Neptune, the planet of Higher Spirituality.

Neptune 

     

Neptune is the most important astrological planet from now till 2012 and for years after that as well because it rules the process of enlightenment.  Neptune, the planet of higher spirituality opens the portal to spiritual awareness. 

Neptune was discovered in 1846.  It has now completed its first solar orbit through all twelve signs in 2011 and it will enter its own sign of Pisces on April 6^th. 2011. 

Neptune in Pisces signals our connection with our Higher Selves. 

According to Barbara Marx Hubbard, one of the most enlightened teachers of our age, “The most profound energies available on Earth –the ability to become enlightened and in joy will emerge in 2011 when Neptune and Chiron are conjunct in Pisces.”

Neptune is at the border between the old paradigm on earth and the new one.

It is a higher octave of Venus and like Venus it is the planet of unconditional love.   Neptune is the archetype of compassion and unconditional love.  

When Neptune was discovered in 1846 it opened the portal to the spiritual realms.  It made it possible for us to see that everything co-exists in an ocean of unity and unconditional love.   Neptune is our link to the higher realms.  It is the ruler of water, the oceans and vapour, drugs, poisons, illusions, movies, art, enlightenment photography, fairies, nostalgia, fantasy, liquor, cosmetics.  It doesn’t discriminate and it has no boundaries but it doesn’t draw the line between good and bad.

Under the influence of Neptune many new societies sprang up in the latter half of the eighteenth century.   People like Catherine Mc.Auley abandoned the social scene to take care of the sick and to educate the children of the poor in her own mansion in Coolock.   Later she founded the Mercy Order which spread throughout the world and continued to flourish into the end of the twentieth century.  She is just one example of men and women of wealth and privilege who gave up all that to serve the poor. 

As an example of the men who did the same, we have Edmund Rice who founded the Christian Brothers order.  Their dedication to the poor opened the door through education which led to the successful lives of many of Ireland’s youth and gave an opportunity to them to be educated up to Leaving Cert standard.  The national schools also emerged in 1846 approximately.   

Many new spiritual societies sprang up in the mid eighties under the influence of Neptune- spiritualism, séances, hypnosis, table tapping and the occult.  It was also the time when Madame Blavatsky wrote her books and founded the Theosophical Society, of which The poet, W.B. Yeats was a member.

Alice Bailey, under the direct influence of Dwjal Khul wrote her many books which introduced us to the ascended masters and higher spirituality.  These books were not easy to read for the ordinary reader but were very profound and enlightening. German writers like Rudolf Steiner wrote books on the higher worlds.  But these were only for the initiated, unlike the profusion of books of wisdom and enlightenment, written in a language easy to understand, and now available in all countries for anyone who wants to avail of them. 

The glyph for Neptune is the Trident and it is blue.  Neptune rules floods, movies, art, photography, cosmetics, hospitals, charitable institutions and the navy. All planets, like all signs, have a light and a dark side and Neptune has been called The Great Deceiver.  Under affliction it is associated with muddle, fraud, crime, scandal, brewing and alcohol, drugs, chemicals, footwear, bacteria, poverty and prisons.  It  can be the architect of delusion, deception and confusion.  When it finds it too difficult to cope with life and its mundane responsibilities it tries to escape into fantasy and illusion and a yearning for oneness. 

Neptune takes 165 years to travel around the sun and it spends 14 years approximately in each sign.  At present it is in Aquarius but it moves into its own sign of Pisces on 4^thApril 2011 where it will remain until 2025.  

Neptune is the planet of Ascension.  It is at the border between the old paradigm and the new one.  Very soon Neptune and Chiron will be conjunct in Pisces and you can imagine what effect that will have on humanity.  

I will write about that in my blog when it is about to happen in April.

 

Grainne O Murchu