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<\/dt>\nSeparating creativity from illusions is no small task. The imagination required to innovate is only a short step from the edge of reality. To walk that edge requires both curiosity and conviction.<\/p>\n
Most of us are not encouraged to be curious. Proverbs about curiosity being fatal for cats are intended to keep your nose to the grindstone and away from what is interesting. Even fewer of us have the courage of conviction to improvise from the inside out when there is so much conditioning working its way from the outside in. Neptune and Transpluto in opposition along the Pisces-Virgo axis represents a way to overcome both conditioned discouragement and the pitfalls of delusion.<\/p>\n
Neptune, discovered in 1846, is the modern ruler of Pisces. It’s a good match. Like Jupiter, the traditional ruler of Pisces, it’s a giant globe of gas. Neptune is named after the Roman god of the seas (analogous to the Greek Poseidon), which fits with Pisces’ position as the ultimate water sign. In regards to astrology’s experience with Neptune since its discovery, there is a very deep compatibility with the Pisces vibe of being everywhere and everything while also being nowhere and nothing at all.<\/p>\n
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Neptune’s demonstrated role as both source and dissolution corresponds to both creativity and illusion in your life. The question is how to engage such energy without getting lost in it. The circumstances of Neptune’s discovery hold a clue of how to work with it, as well as a connection to Transpluto. It begins with the discovery of Uranus.<\/p>\n
The surprising and accidental discovery of Uranus in 1781 changed human consciousness forever. The idea of there being other planets in our solar system beyond those that the unaided human eye could see was revolutionary. Perturbations in Uranus’ orbit let us know that something else, something big, had to be out there. Thus, a search for Neptune got underway.<\/p>\n
For nearly two generations, astronomers searched the sky in vain. Finally a mathematician took pity on the poor astronomers, spent a few hours calculating where Neptune should be and told the astronomers where to look. In other words, Neptune was discovered by the human mind before being properly identified by human eyes. It took the rigorous and disciplined, yet also creative, use of mathematics to bring the surmised into reality. It also inspired a new way of looking for other planets: calculation without observation.<\/p>\n
Transpluto is the product of calculations not verified by observation. Yet, its hypothetical position has proven useful for astrologers, revealing the extent to which the creative human mind, tempered by discipline, can tune in with the music of the spheres. As such, Transpluto\u00a0symbolically validates the curiosity and conviction needed to walk the edge between creativity and illusion.<\/p>\n
Transpluto itself is walking an edge right now. After being in Leo for about 80 years (almost as long as it takes for Uranus to move through all 12 signs), it’s gradually transitioning into practical, grounded, yet improvisational Virgo. The timing is extraordinary, demonstrating the need for creativity without illusion at this time in human history.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The amount of time it will take for Transpluto to finally complete its calculated oscillations back and forth across the Virgo cusp corresponds almost exactly with the period it will take Uranus and Pluto to complete the series of seven square aspects that form the background for this era of astrology. What’s more, Transpluto is making its first Virgo forays just as Neptune has returned to its home sign for the first time in more than a century and a half. Neptune’s direct station this weekend, and its final precise opposition to Transpluto, has some rather uncanny timing of its own.<\/p>\n
Neptune’s current retrograde period started on June 4. It was a few hours after an eclipse cycle ended, and a few days before Venus transited the face of the Sun for the last time until the next century. Hence, Neptune started its sabbatical just as we were being initiated into the core of of 2012 astrology. Now, as we near the Capricorn Solstice with all of its transcendental connections, Neptune is all but starting over where it belongs. Symbolically we are being asked to do the same.<\/p>\n
The fact that you are alive now is no accident. You are among those to have seen Venus cross the Sun. You are present for the rare tests of Uranus to Pluto. You will witness the intersection of eras, epochs and eons uncounted. You belong here and now just as surely as Neptune belongs in Pisces, and everything you do, or don’t do, will count. To count for all you are worth, you will need to be creative and divest yourself of any illusions. It is not too late to start.<\/p>\n
If you start over this weekend with a healthy curiosity and an open mind, you will enhance your creativity. What you begin creating is for you to decide. If you are rigorous and disciplined in how you create, you will escape illusion and actually produce something. What you produce is for you to value. If you can proceed with the conviction that you and what you produce have a rightful place in the here and now, you will be able to walk the line through an eclipse cycle that will take you to where you need to be for the Capricorn Solstice — and the work of a new season to follow.<\/p>\n
Offered In Service<\/em> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Neptune’s five-month retrograde comes to a halt on the leading edge of Pisces this weekend. Neptune resumes direct motion opposed the hypothetical object Transpluto, which is just inside the cusp of Virgo. Considered as a whole, with placement, aspect and timing together, this case of Neptune stationing direct can be interpreted as challenging you to … 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\/62310"}],"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=62310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}