Saturday’s Pisces Full Moon was aligned with a rare aspect that’s happening now, the Jupiter-Neptune opposition. That’s a lot of Pisces in the air — or is it in the water? — and the Full Moon was just the beginning. On Tuesday, the Sun forms an exact opposition to Neptune.
Jupiter and Neptune, for their part, form their one and only exact opposition for this 13-year cycle on Sept. 17, one of the busiest astrological weeks of the year. I’ll have more on that exciting, adventurous week for you in the coming days. For now, let’s look at the Sun-Neptune opposition.
Logo of the Bon Jovi tribute band Slippery When Wet. There exists an astonishing diversity of signs delivering this message.
Particularly given the presence of Neptune in Pisces, there is a clairvoyant quality to this event — though it will be easy to miss. Sting described it beautifully in his song “Love is the Seventh Wave.”
In the empire of the senses
You’re the queen of all you survey
All the cities all the nations
Everything that falls your way
There is a deeper wave than this
That you don’t understand
There is a deeper wave than this
Tugging at your hand
Now, with Sun-Neptune we are outside the realm of what can be proven. Yet the Virgo planets (the Sun and also Jupiter) are asking for some proof. It would be easy to get into the paradox of trying to prove what can only be experienced with the subtle senses; or the struggle of fact versus imagination or intuition. The thing to remember is that in our dimension, we need both.
Intuition gets you so far. Facts and reason get you so far. It’s also necessary to make sure that one’s intuition is really intuitive, and that one’s facts actually check out. You might focus on doing a lot of both this week, with the question so focused.
Ask yourself the question that is the mantra of fact-checking departments everywhere: how do you know that? You can say, “I read it in this book,” or “I have a hunch.” However, it’s essential that you know the difference, and too often that difference is lost. As an investigator who relies on intuition, my MO is to boldly verify or disprove intuitive hunches with factual investigation, and to use my intuition when assessing the value of certain facts or the conclusions they point to.
Any potent Neptune alignment can grant some ability to see in the dark, which you might think of as seeing into that “deeper world” that Sting described so unforgettably. Yet Neptune also cautions of slick floors and slick people. When you see a sign that says “slippery when wet,” it’s a reminder to watch your footing; it’s not an indicator that you will indeed fall down.
This is the week to apply that principle. Carry a little pouch of metaphorical sand that you sprinkle in the floor in front of you in the event things get slick. If you’re driving on a street or highway and it starts to rain, slow down below the speed limit. Put on your headlights. Traffic law is using good sense when it requires you do so, but we don’t need a law.
For people you’re dealing with who seem just a little too glossy, use salt. Get real, and challenge them to get real, or to provide you with a fact or two or three that supports their presentation. Then, in the spirit of Neptune, let that percolate before you make a decision or a move that is difficult to reverse.
Excellent.
Very neat, and a nice song too. Good old Sting.
It’s always useful to keep a foot on the ground, I think – and to know where that ground is, for you. Note: self-respect is an essential ingredient in protecting against deceit.
Minor planets involved in the Full Moon at 6+ mutable degrees include Orcus, Asclepius and Hybris. Icarus was square Neptune within half a degree. In addition to the excellent advice Eric provides above, I would also suggest you might wish to review connections with certain people. Ask yourself: is this healthy and constructive?
Good to see you back on form, Amy. Self-respect is also the best antidote to feelings of lack of worth.
In my experience, genuine intuition is a lot less common than generally perceived. It by-passes standard thinking mechanisms, eschewing knowledge, intelligence and experience which result in a slowing of the decision-making process. It might best be experienced in life-or-death situations, occurrences which are fortunately infrequent for most people in peace time. I have experienced it on three occasions in my 71 years and it is unique and quite unforgettable. A case of ‘I didn’t think therefore I am’, perhaps.
Quite how it differs from instinct, I am not sure, but it does possess an instantaneous certainty; stopping to think about any situation causes delay and may preclude correct and timely action. It is, perhaps, more akin to a state of natural zen which humans seem to have gradually surrendered as our thinking capacities have increased. Professional sports people may exhibit it more than most; tennis player are often cited as a prime example, being able to return a ball with unerring accuracy in less time than it would take to calculate the trajectory.
Whatever else it is, it is not a delusion, and it would be interesting to discover its bio-neurological pathways.
Love and peace.
Dear Geoff,
“I didn’t think, therefore I am.”
That brought me such joy. Thank you. What a lovely thing to embody as I enter into my work day and beyond.
(I understand, one cannot will this beautiful statement of beingness and embodiment, but it is helpful and opens me.)
Love, Amy T
I like it too :))
Amy Trafford and puma pink, thank you both.
I’m fascinated with the facts others present to support their theories, facts taken not from experience but from elsewhere … ages of citing facts heard or read in books gets more of same. Sharing only that which is known from experience changes everything. How do you know this? I lived it. Personally, intuitively, instinctively, myself.
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Spot on, Amy. So interesting about Aesclepius, being the teacher of dream healing.
The Aesclepian temples indeed used sleep healing methods.
I may have given the impression that dreamtime, an Aboriginal concept, is necessarily conducted when you are asleep. It is, I believe, more likely conducted in a state of self-hypnosis or awakened semi-self-consciousness. You do not have to be asleep and dreaming for the healing message to be revealed.
Here is some information about Asklepios that I found interesting, particularly in relation to Chiron, the wounded healer whom we seem to revere so much these days. I was intrigued by the reference to “the wound that doth not heal” which I came across recently in connection with taxine poisoning contracted from yew trees.
https://beyondthestarsastrology.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/the-forgotten-healer-asklepios/
I may have given the impression that dreamtime, an Aboriginal concept, is necessarily conducted when you are asleep. It is, I believe, more likely conducted in a state of self-hypnosis or awakened semi-self-consciousness. You do not have to be asleep and dreaming for the healing message to be revealed.
Here is some information about Asklepios that I found interesting, particularly in relation to Chiron, the wounded healer whom we seem to revere so much these days. I was intrigued by the Chironic reference to “the wound that doth not heal” which I came across recently in connection with taxine poisoning contracted from yew trees.
https://beyondthestarsastrology.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/the-forgotten-healer-asklepios/
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