Aspects in the birth chart
Neptune–Pluto aspects
The slowest contact there is: these two need almost 500 years for one cycle, which is why practically everyone alive today carries the same sextile between them. As a personal statement the aspect is therefore of little use — it describes the era rather than you. It only becomes interesting where one of the two touches a personal point in your chart.
Do you have one of these aspects?
Enter your birth details — we use the Swiss Ephemeris to work out which angle actually stands between Neptune and Pluto in your chart.
Whether this aspect is in your chart depends on your date, time and place. Three answers and you know.
Your birth data
When were you born?
The date sets the Sun, Moon and every planet.
Neptune Sextile Pluto
Opportunity — talent you have to call on.
With Neptune sextile Pluto, the link between your longing and imagination and your depth and power to transform is ready but does not start on its own. Use it deliberately and it carries you reliably.
The sextile is the trine's smaller sibling: the connection is there, but it does not start by itself. Use it actively and it carries you reliably. People often describe sextiles as "doors that open when I knock" — the chance exists, the knocking stays your job. That is why this aspect tends to look unremarkable in a biography until someone trains it deliberately.
Combine two planets.
Pick two factors and an angle — you get the meaning straight away, explained in one line.
Neptune Square Pluto
Open the pair page for the full reading of this combination.
Neptune and Pluto: the five angles in numbers
Between Neptune (your longing and imagination) and Pluto (your depth and power to transform) the calculator checks five angles. Each has its own leeway; for these two the date of birth is enough.
| Aspect | Angle | Orb | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neptune Conjunction Pluto | 0° | ± 8° | fusing — depends on the planets |
| Neptune Sextile Pluto | 60° | ± 5° | flowing, harmonious |
| Neptune Square Pluto | 90° | ± 7° | tense, demanding |
| Neptune Trine Pluto | 120° | ± 7° | flowing, harmonious |
| Neptune Opposition Pluto | 180° | ± 8° | tense, demanding |
- Use the calculator above to find which of the five angles you have.
- Then read only that section — and test it on a situation from this week.
- No hit? Then Neptune and Pluto work independently for you.
Related pairs: Sun–Pluto aspects, Moon–Pluto aspects, Mercury–Pluto aspects. All aspects of your chart at once are in the aspects calculator, the life areas in the house calculator, and today’s angles to your chart in your personalized daily horoscope.
How often are Neptune and Pluto in aspect?
69.6 % of everyone born 1940 to 2010 has one of the five major aspects between Neptune and Pluto; 30.4 % have none. Conjunction, opposition, square and trine did not occur at all in these years.
Neptune and Pluto are slow. The distance between them changes so sluggishly that it stays almost the same for years. Which angle stands between the two in your chart therefore depends mostly on your birth year, not the day. Whole generations share the same aspect, others don't have it at all.
In the sky the two form 0.32 exact major aspects a year on average. The next one: the sextile on 29 June 2027.
| Aspect | Share of births |
|---|---|
| Conjunction | 0 % · 0× exact 1900–2100 |
| Opposition | 0 % · 0× exact 1900–2100 |
| Square | 0 % · 9× exact 1900–2100 |
| Trine | 0 % · 9× exact 1900–2100 |
| Sextile | 69.6 % · 49× exact 1900–2100 |
| No major aspect | 30.4 % |
| Famous people with one of them | 1,303 / 2,219 |
Counted with the Swiss Ephemeris: 25,933 birth charts, one for every day from 1940 to 2010 at 12:00 UT, orbs as in the calculator. Sky: every day 1900–2100. Famous people: Wikidata, only where the aspect holds for the whole birth day.