Neptune in Aries: Why Purpose Still Matters

Purpose is a big theme right now.That’s Neptune in Aries.

I’m personally at a crossroads with this in my own life.

After periods of intensity — dark nights of the soul, exhaustion, recovery — combined with the overwhelming state of the world, it can all become too much. For many of us, it feels easier to collapse into a quieter, more conformist life.

Questions naturally arise:

• Why restart initiatives?

• Why make the effort to be involved in community, especially when so many are in pain?

• Why seek connection, friendship, or love at the risk of being hurt, when it’s simpler to withdraw and hermit?

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Steven Forrest wrote recently on this theme:

“Imagine the sheer emptiness of having nothing in your life worth dying for. Many of our greatest heroes — Jesus, Joan of Arc, Martin Luther King — walked that talk.But how many have been persuaded to give their lives for almost nothing — a political theory, a worthless king, a banking system?”

Neptune in Aries is volatile and passionate — powerful, but not easily kept on a healthy track.

The key question becomes: What was the sacred gift you received while Neptune was in Pisces?And what are you going to do with it now?

All I know is this: as exhausting as it can be to engage with purpose and community, a life without purpose feels dead.

And that dead-ness seeps into mental health, physical vitality, and sustainability on Earth.

Is a life without meaning really optional?

Perhaps the place to start is simply this — to have the conversation, and to help re-enliven purpose in one another.

Steven Forrest offers a short course on this astrological shift, which I’ve found supportive.