There is no sense talking about “being true to yourself” until you are sure what voice you are being true to—Marion Woodman.
Neptune enters Aries at the end of March, marking a collective sea-change that will wash over us for the next 14 years.
Neptune’s graceful arc around the sun takes 165 Earth years, spending about 14 years in each sign of the zodiac, so Neptune in Aries (2025-2039) will be reflected in cultural, political and societal changes that trickle into fashion, music, art, literature and film. For those of us who lived through the conspicuous consumerism and hedonism of the 80s, Neptune in Aries transmits a fin de siècle ennui as the world around us dies and Trump’s “drill baby drill” agenda keeps the world dependant on oil and gas, both symbolised by Neptune.
The tide is turning. Woke is out, shoulder pads are back. When Neptune enters Aries, wealth, glamour and “aspirational” luxury revivalism seep through the collective. Rolex and caviar, silk shirts and golden tans. Neptune is all glamour and sparkle. The Dutchess of Sussex in her cream jeans with expensive sweater hung nonchalently over her shoulders whips up creamy cocktails. Tone deaf Kim Kardashian poses seductively on the back of a Tesla Cybertruck. Melania Trump, wearing high-heeled power boots signs a $40m Amazon deal.
As Neptune moves through the signs of the zodiac, we search for redemption, boundaries dissolve, we dream the impossible dream. When Neptune moved through Pisces from 2011-2026, our personal property moved to the Cloud where everything is available and accessible. Fact and fiction, propaganda and deep fake proliferated. The uncontrolled social media experiment replaced tangible human connection. Algorithms dictated our likes and dislikes. AI bottom-traweled the internet, polluting the well of human creativity and passion, spewing out mechanical repetition at best, a politically engineered, deliberate tainting of truth at worst.
Neptune in Aries cycles so often accompany times of disillusion and discontent, as well as periods of innovation and creativity. Change and progress become the new Redeemer. Expansion (usually territorial) and a hero (usually self-proclaimed) captures the collective imagination.
Aries is ruled by Mars, god of war. Historically, as Neptune travelled through the sign of Aries, heroes fought and died. There were civil wars, rebellions and futile crusades.
Neptune was in Aries in 1861—1874 along with Uranus in Gemini, when the US Civil War fortified divisions between north and south. The abolition of slavery was one of the contested issues, underpinned by ideology and the human want for more territory. As Neptune mirrored discontent, bold view visions and an unquenchable thirst for change, Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address on November 19th, 1863, proclaimed that all men are created equal. In 1862, the Homestead Act invited white settlers to go west, settle and exploit the prairies, expelling first nations people from their ancestral homelands.
As we enter this new era, Neptune’s idealistic energy will permeate all our lives. There will brash, bold shifts in political power. The cult of the individual, the idealisation of the hero infuse the zeitgeist. Depending on our own birth chart, we may already sense an ebbing of the tide as a new identity is reimaged. Our quest for independence, self-knowlege, innovation and expansion, real or deluded, will become our next crusade. Wearable tech and generative AI already promise salvation. Neptune in Aries will amplify the human hunger for innovation. Space exploration, yet another self-absorbed bid for survival. Under Neptune’s spell we will venture further and further in the restless pursuit of our dreams. As Neptune moves through early degrees of action-orientated Aries this year and next, those with planets and angles in early degrees Aries, Libra, Capricorn and Cancer/late degrees Pisces, Gemini, Virgo and Sagittarius, may be inspired to return to the canvas or keyboard, to devote more time to spiritual practice, to explore those sweet dreams, discover what being true to yourself really means. As Neptune sensitises your birth chart over the coming months and years this transit could accompany a profound personal initiation, the warm bloom of day-break after a time of struggle.
Author Samatha Harvey writes so beautifully in Orbital: “A human being was not made to stand still. Maybe we’re the new dinosaurs and need to watch out… but maybe against all odds we’ll migrate to Mars…and we’ll look back at the faint dot of blue that is our old convalescing earth, and we’ll say, Do you remember? Have you heard the tales? Maybe there’s another parent-planet earth was our mother and Mars or somewhere, will be our father. We are not such orphans-in-waiting after all.”
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