Neptune retrograde 2025 begins on July 4 at 2° Aries and ends on December 10 at 29° Pisces.
Neptune retrograde generally internalizes your fears and anxieties by stripping away the illusions, dreams, and false realities that have clouded your vision. However, Neptune retrograde 2025 marks the beginning of a Minor Grand Trine aspect pattern with Uranus and Pluto, which lasts from July 2025 to June 2028. This Magic Triangle gives us reason to be optimistic about the future.
The general meaning of Neptune retrograde is followed by more details about Neptune retrograde 2025. Information about Neptune retrograde in your birth chart can be found at the end of this article
Neptune Retrograde Meaning
Neptune retrograde in transit is a regular cycle that lasts approximately 160 days each year, occurring during opposition to the Sun. As with all outer planets, it causes less concern than the rarer inner planet retrogrades. Neptune retrogrades 40% of the time compared to Mars at 9% and Venus at only 7% of the time.
Transiting Neptune retrograde can internalize your fears and anxieties by stripping away the illusions, dreams, and false realities that have clouded your vision. The destruction of your fantasy world will show those harsh realities you previously sought to avoid. Perhaps you have misled yourself about true love, your financial situation, or career prospects.
The further from the truth you have traveled, or the more extreme your methods of escape, the bigger the shock. The fact of your reality is often quite painful, as is often the case when addiction to drugs, alcohol, gambling, or porn has been your escape. It does not require intervention or withdrawal to recognize your self-deception, either. This realization has always existed in your higher self, or pineal gland, as Neptune represents.
A new relationship or a critical event can trigger an old or past life memory of pain. Neptune rules self-sacrifice, victimization, false accusation, scandal, and slander. Neptune retrograde can show the source of the pain you sought to escape. You may feel humiliated, betrayed, scared, anxious, or guilty.
The internalizing influence of retrograde motion means you may spend more time worrying about yourself and your problems. Self-pity, social anxiety, or depression could lead to withdrawal and loneliness. Neptune retrograde is the ideal time for spiritual self-development. Self-help books or counseling may help, but other tools include meditation, Yoga, Tarot, astrology, swimming, and a healthy, toxin-free diet.
Phobias, hypochondria, and paranoia may become more noticeable during Neptune retrograde, but also easier to discuss. The world may seem boring when conspiracy theories are debunked or Armageddon is postponed indefinitely. Sometimes, however, your suspicions may be based on realistic psychic impressions. In cases involving health matters, it is especially worthwhile to seek a second opinion in the event of a misdiagnosis or misinterpretation of results.
Neptune Retrograde 2025
Neptune stations retrograde on July 4, 2025, at 02°10′ Aries. The chart below shows Saturn conjunct Neptune at the midpoint of Uranus trine Pluto, creating a Minor Grand Trine aspect pattern.
Neptune retrograde 2025
Neptune retrograde 2025 is at the apex of this Magic Triangle between Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, which lasts from July 2025 to June 2028. It gives us reason to be optimistic about the future. It should make us more open-minded, progressive, receptive to change, and accepting of others. It will bring about amazing discoveries, inventions, and breakthroughs in science, technology, travel, communication, and medicine.
Saturn conjunct Neptune for this first appearance of the Magic Triangle could cause fear and pessimism. However, the harmonious aspects suggest Saturn will materialize the magical, spiritual, hopeful, and idealistic nature of Neptune. It will help you overcome hardship with endurance and determination.
You can harness all your inner power to succeed in the most challenging tasks. This should be a time of achievement and success. You will be focused, efficient and driven by whatever you apply yourself to know. You will filter out the background noise and avoid distractions that are not essential to the job. Your tremendous work ethic makes you highly productive, making professional recognition and advancement possible.
Neptune Retrograde Dates
| Neptune Retrograde | Neptune Direct |
| July 2, 2024, at 29♓55 | December 7, 2025, at 27♓07 |
| July 4, 2025, at 02♈10 | December 10, 2025, at 29♓22 |
| July 7, 2026, at 04♈25 | December 12, 2026, at 01♈36 |
Natal Neptune Retrograde
Neptune retrograde in the natal chart is more common than inner planet retrograde, such as Mercury and Venus. Approximately 40% of people have a natal Neptune retrograde, making it less feared and less harmful than having a retrograde inner planet. That being said, a Neptune retrograde natal chart still has karmic repercussions and a definite influence on soul growth due to the spiritual nature of the Earth.
Natal Neptune retrograde suggests that some areas of life are so painful that you prefer to escape this reality through your imaginary dream world. Likely, this tendency to avoid pain through illusion is firmly rooted in tragic past life experiences, such as torture, where your only option to escape physical pain was to transcend from a physical to a more spiritual plane of existence.
This earlier experience of spiritual pain relief was probably so intense and overwhelming that it became imprinted in your soul memory, in the DNA of every cell in your body. Past life crises like illness, false accusations, and victimization will often be repeated to a lesser extent early in your life. You may notice you are subject to gossip, scandal, or slander.
I associate religious persecution with natal Neptune retrograde. Throughout history, the Roman Catholic Church alone has accused, tortured, burned, drowned, and massacred countless millions of pagans, Protestants, Muslims, and many other innocents.
Regardless of the reasons, you enter this life with some justified fears and anxieties. Although not as natural or extreme now, specific experiences will trigger those more painful memories. Your natural reaction is to eliminate the pain by accessing that higher spiritual dimension. The quicker, the better, and you probably don’t care whether it is through meditation, prayer, imagination, or drugs.
The release of pain-relieving hormones in your brain is addictive, so you could quickly resort to escapism more often and for less critical reasons over time. You may use illness to gain sympathy or avoid life’s harsh realities. Perhaps you are more subject to confusion and deception than most, or tend to become involved in intrigues and scandals.
False accusations and victimization will exacerbate your fears and anxieties around groups of people or specific people. Other karmic issues associated with Neptune retrograde in your chart could include misdiagnosed or mystery illnesses, with the associated blame or guilt or institutionalization for crime, mental illness, or religious mania. Feeling isolated from society is common for many reasons.
Natal Neptune retrograde is likely to play some role in the case of the accuser, inquisitor, or torturer. However, I expect that Saturn retrograde guilt and Pluto retrograde misuse of power would play more prominent roles in these stories.
My natal Neptune is retro grade 29 degrees in sagg. Which is also in my 1st House. (Sagg asc). Inalso have Uranus at 8 degrees. When I read your description about having Neptune Retrograde, I thought I was reading an autobiography. My intuition is spot on and I’m very spiritual and connected to my higher power more than ever these days. I’ve been receiving very clear messages from something. Since I’ve been sober for 7 years now, I have been almost overwhelmed by the very clear vision and feelings about specific things. I wpuld love to gain some better understanding on how to deal with this new paradigm and realm i seem to be in now. I want to cultivate this into a way to help others. I really think I have a special way of connecting with people too. Anybody have any ideas or guidance? I’m born 4/5/1983 at 11:30 pm. In Seattle, WA.
visualizing 1:49:45, time, degree, dimension, numerology cube, clockface, etc
first image, building a template, screenshot from a file made November 2, 2020
second image, Dot chart, screenshot from November 8, 2020
third image, heliocentric synastry , 1st proof and Neptune rx.
fourth image, clockface. 1:49 pm, or close to the inverted 10:10 am marketing standard.
https://postimg.cc/gallery/64CjGrM
thank you to Central Interior BC, for this idea.
The 45s portion in 1:49:45 https://postimg.cc/T5xTQbTn
You could create a list of ideas what this could mean. A start point on a chart, the ascendant for instance.
In the Natal, ascendant 08Leo08, 137.5 degrees to the Vertex 25Sag35. The fine constant structure 1/137.
There are a large number of ready made visuals available. Not least the performance of an airlines strike, or the general political mayhem in the Whitehouse.
Visualizing 137.5
Image one, readymade fine structure constant.
Image two, natal template with Vertex conjunct Galactic Centre and transits.
Image three, rotate the readymade 180° ‘fiddle head’
Image four, rotate a further 45°
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Size, clip, and insert pattern onto template.
Today’s selected transit, Mars (Taurus), trine natal Venus (Capricorn)
Correct link
https://postimg.cc/gallery/KxgkWqV
Visualizing 137.5 angle to raindrop, rainbow 42.5 angle to eyeball.
https://postimg.cc/gallery/w3CSKwD
The golden angle creates the conditions for a rainbow. It’s not a political condition, careful with sidewalks, cross walks, and flags.
And just like that, I finally totally understand my entire life (Neptune R 12th house) thank you Sir
Does anyone see effects with those born in the shadow periods of planets going to or coming out of retrograde? I am not sure about shadow times.
Shadows are often mentioned but not their potential impact, if any.
This is really good on nep retro. It is one of the things I have wanted to know more about. There is a clarity that I am experiencing. I can see the road ahead for the first time in what seems like a very long time. Taking a pause to ingest was a good thing to do. Yegads, one day of stop has made a world of difference.
I am sry to play out the raven again but as with Crookes’ mars-uranus on a uranus-neptune degree in zodiac i think if both “spiritual” planets uranus and neptune are on very destructive stars that might show the end of all hopes and dreams and “heavenly” illusions of a”better” world. I remember well the euphoria bout uranian technologies like computers and the internet in the 90s. Nowadays leaders like elon musk promote brain-scans to read out thoughts, and ai might get an uncontrollable nightmare. Media and politicians lying and brainwashing people, pressure and mass-manipulation on the spiritual, emotional snd material plane, help for Ukraine (look at their national symbol the triskele it is a neptune/poseidon symbol) gets a financial shipwreck. Desastrous weather joins in. So these are the reuilts of both “utopian” planets staying on very bad fixed stars at the same time. “No future” But i have to admit this is also still connected with the epoche-making saturn-pluto from 2020.
… and Nessus conjunct Saturn, a trifecta of nasty.
Pluto the good guy? ‘ course it’s in early degree Aquarius, epoch carry 2020, where it transit the Saturn of mystery and imagination, a redeeming combination. Thanks for a hopeful indication.
visual: Saturn retrograde, trine natal Neptune, an aspect shared by many 1950s-1960s – this vintage involved in the higher power of these two planets, including a faux battling, today’s AI and political Sturm und Drang, tastefully looting the artwork, albeit ferociously. 800 years of expertise, some would say 2000, but that’s a different astrology.
It’s the eve of the retro, and I just awoke with a blast of clarity.
Could be a coincidence. Like I must have posed the right question. When I get down to the right question., the answer just seems to show itself.
I look at the “news” and it is chaos and stooping to trashing celeb politicians physical appearances.
Yet I get clarity in my life on the ground. Very weird. It feels like what a divorce must feel like to thevone who has been left. Life gets clearer all the time as I get away from the craziness.
Since this is Neptune and concerns water, this chaos to me example. The physical appearance nonsense is not even worth mentioning.
“Death tolls from Texas floods reaches at least 43: dozens still missing.”
“MAGA candidate calls Texas floods fake. It’s murder.”
“MTG announces bill to tackle weather modification.”
“Texas officials slam Trump’s National Weather Service for botched forecast.”
Neptune in Pisces has Virgo thinking waterlogged? Precessionally speaking, we’ve only just begun?
Picking through a disaster…
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Age of Aqr progressed Moon quincunx Venus, in a large learning triangle with Uranus. Neptune/Saturn transit Venus. We can learn something from the dominant learning triangle, Varuna. After several years this chart hasn’t failed us. but tomorrow never knows, Look at how Moon-Sun align at 31 October x2 https://postimg.cc/G8MyRbDL re: 3I Atlas intersteller.
Does Uranus suggest harsh learning lessons? Like my Uranus opp Pluto experience. It was the harshest imaginable. But did have buildup in hindsight. The harder I tried, the more demands he made. I was in impossible situation. Then blam!!!
Moon Venus would make this learning more personal? Less inclined to outer forces? Varuna is wicked? Or no?
Is that the sun bQ Lilith? Can I take a pass on the disaster picking? 🤣. Can I get away with that? It sure feels right.
Sun biquintile Sun, and Lilith, we have a recent example of Lilith conjunct Sun, Smedley Butler. People having dirty jobs to do.
So Varuna is about cosmic order? Balance?Hard to see that now. But again moon venus, personal balance in the midst of oceanic disruption? Tricky.
As polled Americans are not so proud to be American any more, especially the young, that may suggest a greater universal relationship than country boundaries. Even though the founding principles of individual freedom and equality for all still lives in their hearts.
We can learn something from the dominant learning triangle, Varuna.
“The dynamic process starts with the red aspect (square). The point of conflict is where the red and blue aspects touch each other (Varuna) The calm, balanced, pleasure-seeking state of the blue aspect (trine) is disturbed or irritated, causing tension or conflict, and some decision or effort must be made. The old state is no longer tenable; a problem has arisen that must be solved.
It’s like guru down at the ball park, we see him on TV, but if he’s got three wives and 15 kids, celebrity!?
Last Unassisted Triple play, Major League Baseball, 23 August 2009, game start 1:11pm
https://postimg.cc/2VnmxK62
Game duration is 3.0 hours. The triple play ends the game.
We’ve done astrology of this time period, Neptune, Chiron, Jupiter retrograde stellium
I was posting a lot online, and spooks were watching and looting. Crypto was just getting going, and the forums I was using were test cases. It was because of capturing social media value we saw Crypto get more popular. I’m Satoshi, but was too humble to say this last year
“Smedley Butler did play baseball. He was captain of his school’s baseball team and later played for the Philadelphia Police baseball team, as well as participating in games with the Camdon Bluecoats. In one instance, he is pictured as a catcher for the Philadelphia Police baseball team. He was also known to be involved in American Legion baseball games. ”
8 July Chart, Moon conjunct Galactic Centre, Smedley Butler outer wheel
https://postimg.cc/jWc7Rkw6
Butler was a baseball player and perhaps the best example of a whistle blower experience.
Real Madrid, great team but American and European broadcasters seem to have forgotten how good this teams defence. For years give Real Madrid a lead and they shut you down. July 1st against Juventus, in Florida. Missed the Dortmund Game, closer match, but Madrid looks unbeatable.
Trump kicking the Copper skull around today. Take out your copper head driver, and let her rip. Copper important in housing and Juices real estate, and Trump needs a scale edge. Don’t worry world copper buy anywhere but gotta screw Canada so you don’t go there and do cheap labour and huge families. Am I wrong?
U.S. Labor camps coming up. The Ag Secretary wants to put Medicaid recipients in the fields to replace the deportees. What a brain child.
Prisoners and tariffs. Tariffs and prisoners.
Continue creating problems.
Age of Aquarius, progressed, showing Jupiter transit 6th, which is amicable to finding workers, but add the hammers to see how delicate it could get https://postimg.cc/0ryMBpnJ.