Past, 158.6 days

Neptune retrograde, July 2025

Neptune stations retrograde on Friday 4 July 2025, 21:33 UTC at 2°11′ Aries and turns direct on Wednesday 10 December 2025, 12:23 UTC at 29°22′ Pisces, having slipped back from Aries into Pisces. The shadow period runs from 13 March 2025 to 31 March 2026.

Neptune turns retrograde on 4 July 2025 at 2°11' Aries, only a short way into the sign, and spends 158.6 days apparently moving backward. By the time it stations direct on 10 December 2025, it has returned to 29°22' Pisces, the final degree of that sign. Because Neptune moves so slowly, its shadow period is long, running from 13 March 2025 to 31 March 2026.

The tradition associates Neptune with dreams, ideals, compassion and the blurring of boundaries. Astrologers read its slip from Aries, the sign of the self and new starts, back into Pisces, the sign of endings and imagination, as a pause in which older hopes are looked at once more. A practical suggestion: write down an ideal you hold and ask, without hurry, which parts still feel true.

By sign

Which house it walks through

	House	Neptune's retrograde (Pisces and Aries) falls on
Aries	twelfth	rest, privacy, what happens behind the scenes
Taurus	eleventh	friends, groups, plans
Gemini	tenth	career and public role
Cancer	ninth	travel, study, beliefs
Leo	eighth	shared money, intimacy, endings
Virgo	seventh	partners and one-to-one relationships
Libra	sixth	daily work, routines, health
Scorpio	fifth	romance, play, children, creative work
Sagittarius	fourth	home, family, roots
Capricorn	third	conversations, siblings, short trips
Aquarius	second	money, possessions, values
Pisces	first	self, body, how you come across

Whole-sign houses counted from the Sun sign, the convention behind every Sun-sign horoscope. Your rising sign gives a more personal count: draw your chart.

The retrograde starts one sign later, in Aries: add one house for the first part.