~Message from Neptune for the Month of the Crab 2019~
The symbol for Neptune this month, according to Signor Borelli, is "Two daggers crossed." I think of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden in the second Democratic debate; also of the candidate (don't remember his name) who asked Pete Buttigieg why he didn't fire his police chief, whereupon according to one journalist Mayor Pete returned to him a "fixed death stare." (Buttigieg has planets in Scorpio.) Trump is crossing daggers with the rulers of Iran, and on and on. Not that all this is unusual but it has a Neptune flavor because Neptune often has to do with injustices to minorities, which is what the Harris-Biden and Buttigieg-? dagger-crossing was about. Neptune can show oppression, and recovery from it through rescue operations. We are disagreeing with one another on how to help those who are oppressed. Therefore there is contention, and some feel wounded by others whose intentions may be pure but misunderstood.
The Sabian symbol is "A master instructing his pupil." This sounds rather paternal, and the Uranus-Mars and Uranus-Mercury squares discussed last week do not favor it. "Master? I'm my own master!" However, Neptune welcomes a master or instructor to make up for whatever it feels it lacks. And so it can be the planet of cults. I learned this week that the leader of the Mormon church, who has prophet status, has decreed that his people are no longer to call themselves Mormons, but stick to the formal designation "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints." This is causing a lot of rethinking for the "Latter-day-saints" and is a Neptune-square-Jupiter problem. That aspect is going on now and shall be for months to come, through October. It requires us to rethink or re-calibrate our conceptions of our religious or spiritual beliefs. ("A conception of a belief" may sound peculiar yet might be exactly right in this case.) It gets confusing. People with this aspect in their birth-charts often leave their parents' religion or the religion most popular around them and so have "religious difficulties." Or, at another level, they try to combine all kinds of differing beliefs into one stew and find the mixture if not toxic at least unpalatable, or need to keep changing the recipe, and on and on. And so, then, what "Master" is instructing what "pupil"? You may consider who your "Master" is or whom you respect as a guide to the mysteries of living. The keyword is Elucidation and that seems endless. You may also, knowingly or unknowingly, play the role of "master" for someone glad to learn from you.
Put the "crossed daggers" with the "master" and you have "My guru is better than yours!" or you have a tournament of masters trying to outdo one another, whether in fact or in one's consciousness. It can be disconcerting, but if you realize what it means and feel you know who is the "real master" it can be very strengthening, for Neptune is trine Sol, the Self, and so aids Self-realization and internal strength. It's a matter of the circumference (Neptune, everything "other") orienting the center (Sol).
Charubel's symbol is: "A man lying in bed, a dark grey cloud hanging over him. His chamber is dark and gloomy; yet the horizon looks bright." He says this shows health and other comforts toward the end of life even if earlier years have been afflicted. That sounds welcome. It probably means we should not worry if we need to have extra rest, or retreat to that "dark chamber" sometimes to recover our poise. This fits with the fact that we are in a Dark Hermetic Epoch. The center of it---the "worst" from some viewpoints, or the "best" from others---is the Mercury Retrograde period which begins Sunday the 7th and ends by August 1. Knowing that the "darkness" is temporary is very important. It can save people from so much unnecessary worry and even from suicide.
Neptune is often showing us that surrendering ourselves to something greater than ourselves is what can in fact reconstitute ourselves. We give up the lesser for the greater. The sun and Neptune in a trine guarantee that The Kingdom of Heaven (Neptune's higher plane) will protect and foster us if we rise to its level in consciousness. That is: "I (Sol) am also Thou (Neptune). My center is steadied and completed by Thy circumference."
{Tuesday} ~Message of Neptune for the Crab's Month~
Cosmic Piper
Tuesday 2 July 2019
Moon in Cancer
|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week is with us (until Thursday)
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