My Neptune/Venus square is coming to an end in the upcoming month(s)...

The other day, I realized I've been in a 'bad' Neptune transit for the last 6 years, first with Neptune/Moon, and then this one...but even after all of this I'm starting to feel much happier. There's a lot of release/redemption going on internally and externally. I think it's beautiful... 

What was it/is it like for you guys? 

Since Neptune's been in Aquarius, it went from conjuncting my moon and trining my Mars-Venus-Pluto to opposing my sun-Mercury-Saturn, with a square to Uranus thrown in there somewhere.  I still have no clue what's what with any of these transits because almost all of those placements also have contact with natal Neptune!  *lol*  I'm very, very fuzzy on the effects of Neptune, which is entirely appropriate I think.

I was/am more concerned with Saturn, since the Saturn-Neptune opposition played out over my sun-Merc-Saturn, the Saturn-Uranus opposition played out over my MC/IC/nodal axis, and the Saturn-Pluto square is happening on my Mars-Venus-Pluto.

I should probably give Neptune more attention, but I have a much easier time with floaty, dreamy illusion and intuition than buckling down to reality and nitty-gritty details (Pisces S. Node, Virgo N. Node).

hahaha sadiablo, i'm pisces north, so that's perhaps why this is hitting me harder?

That's a lot of Neptune in your chart! Transit or not! I think I'd go literally insane... How do you handle it?

I think you have a point about Saturn though...He was in my 12th the entire time of the Neptune transit and that I think, definitely brought a lot of the pain and fear of losing reality, letting go...

I'm predominantly earthy, with 6 planets and my ascendant...so Neptune is really, really hard for me because I want everything to be so tangible...so I guess the lesson I'm learning is that not everything can be...and not to be "muddy" and paranoid

Honestly, I don't know.  There are some that would assert that I actually am insane. 

It's kinda funny, we really are on the opposite ends of the spectrum here!
I mentally hyperventilate when I think about Saturn, it's all rough angles and sternness and rigidity and MUSTS in my head and that terrifies the shit out of me.  Truly.  *lol*  I know that there are upsides to Saturn, but since I started learning a bit more about astrology, and especially since I've been semi-looking at transits, it's been one Saturn boot up my ass after another.  I really, really need to make my peace with the Old Man.
Interestingly, I literally just now hit upon the fact that 98% of all that is in my head [phantom (Saturn) fears (Neptune)], since all of my Saturn figures agree that I'm actually doing well with what I've been handed.  I know I won't be able to hold onto that for long, though... it'll float back out again and I'll have to remind myself.  Post-it note or something. 

And that's the upside to Neptune for me!  Not the forgetting, but realizing how much of the torment we put ourselves through is illusory.  Like Elsa says, if you can dream it up, you can dream it down.  Reality is really only how we choose to look at it -- take anything to the very edge of the bell curve and, literally, anything is possible.  There is no losing reality, because there's no permanent reality in the first place.  The thing that makes Neptune hard for you is it's saving grace to me.  *laughs*  Just like I'm sure that what makes Saturn hard for me, the stark reality, the stasis, is what you're comfy with.

Astrology is such a funny old bird... 

@sadiablo "Like Elsa says, if you can dream it up, you can dream it down.  Reality is really only how we choose to look at it -- take anything to the very edge of the bell curve and, literally, anything is possible.  There is no losing reality, because there's no permanent reality in the first place."

What really helped me to put that realization into practice was transcendental meditation. Only when you achieve a mental state where you can clear your head of EVERY thought and emotion only then  can you shape your own reality. As for Saturn, Saturn IS your helper especially when you are Neptunian. If you listen to Saturn the only thing he requires is hard work. I don't fear Saturn. If bad things  happen during a Saturn transit it is either to make you stronger or they happen because you let them happen.

SaDiablo,

If you ARE insane, no worries...it's not that bad, actually, if you can learn to have fun with it.  :D

fajalobi78 - Just want to credit the original source of that quote - a man named Reverend Ike in New York per Caroline Casey's book, "Making the Gods Work For You". :)

@elsa Thanks. Was it a good read? The quote really hit home to my experiences with facing reality. Especially if you are often confused and troubled it can really help to purposely let go of all "controll". When you start meditating ( and continue) to do so it completely erases all of your habitual thought patterns which often keep you in negativity. Meditation learned me to let go of thought patterns that held me back in live. Then in my saturn return, it kind of helped me embrace satur's energy. 

I don't agree on that the only thing Saturn requires is hard work, I think it requires to accept the limits of reality. Sometimes this can mean accepting that we're not able to work hard anymore... but if you consider the acceptance of limits as a hard work, I agree. :)

@conny I'm a workaholic so for me not working is hard work. My "hard work"  was having to take responsibillity for the state of my self esteem. If Saturn had brought me an abundance of work I would have called saturn's welcome home party instead of saturn's return. So to answer you yes, I mean work in te broad sense of the word.

I like that, fajalobi78, "Saturn's welcome home party"  I'm a workaholic too, so the biggest challenge for me is being in peace with myself without the "drug".

Hey I FEEEEEEEL your pain. Work is my life, my sanity, my health, if it had a penis it would be my lover, and I've been unemployed for 9 months. This period which has been due to personal and medical circumstances has been my my saturn's welcome home party to the eight power. 

I've had Sun/Neptune conjunction going on for about 2 years now and my life is nooooooooowhere near where I imagined it'd be before it all started.  I feel very much in limbo now but I guess the saving grace is that I try and have faith that eventually I won't be so lost and everything will have all made sense.

Worse thing is the loss of control (as I've always liked to think I have full control over my life)

The transit will end by the end of the year... though it scares me when I think of Pluto squaring my Saturn in '12.

@Faja, thank you!  You just made me realize that something I let go of years ago, meditation, really did make my life a lot better.  I'm going to have to get back into that!  (((fajalobi)))

@Nutsy*
Don't worry, baybee.  I enjoy my insanity to the hilt!  The people around me...  *see-saws hands*
That's why I enjoy my Gems so much.  They match my insanity and we bounce it around like a rubber ball, cackling like chickens and having a blast.  :D

*caving to peer pressure *lol*

SaDiablo!

Sweet!  If you got a couple more looneys to share your insanity with, all the better. It's like having your own personal madhouse.  My brother and I are both nuts, and we share an apartment, so our place is like our own personal insane asylum.  :D

I have a Neptune transit coming up.

Oh God, please, no more transits!

I'm tired of adjusting all the time, I need my stability.

Pluto, Uranus, and now Neptune on my ass!

Lol, Lol.

Yeah, I'll be feeling Neptune, too, this month...supposedly I need to look out for water quality and possible leaky roofs. :D

@sadiablo Astrology will help you understand yourself. Meditation will help you understand this universe. If you practice both you will understand your place in this universe. Imo at least.

@Monica 

Pluto Squaring Saturn in the 12th

saturn through the 12th was rough, (last year this time for me, about 3-6 mos dancing across my ASC), but I totally needed it. I can't imagine what secrets are going to be drug up for you, ;)

Hey guys, this is my (supposed 3rd day) after venus/neptune "ended", I'll outline what happened (this was neptune in the 5th-6th, venus in the 9th over the past few years)

ROMANCE has come back into my life- the last 2.5-3 years it was virtually gone, or at least upsetting, illusory, and projection-filled...now I'm kind of talking to a couple of guys and feeling like I'm attractive/desirable again (uhhhh venus neptune )

MORE ENERGY whoo- feeling like I could do anything - definitely helping people out and people helping me out on work projects (i also suspect saturn in libra in the 1st is the cause of this as well?) 

CLEAR HEAD - becoming super easy for me to write and think quickly

hope this might help!