ARIES SEASON 2025
Dissolution and Reimagining with Neptune in Aries
red blossoms exploding in your yard, photo by me, 2025
Spring Updates
Hello everyone. I hope this newsletter finds you well and that Spring is renewing and vitalizing you. As usual, my many activities and projects have had me spinning, searching for the right time to sit down and send out a monthly update.
We’re entering vivid, unprecedented times with some of the most profound cosmic shifts and themes I’ve seen in my three decades of living with astrology. I typically need to take a lot of nature walks and contemplate in silence how exactly I’d like to phrase and comment on what the skies promise.
It’s an ever-evolving art of interpretation and translation.
The distance, the pause, the contemplation, all of this is taking more time than ever as the wheels in the sky keep turning, and I continue to find my stillness, root and meaning amid it all. I feel like I’m always trying to keep up, but at the same time, I am living with the cosmic forces on a deeply intimate level, somehow always right where I need to be.
Aries Season 2025
Aries Season brings the Sun to my 10th house of career and higher calling. As the vibrations of the last Aries Eclipse of March 29 settle and the mystifying forces of Neptune in Aries rush in, I realize more than ever I need to live as an artist. I’ve been recalibrating and discovering that art in many forms is at the center of my life and is not a peripheral side hustle.
As my time and energy become more precious in mid-life, I’m ready to claim that without fear.
Though I continue to write, consult and teach astrology, I am moving ever into a phase of wanting to make art inspired by astrological concepts first and foremost. I want to realize my creative vision and capture the spectres of my imagination, ever louder and insistent on having their life in colour on canvas and other textile projects.
My watercolour work is expanding into larger formats almost faster than I can keep up with renewing my materials! I invite you to check out my Gallery on my website to see how it’s going so far:
I would love to start selling some work so that I have the resources to keep making art, so feel free to inquire if you see anything you like. There’s much more to come.
Neptune in Aries, ink on canvas, d. stapleton, 2025
March 30: Neptune enters Aries
At 5:00 am PT Sunday, we rose to the dawning of a new era as Neptune, the planet of dreams, left protean Pisces to enter trailblazing Aries, ushering in a transcendent wave of bold imagination.
This initial ingress will last until October 22 this year when Neptune returns to Pisces, while retrograde, for one last time, returning to Aries to stay on January 26, 2026, until 2039. This passage provides an initial toe-dip into the turning of the cosmic tides and a preview of some of the crucial collective themes upon us for the next 14 years.
Navigating Neptune’s Pisces/Aries Transition
This year, as this 14-year era of Neptune in Pisces begins to close, we reflect on what this period highlighted: a dissolution of boundaries around the Piscean concepts of belief, philosophy, inner vision, creativity and consciousness expansion. As Neptune enters Aries, the sign of individuality, our personal and collective Neptunian explorations and expansions shift from a receptive inner landscape to an active, propulsive external quest.
Dissolution and Reimagining
With its immense power of dissolution and reimagining, Neptune brings numinous energy to Aries, a sign-consciousness known for its spontaneity, action and uncompromising autonomy. In Aries, Neptune’s myriad ideals converge around a more focused, singular vision, inspiring us to reimagine our lives. Boldly.
This reimagining shifts our perceptions. Our goals, aspirations, paths, and, in many cases, very identities disintegrate, making way for new forms and possibilities.
Collectively, we are entering an exciting and incendiary time for zealous convictions. Urges to enforce grand ideals inflame the social landscape, uniting us in a shared sense of purpose and passion or marooning us in our immersive daydreams and escapism.
Of course, the wisdom we must cultivate through this Neptune in Aries era is the ability to intuit the difference.
Dare to dream
On a personal level, Neptune in Aries calls each of us to take a gladiator-sized risk and go all in on making a big dream into reality. If there is a great dream you’re kindling in your heart but have not dared to realize for fear that it’s not practical or attainable, now is the time to feed the fire.
A Crisis of Imagination
Aries is the sign of the first responder, fearlessly rushing to the rescue. While Neptune in Aries’ higher potential invites bold new imaginings, it also rings a psychic alarm that calls us to meet a crisis of imagination. It’s never been more urgent for us to collectively and actively redeem our humanity and save our souls from the fires of reductionism and fundamentalism or the psychic depletion of outsourcing our creativity to technology.
How fine is the line between inquisitive and inquisition?
We must guard the spiritual and emotional nuance Neptune in Pisces taught us from backlash, keeping our cups full amid the parched, embattled landscape of our times.
Neptune in Aries: Rising Sign Horoscopes
Read for your Rising Sign to see what area of life is awash with Neptunian forces. Read for your Sun sign to understand how these forces will impact your energy and conscious awareness. Read for your Moon sign to know how Neptune will infuse your emotions, attachments and instincts.
Aries: As Neptune in Aries moves through your first house of self and embodiment for the next several years, a new era begins for dissolving your old identities. This transcendent shift invites you to actively reimagine who you are becoming, which may initially feel disorienting if you’re used to being in control. Neptune has a way of dissolving what we’re used to, revealing new growth edges. Lean into the ambiguity and uncertainty. Neptune’s shift into Aries will help you realize that control was always an illusion, allowing you to get comfortable with the idea that forces greater than you are making and unmaking you in every moment.
Taurus: As Neptune begins to flow through your twelfth house, you enter a dreamier, more liminal chapter. The practical world loses a bit of its grip. What once felt concrete begins to dissolve, not to confuse you, but to call you toward rest, reflection, and the mysteries within. You may feel a deep undertow, drawing you away from society to retreat. Here, you can create behind the scenes and surrender to the moment. Chances are, with all the unrest in the world, you’ve been yearning for some sacred solitude. Let your soul wander. Let your imagination take the lead. Neptune beckons you toward a spiritual homecoming that requires social sacrifice and a rediscovery of self that endures without external validation.
Gemini: On March 30, Neptune began flooding your eleventh house with dreams of calling in like-minded friends and patrons to witness your brave new offerings. You’re no longer satisfied with surface-level social circles or transactional friendships. You yearn to dissolve the boundaries of perception that impede the avenues of soul connection and the realization of a shared bold vision. It’s time to imagine new allied futures and to weave psychic tapestries that bind you to a collective narrative. Waves of idealism awaken a longing to create what’s missing, to be the change you’d like to see in the world. Just be mindful not to lose yourself in group illusions. Stay tethered to your truth as you dream bigger than ever.
Cancer: As your tenth house of vocation, reputation, and higher calling becomes a Neptunian dreamscape, it may at first blur the map of your career path. Your goals and plans may begin to dissolve, freeing you to reimagine the journey you are on and what you’d like to do with your one precious life. On a soul-deep level, you know you’re here to inspire, to channel extraordinary forces into vibrant, expressive work. This transit beckons you toward a calling that may not be linear but deeply felt, navigated by a finely honed intuition. Trust the pull. Whether you become a public voice for beauty, a healer, an artist, or a quiet visionary—let your profession become a form of poetry. Let your presence ripple outward, and trust you’re making an impact only dream logic can decode.
Leo: Your worldview begins to dissolve and melt under Neptune’s influence in your ninth house. Old beliefs no longer hold the same weight, as this cosmic shift calls you to explore mystical philosophies, spiritual practices, or far-off landscapes that stir your soul. Neptune in Aries is a pilgrimage of meaning, not of achievement. Open your mind to the numinous. Travel, if you can—not just physically, but through books, dreams, and sacred conversations. A teacher may appear, or perhaps you are the teacher, learning to speak from the heart, moved by the wonder of life. Since the ninth house also includes publications and the dissemination of knowledge, Neptune in Aries may offer a profound opportunity to share your ideas and voice with the world.
Virgo: With Neptune infusing your eighth house with transcendent energy, your most vulnerable soul terrain becomes the place of profound unmaking and reimagining. Control begins to slip through your fingers, but a different kind of power emerges in its place. Moving through your eighth house, Neptune asks you to trust the unseen—to let go of rigid boundaries around interdependence and energy exchange. This passage is not a time for pure strategy but invites surrender to unknown frontiers. It’s a new era of envisioning possibilities by pooling your resources with others to realize a shared dream. Spiritual and financial entanglements may blur, but if you let your intuition lead, you may find new forms of intimacy—ones rooted not in possession but deep soul-level trust.
Libra: Neptune moves into your seventh house of partnership, casting a rosy glow over how you connect and commit. You may find yourself yearning for more romance, magic, and depth. Or, you may suddenly see through old illusions, letting past relationship patterns dissolve like fog in the morning light. This transit asks you to explore love as a spiritual practice—not perfection, not fantasy, but a sacred mirror. You’re learning how to meet others soul-to-soul. Consciously manage your boundaries and commitments, practicing flexibility and reciprocity that’s not leaky or indiscriminately porous. In short, let love teach you to merge without losing yourself. Neptune’s passage through Aries potentially invites a soul mate into your life, but first, consult your heart and clearly envision who you’re calling in.
Scorpio: The realm of work, wellness, and daily rhythm becomes a sea of possibilities as Neptune slips into your sixth house. How you manage your duties and obligations is entering a time of sorely needed reimagining, especially if you are feeling an endless grind with very little return. The structure of your days may begin to soften—perhaps your routines feel too rigid, your body more sensitive, your spirit a little untethered. However, within this shift is an invitation to bring more meaning, creativity, and gentleness to how you move through the everyday. Your health may call for your awakened attention. Your work may become more healing and more imaginative. Flow, not force, is the new way forward. Let intuition shape your habits. Let grace shape your labour.
Sagittarius: As Neptune enters your fifth house for the next 14 years, creativity, romance, and joy take on mythic proportions. They become all-encompassing conduits of communion—with the divine, your inner child, and beauty. Neptune, through Aries, brings an uplifting force into your life that spirits you away. Over the next several years, this phenomenon may sometimes feel disorienting, but if you remember to carve out dedicated time to create from your soul above all else, you’re never lost and always right where you need to be. You may fall deeply in love with someone, an art form, or life itself. Since the line between illusion and inspiration may blur, balance openness with clarity, honesty and grounding practices. You’re on the brink of a transcendently creative era.
Capricorn: Your fourth house—the deep root system of your life—is typically a source of ballast and support for you. These days, it seems flooded with ambiguity and possibility as Neptune moves in. You may feel a quiet undoing of your former sense of home, family, or emotional foundation. But this is not a collapse; it’s an opportunity to reimagine a fluid sense of security that transcends a material or traditional sense of home. Neptune in Aries calls you to take shelter in your ability to adapt and invites you to identify with a sense of home and belonging within. This new era also invites you to tend to old familial or ancestral wounds, surrendering psychic weapons and softening into forgiveness. On a more concrete level, this cosmic shift urges you to expand, improve and realize your dream home. Transforming your space into a sanctuary becomes an immersive project for several years.
Aquarius: With Neptune now wending its way through your third house, your former ways of communicating and connecting with the world around you begin to unravel, coming back together in a softer, more poetic form. How you speak, write, and make meaning is shifting into an intuitive, imaginative terrain. Literal thinking may give way to metaphor. You may begin to perceive new layers of beauty and meaning in everyday exchanges—a neighbour’s smile, a line of text, a fleeting thought. As a logical Aquarian, the mundane made mystic may initially seem destabilizing, as you pride yourself on your mental clarity and crisp ability to discern. Allow the Neptunian expansion of your awareness to augment, not cloud, your perceptions, and be curious about what this expansion reveals. From these perceptions, you can dream up new creative collaborations in your local community and with your siblings and kinfolk therein.
Pisces: Since 2011, Neptune turned your first house of self inside out, transforming your identity with ego-dissolving trials and conscious expanding experiences. Now, the planet of dreams turns its powers of dissolution and reimagining toward your second house, initiating a period of similar work on your sense of value, money and how you gather necessary resources in this material world. It’s only natural that if the Neptunian waters have washed you anew, you’ll need to recalibrate your relationship with wealth. It’s time to seek the right livelihood that aligns with the renewed soulful creature you are. You may earn in more unusual or intuitive ways now—or reevaluate what abundance truly means. You’re gradually learning your worth is not transactional. It is soulful. Draw your livelihood from this ever-renewing spring.
April Astrology Highlights
April 7: Mercury stations direct
After retreating from Aries to wade back into oceanic Pisces, Mercury stations direct at 4:08 am PT. Mercury’s retrograde began on March 14, coinciding with a time of reevaluating our ideas and projects, making time for us to refine what we’d like to express. Stationing direct today in Pisces, we move forward with a renewed sense of empathy and compassion, drawing from a deep, soulful emotional intelligence to guide our message.
April 12: Full Moon at 23° Libra, and Venus stations direct
On Saturday at 5:22 pm PT, the exalted Aries Sun and Libran Moon come into perfect polarity in the sky, forming April’s Full Moon lunation at 23 degrees Libra. This Full Moon is brimming with creative potential, cultivated by balancing our need for inner harmony with what we offer to the world. The harvest of this Moon is recalibrating our energy exchanges, taking time to meditate on what true reciprocity looks like for us.
Take note of what house this Moon illuminates to see what area of life its glow calls us to harmonize now. Also note any planets or points in your chart that are near 23 degrees Libra, by conjunction, or any other major aspect, to see what energies are uniquely activated within you.
Shortly after, Venus, who also retreated from Aries into Pisces, almost hand in hand with Mercury, stations direct at 24 degrees of the two-fishes sign. Similarly to Mercury, Venus has retrieved lost jewels from the Piscean ocean, treasures of deep creativity and elated love that we may have forgotten along the way. Venus stations in conjunction with Saturn, which has a steading, tempering effect on Venus’ expansive love.
Around this time, we may renew our commitments to our creative expression and relationships, acknowledging essential limitations on our reserves and resources.
April 15: Mercury re-enters Aries
The third week of April heats up with action and intensity as Mercury re-enters fervent Aries. Aries’ speed, drive and ability to cut through distractions allow us to focus on charging ahead on various projects and conversations. One of Mercury’s first connections as he advances through the ram’s sign is a conjunction with Neptune, a new inhabitant to Aries, on April 16.
This conjunction between the messenger and the transcendent planet of dreams will likely coincide with many of us catching our first glimpse of a fiery vision we’d like to carry passionately forward into the bold new era upon us. Take time to jot down insight flashes as brave ideas form out of the molten forge of our imagination.
April 17: Mars re-enters Leo
The cosmic weather of the third week of April heats up even more as Mars re-enters proud and regal Leo. We are entering the final phase of a long Cancer/Leo retrograde journey that Mars began in early September. Mars is on the final leg of his path today, revisiting Leo and reactivating themes we may have started grappling with from November 3 - December 6, 2024, when the warrior planet was originally in Leo.
Back then, we may have taken some initiative and felt resolved about expressing our needs boldly, courageously, and maybe a bit indignantly. When Mars went back into Cancer in early January until now, we may have felt wounded emotionally and a bit defensive, retreating to lick our wounds and restrategize.
With the emotional insight Mars in Cancer offers, we advance more clearly, with what we feel is worth fighting for and protecting blazing in our hearts. We prepare to fight cleanly and righteously to regain ground and momentum until June 17, when the Mars story finally shifts into new territory.
April 19: Sun enters Taurus/Taurus Season
On Saturday, April 19, at 12:56 pm PT, we leave the initiatory flames of Aries’ Season to enter the splendour of mid-Springs fertile pastures. At the same time, Taurus Season 2025 packs a wallop, opening with many potent and activating planetary connections. While we celebrate the beauty of nature’s renewal, we’ll also need the strength and grounding of the bull to steady ourselves as the late April/May cosmic energies bring change and transformation.
April 27: New Moon at 7 degrees Taurus
April’s dark lunation occurs at 7 degrees of fertile Taurus, drawing our energies inward and downward and asking us to recharge by rooting deeply into our earthly intentions. Amid the swirl of Taurus Season’s dynamic creative energies, this New Moon asks us to slow down and luxuriate, catch up on sleep, and allow our projects to sit unfinished for a while.
Though the cosmic forces propelling 2025 into a new era compel us to act urgently, this Dark Moon reminds us to take action, grow, love, and create from a steady, stable perspective. All good things take time.
April 30: Venus re-enters Aries
April closes with Venus re-entering Aries’ forge. With the ruler of Taurus Season spending most of her time in the martial ram’s sign, we can expect mid-Spring to be boldly creative and romantically dynamic. Similarly to Mercury, Venus conjoins with Neptune within days of her entry into Aries on May 2.
Here, the planet of love and sensuality merges with the planet of dreams, ideals and fantasies, creating a tempestuous mood. May opens with collective yearnings to realize incandescent visions, following the promise of love and unfettered desires into unknown frontiers.
This planetary union can ignite and inflame, spreading in all directions like a gas fire, so we must proceed knowing what we open and release now cannot be reigned in. Perhaps this is the medicine needed if we feel stagnant in life, clinging to comforts that deaden our senses and anesthetize our souls.
Refer to the Neptune Horoscopes above to see what area of life is ablaze with the combined idealistic forces of Venus and Neptune.
Well, that’s all for now. Enjoy the Spring energy of renewal and longer, brighter days.
Cosmic tidings,
Debbie
