Neptune Sextile Pluto
Whose Dreams Are We Fighting For?
Neptune and Pluto are both transpersonal planets, so on a mundane transit like this, they’re speaking to the larger collective more than to any one person’s life. Right now Neptune is applying to a sextile with Pluto: Neptune in Aries, a fire sign with cardinal modality, and Pluto in Aquarius, an air sign with fixed modality.
Neptune signifies the dissolution of boundaries between us, our capacity for human connection, and the aspirations and dreams we hold collectively — what we want to see materialize in the world. In Aries, that dream energy shows up with real vital, assertive force. Large groups of people across the globe are pushing hard to manifest their own visions right now, and we don’t all share the same dreams. There’s a ferocity to this energy, an urge to assert that our dreams are valid, whether or not they conflict with someone else’s.
At the same time, the sextile to Pluto brings that dream-like vitality into fluid relationship with the planet of power and transformation. And it’s happening through an air sign that moves information and communication across large systems and around the globe, which tends to condense and solidify power. So we’re watching surges of dream-energy connect directly with the power of transformation, and if you look at the news right now, that’s exactly what’s playing out on a global scale.
If we want to actually manifest our own dreams through this transit, the way in is to turn our attention outward — to hold onto what we want while making real room for what other people want too. It’s not about giving up our own dreams; it’s about how we validate someone else’s without invalidating our own. When we can do that, the individual transformation each of us is looking for has a much better shot at landing, and enough of that adds up to real collective change.
As for who feels this most: Aries and Aquarius are the two signs most directly activated. Wherever those signs fall in your own chart, by house, that’s where this transit shows up as a live topic in your actual life. The rulers of those signs — Mars for Aries and Saturn for Aquarius (Uranus, if you’re working from modern rulership) — and wherever those planets sit in your chart, carry some of this energy too. So it really comes down to house placement and rulership for any one person, but for the general population, Aries and Aquarius are the two signs most directly activated. If you’ve got your Sun, Moon, or Ascendant in either sign, you’ll likely feel a much stronger pull from this one.