When Jupiter forms a square with Neptune , as it does now , something inside you begins to see through the illusions you have been living with —especially the ones built on dreams that looked beautiful in your imagination but never felt solid in reality.
This is the kind of influence that slowly sharpens your view of the blurred lines you once accepted, where someone’s potential stood in for presence, or where your vision of what something could become kept you tied to what it actually never was.
You begin to understand that some of the stories you have been telling yourself were shaped more by hope than by truth, more by the idea of someone than by the way they have actually shown up.
This is the kind of moment that pulls you in deep, like the way your body tenses during a conversation that leaves you confused, or how your mind begins drifting in the middle of a plan you used to be excited about. You begin to feel it in the way your energy dips after texting someone who once made you feel seen, or in how your heart feels heavy when you think about a goal you used to chase with everything you had.
The unraveling begins with doubt, with small discomforts, with emotional tension that builds under the surface until you finally stop pretending everything still makes sense.
Jupiter brings expansion and Neptune brings vision. When they clash like this, your inner world starts to grow too big for anything that cannot stand on real ground. The illusions begin to stretch, and then tear. You might start remembering what someone promised you and notice how little of it ever turned into anything real. You might realize that you have spent the past few months—or maybe even years—trying to keep something going that only ever gave you glimpses of the connection you needed. And in those realizations, something begins to shift. You begin to take your energy back from the places you gave it too freely and begin to see that the fantasy was never going to turn into something stable, no matter how hard you tried to believe in it.
The last time this square hit was in September 2019, and the next will not come until January 2032. That makes this moment one that holds weight. You are standing in a stretch of time where the truth feels louder than the excuses you have used to explain someone else’s silence, or your own hesitation, or the way your life feels more like something to manage than something you live with clarity and choice.
This is where the waiting fades and clarity finally takes hold. When something survives only through your effort, when your energy keeps a connection alive that never grows or deepens, it becomes clear that you have been carrying too much alone.
You begin to understand that hoping someone will grow into who you imagined no longer feels like love—it feels like delay. You reach the moment where protecting their potential costs you too much, and from here, you choose diffferently.
This square brings a quiet but strong correction. You look at what you have been maintaining and begin to ask why. Why do you keep returning to conversations that never go deeper? Why do you keep offering your time to someone who never plans anything solid? Why do you keep chasing a vision that only makes sense in theory but drains your spirit in practice?
The answers may be hard to sit with. You may see where you have ignored your own needs, where you’ve played the role of being patient, low-maintenance, endlessly understanding, just to avoid conflict or disappointment. You may realize how much you have given without asking for anything clear in return, how long you’ve waited for something to begin while pretending it already had.
But once you see it, you cannot go back to the illusion. You cannot unhear the voice inside that says, “This does not support me anymore.” You cannot keep building a life around someone else’s hesitation or an outdated goal that no longer reflects your values. You begin to understand that your peace matters more than potential, and your clarity matters more than the comfort of pretending everything still fits.
This is a release that comes with grief, yes—but also with relief. You begin to see how much space gets freed up when you stop trying to fix something that keeps breaking in the same place. You begin to trust that what is falling away now is making room for what will meet you fully, without confusion, without conditions.
You might feel this in your relationships, your career path, your creative life, or the way you have been treating your own time. Wherever it is felt, it brings the same invitation: to stop pushing for something to become what it keeps refusing to be, and to instead step back, get honest, and start moving in the direction of what feels honest, what feels grounded, and what gives back as much as you give it.
You are not wrong for hoping, or weak for wanting to believe in something more. But now you see clearly, and you understand the cost of staying in limbo when your life is asking for movement.
This is the kind of astrology that brings you back to yourself— the version that says, “I want something that works. I want something I can trust. I want something
I do not have to chase.”
~ Alex Myles ❤️
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