Neptune trine Venus transit: meaning, duration and advice

During this transit, Neptune moves through a sign of the same element as your natal Venus, 120 degrees from it, and the two energies practically finish each other’s sentences. Your Venus governs your way of loving, your pleasures, your taste, what you value and your generosity toward beauty and toward your loved ones; Neptune brings it inspiration, compassion, a sense of the sacred. What gets activated is a happy sensitivity: beauty leaps out at you everywhere, in a tired face as in a crumbling facade, and the love you feel for people grows broader as it grows less demanding. Where the square makes the gap between dream and reality painful, the trine makes them coincide: the beauty you imagine, you find.

In daily life, you live through a kind of inner spring. People seek out your company because it soothes; compliments come to you easily and ring true; your home, your wardrobe, the tables you set gain in harmony without effort or expense. If you create, ideas arrive faster than your hands can follow; if not, you feel the urge to write, to photograph, to sing. In a couple, tenderness turns contemplative again, with long, happy silences; single, you love the whole world without expecting anything back. The questions of the period are few and happy ones: what is all this abundance of beauty asking me to do? Who deserves the tenderness I feel overflowing? What gesture could hold on to a little of this light?

Neptune trine Venus demands no effort, and that is its only trap. It asks you to do something with this current: a finished work, a declared love, generosity that is organized rather than scattered, a place made beautiful for people other than yourself. The risk is complacency: two years of finding everyone marvelous and every project sublime, of loving vaguely without choosing anyone, of spending for atmosphere without building anything, and of empty hands when the season turns. The gift, for anyone who rolls up their sleeves while everything is easy, is rare: a taste that has moved up a level, a creation born without struggle, bonds that are tenderer and more spiritual, a heart that knows how to love broadly without losing itself.

The trine lasts about two years within a one-degree orb, Neptune advancing two degrees a year and spending five months of every year retrograde. Its three passes, sometimes five, unfold without a jolt: the first opens the current, the retrograde deepens it and gives time to what you have begun, the last settles this refined taste into you as a lasting quality. Since Neptune takes 165 years to complete the zodiac, and its two possible trines to your Venus flank the opposition, about fifty years separate them: you will live this season once or twice, depending on where Neptune stood at your birth.

You’re living it if Neptune is in a sign of the same element as your Venus, four signs ahead or behind: a Fire-sign Venus receives the trine of a Fire-sign Neptune, a Water-sign Venus that of a Water-sign Neptune. The site’s free birth chart gives the degree of your Venus, the sky-of-the-day page gives Neptune’s; a degree or two either side of the exact 120 degrees, and the current carries you.