Your Neptune in Aries Horoscope

Burn it down and begin again

What: Neptune in Aries

When: March 30 - Oct. 22, 2025; Jan. 26, 2026 - 2039

Who’s Impacted: EVERYONE.

TL;DR: for the first (and last) time in our lifetimes, the planet of illusion and idealism charges into the intrepid, independent, and pioneering fire sign, igniting the collective to dream more fiercely and fight for what’s right.

Everything is changing. You’re getting fed up. I’m getting fed up. We’re all getting fed up. Seriously, if you’ve been noticing an increase in overwhelm, disenchantment, and/or disillusionment, you’re already feeling the astrological shift. Because the veil is lifting. What once was cloaked in pretty insincerity and promising words, is finally being seen for the bullshit it is. What once felt drowsy and comatose, is getting a bitch slap to wake the f*ck up. In other words, we’re really starting to see things as they are—not as “leaders” would like us to see things—but as they really, truly are. The gaslighting, the deception, and the blatant falsehoods may not be slowing down, but we—you, me, and everyone else—we are waking up.

As Neptune takes its final bow in Pisces and moves into Aries, it does, in fact, feel like an alarm bell is ringing loudly in our ears. That’s mostly because Neptune in Pisces has been such a sleepy transit; like a surreal dream that has melded reality with fantasy in the most beautiful and horrific ways imaginable. Beginning March 30, Neptune in Aries sees the planet of delusion, fantasy, and inspiration meeting the Mars-ruled zodiac sign of action, courage, and conflict. So, it’s unsurprising that we’re already seeing a clash of ideologies and an urgent call for ACTION.

Acting on instincts and impulses is what Aries does best. After all, Aries is the warrior of the zodiac. On a good day, Aries is intrepid and courageous, slinging its sword to slay dragons, rescue metaphorical damsels, and champion the disenfranchised. However, at its worst, Aries is an egomaniacal berserker with a violent temper, a quest for dominance, and a penchant for disastrous bridge-burning. In both expressions of the sign, Aries leads the charge and uses its fiery zeal to ignite action and burn away the BS. So, what can you expect as the planet of dreams enters this spark-plug of a zodiac sign? Well, first we have to look at Neptune.

Neptune in Astrology, Mythology, & History

Neptune is the planet of dreams and illusion. It’s also the planet of fantasy, imagination, heightened / divinely inspired creativity, hallucination, spirituality, mysticism, mystery, inspiration and influence. Getting its name from the Roman god of the sea, storms and earthquakes, astrological Neptune is just as powerful, moody, unpredictable, and potentially destructive; and like, Poseidon (the Greek god of the sea), who was known to create illusions, manipulate water and shift forms, Neptune loves to deceive. The planet is fluid, being at once the ruler of glamour and altered states of reality.

Just as the ocean is vast and unknowable, astrological Neptune presides over our collective unconscious: our dreams, illusions, and the mystical unknown. It is also connected to such mythological figures like Orpheus, the legendary musician whose songs could enchant both the living and the dead (Neptune rules poetry, divine inspiration, hypnotism, and disillusionment); the Sirens, who lured sailors to their doom with their enchanting voices (Neptune loves to seduce, deceive, and offer and “escape”); and even Dionysus, the god of ecstasy and madness. Any time boundaries dissolve, reality and fantasy are one, or someone is intoxicated, hypnotized or duped, you can think: NEPTUNE.

Neptune was first discovered when movies were made, when the first image was projected onto a screen. Thus, the planet and its transits are connected to the notion of storing and displaying pictures…to create a vivid image on a screen. When Neptune transits a sign, it can tell us what vivid ideals, picturesque beliefs, and technicolor fantasies we are at once seeing, wanting to see, and pretending to see. More specifically, Neptune transits can give us a glimpse into what unrealistic expectations, unmet hopes, and (grotesque?) fantasies we’re projecting onto things like religious figures, pop culture personalities, and political leaders. Because it’s usually those figures onto whom we project our Neptunian longing for salvation.

Problem is, you can’t always trust what Neptune has you “seeing”, though. Because not every vision is a heaven-sent prophecy. Sometimes it’s just a bullshit lie that either you’ve concocted and tricked yourself into believing because you want it to to be true, or a fever dream someone else made up and convinced you is true. Sometimes, however, it’s an actual ideal and an actual dream that is worth believing in. So with each and every Neptune transit, we are tasked with the challenge of discerning between what is real and what is fantasy.

Neptune in Aries for the Collective

What might the fantasies and fever dreams of Neptune in Aries be? It takes Neptune around 165 years to move through the entire zodiac, and the last time the planet entered Aries was in 1861, the time of the Civil War. (To be technical about it, Neptune was still in that 29th degree of Pisces when the Civil War started, but anyway.) If we know anything about the U.S. Civil War, it’s that the conflict was centered on a few key things:

1. A clash of ideologies;

2. A yearning for independence;

3. A willingness (on both sides) to fight for their righteous beliefs.

Now, I don’t want you to think Neptune in Aries is going to be a horrendous transit or that it’s going to bring about the next Civil War, because I don’t necessarily think it is. (Tbh, we’re already in a minor “civil” war of political ideologies.) I also want to point out that in the Civil War, both the Union and the Confederacy believed they were fighting for the “right” thing; and in the end, despite the bloodshed and staggering loss of lives, American Democracy won. That said, I do think that Neptune in Aries is both a spiritual, ideological, and creative / cultural rebirth on a massive, sweeping scale. We are already seeing a clash of ideologies. America and other countries around the globe are already yearning for independence from tyranny. What we aren’t seeing as much of, but will likely see more of, is a collective willingness to take action (ie: fight) for ideals and independence.

Looking for MORE insight into the changes that Neptune in Aries might bring, I highly suggest grabbing my 20-minute Neptune in Aries Reading.

Beginning March 30, Neptune’s shift into Aries marks the death of the Victim Narrative. It’s a phoenix moment that lasts until 2039. The illusions, dissolutions and delirium that’s been sweeping through the collective is ending. These hallucinatory fever dreams won’t just vanish overnight, though; rather, more and more people are going to stop believing in them and start believing in something more inspiring. Because that’s how Neptune works: it hypnotizes the masses with a certain set of ideals, dissolving reality as they know it; then the masses get disenchanted with that reality, and start believing new ideals.