Neptune transits to you natal Saturn are usually a difficult and confusing, depressing or desperate time. You see the world differently, and sometimes not quite correctly, since you’re not able to determine what is your role or responsibility.
The reality and the meaning of your life suffers a considerable disruption to see if it is spiritually valid or to test whether or not you can keep your feet on the ground. You may evade everything practical and solid. You can even give up everything you have to follow a spiritual ideal.
All the problems arise within your mind, which can cause you to be ineffective and have illusions or vagueness about your daily reality. These transits dissolve old concepts, revealing a different reality that you had not considered before. Everything may happen internally and, unless another transit joins it, there is no indication that there are external events that provoke us in this way.
These are extremely good times to open up to the psychic, spiritual and hidden world, but you must have clear priorities, and take the necessary time to change the basic structures of life. You can make significant discoveries regarding the meaning of your life.
Transit Neptune Conjunct Natal Saturn
When transit Neptune is conjunct your natal Saturn, your concept of reality is changing. Old concepts are dissolving. The structures that have governed your life are no longer be reliable, but you discover many new possibilities.
At first, you feel disoriented, confused or depressed. You may experience several disappointments and an increase in anxiety or loss of self-confidence. You might be afraid and feel threatened for no apparent reason. In some cases, this can instead manifest as a health issue that is hard to diagnose.
Avoid stress and stay in comfortable surroundings so that confusion and disorientation do not increase. Avoid making big decisions without consulting someone you trust, since you do not see things very clearly on a material level.
Through the darkness of this period, you’ll begin to see infinite possibilities and the true nature of things. The positive side is that you can discover new dimensions of the world on another level, a spiritual level and beyond. At its best, this transit can produce enlightenment or a truly spiritual path. Your physical world and transcendental world become one. You must be very calm to see the new truths emerge, so avoid negative people and those who discourage you.
Transit Neptune Trine Natal Saturn, or Transit Neptune Sextile Natal Saturn
When transit Neptune is trine, or sextile, to your natal Saturn, there is a balance between idealism and reality. This allows you to work hard to achieve your ideals. You can make practical changes to reach a higher and more spiritual reality.
This transit may take away any possessions, well-being or physical conditions that are blocking your search for spiritual meaning in your life. But you’re given patience. You can accept reality and you’re not pessimistic. You may adopt a very calm and meditative quality that helps you greatly in your spiritual development. This is excellent for understanding hidden truths, metaphysical secrets and being able to easily adapt them within the structures of your daily life.
You’re less concerned with material profits or egotistical gain. You may work to improve the lives of the people around you. Others may think you are self-sacrificing, but you are not actually denying yourself anything that you need. You simply know what you really need, and you have a good sense of priorities.
Others feel that they can depend on you or trust you, as you don’t get hung up in confusing and complicated situations. You are able to see what’s really going on below the surface. Take advantage of this current energy for creative organization. There is the possibility of keeping work secrets if they are necessary for the benefit of all.
Transit Neptune Square Natal Saturn
This description applies for any of these transits:
- transit Neptune square natal Saturn
- transit Neptune semisquare natal Saturn
- transit Neptune sesquisquare natal Saturn
The transit of Neptune square Natal Saturn affects you in a psychological way. Your opinions of the world change, causing great disorientation and confusion. You may suffer insecurity and anxiety for no apparent reason. You may have fear and doubts over how you are managing your life.
You feel the desire to withdraw and isolate yourself, although it’s not good to do so because the opinions of others are necessary to help you balance your current pessimistic views. But, if someone causes you to doubt and lower your self-confidence, you should distance yourself from that person during this time because you’re already feeling low enough. This is the time to surround yourself with positive people.
This transit breaks and dissolves opinions and possessions with which you have identified previously. It teaches you that your existence does not depend on maintaining those.
Although you may worry about your material needs, you realize how little you really need. You may give up your material possessions voluntarily, denying your own welfare in favor of a humanitarian ideal. You should probably wait until you see more clearly to give what you can.
Transit Neptune Quincunx Natal Saturn
The transit of Neptune quincunx natal Saturn is a period of hard-to-diagnose health problems and deceptive conditions at work. You may be depressed because of a subconscious memory of an unpleasant past experience. Hidden factors can interfere with your work. You may be forced to keep a secret in your job. Or, you may have to care for someone who’s not feeling well, and this interferes with your work, health or family.
This transit affects in a psychological way. Your opinions of the world change, causing great disorientation and confusion. You may suffer insecurity and anxiety for no apparent reason. You may have fear and doubts over how you are managing your life.
You feel the desire to withdraw and isolate yourself, although it’s not good to do so because the opinions of others are necessary to help you balance your current pessimistic views. But, if someone causes you to doubt and lower your self-confidence, you should distance yourself from that person during this time because you’re already feeling low enough. This is the time to surround yourself with positive people.
This transit breaks and dissolves opinions and possessions with which you have identified previously. It teaches you that your existence does not depend on maintaining those. Although you may worry about your material needs, you realize how little you really need.
Transit Neptune Opposite Natal Saturn
The transit of Neptune opposite your natal Saturn is a very significant transit, although it may not feel very pleasant. Your perception of reality is changing considerably, making you see things on a grander scale.
First, some part of your reality will be harshly challenged, causing you to be disoriented. In your confusion, you will not be able to distinguish between what is real and what is not. Your sense of proportion is distorted, and you may focus on minor things while you neglect important things. You may feel consumed with fear and anxiety. Hidden fears and traumas buried in your unconscious may come up in your memory.
You may think that the meaning you have given to your life is threatened, but this is an opportunity to find a higher truth and structure your life. The world that you’ve known up until now was small compared to the new vision of endless possibilities that you glimpse during this period. If you suffer losses in your material world, it’s so that you will open up to the transcendental world. That is, the world on another level, a more spiritual level.
Any new situation or relationship will make you see the world differently. Accept this confrontation, and examine your world view before you defend your old principles. During this time, you can benefit from psychological therapy.
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Thank you so much for your writing on this — as Neptune is exact conjunct my natal Saturn at 24 degrees — it’s spot on. I have not been able to define my role within a nonprofit I’ve volunteered with for 4 years. A news article came out about me and my astrology buisness but the vagueness around my role at the nonprofit and lack of awknowledgement for my efforts there reflects the immense confusion the owners and I have felt do to changing circumstances around resources (they would offer money, and then have to take it back by choice or by force due to grants not being approved – which also seems like an 8th house issue – where my Saturn lives). I know our struggles with getting on the same page are not all my fault because I found myself caught in the middle of relationship dynamics… but this transit illuminates how the lack of clarity in my life is really sourcing from within me (or from Neptune’s influence). I may be too hopeful for a good ending to my friendships here, but I have to believe the lesson that is being illuminated here is possible to seize and level up from regardless of how they feel about me. I am ready to level up out of the confusion, disorientation and depression…and I think I will once I let go, grieve the loss, and move to the next chapter of my life. My prayer is to call in the spiritual illumination, life meaning and maturation possible with this transit… which I feel is more accessible due to my Saturn being in Pisces naturally. Hope my reflection helps anyone going through a similar transit! I’m grateful to know my loss of self-confidence around communicating clearly around my work is only temporary…or at least this period of immense pain and suffering around it is. Cheers to transformation (says the 8th house Saturn, Scorpio Moon/NN – more to say on that in another thread). Grazie!