AspectsSquareNeptune square Pluto

♆︎ □︎ ♇︎ Neptune square Pluto

Neptune square Pluto is friction with a purpose: the pull toward the boundless and the force of transformation pull at right angles and press for a decision.

Neptune dissolves the edges where there is dreams, compassion, and dissolution; Pluto transforms where there is power, buried things, and rebirth. What follows is what happens when the two are tied together.

Here imagination and mercy and depth and intensity keep getting in each other's way. The tension is uncomfortable on purpose; it is there to force growth rather than to be resolved once and filed away.

At its best the friction produces compassion and vision without a wall around them tempered by the power to remake yourself from the root. Under strain it slides toward a fog that hides what is real colliding with a grip that cannot let go, the same energy turned against itself.

As a transit, Neptune moving to square Pluto marks a passing window, hours to days for the Moon, months or years for the slow outer bodies, when the theme is live and worth watching. In a birth chart the same aspect is a standing feature of character rather than a single moment.

Here the square joins Neptune (dreams and dissolution) with Pluto (power and transformation), held 90° apart.

Right now

Neptune and Pluto currently stand about 60.1° apart, 29.9° away from an exact square. Watch it move on the live clock.

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In traditional astrology this is interpretation, not fate. More: about squares · all aspects.