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Moon and Neptune aspects

The Moon and Neptune in aspect describe how open, imaginative and tender your feelings are. Together, in step or at odds, they set how much you absorb from others and how you escape.

The glyphs of the Moon and Neptune, and the marks of the aspects they make: conjunction, sextile, square, trine, opposition
All five major aspects

You walk into a room and know who has been crying, though nobody has said a word.

The Moon is your feelings; Neptune is imagination, compassion and escape. An aspect between them dissolves the walls around your heart, and the angle decides whether that openness feeds you or floods you.

Moon conjunct Neptune

You feel everything, yours and everyone else’s. You are intuitive, artistic and kind, with a rich inner life of dreams and images. A conjunction like this needs solitude and music the way other people need food.

Moon trine or sextile Neptune

Your sensitivity is a gift. You are compassionate without drowning, imaginative, and uncannily right about people. Art, nature and water restore you. The trine gives all of it freely; the sextile rewards you for giving it a form.

Moon square or opposite Neptune

Boundaries are the challenge. You take on other people’s pain, idealise the people you love, or slip away into daydreams and distractions when feelings get heavy. The square blurs your own needs; the opposition draws you to people who need rescuing. With firm edges, your tenderness becomes compassion that helps without costing you yourself.

How common is each?

Over the years the two meet in all five, some more often than others.

AspectHow common
Moon conjunct Neptuneabout one birth in eighteen
Moon sextile Neptuneabout one birth in thirteen
Moon square Neptuneabout one birth in ten
Moon trine Neptuneabout one birth in ten
Moon opposite Neptuneabout one birth in eighteen

Measured every six hours from 1920 to 2030: the share of births whose chart shows each aspect between them, within the orbs every chart here is cast with.

Find your own aspects

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