How Can Neptune Impact Your Intuition Astrologically?
Everyone wants to have killer instincts, and astrology can help with honing your intuition. What’s the first place to look? It’s usually going to be Neptune, which is the planetary ruler of intuition.
Intuitive Neptune in Your Natal Houses:
Pull up your natal chart (aka your birth chart) and find your natal Neptune location. Neptune moves reeeally slowly (spending more than a decade in one Zodiac sign), so instead of the sign placement, you’ll give more attention to the house placement in your natal chart.
The strongest placements for intuitive energy are Neptune in the 1st or 12th houses. The 1st house is the house of the self and is part of the building blocks for your personality and who you are as a person, so Neptune in the 1st house can be extra strong for you. You can identify pretty strongly with it, and can see yourself as naturally intuitive (you probably call yourself psychic a lot!). Other people can see you this way too (since the 1st house shows how you come across).
Then with the 12th house, Neptune naturally connects to the 12th house, so this is a homey position for Neptune and brings greater ease for Neptune’s energy, including intuition. It can come very naturally to you as well, however the 12th house is also the house of the hidden, so you might not be consciously aware of just how intuitive you are. With the 12th house also ruling sleep, you may have lots of prophetic dreams.
As for the remaining houses, the 2nd, 6th, and 10th houses are more grounded in nature, so having your natal Neptune located in any of these houses can bring earthy energy to your intuitive abilities. With the 2nd house, having stability, security, and confidence can go a long way toward growing your intuition; with the 6th house, you may try to be more practical with your intuition, making productive use of it, and need to merge the mundane with the magical to fully utilize your intuitive energy; and with the 10th house, your intuition can come out when you’re striving for a goal, and you may focus on learning to trust your instincts when you’re in pursuit of something.
The 3rd, 7th, and 11th houses can connect your mind with your intuition. You can get intuitive insights, sudden flashes, and you can explore various methods for growing your intuitive energy. With the 3rd house, your intuitive intelligence can become rock solid once you learn to sift through what’s pure imagination versus actual intuition; with the 7th house, being balanced can play a key role in allowing you to access your intuitive energy, and you may feel most intuitive with help, while also attract many intuitive people to you; and with the 11th house, you may explore your intuition in unusual ways, and can greatly benefit from using intuition with manifestation.
The 4th and 8th houses, this deepens your intuitive energy, and your emotions can be intertwined with your intuition. With the 4th house, having support and feeling solid internally with a strong internal foundation can lay the groundwork to having a strong intuition. With the 8th house, you may need to get to the core of issues to resolve in order to unlock your intuition, or undergo a major transformation first, but once through, your intuition can become quite powerful.
With the 5th and 9th houses, this brings more lightness to your intuitive energy. The 5th house merges your creativity or artistic abilities with your intuition, and you can channel the energy this way and find messages for yourself via what you create. The 9th house makes being intuitive an important part of your outlook and approach to life, and you can be willing to experiment with other ways of connecting to your intuition.
Intuitive Neptune to the Natal Sun and Moon:
The Sun rules your true inner self while the Moon rules your emotional self, so the relationship they have with any other body in your natal chart can have a direct influence on you, including Neptune and its intuition energy.
Neptune square (3 signs away) or opposite (6 signs away) your natal Sun or Moon can indicate challenges with connecting to your intuition. There might be a block (often subconscious), or something about using your intuition might be uncomfortable for you (but often the result of a block). The irony is, you might actually have MORE intuitive energy available to you! But you have to work on it first.
Neptune sextile (2 signs away) or trine (4 signs away) your natal Sun or Moon put Neptune at easy angles to the Sun or Moon, and this is easier energy to work with. Tapping into your intuition can become more natural for you.
The strongest can be having your natal Neptune conjunct, or aligned with, your natal Sun and Moon. Bodies conjunct your natal Sun or Moon have a super strong impact on you as a person, and can play a major role in your life. This means Neptune is likely the star of the show for you, and you have crazy strong intuition, BUT there can be challenges getting control over it. You have to work on getting control, which often means becoming more aware consciously.
Then there’s transit Neptune:
Transit, or moving, Neptune can also impact intuitive ability, and you’ll focus on when transit Neptune is making an aspect (coming to a specific angle) to your natal planets and house cusps/angles.
When transit Neptune is square or opposite a natal body (especially the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, 1st house ruler, or Ascendant), this can bring struggles accessing your intuitive energy (but temporarily since the aspect will pass). This can be an opportunity to expose blocks and old issues that are getting in the way for you to be truly intuitive.
When transit Neptune is sextile or trine a natal body (especially the same points), this makes it easier, and intuitive messages can come to you easily and effortlessly, and you can be more comfortable with it.
When transit Neptune is conjunct a natal body (especially the same points), there can be an onslaught of intuitive messages flowing to you, and your intuition can go into overdrive. The problem is sorting through, keeping track, and not getting overwhelmed! You may need to take more time for introspection and reflection, and to rest and recharge.
Recap:
Neptune is the planet of intuition
the house natal Neptune is located can get intuitive focus
your relationship to your intuitive self can be seen via Neptune to your Sun or Moon
transit Neptune can impact intuitive energy
