Astro Iris Whenever you have the time, the mood, the courage, and the curiosity, take a good look at yourself from 14 years ago and compare it to who you are today.
Who have you become in the meantime?
The difference comes from Neptune’s transit through Pisces ♓️, which is now gracefully coming to an end. It’s doing so in grand style, knowing it won’t pass this way again for at least another 150 years.
What has it brought into your life?
What has changed, and how have you evolved?
How do you feel about your growth when you look at it now?
On February 3, 2012, the God of the Seas—Neptune—in all his splendor, stepped into the realm of Pisces ♓️, his own home sign, for a 14-year stay. He had already started dipping his toes in April 2011, though he did retrograde back into Aquarius ♒️ a few times along the way.
Leaving the collective context aside for a moment, on a personal level this transit brought changes to every single one of us. Some were brutal, others so subtle they crept up on us like a gentle mist.
When we add the collective layer, though, those changes were often triggered by exactly the kinds of big, shared events that carry a collective influence.
Personally, I’m very Neptunian—Neptune is a major ruler in my chart—so I felt this transit as deeply as it gets.
It arrived like a massive wave, together with other social planet transits 🌊, and together they swept away situations, people, relationships, concepts, and beliefs. The change was drastic and completely altered the course of my life from that point on, with major events hitting roughly every two years.
It literally evaporated every illusion I had built for myself—about who I was, my beliefs around money, materialism, possessions and their value, the relationships that truly mattered (and the time I’d poured into them), people and their worth, stability and security, authority, the whole concept of love and romance, and especially my relationship with God.
I was forcibly pushed to the surface by the power of the water, directed toward a completely different life path—one rooted in a kind of independence I wasn’t even consciously aware of at the time. I caught the wave of courage and took what was probably the biggest leap of my life—again, mostly unconsciously. It was worth it, even though about two years later another wave came, and this time the water dragged me down into the depths. It felt awful for me and for those close to me. But it was worth it too, because the comfort zone I’d gotten stuck in was no longer helping my growth—and I couldn’t see it anymore. That “comfort” had stopped being comfortable; it had become a form of mere survival.
Then, in less than a year, a confidence swept over me that left no room for doubt, pushing me back to the surface for a well-deserved breath of air. Since then, I’ve stayed on the wave—I teamed up with the water, and we’ve been good partners ever since 😊.
Add another year, and a new event shifted my focus to an area where fairy-tale fantasies still lingered. That event awakened my interest in higher meanings in life—first on an energetic level. Another heavy wave came 🤭😊, pushing me toward a world I only fully opened up to a year later. And this time, it was doubly worth it. I finally learned that real change happens on its own timeline and from your own initiative. You don’t always do what you feel like doing—you also do what needs to be done. You call the wave yourself, and it carries you toward your ideal.
From that point on, I accepted more of the challenges life put in front of me. That includes the pandemic, which we all lived through and which—amid disbelief, confusion, fear, and ignorance (especially from those who thought they knew everything)—shoved the illusion of “saving lives” right in our faces. Seriously?! It lasted about two years, didn’t it?! 🤭 Anyway…
Picking up again… From that point, I accepted more challenges life brought my way. Sometimes they came with risks I hadn’t foreseen. Other times, I simply had to choose. It sounds easy, but when you’re faced with a multitude of options, it gets complicated—things split into “optional/nice-to-have” versus “essential/must-have.”
I strengthened my faith and focused only on the contribution I could actually make in any situation. The rest I left in the hands of the divine—and I’m glad I did. Whenever I got too involved beyond what was needed, I paid for it. I still do that sometimes, out of a big heart and a genuine desire to help, especially when I can see it’s not good for anyone… but it comes from “…a heart as big as the ocean…” and from the last flickering light of an illusion that will soon go out completely. It’s asking to be transformed.
Two more years… another thing, and another, and another 😊. And here I am—a Neptunian almost at the end of this Neptunian transit in a few months—deeply transformed, with my moral, relational, financial, and spiritual value systems at a level where illusion has fully dissolved. I appreciate and respect things differently now.
I’m also very Saturnian, and Saturn 🪐 has been an enormous support for me over these 14 years. It held my hand and only let go when I proved I’d learned the lesson. It also banged my head against the wall a few times—don’t get me wrong—but that’s exactly how I was ready to step out of my fairy-tale fantasies.
My experience (without too many personal details) with Neptune in Pisces ♓️ is here for all of you as encouragement to look at life from a fuller perspective—one that has meaning even when we don’t understand it at the time.
Now, at the end of this transit, yes—I wish it had been easier, but it was what it was. Looking at myself today, it was absolutely worth it.
Neptune in Aries will soon help us build real, tangible things to replace the illusions that have dissolved. Metaphorically speaking: if you’ve been dreaming of green horses on the walls, it’ll take them down, put their feet firmly on the ground, and turn them white, brown, black—whatever fits you best—but definitely not green.
