Neptune Direct in Pisces 2025: Dissolution and Surrender

Neptune in Pisces: Dissolving the Walls Around our Hearts

Named after the mythological God of the Ocean, Neptune in Astrology is associated with the collective unconscious, the collective emotional body, and the place where our Souls come from and will return. The modern ruler of Pisces is connected to all those forces beyond our control and comprehension that were here before we incarnated and will remain here when we are gone.

Neptune’s essence cannot be grasped with the linear and rational mind, nor can it be clearly defined: it is too vast to be confined by definitions and too subtle to be explained. It has to be felt through music, art, and dance, and through those spiritual experiences that open us up to a connection with something much greater than ourselves.

In Pisces, Neptune teaches us to surrender, to soften our grip, and to let go of the persona we have been conditioned to cling to. In his highest expression, this transit can dissolve the walls around our hearts. However, a distorted relationship with these energies can result in losing touch with the ground: illusions, grandiosity, spiritual inflation, bypassing, escapism, and avoidance become substitutes for authentic transcendence and surrender. Neptune transits always require us to sharpen our discernment.

Neptune’s recent retrograde in Pisces: Releasing Illusions

When Neptune is retrograde, the veil becomes thinner, illusions are uncovered, and what is True in an absolute sense is revealed. Neptune has been retrograde since July 4, 2025. This retrograde started in Aries, with the powerful invitation to align our personal will and desires with the Divine will and Life’s plans for us.

On October 22, Neptune retrograded back into Pisces, inviting us to face something we might have been avoiding, pointing at where we may have been caught in idealism, escapism, ungrounded fantasies, or spiritual bypassing. Neptune’s final retrograde through his home sign asked us to allow the dissolution of what’s meant to end and invited us to release the old to allow a new chapter to begin. This transit challenged us to stay in the space of not knowing without rushing to fill it or make sense of the process.

Neptune direct at 29º of Pisces: Between the Old and the New

When planets station direct after a retrograde, they slowly come to a standstill before changing their direction of motion, and, as they do so, they are closer to the Earth. For this reason, their energy is felt more intensely. Neptune’s energy is palpable these days: it is front and center. This may cloud our clarity, distort our conscious perceptions, open the door to altered states of consciousness, and facilitate access to a deeper psychic and emotional sensitivity: it all depends on our personal relationship with Neptune, with surrender, with the Divine, and on the moment of life we are in.

Neptune remains on the final degree of the entire Zodiac wheel for the entirety of his final months through Pisces. The final degree of the Zodiac is a point of extremes, of both crises and opportunities, of closure and surrender, and of impending change, renewal, and rebirth.

This is a potent indicator of the liminal and transitional nature of the times we are in. The symbolism clearly speaks about closing doors, moving away from the known, and completing a cycle. Something is coming full circle, something may start to become clear, change is already happening, but the way it is unfolding may not quite yet be obvious. This is the feeling the end of this transit brings.

Moreover, Saturn is still in Pisces too: before the Saturn-Neptune conjunction happening at 0º Aries on February 20, 2026, the two planets will still be completing their current synodic cycle. This contributes to the feeling of liminality we are experiencing, the significance of endings, and the sensation that, if we try to start something new, things don’t move forward so easily.

Neptune direct in Pisces: Dissolution and Surrender

As Neptune stations direct in Pisces, beginning the final phase of his journey through the sign, it is a powerful time to reflect on how we have changed since the beginning of this transit in 2011-2012. A lot undoubtedly changes in 14 years, but we are about to complete a major collective and personal evolutionary journey that has to do with our relationship with the Divine, spirituality, religion, faith, and the ability to surrender to and trust higher, mysterious forces.

Neptune’s final weeks in Pisces are an opportunity to acknowledge how our relationship with the mystery has changed, honor how we inwardly transformed, and celebrate those subtle yet profound shifts that aren’t visible to the outside world.

The very final weeks of this transit are a potent opportunity to wrap up unfinished business and honor the end of the 14-year cycle that is coming to a close. We have chances to access a deeper understanding of the true meaning of the entire transit of Neptune through Pisces, both as a collective and as individuals, and to step into the new evolutionary cycle from a place of deeper trust, faith, and awareness.

The portals of 2026 are opening, and the path ahead is glowing with new possibility. Step into the energies, lessons, and soul-aligned transformations this new year is preparing for you. Your 2026 Horoscope is now ready here.