Neptune Capricorn

Neptune is in Fall in this sign. How does such a sensitive, feeling planet function while under the hard and materialistic scrutiny of Saturn. Neptune does not represent expansion like its spiritual counterpart Jupiter, it is more associated with sensitive feelings, of refinement in aesthetic appreciation, and in compassion for the people and animals that are suffering.

In Capricorn Neptune will have a hard time thinking about the pain of others, or that someone else might need their compassion. Saturn doesn’t really have time for these trivial things, it simply doesn’t understand them, because its nature is to focus on its own problems, on its own pressing material circumstances and ambition… which often requires sacrificing the weak.

Feodor Dostoevsky had Neptune placed in Capricorn in the 1st house. Pisces was placed in his natal 3rd house. His writing is still considered to be some of the highest form of art, the biggest cultural achievement for the Western World, such is the nature of Saturn’s ambition. But in a completely different sense, that Capricorn Neptune was not sympathetic to the human condition, his writing sees humanity in a rather grim light, Capricorn signifies darkness.