It is named after Neptune, the God of the sea. It’s the symbol of yachts, boats, music, art, the ideals of unity and communes, change, metamorphosis, contact with other dimensions, mysticism, mental unrest, spiritual life, philosophy, platonic relationship, introversion. It brings intrigues, secrets, complications, perversion, mysterious passions.
It is present in hospitals, prisons and churches. It gives psychiatrists, spies, swindlers, musicians, graphic artists, church people, mysticism, drunks, inclination to alcohol, drugs and nicotine. It causes escape from reality and need for love. Neptune people love sea, yachts and religion (and everything else by which they can "sail" to nowhere and heights).
They are mediums, prophets, sorcerers. They tend to kleptomania, fraud, speculation, gambling games, apathy, mental disorder, sexual pleasures. Neptune affects foot and creates good dancers. It rules over nervous system, part of the brain that controls hearing, sight and sense of smell and resistance to infectious diseases.
Its element is water. It orbits 2 degrees per year, which means that it stays 12-15 years in one sign. It orbits Zodiac for about 164 years. At night it is positioned in Pisces and makes them mystical or swindlers. It has day domicile in Sagittarius and makes them hard-to-reach. Both signs slip out of your hand as a caught fish.
Gemini and Virgo are less affected by drunk and misleading influence of Neptune, but are still affected. Due to the fall in Leo, it creates chaos to this otherwise lucky sign. Leo is able, when he loses control of himself, to wound, kill or escape of all, if he hadn’t previously ended up in jail because of drug smuggling or in psychiatry as a patient.
Exalted Neptune influences Aquarius mystically, restlessly, they like music and drink. Neptune was discovered on September 23, 1846 at the Berlin astronomy observatory, after being observed secretly, without knowing for each other, by the Englishman J.C. Adams and Frenchman U.L. Verrier. Forty years after the discovery of Uranus, scientists observed anomalies in the orbit of this planet and on this basis concluded that probably there is another planet. Dimensions of Neptune are similar to that of Uranus. The distance from the Sun is about 4,500 billion km.
Therefore, it is very cold, with temperatures from -160 to -200°C. Its surface consists probably of frozen ammonia and gases. It has two satellites. Neptune is occult planet. In a personal horoscope, in ASC or MC, it signifies inclination to advanced ideology.
