Neptune opposite Neptune transit will not occur to anyone before they are in their mid-eighties. It comes at about the same time as Uranus conjunct Uranus transit, and has much the same significance. It is a time in your life when the old categories of living and experience cease to have any real meaning to you. Your consciousness will be heightened, although it may initially feel like confusion. You will only be able to learn the lessons of this transit if you are willing to be patient and allow the universe to reveal what it has to show you.
The general effect will be a blurring of categories, allowing you to see relationships among things that you were previously unaware of. You will have a better understanding of the inherent unity of all existence, which will be reflected in a greater empathy between you and others, an ability to put yourself in another person’s place. You will learn many things, even after a full life and learning everything that you thought you could. And you will be in a position to teach others as well.
However, these developments will only come about if you are willing to let go of old ideas. Otherwise, this will be a time of confusion and defeat, when you feel compelled to withdraw into yourself. The inner drive to withdraw is likely to manifest as a need for some form of hospitalization or treatment. Or you may choose to withdraw as a sign of completion rather than defeat, in which case this transit signifies that you will begin to find peace and respite. At your age, Neptune should not hold the horrors that it sometimes holds for younger people, unless you have become fearfully rigid.
Source: Planets in Transit, Robert Hand, 2001, p.464.
