The Detriment of Neptune Part I

"The most spectacular manifestation of  Neptune's activity in the eighteenth century was the phenomenon of mesmerism. The movement began in 1775 when the Viennese doctor, Franz Anton Mesmer, sent letters to several leading European academics describing the existence of a 'universal fluid' which could be directed and utilized by man. He maintained that this subtle force, which he named 'animal magnetism,' could be manipulated to influence people's minds and to heal the sick of various diseases. The school of thought known as mesmerism was born with Neptune in Virgo.

According to occult tradition, all disease is the result of inhibited soul life. The pervasive influence of Neptune dissolves the obstructions which prevent vital energy from flowing freely through the aggregate of interrelated organisms which constitute the body of any animate entity. Therefore, Neptune is concerned with healing and expansions of consciousness in order that individuals may serve as transmitters of the forces which circulate throughout the universe."
The Divine Astrologer: Marcia Moore, Mark Douglas

Mesmer maintained that planetary influences affect humans through the same psychic phenomena that account for animal magnetism.
Other similar schools of thought arose during this period and the Marquis Chastenet de Puysegur observed that his mesmerized subjects often passed into a state he called 'artificial somnambulism', whereby people became extremely suggestible and open to direction by the magnetizer. Both Mesmer and the Marquis are responsible for defining modern hypnotic trance.
 
The United States of America was born just at this time in 1776. also with Neptune in Virgo. It takes 165 years for Neptune to complete a revolution and now Neptune is halfway, directly across from US Neptune at 22 degrees.
A certain trance-like state has gripped the populace, from my observation, as it battles an odd disease, immersed in a state of vast confusion and mental suggestion. I would guess the sickness is not what it seems to be.

Often with Neptune, people awaken from the somnambulistic state wondering where they've been while they uncover new directions. The mesmerizing blindness of Neptune allows these paths to form and eventually materialize. Neptune generally serves to obscure reality so that an alternative can be adopted, ideally imbued with some additional conscious recognition of spiritual elements.

Neptune rules Pisces and when the ruler falls in the opposite sign it is known to be in its detriment. It is not a comfortable position. Sensible reactions can be lost in Neptune's spell. Virgo reflects health in its mundane body centered details, while Neptune centers on the spiritual breakdowns causing illness.

Thus the solutions offered at present are not working. Mental disorder pervades and the hypnotists are very busy trying to effect a desired outcome. However, Neptune by its very nature eludes control. Dissipation, dissolution, vaporization, and a touch of psychosis prevail. Or it also might be that Virgoan reality is preventing complete hypnosis while other magnetic forces come through and penetrate receiving bodies. Quite a few citizens are remaining resistant to the trance.

In the end, Virgo can combine with enlightened Neptune to illuminate the mind body relationship in sickness and health, treating them practically once the induced waking sleep ends.

Here's the map beyond the cloud while clarity waits .....

Neptune moves on shortly and comes back to 22 degrees as of February 2022, exactly when Pluto returns. Then Neptune revisits 22 degrees in December 2022. Pluto again will be at 27 in its extended return. Momentous 22.

So there is a very interesting coordination between Neptune and Pluto in the country's destiny now. I'll take that up in part II, speaking of twos.

Fascinatin' rhythm, as the tune goes.

Nurse Jill Returns With News

With adventurous Mars in Virgo for a little while, beloved Virgo, Nurse Jill, has discovered a new wild weed growing in the meadows that seems to have remarkable curative properties. It works for coughs, catarrh, breathing difficulties, even severe fatigue, and a variety of other ills. It can be powdered, infused, or encapsulated for those who find the taste a bit strong. She's named her new remedy, Lion's Breath, due to its brilliant golden color, and so far, no adverse reactions have developed in her patients.

Nurse Jill and her brimming bag. Just in time. Her anticataclyctants are particularly effective. I recommend them.