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Neptune in Taurus

Nobody alive has Neptune in Taurus: its last pass ended in the 1880s and the next begins in the late 2030s. It is read as an era that dreams through the senses, idealising land, craft, comfort and what money is really worth.

  • romanticises the land
  • faith in tangible things
  • dreams through the senses
  • blurred sense of value
  • slow, deep longing

Personality and temperament

Neptune spends about fourteen years in each sign, so its sign marks a generation and an era more than a person. Personal meaning comes from the house it occupies and its aspects to the Sun, Moon, Ascendant and personal planets.

Taurus is ruled by Venus, and Neptune here turns its longing toward the physical world: soil, food, music, the body, objects made well. Its previous pass coincided with a late nineteenth century fascination with nature, painting outdoors, arts and crafts revivals, and the comfortable middle-class home as an ideal. Neptune dissolves whatever it touches, and in a money sign it is read as blurring what value means: paper wealth, speculation, the feeling that comfort is solid when it is not.

For the generation born under the next pass, astrologers anticipate a spiritual relationship with the earth and the senses, a longing for slowness, and art that is tactile and rooted. The blind spot is likely to be attachment: mistaking possessions or a peaceful setting for peace itself, and resisting change because the dream is of something that stays.

When was Neptune in Taurus?

Dates of Neptune in Taurus between 1900 and 2050, calculated with our own ephemeris. A planet near the edge of a sign can cross back and forth for a year or more as it turns retrograde, so a passage can have several stretches. If you were born close to one of the dates below, check your chart rather than the year.

Neptune in Taurus, 1900–2050
EnteredLeftExact dates
May 2038
May 2052
Future Neptune crossed in and out:22 May 2038 – 21 Oct 203823 Mar 2039 – 16 Jul 205122 Oct 2051 – 12 May 2052

Calculated by Lunonis with the same ephemeris code as our charts (built on astronomy-engine, tested against Swiss Ephemeris): geocentric, tropical zodiac, true equinox of date. Dates are in UTC.

Love and relationships

In charts with this placement, love is read as idealised through touch, loyalty and shared ordinary pleasures. The romantic dream is a home and a body to come back to, a partner as dependable as good bread. Where Neptune aspects Venus or the Moon in such a chart, the person may romanticise stability itself and stay too long in something comfortable but unloving. As a transit, Neptune in Taurus tends to soften attitudes to sensuality and to make the domestic and the bodily feel sacred.

Work and ambition

Work under this placement is read as drawn to craft, farming, food, design, music and anything that turns a dream into a physical thing. Money is the tricky area. Neptune in Taurus can bring a talent for making beautiful things that sell and also a hazy relationship with budgets, prices and worth.

Strengths

  • The placement is read as a deep, patient feeling for nature and the body.
  • Artistic gifts tend to be practical, producing things people can hold, hear or eat.
  • Its idealism is steady and slow to give up on what it loves.

Challenges

  • Value becomes foggy, with prices, savings and worth all open to wishful thinking.
  • The longing for security can harden into resistance to any change.
  • Comfort may be mistaken for contentment, and possessions for peace.
Earth · Fixed

Element and modality

Earth gives Neptune something to hold. The usual vagueness becomes a feeling for texture, scenery and material beauty, and spiritual life is sought through the body and through work done by hand. Fixed modality slows Neptune right down. The dreams are durable and loyal, held for decades, and dissolving them takes a long time. That steadiness is both the gift and the blind spot: an idealised status quo is hard to recognise as an illusion.

Questions

Asked about Neptune in Taurus

When was Neptune last in Taurus?

Neptune’s previous pass through Taurus ran from the mid-1870s to the late 1880s, so no one living has it in their birth chart. The next pass begins in the late 2030s and lasts into the early 2050s. The table on this page shows the exact dates.

What does Neptune in Taurus mean?

It is read as a generation that idealises the physical world: land, beauty, comfort, craft and the body. Its spirituality tends to be grounded and sensual. The shadow is confusion about money and value, and an attachment to comfort that resists change.

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