Because Pisces
sets so few limits, it’s a wonderful place for creativity because it’s wide
open to new ideas. What if? Why not. Pisces
is all about feeling and not remotely about defining anything, so it can allow
all sensation to wash over, and it will happily float along, ballast on a sea
of impressions, visions, vague thoughts, and images.
Thus the way Neptune works in Pisces is to send out a vibration for
limitless awareness, for sensation that supersedes knowledge, and for a greater
willingness to harbor beauty, understanding, love, and peace. It helps us see
life from the perspective of others and to say, well I wouldn’t like that so
why should you have to endure it. That’s one of the reasons that slavery ends
during Neptune in Pisces—people sense that
it’s just wrong. We don’t think of slavery as a current situation, but across
the globe there are enslaved peoples, women used in human trafficking, and so
on, and during the current pass of Neptune in
Pisces maybe these atrocities will be eradicated.
Religion is
another issue that comes to the forefront during this transit. Did you watch The Tudors on Showtime? Apart from showing Henry VIII’s penchant for
romantic troubles, it chronicled the religious dramas of the day, the dawning
of the Church of England, an outgrowth of Henry’s disgust with the Pope when a
requested divorce was denied. The Order of Jesuits was established during Neptune in Pisces as well. Bibles were printed or
translated. Religion is an interesting topic, although it’s often more about
power than spirituality, which is why it holds little appeal for me. If you
have to go to war over it, how can God be a part of it. Neptune
would ask us just to let each other believe as we like, feeling there is room
for all. But through history that’s not always the case. The Salem witchcraft trials occurred during this
transit. Although we probably won’t be indulging in religious wars in this
country, wars over belief, nationality, and ethnic origin still occur across
the globe along with mass atrocities, so maybe there’s hope for some changes in
that regard.
Water, mist, and
chemicals relate to Neptune and there are many historical events that
illustrate how Neptune in Pisces functions. My
favorite is sort of funny—a guy crossed Niagara
Falls on a tightrope. But there are other, more
significant manifestations. Dynamite was patented. The first oil well was
drilled in Pennsylvania .
The first U.S.
paper mill was established. Chloroform was first used for childbirth. The first
America ’s Cup was won by the
schooner America .
Gold was discovered in California
and if that isn’t all about chasing a Neptunian dream I don’t know what is. In
fact, in a previous life I was an old battleaxe (hold your tongues) and went to
California to
search for gold—where there was none—for decades. Something about learning patience
they tell me!
In today’s paper
there was an article about breakthroughs in the development of synthetic blood
and although it sounds a little like the hit Vampire drama True Blood on HBO (a point that was made in the opening sentences
of the article), that could be one manifestation of the current go-around. There
is also much discussion about legalizing marijuana, and although voters here in
California
keep defeating it, who knows. It could be possible in coming years that better
antidotes to drug addiction will be developed. Or insecticides. On the news and
in the papers have been many reports about bed bugs and frankly this has me
creeped out. Maybe something to eradicate them will be developed.
Also in the news
was a report about the elderly needing whooping cough injections, and of course
flu shots. I’ve never indulged in the latter, but I confess to thinking that
childhood inoculations were enough to protect me from the former. When my
daughter was a child she got the DPT shot, one shot to protect against diphtheria,
pertussis (whooping couch) and tetanus. In fact, it’s currently a cause célèbre
among parents about inoculating their children at all. Some theories postulate
that the increase in autism is a result of childhood shots. It’s my
understanding that these theories have been proven incorrect but that doesn’t
mean that people know this.
We can assume that
during this period there could be all sorts of scientific breakthroughs where
drugs are concerned. In fact, it occurs to me that investing in pharmaceuticals
isn’t such a bad idea, particularly with Jupiter also in Pisces during part of Neptune ’s tenure there. Diabetes is a terrible disease
and it seems particularly Neptunian to me as it relates to metabolism and
sugars. I wonder if some breakthroughs will happen in this disease. We’re in
what seems like a sugary period of time. We’re all too fat and chefs are
celebrities as popular as movie stars. Food---it’s become too important. They
do have drugs now that block fat and carbs, or so they tell us. I’ve been too
chicken to try them. But if a scientist could create a safe, healthy drug that
could regulate metabolism and hunger, that would be a good thing. You’d crave
only the food your body needed and you’d burn up the calories, maintaining the
perfect weight. Talk about a brave new world. I could swoon just thinking about
that idea.
Oil is another
issue. Scientists keep pointing out that the reserves of fossil fuel are
dwindling so maybe they will come up with a better solution—although we
probably can’t just drop a banana into the gas tank in our future cars as
Michael J. Fox did in Back to the Future.
There is much talk now about the damage done to the Gulf
of Mexico ecosystems from the oil dispersants used to quell the
recent months-long oil spill. We should know better than to risk drilling in
locations where spills can do so much damage. And we should also know that
chemicals in the waterways are a bad idea. So it’s a two-pronged issue—how do
we fuel motion without oil and how do we guard against damage to the earth as
long as we continue to use oil. I suppose one way is for more people to
telecommute. I always feel that computers are Uranus, but moving pictures are Neptune , so what is video chat? It’s cool, that’s what it is! If more people work from home then less oil
is needed to get us all from point A to point B.
Light is relevant
too, and the first practical reflecting telescope was among the achievements of
Sir Isaac Newton during this transit. It was his theory that a prism can
decompose white light into the many colors that form the visible spectrum. Newton worked on
many laws of science and nature during Neptune
in Pisces and for three centuries his views dominated. He taught us about
gravity—and that the same sets of natural
laws governing motion of objects on earth also applies to celestial
bodies. The speed of light was measured now.
Although time is a
function of Saturn, defeating time relates to Neptune
and I wonder if we’ll ever be able to travel through time. I love that idea. Are
you interested in solar energy? I did my
sixth grade science project on it and that was long before it was anything to
anyone. Maybe there will be some progress in this field and there will be ways
to use the energy we already have to power things, clean energy that could
never harm anyone or anything. Maybe light can be fragmented to release energy
the way the atom was split to release tremendous force. That’s the thing with Neptune , it grants us the spark of imagination to look at
life from a new perspective and then to consider what we intuit as a potential
future.
Water is the globe’s
most basic substance and recently machines have been developed to add an
additional molecule of oxygen to water, making it a cleaner stronger than even
bleach. You can drink it, but if you spray a counter with it, all the germs
will be gone. I hope more innovations along those lines come along and maybe a
way to turn water into energy, which of course has been done with steam, but
steam also requires fire, which isn’t that clean.
Literature is very
interesting during Neptune in Pisces—Moby Dick, a whale of a tale, came out
but wasn’t that well received. Neptune in
Pisces can be very fanciful and can be what scientists call
anthropomorphic—seeing human personality characteristics in other creatures or
even inanimate objects. The beloved Mother
Goose Tales was released during this transit. Tortured stories of love and
mystery seem very Neptunian and the Bronte sisters wrote Wuthering Heights
and Jane Eyre during this transit.
Some of literature
in the past during Neptune in Pisces crossed
the border between fiction and philosophy. There were points to be made. The Scarlett Letter was released then,
and amusingly a play on that theme was used in a movie I recently saw, Easy-A, which was created before the
transit, but in a way relates to it. Uncle
Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beacher Stowe’s tale of slavery, became a lightning
rod. Thoreau produced Walden and Walt
Whitman Leaves of Grass. Madame Bovary,
a tortured story of meaningless life made more special by a search for illicit
pleasures is a war of gratification versus consequences—Neptune versus Saturn
you could say.
Music is very
strongly Neptunian as well, and some of the greatest musicians were born during
this transit—Bach, Handel, Scarlatti and even John Phillip Sousa. The great
philosophers Aristotle and Voltaire were born as well as artists Vincent Van
Gogh and Georges Seurat. Eternal youth and author of Peter Pan, James Barrie
was born now as well as satirist Guy De Maupassant—remember the tale of the
borrowed jewels which when lost ruined the life of the borrower who worked for
decades to repay their cost only to learn they were paste and worthless? Witty playwright George Bernard Shaw and
adventuresome Robert Louis Stevenson were born now as well, and so was the infamous
Lizzy Borden who allegedly gave her parents those forty whacks.
I wonder if there
will be art geared toward healing with Neptune
in Pisces. Maybe music can be written to help a person space out and find a
centered place, akin to powerful meditation, and that can promote healing. Cast
your mind free for a moment and see what you can envision as a result of this
transit. I wonder if more sunken treasures will be discovered in their watery
tombs. People always say Atlantis will rise and be a continent once more. Maybe
it will. Maybe eye doctors will come up with additional surgeries to heal
eyesight—or maybe they already have it, I’m not sure. Maybe there will be
better lasers to remove tumors more quickly, better imaging devices to detect
illness almost before it starts.
If we develop
better telescopes, maybe we will find other civilizations in distant stars. There
can be so many new things with this transit that comes only once every one and
a half centuries. Maybe there will be ways to make art using light, windows
that shade from within so you don’t need drapes (though they may already have
something similar). There are so many potentials, and I bet you’ve thought of
some I haven’t.
This post was excerpted from my article about Neptune in Pisces which appeared in Dell Horoscope Magazine.