When Neptune transits the 4th house your need for transcendence and imagination influences your home, family and roots. Neptune inspires new dreams and dissolves old structures and represents your need to spiritualise and refine this area of your life.
When Neptune transits the 4th house it dissolves the foundations of your life and can bring inspiration and confusion to your home and family situation, your relationship to your parents and grandparents, your roots and ancestors, and your private life. This is a time to take stock of your life and explore how you’ve ended up where you are. Obviously, this will depend on your age.
You may feel lost or confused about who you are and where you come from which is a cue to turn inward and listen to what’s going on deep inside. You may need to take time away from situations that aren’t working so you can explore your feelings. This may involve sacrificing an outer role at home or at work so you can reconnect with your inner life.
Some of the feelings that come up could be disturbing or upsetting or you may not be happy with the way your life has turned out. Childhood memories could return making you aware of emotional complexes and unexpressed grief that needs healing and releasing. Or your current situation could reflect the past bringing insights that deepen your understanding of who you are.
You may feel more sensitive to atmospheres at home and your family life could become more emotionally challenging in a way that demands compassion and sacrifice, such as caring for someone who needs extra support. There could be problems with the structure of your home that may symbolise the state of your own psyche and emotional life.
You may want to make your home more Neptunian, perhaps by filling it with music and art or living close to water or on a boat. You could also find your dream home or make your current home more ideal, somewhere you can find inner peace.
The point of this transit is to find out what you need in order to feel at home in the world. It may take a while to discover the way forward and you may need to let go of the past first. But you can learn to listen to your intuition and deeper Self and tune into what your soul needs you to become.
Possibilities with Neptune transiting the 4th House:
- Taking stock of your life
- Making your home more comfortable or ideal
- Healing childhood memories
- Healing family rifts or relationship with parents
- Reconnecting with your inner life
- Discovering the mystical roots of your true identity
Watch out for:
- Making sacrifices at home or at work
- Disillusionment with where you’re living
- Loss of your home due to family breakup or divorce
- Flooding or structural problems with your home
- Caring for sick relatives or family members
- Death of a parent
My Notes:
Neptune will transit my 4th house from 2055 to 2063, from age 85 to 93, assuming I live that long – although it would be a good time to die!
If you’ve had this transit, please share your experience in the comments below…
More Neptune Transits: 1st house / 2nd house / 3rd house / 4th house / 5th house / 6th house / 7th house / 8th house / 9th house / 10th house/ 11th house / 12th house / natal planets
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Jessica Davidson 
Dear Jessica,
This is what I have been looking for to understand what has been going on in my life for the last ten years. It all began with Neptune transiting my IC (also my opposite moon) in 2015. Due to cancer I lost both my breasts. Then I left my husband (who was not able to deal with my illness) with two small children and moved out of the US family home back to our Berlin apartment (which was big, but seemed small compared to the huge US home). Then I got divorced, lost the Berlin home and all that had made me feel safe. With the children I had to move to a small apartment that I hate (and where I have been now for six years). Meanwhile first my Dad and then my Mom died. Now I have to survive the next five years before Neptune moves into my 5th house in 2030. But your insights do help me understand why all this “had to be”. Thanks so much!
Heike.
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Thank you for sharing your story, Heike – Neptune has really put through the wringer and my heart goes out of you. I hope the next five years bring some peace and hope for the future.
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Thanks, Jessica. What came to my mind, when I was thinking about this today, is, that Neptune also is ruler of my 4th house (being in the 1st house). Also — and so far I had always connected my losses with this transit — Pluto was runnig through my second house until 2024. Those might be reasons why the Neptune transit is more significant for me than it is for others.
I am glad I found your site — it is truly inspiring!
Heike.
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Yes, that’s an important point – the context created by other transits can certainly change how you experience them.
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This is so interesting. I love all your writings Jessica and really valued your Venus Rx workbook. I’m just out of the 4th House Neptune transit. My flat flooded circa 2018 which thankfully was mainly just some carpet damage. I created an ocean inspired lounge some time after than circa 2020, inspired by the docu-film My Octopus Teacher. I moved out of London then to live by the sea in 2022 and my folks, in their 80s, also moving to the same town the following year. A lot of solitude and deep inner reflection in recent years. The belly of the whale. No planets in the 4th. I have a grand fire trine so excited for all this fire energy we’re coming into.
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Thanks for sharing your experience, Ciara.
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2 months to finish my 4rth house transit. Definitely a lot of therapy on family and rancestors topic and bought apartment located by the river (which I live as a cancer and Scorpio rising)
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Wow – thanks for sharing, Bettie!
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I forgot to mention, my natal Neptune is stationary.
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mine’s there permanent.
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