DREAMY NEPTUNE

The planet Neptune is closely associated with the sign Pisces who has a dual rulership like the previous two signs of Scorpio and Aquarius. Poseidon is the other name for Neptune and he is the brother of Jupiter the original ruler of Pisces.

Neptune rules the sea; the deep dark depths of silence that only the fishes understand, and those humans who are nearly fishes anyway. Because of the silence and hidden qualities of the god and his medium, it is very hard to know much about him or his world. We do know that his energy causes chaos on earth and work best in the spiritual work or in the intangible aura that surrounds us. The warning here is that one should get to know Jupiter first, and then the Neptune energies will follow in their own good time.

Zeus/Jupiter [Larousse]

The great god Zeus or Jupiter rules the world. The stars are his hair and the rocks of earth his feet; in between is the belly of the world that produces everything. So the Orphic Hymn tells us. This probably means that Pisceans, and Sagittarians too for that matter, need to expand their world, but in a controlled way. Thus they can know more than anyone else, but the hubris is an over full belly or a mental indigestion – depending on whether the concentration is on the world of senses and food or the world of the mind and knowledge.

Jupiter always brings a spirit of generosity and benevolence but must be willing to give way in the end to the dissolving powers of his brother Neptune so that the material world becomes less dominant and one is allowed to see beyond into the world of spirit. Those who let Neptune in too soon in the belief that dreaming and psychic powers are all that is, are bound to also let muddle and even chaos rule their lives if they are not sufficiently grounded in this world, the arena for our physical living. On the other hand, those who deny Neptune, deny the magic of the world. Neptune should be allowed to bring inspiration for art forms, for solving complications, not as a solution to life’s difficulties through escape.

Osiris the green god and Dionysus the god of wine are closely associated with Neptune energies.

The Nymph Leucothea feeds Dionysus beneath the ‘Tree of Life’ [Larousse]

For the romantic poets, dream a little with ‘Rumi Poems’; Rumi (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)