| Neptune: Your Visionary Self, Your Illusions |
| Hidden, Psychic. Spiritual Insights. Illusions. The unconscious. This planet stimulates the imagination, dreams, psychic experiences, artistic inspiration, flashes of insight, mystical tendencies. On the down side, it deals with all forms of escapism .. drug and alcohol addiction, as well as delusion. Neptune, like Uranus, overpowers Saturn's rigidity. Where Uranus disrupts the rigidity. Neptune simply negates it. This planet is considered the higher octave of Venus, and when it operates in the chart of an evolved soul, its music is extraordinary. Edgar Cayce, knows as the "sleeping prophet", was such an individual. While asleep, he was able to diagnose physical ailments for people he'd never met, using nothing more than their names. Most of us experience Neptune through synchronous events and flashes of insight that seem to come out of nowhere. Or we lose ourselves in the illusions we have created. The best way to appreciate Neptune's energy is from a standpoint of quiet contemplation .. meditation, yoga, listening to music, writing imaginative fiction, or through some activity that involves water. As Steven Forest writes in The Inner Sky, "Neptune asks us to go beyond the universe of ego, hunger, and aggression without sacrificing our ability to function as a personality." Neptune takes 165 years to cross the zodiac and spends about fourteen years in each sign. The twelth house is its natural domain and it rules Pisces. It governs shipping, dance, film, and the arts in general, and is associated with mediums, clairvoyants, psychic healers, and both white and black magic. |
| Neptune through the signs: |
| Aries This placement fires the imagination on many levels and allows you to act on pyschic impulses. Your point of illusion may be your own ego. Taurus Imagination and spiritual energies are channeled into concrete expression. Your point of illusion can be your own materialism. Gemini Heightened intuition bridges the left and right brains. Imagination and spiritual issues are channeled through logic and reasoning. Your blindspot may be that you believe you can take on anything. It is a sure route to burnout. Cancer The enhanced psychic ability with this placement makes you impressionable. You need to be acutely aware of the fine line between illusion and reality. Leo Bold creative and artistic concepts characterize this placement. Imagination finds expression in artistic performance. Your ego may hold you hostage. Virgo Imagination and spiritual issues are carefully analyzed and fit into a broader, concrete whole for practical use. Strive not to overanalyze. Libra Imagination and spiritual concepts find expression through beauty and harmony. Misplaced idealism can accompany this placement. Scorpio Great imagination allows you to pierce the depth of esoteric subjects. You may be blind, however, to your own consuming interest in psychic matters. This placement can also induce a drug and alcohol abuse and a sexual identity crisis. Sagittarius Your intuition allows you to understand broad spiritual issues and to fit them into your personal search for the truth. Your blindspot may be your need for creative freedom. In a broad, generational sense, this placement can give rise to religious cults. Capricorn Spiritual ideals and concepts are given a practical structure in which to emerge. The risk lies in being so practical that the voice of the imagination is stifled. Aquarius In a societal sense, heightened intuition and spiritual enlightenment bring about vast and innovative changes and discoveries under this influence. The blindspot personally is learning to apply this energy to your own life. Pisces I vivid imagination allows you to connect to deeper spiritual truths. The risk with this placement is becoming separated from reality and losing yourself in a world of illusion. |