Farewell to Neptune in Pisces
Neptune is about to wrap up its 14-year stay in Pisces soon on March 30th and enter Aries for the next 14 years.*
Neptune’s passage through Pisces has been complicated. It’s inspired artistic expression, emotional healing, and spiritual awakening. It has also cast a thick fog over us, ramping up escapism, spiritual bypassing, and delusional thinking.
Neptune is the planet of spirituality, the subconscious and dreams. For the last 14 years, it’s felt at home in the mystical and ethereal Pisces. Together they have honed in on healing, the intuitive arts, and spiritual growth.
During this time, we’ve seen the popularization of health and wellness, and all things woo. While this has been immensely helpful in some ways, there has also been the shadow side of this planetary transit that amplified collective harm in irreparable ways.
Neptune and Pisces together have blurred the lines between reality and fantasy, leading us towards escapism- mirroring anything from addictive behaviours to unrealistic fantasies and straight-up avoidance of the issues we need to face (whether it be personal or collective).
This escapism has partly helped some of us seek refuge from uncomfortable truths, bringing temporary relief through a false sense of comfort. At their extreme though, some of these avoidant tendencies have led to fantastical narratives and conspiracy theories that have distorted reality to the point of harm.
We saw this reach wild levels during the pandemic with the rise of misinformation regarding c-vid and the anti-vxx movement. While it’s understandable to be critical of our societal institutions and call-out systemic corruption, it’s an entirely different thing to mistrust everything, even if the facts show otherwise.
But this is the thing about Neptune in Pisces, it has made truth subjective. There are no longer the necessary boundaries that keep truthful information intact. Trained and learned professionals are no longer trusted while influencers have become expert sources. Anyone can now hold expertise on topics that require diligent study, especially in the realm of health and wellness. There is no accountability regarding the information being shared, and on who is sharing it.
This breakdown of trust in the information we receive, and by those we receive it from, this continual questioning to the point of paranoia, has also been exacerbated by the intentional spread of propaganda. Neptune in Pisces has played a major role in the current psychological warfare we are experiencing, making it hard to know what and whom to trust anymore. Which in turn, has led to the rise of false prophets, phony healers, grifters, and self-interested leaders.
Not all info is to be trusted- especially by those self-proclaiming expert status or manipulating us into following their version of “truth.” And while it’s easy to point fingers at institutions and the system, it’s been harder to do the same with regular folks, those who use their charisma and savvy words to sell you their narrative. This could be anyone from your favourite wellness “guru,” a religious leader, social media influencer, or a neighbor down the street.
Back in April of 2022, Jupiter conjoined Neptune, marking the beginning of the peaking point of this chaos-inducing transit. And here we are now. With the election of the Orange Man, and the scary circus that is the current U.S. administration, we are amidst a whirlwind of confusion. Things feel upside down and downright unreal.
And while Pluto in Capricorn showed us the truth of our systems and structures, Neptune in Pisces led many of us down an illusory path. But now with its ending, we will soon find ourselves amidst the harshest of reality checks. Neptune in Aries will prove to be quite a different moment for us collectively. Stay tuned for more on it soon.
Neptune is now in its crucial, final (anaretic) 29th degree. We shall see what the rest of this March holds for us, given Neptune’s opposition to the Lunar Eclipse on the 14th, as well as its conjunction to both Mercury and Venus Retrogrades on March 27th and 29th.
This is a pivotal moment when each of us is being asked to lean into truth and facts from a heart-centered and grounded place. This is not an easy ask right now, but it’s a necessary one. It requires self-awareness of our personal shadows and our collective ones. It needs the type of pause and reflection that this fast-paced world of ours doesn’t encourage. It means being curious, allowing for multiple truths, and moving away from binary thinking. It means consciously engaging with the world around us, grounding our dreams in reality and seeking constructive ways to address our personal and collective challenges. It means cultivating open dialogue, embracing accountability, and promoting emotional resilience.
In these uncertain times, may we balance the ethereal with the tangible, may we lean into practical magic, and make our way forth with clarity and intention.
xo
Shadi
*Neptune’s retrograde brings it back into Pisces for a short stint from Oct 22 to Jan 26, 2026.