Neptune in aspect to Midheaven

This aspect presents many opportunities and many challenges. You are very sensitive to whatever happens around you, and you seem to soak up impressions like a sponge. But you do not always know what these impressions mean or what to do with them. Consequently there is a real danger that you will be confused much of the time, especially about who you are and where you are going. Unfortunately, with this aspect you tend to get discouraged and depressed about yourself, feeling that you will never get a real grasp of what is happening in your life. One of your parents, at least, should be able to lovingly but firmly guide you through life and point out the difference between realities and illusions.

This position is often associated with psychic ability, which may be the source of the impressions that seem so confusing and hard to understand. Your parents should accept the fact that your so-called fantasies are actually based on a reality that is not easy to understand. They should help you learn to interpret this reality rather than saying that you are only dreaming or making it all up.

It won't be easy to find the right course to follow in life, but this position provides a few clues. First of all, you should feel that you are working for a cause higher than yourself, whether it is serving or taking care of others in some way or working for an idea or faith. This aspect has a very strongly religious dimension. But it is more mystical than orthodox, and even while you are young you will be attracted to mystical and otherworldly ideals.

Neptune conjunct Midheaven: The Midheaven represents social and business behavior based on self-image. With Neptune on the Midheaven, there is no possibility that a clear-cut picture will be obtained - the blurring and undermining influence is too great. As likely as not, we shall suffer from identity problems about who we are and about our role in life. This makes us extremely sensitive to what others think and say; and at first we shall be prepared to accept their assessment of us. But their assessment is wildly inaccurate, because between them and us drifts Neptune's hazy smoke-screen: what they tell us about ourselves sounds so unbelievable that awe are thrown into utter confusion. Besides all this, we seem to have a sixth sense for detecting undercurrents and changes in the human atmosphere; and this also affects the formation of our image.

For a long time, these factors can keep us wondering what to make of ourselves and our prospects, and can hinder us from finding our true sphere in life. Yet we should excel in things governed by Neptune; that is to say, wherever sympathy and understanding are required, as in social and charity work, also where we can give expression to feelings and a love of perfection, as in creative and musical activities. Initially, owing to a lack of confidence, we are not very enterprising; but once we get started, progress is surprising and we become much more self-reliant.

Neptune conjunct Midheaven: Neptune conjunct MC often suggests diffuse goals and an early uncertainty of direction with respect to an individual's choice of vocation. This aimlessness can sometimes be matched by a parent's ambivalent feelings as to how they want their child to be seen in the world. Many with Neptune conjunct the Midheaven want to be seen by the world at large as glamorous and wondrous: a savior, a prince or a princess; perhaps someone creative or representing some kind of public ideal. Many with this placement, especially when young, can find it very difficult to get hold of the reality of what is fitting for them to pursue, given their life-situation and individual talents. In extreme cases, if they meet someone who is writing a book, they want to write a book; if they get to know a politician, they yearn to pursue a career in politics - and so on. They want the glamour that they imagine others have in their lives. Those with Neptune conjunct the MC tend to dream of the future; at best this can spur them on to achieving the recognition they yearn for by actually fulfilling whatever their dream is. And the dream is usually not strictly personal; the individual often wants to 'save' the world in some way. This placement is ideal for any Neptunian type careers; the arts, music, work in welfare fields, charities, at sea, with water, to name but a few possibilities.

Neptune on either end of the MC-IC axis sometimes suggests a tendency to idealize one parent at the expense of the other. There is usually a distorted image of at least one of the parents and perhaps an experience of their being some kind of victim. For some with Neptune on the MC, it is the thirst for recognition from a parent that propels the individual into weaving all sorts of romantic dreams of what they are going to do with their lives; for they feel that if the world recognizes them, then so will the parent.

Neptune conjunct Midheaven: Natives with this conjunction tend to be anything but the average employer's ideal of stable employees. The dreams and mystical qualities of Neptune do not combine well with the routine discipline required by the average job. These natives do better in professions that make use of their creative imaginations and ascetic traits.

The conjunction favors musicians, actors, painters, photographers, moviemakers, psychologists, and persons interested in the occult. Professions may be related to the occult in some way. Even though these natives may be in the public eye, they feel spiritually isolated - alone in a crowd, and in fact most people do not understand their inner motivations.

If the horoscope is that of an exceptionally developed person, he may be destined to perform a mission in the world that will lift many people around him to greater attainment and spirituality. If this conjunction is heavily afflicted, scandal or public disgrace is a danger. This can come through the natives' unreliability or because of alcoholism, drugs, or other forms of addiction. The natives should be careful not to get involved in secret intrigues, especially when they cannot know all the factors involved. Private secrets are not so private when Neptune is found in this position.

Neptune conjunct Midheaven: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 2, Frank Sinatra 2, Patti Smith 2, Lance 2, Clint Eastwood 3, David 3, Erika 3, JRosh 3, Pankaj 5, John D. Rockefeller 6, Tom 6, Bruce Lee7

Neptune sextile Midheaven

This aspect signifies that you aren't particularly interested in being self-assertive, that you prefer to live in a quiet and peaceful world of your own making. If you cannot find anyone else who shares your attitude, you don't mind living alone. You do not really care that much about being with other people, because they interfere with your excursions into the private world of your dreams and fantasies. but you don't dislike people; in fact, you are very sensitive to their needs and wants, and you feel that you should be of service in some way.

In youth, you are very interested in ideas that others of your age usually ignore, such as religious ideals (at a rather simple level of understanding while you are young), and even occult beliefs; a love of the mysterious and supernatural.

Because you are quite sensitive, you need to be with very positive and supportive people. If you are with people who harbor many negative thoughts, you will become a victim of their negativity and feel very unhappy. Also, such people would make you feel suspicious of others, when you really want to see their finest, most spiritual side. Your parents should support your efforts to see the good in other people, so that you will grow up to be a loving and unselfish person whose presence makes everyone's lives more beautiful. Without this support, you will be a rather retiring and shy person who avoids contact with others for fear of being hurt.

Neptune sextile Midheaven: This configuration gives the natives a sensitive awareness of hidden factors affecting their careers and ambitions, as well as the ability to intuit the responses of their employers or people in positions of authority.

They can exert leadership and influence policy in such a subtle way as to avoid opposition and lead others into acquiescence.

Their sensitivity in domestic relationships creates harmony in the home and rapport with the family group. Sometimes they live near the ocean or another body of water.

Neptune trine or sextile Midheaven: Insecurity, sensitiveness and idealism also color the harmonious aspects between Neptune and the Midheaven. Once again there are difficulties in forming a satisfactory image of self and society, because we are too responsive to opinions and trends in the environment. By viewing things in too rosy a light (for the harmonious aspects deal in optimism), we lay ourselves open to disappointment. Yet we skip as merrily as ever into some new situation. What is important is the feeling of being at home somewhere. It is this feeling, not the size of the paycheck, that guides us in choosing a job.

With a harmonious Neptune / Midheaven aspect, we probably have a keen nose for sniffing out the little, hidden details that are so important. In business, we instinctively follow market trends, usually without having to work them out. In the medical profession, the same ability helps us to make a diagnosis, select a therapy, trace the cause of a disease or problem, and so on. Good careers are also open in the spiritual and ecclesiastical worlds, and in art and music.

Neptune sextile Midheaven: JJ 0, Helena Blavatsky 1, Jane Fonda 1, Cynthia 1, Joze 1, Elizabeth Taylor 2, Olof 2, Paulo 2, Lady Gaga 3, Uri Geller 3, Joanne Woodward 3, Bram 3, RoyO 3, Zeno 3, Hugh Hefner 4, Adolf Hitler 4, Susanna Arundhati Roy 4, Cheri 4, Samp 4

Neptune square Midheaven

This aspect can indicate extreme insecurity and self-doubt, unless your parents and other influential adults make a special effort to reinforce your self-confidence. When you meet a difficult person or an obstacle, your first tendency is to run away, because you feel that you cannot overcome it. This is probably not true, and you must learn what you really can do, instead of limiting yourself to the few tasks that you are not afraid to do.

Sometimes you seem to be surrounded by energies that are very weakening, usually from people you are with who give off very negative energies such as resentment, hostility or anger. You don't attract such people to any unusual extent, but you suffer more than others from being around them. As much as possible, you should associate with positive and optimistic persons.

This empathy has a positive side, however, in that you understand other people very well, knowing what is going on in their minds as well as what they say. But it will take you a while to learn how to interpret the signals you get from others. While you are young, you may frequently misinterpret people.

You will feel a need to work for an ideal that is higher than yourself or for a person whom you can idealize and respect. This is fine, but you will probably be taken advantage of by people who are unworthy of your devotion, unless you work very hard to get past your idealizations and see who they really are. Then you can choose intelligently.

Neptune square Midheaven: This square, unless contradicted by other influences in the chart, indicates unreliability in professional obligations and confusion in domestic affairs. The home will be messy and disorganized, and sometimes the scene of alcohol or drug use.

There can be deception and irresponsibility on the job, in the form of laziness, inefficiency, or both. In rare cases, the natives are deliberately dishonest or deceptive.

This square can also manifest itself in escape from domestic and professional duties through daydreaming.

Neptune square or opposite Midheaven: The hard aspects between Neptune and the Midheaven make us insecure, and we have considerable trouble forming an identity. For not only are we very sensitive to what the world says of us; we are inclined to misinterpret what it says. To make matters worse, the world has a false impression of us anyway. But however that may be, with these aspects we are liable to run round in circles for a long time, worried by the difference between thoughts and impulses that are generated by ourselves, on the one hand, and our thoughts and impulses that have slipped unobserved from outside into the unconscious mind - from where they rise to influence us - on the other hand.

Hence we are extremely suggestible and easily misled; especially when, as often happens, we have not yet found our bearings. By drawing an inaccurate picture of self and society, we can become deluded and create confusion. On account of the pretence we know how to make, people can impute to us things for which we are not responsible. The other side of the coin is that we can go on to do extremely well in areas where pretence and illusion are raised to a fine art: the world of film for example. We need to be on guard against various forms of addiction; addiction to drink or drugs say, which may seem to offer a refuge from hard reality but, being impersonal, impedes personal development. The addiction can also be to unworkable religious and idealistic concepts that equally help us to avoid confrontations with everyday problems and push personality into the background. In addition to idealism, we are full of both empathy and sympathy. If we find ourselves in a stimulating environment where no unfair advantage is taken of our sensitiveness, pliability and insecurity, we gradually shed uncertainty and (provided we engage in Neptunian occupations with the active support of others) can do much to further our ideals.

Neptune square or opposite Midheaven: This conjunction (to the Nadir) partakes of the same qualities as Neptune exalted in Cancer. It helps to bring spirituality into the home life. Often it signifies a mystical attachment to Mother Earth and the forces of nature.

If Neptune is afflicted, the home environment can be affected by peculiar conditions. The house may seem to be haunted, for example, or give the native an uneasy feeling. Whether this is the product of the native's own imagination does not matter as far as its effect upon him is concerned. The native may shut himself up in his home, or use it as a place for séances or psychic activities of some kind. In any event, the home is likely to have something unusual connected with it, even if not the proverbial skeleton in the closet.

Natives tend to live near the ocean or other large body of water. Those with afflicted horoscopes may live in institutions or spend the end of their lives in nursing homes or hospitals.

Neptune square Midheaven: Alan Arkin 0, Stevie Wonder 0, Bill Clinton 1, Melanie Griffith 1, Ayn Rand 1, Yarrow 1, Tom Cruise 2, Ronald Reagan 2, Fergus 2, Silas 2, Ingrid Bergman 3, Paul McCartney 3, Keith 3, Lorraine 3, Queen Elizabeth II 4, Babe Ruth 4, AndySc 4, Flossie 4, Salvadore Dali 5, BenSt 5, Raga 5, Ralph 5, Donny 6, Komala 6, Miriam 6

Neptune trine Midheaven

You are very idealistic in your attitudes toward the world, and you want to be as free as possible of values and possessions that limit you or prevent you from encountering the world. You may be less interested in material possessions than most people of your age, feeling that the burden of taking care of them is more trouble than it is worth. Besides, you value emotions, ideals and other immaterial concerns more than possessions.

Very early in life, you show how unselfish and giving you are, especially to people in need. You like taking care of people or animals and trying to make them better. As you get older, you will have a strong need to be of service to others, putting spiritual and moral ideals above personal gain. Even if you do not always succeed in living up to that ideal, it will be a very powerful force in your life.

You are very sensitive to other people, so you are a bit reserved and shy until you know you can trust them. Your feelings are easily hurt, and a misplaced gruff word can make you very unhappy. Your family should try to understand this and treat you a bit more gently. They should realize that they will be rewarded with your devotion.

Even while quite young, you are fascinated by the mysterious and supernatural. You find the worlds of fantasy stories and fairly tales more interesting and alive than this world, which is so full of dull concerns and mundane preoccupations. Of course, you must learn to relate to this world, anyway, and you should try to see the mystery that is inherent even in the everyday world.

Neptune trine Midheaven: This configuration indicates that the natives' intuition can be used constructively in their professions, helping them find solutions to problems and giving them the ability to sense the mood of superiors or others in positions of authority.

The configuration especially favors artists, musicians and actors, because it helps them to gain public recognition. It also favors close intuitive domestic relationships and rapport with the parents. The natives' homes are likely to be unusual or artistic in some way, and they may live near a body of water.

With a harmonious Neptune/ Midheaven aspect, we probably have a keen nose for sniffing out the little, hidden details that are so important. In business, we instinctively follow market trends, usually without having to work them out. In the medical profession, the same ability helps us to make a diagnosis, select a therapy, trace the cause of a disease or problem, and so on. Good careers are also open in the spiritual and ecclesiastical worlds, and in art and music.

Neptune trine Midheaven: James Taylor 0, Dick Cheney 1, Shakura 1, James Dean 2, Isadora Duncan 2, Carolyn 2, Bill Hicks 3, H.G. Wells 3, Willie Nelson 4, Mitt Romney 4, Beth 4, Lina 4, Merrill 4, Ty Cobb 5, Paul Simon 5, Q 5, Aldous Huxley 6, Jude 6, Ricardo 7

Neptune quincunx Midheaven

With this aspect, you may have to build up your self-confidence considerably while you are young and learn that you are as worthy as anyone else. Even though these are your learning years, when you must develop a great deal of discipline, you still deserve as much consideration as anyone else. Your natural tendency is to yield to authority, so that those people who are most influential in your life, including your parents, should be very careful about how they exercise their authority over you. If they try to control you too much, or if they make you feel that you just aren't able to manage your own affairs, it will be difficult to correct the effects of this negative influence later in life.

You are very impressionable, in that you pick up the energies around you very quickly. Therefore it is very important that you be surrounded by wholesome influences in your early years, because negative influences will weaken your self-esteem and make it much more difficult to accomplish anything when you are older. On the other hand, your impressionableness may give rise to some psychic ability, or at least a very sharp intuition, when you are older.

While you are young, you won't have a clear idea of what you want to do in life. In fact, you may never orient your life around a single purpose or idea. But don't worry. Your purpose in life may not be one that is readily defined in terms of a career or profession. More important may be your style of living or your experience of life. Simply learn to always be aware and to learn whatever there is to be learned. With your sensitivity and intuition, you can understand much more than other people, especially those who have wrapped their lives around their career or profession.

Neptune quincunx Midheaven: The insecurity and over sensitiveness associated with Neptune/ Midheaven aspects are greatest in the inconjunct. They appear to express themselves very much as they do in the hard aspects (q.v.); but it is not easy to trace their origin, seeing that we do not recognize the influence of Neptune on our self-image. The distortion produced by Neptune, and especially the chaotic conditions that follow in its wake, are all the stronger for being below the surface; and, although we are imbued with tremendous benevolence and idealism, we rarely succeed in making them known. Due to the aspect being an inconjunct, we put things badly, or cling to longings and ideas that are too Utopian to be taken seriously. All the fuss and bother over our well intentioned deeds we find upsetting; and, lacking the energy and determination to hold our own, we are inclined to retire disillusioned under the lea of a peaceful inner world. This could be the world of dreams and fantasies, but is just as likely to be a cloister or a mountain hermitage. Anyway, we go far from the everyday hustle and bustle that is so uncongenial.

Nevertheless, with the inconjunct, we ought really to make an effort to avoid estrangement from the world; for, given the right support, we can achieve a great deal with the talents Neptune bestows (creativity, spirituality, musicality and the like). But not until we realize that our picture of the world is influenced from within by distorting or idealizing processes shall we be able to express capabilities in a more balanced way.

Neptune quincunx Midheaven: Sigmund Freud 0, PapayaJ 0, Judy Garland 1, Orson Welles 1, Madonna Ciccone 2, J.Paul Getty 2, Meher Baba 2, Jack Nicholson 2, Al Pacino 2, JudyPl 2, Martin Luther King, Jr. 3, AndyF 3, SFor 3, Johanna 4

Neptune opposite Midheaven

This aspect indicates great sensitivity, but for this energy to work positively, your earliest childhood must be reasonably peaceful and serene. You are very sensitive to the hidden energies in your home and between your parents or other members of your family; and any kind of ongoing negative feelings can cause you to become insecure and lacking in self-confidence. Later on, you may feel that you cannot easily cope with life's challenges, because inside you cannot depend upon your emotions and your spontaneous actions to make everything come out right.

Your relationship with one of your parents may be rather difficult. Often this aspect signifies that one of your parents is too weak psychologically to play his or her role in your life. This might lead you later to seek out someone who can be a guide and a loving parent figure for you. The problem is that such a relationship would displace your search for normal adult relationships.

However, even if both parents are strong, you may go to the other extreme and idealize the more influential one. In that case you would compare everyone you meet to that parent, instead of dealing with each person as an individual. This is not so bad as the first alternative, because at least you have strong ideals that you can believe in. Later in life this may turn into a strong belief in God. Because you are so sensitive, you may eventually develop a strong psychic and intuitive ability.

Neptune opposite Midheaven: Those with Neptune on the IC tend to be wistful about their more recent past but unclear as to their early beginnings. Sometimes there are secrets or confusion with respect to the family that they came from. Such secrets will usually be to do with the house which has Pisces on the cusp. There may be a tendency to idealize the early home life or to delude oneself about one's upbringings or even ancestry. Sometimes there is a feeling of 'shaky foundations' with this placement, but this can be psychological, emotional or physical. For example, living on a houseboat could be descriptive of shaky physical foundations whilst a mentally ill parent might describe psychological instability. And I have known people with this placement who were raised in a pub. The early home environment was 'open' to anyone, and some would have been addicted to frequenting it, all of which might have a variety of repercussions.

Those with Neptune on the IC often yearn for an 'ideal home' and may put great effort into making this dream into some kind of reality; sometimes the real need is to escape from one's roots. The dream may be for a home which will be a sanctuary, a retreat, an escape route from something or a place where it's possible to transcend some of the imperfections of living in the outer, workaday world.

Natives tend to live near the ocean or other large body of water. Those with afflicted horoscopes may live in institutions or spend the end of their lives in nursing homes or hospitals.

Neptune opposite Midheaven: Al Capone 0, Patrice 0, Prince Charles 1, Sting 2, TomW 2, Carlos Castaneda 3, Joy 3, Tammy 3, Ursula Andress 4, Carl Lewis 4, Marybeth 4, VinG 4, Robert De Niro 5, Henry Kissinger 5, Arine 6, Osho 7, Meryl Streep 7, Jason 8, LouG 8