NEPTUNE: The planet of the longing for redemption.
From an astronomical point of view, it is a celestial body far larger than Earth and forty times farther from the Sun compare to the Earth. It is described as cobalt in color and shares almost the same chemical composition as Uranus. It is not easily visible; instead, it appears cloudy, almost blurry (which reinforces Pisces “magical” quality), whereas Uranus can be seen with greater ease (both are gas giants).
Neptune was discovered thanks to the work of French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier, who noticed irregularities in Uranus’s orbit and concluded that another planet must exist beyond it (this reinforces Neptune’s principle of acting through the unseen, manifesting almost ghostlike). First it was intuited, perceived, and finally confirmed on September 23, 1846 when Johann Galle observed it through a telescope, following Le Verrier’s calculations. It was named Neptune, after the god of the Sea, due to its color.
Neptune symbolizes the negation of Uranus, the denial of space-time, and just like its magical aura, it also represents danger for embodying the unknown.
* Neptune’s symbol, which is also the trident of the Sea God, corresponds to the Greek letter Ψ (Psi). The Greeks interpreted it as the wings and stem of a butterfly, believing that the human soul left the body after death in the form of a butterfly. From this comes the word Psychology, the study of the human soul.
* In quantum mechanics, when Schrödinger defined the wave function, he named it Psi, and quantum physicists still use this symbol today. The wave function describes the probability space in which a particle can be found, in one state or another (where and how)—something very Neptunian. From this, some astrologers draw parallels to support astrology scientifically, through the concept of the wave function.
Quantum entanglement states that two particles can remain connected and synchronized even when separated by vast distances—something that, according to the Theory of Relativity, would be impossible. But in a similar way, it is said that the sky and stars influence life on Earth (astrology). Here, both sciences meet: different, valid in their own domains, yet contradictory.
This is reflected in phenomena like telepathy or déjà vu, which embody the denial of space-time: when a human being anticipates events that have not yet occurred, or experiences situations without having been physically present. In this sense, astrology finds resonance with quantum physics.
In astrological transits, Neptune can appear in a magical or transcendent way, and at other times like a tsunami engulfing the individual self. On a global scale, communism, socialism, and Russia’s history are tied to Neptune-Saturn transits. The largest oceanic planet in the solar system mirrors the vast nations of China and Russia, with their Neptunian qualities. It is no coincidence that both Putin and Xi Jinping have Saturn-Neptune conjunctions in their natal charts and are the two biggest countries of the world.
Neptune reminds us that we are not merely our ego, but something more transcendent.
Many writers and screenwriters have Mercury-Neptune aspects (or Mercury in Pisces) combined with Saturn, which allows them to give disciplined form to the Neptunian. Sun-Neptune aspects, on the other hand, dissolve the ego: the person may feel they do not fully recognize themselves or reality, existing in a state of “being and not being.”
Astrology, which many attribute to Uranus, in my opinion, is more governed by Neptune, since it is rooted both in mathematics and physics as well as in the unimaginable and intangible.
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