Neptune in Aries 2025 – 2039

[Wind]

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."

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjZcT8ZP7qI

[Wind]

"Neptune represents the principle of transcendence, idealism, spirituality, inspiration and imagination. It’s associated with collective dreams and mysticism expressed through art, films, music, religion, and utopian social visions, as well as the intangible and invisible world of chemicals, bacteria and viruses. It dissolves boundaries and structures bringing ecstasy and compassion, but also confusion, illusion, deception and escapism via drugs and madness.

For more on the Neptune archetype read: Neptune Keywords and Neptune Myths

As Neptune transits the signs, it reveals what we idealise and look to for redemption or salvation. In Capricorn, it fed the idealisation of corporations and big business, and in Aquarius it idealised science and technology. In Pisces, it appears to be idealising deception itself because we’re all drowning in fake news and propaganda in a crazy-making post-truth hall of mirrors.

More here: Neptune in Pisces: Disillusionment and Transcendence

The purpose of this confusion is to wake us up to the reality behind the illusion and help us to remember our true nature as eternal beings. We have a few years left so it’s hard to know how the awakening is going. Perhaps we’ll find out when Neptune moves into Aries. We’ll either wake up and change, or talk ourselves into an idealistic war. Reality will probably land somewhere in the middle.

Aside from war, the Aries archetype represents fertility and new beginnings, and the creative power of the life force as it surges forward. Aries is a pioneer who wants to take the lead and fight for independence – the hero on a quest for adventure and excitement. At best, he fights for fairness and the underdog, like Robin Hood. At worst, he’s an impetuous berserker.

More here: Zodiac Myths: The Story Behind Aries

Historically, Neptune in Aries coincides with rebellions, uprisings and crusades, and the breakup of empires and nations, especially civil wars where the people fight amongst themselves. To get a feel for how this works, let’s explore some of the events from previous transits of Neptune in Aries, some of which also lined up with either Pluto in Aquarius or Uranus in Gemini…

Socrates saves Alcibiades at the Battle of Potidaea in 431 BCE

Back in 432 – 419 BCE Neptune was in Aries at the height of the ancient Greek city states which were always falling out. The Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta began in 431 BCE and ran for decades. Meanwhile Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, a tragedy about fate and free will, was first performed in 429 BCE; Democritus developed his atomic theory in 430 BCE, and by 420 BCE Socrates was hard at work in Athens messing with people’s heads and making them think.

As we saw last time, Neptune was in Aries in 60 – 73 CE at the same time as Pluto in Aquarius when Boudicca and her Iceni tribe revolted against the Romans in Britain. Over in Rome, Christianity was spreading fast, despite persecution, and even after Nero accused them of starting the Great Fire of Rome in 64 CE. There was more chaos and civil war in 68 after Nero committed suicide and they had four emperors in one year. In Palestine there was a Jewish uprisingagainst the Romans in 66, and Josephus wrote his history of the Jewish War which became a major source on Jesus.

Fast forward to 388 – 401 by which time Christianity had become the official imperial religion of the Roman Empire in 391 and Theodosius prohibited all other pagan cults and worship. This led to the destruction of the Sarapeum, a temple in Alexandria dedicated to Serapis. In 397–400, St Augustine wrote his Confessions about his conversion to Christianity.

Neptune was in Aries in 879 – 892 during the reign of Alfred the Great, king of Wessex in ancient Britain, who was having a spot of bother with the Danes. In 886 he recaptured London and signed a treaty with Guthrum formalising the kingdoms where the Danelaw would operate. Alfred rebuilt the city and introduced reforms to encourage education and learning, and created a small fleet of ships to fight naval battles against the pesky Vikings.

Jumping forward to 1206 – 1219 Neptune was in Aries at the start of the shift into the last Jupiter Saturn air cycle – similar to now. The Christian Crusades were in full swing, having started when Pluto was in Aries (of course!), and in 1206, Genghis Khan began his conquest of Eurasia. This period also saw the founding of various monastic orders, such as the Franciscans in 1209 and the Dominicans in 1216.

Wat Tyler and the revolting peasants

Neptune was next in Aries in 1370 – 1383 during the Hundred Years War between England and France which started in 1337 when Pluto was in Aries. It ran through the whole of this period and ended in 1453 when Neptune was in Libra. The Catholic Church split in 1378 and there were two rival popes until 1417. The Church also came under attack from 1377 by John Wycliffe, an English theologian who criticised abuses and orthodox doctrine, foreshadowing Protestantism. He completed the first translation of the Bible into English in 1382.

Over in England, there was a Peasant’s Revolt in 1381, seeking reform and rights and an end to serfdom. Meanwhile, at some time during the 1370s, the story of Robin Hood began to circulate – a tale of a classic Aries character.

In 1534 – 1547 Neptune was in Aries along with Pluto in Aquarius and just after Uranus in Gemini. This was the period that saw Henry VIII break from Rome and declare himself supreme head of the Church of England in 1534. This led to the dissolution of the monasteries in 1536 and the destruction of religious relics and churches, and endless fighting between Catholics and Protestants.

Martin Luther, who started the Reformation in 1517 under Neptune in Aquarius, completed his translation of the Bible into German in 1534, and died in 1546 at the end of this period. Meanwhile, Pope Paul III established the Roman Inquisition to flush out Protestants and began a Counter-Reformation at the Council of Trent in 1545.

In the 1540s Valerius Cordus, a German physician and botanist, wrote Dispensatorium, the first pharmacopeia covering medicinal plants and minerals and how to make drugs, published in 1546. He’s also credited with discovering ether in 1540, which was used in pain relief for surgery – and for getting as high as a kite!

Next, Neptune was in Aries in 1697 – 1711, with a slight overlap with Uranus in Gemini at the start. This period saw lots of fighting and rebellions in Europe over various things, as per usual, including the War of Spanish Succession in which England took Gibraltar in 1704 to establish a naval base against Spain. However, England was getting tired of fighting the Scots, and in 1707 the Act of Union formed a new entity called Great Britain, unifying England and Scotland. In 1708, Jeremy Collier published his Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain and upset the Protestants.

Louis Pasteur looks at germs

Finally, Neptune was in Aries in 1861 – 1874 along with Uranus in Gemini, when the US Civil War divided the nation into north and south, fighting over state powers and the abolition of slavery. It ran from 1861-65 and featured Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in 1863, which announced that all men are created equal. In 1862, the Homestead Act opened up the frontiers and allowed claims on land owned by the native population – so much for all men being equal.

Slavery was abolished in the US in 1865 and ex-slaves gained full citizenship in 1866 under the Civil Rights Act. Adult males gained voting rights in 1870 – the women would have to wait a lot longer. But this period also gave rise to the formation of the KKK in 1865. Elsewhere, the Red Cross was founded in Switzerland in 1863, and in 1866 Dr Barnardo founded his home for vulnerable children, and in Britain, the Trades Union Congress, the first national union for workers, was established in 1868.

Louis Pasteur, one of the fathers of germ theory, invented pasteurisation to destroy bacteria and patented the process in 1865. This inspired Joseph Lister to develop antiseptic dressings for use in surgery. In 1866, the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, invented dynamite, and in 1869, Dimitri Mendeleyev published his periodic table of elements, the invisible building blocks of all things.

Although photography already existed, the first colour photograph using the three-colour method was made in 1861. Forerunners to later developments in film came in 1866 when the zoetrope was introduced as a toy where a drum spins to animate an image, based on earlier stroboscopic discs. And in 1868, flip books appeared, called a Kineograph, or ‘moving picture’.

For real life excitement, there was the showman and hoaxer, PT Barnum who started his Grand Travelling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan & Hippodrome in 1870, a travelling circus featuring freaks and animals, sometimes known as the Greatest Show on Earth. Or you could embark on the first luxury liner, RMS Oceanic, which was also launched in 1870. Other notable developments in art, literature and science include:

• James Clerk Maxwell formulated his Equations in On Physical Lines of Force in 1861, and published his Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in 1873
• Victor Hugo published Les Misérables in 1862
• The Luncheon on the Grass by Edouard Manet was exhibited in 1863, causing public outrage over nudity
• Lewis Carroll published Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865
• Dostoevsky published Crime and Punishment in 1866
• Marx published Das Kapital in 1867
• Tolstoy published his epic War and Peace in 1869
• Darwin published The Origin of Species just before this transit in 1859, but followed up with The Descent of Man in 1871
• And in 1872, Nietzsche published The Birth of Tragedy, and Monet painted Impression, Sunrise which inspired the name of the Impressionist movement"

Impression, Sunrise by Monet

[Emil El Zapato]

"Neptune represents the principle of transcendence, idealism, spirituality, inspiration and imagination. It’s associated with collective dreams and mysticism expressed through art, films, music, religion, and utopian social visions, as well as the intangible and invisible world of chemicals, bacteria and viruses. It dissolves boundaries and structures bringing ecstasy and compassion, but also confusion, illusion, deception and escapism via drugs and madness.

Cool stuff!

[Emil El Zapato]

Astro Journal
Neptune in Aries – 2025 to 2039 – Possibilities

03/03/2025 Jessica Davidson

In a previous post we explored the history of Neptune in Aries but now it’s time to look forward. Neptune enters Aries on 30th March 2025 and stays there for about 14 years until March 2039 with a bit of toggling at either end. This transit will feel very different to the last 14 years of Neptune swimming through Pisces and it may come as a shock to some. The start of the transit may also feel different because Neptune is conjunct Saturn for the first couple of years. More on that here.

Neptune transits reveal what we idealise and how we seek redemption, salvation and transcendence through the experiences represented by the sign. With Neptune in Pisces we’ve been idealising sensitivity, compassion and imagination which has inspired a huge outpouring of creativity and spirituality. But it has also unleashed military-grade propaganda and delusional ideas about reality that have left many lost in a hall of mirrors.

That will change when Neptune enters Aries. We may begin to idealise individuals and heroic action rather than collectivism and narcissistic fakery. Other Aries qualities include independence, initiative, courage, bravery, creativity, being a pioneer, and fighting for the underdog. Aries can also be impulsive, reckless, and violent with a great love of fighting and war.

But at its essence, the sign represents the life force that creates new beginnings. This powerful energy needs to be channelled into a quest for something meaningful or it becomes destructive. The next few years could be a very fertile time with lots of new ideas and possibilities bursting out all over the place.

However, not all of these possibilities will be worth chasing down. Not every dragon needs to be slayed! We could easily embark on a great adventure and end up nowhere – looking and feeling foolish.

At best Neptune in Aries will inspire a new vision of society and a recognition of the need for sovereignty and the dignity of the individual. We may also see new beginnings in multiple areas, including a religious or spiritual renaissance, inspirational music, films and art, and many more people getting involved in expressing their imagination and creativity.

The myths of archetypal heroes will be activated in the collective consciousness inspiring all manner of heroic deeds and quests. The epic of Gilgamesh dates back to Sumer and is about the quest for eternal life, amongst other things. It influenced Homer’s Iliad about Achilles, as well as the labours of Hercules that represent the quest to define your identity (see Mars Myths). There’s also Jason and his Argonauts going after the golden fleece and Robin Hood fighting to protect the poor (see Aries Myths).

The heroic ideal includes acting in an honourable or virtuous way guided by codes of conduct, like the chivalric code of the medieval knights and King Arthur. We may idealise the qualities and strengths of masculinity and could see an increased appreciation for ‘proper jobs’ – men doing manly things! – as well as other positive examples of masculinity, rather than always focusing on the toxic variety. Listen to the Cosmic Matrix podcast on how to heal the masculine wound here.

Having said that, there may be plenty of opportunities to behave in a less than ideal way. Neptune tends to inspire great dreams and ideals at the start of a transit only to reveal their illusory nature later.

We may see idealistic and inspired leadership that achieves great things, as well as the idealisation of leaders who don’t deserve the admiration. To be fair, that always happens, but it may become more noticeable as people are swept along by charismatic personalities that potentially lead them astray. We may be more likely to see weak or deluded leadership that makes bold and stupid decisions that take us into war or cause other calamities.

“When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.” – Lin Yutang

There may be a loss of faith in leaders and disillusionment with a system that allows ineffectual and weak individuals to rise to power. This could lead to rebellions and uprisings as people respond to the breakdown of law and society. Individuals could take the law into their own hands as vigilantes and fight for their own version of justice.

The rise in aggressive feelings could break out into civil wars where the people fight amongst themselves and between neighbours, reinforced by Uranus in Gemini. But almost any kind of war is possible, including an idealistic war against ‘climate change’ via the ideology of Net Zero, or a war against the individual or the people, reinforced by Pluto in Aquarius.

We could see a new crusade or religious war, perhaps incorporating End Times myths and a desire for the return of the Messiah. These millenarian ideas are always floating around and tend to become heightened during periods of chaos and rapid change. For more on that read: The Age of Aquarius: History and Misconceptions

Whether these myths are ‘true’ or not is beside the point. The fact that people believe in them means the stories can be used to manipulate people and drive events. This has been happening for years with certain Biblical verses such as Revelation and other eschatologies, and it could escalate in the coming years. There could even be a completely fake war using AI that makes people believe the Messiah has returned – or aliens or whatever.

a drone dragon

War has always involved the use of deception to manipulate and mislead the enemy as well as the people doing the fighting or cheering it on. During World War 2 there was a whole section of the British military dedicated to creating propaganda run by Dudley Clarke. He made fake tanks, guns and planes out of wood to fool the Germans, and created the SAS – Special Air Service – which started as a fictional regiment and then became real.

The BBC drama series SAS Rogue Heroes tells the story of how this came about. In episode 2 of series 1, Dudley Clarke (played by Dominic West) says something highly relevant to Neptune in Aries:

“War is about deception, because deception is a war against reality, and reality is the enemy of the soldier. Particularly the heroic soldier who must live a life of heroic fiction. And the fruit of deception is victory. Death to the truth and all its bastard offspring, including fear and caution.”

The show reveals the insanity of heroism and the courage needed to face extreme situations, as well as the selflessness involved in sacrificing yourself for a cause. Sometimes this sacrifice looks more like reckless impulsiveness or an excuse to indulge in berserker rage. The show also explores the brutal consequences of war and PTSD, as well as the frustrations caused by poor leadership and military bureaucracy.

These ideas are also explored in the extraordinary film 1917 about World War 1 which shows the absolute insanity of what the troops were forced to do. There are plenty of other films about heroism and the hell of war, including Dunkirk which spins heroic action out of failure and retreat, and the TV drama Generation Kill which shows the complexities of modern warfare and disillusionment with war.

There’s always been a tendency to romanticise and idealise war and this is reinforced by movies and the media. Propaganda justifies war to the masses and lures young men and women into joining the military to fight for their country.

In an article about the war photographer Tim Hetherington, who was killed in Libya in 2011, he describes this as a “memetic process” where young soldiers imitate the images and actions they’ve seen in films and photographs. Only later does the reality of war make itself felt. But this experience becomes part of the process of figuring out who they are as men:

“Young men are instrumentalised by the state using their energy and aggression, and that energy is about defining themselves as men. And they’re willing to risk a lot to define themselves as men.”


the final desperate run in ‘1917’

These days it’s hard to see how they could promote a new idealistic war. We’ve all seen the movies and we know what war really means. But that hasn’t stopped the sabre-rattling about World War 3 and it may finally arrive in the next few years. To bring this about we may see an increase in the idealisation of war and the virtues of fighting for [insert cause here].

Whatever the stated cause of WW3 the real reason will be to provide cover for a sovereign debt default in the West so they can do their big stupid reset and redraw the world map again. See WW3 for Dummies.

This kind of unrestrained war without limits often comes about because a country (or whole bunch of countries) feels weak and humiliated. Germany at the end of WW1 is an example that led into WW2 (in simplistic terms). The UK and EU are desperate to start WW3 to preserve what’s left of their power. It’s a war they can’t possibly win, but they can’t admit they’re finished either. And so we go down in a ‘blaze of glory.’

The battleground is over Globalism vs National Sovereignty and it comes at the worst time for the globalists. We’ve just entered the Air era of Jupiter Saturn conjunctions marking the end of the old Earth empires of imperialism and colonialism. The new world order will be decentralised and networked and run for the people by the people – eventually.

We’re also at a Neptune midpoint between Uranus and Pluto marking the end of a period of 500 years of development. This mini triangle configuration is bringing about the end of the old European empires and initiating something entirely new.

That new world may have to be built from the rubble of the old one. And that will require heroes with inner strength, courage and pioneering vision.

a burning church in ‘1917’
There may be many opportunities for heroism over the coming years as people fight for social reforms and the rights of disenfranchised individuals. There could be idealistic revolutions and crusades for truth and justice motivated by an increased awareness of the need for compassion in society. Perhaps we could finally see through the illusion of war and transcend the need for it – an idealistic hope – but maybe watching the world go insane will lead to a wider call for peace.

We could also see a spiritual renaissance and the rise of new religions, or a spiritual crusade and the desire to fight for spiritual or religious causes. Spirituality and religion may become more robust and ‘masculine’ in its approach. The self-indulgent New Age spirituality that took over the world during Neptune in Pisces won’t survive Neptune in Aries.

There may be a move away from idealising victimhood and passive aggression towards a desire to become stronger. The spiritual path may be seen more as a heroic journey into empowerment and self-mastery – the path of the spiritual warrior or bodhisattva who leads from the heart. And the martial artist who understands that if you need to fight then you’ve already lost.

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” – Sun Tzu

True spirituality requires the kind of inner strength and courage that most people don’t have – yet. True compassion is also tougher and grounded in reality – not the ‘tea and sympathy’ variety that’s really ‘idiot compassion’ and encourages self-indulgence. True compassion challenges people to change and supports them to do so with action.

We may all need to toughen up over the coming years. But that doesn’t mean being rigid or heartless and embodying toxic masculinity. Neptune may dissolve some of those rough edges and take us deeper into a transfigured view of the masculine that’s closer to the pioneer Jesus. If enough of us did that we wouldn’t need to go to war.

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” – Sun Tzu

To really get to grips with Neptune in Aries we need to embrace effortless action by acting without ego and without attachment to outcomes. This can only be accomplished by individuals choosing to surrender to something larger than themselves, such as the divine. But it could also be the State or your Nation demanding that you sacrifice yourself for [insert cause here]. The challenge will be to choose who you surrender to: the Divine or the World?

Next time we’ll explore how Neptune in Aries works in your natal chart…

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