{"id":52659,"date":"2012-02-02T12:08:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T17:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=52659"},"modified":"2012-02-02T12:08:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T17:08:23","slug":"making-it-real-neptune-enters-pisces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/making-it-real-neptune-enters-pisces\/","title":{"rendered":"Making It Real – Neptune Enters Pisces"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neptune enters Pisces tomorrow. Fans of astrology consider that to be a big deal. Whether you are among the enthusiasts, a skeptic, or just curious, all of us are in a position to ask the same question. That common inquiry is what the ingress of Neptune into Pisces could possibly mean in your life. <\/p>\n

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Today is a good opportunity to develop some answers that anybody can understand. We shall begin with two fundamentals, your time and your consciousness. We will then build on those two fundamentals to consider two other things that are a part of everybody’s life, water and thresholds. Let us start with time.<\/p>\n

Time matters because you are a mortal being. Putting aside all the technical, philosophical, scientific and religious stuff, we all know that there is finite period between birth and death. Within that period other things begin and end, and many events repeat. There are important times that repeat frequently, like getting hungry, thirsty or sleepy. Then, there are occurrences that are important because they don’t happen very often. The motion of Neptune fits in that latter category. It does not change signs every day or even every decade, and it enters Pisces far less frequently. That tells you the first thing about what Neptune means in your life. It is associated with big chunks of time.<\/p>\n

Neptune takes about 165 years to go around the Sun and, hence, through all 12 of the signs in the zodiac. Ask yourself, how many people live even half that long? Neptune has been nowhere but Aquarius since 1998. Ask yourself again, what in your life has and has not changed in the period? That is one way to feel how the astrology works. Your existence, however, is more than just time; it is also consciousness.<\/p>\n

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Many equate consciousness to being awake. Most of us consider ourselves awake if we are functionally aware of what is going on both within and outside of our bodies. That awareness not only fills your life’s time, it gives you information about your existence in relation to what you perceive. For many of us, Neptune is part of that information, but a special case. That’s because most of us have never seen Neptune, and before the invention of the telescope, no human had. Neptune in the consciousness of humanity, like you in this life, has a birthday. After you were born, you became a separate presence to be perceived by others. Similarly, after Neptune was discovered in 1846, its existence became available to human awareness.<\/p>\n

You may have learned about Neptune in school. Humanity learned of Neptune only after it had been seen but not recognized several times over more than two centuries, an example of big chunks of time at work in reality. Finally, a mathematician predicted its position, told astronomers where to point their telescopes and how to know what they were looking at. That tells you the next thing you need to know about what Neptune means in your life. It existed in the human mind before it was perceived with awareness by the human eye.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Think about a thing that existed only as information before you looked for it. Recall how it was that you used that information to find the actual thing, and know when you found it. That, along with big chunks of time, is what Neptune means in astrology and in your life. It’s the abstract idea that you can follow to discover or make something real. Neptune is just as real as the place indicated by a dot on a map, or a person represented by a telephone number. That’s a concept anybody can grasp, regardless of how much you know, or how you feel about astrology. The trick to working with that construct is to build on it, connecting to other ideas that correspond to your tangible reality. Today, we shall offer two notions that not only symbolize Neptune’s entry into Pisces, but also exist as real things in your life: water and thresholds.<\/p>\n

Water, as any thirsty person will tell you, can exist in your mind before you find it. The many qualities of water can in turn can serve as symbols. The flow of emotions and the undercurrent of intuitions and mysteries below the surface are just some the many things that water can mean in astrology. It is one of the four elements (along with fire, earth and air) that are alternately and evenly distributed among the signs. Pisces is one of three signs associated with water as part of its identity, and by benefit of its position, the deepest, broadest, and most evolved expression of water’s quality. Neptune. in turn, is named after the Roman deity who ruled the seas. Hence, with Neptune entering Pisces we have the idea of a ruler taking residence in its realm, but it does not stop there.<\/p>\n

In the event chart for tomorrow’s Neptune ingress, Varuna (a body literally more distant than Neptune, and mythically Neptune’s distant progenitor) and main belt asteroid Osiris (named after an Egyptian god closely associated with the Nile River) will also be in water signs, Cancer and Scorpio respectively. Those two objects, in turn, will form an equilateral triangle pattern with Salacia, the wife of Neptune, already waiting for him in Pisces. Topping off the tank, Venus, born of the surf, will be right next to Salacia. In other words, four\u00a0prominent pieces of the solar system, associated with water by name, will be forming a grand, flowing trine aspect connecting all three water signs to welcome Neptune home. That image seems to be leading somewhere wet. Given how Neptune has been demonstrated to work, you can bet your bath tub that water and the qualities associated with it are going to be an issue in your life for a long time, but not right away.<\/p>\n

Before you start building your ark, remember, long periods of time usually correspond to a gradual process. Tomorrow is a threshold event, or rather, three of them. When Neptune enters the door to Pisces, the Sun will enter the middle degree of Aquarius. That will put us at the midpoint between the Capricorn solstice and the Vernal Equinox, an event celebrated by many cultures as a threshold between seasons (and known by some as a cross-quarter day). In addition, Mercury is just a few days away from being on the far side of the Sun and halfway between retrogrades. Taken together, Neptune’s ingress, Sun at cross-quarter, and Mercury’s exterior solar conjunction say we have only just begun. We have time to use what we know and make plans.<\/p>\n

So what does Neptune into Pisces mean in your life? In sum, it means a liminal experience. It will be to your advantage to know that you are crossing a border of some sort and avoid tripping. It will help to be conscious that a big chunk of time, and what it contained, is now ending and another one beginning. It will come in handy if you can take some of that time getting to know water better instead of taking it for granted. Finally, it will be of immense service to all if each of us can be conscious of the fact that we are in the same boat and privileged to be a part of something our grandparents did not see and that our grandchildren will not witness. As far as Neptune is concerned, we are the generation in the doorway. It is up to us to determine where that information leads and make it real.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Neptune enters Pisces tomorrow. Fans of astrology consider that to be a big deal. Whether you are among the enthusiasts, a skeptic, or just curious, all of us are in a position to ask the same question. That common inquiry is what the ingress of Neptune into Pisces could possibly mean in your life. Today … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1714],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}