NEPTUNE: Illusion & Spirituality
Neptune places a veil over the future. It both fires our imagination to try and pierce that veil and also demands we surrender to the greater mystery. When we do not, it can bring great confusion and delusion to our lives.
Neptune makes us wonder ‘why’ and then, if we cannot let go of trying to answer the why, we get lost in the illusions and murkiness of those depths. Neptune colors the gates it touches with this feminine power of the sea.
Neptune veils. The seven veils. Neptune loves to bring you to good whiskey and sweet drugs. Anything to try to get through that veil. Anything to try to get through that veil. Anything to try to find what’s there. You will never find out. Neptune won’t let you in.
The minute you have a problem with that, you have a problem. It is just what it is. The mystery of Neptune is not here to be solved. It is here to be experienced with wonder. Neptune is the only truly magical force you meet all the time. When you see Neptune in your chart and you see what it is veiling, that’s where your mysteries are. That’s where your magic is. Be yourself and the mysteries are revealed, specifically in those places.
If you have Neptune conjunct a planet, if it is standing beside something in a gate, it is also veiling that other object.
Because it takes 165 years to go around the wheel, we never get to experience the full potential of Neptune’s programming. It can occupy a single gate for up to 3 years and has a generational influence.
Design Neptune is a direct inheritance from the grandmothers. It is known that we have more in common with our grandparents than with our parents. Neptune represents the continuity and depths of the genetic pool.
I am a Human Design teacher, guide, and survivor whose path to purpose was forged through profound transformation. In 2012, a Stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis shattered the life I knew—and became the unexpected beginning of a deeper awakening. What followed was a journey through illness, the unraveling of a long marriage, and the quiet rebuilding of a self I had never fully met. Human Design found me in the midst of that unraveling—during a time of deep searching, blackouts of identity, and a hunger to remember who I really was. What began as a personal tool for survival and self-reclamation soon became a lifelong path. Human Design gave me language for what I had always felt but couldn’t explain. It helped me understand my energy, my wounds, my gifts—and how to live in alignment with my true nature.
Today, I teach Human Design not as a system of labels or rules, but as a living, breathing map back to the Self. My work is rooted in lived experience—because I know what it’s like to lose your way, and what it takes to come home to yourself. I specialize in guiding others through times of transition, awakening, and reinvention—helping them understand the unique blueprint they were born with, so they can navigate life with clarity, self-trust, and deep compassion. My gift lies in transmuting adversity into wisdom—and walking with others as they remember who they truly are.
Ruth Brennan is an IHDS Certified Professional Analyst, Certified BG5 Career & Business Consultant and Certified Teacher of Human Design. She currently lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwestern area of the U.S.
