Moon-Neptune Aspects: The Daydreamer

With your Moon sign conjunct, square, opposite, sextile, or trine Neptune, you are the epitome of the day dreamer. This is due to the fact both the Moon and Neptune are highly unconscious and intuitive planets. The combination of these two energies results in a person whose subconscious nature is extremely active, sometimes to an overwhelming degree. Real life is not as nearly as fulfilling to them as the life that’s dreamed. A significant challenge for you may be finding a way to direct and channel this energy. You’re certainly not going to be able to control it. Moon-Neptune aspects manifest in very mysterious ways that can easily elude the grasp of conscious self-awareness. Even if you are aware of it, it’s just best to allow this energy to flow naturally and freely while still within certain practical, healthy confines. Nailing this balance is the essential thing for a Moon-Neptune individual.  

The Moon is the planet of emotional responses and needs. Its expression is as evident as early as childhood, which is when many people express their Moon with the least amount of inhibition. Neptune, on the other hand, represents artistry, imagination, spiritual transcendence, and a universal sense of empathy for others. So, as a Moon-Neptune child, you were a kid who really lived on a different wavelength. You found it easy to get completely lost within your imagination, to the degree that your parents regularly had to pull you out of it, from time to time. You developed a strong need for these games of make believe, as they allowed you to enter some magical world that you otherwise couldn’t. The average Moon-Neptune child is also very empathic, from an early age, easily able to pick up on people’s feelings. Both the Moon and Neptune are very caring energies and the combination of these two planets often symbolizes a bleeding heart, which you probably were from the start.

Our Moon also represents our relationship with our primary nurturing figure, whether it was a mother or a father. For a person with Moon in aspect to Neptune, there’s usually a profound sense of merging within this relationship, for better or for worse. Many Moon-Neptune people have a nurturing figure who subtly demands for the child to take care of them. This parent is emotionally stunted and dysfunctional, possibly even mentally ill, with some sort of personality or mood disorder. They may also have an addictive personality, as Neptune represents addictions of all sorts. The parent could’ve struggled with drugs or alcohol or maybe just with finding some way to evade their responsibilities and realities. As a result, they looked to their child, who was often quickly responsive to them, for comfort and support. This sets up a pattern for you, Moon-Neptune, of being the one to compulsively take care of others. You’re not used to feeling any sort of emotional boundaries between you and another person, due to your nurturing parent. You feel like their problems are your problems and need to be healed immediately.

The other kind of nurturing figure for a Moon-Neptune individual is more positive and functional. This parent represents an ideal sense of compassion, spirituality, and creativity. They display a remarkably nonjudgmental attitude toward their child, simply allowing them to be themselves and unconditionally accepting them, without criticism or pressure. The parent might be either an artist of some kind or a person involved in a healing profession. Whether you had the empathetic nurturing figure or the sick, dysfunctional nurturing figure, you were given an example of putting the emotional needs of others before your own. This might make you an exceptionally caring, tenderhearted adult but, if taken too far, it can prevent you from truly getting in touch with what you need in a situation. You might too compulsively put your needs aside to cater to other people’s feelings.

Having a Moon-Neptune aspect means that you are a true emotional sponge, apt to soaking up all of the emotions of everyone else within a room. All strongly Neptune types display this ability but for those with the Moon (the instinctual nature) hooked up to Neptune, this trait runs the deepest. In fact, you often times don’t even realize when you’re taking on other people’s thoughts and emotional responses as your own. It can go as far as you unconsciously imitating the speech patterns and physical mannerisms of those who you’re closest with. This is especially true if they’re having or just had some sort of emotional episode. It’s like you take them into yourself. Intimate relationships can feel overwhelming to Moon-Neptune people because of this and it’s why many of them seem to prefer solitude. Being alone can feel like the only time when you get any real peace.

Solitary time allows you to unravel that inner life of yours. But Moon-Neptune energy is very difficult to unravel. Neptune is chameleonic, capable of spanning the broad range of human behavior from saint to sinner to every shade of grey between. So, with Moon in aspect to Neptune, you have the ability to access all of the various colors of your Moon sign, especially since the Moon is such a changeable, fluid energy. It really all depends on your mood. You can be fragile, powerful, lost, inspired, melancholy, faithful, inaccessible, unguarded, profound, and silly. It can seem to people as if you’re constantly changing, from one moment to the next, particularly depending on what environment you’re in or who you’re around. This utterly multi-faceted quality comes effortlessly to you and is what allows you to emotionally understand everyone. If you also have the Moon in a Water sign, then there’s nobody’s shoes that you can’t put yourself in. You know exactly where they’re coming from and what they’re feeling.

For Moon-Neptune people, the key is to channel this divine empathy and emotional depth into a constructive outlet. Lots of people with this aspect will become artists, either by profession or by hobby. Obviously, the creative fields make the perfect channel for the Moon-Neptune soul. Your vast imagination, your instinctive ability to be anyone at anytime, and your deeply felt emotional life are tailor-made for being an actor, a writer, or a musician/singer. Moon-Neptune folks are just highly sensitive, sometimes more so than they’d like to admit, and might need a bit of coaxing to open themselves up to being emotionally exposed like that. They might be rather shy in the beginning, in that way. But, once they become comfortable expressing their inner selves on the stage, they can do amazing things. We don’t really have to think about the Moon’s expression. It just flows out of us, once we’re open and our guard is down. So, Moon-Neptune artists are usually the ones who just can’t explain where their inspiration comes from or what their process is. It comes from some profound place that even they don’t fully understand.

Being creative is what allows the Moon-Neptune individual to feel attuned with humanity, which is a deep-seated need of this placement. These people need to honor their compassion and their need to be openly compassionate, which can be difficult in this often cold world. Spiritual practices can go a long way in this regard, as well, teaching always to forgive and to give unconditionally. That’s why, if you have this aspect and haven’t found some sort of artistic or spiritual outlet, it might be easy for you to harden or become self-absorbed. If you don’t learn what to do with your gifts, you might just shut down altogether. You may try to act uncaring and cold (taking on a role, in true Neptune fashion) when the truth is anything but. This can be the result of being taken advantage of one too many times, sucked dry emotionally or financially. It might also be because you just feel like your needs are never being met and it leads you to develop a self-victimizing, “why me?” mentality that can make you the one who’s endlessly draining others. You may become compulsively needy, driven by a feeling that your feelings are never recognized, even as you rob the emotional resources from those who are trying to help but inevitably give up.

To become a healthy Moon-Neptune, you must neither drain others nor allow yourself to be drained. Boundaries must be set. Even some of the seemingly tougher people with these aspects feel terribly guilty for not answering a troubled friend’s phone call when they understandably just need some me-time. You must remember that you are responsible for no one’s feelings but your own. You can use your healing abilities to comfort others and make them feel accepted. But, you don’t have to carry the weight of their emotional needs. Alternately, no one is responsible for how you feel, either. Some people with the Moon in aspect to Neptune can play serious yet subtle guilt trips with others, as they are so dependent on people’s responses, feeling like they are the source of their happiness and well-being. Falling back on neither behavior pattern helps to establish healthy limits in your relationships.

Having this placement means that you’re supposed to take comfort in the fact that we’re all emotionally connected. The purpose of a Moon-Neptune aspect is to neither encourage nor pursue too much emotional dependence. Even when you have children, you’ll probably be wonderfully caring and nurturing toward them but still aren’t going to keep them overly tied to you. Neptune isn’t an exclusive energy. It opens its arms to all and doesn’t discriminate. So, seeing how the Moon rules how we take care of others, you’re really meant to take care of people in a universal, far-reaching manner. You can be drawn to charity work because of this. You’ll feel fulfilled by showing up to the homeless shelter or the nursing home and uplifting the people there. Just make sure you’re doing this selflessly and to not be given credit for being selfless. There’s often a subtle difference with these aspects. Don’t play the martyr role. Instead, engage in acts of kindness for the sheer fulfillment of uplifting a fellow human being.

Moon-Neptune energy is extremely intuitive. The good thing is that you’re borderline psychic, when you know how to use this energy. You can “read” people well, tend to call things before they happen, and dreams are a particularly vivid thing for you. Just about everyone with this aspect absolutely loves to sleep, which makes sense as both planets are unconscious planets. You’re a very deep sleeper and completely enter another realm when you go to sleep. Your dreams are so powerful that they truly feel real to you. Sure, most people say that. But, a Moon-Neptune’s person’s dreams are nothing to fool around with. They’re often predictive, if the person pays attention to them. Being unable to sleep is a rarity for you but also evidence that some real emotional problems need to be worked out. It can be a sign of running from the depths of your feelings, as this aspect allows your emotions to heavily manifest in your dream life. That dream life can also bleed into your waking life. People tend to catch you daydreaming or getting so wrapped up in your deep thoughts that you forget what’s happening around you.

You’re very susceptible to the irrational elements of this energy, especially if you have the conjunction, square, or opposition and/or the Moon in one of the Water signs. An unbalanced Moon-Neptune person can become deluded, in some way. You probably have a running habit of lying to yourself and to others, although it’s often about relatively harmless things. If you convince yourself that’s something true, you can sell the story very well, even to someone who’s very perceptive about when someone is lying. This placement usually makes for an effortlessly good liar, due to the boundless imagination. It can become a compulsive thing, as you often don’t even mean for the lie to come out of your mouth, and a way of protecting yourself from being exposed. It’s usually not in a malicious way, though. Moon-Neptune is very prone to just fibbing about things that would bring up feelings that they don’t want to face or talk about with someone else. So, obviously, cultivating more emotional honesty and directness, in this regard, is a way to curb this habit.

There is usually an appealing air of vulnerability around Moon-Neptune individuals. You will display your Moon sign in very vivid and soulful ways because the expression of Neptune is like the ocean. It’s too large and limitless to contain. So, the traits and responses of your Moon sign are often spilling out and over, like a tipped over glass of water, even when you don’t want them to be. You also have a very deep connection to this energy, as your intuition is an overriding element in your nature. You need to feel like you can operate on this sense of flow and not have this wavelength interfered with or directed by others. You feel comfortable around very tolerant, accepting souls who aren’t going to be too judgmental. Moon in aspect to Neptune really has a need for peace, at the end of the day. You want a truly safe haven to come home to, in order to disconnect from the hustle and bustle of the world. This can involve a few trusted friends or loved ones but it can also just involve yourself, as you’re most likely at ease alone. All you really need are great music, movies, books, television series, etc. to get totally lost within. This (healthy) sense of escapism is one of the things that makes you happiest in life.

Moon conjunct Neptune: Out of all the aspects, you’re probably the most prone to being overwhelmed. This is because you find it so natural to receive all of these different impressions and psychic impulses that you see it as a way of life. You can actually be very surprised to learn that a lot of other people don’t process situations in this way. The conjunction means that you can experience irrational phobias or anxieties or you can access an eerie sense of inner calm. You might be so spiritually enlightened that you have an emotional center most could only dream of.

Moon square or opposite Neptune: The square and the opposition are the most challenging aspects. So, you might struggle with feeling emotionally balanced, often veering toward alarmingly deluded or irrational behavior. You are the most prone, out of this group, to try and adapt to the cut-and-dry ways of the world, instead of fully embracing your beautifully sensitive, creative spirit. It usually takes a conscious stepping away from the “real world” to create your own values. You have to learn to be both in the world but not of it, operating on your own plane.

Moon sextile or trine Neptune: Having the sextile or trine gives you the most balanced approach to this energy. You know how to survive and adapt to the demands of the world while still being defined by your own spiritual ideals and sense of compassion. You are highly adaptable, in fact, and might be a bit too prone to using your empathic way with people to manipulate a personal situation to your advantage. Being an artist is something you may really utilize, as you have a savvy understanding of how to use your creative skills to contribute to the world.