There is something present with every astrological transit that gifts us its presence. Support to create. Support to become more of ourselves. Support to live a life that is rich with fulfilment, expression, and awareness. And support to add to this ever-expanding Universe that we are all existing within.
Neptune Retrograde is no different.
When is Neptune Retrograde 2024?
Beginning July 2 2024, Neptune is retrograde in the zodiac sign of Pisces until December 7 2024.
The Planet Neptune Astrology
Neptune is the planet of mysticism and dreaming, imagination, spirituality, oneness, and inspiration. It is a doorway into the sacred, and a doorway for the sacred to pour into our everyday.
It opens this door so that we may remember our belonging in the dreamscape where all potential exists. Where all ideas, visions, peace and healing lives. Where all creativity stems from, separation ceases to exist, and our intuition speaks from.
Neptune’s medicine isn’t found only in escaping into these worlds however, though retreats into its healing energy of Oneness is sometimes just what we need. Its medicine is found in our collaboration with its offerings, with becoming the bridge for its potentials to become manifest. While this planet of spirituality exists in the energetic, we are here to weave it into the tangible.
Meaning of Neptune Retrograde
Retrograde periods are spaces for reflection and re-orienting.
When Neptune stations retrograde in its home sign of Pisces, it asks – how have you been collaborating with the dreamscape? How have you been working alongside your creative inspirations? How have you been using your imagination, or connecting with the sacred? How have you been living this role of weaving the intangible into the tangible? What have you been doing with your visions?
When retrograde, it’s soft haze of oneness and fantasy lifts. We land deeply in the here and now, the objective and the rational. Reality clarifies. The mirror of our lives and who we are clarifies.
What we have been turning away from we can no longer – the world of escapism and fantasy is less available now. It reveals truths we had previously clouded, ushering us into questioning, deep reflection, re-orienting, re-writing, re-organising of our understanding of reality, and of what we want for this life we are living in.
Neptune Retrograde brings a questioning to our desires and dreams. Now that we have stepped out of the imaginal and are observing our lives with clarity – what is it that we really want? What is it that our lives need? And how can we tend to the here and now, this one life that we have? The fruits of life present themselves when we are engaging with life. We need to be in it to receive from it. We need to be in it to create with it.
Neptune Retrograde in Pisces 2024
Neptune has been in Pisces for 13 years. Next year it will move into Aries and begin a new 165-year cycle.
Neptune moves slowly. It massages into us softly. It offers its medicine patiently. This retrograde happens in the final moments of Pisces, bringing a ‘clearing’ and ‘ending’ energy with it.
We are clearing out the patterns and fears within us that have us turn to Neptune only to turn away from our lives – missing the real offerings it is presenting us with.
We are healing and bringing an ending to any unhealthy ways we fantasize our lives, only taking us further away from living within them. We are remembering that we are here for the human experience. We are here to be rooted in who we are. To land on the Earth. To create in this tangible reality. We are remembering that Neptune desires to support that, not take us away from that.
While in retrograde motion, we are reorienting to this truth, and the ways that we ‘use’ Neptune’s realm. We are tending to the grounded practicalities of our dreams and our visioning’s. What do they need to become real? Who do they need us to become as we steward their becoming?
As Neptune retrogrades this year, it joins Saturn, who is also retrograde in the mutable sign Pisces. With both planetary bodies retracing their steps in the zodiac of imagination, creativity, dreaming, transcendence, and fantasy – there is deep restructuring happening in these spaces of our lives and the area that Pisces rules in your natal chart, also known as a birth chart or astrology chart.
While Saturn Retrograde is inviting boundaries and discipline, Neptune invites us to land deeper in our reality with presence and clarity. What does your life need? What do you need in your life? What do your dreams need? There is a ‘realness’ to this energy. We know what we need. The medicine on offer throughout this retrograde cycle is accessed through being truthful with ourselves.
