Resisting Change

“When the essentially spiritual impulse behind Neptunian yearnings is understood, a torrent of creativity is released.”

Neptune in Aquarius stationed direct on November 4, and shifting our attention from the inside to the outside we may feel a prickly discontent with our physical limitations; our home confining, our work unimaginative, our body aging, our relationships unsatisfying, our money never enough.  Many western cultures, most notably the United States, have ruthlessly manipulated human discontent by creating glamorous, fantasy adds that place a quenchless yearning for something more wholesale on the auction block sold to the highest bidder. But, as astrologer Jessica Murray poignantly reminds us in her quote above, the yearnings of Neptune have little to do with material satisfaction; Neptune is that aspect in each of us that wants to be boundless, amorphous, and united in undifferentiated union with the source of All-That-Is.

As we journey toward a deeper understanding of our Neptunian yearnings we may find ourself navigating treacherous waters especially during a Neptune transit when boundaries dissolve, realities merge, and what was once solid and clearly defined in our life is submerged in a sea of confusion and uncertainty. When this happens it is a celestial sign urging us to stop resisting the inevitable changes eroding what is obsolete in our life. Neptune is transiting the natal Moon of the US chart creating waves of fear washing over the collective mass consciousness. The Moon in a nation’s chart represents the emotional needs and vulnerabilities of the entire culture suggesting that this powerful transit of Neptune is unmooring the American psyche by uprooting  the American Dream and long ago established ideas of family, home, and security.

Neptune is the archetype of spiritual unity and Aquarius is that aspect of ourself seeking security in knowledge; together they offer us a spiritual awakening that dissolves our perception of what is and what can be. For many of  us this process of opening our mind  to new ways of thinking, feeling, and perceiving is tantamount to death by drowning, which in truth is the purpose of Neptune’s transit, but only  the drowning of that part of our individuality that has atrophied and become vestigial in our evolving.

This is a time in our life when we can open our mind to creative possibilities as yet unimagined and take a quantum leap into the unknown. Neptune in Aquarius and Uranus in Pisces are in mutual exchange, each planet in the sign of the others ruler ship, and adding double emphasis  that the time is NOW for a humanitarian shift in consciousness by moving away from securing the needs of the individual to securing the needs of the group, which is not the same as sacrificing the one for the other.

Neptune is that aspect in each of us ever ready to throw our individuality  upon a sacrificial alter, which is why we need clarity about what exactly it is that we are sacrificing. I believe that what is being called forth by the cosmos is our awakening to a new perception of reality; an awakening that embraces  the interconnection of our individuality with all of Life. It is no longer possible to maintain  our illusion of separateness in the face of the current global melt-down of obsolete barriers that significantly includes our perception of what is.

Not surprising that a nation built on  securing the rights of the individual, often at the expense of the group, is experiencing a profound crisis  of change at this unique passage in human evolution.  It seems certain that Neptune in Aquarius is eroding the cultural  myth of “rugged individualism” forcing the citizens of the United States to consider their past, present, and future actions. There is an ancient Chinese saying, that the slightest wave of the hand moves molecules all the way to the end of the universe. Neptune and our cosmic family of stars are reminding each of us that it is no longer possible to live in an ivory tower blissfully unaware that our every action  directly contributes to the nurturing and sustaining of life not only for humanity but for the continuing life of the Earth.