Neptune retrogrades today, June 18th, 2018 until November 24th, 2018; from 16 degrees to 13 degrees of Pisces. Neptune retrogrades for approximately 6 months every year, so this cycle is not unusual. When Neptune retrogrades, we are asked to revisit and clarify our spiritual connection for a grounding point as Neptunian illusions may be dissolving and reality setting in.
It’s like the last dance at a school social when the lights get turned on and everyone has to go home. We are awakened from the dream. It doesn’t mean that nothing will last, but Neptune retrograde cycles ask us to re-evaluate any idealism, fantasy or illusion we have been operating under to see what really exists. Look to the house that Neptune occupies and the house it rules in your chart for more information about what area of your life Neptune retrograde could be asking you to see with more clarity. If you have any personal planets between 13 and 16 degrees of Pisces, or in mutable signs at those degrees, you will feel the effects of Neptune retrograde more strongly.
With Neptune taking roughly 14 years to travel through a sign, we have a lengthy opportunity to develop a positive relationship to Neptune in Pisces expression through honing our feeling connection to a world larger than the material. When Neptune is retrograde, it allows us an opportunity to realign with the positive expression of Neptune energy: compassion, serving humanity, transcendence and creative expression. Our intuition can be stronger which also helps with realizing where we may have been operating towards others under false pretense or them toward us. Maybe it’s simply that we awaken to a clearer picture of what is really going on in a given situation. To help strengthen this connection to spirit, employ spiritual practices like meditation and responding to our intuitive notions. Avoid self-destructive tendencies, martyrdom and living in a perpetual state of confusion about important issues our lives.
This Neptune retrograde cycle is special because Neptune in Pisces forms a grand trine with Jupiter retrograding in Scorpio and Mercury in Cancer. Grand trines create opportunity. Jupiter and Neptune are both planets which deal with expanding our perspective through opening to new knowledge and transcendence. With Neptune and Jupiter retrograde, this brings in the experience of revisiting how we are consciously working with these two planets. Mercury in Cancer communicates how we feel. Jupiter in Scorpio brings transformative expansion. Neptune in Pisces helps us transcend and connect to creative expression. This Neptune retrograde cycle allows us an opportunity to communicate compassionately and optimistically while clarifying and transforming our lives.
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