Neptune in Pisces

If you love a child with this Neptune, you know the look that crosses their face when a story turns sad, a second before anyone else has noticed.

The deepest blue

Neptune is the bluest of the planets, a deep sea colour made by methane in its air, and it was named after the Roman god of the sea for that reason. Pisces, the closing sign of the circle and the water sign modern astrology gave to Neptune in place of its old ruler, Jupiter, is where the planet is most itself: the ocean, the dream, the dissolving of every boundary. The last cohort to have it was born between 1847 and 1862, just after the planet was found, and this is the first born with it since.

The children of now

Today’s children with this Neptune are growing up with endless stories on every screen, games that build entire worlds, and a daily awareness of suffering far away. They are imaginative, empathetic and sensitive to the mood around them in a way adults sometimes find startling.

They name their soft toys and grieve for them when they are lost, and they notice the lonely child at the edge of the playground before any adult does. Their ideal is compassion: for animals, for strangers, for the planet, for anyone left out.

Raising one

If you are raising one of these children, you notice how much they feel, how quickly they absorb other people’s sadness, and how completely they can disappear into a story or a song. They need quiet, beauty, time outdoors and adults who take their feelings seriously.

Too much feeling

Neptune dissolves boundaries, and without them a child can drown in feeling, in screens, in worry about a world too big to fix. Learning where they end and others begin is this generation’s great lesson.

What they bring

What they bring is a larger kind of kindness, and an imagination that can picture a world better than the one they were born into.

Sooner or later one of them explains to you, patiently, why something everyone accepted was always cruel, and they are not wrong.