These are the last few weeks of a transit we won’t see again in our lifetimes. Neptune in Pisces, the wateriest planet in the wateriest sign, is dribbling to a close. It won’t be back for 168 years.
Before it says goodbye, Neptune in Pisces stations direct on 12/10. After that, all astro eyes will be on its re-entry into Aries in late January, heading straight towards its storied conjunction with Saturn. That milestone transit perfects — is exact to the minute of arc — in February (see this webinar for a deep dive into the transit’s spiritual significance.)
Meanwhile, let us lay a seashell on the altar of Neptune in Pisces, honoring it with a fond last look.
Computer in the pocket
Can you remember what life was like before the transit began?
Neptune was in Aquarius (1998-2011), the sign of technology. This was when our computers shrank and jumped from our desks into our pockets. The iphone emerged, and the masses (Neptune) got portable internet.
Back then, the general feeling about Silicon Valley (Aquarius) was almost utopian (Neptune). The tech lads were geniuses who would usher us into a fully democratized, globally-connected future.
Then came Neptune in Pisces.
A transit in youth and age
Astrological cycles are the same as any other cycle. When a planet first bursts into a sign, the sign is in its glory. When the transit fades out, the sign’s original vision ebbs, and decay sets in.
By the time Neptune got to the end of Aquarius, that sign’s highest values — rationality, accuracy, individualism — were in short supply across the media landscape. The tech bros were no longer young iconoclasts. They were middle-aged billionaires, lobbying in Washington for power and profits.
Neptune in Pisces (2011-2026) took over from there. At first, it inspired a magical expectation (Pisces) of global community. Imagine: people could now reach millions of other people with the tap of a finger. Neptune, that great dissolver of barriers, gave us social media, Skype and Zoom, which dissolved boundaries of time and geography.
Pisces in its dotage
The downside of Neptune, and Pisces, the sign it governs, is chaos. As the transit draws to a close, we’re drowning in an internet whose contents are frenzied, unregulated, unboundaried. The online ecosphere is inundated by monetized slop (Pisces). As Frederick Woodruff puts it, once Pisces lost its vision
…everything went into a blob. The glue that held the collective vision in place fragmented and turned to vapor or mush.
Before Neptune leaves Pisces behind, consider its original vision. This is the moment to remember the inspiration at its core. What was the cosmos trying to teach us, these past 15 years?
What were the teachings of this period for you, personally? What are you meant to be understanding right now? Check the house of your natal chart featuring the 
last degrees of Pisces.
The Solstice
At the Full Moon (12/4), ask yourself what meaning (Sagittarius) you derive from the glut of information available every minute of every day (Gemini). This question will start to occupy your mind when Mercury enters Sagittarius (12/11).
At the New Moon (12/19) in late Sagittarius, you may become aware of a hunger nagging at you: a hunger for a larger perspective on your life, and on life in general.
Let this hunger inspire a san kalpa — a soul vow — to inaugurate a healthier relationship with the ecosphere. A mature give-and-take with that little information machine in your pocket. Plant the seed, now, to make the phone your tool rather than your master.
Two days later, pump this desire full of the power of the Solstice (12/21), one of the most auspicious milestones of the year. The Sun — and then Venus (12/24) — in Capricorn (practicality, implementation) support doing something about our fervent intentions, not just thinking about them.
We get to practice what our mind has preached.
