Neptune AstrologyNeptune in Pisces
On a personal level, because it is so slow, Neptune is likely to cross any planet or angle only once or twice in a lifetime so we cannot refer back to earlier experiences to gain better insights, we must use intuition more and try to glean from historical events what Neptune does. Some Neptune in Pisces events47– 61 Paul begins Christianity Buddhism introduced to China. 374 - 389 Nicene Christianity officially adopted by Rome 538 -552 Spread of Buddhism –official introduction to Japan. St David brings Christianity to Wales 550. 701 - 716 Muslim expansion –Moorish invasion of Spain. Muslim state established in modern Pakistan. 712. 1192 - 1207 Crusades. The 4th seen as final act in Great Schism between the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church. 1520 - 1534 Martin Luther condemned as heretic and excommunicated Henry 8th cut ties with church of Rome. Calvin starts Protestant movement in France. 1684 - 1698 Louis 14th bans all religions in France except R.C. Salem witch trials. Newton published “Principia,” most basic book in all science 1847 - 1862 Communist Manifesto by Marx & Engels. Speed of light first measured Darwin’s Origin of Species published We notice a common thread…at these times the various belief-systems that dominate the world take important steps forward. Each of the movements that support these ideologies believes in them as though they were truth, yet Neptune doesn’t even believe in truth. Neptune wants us to know that the map we have of reality is only a story, only of local relevance, only temporary and never finally provable.
Possibly the most poignant political issue of the day has to do with borders too – Brexit and the election of Trump. In both cases many lies were told and the result seemed to shock and even dismay the winners who had no sense that the need for strong borders was such an emotional question for the voters. When we discuss what dissolves boundaries, nothing is more obvious in astrology than Neptune in Pisces.
All the other planets, even Pluto to a considerable extent, bring us into deeper relationship with normal everyday life, each in their own way, but Neptune’s focus is not that. It is deals with questions of reality and identity. What is real? Who am I? Am I real or an illusion? It is not only hippies and other druggies that are asking these questions; scientists at the leading edge of physics and technology have similar uncertainties. In Astrology, Neptune asks these questions of us and yet gives no answers. It is enigmatic in the extreme, it answers everything with the Zen wisdom “not this not that!” Neptune astrology transits bring confusion and illusion – but also spiritual clarity and dis-illusion-ment. At first, gripped by, and gripping onto, our false sense of who we are and what is real, Neptune washes away all the anchorage points of our lives, and we lose traction. With Mercury we lose our sense of clear-mindedness; with Venus we become foolishly un-boundaried in the fantasy of romantic love; with Mars it disinclines us away from self-serving action towards the hidden self-gratification of altruism. Neptune-Sun connections rob us of the all-important definition of ego that allows us to operate safely in a dangerous world.
And these transits go on and on. As soon as we rebuild our lives another tsunami comes along and we lose all the structures of limitation again and yet again until we find within ourselves a place of surrender and willing acceptance. From that moment all is well – then we flow with the deepest mystery and ride the tides of change. The more we allow Neptune to carry us along the better it feels. There is a beautiful serenity, a blissful sense of sweet goodness and a tiny but spiritually-transforming glimpse of All That Is.
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Uranus Retrograde in Aries and Uranus Transit into Taurus
Yet possibly the most terrible example of rebelliousness was the shocking emergence of the Islamic State and its rapid ascendancy. It took Al Qaeda’s agenda to a whole new level, making enemies not only of the West but also of the moderate majority of Islam. However, it tried to punch above its weight when it took on Syria and therefore, with others, Russia. In Syria, Russia has found its role once again as a fearsome power, which it had lost in the 1980s.
China has stealthily claimed a strong place and now, for the first time, is able to be taken seriously as a longer term threat to American supremacy. Its technological focus is also a feature of Uranus. If reports are to be believed, there are plans to light the streets of Beijing with a man-made laser beam in space whose brightness is five times that of the Moon. They have also cloned monkeys. Elsewhere human microchip implants are no longer the fantasy of a sci fi writer. Their Belt and Road initiative is Taurus-like however; their time is coming now. In summary, through technology and rebellion, Uranus has expressed itself very aggressively during its time in Aries, triggering violent crackdowns and making the world a much more dangerous place than a decade ago.
We can expect more energy and attention channelled into money, trade and corporations rather than bullets perhaps – but sadly, in Taurus Uranus is almost certain to disrupt the status quo and suddenly move wealth around. Economic collapse is one of the principle contributors to instability and therefore the resultant conflict.
There was also the start of the major trade war with China. USA may find itself unable to win such a war, and in the end major military wars are decided on who has won the trade wars and can command the most resources. (We remember the Boston Tea Party, a trade war at first that led to a real one, and the Opium wars between UK and China) Uranus in Taurus Main Course Uranus enters Taurus for keeps on 6 March 2019, and will be there until 2025; during this period we expect to see manifestations of Uranus acting through Taurus, so keywords such as 'discovery', 'rebellion', and 'reforms' which relate to Uranus will be combined with those related to Taurus - 'money', 'land', 'banks', 'matter', 'possession', 'ownership'. Although we might like to see Uranus act rather dramatically immediately upon its ingress, it does not always do so. Also we cannot see how small things lead to big changes, so even if something major has already happened we may not think it important until history shows us. Uranus in Taurus History 1934-1941 1) The worst year of the Great Depression 2) The 'Dust Bowl' economic catastrophe 3) F D Roosevelt's economic reforms - the 'New Deal' 4) To pay for arms, Britain's gold reserves were required to be deposited into America’s newly created Fort Knox - the wealth of the world's greatest empire transferred to another country almost overnight. 5) Manhattan Project brings in the Nuclear Age (splitting matter itself - what could be a more telling image for Uranus in Taurus!) 6) Long March of Mao and Night of Long Knives of Hitler bring dictators to power to mark the seeds of a great Game of Thrones which changed who owned the gold and possessed the land for generations to come. How did the US end up owning half of the World's gold reserves by the end of WWII? 1851-1857 1) Abolitionists got going in the USA...leading to a war that divided a continent and moved vast wealth from South to North 2) There was a gold rush in Australia 3) Europe suffered widespread economic crises 4) Technological developments gave the ability to cross oceans and continents with railways and steamships, changing world trade completely and forever. 1684-1690 1) China opens ports to trade with West 2) British East India Trading Co opens trade with India and becomes the dominant economic world force until USA takes over 3) Newton's Principia published - foundation of modern science, great revolution of physics, without which space travel (overcoming gravity) would be unthinkable - and practically all else in technology that we take for granted now. 1599 - 1607 1) Queen Elizabeth 1 reign ends (Will that of Queen Elizabeth 2?) 2) Gunpowder Plot - Plot to blow up the government of the world's richest empire 3) Settling of Jamestown, Virginia (Nobody could imagine where that would take us) Uranus Transits in Taurus The pattern is very clear; it is one of big shifts occurring in the field of money and land in such a way as to redefine the relationships between power-possessors. The combination of fiery Uranus and solid-state Taurus is devastatingly powerful in a way that truly makes its mark in the history books. What seems very clear from the historical evidence of previous periods of Uranus transiting through Taurus is that international trade is often subjected to large scale unexpected shifts. I am interested to look beneath the surface of this, triggered by Jena's comment that we re-look at values when Taurus is transited. Taurus is a no-nonsense sign especially when it comes to defending its core values of security and freedom, which it sees as invested in things that bring security and whose absence brings a feeling of insecurity - money, land and possessions. By extension this means food to eat and solid ground beneath the feet. It also implies freedom from oppression since oppressors threaten these fundamental life needs. Uranus in Taurus The Common Thread A common thread emerges when we consider previous comments about Uranus in Taurus times, both contemporary and historical - whether volcanoes, fascism, trade wars or imperialist monopolies - that basic human rights are in danger of violation through the threat to fundamentals: food and freedom.
The Great Depression, which led to terrible poverty and mass starvation, set the stage for war – as indeed did the reparations after WW1 that led to depriving Germany of its all-important income from coal, and the deeply unsettling hyper-inflation that resulted from this, and therefore the readiness of a people to submit more easily to fascism rather than to poverty and shame. The triggers were economic – the Wall Street crash and the confiscation of the Ruhr coalfields were both expressions of greed and pride. The long-suffering patient bull will put up with almost any unpleasantness, but try taking away its food supply or invading its secure domain! All we need is Uranus to shock it out of its complacent reverie and you have the recipe for violent eruption. The once-in-a-lifetime rage of an angry bull is to be avoided at all costs. We might well see blind rage against the 'System' acted out as the hungry and dispossessed lose control and revert to their herd instinct mentality. If so the only thing to do is to get out of the way and hide, as some people are currently learning in France this very week. Pluto Transits - Global and Personal Perspectives
We have come to comprehend that life is very much more complex, hidden and undecipherable than we had ever thought. So this is the essence of what Pluto’s astrology points to in a horoscope – how do we experience transcendence? How do we cope with the fact that we are both powerful and powerless, light and dark, saintly and satanic? Pluto’s domain is beyond the beyond – as far out as it gets, at least within our current reach of comprehension; it goes beyond duality. Pluto Transits in Recent History
Pluto in your Horoscope
Pluto and Higher Aspects of Consciousness
Personal Pluto Transits
A crisis occurs, a watershed is crossed, something dies and there is a resurrection. Then a slow process of recovery gets underway until the years have passed and we can look back proudly at our ability to have withstood such a challenge and still managed to have bounced back. These are life-defining times.
As we have seen, the effects of trying to use that power for personal gain can lead to catastrophe. The greed of the rich has brought our species to the brink of self-annihilation. We have the power now; will we use it collectively for the good of all, or for selfish purposes? The astrology of Pluto’s position on this point is quite clear – there is only one right answer to this question and the penalty for a wrong answer is dire and permanent.
Corridors of Power
We see now how nuclear war is more of a threat, how racism is on the rise along with firming up boundaries and accentuating national identity, and we also see growing stronger the corporate independence and supremacy that is arising out of this surge of the right-wing, the would-be fascists. Pluto is in evidence in all of this. It is a power-play at the highest level of statehood, nationality, religion and social structuring: it is in Capricorn. Pluto Astrology and Trump
A New DemocracyPerhaps it is time for a new over-arching governance principle; in its current form Democracy is outdated. It certainly was a good idea when compared to what it replaced, which was the tyranny of kings and such like, but now we have insufficient power to resist being taken over by the Corporate Dragon. We need to transform what we think of as Democracy; it has so far proven itself unable to prevent a truly defective person like Trump being allowed to sit on the world throne, it must be replaced by something better – something that protects us better from the lies of power-possessors and the greed of corporations and, most importantly, defends the principle of Justice.
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