Sun Squares Neptune: Mythos, Magic, and Mystery

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today we are going to be taking a look at the Sun's upcoming square to Neptune, which is perfecting over the weekend. Interestingly enough, it's happening around Father's Day, which is interesting considering that the Sun square Neptune is often indicative of karma around father's.

So we'll talk about that; kind of interesting as a side note, but here are five things to watch for with the Sun square Neptune today, preparing you for that transit over the weekend. It's a quick transit, but it's one that will still it should show up, and for most people being familiar with the archetypal themes is going to be helpful. So that is our goal for today.

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Okay, well, let's, first of all, take a look at the real-time clock. Today's gonna be short and sweet; just trying to make sure we cover Sun-Neptune before the weekend hits. So here we are on Friday, June 16, and you can see the transit perfecting right here; the Sun is at 25 Gemini, Neptune at 27 Pisces. So we're going to take this and push it forward two days, and when we look at Sunday, June 18, we see that the Sun is in Gemini square Neptune in the sign of Pisces, that will be fading all the way until about Wednesday, June 21.

So, in particular, we also have this transit in the engagement range as the summer solstice comes through; it's kind of interesting. So a big transitional moment for the Sun happening right as it comes off from the square to Neptune. So the square is June 18, Sunday, that we see the actual square coming through, but then you'll experience that the 19th and 20th into the early part of next week.

So we are preparing ourselves now because the transit is just about two degrees off, which means it's in the engagement range on the applying side. So you should be feeling this already potentially, if not all the way through Tuesday; it is sort of in the air. So with that in mind, I want to talk about five very basic things to watch for when the Sun is square to Neptune. Sort of short and sweet today. But I think that these five ought to prepare you and help you notice the transit passing through. Again, I don't rank them like number one or 5, or 4. I don't go in any special order. I just these are just my notes that are there to help people out there who have expressed over the years that it's really helpful to see the main points that I make listed.

So number one, when the Sun squares Neptune or opposes Neptune or conjoins Neptune, really any combination, you will see this mythic combination generate the idea or the feeling or the need for life to be heroic to be lived as a hero's journey as like Joseph Campbell would say, or that there is a mythological or almost literary dimension to life that life becomes sort of operatic or cinematic or it becomes like a novel or a great play, or a great song or something like that.

When the Sun which generally represents ambition, life, direction, action, or a sense of purpose, all things that were associated with the Sun going back several 1000 years in ancient astrology. When they contact Neptune, this great otherworldly, imaginative, romantic, archetypal field, they tend to generate the feeling that our life journey is heroic, is epic, is mythic, romantic, or poetic in some way.

Now, when that happens, for a lot of us, we will experience that as inspiring, especially when life has gotten uninspiring, or we have lost that sense of being on a path that Neptune Sun transits come around, and it's as if there's a little magic or sparkle or synchronicities that line up and just remind us you are on a magical adventure. You are on a hero's journey. Your life is mythological; you know, there are patterns and themes shaping your life. Your life is like a psychedelic mandala.

Those kinds of experiences that, you know, we go through cycles of remembering these truths and then forgetting them. I love when Sun Neptune transits come around because there's often a good chance that I will remember that life is this beautiful, mystical journey, and all of the cliches about life as a journey seem to be amplified and empowering when the Sun squares Neptune, and so it is one of my favorite qualities about the Sun square Neptune or Sun opposite Neptune or whatever because we can lose touch with those things.

When we're in touch with those things, we get the feeling that even the smallest things are part of the biggest things, and therefore life just takes on this. There's a romantic feeling that comes with it, and we need that we need it's like; it's like drawing water from a well; if you don't have that, life doesn't feel very good. Sun-Neptune can infuse within us the feeling that I am here for purposes bigger than what my mind can comprehend, and I just have to trust and go with it.

Or it can give you a very specific sense of calling and purpose that stands out as though, you know, the fog has lifted, and you're on the sea, and you're able to see the stars and start navigating again. So I love the Sun-Neptune for the returning sense of our life's mission or purpose or the clarifying of it, or just the mystical, magical reminder that life is heroic and mythological.

Now, number two is mystery and magic, and I used that word mystery just a minute ago here, but I want to reiterate it and say something a little bit different now. The Sun square Neptune is also about the way in which meaning evades us sometimes in life, you're walking along the path of life, so to speak, and you can only see a couple of feet in front of you, and you're on a trail, you know you're on a trail, you have to walk slowly, and you have to just trust even though there's thick fog, and you can only see the next couple of feet in front of you. You have to trust that it's gonna be okay; just take the next step, just take the next step, and eventually, that fog will clear, and you'll be able to see the bigger picture.

There's a very mysterious and magical sense that we get when the Sun and Neptune come together that we're walking through the fog. But this fog is there for a very mysterious and magical reason to confound and confuse. Not out of any maliciousness but so that we stay very present. Because then what happens is, all of a sudden, when the fog lifts, we see where we've been and why we haven't been able to see our surroundings maybe, or we start to remember that we've been okay, our faith returns.

The fog and the sense of mystery goes right along with the sense of magic that life is magical because, for long stretches of time, you can't see what's going on, and there's a pervasive sense of life being mysterious and uncertain and that every step is sort of tentative. Then, all of a sudden, magical things happen, and they give you that faith and confidence, and you can see the path for a little ways ahead of you again, and then it gets shrouded all over.

So we are always living this alternation between clarity and, you know, things that sort of confound or cloud our path and our sense of why we're here and what we're doing, and you could talk about magic as that relationship between cloudiness and clarity and the funny intelligence of the universe that is weaving clarity and confusion together back and forth in the human soul and their very Sun-Neptune like.

That dynamic can be described as significant; when people have Neptune transiting their natal Sun in a hard aspect square opposition conjunction, people will go through periods of time where they feel like they have no idea what their life calling or purpose is. They're just sort of feeling their way through the darkness, and then all of a sudden, the magic returns.

So when people have the Neptune to Sun transit in their chart, then suddenly they'll meet someone, and they'll have an experience; a synchronicity will occur of some kind, and all of a sudden, it's like, oh, this is why this is where it's been going. So that kind of alternation, mystery magic, confusion, uncertainty, the weaving together of those elements is very Sun-Neptune.

Number three memorializing or worshipping of solar figures. So, a solar figure could be a father; it could be a celebrity; it could be a leader; it could be a politician. It could be like a military general or something. So anyone that stands out as a king or a queen, or a famous person or a leader or often a paternal image like a father, that they will often die under Sun or Neptune Sun or Uranus aspects to the Sun. A major outer planetary transits, especially Neptune and Pluto to the Sun, can be about the death or passing away the leaving of the soul from the body with respect to solar figures like fathers or, you know, famous people.

Sun can be just fame in general; famous people. With Neptune, especially, there's remembrance and memorialization like a shrine or a parade or some big demonstration of remembering and sort of memorializing so that something lives on forever. So, the act of memorialization is very Sun Neptune, as is the worshipping of solar figures, which could be gods or, you know, religious activities or ceremonies or literal worship of the Sun, for example, or even anything that celebrates adores or elevates and sort of, you know, places up on high up on a pedestal, some kind of solar figure this would all be Sun-Neptune as well as the tendency of the ego to do this to itself or to others, as in the worship of a guru, whether they're deserving or not. Or delusions of grandeur can be a very Sun-Neptune dynamic as well.

Number four would be confusion wandering, and directionless. So one of the things that can happen, and you know, I've painted a really positive picture so far about the confusion and the way that it's woven together with magic and clarifying things and taking you from a period of wandering into a period of inspiration or something like that.

There is also, unfortunately, just the confusion, the wandering, the directionless; for example, Sun-Neptune could be about someone, you know, drowning their sorrows and alcohol; it could be about trying to escape an uncomfortable reality; Sun-Neptune can indicate suicide, or, you know, like a dark night of the soul where you're lost. So there's a real heavy dark side to this, where it's like the light is gone, and I'm wandering in the dark, and that can be pretty heavy.

So the confusion, the wandering, the sense of being without direction, the feeling of being lost, or being overwhelmed of losing the light. There's a scene in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which is one of the CS Lewis books that I love. I love all of them. That book, in particular, was written with the astrological and alchemical symbolism of the Sun, like baked into the book. If you ever want to read about that, check out the book Planet Narnia by Michael Ward, who's an Oxford Lewis scholar who basically proved that the seven Chronicles of Narnia we're each embedded with the symbolism of one of the seven traditional medieval astrological planets.

So, at any rate, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the Sun book, and there's a piece of that adventure where the kids have to sail through like pitch black, they can't see anything. You know, it's like a little bit of a dark night of the soul for the kids; it can be like that Sun-Neptune can be like that, you have to have some kind of irrational faith to move through periods where it's dark, and you can't see.

So this can conjure up feelings of being lost and of holding to face when there's really no reason. There's nothing you can see or nothing there to affirm, you know. So that can be a dark part of it but a really, you know, thankfully, the transits pretty brief. If you go through something like that, you know, the main thing is, in my experience, be careful what you use to try to escape rather than staying present to the difficulty of the moment.
Sometimes you try to escape, and you're trying to medicate, and it ends up making things worse.

Number five is a timeless wisdom. Now the Sun was associated with the light of truth and wisdom. It was the planet that rejoiced in the ninth house, which was called God. The ninth house was associated with higher wisdom. The Sun rejoiced in that house, and it was also associated with the divine voice of intelligence that came from the Oracles. So the Sun god Apollo is associated with Oracle's, the oracular intelligence, it's not like the Sun has the market cornered on oracular or higher wisdom, but the Sun was one of the emblems of the light of like the illuminating light of wisdom.

So when the Sun hits Neptune, there can be this. First of all, you can get the false guru thing where people are presenting you with knowledge or wisdom that is somehow false or phony, like a charlatan type of wisdom. That would be a dark side. But on the positive side, those experiences, like you're meditating, and it says, though, in your mind, the clouds break open, and a ray of light comes through, and there's just something you understand. That's very Sun Neptune.

The Sun-Neptune experience grants this kind of subtle, all sorts of enveloping sense of understanding or peace or serenity and sort of wisdom simultaneously, so it can be a great transit for, even if it's a small thing grasping and understanding something with the higher mind.

So anyway, these, to me, are the most beautiful and simplest ways of preparing ourselves for Neptune square the Sun. Interesting that it's coming on Father's Day; the karma around fathers can be quite strong this Father's Day because of that Sun-Neptune square; also a great time to memorialize and celebrate those things that are good about our fathers.

If you had fathers where there was a lot of pain, there's a lot of grief, you didn't have a great dad, or you didn't have a dad at all. You know, I have my own story with my dad; I wrote a book about the story with my dad and my grandfather and so forth. Sometimes there, you can just take a moment on such a day to let go at a deeper level or to do a little healing for yourself, to do some affirming of where you've been. Sometimes it helps to say whatever I got that was good, and maybe I don't even know what that is. Thank you because I'm going to release the rest of all that wasn't good and say thank you for even the little shreds of good that I did receive if you grew up in a situation where dad didn't have much to give that was positive.

So anyway, you know how to take care of yourself, and I trust that you will utilize this energy very nicely over the weekend. Can't wait to read your comments in the comment section and hear your own reflections and wisdom about the Sun and Neptune. So that is it for today. I hope you guys have a great weekend, and we'll see you again next week. Bye.