Leave it to Google to commemorate the birthday of Jules Verne, author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea with a doodle featuring a perfect depiction of today’s ingress of Chiron into Pisces: a view of undersea fish through the focusing ‘lenses’ of portholes. We’re in a vessel (Chiron) traversing oceans (Pisces) as described in How to Cross an Ocean; How to Light a Fire. And apparently the correct translation of the book’s title is ‘Seas’ not ‘Sea’, meant to indicate 20,000 leagues of travel around the globe’s seven seas, rather than depth (although even four leagues gets a person into interesting waters). Not only that, but the doodle is interactive, featuring a toggle switch so the viewer can direct and expand the view (and therefore awareness) through taking action; direct experience is an aspect of Chiron Eric emphasizes in much of his writing, and from what I’ve read, a key part of the way to use this transit in the spiritual, fluid, sub-surface realms that Neptune represents.
Verne, born Feb. 8, 1828, also wrote A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days and other novels depicting “extraordinary journeys” in which he described space, air, and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised, according to Wikipedia. Credited as being one of the founders of science fiction (along with H.G Wells and Hugo Gernsback), his books suffered from poor translations into English in which his exact calculations often were omitted or mis-transposed from metric into Imperial measurements.