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Dear Planet Waves Reader:
We are now in the deeps of the Chiron-Neptune conjunction, about to come spiraling out the other side. I trust that by now you’re at least familiar with this event, if only from noticing how weird things are. The thing is, we’re distracted by the fantasy world that surrounds all the strangeness: the Neptune overdrive. Is there any dimension of this aspect that doesn’t involve a 3G connection? Can you sell any product, from chewing gum to a car, without promising access to a different dimension?
There’s something distinctly nonphysical about Neptune in Aquarius. I am stopping short of saying spiritual — it could go there but doesn’t always. It’s the morph of psychic and electronic that has become so enmeshed with our lives. Even if we’ve never used a WiFi connection, we’re surrounded by them, and they affect us. In theory this aspect should also be arriving with plenty of awareness-raising experiences, on a fairly wide-scale level. Maybe the awareness is happening and we’re just not aware of it. Neptune is involved after all, and those kinds of mental loops are possible. However after a while this amounts to texting while driving.
Neptune in Aquarius describes our plasma cloud, pocket-video wonderland of contradiction. It’s a world in which something might be true, or it might not, and the difference is thought of as entertainment, mild frustration, or as playing a video game: that is, unless some reality sets in and one becomes the news.