Neptune sextile Uranus transit awakens your interest in unusual, out-of-the-ordinary states of being and consciousness. You suddenly become more aware of a deeper dimension of life you’ve known before, and you want to learn everything you can about it. This transit can greatly expand your consciousness.

People react to these energies in various ways. If you are very much rooted in the material universe, regarding nothing as real unless you can touch it, you will become much more concerned about abstractions, principles that previously seemed too disconnected from the material world to be important. You may be surprised to discover that you actually do have ideals that you are willing to stand up for, even though you have always considered yourself a hard-headed pragmatist.

If you are less interested in purely material concerns, you may find your interests becoming even more spiritual. This transit can awaken an interest in the occult or in mysticism, and is one of the transits under which people begin studying astrology and related subjects. Any technique that helps open up a new aspect of the universe will attract you at this time.

A related but somewhat different manifestation is that you may become involved in social reform movements. You see that the world does not work as it should, and you want to work very hard to improve the lot of people who are less fortunate. While your views are idealistic right now, they aren’t completely removed from reality. You can work with the situation as it is to bring about the change you want. Your activities along these lines could range from the relatively conservative approach of working with the poor, ill or disadvantaged in hospitals or similar institutions to working with groups with much more revolutionary aims.

Source: Planets in Transit, Robert Hand, 2001, p.459-460.