If Neptune were a fictional character, it would be Luna Lovegood from “Harry Potter.” It’s vague, it speaks in metaphors, it wears pajamas to lunch, prefers third-eye hugs and feels at home in an aquarium or opium den.
Unlike Venus, Mercury and Mars, Neptune is a slow-moving outer planet that takes approximately 164 years to move through all 12 zodiac signs.
In astrology, a retrograde occurs when a planet appears to be moving backwards in the sky, an optical illusion caused by the velocity of the earth’s rotation and our vantage point.
Neptune’s latest retrograde forced us to confront illusions, step gingerly over our potholes of self-deception and lift the veil and cut ties between ourselves and any unhealthy relationship dynamics.
Neptune retrograde asked you to prioritize the way you see yourself over the way you hope to appear or fear you will seem to others.
Neptune retrograde asked you to question the lengths you are willing to go to meet the needs of your social circle and whether that span is actually the space between you and yourself.
But now, with the gift of clarity and idealism, I hope you tell yourself a different story, and write in a happy ending in all capital letters.
You don’t have a problem receiving Leo, but this retrograde may have illustrated where and when you fail to reciprocate.
You’re the caretaking workhorse of the zodiac Virgo but sometimes you fail to look up from the task at hand to appreciate the beauty that abounds and the forest through the trees.
I trust this retrograde has shown you that you have been bending knees and kissing rings where fealty is undeserved.
The lesson in all of that uncertainty is that you have the power and the responsibility to make your life, now and later, in whatever image you see fit.
Yet, if you allow someone to help or invite them to collaborate, you offer yourself the rare and precious opportunity to be surprised and gasp, even delighted by the efficacy of others.
You can really rally behind a cause and elevate an everyman to the station of hero, Aquarius, but sometimes your fervor overshadows your reason.
I hope you spent the summer and fall hogtying your fears and stonewalling your self-doubt because you are poised, now more than ever, to make good on your oceanic stores of potential.
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