Part I is HERE.
Since I had to return to my Neptune into Aries post to make a correction (noted by a kind/eagle-eyed reader), it got me thinking about how I have been avoiding deciphering this transit too closely because of my own chart (Neptune going into my 6th as Pluto heads for my Sun/Saturn) and because figuring out Neptune (not really figure-outable even on a slow day) into Aries with so much else going on, well ... cue the exploding head emoji.
But, let's look at Neptune into Aries through another lens.
Neptune carries our past life/ancestral remembrances that are HIDDEN. He is the natural ruler of the collective 12th house - what we have done before/who we were before and sometimes WHAT WE DO LAST. We can't see our 12th houses from our natural perch in the 1st - the stuff back there is behind us. It contains what is unconscious, karmic, ancestral, pre-incarnational.
We can't see it, but we CARRY IT.
So, as Neptune leaves his home sign of Neptune and moves into Aries, the stuff that is behind us will be pulled into our perch in the 1st. Our 1st house is where we are embodied. It is about - our earliest life, our incarnation, our first breath, our action, fight/flight, assertion, masculinity/yang thrust.
This applies to us collectively, but it also applies to us personally even though these may not be the houses Neptune is actually moving through in our charts during this transit because astrology is SYMBOLIC, too.
(on the flip side, Neptune into Aries speaks of something I have been calling 'the great forgetting', similar to when we are incarnated, which can make the Neptune into Aries 'fresh start' smoother maybe, but also all of us more controllable - I think we would all rather be awake than asleep going into this)
Think about Neptune pulling 12th-house material over the Ascendent line. What is UNREMEMBERED (and can feel like it's not even ours) MOVES INTO OUR BODIES/physicality. Logic, and even intuition, will not be enough to work with this transit because our bodies will be reacting first.
It is very important for us to move our bodies and energy now, take care of our nervous systems (nature, breathwork, reading books instead of scrolling, limiting news to 15 minutes or less, tai-chi, mindfulness, whatever you find that works for you), get enough sleep, eat well/add extra vegetables. Avoid excess sugar, alcohol, drugs - which all cloud our system and we have the planet of 'cloudy' ie Neptune, on the move and in play.
Neptune who has been answering to himself (an outer planet that stays in the same sign for more than a decade) for more than a decade and to Saturn for a couple decades before that (a middle planet that stays in the same sign for a couple years) and to Jupiter for another decade before that (another middle planet that stays in the same sign for about a year), now starts answering to a PERSONAL planet - Mars, who changes signs every few weeks!
This is another HUGE change and signals the 'unremembered stuff' will be personal and activations and shifts will happen quickly. With Neptune moving from 12th house energies to 1st house energies - REACTION REPLACES CONSCIOUSNESS.
We need to know what space we are reacting from.
EXAMPLE - I will use my chart as an example here and this is more complex than I am going to make it, but generalities are still very helpful. I am a Scorpio rising, so Libra rules my 12th house (which remember is that stuff behind me that I can't see but I am still carrying) - with Libra here this is about past-life and ancestral survival alliances, marriages of necessity, loyalty contracts. This isn't the only karmic signature in my chart of course, but I can tell you this is a pretty important part of my and my family's story (I also had a past-life regression where this was clearly a storyline in multiple lives). So, I have Neptune moving from my 5th to 6th houses (Pisces to Aries houses), but I also have this symbolic handover of my 12th house 'baggage' into my 1st house of my body. We are going to look at the actual house changes when we talk about the Saturn/Neptune conjunction (the Pisces to Aries stuff by house), so I thought we would look at the 12th house to 1st house collective and symbolic personal transits before we get to that one.
Keep in mind for all of us Neptune doesn't disappear in Aries - he COMES TO LIFE. What used to be about devotion is going to be about discipline, especially when Saturn gets here and for the next couple years.
The goal for all of us is to be able to - SEPARATE OLD SURVIVAL FEARS FROM PRESENT REALITY. Our body is going to be reacting to some very old energetics. Now most, if not all of us, have had transits that have hit this stuff in the past, so it won't be totally new to us, but now more than ever it can be what 'sabotages' our strength, what distracts us from action or pushes us toward ineffective action, what activates fight/flight, illness, etc.
Bottom line here -12th house = ancestral survival FOOTPRINT. Neptune into Aries is pulling that imprint into our physical bodies and actions. Separating survival fears from our present reality is mega-important now. Practices to do this will need to be EMBODIED/physical and finite.
Let's take a look! Aries is the collective influence, so if you read nothing else just read that one - it applies to all of us.
It will help to know your Rising Sign for this one (you can also move your Sun to the ascendent and use your Sun sign, I always find that works, too - nothing is ever just one thing).
ARIES RISING | Pisces 12th house - ANCESTRAL MATERIAL is the raw collective energy, unresolved grief, forgotten lives, spiritual bypassing, unfinished endings. THIS IS THE COLLECTIVE INFLUENCE THAT APPLIES TO ALL OF US. How it shows up - inflammation, impulsive action, identity confusion, dreaming, exhaustion, illness, addictions, dissolving, spiritual bypassing, idealization, confusion. Practices - ritualized solitude, grief work with structure - grief needs permission/edges/AN ENDING - ie this happened, it mattered, it's over, spiritual practices with TIME LIMITS, releasing what was never yours to finish and finishing what is/clear endings, grounding practices, nature, walking, weighted blankets, warm baths, journaling. Separate survival fear from present reality. We will talk more about this one going forward.
TAURUS RISING | Aries 12th house - ANCESTRAL MATERIAL is survival identities, erased selves, bodies shaped by danger, inherited temperaments, ways of 'being someone' that kept you/the lineage alive. How it shows up - posture, tension, hypervigilance, confusion between desire and obligation, impulsive action followed by fatigue or regret. Practices - slow, weighted movement (walking, tai chi, resistance), dressing for comfort before appearance, naming needs out loud before acting, acting after your body agrees, let the impulse to fight reside in your body for 24 hours before acting on it if possible. You were brave/maybe needed to fight in your past lives/ancestry and you want to try and avoid re-enactment masquerading as courage now. And you want to avoid the flipside of this, too, where you are afraid to step up/be brave/stand up for yourself because of prior life endings when you did. Separate survival fear from present reality.
GEMINI Rising | Taurus 12th house - ANCESTRAL MATERIAL is about memories of scarcity, loss of land, wealth trauma, survival stories around money and resources, worth tied to labor or usefulness, overworking/over-anything leading to numbing. How it shows up - anxiety around money, hoarding or over-giving, compulsive earning/fear disguised as ambition. Practices - tracking energy and not just finances, applying values to decisions and understanding values cannot be lost/taken, eating regularly and well (no skipping), repeating meals, spending small amounts on pleasure without justification, repeating small pleasures/comforts. Separate survival fear from present reality.
CANCER Rising | Gemini 12th house - ANCESTRAL MATERIAL is family secrets, interrupted education, forbidden stories/silenced voices, forced stories, speaking or staying silent to stay safe. How it shows up - compulsive speaking or withholding, mental-looping/overthinking, feeling pressure to explain yourself/justify yourself, rehearsing or replaying conversations. Practices - writing privately with no audience, speaking one unfiltered truth per day, learn to distinguish between truth-telling and information dumping, leaving some messages unsent, say less mean more or if you are a natural withholder, open up more and when you feel the need to revisit what you said, do something else/move your body. Your goal is to say something once and not revisit it in your head later. Write it down. Burn it. Separate survival fear from present reality.
LEO Rising | Cancer 12th house - ANCESTRAL MATERIAL is displacement/exile/loss of home, unfinished grief, inherited emotions, loyalty through suffering, emotional labor. How it shows up - difficulty resting, guilt when comfortable, hyper-responsibility, physical body reactions to small home/family stress, gut reactions, grief without caretaking yourself ie performing resilience instead of allowing yourself to build it. Practices - creating a physically calming home space, establishing “no caretaking” zones/times, ending family interactions earlier than expected, feeling sadness without feeling the need to make it meaningful for others, resting and understanding that rest is not betrayal. Separate survival fear from present reality
VIRGO Rising | Leo 12th house - ANCESTRAL MATERIAL is old 'royalty'/punished radiance storylines around attention/being seen, entitlement, suppressed joy, forbidden pleasure, children forced into roles, happiness or love made conditional/dangerous, being seen led to envy/danger/loss. How it shows up - fear of visibility or invisibility, urgency to perform/have attention, ignoring the physical body. Practices - creativity with no product and no witnesses/no Facebook, letting children be bored or emotional without fixing, play and end pleasure before exhaustion, think - small joys/small sharing. Separate survival fear from present reality
LIBRA Rising | Virgo 12th house - ANCESTRAL MATERIAL is servitude, martyrdom, illness normalized, needing something to be perfect to feel safe. How it shows up - chronic fatigue, compulsive helping, ignoring your body, reflexive partnering patterns, moralized health maybe over-emphasis on being healthy/ordering in order to feel safe or the opposite of this. Practices - fixed sleep/wake times, finite work schedule/space, daily body maintenance, stretching/hydration, etc, clean up messes that feel overwhelming in small bites/steps. Separate survival fear from present reality
SCORPIO Rising | Libra 12th house - ANCESTRAL MATERIAL is survival through alliance, loyalty contracts, marriages/partnerships of necessity. How it shows up - over-accommodation, fear of conflict, blurred boundaries, keeping contracts/bonds alive longer than necessary. Practices - explicit agreements, practicing disagreement without repairing afterwards, allowing other people to be disappointed, choosing relationships consciously and not karmically, formal endings. Separate survival fear from present reality
SAGITTARIUS Rising | Scorpio 12th house - ANCESTRAL MATERIAL is violence, secrecy, taboo subjects, inherited trauma/power/loss of power, survival/trauma bonding. How it shows up - intensity around intimacy, control, sex, money, or crisis, attraction to crisis, boundary confusion, trauma curiosity. Practices - clear financial and emotional contracts, sexual boundaries rooted in safety, you can still go deep sometimes but have healthy limits, no crisis as teacher. Separate survival fear from present reality
CAPRICORN Rising | Sagittarius 12th house - ANCESTRAL MATERIAL is imposed belief systems, religious vows, missionary wounds, spiritual conquest, exile. How it shows up - rigid views, evangelizing, crisis of faith, mistaking inherited doctrine for truth. Practices - studying without teaching, traveling slowly or symbolically, allowing questions to go unanswered, learning that strong views does not equal safety/security - allow yourself some flexibility, loosen up. Separate survival fear from present reality
AQUARIUS Rising | Capricorn 12th house - ANCESTRAL MATERIAL is burdened leadership, harsh winter type lifetimes, over-responsibility, reputation over wellbeing. How it shows up - over functioning, identity tied to role/career/reputation, fear of stepping back, carrying roles meant for your ancestors and not you. Practices - delegation, mentorship instead of management, redefining success, authority rooted in integrity and not sacrifice, allow grief for missed-youth/missed softness, practice being unproductive in front of others, authority without self-erasure. Separate survival fear from present reality
PISCES Rising | Aquarius 12th house - ANCESTRAL MATERIAL is collective survival trauma, interrupted revolutions, group destructive events, ideological pressure, lost futures, collective movements. How it shows up - burnout, loss of individuality, moral rigidity, losing yourself within an ideology/group, identifying yourself by what you resist. Practice - having a small consistent group of people, time-limited collective involvement with periodic scheduled withdrawals, belonging without self-erasure, having private values separate from public stance. Separate survival fear from present reality
So, Neptune brings this ANCESTRAL MATERIAL to our awareness. The veil here is already thin and we have crossed this line before, so this is certainly stuff we are already aware of. This is a gift from the past we didn't know we needed/wanted. We are already working with this, but Neptune pulling 12th house material into our fiery first house - WAKES IT UP. It can also impact our physical bodies and make us more prone to act from ancestral alarm and not our actual real present reality. Saturn is going to come along (pretty quickly) and help us tell the difference - what we are housing/evolving/ending.
Sometimes we are just carrying this stuff for the next generation (or our own next iteration) to work with ...
Collectively the 12th house is a space that carries a lot of GRIEF and grief does not need to be limitless to be honored. What it needs is form so it doesn’t show up as fate. Our goal is not to purge this ancestral material (although sometimes it is), but to stop mistaking it for present instruction and getting lost in it.
And keep in mind Neptune isn't sensible. This will all be pulled through confusion, exhaustion and grief without a clear reason and even the feeling of "I don't know who I am without this pattern.". So, we need to let ourselves not know yet. We aren't going crazy. THIS IS NORMAL. Unprecedented, yes, but normal for the energy patterns ...
As always, I hope something here is helpful.
And, of course, since we can't see what is coming it could be this entire post becomes quite useless because so much might be forgotten over the next few weeks, months and years .... I do think though there are great gifts in the things we carry, even sometimes the things that look at first like curses and even the things we can't remember ...
xo all
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