Chart body
Neptune
Where the edges blur.
In a birth chart, Neptune describes your dreams: imagination, longing, and where edges blur.
What it is
Found in 1846 by mathematics before observation. Its position was predicted from wobbles in Uranus's orbit. It has the fastest winds in the solar system, over 2,000 km/h, and takes 165 years to orbit.
In a chart: Around fourteen years in each sign. Its sign is generational; house, angularity and tight aspects to faster-moving planets are what astrologers read as personal.
How astrologers have read Neptune
- Traditional significations
- None in traditional astrology; a modern planet
- Modern natal shorthand
- Imagination, dissolution, longing, where edges blur
AsterNym’s interpretation
At its best
Imagination, compassion and the ability to feel what is not being said. Where art comes from.
The difficult end
Fog. Believing the version of a person or a plan that you invented, and calling the disappointment betrayal.
What to do with it
Give it somewhere to go, a canvas, a page, a practice, or it will go into your judgement.
What Neptune rules
Neptune has no traditional domicile: it was not known before the telescope. Common modern ruler or association: Pisces. AsterNym uses the traditional ruler for chart-ruler and dignity calculations and displays this modern association separately. No classical dignities are assigned to Neptune; modern astrologers disagree on them.
The other chart bodies
Where is Neptune in your chart?
Its zodiac position comes from the body's calculated astronomical longitude. Its house is derived from your local birth horizon using AsterNym's declared Whole Sign house system.