Neptune in Aries and the Importance of Villains
Exploring the dichotomy of light and darkness through storytelling
About two years ago, I took a free online course on storytelling. To be honest, I don't remember much of it. But one thing sticked: the importance of villains. With the recent Neptune's ingress into Aries, I am unpacking this here, connecting it with the archetype of Aries and offer some questions and meditations that may hint us at the stories we live through this long (about 13 years) and once in a life time transit.
First, the astrological details:
March 31 2025: Neptune ingress into Aries
October 22 2025: Neptune retrogrades back into Pisces
January 26 2026: Neptune enters into Aries one last time
May 2038: Neptune first ingress into Taurus
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Aries and the purpose of battle
Our lives are stories, filled with scene changes, colorful characters and vivid inner (and outer) dialogues. As we weave our lives through time and space, we bump into the lives of others (people or circumstances; for the sake of simplicity, I'll treat circumstances as people as we often personify events). Inevitably, challenges and contradictions arise: there is someone who either wants the same thing as we do or the opposite, to destroy it.
The warrior in us is now burning (taking any outward action or not). Red. All we see is Red.
What we have forgotten at this point of the story is that this other person has been turned into a villain in the first place…
By setting up a villain in our story, we earned a journey worthy of a hero: the challenge to overcome and destroy this villain. The sense of purpose that comes from this works as a fuel: we live to conquer, to protect, to cast away shadows. That is at the core of many myths, stories, fairy tales, movies, and, of course, our lives.
This desire of victory and overcoming challenges is present in the archetypes of Aries: as the Sun enters Aries, light “wins” over darkness – days become longer than nights as the Solar path now climbs northwardly over the celestial equator; the cold, harsh days fade, gradually replaced by a warmer, more temperate weather.
But why do we need villains?
Why villains?
Stories without villains are flat: there is not much that the attention of the public can hang on to as time passes.
Villains are special characters because they are the only ones with the key to shake up the core of the hero. They have access to something important to the hero.
Villains play an important role: they point out for us, spectators, what is crucial to the hero, what the hero can't live without. The nerves they strike unravels the fabric that the hero is made of in front of our eyes. It reveals the hero's kryptonite.
With Neptune in Aries, we may find ourselves picking villains to justify a journey, to give us a sense of purpose, or simply to reveal what we believe to be essential to our existence. This may be real or not. But they come in a time when all the stories we make up makes sense to us.
The miracle of light winning over darkness we are so yearning for plus identifying ourselves with the light (in contrast to darkness) is the recipe to cook up these stories as Neptune traverses Aries.
Meditations for Neptune ingress into Aries
With Neptune in Aries, there is a chance that we are telling ourselves (real or unreal) stories that requires facing our own demons, projected outward as enemies so we can slay them. With that in mind, I invite you to meditate on the following:
Which are the villains currently in your life?
What such hero/villain stories have you been living through?
What do the battles in these stories unveil to you? What are the trophies? Where lies the purpose of this journey?
What are your villains revealing to you? What is your kryptonite? (Imagining ourselves as spectators to our own stories: what do we see?)
Why are you convinced that you are the hero here? What if you are the villain? Can we be both the hero and the villain at the same time?
And, as always, check out which astrological house Aries occupies in your chart. Neptune's trip through that house is reshaping the topics governed by it.
May we find clarity on which stories are real and let go of those that are unreal.
Much love,
Raimundo