Neptune as a Dissolving Force of Compassion

Like the steady crash of waves on the rocky seashore, the transpersonal force of Neptune symbolizes a shock of unity through gradual erosion of boundaries, borders and barriers that have isolated us. Unity, as the term is used here, infers an indivisibility with all things; all existence is unified by virtue of all things existing...unity at the level of existence itself. Astrological Neptune also represents the invisible, pervasive force of our dreams. From our highest expectations, ideals, and aspirations, to the night dreams where our dreambody dreams itself awake, Neptune symbolizes the spectrum of sublime immateriality: Of inspiration and madness, poetry and insanity, music and noise.

In context to life in the material world, Neptune refers to those areas subject to our greatest disappointments and disillusionments, as well as our most profound epiphanies and enlightenments. In relation to ego personality, this transpersonal force acts as solvent -- a kind of acid bath -- dissolving such self-imposed, arbitrary divisions as 'us' and 'them,' 'me' and 'you,' 'good' and 'evil,' to expose the underlying unity of existence. Neptune as the great leveler.

Neptune's natal placement suggests to me an area where one tends to be a medium for the gods and where one is, in a sense, played by larger forces than one perceives or can perceive. Neptune sits where a completely open-ended, uncensored and all-encompassing merging occurs with the territory its given house placement refers to. The slippery side of natal Neptune, especially when activated, shows where and how you are apt to lose all sight and perspective, where boundaries disappear and how all sense of proportion falls apart at the seams. Like the Twelfth House of its native home, Neptune symbolizes a state of sightless navigation where intuition and faith act as guides and where, in the depths, all becomes law.

With the exception of scattered pockets of children, artists and visionaries, my assumption is that the dreambody and dreamtime connections of western society have atrophied. To the extent there's any truth to this, I venture to say that western astrological systems have also offered up a rather paltry, limited and pathological definition of Neptune mirroring our spiritual bankruptcy. A good example can be seen in the charts of alcoholics, many of which carry hard Neptune aspects; in particular, Neptune squaring or opposing the Sun, Moon, Mars, Venus or Mercury. Alcoholism occurs for many reasons, manifesting in ways similar and different for each alcoholic.

One theory of mine is that human beings are possessed by a spiritual need for disappearance; we occasionally feel the need to make things go away. Some people watch too much TV; others meditate. Alcoholics drink. This spiritual need may be stronger in those with strongly aspected natal Neptunes. Maybe a "bottle of spirits" brings the alcoholic closer to the spirit world. It certainly makes his or her presence go away. Ask any child of alcoholic parents....

When I first started studying astrology, I picked up a few of Liz Green's books on various planets. I started to notice that even the way that I approached reading her books was related to the underlying concepts of each planet. I didn't know very much about the planets at this point, so I didn't do it 'on purpose' ~ but noticing the different ways that I approached each book helped me to better understand the way that each works...

Liz Green's Neptune book is a hefty tome ~ I would open to a page at random & just read a bit ~ I'm pretty sure that I eventually finished the whole book, but my memory of it is *fuzzy*.

I approached the Saturn book in a much more serious manner. I read it cover to cover, diligently highlighting excerpts & creating a Saturn through the signs & houses chart inside the back cover.

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Hmm, what about jupiter and neptune residing in the same house, do they sometimes cancel each other out or does one end up taking turns being the shiney lightbulb while the other goes along for the ride?

Sag generation Neptune in the 4th house. Square Sun, Semi-Sextile Moon.

One day.... one day I figure out how to interweave everything together. One day.

Hi guys.My name is Dionysus(yeah my real name:P) and I have come to use astrology solely as a way to either Prove or disprove as well as help other psychics along.

In my study I have found that Having a Prominent Neptune(angular) as well as connected to a luminary or the ascendant as being a main significant as the most exceptional psychic ability.