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Neptune: The transpersonal soul

The placement of Neptune in the birth chart symbolizes an area in life where one is likely to seek mystery or enchantment; express compassion or empathy; or transcend the per­sonal sphere of consciousness in favor of ecstatic, mystic, or blissful encounters with another person's soul or with the transpersonal soul of the world itself. Through Neptune, the Jupiterian experience of what is of value to the societal soul-the ethical and cultural "wisdom of the ages"-is expanded to a point of "dissolution." This ineffable experience is described (yet always inadequately!) in portraits of spiritual ecstasy: in the transcen­dence of ego-bound consciousness; in revelations of aesthetic epiphany; or in the mystic rapture of an encounter with the godhead (the inexplicable experience of the "moment" of eternity).
        Few encounter Neptune in such a direct manner, perhaps because such experiences will produce deleterious effects on those who are spiritually unprepared for such an encounter. In everyday life, Neptune rules dreams, fantasy, imagination, and enchantment; as well as illusion, deception, confusion, and the loss or dissolution of self. Through such experiences, the focal point of consciousness is diffused, blurred, and expanded beyond the confines of its ordinary, personal perimeter.
        Neptune manifests in yin-oriented collective trends (e.g., fashion, arts and culture, and spiritual movements) that sweep through society or that culminate in international or global tendencies. In a similar fashion, broadly based (yet yang-oriented) transcultural movements such as world wars or discoveries that mark profound points of transforma­tional history are symbolized by Neptune's astrological neighbor, Pluto. Through Neptune and Pluto, governmental (Saturn) and cultural tendencies (Jupiter) are swept aside by glo­bal currents: the "Plutonian Zeitgeist" and the Neptunian anima mundi or "world soul."
        Neptune is usually well integrated in those who are profoundly empathic with oth­ers: for example, those devoted to professions requiring a continual outpouring of compas­sion. Such professions require a considerable amount of self-sacrifice and self-abnegation on the part of the practitioner. Yet through such actions, consciousness is expanded by opening itself to psychological states extending beyond ordinary personal concerns. By transcending the limited scope of egocentric desire and by embracing the psychic situation of another person, the center of per­ception is shifted-from the self-identity to a deeper level of soul.
        As the planet symbolizing the transpersonal soul, Neptune is concerned not only with the welfare of a particular person but also with channeling compassion and empathy toward one's fellow creatures in the greater world-at-large. This transpersonal concern instills a rather strange, otherworldly aura to the "Neptunian." Such people serve as con­duits for what are essentially archetypal forces: energies that restore the experience of soul empathy and soul union in an otherwise alienating and soul-fracturing world. At the founda­tion of such experience is the world soul or anima mundi: the "soul foundation" upon which all human feeling is based.
        Neptune symbolizes the experience of what is sometimes referred to as "God," the "sacred," or the "other world," especially in terms of what Rudolf Otto called the mysterium fascinans: the beatific, alluring, enchanting face of God; the blissful experience of the Sacred Absolute; the uplifting, life-affirming aspect of the "wholly other." In the final stage of astrological symbolism, Pluto signifies the other side of the face of God: the mysterium tremendum. This includes the fracturing, horrific, and annihilating nature of the world: of the sacred fate of all beings who suffer the agony of birth and death in their metamorphosis from one realm of the transcendental to the next. Through Neptune's dissolution of ego-bound consciousness, we are readied for the Pluto's destruction of outmoded forms of identity, which clears the path for a further incarnation of the spirit.

Keynote phrases for Neptune:·Wisdom gained through the surrender of consciousness to nonego or transpersonal states, often assisted by a "drift" of the imagination or a "spinning" of fantasy.

·The experience of the personal soul (Moon) merging with the transpersonal or world soul, the anima mundi.

·Profound spiritual experience, especially that of a "blissful" nature.

·The further evolution of Jupiter's yin energy, which has now "expanded" (Jupiter) into a state of "diffuse awareness" or "dissolution of consciousness" (Neptune).

·The final form of yin consciousness in the symbolic solar system.

•Yin experienced as a "mystical union" or as a "cosmic relationship" with the transpersonal soul.

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