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Continuing our series exploring the three planets of transformation (Uranus, Neptune and Pluto) it's time to consider Neptune. On the personality level Neptune is associated with illusion, glamor, deception, disillusionment, chemicals and all forms of addiction and escapism: alcohol and drugs for example.
Yet Buddhist Astrologer Jhampa Shaneman calls Neptune the 'spiritualizing pole' because Neptune spiritualizes what it touches. Wherever Neptune falls in your chart you have an opportunity for spiritual awakening and recognizing that which is sacred.
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| | Neptune awakens us in a very different way than Uranus and to understand what Neptune is trying to teach us we have to understand a little bit about states of consciousness. Neptune opens us up to subtle realms of existence and is said to be associated with 'the veil'. Ironically wherever Neptune is in our chart, is also where we are most likely to delude ourselves. Neptune brings a subtle and nebulous quality to our awareness as he awakens us to different states of consciousness. My mentor often says 'don't get caught in the bliss' and this is very appropriate advice when it comes to exploring the world of Neptune!
What is actually happening is that as we open ourselves up and become more receptive to the energies of Neptune, we first become aware of our own limitation. We become aware of the 'veil'. The veil of which we speak here is a boundary, a limitation on our consciousness that prevents us from seeing subtler realms 'beyond the veil'. People who have psychic and clairvoyant abilities are said to be able to 'see beyond the veil' because their consciousness has expanded to be able to perceive the subtle realms. This 'veil' is created by our own mind, by our own subconscious. It is a result of focusing solely on our intellect and being centered in our heads instead of our hearts. Having said that the 'veil' is very real. It is like a magnetic field generated by the cumulative mental energy of the 7 billion or so human beings on this planet! Much like an invisible web that is spun around the world by the collective 'mind' of humanity!
As we become attuned to the energy of Neptune we become aware of the nature of this mental 'veil' and as we become more heart-centered, our intuitive capacity increases and we become aware of more subtle realms 'beyond the veil'. Opening the heart center is the key to the working with the nature of Neptune and which is why Neptune is also considered the planet of great compassion. As our consciousness expands, under the influence of Neptune, we become aware of subtler and subtler aspects of our own being.
Patanjali, one of the founders of modern Yoga described the physical (earth) body, the energy (fire) body, the mental (water) body, the intuitive (air) body, and the bliss (ether) body. Our journey is one of awareness as we awaken to the existence and nature of these layers of our being. And, although we may enjoy it, bliss is not the end result! We go beyond bliss and eventually our consciousness opens up into what Patanjali called 'Universal Mind'. Yet at the personality level we can get 'caught' at any one of these stages, which is why we are all at different stages on our spiritual journey. We're all working our way through one of these stages to get to the next.
The whole purpose of our spiritual journey is to awaken us to these subtle aspects of our being, and in astrology that is Neptune's role. Neptune awakens our senses through increasingly subtle and often pleasurable feeling states, to draw these energies to our attention. So we can clearly see the spiritual potential and also the dangers of walking the path of Neptune. When we start to pursue a feeling state for it's own sake, rather than as a stage on our spiritual journey, that's where we can go wrong and get caught in drug, sex or alcohol-induced states without spiritual awareness.
Yes we have the potential to awaken to higher states of awareness and yet there is also the potential for us to delude ourselves: to get caught in an individual or collective trance and/or get lost in bliss along the way. Not because Neptune is 'doing' anything to us, but because of the nature of the energy involved and our own tendency at the personality level towards attachment: wanting to seek out and 'hold on' to any of these particular states of consciousness rather than simply enjoying them and allowing them to pass as we continue on our way.
This is why, on our spiritual journey, it is important to move towards greater and greater states of clarity. To navigate our way through these nebulous waters without getting caught in addictive states, we need to stay fully present to our own experience and remain crystal clear. Then Neptune becomes a planet of illumination that supports us in opening our consciousness to Universal Mind, which is where we experience Universal (Divine) Love. |
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That's all for now! Next week we'll continue our series on the planets of transformation with a look at Neptune through the signs, and in the meantime... happy exploring!
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