The Detriment of Neptune Part II

"The planet Neptune symbolizes a force entirely beyond our control, for it is beyond the fringes of reason, or of anything comprehensible to the logical mind."
Stephen Arroyo

And therein lies the dilemma of Neptune in logical, ordered, and compartmentalized Virgo. Neptune synthesizes into a whole where the parts are undefined, Virgo analyzes the whole and separates into essential separate parts. Neptune leaves the mundane in pursuit of spirit, Virgo prefers to remain firmly in the empirical realm.

So Neptune naturally resists form and intellectual comprehension, but in Virgo the runaway vapors can, through time and experience, be brought down to earth to be used in practical living. The United States has Neptune in Virgo.

When Neptune transits many otherworldly events take place. There is the trance state which can lead to delusion, even hallucination, or it can bring about states of grace and transcendental enrichment. 

The Virgo-Pisces axis addresses sickness and health with Virgo representing the physical dimension, and Neptune, the spiritual causation of illness. Virgo works with facts and figures, Neptune goes with belief. Virgo can include natural remedies while Neptune covers forms of healing largely based on psychological factors and intangible elements. Virgo knows nothing of these otherworldly realms when it comes to disease. 

So when the recent virus took hold in society, and after the initial feeling of macabre unreality, I concluded that the illness was indicative of a spiritual malaise in America. The populace went in pursuit of purification, with vials of holy water included. People saw death coming out of other people's mouths, not a likely place for death such as that. It was an exaggeration of high degree. A reach for highs. 

No action has succeeded in the mundane world, as yet, while the divine element searches for a material landing. The complications increase when realizing the pathogen is not really the cause of the disease. It is the vehicle used. The cure is illusive.

Pluto returns to 27 degrees Capricorn in February, when Neptune returns to 22 degrees Pisces, opposite Virgo. December 2022 finds Pluto again at 27°, Neptune at 22°. Thus Pluto and Neptune are coordinating a response in the body politic.

The main thing to know is that the US was born with the earth trine, Neptune in Virgo trine Pluto in Capricorn. What they do together is harmonious.

Detriment or not, the mesmerizing lure of transiting Neptune in Pisces is unfastening natal Neptune in Virgo from its earthly moorings setting it adrift in the seas of chaos away from sensibility. The non-physical and nonsensical are dominating, while behind the scenario, Pluto is naturally working in harmony with natal Neptune as always.

I think the grounded natal earth trine, along with the transits, are keeping transiting Neptune in Pisces from completely loosening the country from Virgoan reality. The trine acts as a stabilizer while Neptune is pulled away from the earth. As Pluto comes home, tethered to reality in 27° of Capricorn, hopefully Virgo reclaims her senses, with Neptune emerging intact. Then they can continue their detriment as usual with whatever has been grasped from the otherworlds in the excursion.

The detriment of Neptune in Virgo becomes a fusion of body and spirit, in time theoretically, as society gradually learns from experience.

Defeet

Pisces governs the feet. Standing, understanding, walking, running, everything, the feet guide humans in every direction they move. Or do humans guide their feet? With Pisces, it's impossible to say. Feet are capricious, and they generally require a covering of choice to protect the tender bottoms that traverse the rough earth. Shoes are elemental.

Comfortable shoes that grip the earth and make walking easy are my choice. So when cushiony well-fitting athletic type shoes became the fashion, I rejoiced. A healthy society at last! I could now hang out with everyone, somewhat enjoyably, and hopefully on or off foot with minimal pain.

I was happy enough, but lately I've noticed an even better trend. The stiff, heavy, gel infused, blown rubber concoctions have given way to light, soft, easy running shoes. Are people loosening up?  Trusting their bones? Well it's one of those oxymorons, believing running is relaxing. Sometimes it is, sort of, theoretically. Flexible, just hard enough shoes are the rage, and once again, I rejoice.

However, shoes aside, sometimes people give up and retreat from life's challenges and inevitable confrontations in defeat. The planet Mars is the source of forward motion, self interest, autonomy, and chosen direction. From the Pisces 12th house of total comprehension comes the Aries 1st, where actions from that understanding are initiated. Mars decides, the feet follow, or in the case of the Grimm fairy tale, The Red Shoes, the feet are in complete command leading to a rather unpleasant end for the wearer. But generally, Mars issues orders to the feet. Often, the feet complain which can be wise guidance in terms of direction.

Like perfectly fitting flesh, shoes can hug the feet and make earth walking a delight. Some still like walking on stilts and needles, but I suppose that's a different kind of athleticism. Still, I'm glad the crowd loves sneakers.

The Shimmer of Chaos

Three quarters of the earth's surface is ocean, Neptune's realm. Senses are distorted in the deep seas and nothing is as it appears on land. To the earth walker's eyes, visions can confuse and sensations are interpreted as chaotic. The vision can't keep up with the constantly shifting illusions. Walkers seem to feel their way through such disorientation, touching things here and there seeking the grounding they know.

There is a feeling of losing the self, similar to birth, when the human creature leaves the water for solid earth. The same absence occurs before the infant becomes accustomed to the firm terrain, and stands up to become a walker.

The abyss of the ocean is sometimes overwhelming as one faces the liquid expanse without gills, fins, or other adaptive features. Perhaps there are vestigial features in the mind to help the dizzied creature navigate with success when revisiting Neptune.

The sequence from swimmer to walker that occurs at birth might repeat itself all one's life, keeping the skills intact.

So here and now the earth passes through Neptune in Pisces, a compounded oceanic swirl of disorder, fragmented sequences, currents, eddies, swells, and distortions of reality. 

Humans build ships to enter the seas as if called by some magnetic voice. The lures of Neptune are like fish following color, light, and most of all, shimmer, in land based waters. It is the beautiful shimmer of Neptune that attracts all beings. Chaos is fairly exchanged.

The shimmer, though soft, can be blinding, but that's probably the point. The eyes drink it in like an intoxicating substance. Light bouncing on and off surface is essential nourishment for human eyes, even in its perceived chaotic absence of pattern. Probably because of it.

Neptune lures and mesmerizes creatures with exquisite beauty, magic tricks, and the promise of someplace else. The shimmer beckons and they go. What would reality be without fantastic imagination? Real reality?

As the Melodrama Turns

Tension climbs. The plot thickens.

The world is either at end times, or revisiting a horrendous history, or destroying human civilization, or on the cusp of a dawning New Age.

The audience is on pins and needles.