Keywords: Dissolution, imagination, compassion, inspiration, loss of boundaries, escape
- Rules
- Pisces (modern)
- Full cycle
- 165 years (about 14 years in each sign)
- Retrograde
- Once a year, about 5 months
Dignities: It has no place in the traditional table of dignities.
Discovered in 1846. If Uranus is a hard break, Neptune is a soft dissolving: boundaries melting, distinctions blurring.
It is both the most creative and the most deceptive principle. Art, music, mystical experience and compassion are the positive side of Neptune; self-deception, idealization, escape and addiction are its cost. Both run on the same mechanism: the loosening of boundaries.
It stays fourteen years in a sign. The house it occupies shows the area a person cannot see clearly, idealizes easily or makes sacrifices for.
In the houses
House placement: the area where clarity is hard and inspiration comes easily.