tilting at windmills.
There may also be a massive loss of faith in leadership, a loss of belief in the nation or the system. People could turn away from the system out of disillusionment or even boredom, and lose themselves in escapist pursuits, like gaming or virtual reality. As the system implodes, it’ll create uncertainty and that makes people nervous and prone to do stupid things – like get caught up in ideological battles that lead nowhere. It also makes people vulnerable to manipulation and brainwashing into cult-like activity run by charismatic leaders.
The best way to approach this transit is to take a more spiritual perspective so you can see through the illusion of power and learn to live with uncertainty. Neptune in Aries may dissolve the illusions that have grown around religion and spirituality, but they could also increase. At worst, this means a further descent into narcissistic, fantasy-based spirituality and self-deception – spiritual materialism and bypassing.
However, it’s happening at the start of the Jupiter Saturn air cycle, so materialist approaches won’t work for much longer. That means we may be more likely to see a new beginning in religion and perhaps a spiritual renaissance. Maybe the madness of the system will finally break through to the masses and we’ll get that global spiritual awakening everybody keeps talking about.
Or maybe there’ll just be a great outburst of creativity and imagination with lots of people suddenly writing novels, making movies and being innovative in artistic ways!
Whatever happens, Neptune in Aries is part of the huge shift in direction currently underway, along with Pluto in Aquarius, Uranus in Gemini, and the air cycle of Jupiter Saturn. This means that decentralisation is unstoppable. No matter how much the globalists try to force their One World plan, it won’t work in the long run. Perhaps Neptune in Aries will reveal the illusory nature of that plan – most likely around the Saturn Neptune conjunction in 2025."
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