Aspects
Eros Square Neptune
Longing and desire keep tangling in a way that confuses what you actually want. You may chase an idealized lover who never materializes, use passion or romance to escape, or feel a vague disillusion when real intimacy cannot match the fantasy. There can be a slipperiness, even addiction or deception, woven through desire. This square asks for grounding, not surrender: notice when you are in love with a dream, bring desire back to a real person and body, and let romance serve intimacy rather than substitute for it. Worked, it becomes tender, imaginative passion; left raw, it drifts into longing for what is not there.
Lean in — Bring desire back to a real person and a real body.
Watch for — Use romantic fantasy to escape real intimacy.
- disillusion
- escapism
- grounding
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Eros as the principle of erotic desire, passion, and the creative life-force of wanting.
- Greene, The Astrological Neptune and the Quest for Redemption (1996)Reads Neptune as longing, idealization, and the dissolving of boundaries between self and other.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Treats the blend of desire and fantasy as a dynamic of romance and possible illusion.