Venus square Neptune

Venus square Neptune natal creates difficulties with how you love yourself and how you love others. Without corrective action, this can lead to low self-esteem and disappointment in love. Loving yourself is essential to having healthy and loving relationships. Therefore, learning to love yourself is vital in addressing this challenging aspect.

It is common with this aspect to feel unloved, unlovable, victimized, and even ostracized. You may feel that you are to different or strange in the eyes of others, and not accepted by the ‘in-crowd’. It is important to realize that what you feel others think of you may not actually be true. If there were any truth to this perception, then it would be in large part due to the signals you are sending out about yourself.

Once you come to the realization that Neptune is distorting your self-image, you can get to work on improving how you feel about yourself. As Neptune rules mirrors, film and screens, a great way to improve self-love is to repeat positive affirmations in the mirror. As Venus rules beauty, it can be worthwhile spending time enhancing your appearance through cosmetics and fashion. Show off to yourself in front of the mirror, or take selfies, even video yourself and see how beautiful you really are. Dance around a bit, be sexy and strip off even, No one has to see… not if you don’t want them to.

Another major danger of not addressing your self-image is that of self-abuse. The opposite of love is hate, and hating yourself would lead to a downward spiral of self-harm. This would include unhealthy eating, leading to either obesity or anorexia. Depression is a major reason in addiction to alcohol and other poisonous drugs or medications.

Venus square Neptune transit

Venus square Neptune transit can lead to feelings of insecurity about yourself and how you look. It is possible that you will feel that others are looking at you oddly or think you are strange in some way. It is important to realize that any such impressions are distorted and do not match reality. A poor self-image at this time can lead to relationship difficulties. You can also experience disappointment in your love life by forming a distorted image of someone else. There is a tendency to over-idealize romantic interests at this time, ignoring the obvious faults which are plain for others to see.

Both situations leave you susceptible to major disappointment, being taken advantage of or being someone’s doormat, or even their sex slave. This is very easy to deal with if you are in a healthy relationship due to mutual understanding and trust. Relationships on rocky grounds would be more problematic, and matters of trust may become an issue. Starting an affair at this time would prove difficult to hide.

Poor self-esteem and lack of self-discipline make this a bad time for sticking to diets or for partying. You will be more susceptible to the depressive influence of alcohol and more susceptible to poisoning in general. Addiction is more likely if you were to dabble in drugs. Regular users should beware of overdose, infection, or being ripped off by dealers.