Neptune Retrograde, 2024: What It Means & How It’s Helping You Heal
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repare to adjust your awareness and awaken to a higher truth. Neptune – our divine ruler of dreams, intuition, imagination, and transcendence – is retrograde from July 2 to December 7, 2024. During Neptune’s 5-month-long retreat through its modern ruling planet, Pisces, everything we overlooked or buried in the shadows of our collective unconscious comes into the light. Guiding us out of the mist of self-deception, Neptune retrograde reveals the true impact of our misguidance, addictive patterns, and denial. Additional karmic pressures from Saturn retrograde coincide with this transition, delivering sobering lessons that force us to grow, heal, and mature through realizations and uncomfortable reality checks.
What Happens During Neptune Retrograde?
Neptune retrograde is an annual cosmic event when we observe from Earth the illusion of Neptune moving backward in its orbit. This retrograde is unique due to Neptune’s naturally reflective, introspective, and soulful frequency. Rather than stirring up confusion – like Mercury retrograde often does – Neptune retrograde calls you to develop your conscious awareness. Through presence and mindful practices, you will realize where you lacked discernment, clarity, and a deeper connection to truth.
What Is Our Collective Mission?
As an outer planet, Neptune’s celestial influence is most impactful on the collective rather than the individual. Neptune calls us to restore our anchor and awaken to the true impact of decisions that do not serve our highest global interests. During this retrograde, we must acknowledge how we have sugarcoated extreme societal problems and justified our own inaction (or poor decisions). We can no longer neglect our mission to elevate this world we inhabit by placing our fate in untrustworthy hands. Repairing our connection with nature and the divine will enable us to see the truth beyond the illusions of what we are taught, programmed, and conditioned to believe.
Planet Neptune is named for the God of the sea (Poseidon). Pictured: The Apotheosis of Hercules painted by Francois Lemoyne (1733)
How Can I Heal Through This Process?
You are part of the collective. The energy and intention you pour into healing and realignment are not separate from what’s external. Serve yourself and the world through Neptune retrograde by working on your inner self and purifying the energy you send into the atmosphere. In tune with the Ajna Chakra, Neptune retrograde asks you to bring your 6th energy center into harmony through conscious healing practice. Decipher the truth from illusions by going deeper into the oceanic waters of your unconscious mind. Consider where you have immersed yourself in denial or a dreamlike and avoidant state to avoid harsh realities.
When you connect to your power and center to establish your identity, you break the habit of getting swept up in social trends or patterns of idolization, idealism, and worship. Clear the mist that clouds your vision and perception by welcoming the painful but necessary process of disillusionment. Sift through the intuitive downloads and informational overloads that have contributed to your restlessness and anxiety. Realize how labeling yourself an empath can cause you to excuse your dissolving boundaries. Commit to fully being yourself rather than adopting a spiritual persona and trying to act like an enlightened being.
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