Mirror World & Millennial Panic
The 2020s have been extremely challenging so far & we're only just about to finish 2023 so it is timely to begin with Naomi Klein's Doppelganger -published in 2023 -where she attempts to wrestle with and comprehend what she describes as the mirror world.
While twinning [doppelganger] is a Gemini concept it is the overriding mutable energy field - dominated par excellence by Neptune that captures such expressions in the current Neptune in Pisces era
Any seasoned astrologer with a decent handle on Neptune [that may be a contradiction in terms] will both empathise with Naomi's angst and know at once that yes humanity in the 2020s has been functioning within a very potent mind-altering vibe we know as planet Neptune during the transit of Pisces - aka a double whammy disordering of our consciousness.
The current era Neptune began in Pisces in 2010 but the groundwork for the shift in Neptune's expression was laid by the transit of Uranus through Pisces 2003-2011. Uranus through Pisces points to a step change in the way Pisces expresses -and when we speak of the expression of a sign or planet we're heading into quantum level physics where everything is a wave and every wave has a particular frequency. And yes our brains produce and respond to wave patterns. Perhaps it was in Robert Temple's A New Science of Heaven that the notion of our brain as simply a receiver was referenced. Like a radio tuner our brain can be conceived as picking up frequencies -and for astrologers this clearly includes planetary wave frequencies - which in Temple's perspective are embedded in the plasma fields and plasma clouds that permeate everywhere..but enough of that for now...
The timing of Uranus' entry into Pisces in 2003 points to a millennial shift begun at that critical era -a transition point likely to have had powerful psychological impacts at the first millennium though there is some dispute that there was a first millennium panic -the astrology can be read as confirmational that links exist between December 999 and December 1999 in terms of existential crisis.
Both periods had Saturn retrograde in Taurus - our world of matter & form being compromised/threatened.
Both periods had 25 Aries - in 999 it was Chiron 25 Aries conjunct the north Node range 29-27 Aries. In December 1999 it was Jupiter 25 Aries.
Wounded [Chiron] Aries = loss of Self esteem.
Too much Aries [Jupiter] is an adrenalin surge = the Y2K panic
These factors alone - both mining the depths of our very sense of inadequacy and potential for panic when any sign arises that we are not in control and that we have angered the gods our God - and with these psychological frailties linking the two millennial transition eras it is important to look at planetary factors that reflect what has arisen for humanity psychologically in the early decades of the current millennium.
Uranian & Neptunian Psychology
Firstly then it is Uranus transiting Pisces -a shift in the way Piscean energy is expressed in society: candidate #1 is digital technology -the widespread use of mobile phones and their embedded & downloaded apps; the rise of social media and gaming. society has been markedly impacted by the addictive power resulting in huge numbers of people globally using phones and software to connect with others but not in person face to face and in real time. Even voice calls have disappeared for younger generations who are most comfortable with texts emojis filters and photos. A lot of this sounds like the millennial Saturn in Taurus - where the full sensory experiences of sight sound touch smell -even taste that we might get in one package when we meet up in person with someone - is replaced by the diminished experience of a text in an app.
We were not designed for that level of sensory disconnection. Our full sensory capacities require feeding in order to feel at home in our world
This type of sensory deprivation poses a psychological challenge for anyone relying heavily on a life lived through machines and devices and under Uranus in Pisces I believe the shift into alternate realities began psychologically.
When Uranus was nearly finished in Pisces in 2010 Neptune took up the baton -promising to intensify what Uranus had laid the pathway for. Jupiter and Neptune both channel Pisces very strongly and while both have very sublime and transcendent potentials they can both extend into too much to handle. Neptune -following on from Uranus has more potential regarding how Pisces expresses - Pisces the other-worldly oceanic or sea creature who is out of place on land and the fish is part of the iconography of the saviour sent to humanity to provide critical guidance -to follow or be damned - as the guidance is sourced from the wisdom of a conscious universe -that many happen to label and personify as God
The Spiritual Pisces
Aside from external expressions it is our internal reality under Neptune in Pisces that is majorly impacted. We now hear about "gaslighting" - very relevant to Neptune - where someone convinces us that our reality isn't real in order to control our capacity to know our own truth. The perpetrator is a narcissist who is lying to you. The era of narcissism is running at full steam thanks to apps that promote exaggerated perceptions of self [imprinted under Jupiter in Aries at the onset of this millennium]
Mental health has degraded under the Piscean era due to factors already covered -and often involving behavioural addiction converging with substance addiction - a true double whammy outcome of Neptune in Pisces.
And Saturn is the skill of self management self control the placing of limits and restrictions. When we are not raised with the skills of Saturn we can struggle to manage Neptune. Neptune is endless -the upgraded Jupiter with many similarities.
Disclosure
To add another layer: the current paradigm-shifting era since the start of 2021 points to disclosure regarding our shared space on this planet - that in every respect we as a species are not top of the pyramid. That we live with intelligent species that are not human but may share some similarities and are not a new form of biological animal. That they are largely unseen but are likely to have been resident here for far longer than us. That have been known by many names in various cultural folklore [fairies pixies elves goblins to name a few] For this issue to be peaking at a time of double-whammy Neptune makes it all the more difficult to have clarity around what we are dealing with -and so the hypotheses are manifold and tap into -you guessed it - existential crisis and panic.
Evolution
While understanding the wave frequency aspect of how planets are able to impact what our brain is receiving and responding to and therefore manifesting as thoughts feelings and behaviours -the intention of us being subjected to waves of different frequencies as we move through life as part of the evolutionary process is not always clear especially when Neptune is so dominant - Neptune is fog confusion tricksters fakes frauds cheats liars magicians shapeshifters illusions delusions dreams and nightmares the godly the divine the compassionate the sacrificial lamb the loving kindness. We can meet many of these versions during a Neptune transit - both on the inner and outer level.
Knowing that Neptune is a match for the unified whole -the universe in totality and the oceanic field that unites all other fields of wave patterns that underlie all form manifestation - it is clear that we are all essentially Neptunian - but while on Earth our origin state can so easily be smothered lost forgotten - so that a mistaken sense of disconnection is acquired -and this factor alone causes us immense suffering through unwise behaviours.
A lengthy exposure to Neptune's frequency may indeed be an essential saving grace for humanity - but the price being sustained suffering before we wake up to who we truly are and how primal our connection is to everyone everything and the unified whole
A process of breaking down and being broken down being dissolved then reconstituted is an understandable necessity in order to move forward. Evolution does not come fast or easily. As a species we have invited a process of a magnitude that matches the intensity of our aberration from natural law and natural balance -the earthly equivalents of the maintenance of coherence in the broader cosmos
Jupiter paired with Saturn constitutes major regulatory and timing factors regarding processes that unfold within the evolutionary trajectory
In the 20th century it was after World War II that Neptune came into its first exact and tight sextiles with Pluto [most of the 1950's-1980s] following their conjunction in Gemini 1891-92 .
The next period 2026-2033 should strongly resonate with those imprinted by the sextile in the periods earlier noted.
People born with the 20th century Neptune-Pluto sextile during the 1950s-1980s have the potential to be great guides or teachers for those born in the late 2020s early 2030s who also have the sextile.
What is obvious as a starting point is that we are collectively functioning at a degenerate dysfunctional disordered frequency of Neptune in comparison to the coherent healthy sublime potential that we need to evolve into if our species expects to thrive
Neptune remains in variable close to very close relationship with Pluto as we navigate the 2020s and into the 2030s pointing to the evolutionary significance of this era regarding uplifting the expressions of Neptunian energy expressed through humanity
Don't Expect Anything to Be As It Seems
Levels of Attunement re Accessing & Utilising Information
2025
Evolution
Words
Yes! Words! the Gemini channel we use for clear communications and information sharing has been sabotaged by Neptune in the early 2020s -very critical specific terms well known in the past like holocaust genocide Nazi Hitler - noting that these examples are all WW2 era - have been misused on a wide scale in the catastrophising of contemporary events as well as the demonisation of individuals who have no true alignment with the figures of that era.
