{"id":27583,"date":"2010-08-10T03:59:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T08:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=27583"},"modified":"2010-08-10T03:59:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T08:59:35","slug":"the-moon-and-neptune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/the-moon-and-neptune\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moon and Neptune"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Len Wallick<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In our present astrology, we have as our continued background the cardinal T-square. It seems that most of the major planets and many of the minor ones are lately a part of it. One planet we have not heard about lately is Neptune, meaningfully lurking on the outskirts of our collective consciousness, retrograde in very late Aquarius — our focus today after a very brief review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Retrograde Uranus, still in Aries until the weekend, accompanies retrograde Jupiter having recently re-entered the third degree of the same sign. Retrograde Pluto, with its superior tenure, is in the fourth degree of Capricorn. Saturn is already in the second degree of Libra with Venus in the fourth degree and Mars in the eighth degree of same.<\/p>\n

We have also been served a lot of information about the Sun and Moon this past month, most recently with the two luminaries separating today from their challenging conjunction in Leo. The Sun is still functionally opposed to the Aquarius conjunction of Nessus and Damocles. We have anticipated the impending Mercury retrograde in Virgo with Old Fleet-foot having entered its echo phase earlier this month, on its way to station in ten days. We have heard a lot about all those planets engaged with the dual themes of relationship and “all of us together\/all at the same time.”<\/p>\n

One might wonder how we have allowed Neptune to have so easily assumed its preferred role, out of the limelight, pulling the strings, the proverbial man behind the curtain. After all, Old Foggy has long been in a tight sextile (60 degrees of separation) to the Galactic Center in Sagittarius. Given that the core of our galaxy serves as the higher octave of the “all of us together” theme in the cardinal T-square as well as its thematic bridge to the aspects of 2012, one would think that would have given this aspect more attention; or rather, conscious attention.<\/p>\n

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In all the busy-busy of acting to resolve the internal tension of innumerable square aspects, so much of our focus has been devoted towards negotiating our way through one planetary opposition after another. Perhaps it is another part of our mind that has been keeping tabs on the synchronicity of Neptune’s compadre<\/em> relationship with the Galactic Center: our unconscious mind.<\/p>\n

How long has it been since you have compared dreams with another person? Has the discussion of our slumber life tailed off somewhat as compared to last year at about this time? What’s up with that? Is it because we have been busy taking care of business, or is it something else? One might suggest that it is time to extend the relationship theme of our current astrology to opening up and sharing that part of our life again. It might be painful. It may test our ability to trust. But it is your faithful reporter’s intuition that it is a practice long overdue for revival. It may serve to turn a few light bulbs on, illuminating areas too long in the dark.<\/p>\n

Neptune has also been in a long, functional conjunction with Chiron, during its short preliminary sojourn in Pisces and its long tenure in Aquarius, now being refreshed for the next seven months. One might submit that Neptune has been the missing, or at least underutilized, link towards putting the pieces together regarding the distress of an unprecedented ecological disaster.<\/p>\n

It would do well to at least begin assembling those pieces now that the petroleum volcano has been ostensibly capped. We can start with the fact that Neptune’s tenure in Aquarius did not live up to its advance billing. It was supposed to be a time of empathy, charity and inspiration as the boundaries that separate our individual consciousnesses dissolved to bring on a new age of compassionate, sympathetic understanding.<\/p>\n

Instead, it saw the unprecedented rise of obfuscation and the art of the big lie was honed to an ever-sharper edge. The form of lie called spin actually became honored as an art. Individuals found themselves dissolved into greater isolation rather than greater unity. All of this carried over to the Deepwater Horizon disaster: lie after lie after pragmatic lie; how it happened, even when it happened; how much petroleum was erupting; how much dispersant was used; even the various perpetrators’ practiced deception with each other. The lies continue to this day as our own government joins with the multinational corporate amoeba trying to convince us that all of that oil, all of that methane, all of that dispersant has somehow just… disappeared.<\/p>\n

Given that Chiron is back in the same sign with the planet named after the mythological god of the oceans, we may hope for a new beginning. That the sea of our common consciousness may rejoin in a holistic bond with the waters of our planet. That there would be new perspective with the great centaur’s return. That the minor planet known as the inconvenient benefic will serve to reveal the inconvenient truths kept out of sight and out of mind.<\/p>\n

That hoped-for beginning is where the Moon comes in today, fresh off a conjunction with the Sun in the sign that Sol rules. It is newly-finished with a face-off against the minor planets signifying abuse and the perils of privilege. Refreshed by the reunification of our emotional, unconscious and reflexive child-selves with the responsible, creative and conscious adult mind, the Moon is filled with the assertive expression of Leo.<\/p>\n

That’s the Moon that will oppose Neptune today, and before tomorrow, Chiron too. That’s the Moon that will open the flow of a trine to the Galactic Center. It’s a beginning that extends the theme of a New Moon — a fresh cycle starting over. This cycle may finally yield the promise of Neptune in Aquarius, so long deferred, bringing our unconscious minds to flow together, joining with our creative awareness. We can create the new patterns that the cardinal T-square implies — a whole new octave of all of us together, all at the same time.<\/p>\n

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