Mercury Neptune aspects are the most potent combination for poetic and magical thinking. It supplies the native with a gushing well of imagination that knows no bounds. At its most positive, this aspect is fabulous for the artist or musician because it works so well with non-verbal communication.
Neptune is associated with right-brain, non-rational thinking and with Mercury you might imagine that this aspect could cause learning difficulties and foggy recall. This can be true if negatively aspected, but generally, the conjunction seems to be very gifted in glamourising information and showing things in their best possible light. The Instagram filter is your best Mercury/Neptune tool as is the advertiser’s dream application, photoshop.
Mercury Conjunction/Square/Opposition Neptune Transit
Mercury is in hard aspect to Neptune in the sky can be a sneaky liar! Watch out for gaslighting in the media and in general. This transit will test your powers of intuition, but it will give you the opportunity to develop it too. You can transmute the sorcery of this aspect into something creative, especially in the realms of film, photograph or music. Use this time of illusion to create fantasies and glamour. Great for branding yourself on social media. This is THE aspect for instagram filters. Beware cat-fishing!
Mercury Neptune aspect can be very psychic and it is also able to infiltrate the minds of others. Most often this is done by brain-washing with subliminal imagery and romantic, tear-jerking music.
You see this done so well within the movie industry and in pop promo videos. It is interesting so many industry songbirds are on the list below, plus a couple of porno stars too. I guess that would show Neptune’s dissolving of boundaries pretty blatantly.
Of course, lying would be one of Mercury Neptune aspect’s worse manifestations and this also leads to making one a skilled propagandist. This is not then really the position of the scientist or the engineer as this aspect can so readily make adjustments to the truth. However, social engineering in the form of the Tavistock institute kind would resonate strongly with this archetype.
“ The typical Mercury/Neptune person has a gift for distorting reality. A distortion can be highly creative or dangerously misleading, It’s a common combination for those who work in the media and more especially the advertising industry” [1]
Mercury Neptune aspects are a gift to the psychologist as they will be able to read their patient very well. On the other hand, this can also be the narcissist that carefully studies the psyche of their prey so that they can manipulate them. Of course, ‘gas-lighting’ would also be possible too with this aspect.
Mercury sextile/Trine Neptune Transit
When Mercury is sextile or trine Neptune in the sky life is surreal and dreamlike. This is a beautiful, poetic energy which inspires the imagination. We feel more connected and loving towards to each other. Develop intuition and pick up your tarot cards as the universe will have something meaningful to reveal to you. Automatic writing or abstract expressionist painting are well starred today too.
Rudolf Steiner was born with Mercury conjunct Neptune. He was famous for trying to find a bridge between science and spirituality. Steiner was a philosopher, social reformer, architect and esotericist. Steiner’s early spiritual experiences demonstrate his Mercury conjunct Neptune really well. At aged Nine he saw the spirit of his aunt asking for help just before she committed suicide before any of his family knew. However, Steiner kept his psychic abilities under wraps and during his early career, he is generally seen as the Mercurial scholar. That is until he ‘went mad’ (or Neptunian) after the age of 40.
Blurring The Boundaries
“Steiner first began speaking publicly about spiritual experiences and phenomena in his 1899 lectures to the Theosophical Society. By 1901 he had begun to write about spiritual topics, initially in the form of discussions of historical figures such as the mystics of the Middle Ages.” ~ Wikipedia
Not surprisingly for a Neptunian thinker. Steiner had at one time close ties with the Theosophical society, but viewed it through a more western lens. Wikipedia continues; “In 1899 Steiner experienced what he described as a life-transforming inner encounter with the being of Christ; previously he had little or no relation to Christianity in any form.
Then and thereafter, his relationship to Christianity remained entirely founded upon personal experience, and thus both non-denominational and strikingly different from conventional religious forms….”
Wikipedia goes on to state; “Steiner’s views of Christianity diverge from conventional Christian thought in key places and include gnostic elements… However, unlike many gnostics, Steiner affirms the unique and actual physical Incarnation of Christ in Jesus at the beginning of the Christian era.” Rudolf Steiner’s life is a great example of the themes of Mercury conjunct Neptune. His conjunction, perhaps not surprisingly, was in Pisces!
1. Planetary Aspects. Sue Tompkins. p.172
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Mercury Neptune Aspects
Mercury Conjunction Neptune
“You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.” ~ Wallis Simpson
Vladimir Putin, Martin Luther, Neil Armstrong, Wallis Simpson, Taylor Swift, Christina Aguilera, Nicki Minaj, RuPaul, Julio Iglesias, Sinead O’Connor, Nelly Furtado, Kim Wilde, Zucchero, David Soul, Tom Petty, Jeff Buckley, Ingmar Bergman, Michael Moore, Anne Bancroft, Yul Brynner, Tatum O’Neal, Demi Moore, Ian Holm, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Redford, Meg Ryan, Maria Shriver, Pebbles Santiago, Phil Andros, Friedrich Hegel, Catherine of Aragon, Mary I of England, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Erasmus, North Korea, China, Friday 13th Templar Attacks.
Mercury Sextile Neptune
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web… Now even my cat has its own page. ~ Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton, Margaret Thatcher, Sadiq Khan, Grigori Rasputin, Woodrow Wilson, Rudolf Hess, Wilhelm Frick, Steven Spielberg, Brad Pitt, Drew Barrymore, Ralph Fiennes, Matt Damon, Peter Cushing, Gloria Swanson, River Phoenix, Martin Sheen, Jennifer Aniston, Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn, Mickey Rooney, Gene Wilder, Whitney Houston, Fred Astaire, John Cleese, David Hasselhoff, Emily Watson, Simon Pegg, Claudia Schiffer, Alicia Keys, Kate Bush, Belinda Carlisle, Susanna Hoffs, Lemmy, Liam Gallagher, Jimi Hendrix, Kesha, Jay Kay, Roy Lichtenstein, Claude Monet, Guccio Gucci, Ennio Morricone, Franz Liszt, Michael Schumacher, Billie Jean King, Terry Fox, Giacomo Casanova, Michel Gauquelin, Louise Hay, Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Escobar.
Mercury Square Neptune
“Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I’m paid to tell elaborate lies.” ~
Mel Gibson
Herbert Hoover, Christopher Nolan, Aaron Spelling, Mel Gibson, David Arquette, Roy Scheider, Audrey Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Mae West, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Dennis Hopper, Gérard Depardieu, Martin Shaw, Bobby Darin, Morgan Fairchild, Jim Carrey, Montgomery Clift, Bettie Page, Wesley Snipes, David Bowie, Tricky, Jon Bon Jovi, Bob Dylan, Shania Twain, Peter Murphy, Shirley Manson, Sarah Brightman, Miles Davis, The Edge, Cat Stevens, James Blunt, W. Axl Rose, Robbie Williams, Dolores O’Riordan, Robin Gibb, Luciano Benetton, Guillaume Apollinaire, Louise Huber, Jack London, Arthur Miller, Joseph Campbell, Lord Byron, M. Scott Peck, Napoléon II Bonaparte, Otto von Bismarck, Billy the Kid, Chelsea Clinton
Mercury Trine Neptune
“When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.” ~
Osho
Giuseppe Garibaldi, Indira Gándhí, Nicolas Sarkozy, Stephen Hawking, Mark Zuckerberg, Heinrich Himmler, Josef Mengele, Alan Parker, Nicole Kidman, Ian McKellen, Morgan Freeman, Michael J. Fox, Tallulah Bankhead, John Hurt, John Mills, Faye Dunaway, Meryl Streep, Sammy Davis Jr, Mia Farrow, Sharon Tate, Vanessa Redgrave, Shirley Temple, Pamela Anderson, Juliette Binoche, Seth Roge, Emma Watson, Carmen Electra, Lionel Richie, Jimmy Somerville, Eric Burdon, Maria Callas, Róisín Murphy, Brian Eno, Tammy Wynette, Bobby Vee, Mick Hucknall, Neneh Cherry, Alison Moyet, Cilla Black, Robert Palmer, Victoria Beckham, Billy Joel, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Wilhelm Grimm, Stendhal, Tim Berners-Lee, Wassily Kandinsky, Osho – Rajneesh, Louis Chevrolet, Beatrix, Queen of Netherlands, Walter Koch
Mercury opposition Neptune
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” ~ Yoko Ono
