During its sojourn in Pisces, Uranus will put an end to unsustainable industrial practices, materialistic values, a mechanistic approach to life, and dogmatic systems and religions. The electrical pressure that Uranus exerts on our nervous systems not only brings an increase in spinal and bodily tension but can also enable us to overcome earthly limits, become clairvoyant, and open ourselves to receive information telepathically, in a way that we had previously thought impossible. The rare Venus transit, which passed across the Sun in Gemini in June 2004, may already have begun to stimulate our psychic abilities. By the time Venus makes its second pass over the Sun in June 2012, it could bring an entirely new kind of unity to our world.
Neptune in AquariusWe’re beginning to experience this unity today, due to Neptune’s transit through Aquarius, which begin in 1998 and lasts into 2012. Humanitarian ideals will continue to trigger reforms and related social unrest. This is in accord with the New Age, an epoch when extreme solutions are sought, tested, quickly revoked, and exchanged for other attempts. We’ll no doubt have to face some disappointments. Despite it all, we in the collective will learn to more strongly emphasize the rights of the individual. The conflict in Afghanistan, ongoing hostilities between Palestine and Israel, the war in Iraq and its consequences: All of these bring us Westerners closer to the people of the East. We are discovering the importance of first taking a close look at a people’s way of life, culture, and rituals before we judge them, and try to impose our own ideas on them. Only after we see other cultures objectively can be begin to build bridges toward them. This is the meaning of Aquarius.
With Neptune in Aquarius supported by transiting Uranus in mutual reception in Pisces, the first step is in the individualization necessary for the development of autonomous thought. We are on the path toward this, even if it sometimes seems very difficult. The storms of change will compel us toward a new social orientation. In today’s world, many people feel lonely, alienated, and excluded. However, people also feel drawn toward spirituality, New Age ideas, progressive social organizations, or transcendental energies. 5 Everything in this era has an experimental hallmark — unusual social surroundings and unconventional friends — or else it’s reflected in a cosmopolitan lifestyle.
Neptune in Aquarius stands in trine with Libra, in a sense “protecting” those born with Neptune in Libra. As long as this connection persists, many veiled actions by members of this generation are possible on all levels, personal to international (Neptune’s shadow is lies and concealment). But veiled actions can also be exposed within the collective (Neptune’s highest aspect is truth). The exposure of numerous corporate corruption scandals has hounded the Neptune-in-Libra generation.
Western society has allowed itself to be duped by this generation. For example, consider how we were seduced into buying “dot-com” stocks or supporting the invasion of Iraq, and the disillusionment suffered afterward by so many people. As though stumbling through dense fog, we experience veiling in the media and in news broadcasts that present us with images that have nothing to do with truth or reality (these are especially remote from reality when they’re supported by spurious scientific “proof”).
But lies in the media also help the collective to wake up and start looking for the truth. We need to learn to be skeptical about authorities and so-called experts and to se through deception. This is the time to do it. If not now, we’ll never learn. The mountain of lies has provoked the people to expose them and to ferret out the truth. This has occurred particularly through the “alternative media” movement and Internet networks (both Aquarian developments), which have strengthened our collective lust for truth and our solidarity with people in distant lands.
Neptune in Aquarius (until 2012) will offer us enormous potential for development, especially because Uranus will be passing through Pisces (Neptune’s sign) during this interval. Each of us will experience global interdependence in a very personal way. Compassion for others will obviously increase as we continue to grow beyond our own provincial attitudes and realize that all of humanity is in the same boat, on a planet in crisis.
