Neptune Retrograde 2025: What It Means for Your Rising Sign
The first retrograde in Aries, the final retrograde in Pisces and a huge spiritual reset across the globe!
From July 4th through December 10th, 2025, Neptune, the planet of dreams, illusions, spirituality, and surrender, enters a rare retrograde phase between two worlds (Aries & Pisces).
This isn’t just a retrograde.
It’s a once-in-a-lifetime portal. The first Neptune retrograde in Aries in our lifetimes. The last Neptune retrograde in Pisces for the next 165 years
This in-between time is not meant to rush through. It’s meant to be felt, grieved, witnessed, and ultimately... surrendered.
What Neptune Teaches Us
Neptune is a planet associated with dreams, images, and imagination. It influences collective emotions, spiritual growth, compassion, forgiveness, escapism, fantasy, the subconscious, art, mysticism, music, and altered states of consciousness. While Neptune transits can be challenging, they guide us toward higher truths—beyond ego and fear—especially when everything else seems to fall apart.
Why This Neptune Retrograde Is So Important
This is the first retrograde of Neptune in Aries—the beginning of a new spiritual era.
This is the final retrograde of Neptune in Pisces—a farewell to 13 years of collective spiritual growth, confusion, disillusionment, and compassion.
During this retrograde, we have the chance to revisit forgotten dreams, let go of illusions that never came true, close a chapter of emotional overwhelm, and get ready to lead from our hearts in a new way.
Key dates of this retrograde
July 4, 2025 – Neptune retrograde begins at 1° Aries
Neptune has only just entered Aries in late March 2025, and now it retrogrades here for the first time in over 160 years. It’s as if Neptune pulls back the veil—not to confuse us, but to awaken a new spiritual courage that’s only just forming.
This is the re-initiation of our soul.
October 22, 2025 – Neptune retrograde returns to Pisces
Neptune re-enters Pisces for the last time in our lifetimes. This is a sacred invitation to grieve, integrate, and release the past 13 years.
This retrograde is not meant to be productive. It is meant to be healing.
Let yourself feel it. Let yourself let go of what was never meant to last.
December 10, 2025 – Neptune turns direct in Pisces
Neptune stations direct in late degrees of Pisces, gaining momentum to leave the sign for good on January 26, 2026.
This moment marks our emotional release. You've come to terms with what happened, and now, you're free to carry only what matters into the next cycle.
January 26, 2026 – Neptune re-enters Aries (this time for over a decade)
Neptune in Aries is a radically different vibe. Pisces taught us how to dissolve. Aries will teach us how to act—from soul, not ego.
How to Work With This Rare Neptune Transition
This is not a time to force answers.
It’s a time to create emotional space.
This is also a powerful time for artists, mystics, healers, and empaths to release what's no longer aligned in their emotional field.
We are entering a new world in 2026, but first, we must leave the old one with respect. Neptune is preparing us to dream again—this time, on our terms.
Neptune Retrograde 2025: What It Means for Your Rising Sign
Read for your rising sign for the most accurate insight. You can also reflect on your Sun and Moon signs for additional guidance.