Transcendence
The first recorded sighting was by Galileo, who witnessed its conjunction with Jupiter in 1612, but he thought this new object was a moon of Jupiter.
NEPTUNE was discovered in 1846. It has been found to represent non-material influences like dreams and illusions. It brings dissolution of structures and represents idealistic drives – both on a social and a spiritual level. Neptune opens the door to the divine, leaving a residual discontentment about mundane existence. As Neptune takes 165 years to go around the Sun, this planet will be in any one sign for a period of about 14 years. Its influence is therefore experienced most strongly as long-term collective changes. Neptune’s sign position shows the collective need to transcend everyday life through the media, films and visionary ideals. The House position of Neptune shows where specifically you will feel the need to transcend. This House area will show where dreams are built up and dissolve and in what area of life you gain spiritual understanding through acceptance of the transience of all things. Neptune show personality traits which are strongly affected by dreams and idealism. These aspects indicate where you have unrealistic expectations and where you will experience disappointment until you refine your nature through spiritual insight.
The dreamy, deceptive, illusionary and imaginative, escapist side of human nature. It is a model for feelings that are intangible, romantic, magical and mystical, altruistic and unconditionally loving; but it can also be expressed in feelings of being victimised, living in a world of unreality, avoiding facts and embracing fantasy. It gives us the capacity to role-play, to create illusions, to express its energy through music, art, spirituality and imagination. This planet empowers us to shifts in consciousness, to express ideals and visions, and is a ‘generational’ model, staying for 14 years in one sign. All that is self-deceptive and deceptive towards others is connected with Neptune. It can bring escapist tendencies, trigger addictive behaviour and emotional hyper-sensitivity. It enables one to cope or change by transcending life’s difficulties, enabling a subtle acceptance that we do not always get what we think we deserve, and imbues us with faith that we have a higher purpose in life and will attain it by maintaining faith. It brings religious fervour, a belief in a higher power and is often prominent in those who have mediumistic or clairvoyant tendencies.
Neptune is known as the planet of illusion. It stands for equality and the interests of collective society. It represents utopian social movements whose goal is to fairly distribute the world’s resources. It symbolizes compassion, kindness, and the humanitarian concern. It rules hospitals, prisons, and bureaucracies. More than any other planet, its movements represent the destiny and consciousness of humanity as a whole. It is the symbol of everything intangible, mystical, imaginative, and subtle. It is life unrestricted by ordinary limits and boundaries.
Neptune also leads us into confusion, delusion and deception. It is the desire to escape from responsibility and to cleverly avoid facing reality. When fully expressed, Neptune is the beatific vision of universal, divine love and compassion for all beings. It is connected to the sign of Pisces and to the Twelfth House.
Neptune is the planet of transcendence, higher faculties and psychic abilities. In a natal chart, the aspects and position of Neptune deal with the subject’s ability to access higher consciousness and their grip on reality. A heavily afflicted Neptune can lead to unrealistic expectations and self-deception.
Influences, creativity, fantasia, daydreams, escapism, alcohol, drugs, and illusions. It represents, inspiration, psychometry, inner spiritual feelings, prophecy, chaos, con-artists, confidentiality, confusion, delusions, elusive, emotional, glamour, gullible, hypochondria, impostors, lethargy, music, nightmares, perverted, puzzles, subversion, apprehension, visions, witchcraft.
Neptune takes approximately 165 years to cycle the 12 signs of the zodiac, about 1 to 2 degrees a year.
MYTHOLOGY:
Poseidon was the god of the sea in Greek mythology.
The son of Cronus and Rhea, and the brother of Zeus and Hades. Poseidon and the Gorgon Medusa were the parents of Pegasus, the famous winged horse.
Poseidon is represented as a bearded and majestic figure, holding a trident and often accompanied by a dolphin. Every two years the Isthmian Games, featuring horse and chariot racers, were held in his honor at Corinth.
The Romans identified Poseidon with their god of the sea, Neptune whose festival was in July. Poseidon was commonly called the earth shaker and the earth encircler in The Iliad and The Odyssey of Homer.
| Neptune Rules : | Pisces (along with Jupiter) |
| Exalted Degree : | 03 Cancer |
| Detriment : | Virgo |
| Fall : | Capricorn |
| House ruled : | 12th house |
| Day Ruled : | none |
| Persons Represented : | the grandmother, the wise old women. The victim or martyr. The visionary or spiritual person. |
| Keywords: kindly, courteous, sensitive, intuitive, religious
Colors, Stones : Coral, aquamarine, platinum and neptunium |
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The symbol for Neptune has evolved into a depiction of the trident representing the rulership of the oceans. Its symbol can be taken as an upward extension of the cross of matter shielded by a crescent of receptivity, although based on the trident of Neptune. |
IN THE CHART
As Neptune takes 165 years to go around the Sun, this planet will be in any one sign for a period of about 14 years. Its influence is therefore experienced most strongly as long-term collective changes. Neptune ‘s sign position shows the collective need to transcend from the everyday life through the media, films and visionary ideals and has been found to represent non-material influences like dreams and illusions. It brings dissolution of structures and represents idealistic drives – both on a social and a spiritual level. Neptune opens the door to the divine, leaving residual discontent about mundane existence.
The first sign of a Neptune contact is a sense of loss, despair, hopelessness, or confusion. Many people instinctively use this as a time to travel, a time to live on the surface of cultures, to escape from their own world and drift through someone else’s. For others, there can be times of indecision instead of decisiveness, confusion and dreams instead of clarity and logic. This may or may not be a difficult experience.
How Neptune will manifest its energy will depends on the horoscope as a whole. The Sign (and its Element), the House in which it falls, and the Aspects to the other planets will all have a bearing on any interpretation.
On a personal level Neptune shows where specifically you will feel the need to transcend, where dreams are built up and dissolve and in what area of life you gain spiritual understanding through acceptance of the transience of all things.
The dream world can become more vivid and intuition is highly tuned. This is a time when the boundaries of Saturn are once again challenged, not by the frontal attack of Uranus but rather by slow erosion. The structure crumbles—not because of weakness but because of a massive failure of the foundation.
Methods of coping (Saturn) no longer work, people are Usually faced, in this time, with inactivity. They can take no action to solve their problem, they must wait for the problem to dissolve. Neptune’s action is considered to be that of loosening, dissolving boundaries, expanding and distorting and it represents Intuition, Idealism, Self-sacrifice, Glamour, Illusion and Decay.
MEDICAL NEPTUNE
Neptune takes approximately 164 years to orbit the zodiac, taking about 13 years in each sign. Its position is a kind of cultural expression manifesting itself with imaginative and creative faculties of a generation. Its location points to a common spiritual destiny shown by the sign that it occupies. As one gets older, new generations may then seem strange in style, cultural or artistic expression, something not innately understood by the native.
People with an afflicted Neptune should always be on guard for deception, trickery, and fraud. Since each one’s life is the outcome of former living, afflictions of Neptune offer ready channels where enemies from past lives or evil spirits can gain entry into our sacred temple. Forewarned is forearmed and confrontations can be stepping stones upward in life, or misery leading to drug abuse and apathy. Afflictions to Neptune may also indicate a previous life of extreme asceticism where the physical body was ignored or neglected leading to a leaky aura in this life. The corroborating symptoms are tiredness and need for a lot of sleep. There is also susceptibility to tuberculosis as Neptune is the ruler of this disease. Sunlight counteracts the tubercular diathesis and helps to harden and anneal an etheric body with a leaky aura. Likewise, a favorably aspected Neptune may let one drone away one’s time, neglecting valuable opportunities offered for soul growth by following the deceptive lines of least resistance. Neptune rules illusion and abstract thinking, as well as those areas of life where conditions are not always what they seem.
PATHOLOGICAL TENDENCIES: Neptune’s placement in the natal chart points to conditions which are difficult to diagnose, or are wrongly diagnosed. It has rulership over the aura and etheric body. Its afflictions denote laxity and weakness of the vital force, and subnormal conditions, as lack of development, undersized body or organs. Its placement in the chart and hard aspects has a strong rule over wasting of tissues leading to decay and disintegration. Its pathological manifestations are lethargy, drug abuse, intoxication, and general lack of tone throughout the body.
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY: Pineal gland, appendix, right-brain function.
CLASSICAL ASSOCIATIONS
none as the ancients did not know of the existence of this planet