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Neptune Retrograde

Dates and interpretations 2010–2038

Neptune is direct. The next retrograde begins in 94 days, on 7 July 2026, in Aries.

Neptune retrogrades once each year, spending about five to six months in reverse.

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7 Jul – 12 December 2026Aries4°–1°

Illusions about personal strength and independent will are being quietly dissolved. What seemed like clarity about your own direction may prove less certain. The idealisation of self-assertion and heroic action comes under gentle but persistent pressure.

9 Jul – 15 December 2027Aries6°–3°
11 Jul – 16 December 2028Aries8°–6°
14 Jul – 19 December 2029Aries11°–8°
16 Jul – 21 December 2030Aries13°–10°
19 Jul – 24 December 2031Aries15°–12°
20 Jul – 25 December 2032Aries17°–15°
23 Jul – 28 December 2033Aries20°–17°
25 Jul – 30 December 2034Aries22°–19°
28 Jul 2035 – 2 January 2036Aries24°–21°
30 Jul 2036 – 3 January 2037Aries26°–24°
1 Aug 2037 – 6 January 2038Aries29°–26°

In traditional astrology, Neptune governs illusion, idealisation, spiritual longing, and the dissolution of clear boundaries. It covers confusion, escapism, and the ways in which reality is obscured by what we wish were true. When Neptune is retrograde, the illusions built up during the direct phase become slightly easier to see for what they are.

Neptune retrograde does not produce sudden clarity. The process is gradual. What it tends to bring is a period where the confusion is marginally less dense, and where disillusionment — when it comes — arrives more quietly than dramatically. Areas of life where self-deception had accumulated become harder to avoid.

Neptune retrogrades once a year, spending about five to six months in reverse. The sign it occupies for its fourteen-year transit shapes which domain of life is undergoing the longest-running cycle of dissolution and idealisation.

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