Neptune aligned with the Galactic South Pole
- Fran Arnet
- Aug 9
- 8 min read
Updated: Sep 20
Neptune has reached 0 degrees Pisces in April 2023 and has since moved the 5 degrees to align with the South Galactic Pole, which only happens once in Neptune's orbit of ca. 167 years.
I did write quite a lot about this alignment in the "August 2025 new Beginnings post" (linked here) because there are also Ceres and Saturn involved.
I have titled that August 2025 post "nourishing the own pregnancy" - it's an energy type I perceive as highly potent and I would say it's holding a lot of "unexpectedness" within it as well - as that, reactions and responses might be very various.
As we're same time in a kind of "pressure cooker" there's really the feel of something to emerge - how much we feel the "birth pain" depends many factors and I'm certain, we have it in our own hands, if we're going to focus on the pain or onto the future that is emerging.
If you're curious about the historical relationships - just read the "Neptune at 0 degrees Pisces" section here below...
Neptune at 0 degrees Pisces
Whatever “school” of Astrology one may follow – the “sign division” is a system used for quite a while and I think it’s there for a reason, the exact “why and what” is somehow lost….
But for this post, it shall not matter as you will see further down….
Yes, Neptune has entered the constellation of Pisces a while ago and on 17th/18th of April 2023 (depending the time zone), he’ll reach the heliocentric 0° sidereal Pisces – geocentric it happened ca. 12 hours after the March Equinox….
It also means, that Neptune is slowly coming into orb of longitude with the Vernal Point and the Galactic South Pole (in 2025 - so we have some time to "prepare" for that alignment)...
As we’re dealing with Neptune, a planet with an orbit usually people can’t follow up within a life time, I wondered, when it had happened last, him to be at this exact point and what the historical data collection of Wikipedia has to say about that time… it was on 30th of June 1858 and a very interesting chart, in which Neptune did hold many “strings” (aspects), which isn’t the case this time – he’s opposed by Mercury just under the Lion’s tail… but maybe that’s the main focus right now for us - “clear / clair” about – the communicative powers of the mind….
But before we dive into those details, let us have a look at what Neptune represents:
He’s about transcendence, clarity, dreams, illusions and disillusions but also escapism. He’s about connection and communication between realms – the physical and the nonphysical, light and dark etc. Furthermore, I think he got a lot to do with memory and what role emotions play within those and/or to see “through” these emotions - gaining clarity about the own emotions or to use another word "awareness"… I usually call this the “inner cell phone”…. The same “principle” we can apply to dreams in their various forms/realms/states….
As Neptune was discovered in 1846, there have been only 12 years of conscious living with Neptune until he was at the same place of the zodiac as now. That also means, that we’re now in the second orbit of consciously knowing about him (first "return" of Neptune at his discovery position was in July 2011) and same time we’re discovering loads and loads of history and their apparent or veiled meanings.
In history, those times were very interesting, especially when we also take into count, that Saturn (structures, authority, maturity, commitments etc.) had shifted his nodal axis from sidereal Capricorn / Cancer into Sagittarius / Gemini and was also involved directly in the discovery charts of Neptune…. Eris was involved in the discovery chart of Neptune as well, yet, she was just discovered in 2005 but nevertheless a force at work (just not as conscious), with all the revelations and wars that were going on in the time to make space for changes to happen…
The first industrial revolution “ended” around 1840 and the second industrial or technological revolution “started” around 1870 and therefore our “time frame” of Neptune right in between…
When we look at the 1850’s and 1860’s we see a lot of wars, inventions and discoveries that ended in new “alliances”, and advancements in many fields of life like medicine, evolutionary themes, genetics (pre-discoveries), technology etc., there were shifts in literature, fashion and even new churches have developed….
In the end of the 19th century the last conjunction between Neptune and Pluto took place (the current cycle) – again and of course “transforming” and yes, things did happen in the last 100 years in a speed that’s very rapid compared to what was in many millennia… well, at least on the physical plane…
Yet, with the Neptune and Pluto conjunction also the “metaphysical” and “nonphysical” realms started to be discussed in very different ways and ancient wisdom to be re-discovered and put into new structures or forms of understanding / interpretation… and that’s a process many of us see “explosively” increase in the last few decades….
The "0-point Pisces":
As you can see along the "grayish" line - there's not much on this O-point, except the middle of the "fish head", called the "circlet"...
North of it, Markab and Scheat both of Pegasus.
South, the "tail" of the Phoenix and Sculptor, where there's also the South Galactic Pole...
Markab also talks about the "Merkabah" - a geometry, that includes geometry (like the cycles within cycles).
The activation of many parts of the bodies can be achieved by using this "technology".
The whole cusp area is about bringing the physical and non-physical into a harmony, a collaboration... a technology that can be used for "fulfillment"....
The SGP in Sculptor and above the Phoenix, does indicate very fundamental energy - intention...
Neptune brings the clarity of intention, the awareness of intention and the ability to communicate it within the system - an inner cell phone, and therefore a "two way street"....
The awareness of the powers of emotion as a tool instead of something we're kind of "entrapped" in and brings us to reactions we may feel sorry, guilty or ashamed of after....
