Every movement of Neptune is an invitation – an opening to remember the sacred, to dream new dreams, and to collaborate with the subtle realms. Retrogrades, in particular, act as portals of reorientation, offering us the chance to revisit, revise, and realign with the truth of what we are creating and becoming.
When is Neptune Retrograde 2025?
From July 4 to November 10, 2025, Neptune begins its first retrograde in Aries since the late 1800’s, marking a profound moment in the collective current. Neptune, planet of imagination, spirituality, oneness, and divine inspiration, is retracing its steps alongside Saturn Retrograde through the fiery, pioneering lands of Aries – the sign of selfhood, courage, and initiation.
This retrograde will not stay entirely in Aries, however. On October 22, 2025, Neptune will re-enter Pisces for the final time in this 165-year cycle, completing the remainder of its retrograde in the oceanic waters where it has been traveling since 2012.
The Astrology of Neptune Retrograde in Aries
This weaving between signs – Aries and Pisces – tells a larger story: a final tying-up of threads from the old dream, while simultaneously revising the very first sparks of the new.
There is a potent symbolism here. Neptune in Aries began in March 2025 with a collective ignition – an activation of the sacred impulse within each of us, calling us toward our unique flame of purpose.
As it moves retrograde through Aries, it asks us to pause and reflect: How have you been tending to your sacred spark? Where have you taken inspired action, and where have you hesitated? What dreams, desires, or visions have been calling you, and what relationship do you hold with them?
Retrograde Neptune lifts its gentle, sometimes foggy, veil. It clarifies. It reveals. In Aries, this unveiling happens around our sense of direction, identity, and the courage it takes to become. We are gifted the chance to see where we might have rushed headlong into illusions about who we are or what we desire.
Where have you chased a dream that did not truly belong to you? Where have you confused impulse with inspiration, projection with authentic vision?
Neptune in Aries is about spiritualizing the self – remembering that your individual impulses, instincts, preferences, and longings are sacred. As it retraces its path, it offers a healing opportunity to revisit these impulses with fresh eyes.
Are you honoring your sacred spark, or have you abandoned it in favor of someone else’s dream? Are you allowing your fire to burn purely, or has it been clouded by confusion, escapism, or fear?
Retrogrades ground us in reality, asking us to be honest about what is working and what is not.
With Neptune in Aries, there is a deep reckoning with the personal dreams you have set in motion. You may find yourself questioning whether these dreams are rooted in true divine guidance, or if they were simply fuelled by ego, urgency, or restlessness. The sacred spark within you deserves devotion – not an escape, not an ideal, but a committed weaving of inspiration into action.
The Astrology of Neptune Retrograde in Pisces
From October 22 onward, as Neptune crosses back into Pisces to finish its retrograde, the invitation shifts yet again.
Neptune returns to its home territory, the sign it has been inhabiting for over a decade, to offer a final cleansing and release. There is something deeply poetic about this transition: moving from the fresh fires of Aries back into the endless ocean of Pisces. It is a spiritual rinsing, a washing away of the residue of illusions and confusions that may have followed you through this long Neptunian chapter.
In Pisces, Neptune retrograde takes us inward once more, asking us to clarify our relationship with the sacred, with the unseen, with our intuition and connection to all that is.
It is a final farewell to old dreamscapes that have reached their limit. What illusions are you still holding that keep you from fully arriving in your life? What fantasies have been comforting but no longer serve? What ways of disconnecting from reality have held you back from showing up in your day-to-day experience?
Where Neptune retrograde in Aries was about reclaiming the clarity of your personal flame, Neptune retrograde in Pisces is about dissolving the final illusions that separate you from divine trust and cosmic belonging. Together, this passage is a cosmic braid – one strand of courage, one strand of surrender, woven together to leave you clearer, more honest, and more rooted in the truth of who you are.
2025 Neptune Retrograde Invitations
As Neptune moves retrograde across these two vastly different signs, you may feel the rhythm of your dreams and your sense of self shift and sway.
In Aries, there is a desire to act, to forge ahead, to ignite something new. In Pisces, there is an invitation to release, to surrender, to trust, and to rest within the great ocean of spirit.
These invitations are not opposites, but partners. The fire of Aries needs the water of Pisces to soothe and purify its purpose. The water of Pisces needs the fire of Aries to bring vision into form.
Over these coming months, you might feel your sense of direction slow down. You may sense a calling inward, an urge to retreat and listen more deeply to the voice of spirit within you. This is not a failure of momentum – it is a sacred recalibration. The path ahead will be clearer because you paused to realign with what matters most.
Collectively, this retrograde is profound. We are being asked to clarify the visions that will shape the next 14 years of Neptune’s Aries chapter – and, in a larger sense, the next 165-year Neptune cycle. It is a space to dream responsibly. To act intentionally. To fuse our sacred connection with the courage to manifest.
The re-entry into Pisces is the final sweep of the cosmic broom, clearing out lingering illusions that might otherwise distort our ability to bring those dreams into the world. It is the last invitation to remember how to collaborate with the imaginal, rather than escape into it. It is the final dissolving of any barriers between you and the present moment, between your soul’s knowing and your human feet walking the earth.
This retrograde season is, in truth, a doorway.
A place of endings and beginnings braided into one. It is the closing of a chapter in Pisces and the re-writing of a new one in Aries. It is the cosmic reminder that you are here to live this life – not just dream it, not just think about it, but to embody it, to breathe it in, to create from it, to be changed by it.
Trust what is being revealed. Trust the courage that is returning to you. Trust your divine spark.
And trust the soft waters that will welcome you back in October, washing you clean, reminding you of your belonging to all things – so that when Neptune re-emerges into Aries next year, you will stand ready, clear-eyed, inspired, and devoted to the path ahead.
This is the medicine of Neptune Retrograde in Aries and Pisces: a bridge between the worlds, a mirror for your becoming, a pause for the dreaming, and a call to remember who you truly are.
Neptune Retrograde Horoscopes for Your Zodiac Sign
Aries Rising
This retrograde is deeply personal for you, Aries Rising. With Neptune reversing through your sign, your identity, direction, and sense of self come under sacred reflection.
You’re asked to reflect on how you have been collaborating with your dreams: are they truly yours, or born of others’ expectations?
When Neptune returns to Pisces in October, you’ll dive back into your unconscious, closing an old chapter of hidden fears or outdated patterns. Trust this journey of clarifying who you are, what you want, and how your sacred spark longs to move forward. Your courage is being refined, readied, and renewed.
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Taurus Rising
For you, Taurus Rising, Neptune retrograde begins in your twelfth house, stirring the unseen realms of dreams, intuition, and hidden memories. Old illusions dissolve, revealing where you might have sacrificed your boundaries or neglected your own quiet voice.
When Neptune crosses back into Pisces in October, friendships, community dreams, and collective visions come back into focus. You are invited to heal patterns of over-giving or idealising others. This is a season to retreat, restore, and surrender, clearing space for new spiritual clarity. Your solitude is not emptiness but sacred ground, preparing you for the next emergence of your creative spark.
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Gemini Rising
Gemini Rising, Neptune retrograde begins by stirring your house of community, networks, and visions for the future. You are invited to reflect on which dreams are truly yours versus which have been adopted from group ideals.
When Neptune shifts back to Pisces in October, it draws your attention to career, purpose, and reputation, revealing where illusions or avoidance have clouded your direction. This is a powerful time to realign your contribution to the world, grounding your dreams into action.
Revisit your highest aspirations with clarity, and allow space for new inspiration to meet your authentic voice and your unique gifts.
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Cancer Rising
Cancer Rising, Neptune’s retrograde begins in your house of purpose and public visibility, asking you to question your ambitions, your path, and your higher calling. Where have you chased dreams that were not truly yours?
When Neptune returns to Pisces in October, it moves back into your house of philosophy, travel, and beliefs, asking you to dissolve outdated worldviews or unhelpful dogmas. This is a time to soften, to allow confusion to teach you, and to release attachments to rigid ideas of success. Trust that in questioning, you will find a truer alignment, rooted in your soul’s deepest knowing.
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Leo Rising
For you, Leo Rising, Neptune retrograde begins in your house of philosophy, expansion, and spiritual growth. There is a sacred questioning alive here: What do you believe? What truths are yours?
By October, as Neptune returns to Pisces, themes of shared resources, intimacy, and deeper merging come back into focus. You are invited to release illusions around power, vulnerability, or financial entanglements. This is a time to get radically honest about what is yours to carry and what must be surrendered. Through these reflections, you find the courage to build a life based on genuine meaning, rather than illusion or fear.
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Virgo Rising
Virgo Rising, Neptune’s retrograde begins in the deep waters of intimacy, vulnerability, and trust. Here, you may revisit where you’ve lost yourself within another or blurred healthy boundaries.
As Neptune re-enters Pisces in October, your partnerships and collaborations come back under review. You are invited to heal patterns of idealising others or sacrificing your truth to maintain harmony. This season supports you to reclaim the sacredness of your own voice within relationship. Let illusions fall away. Let honesty lead you. From that space, you will step forward with clearer devotion to love that honours who you are, fully and completely.
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Libra Rising
Libra Rising, this Neptune retrograde opens a mirror to your partnerships, both romantic and professional. It asks where you have projected dreams onto others, or lost yourself trying to merge.
By October, Neptune slides back into Pisces, highlighting your daily life, health, and routines. What illusions have crept into your day-to-day? Where might you be avoiding necessary boundaries? This retrograde brings a potent chance to restructure how you show up for both yourself and your relationships. You are learning to merge without abandoning self, to dream without fantasy, and to build partnerships that are rooted in mutual respect and clarity.
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Scorpio Rising
Scorpio Rising, Neptune’s retrograde begins in your house of health, daily rhythm, and sacred work. Where have you neglected your physical vessel, or let dreams drift without practical application?
When Neptune returns to Pisces in October, your creativity, joy, and self-expression will call for attention. This retrograde asks you to clear illusions around perfection, to soften your inner critic, and to rediscover authentic inspiration. Your artistry and pleasure can flourish when you allow a healthier, more sustainable foundation to support them. Through daily devotion, you reclaim your ability to bring beauty, magic, and meaningful service into every aspect of living.
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Sagittarius Rising
Sagittarius Rising, this retrograde stirs your house of play, joy, romance, and creative self-expression. You are asked to reflect on what truly lights you up, and where you might have escaped into fantasy rather than creating in the real world.
When Neptune returns to Pisces in October, family roots, home, and your sense of belonging come under reflection. This is a sacred time to heal old illusions tied to security, or family expectations. Trust what is dissolving, Sagittarius. As you clarify the roots that sustain you, you will free your creative spark to shine in its truest, most joyful form.
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Capricorn Rising
Capricorn Rising, Neptune retrograde first invites you to look at your foundations, home, and family. Where have you idealised security or lost yourself in inherited patterns?
By October, Neptune returns to Pisces, bringing your voice, communication, and mindset back into focus. It’s time to examine the stories you tell yourself, and the ways you speak your truth. Let illusions about who you should be soften, making space for who you are. Your sacred task now is to build a foundation rooted in reality, honesty, and deep self-trust, so your next steps can be guided by clarity rather than confusion.
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Aquarius Rising
For you, Aquarius Rising, Neptune retrograde begins in the realm of communication, learning, and local environment. You are being asked to question your perceptions: what illusions shape how you think and share?
As Neptune slips back into Pisces in October, themes of finances, worth, and self-value reemerge. Where have you confused your true worth with fantasy or scarcity stories? This retrograde is a clarifying window to name what you need and what you deserve. Allow illusions to dissolve around your voice, your talents, and your resources, so you can rebuild with confidence, rooted in a sacred awareness of your true value.
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Pisces Rising
Pisces Rising, Neptune, your ruling planet, retrogrades through your house of money, resources, and values, inviting you to question what truly matters. Where have you been chasing illusions of security? What do you believe makes you worthy?
In October, Neptune returns to your sign for its final retrograde moment here in this cycle, a profound invitation to cleanse, release, and complete. You are dissolving the final illusions about your identity and spiritual purpose. Trust this sacred shedding, Pisces. You are remembering who you are beneath the stories, preparing to step forward with greater courage and authenticity in the year to come.
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