Transit · Neptune in Aquarius
Neptune in Aquarius: 2011 → 2012
Neptune transits by dissolving: it blurs outlines, inspires, drains, idealizes. You can’t see clearly, and that’s the point: feel first, understand later. In Aquarius (Air, Fixed), this passage takes on the colour of independence, innovation and fellowship. Neptune stays about 14 years in a sign: here are the exact dates, what this transit changes for everyone, and what it asks of each sign.
The dates of Neptune in Aquarius
Entries and exits computed to the minute (Times in UTC.). The back-and-forth comes from retrogrades: Neptune enters, backs out, then returns for good.
| Entry | Exit | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, January 29, 1998 | Sunday, August 23, 1998 | 7 months | past |
| Friday, November 27, 1998 | Monday, April 4, 2011 | 12.3 years | past |
| Friday, August 5, 2011 | Friday, February 3, 2012 | 6 months | past |
What Neptune in Aquarius changes for everyone
Neptune transits by dissolving: it blurs outlines, inspires, drains, idealizes. You can’t see clearly, and that’s the point: feel first, understand later. What this transit asks: accepting uncertainty, listening to your intuition, loosening your grip on control.
The risk: illusion, confusion, escapism, exhaustion. The gift: inspiration, compassion, a wider faith.
Neptune takes one hundred sixty-five years to circle the zodiac: only one pass per point, and the square around age 40 is the one most people live through.
And for you, sign by sign
Neptune in Aquarius crosses a different house depending on your Sun sign (or your rising sign, if you know it: that is even more precise). Find yours.
For Aries: solar house 11
Neptune in the 11th house: idealized friendships, commitment to a cause, disappointments that refine whom you keep close.
Read Neptune transiting house 11 →For Taurus: solar house 10
Neptune in the 10th house: a career that changes meaning, an artistic or humanitarian calling, a blurred public image.
Read Neptune transiting house 10 →For Gemini: solar house 9
Neptune in the 9th house: a spiritual quest, an initiatory journey, beliefs that dissolve to let new ones be born.
Read Neptune transiting house 9 →For Cancer: solar house 8
Neptune in the 8th house: unclear shared money, mystical intimacy, losses to move through; let go of what can’t be controlled.
Read Neptune transiting house 8 →For Leo: solar house 7
Neptune in the 7th house: an idealized partner, a hazy or spiritual relationship; seeing the other person as they are takes time.
Read Neptune transiting house 7 →For Virgo: solar house 6
Neptune in the 6th house: work that loses its meaning or becomes a calling, health to listen to closely; slow down.
Read Neptune transiting house 6 →For Libra: solar house 5
Neptune in the 5th house: idealized love, inspired creation, sensitive children; tell the dream apart from the person.
Read Neptune transiting house 5 →For Scorpio: solar house 4
Neptune in the 4th house: a home that’s idealized or uncertain, family to understand with compassion, a need for refuge.
Read Neptune transiting house 4 →For Sagittarius: solar house 3
Neptune in the 3rd house: poetic thinking, hard-to-hold focus, inspired writing; reread your contracts.
Read Neptune transiting house 3 →For Capricorn: solar house 2
Neptune in the 2nd house: hazy finances, values in question, money earned through art or care; count twice.
Read Neptune transiting house 2 →For Aquarius: solar house 1
Neptune in the 1st house: a blurred identity, heightened sensitivity, an indefinable charm; you’re no longer quite sure who you are, and you’re finding out.
Read Neptune transiting house 1 →For Pisces: solar house 12
Neptune in the 12th house, at home: a vast inner life, dreams, withdrawal; a healing period if you accept not understanding everything.
Read Neptune transiting house 12 →
In your natal chart
If you have planets in Aquarius, Neptune passes over them by conjunction: that is where the transit is felt most. The signs in square, opposition, trine and sextile are touched too.
Your planets in Aquarius: conjunction
Your planets in Leo: opposition
Your planets in Taurus or Scorpio: square
Your planets in Gemini or Libra: trine
To know which planets and which house are concerned for you, calculate your free chart: the “current transits” section lists what Neptune touches today.
Calculate my chart (my transits)The other slow planets in Aquarius
Frequently asked questions
When is Neptune in Aquarius?
January 29, 1998 → August 23, 1998 · November 27, 1998 → April 4, 2011 · August 5, 2011 → February 3, 2012
What does Neptune in Aquarius mean?
Neptune transits by dissolving: it blurs outlines, inspires, drains, idealizes. You can’t see clearly, and that’s the point: feel first, understand later. In Aquarius, this passage colours independence, innovation and fellowship for everyone; each person lives it in the house of their chart that Aquarius occupies.
How do I know which house Neptune is crossing for me?
With your rising sign: house 1 starts at the Ascendant and Aquarius falls in one of your twelve houses. Without a birth time, take your Sun sign as house 1 (solar houses): that is the sign-by-sign reading above.