Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Coming Home – Neptune in Pisces



“The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical.  It is the source of all true science.  He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder, and stand rapt in, is as good as dead. Albert Einstein in his book ‘; The Merging of Spirit and Science’


On February 3, 2012 the planet Neptune returns to its home sign of Pisces for the first time in 144 years! 
Knowing Pisces
Neptune was discovered in 1846.  It rules the sign of Pisces, and has also been the ruling planet of the Age of Pisces for the last two thousand years.  Its symbol is the Trident of Poseidon (or Neptune), the Sea God.  Neptune spends approximately fourteen years in each sign.  Therefore, the sign containing Neptune is a generational marker. The sign that contains Neptune also provides experiences of personal sacrifice that will help us to understand our path to personal redemption.  We create specific types of suffering in Neptune in order to understand the suffering we caused others in our karmic past.  For example, someone who owned land and evicted tenants without regard to their personal safety in a past life might create chaos with home and security in this life in order to understand the pain of that sort of experience.  Once we understand, on an emotional level, what we have done, we can seek forgiveness in a way that actually has meaning for us on a visceral level – the level at which transformation occurs.  Pluto and Neptune work together in this way, helping us to equalize and balance our karma.
The death and resurrection of Christ is a symbol of this process.  He suffered and died, left the physical plane ascended to the spiritual realm, and then returned to the physical plane transmuted.  He entered into the suffering of human experience in order to become compassionate and empathetic, and thus more accessible.  He became more spiritual but also more human – the goal being love and inclusion, rather than judgment and separation.  On a psychological level, Neptune represents an attempt to reconcile the challenges intrinsic in the integration of spiritual and material paths.  It is highly creative and artistic, striving to create a more perfect world. 

Seeking Forgiveness - The Path to Redemption

Each generation also has a specific path to redemption to aid in resolving its karmic past.  From the guilt we carry, our souls tend to create restrictions and unfilled longings that we may remain unconscious of on a personality level for a long time.  Through the process of individuation, and as a karmic group, we can help each other absolve this guilt, forgive ourselves and find other paths that will create more joy.  Neptune provides us with the information we need to learn and what we need to do to lead lives that are more significant for us, rather than to continue running in the ruts of our karmic patterns.  Often this path to redemption creates a victim/savior compulsion, which creates problems, but in Neptune we strive for experiences that will help us to balance our karma by making us more spiritual, creative and compassionate.

Forgiving our past life challenges is the key to our path to redemption.  When we find our path to redemption and begin walking it, we become free to transform Neptune to its higher level.  Neptune can become our creative connection to our deepest spiritual self.  At this point we become eternally grateful to our soul contracts for helping us resolve our past and create a more fulfilling future.
                                                                                                                                                           
Answer the Following Questions
           
  • How am I my worse enemy? 
  • How do I keep my light hidden?
  • How do I escape from reality
  • How can I forgive myself? 
  • What past life gifts do I need to remember?
  • How can I best connect to my inner spirituality and grace?
  • How do I live in a state of grace?

Creating the Vision for Neptune in Pisces

In my article for spiritcrpssing.org in April, 2011 I wrote that Neptune in Pisces will facilitate:
  • Knowing that our path to redemption can be completed by the process of forgiveness.
  • Choosing to live in a state of grace
  • Focusing on creating vision and using our intuition
  • Surrendering to a deeper understanding and greater appreciation of the universal consciousness.
  • Understanding the imaginol realm
  • Creating a deeper sense of our inner divinity
  • Learning how to be disciplined with our spiritual practices
  • Finding needed retreats from the material world to rest and revitalize

It is our time to embrace its wonders and expand our connection to the universal, imaginol realm.  This is the beginning of our becoming the spiritually mature Aquarians that we have longed for centuries. Nelson Mandela said that forgiveness is an act of love and freedom for us.  Neptune in Pisces will point us in the right direction to do just that. Once we know what we have done by facing it we are ready to forgive or be forgiven. I believe that the state of grace and peace that we all long for comes after we have had the courage to resolve our past,

                                                                                                                                                           

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