Spiritual Warrior – The Flame Beyond the Veil

Article Inspired by Steven Forrest.

Neptune in Aries (2025–2039)

The theme of the Spiritual Warrior is awakening with the fire of Neptune entering Aries. This is a powerful 14-year transit that marks a collective and personal call to arms. The lower octave of Aries involves anger, war and aggression but the higher octave is about claiming your divine fire and becoming a vessel of clarity, truth, and conscious action.

For the last 14 years, Neptune has moved through Pisces, where it saturated our world with dreams, illusions, spiritual longing, and, at times, deception. We were immersed in the waters of the collective unconscious. We witnessed the rise of fake news, manipulation of truth, and the glorification of escapism. But we also touched the ineffable: we prayed, we meditated, we dissolved, we healed. We remembered that we are more than physical form.

Now, the dreamer wakes up.

Neptune in Aries isn’t dreamy. It’s decisive. It is the spiritual energy that acts. It doesn’t just talk about higher realms, it channels them into purpose. If Pisces is the mystic in meditation, Aries is the mystic who picks up the sword and walks into the world with clarity and courage. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." ~ Ambrose Redmoon

Benefits of Neptune in Aries: Lighting the Inner Flame

1. Purpose-Driven Spirituality. This transit ignites the quest for personal and collective mission. It’s no longer enough to "be spiritual" - we’re being asked to embody our spirituality in bold, courageous, and meaningful ways.
   

2. Clarity Through Action. The fog of Neptune in Pisces lifts, and with it comes a drive to pierce through illusions. Action becomes a tool for spiritual refinement. We stop waiting for signs and start becoming them.
   

3. Courage to Face the Inner and Outer Dragons. Aries is about bravery, and when Neptune filters through this sign, it empowers us to face the unseen forces - whether within our own psyches or in the collective - that have kept us small, afraid, or asleep. Often we witness in the collective, the hidden parts within ourselves. That which we judge is a clue to the obstacle of our own spiritual evolution. We project our shadow. Find the wisdom in anger; use your emotion as a GPS to your soulful center and harness the fear as fuel to power your purpose.
   

4. Personal Revelation & Intuitive Fire. Our intuitive knowing won’t be soft and passive anymore. It will be instinctual, fierce, and fast-moving, guiding us like a flame in the dark. Trust it.
   

5. Healing Through Sacred Action. Healing doesn’t just happen in stillness, it happens when we step into our lives fully. When we follow our truth, when we say no with integrity, when we fight for what matters... that's the medicine for Neptune in Aries.
   

How to Navigate Neptune in Aries as a Spiritual Warrior

• Know Your Why. Aries is passion, and Neptune is vision. Merge them. What are you truly here to do? Let that become your compass. If you need help discovering your cosmic compass, consult with an astrologer.

• Embody Your Truth. Drop the masks. Aries doesn’t pretend. This is the time to live unapologetically and spiritually raw. Walk your talk, or you’ll feel the tension between illusion and integrity more than ever.

• Use Ritual to Ground the Fire. With Neptune’s mysticism and Aries' impulse, it’s easy to burn out or get scattered. Daily grounding rituals - movement, breathwork, nature walks, fire ceremonies, journaling - will anchor the flame without letting it consume you.

• Practice Sacred Boundaries. Pisces lacked boundaries but Aries creates them. A spiritual warrior doesn’t say yes to everything. They say yes to what matters. Choose your battles wisely.

• Turn Compassion Into Action. This is the age of spiritual activism. Whether through art, leadership, service, or healing - bring your gifts into the world. Don’t wait for perfection. Start where you are.

The Mythic Mirror: Aries and the Warrior's Path

In mythology, Aries is associated with heroes and initiators - figures who bravely step into the unknown to fulfill a destiny. Think of Perseus, who slayed Medusa with divine tools and inner resolve or Joan of Arc, the warrior maiden who heard celestial voices and led with unwavering courage. The Aries archetype says: you don’t need to wait for the world to change. Be the force that changes it. "I am not afraid... I was born to do this." ~ Joan of Arc

As Neptune flows through this sign, your spiritual quest is not an escape from life - it is a devotion to life. You are here to act on behalf of the sacred. The veil has lifted. You are the flame.

And above all, remember this: you are the hero of your own myth. Every challenge you face, every fear you meet with courage, every truth you claim - is the making of a legacy that only you can create. The spiritual warrior does not wait to be saved. They become the one they were waiting for.

"Fear the fire or become the flame."~ Dena

Transiting Mars is conjuncting my AC, transiting Pluto conjuncting my DC, transiting Neptune is at 0 degrees Aries in the 9th house, transiting Vesta conjunct Mars and Moon moving over North node Aquarius in the 8th at the time this is being written and blog published.