Neptune in Crisis

Are we all losing it?

What: Neptune in the 29th degree of Pisces

When: March 4 - 29, 2025; Oct. 23, onward (retrograde)

Who’s Impacted: EVERYONE, but esp. Mutable Sign placements at 29’

Takeaway: as the planet of confusion and daydreams swims through the crisis degree of Pisces, it’s marking a final turning point for the collective delirium.

Reality feels like it’s in shambles, and that’s thanks in large part to Neptune in Pisces. Saturn in Pisces and the North Node are runners up in the delusion and disinformation sweepstakes, but Neptune has been slowly and oh-so surreptitiously pulling the wool over your eyes since 2011. That’s when the madness planet first entered Pisces. That’s when we began this 14-year-long erosion of reality, logic, and clarity. But from March 4 through March 29, the great dissolver starts its final bow in Pisces, moving into the 29th degree.

This degree, otherwise known as the anaretic degree, is a critical degree in astrology, and it is a degree of endings, completion, and a key turning point. A point of both culmination and transition, the 29th degree carries with it a feeling of urgency to finish what it started and an emotional exhaustion to just get it over with. But the planet isn’t really the one who’s tired, you are. We are.

The 29th degree is the final stretch—the closing stages. Like an arduous marathon, outer planets move through the zodiac signs at a labored pace. So, when they enter that critical 29th degree, we are as tired as we are aching, though not necessarily prepared, to cross the finish line and wrap up that planet’s cycle. This month, Neptune sits in that 29th degree of Pisces; and the collective crazy is coming to a head.

Neptune in Pisces in Astrology

Remember Instagram Face? The rise of Influencer culture, ManifestTok, and Doom Scrolling? What about the upswing of social media filters, cults, Fake News, Deep Fakes, and Fentanyl? Well, those are all the not-so-pretty by-products of Neptune in Pisces. With the dreamy outer planet—which also rules delusion, illusions, lies, and the collective delirium—in the escapist, evasive, and overly idealistic water sign, our grip on reality has loosened.

That’s because both Pisces and Neptune want to live in a dream world, a fantastical fable of make-believe where there are no limits, where everything works out, and where a spiritual savior is around the corner. (Liz Greene said Neptune always has us looking for Eden.) So, in an effort to create such a world, Neptune in Pisces set out to dissolve some seriously mundane shit. Like real bodies, faces, and human existence (talking to you, Instagram). Reality and political parties. Or trust in…anything.

So, the transit has washed away trust in pre-existing structures—like journalism or the government—and replaced it with a fog of illogical phobias, including and especially the fear of Big Brother. The fear of the Deep State. It saw us creating an imaginary background figure / grand master puppeteer who is calling all the shots and is out to get you. That’s just the kind of thing Neptune does: it dissolves, erodes, disintegrates, and evaporates. Because it wants to be saved.

Neptune in Pisces also makes shit up, gaslighting and conjuring multiple versions of reality. All with the aim of amplifying and edifying a person (or party) as the ONE who can save us all. Because the whole victim/savior thing is right up Neptune in Pisces’ alley. Since 2011, Neptune has urged us to disassemble our trust in what we already know, so that we no longer trust anything except the Person who promises to be our Savior. Confused? Yeah, that’s Neptune’s MO.

Neptune in Pisces is also a masterful actor (read: liar), and can have you, me, and people in public office play the part of the victim, the savior, and or the seer in such an effortless way, you’d hardly even know what was happening. (Honestly, can anyone tell me what’s happening right now?) So, victimhood, falsehoods, self-professed spiritual saviors, new narcotics, and the slow deterioration of logic and systems have all been part of the Neptune in Pisces craze. And now that Neptune has entered that 29th degree of Pisces, they’re reaching their peak.

Neptune in 29° Pisces – for the Collective

But remember what I said about fatigue? The more I read comments on TikTok and Substack, and the more I watch news interviews, the more I see just how fed up people are with this surrealist version of reality we seem to be living in. People are sick and tired of the lies and the gaslighting and the alternative realities. It’s an exhausting thing to have to question if what you think you know is actually reality, because the person on your screen is saying something completely different. Their reality is not yours, so can you trust your own?

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Mystification is Neptune’s favorite magic trick. So, as the Great Mystic and astro-magician inches through the anaretic degree of Pisces, it heightens confusion and escapism, and doubles down on its enchantments, making the fog heavier and more befuddling, which ups your desire to escape it all (or blame it on something else; ie: fentanyl.) But in addition to feeling so befuddled all the time and wanting to escape reality (even if you aren’t sure it’s real anymore), Neptune in the 29th degree also intensifies our collective longing to be saved.

Yet, at the same time, you’re tired of waiting to be saved. You’ve been waiting, and the so-called public savior hasn’t actually arrived or saved anything. You’ve been fleeced. Duped. And (hopefully) you’re starting to realize it. All of Neptune’s heavy-handed idealism and yearning to surrender to something bigger than itself is turning sour. It’s leaving a bad taste in your mouth. It’s now the taste of disillusionment, and it’s inescapable.

Of course, Neptune at the 29th degree of Pisces doesn’t mean gaslighting, victimization, deluluism, or the savior complex have vanished; no, they’re all still very much alive and thriving. Instead, the dream planet in this final degree of the most delusional sign in the zodiac means that we’re beginning to see things for what they are—or at the very least, we’re beginning to see that those behaviors aren’t really working for us anymore. The paranoia, the lack of practicality, the fog of falsehoods…they aren’t leading us to Eden like we thought they would. It’s a rude awakening. The enchantment is breaking.

That is the turning point of this transit. Neptune in the anaretic degree of Pisces signals a new disillusionment with the things that we found so hypnotically illusionary just a few years prior. It may bring—via world events—a stark, overwhelming realization that no one is coming to save you (at least, not in the physical sense); no single person, public figure or political party is going to magically make the world a better place. The trick now is to avoid letting bitterness and cynicism stomp out lingering feelings of hope. Because Neptune loves to hope! It loves pining and longing and yearning for something greater…and hope + a belief in something grander, is definitely something we should hang onto—29th degree or otherwise.

Neptune in 29° Pisces – For YOU

Neptune at 29° Pisces collage art by Author