Positions
Neptune in Aquarius
A deep generational placement (roughly 1998 to 2012, the years the network became the world), Neptune in Aquarius pours the longing for the ideal into technology, the collective, and the future, so a cohort dreams of everyone connected, of a humane utopia built from invention and shared mind. At its most inspired it gives a genuine vision of human unity and a feel for the group as a living thing. Its blind spot is utopianism that forgets the individual, a faith in systems and screens that dissolves the real, and detachment dressed as ideals. In one person it can read as a humanitarian dreamer who can love humanity in the abstract. The work is keeping the actual person in view inside the grand vision. At your best you imagine a future worth connecting for.
Lean in — Keep the real person in view inside the grand vision.
Watch for — Love humanity in the abstract while losing sight of people.
- utopia
- collective
- generational
Sources
- Greene, The Outer Planets and Their Cycles (1983)Reads Neptune in an air sign as the ideal working through the collective and the future.
- Oken, Alan Oken's Complete Astrology (1980)Describes Neptune in Aquarius as a humanitarian, technological idealism.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Frames the Neptunian longing as the dream of a transcendent collective.