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Neptune ✧

Welcome to my page dedicated to Neptune! Here you will find information about Neptune in a planetary magic sense, along with their Orphic Hymn.

Disclaimer: The notes on this page are an amalgation of notes from books and blogs, some of which are straight up copy/pasted without proper citation. Sources are listed at the bottom of each page. Information may or may not be accurate.
Neptune goes through all of the signs approximately every 59,800 days (~163.8 years), spending approximately 14 years in each sign.

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NASA image of Neptune

Neptune Keyword Correspondences and Associations

In 1795, a man named Lalande discovered Neptune, but thought it was a star so gave it no significance. As such, Neptune deceived him and thus tricked him out of officially discovering the planet. Later, astronomers noticed that something was disturbing Uranus’s orbit and it was in 1846 that Neptune was finally fully discovered. Neptune was only found because of its effect on Uranus, similar to how Neptune only comes to our attention when there is disintegration in our armors. This comes through as illusions and psychic disturbances.

Neptune is the planet of consciousness itself, not the contents of consciousness, not wisdom, not philosophy. Just the blank slate of consciousness. This gives way to its inspirational, dreamy, and addictive nature. Its nature is to dissolve whatever it touches – not in a radically destructive way, but very subtly, like water gradually eroding a rock.

In the decades following the discovery of Neptune, art went through its Romanticism movement, spiritualism rose with the first wave of great Hindu and Buddhist teachers, and there was a radical increase in social awareness in terms of poverty, the rights of women, child labor, and slavery. “Like never before, mystical Neptunian philosophies and compassionate idealism took hold of the popular mind. As a species, humanity was ready to discover Neptune” (Inner Sky).

The negative aspects of Neptune include confusion, laziness, daydreaming, spaciness, escapism, drifting, drug and alcohol dependence, poor reality testing, and glamorous delusions.

NASA closeup image of Neptune

Neptune in the Chart

If you meet someone whose natal Neptune connects with a personal planet in your chart, they may inspire romantic or mystical feelings in you. However, Neptune produces confusion and idealistic yearnings, so you probably won’t be able to see this person clearly.

The Neptunian Symbol

planetary symbol for neptune

The symbol for Neptune is a cross representing the Earth with a crescent representing the Moon through the top of the cross. This signifies that the elemental balance is influenced by the tidal nature of the moon. Another interpretation of this symbol could be where the sea meets the coast.

Neptunian Magic

Neptune submerges, softens, or conceals what it touches.

Neptune can aid in psychic work and divination, strengthening your intuitive abilities, your sensitivity to other people, and your connection with nonphysical worlds. It also plays a key role in dreamwork and can help you gain insight from your dreams. The biggest challenge when working with Neptune’s energy is interpreting your visions and impressions clearly, since Neptune’s influence can produce illusions and confusion.

Like the other outer planets, Neptune functions on a transpersonal level and is concerned with universal conditions rather than individual ones. Its energy can help you become more creative, enhance your intuition, and enable you to access the spiritual realms. Because Neptune’s influence is so elusive, it is very difficult to direct or control, sometimes resulting in delusions or self-destructive attitudes and behavior.

We can call on Neptune’s energies to helps us connect with our true dark self (flaws and all) through shadow work, dream work, divination, and working with spirits. It can also be called on to heal and calm the darkest places by allowing us to come to terms with the reality of what is there.

Neptune will help to expand your mind and decipher your dreams.

Ways to Connect with Neptune

  • Use botanicals associated with Neptune, such as jasmine, cannabis, mugwort, or pine
  • Add gemstones associated with Neptune to talismans, such as rutile quartz, angel aura quartz, amethyst, blue goldstone, or aquamarine
  • Carve the astrological symbol for Neptune on a gray, blue, white, or black colored candle and burn it in a spell
  • Draw the symbol on paper and put it in a talisman
  • Divine with water or the sea/ocean
  • Do spells on a Monday (check for retrogrades!)
  • Light incense with a scent associated to Neptune, such as jasmine, orange blossom, or water lily
  • Take a ritual bath
  • Concoct a magical potion
  • Incorporate music into a spell or ritual
  • Dowsing with a pendulum
  • Do shadow work

Orphic Hymn 16: To Neptune [Poseidon]

Hear, Neptune [Poseidon], ruler of the sea profound, whose liquid grasp begirts the solid ground;
Who, at the bottom of the stormy main, dark and deep-bosom'd, hold'st thy wat'ry reign;
Thy awful hand the brazen trident bears, and ocean's utmost bound, thy will reveres:
Thee I invoke, whose steeds the foam divide, from whose dark locks the briny waters glide;
Whose voice loud founding thro' the roaring deep, drives all its billows, in a raging heap;
When fiercely riding thro' the boiling sea, thy hoarse command the trembling waves obey.
Earth shaking, dark-hair'd God, the liquid plains (the third division) Fate to thee ordains,
'Tis thine, cærulian dæmon, to survey well pleas'd the monsters of the ocean play,
Confirm earth's basis, and with prosp'rous gales waft ships along, and swell the spacious sails;
Add gentle Peace, and fair-hair'd Health beside, and pour abundance in a blameless tide.

Neptune Facts

  • Neptune is the eighth and final planet from the Sun in our solar system.
  • Neptune is the only planet in the solar system to be found using math.
  • A Neptunian year is almost 165 Earth years.
  • Neptune undergoes differential rotation, with some parts of its atmosphere rotating in about 12 hours while others rotate in about 16.
  • Neptune’s rings are named after astronomers who made important discoveries about the planet.
  • The Kuiper Belt, a circumstellar disc of small icy/rocky bodies beyond the planets, is highly affected by Neptune’s orbit.
  • Neptune has the strongest sustained winds of any planet in the solar system.
NASA closeup image of Neptune

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Page last updated: March 25, 2026