4,498,252,900 kilometers (2,795,084,800 miles)
164.79 Earth years (60,190 Earth days)
Distinguishing features: The main axis of Neptune’s magnetic field is ‘tipped over’ by about 47 degrees compared with the planet’s rotation axis. Like Uranus, whose magnetic axis is tilted about 60 degrees from the axis of rotation, Neptune’s magnetosphere undergoes wild variations during each rotation because of this misalignment. The magnetic field of Neptune is about 27 times more powerful than that of Earth.
Neptune’s atmosphere extends to great depths, gradually merging into water and other ‘melted ices’ over a heavier, approximately Earth-sized solid core. Neptune’s blue color is the result of methane in the atmosphere. Uranus’ blue-green color is also the result of atmospheric methane, but Neptune is a more vivid, brighter blue, so there must be an unknown component that causes the more intense color that we see. The cause of Neptune’s bluish tinge remains a mystery.
Zodiac Sign Rulership: Pisces
After Uranus comes Neptune, the god of the sea. Whereas Uranus is the urge for individual freedom and independence, Neptune is the urge to escape from our normal sense-bound state of consciousness, and experience our unity with a different level of reality.
In the birth chart, Neptune represents our higher ideals and our attunement to realities that lie beyond that perceived by the senses. It is the realm of dreams and imagination and our sense of being part of a whole which is greater than ourselves, the awareness of a spiritual dimension to existence. Neptune represents the urge to transcend our normal state of consciousness through meditation and mystical experience, music, dreams and flights of the imagination, or through drugs (including alcohol) which afford us a temporary escape from the mundane grind of living. Neptune can be expressed as high ideals, altruism and spiritual values, or as self destructive escapism and evasion of responsibilities. For most of us it is a mixture of both.
Neptune’s sign position in the chart shows where and how we seek to express these needs, and in what areas of our lives we tend to seek an often impossible ideal.
Neptune represents your spiritual self, dreams, imagination and creative abilities.
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the Neptunian generation born between 1861 and 1875. You therefore came into being during a time that pioneered certain mystical philosophies and artforms.
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Neptunian generation born between 1874 and 1889. You therefore came into being during a time that made a religion out of wealth and attempted to give some kind of material expression to imaginative vision, or to prove mystical phenomena as physical phenomena.
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Neptunian generation born between 1887 and 1902. You therefore came into being during a time that sought to express spiritual ideas and mystical visions in the written and spoken word – or tried to find rational explanations for them.
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Neptunian generation born between 1901 and 1916. You therefore came into being during a time that engendered a profound sentiment for Nature, family and all things concerning one’s roots or origins. There are strong psychic tendencies in evidence which, when misguided give rise to an unhealthy yearning for what was, or what can never be.
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the Neptunian generation born between 1914 and 1929. You therefore came into being during a time that gave birth to glamour and good times – ‘The Roaring Twenties’. Although this gave rise to great fun and artistic creativity, it also created a very unreal sense of what love and emotion were about.
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Neptunian generation born between 1928 and 1943. You therefore came into being during a time when economic chaos prevailed, resulting from the prodigality of the previous Neptune in Leo generation of the Roaring Twenties. The outcome of this was that you were instilled with a rather parsimonious attitude towards life, along with a distrust of spiritual notions and wild promises of better days. Confusion over what actually constituted health, along with the first chemical contamination of food, also arose during this period. Essentially, your generation has the task of employing ideals to more practical ends.
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the Neptunian generation born between 1942 and 1957. As this generation came of age, the whole Libran realm of love and marriage, art and music, and society in general, came under Neptune’s subtle spell. This gave rise to an increased sensitivity towards relating and sexual equality, with confusion and soaring divorce rates not far behind. Whether or not you see yourself as an active part of it, this was also the ‘love’ generation who marched for peace, gathered in great numbers at music festivals, experimented with psychedelic drugs and embarked upon a more universal quest for spiritual meaning – or for an escape from mundane reality.
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the Neptunian generation born between the mid 1950’s and 1970. As this generation came of age, established musical forms and the use of drugs took on more self-destructive and sexually explicit undertones. The seeking of ‘highs’ became heavier and also involved the underworld of crime more. The lack of Mankind’s spiritual awareness which had been prevalent for some time became a more critical issue, with material status symbols becoming gods and sexual diseases – especially AIDS – becoming more threatening as the result of a lack of awareness as to the true and subtle nature of what intimacy means. The challenge to your generation is great indeed: to prevent degeneration.
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the Neptunian generation born between 1970 and the mid 1980’s. As this generation came of age, confusion was experienced with regard to what was right or wrong. The underlying reason for this was a want of distinction between the Law of Man and the Law of God. In other words, this generation, and the time they were growing up in, had to contact a more spiritual and less material, yet at the same time practical, means of directing human morals and appetites. A real sense of the divine or the quantum began to emerge now.
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the Neptunian generation born between 1984 and 1998. You therefore came into being during a time when humanity officially began to understand how subtle but very powerful forces affected our Earthly environment – and how we could all be doomed if we did not begin to pull together as a species. This time sees the beginning of world government and the ascertaining of what spirituality and sensitivity mean in the most practical sense.
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the Neptunian generation born between 1998 and 2012. You therefore came into being during a time when humanity had barely avoided terminating itself. Out of this crisis and the understanding born of it, your generation truly heralds the New Age – the Age of Aquarius.
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the Neptunian generation born between 2012 and 2026. You therefore came into being during a time when humanity began to tune into the truth of its spiritual origins – giving rise to forms of music and healing that were previously only ever dreamed of. Great peace.
