LOST IN MIND: Saturn and Neptune in Pisces

additional content added 20 May 2025

From early 2025-early 2026 Saturn & Neptune are transitioning out of Pisces. Neptune's Pisces effect began 2011 and Saturn's impact began early 2023. This sign-planet combination has majorly challenged our experience of "reality"

Lost in Mind

can be countered by

Found in Space

The mutable signs Pisces Gemini Virgo Sagittarius all share the theme of Mind.

 Pisces and Sagittarius are aligned in certain respects. 

Both signs are disposed towards expansion and exploration of territory beyond the everyday preoccupations of the mind

Gemini and Virgo are also paired. These signs are oriented to information and detail. They are most oriented to the everyday minutiae of facts figures data trivia quizzes puzzles.

All four of the mutable signs are capable of crossover if their basic orientation is contrasted with another mutable theme in the birth chart  - such as a Gemini planet in the 9th house adding a Sagittarian influence or Mercury located in Pisces - combining to express through Gemini Virgo and Pisces.

LOST IN MIND can refer to the mental clutter of Gemini and Virgo. The gorging on information and detail to the point of mental exhaustion - and whether expressed vocally through verbal diarrhoea or through copious written material.

Pisces and Sagittarius - the signs most likely to be attracted to drugs and escapism can also seek to be lost in mind due to their planetary links to Neptune and Jupiter that both seek to go beyond boundaries and explore exciting creative imaginative or new mental experiences that offer release/relief or freedom from the frustrations and petty details of mundane life. Both signs can be prone to excesses and addictions. Pisces prefers mind-altering chemistry if the lure of drugs surpasses creative imaginative options. 

Sagittarians readily pursue their highs through high adrenalin adventure and sport if not oriented towards knowledge and wisdom - all these options can create obsessive attachments - the fervour of sports fans is evident. The growing sports betting trend is seen as problematic. The academic devoted wholly to research at the expense of a balanced life. All are lost in mind.

A large swathe of people will have a significant mutable sign orientation - whether directly by one of the four signs referenced above or due to the influence of their related planetary influence - Mercury for Gemini and Virgo Jupiter for Sagittarius and Neptune for Pisces. So this is an issue for humanity and for the human collective mindstream.

The transits of Neptune and Saturn through Pisces have resulted in many people making a deeper connection to their spiritual essence - wanting to find themself - but also many people wanting to lose themself. 

This split within humanity is being recognised and it is a polarisation needing to be healed.

Shifting from Lost in Mind to Found in Space is a challenge in a world driven by information data chattering voices over-thinking perpetual movement and noise.

There is little incentive to jump of the high speed bullet train and trust you will land safely. But you will. You just have to choose it. 

Choosing Found in Space

In 1966 Timothy Leary [born 1920]  proposed to his hippy followers to "turn on tune in drop out" suggesting they abandon mainstream society and pursue and inner guided life. But drugs were a big part of that journey. 

The 60s are very relevant to the current era - both on account of the divinatory 60 year cycle [China] and planetary cycles. But we can evolve what Leary proposed and find space without drugs because inner spaciousness is something that exists within our DNA  - our celestial formless origins. We just have to remove the clutter. Turn down the volume of everyday life and return to the subtleties of the natural world the swaying of trees in the wind the flight of birds the rising and setting sun the glow of the moon the touch of raindrops and explore the life held beyond our human prison. 

Entering the entrancement of pure life is how to be found in space

Gestation into the World

Pisces mirrors the third trimester state of consciousness in the womb - the 3 month period before birth when we know fully our essence is formless.

The astrological correspondence is the 12th house - the realm of experience that contains the storage of our personal unconscious but also that of humanity as a collective. Our personal vault holds all the imprints from prior lives lived in physical form so every incarnation whether male female and possibly other species and our behaviours thoughts feelings in those lives are perpetual - with periods of leakage and overlay within the present life.

Life as we experience it is not a truly physical experience - it is based in projections from our internal consciousness 

And we cannot truly call our various lives "incarnations" or "past" as there is no form no past no future no linear time aside from the human constructs we create for practical purposes. 

Anything we have ever been or felt and will be is able to leak through into any present moment. Truly we have multiple versions of ourself that can express. For this reason alone our psychological status can vary dramatically depending on what imprint comes into the present. From this level of complexity a lot of functional imbalance can arise. The Covid pandemic era  [ contagion is a Pisces event ] has given rise to a world heavily permeated by reality-challenging material and reality-distorted ideas and beliefs - sustained and intensifying even 5 years after lockdowns [Saturn]

With the collective mind-field being so impacted many have struggled with the amount of agitation activated in the unconscious level of mind. This reflects a dominance of negatively expressed Neptune over positive Saturn - an inability to find the ground.

In Pisces eras there is a collective urge to find ways of transcending physical reality. This arises due to the stark contrast between two very different worlds: the challenges and distress experienced during our physical life lessons compared to the comfort when existing purely as consciousness when not incarnated. Transcending is different from trying to escape.

Trying to balance out these two known states - physical and non-physical  - is humanity's greatest collective challenge due to the amnesia that takes hold once fully physical life unfolds after birth. The challenge is evident in all the methods people use to try and escape our unconscious feelings of imprisonment in the world of material form. 

Escapism is a defective option because it is an attempt to suppress psychological stress. The only workable way to live in physical reality is to keep anchored in the heaven that exists on Earth: the life forms and patterns that are not based in mental disorder - trees plants birds animals; the cycles of each day and season ;  the flows of wind and water. 

Humans are now more than ever lost in mind and it is a mind distorted by conditioning in the physical world. This is why teachers urge us to empty the mind. To gaze and enter direct experience and turn off the commentary. Practices like meditation or mantra are able to encourage mental space by means of developing a frequency shift in your level of consciousness. This opens a pathway to heightened awareness about our true essence: the awareness we carry as a connected aspect of the larger spiritual consciousness that is embedded in all of life at every level.

Only on Earth in an illusion of separate form can we feel alone but while here we can also nullify that misperception through conscious acts of connection within a state of presence - sustained focus without thought.

This type of development is urged under Saturn and Neptune in Pisces. We are challenged to strip away our addiction to a fully physical life and our immersion in endless mental chatter. Both states of unease reflect a lack of groundedness.

The paradox is that we need to be earthed - very present - in order to transcend our distress experienced in living in the 3rd dimensional physical state.

Clearly city life is the most adverse environment for achieving such balance.

The exit of Neptune and Saturn - leaving Pisces for Aries - does not end the need for spiritual evolution while embodied. The cycles overlay and Pisces themes will endure in the context of the Aries periods - 2025-2028 for Saturn and 2025-2039 for Neptune when even more people will choose to dissolve their Ego and its selfish demands and seek peace and harmony with others.

 

The underlying truth will permeate collective consciousness: we are not separate beings any more than a branch is separate from its tree.

also see RELATED POSTS

How Neptune Helps Saturn Manifest     [2025]

SATURN NEPTUNE and RETROGRADES   [2022]

Leonardo and Salvator Mundi

 On November 15 2017

 a painting was sold by auction

 at Christie's New York

The painting called Salvator Mundi - 

Saviour of the World

was estimated to have been 

painted around the year 1500

In the contemporary era the painting entered the art scene in 2005 in New Orleans -purchased by art dealer buddies taking a punt for under $US1200 in an estate sale.

The painting was in an unrestored condition -dark gloomy as depicted in the auction catalogue -but not offensive enough to deter the buyers

The 2005 auction catalogue used the description

 "After Leonardo da Vinci" to sell the 26x18 1/2 " work

The story of what unfolded thereafter is lengthy dramatic and very memorable - illusion delusion and deceit may easily be part of the story that began in April 2005 - (well depicted in The Lost Leonardo documentary)

It happens to be that many painters have produced similar works in the era of da Vinci and subsequently - as was common amongst his followers and students -and that 500 years is a lot of time for damage and "restorations" to be suffered.

The art world is clearly still in 2024 in two opposing camps when it comes to the attribution issue -so this enigma also poses an astro-anlaysis challenge

What is of interest is any clues there might be in the astrological birth chart of the painter -the master we know as Leonardo da Vinci - attributed by some to the work sold for $40 million. 

Da Vinci's astro.com chart rectifies to 14 April 1452 [Julian] 9.40pm and is rated AA by Rodden

Da Vinci's chart shows multiple artistic signifiers:

Taurus Libra Pisces and Leo all expressed and involving Sun Saturn-Neptune Moon-Jupiter and Pluto

Neptune most elevated

Sun in 5

A Mars-Saturn trine in Aquarius-Libra emphasising scientific creativity

There is a very embedded Neptunian emphasis shown through:

Neptune's elevation

Moon Jupiter in Pisces with Jupiter ruling Sagittarius ascendant

Neptune in tight sesquisquare Mars

Neptune quincunx Jupiter - Libra-Pisces

The tone of this chart is resonant with very spiritual sensitivities underlying da Vinci's aesthetic preferences

2005

At the period of sale in April 2005 the supplied weekend dates even without an exact timing for the actual sale still show remarkable connections to the AA-rated birth chart of da Vinci by conjunction or square angle -there are 4 standout tight conjunctions and two transit factors square his natal factor.

DV =da Vinci

Mars was 14 Aquarius = DV Mars

Mars-Neptune midpoint 15 Aquarius = DV Mars

Jupiter 13 Libra = DV Saturn

Saturn 20 Cancer = DV Uranus

Nodes and Venus were 22 Aries Libra = DV Uranus

The sale arose under the 8 April Solar Eclipse - a Sun-Moon conjunction 19 Aries

da Vinci's Sun-Mercury midpoint is 21 Aries and angled to the Nodes Venus and Saturn at the 2005 sale

It is well demonstrated in astrology

 that a person's birth chart 

never ceases to respond to transits in the cosmos

2017

On November 15 2017 after much ado within the international art scene as detailed at length the painting bought in 2005 and restored considerably starting in 2005 by expert conservator Dianne Modestini and covered in detail on her dedicated site - the painting was presented for auction at Christie's New York and sold for a staggering $40 million plus fees.

With immense international interest and finance behind such an event it would be expected that this date would also produce resonant factors.

The constructed chart for sale by auction of Lot9B Salvator Mundi - at Christie's event convened at 7.30pm - looks at 8.05pm local time New York - as a calculated time for Lot9B to close at $40 million -based on timed footage.

Chiron in Pisces is most elevated on the midheaven

Pluto in Capricorn - corporate and state power sits at the horizonal [worldly axis]

Multiple factors firing in the range 24º-27º sequence - Sun Chiron Uranus Saturn Moon - and the vertical axis

Sun near 24 Scorpio - DV Venus 24 Taurus

Chiron 24 Pisces -  DV Venus 24 Taurus

Uranus 25 Aries -  DV Venus 24 Taurus

Mars 15 Libra   - DV Saturn 14 Libra

Pluto-Neptune 14 Aquarius - DV Mars 15 Aquarius

Moon had reached 24º Libra 4 hours before the close of auction -also activating da Vinci's Venus

The multiple Venus activations give considerable credibility to the involvement of da Vinci himself in this  500 year old artwork and its fate.

His Neptune/Pisces traits also show in auction chart  Neptune in Pisces trine to Jupiter as well as Chiron in Pisces prominence and the midheaven in Pisces - spiritual factors which clearly also relate to the artwork itself

extra connections can be found in the grid for the auction

Revisiting the notes re the 2005 sale:

The sale arose under the 8 April Solar Eclipse - a Sun-Moon conjunction 19 Aries

da Vinci's own Sun-Mercury midpoint is 21 Aries and angled to the Nodes Venus and Saturn at the 2005 sale

2017 sale Moon-Mars was 20'46 Libra

Mars-Uranus 20'23 Cancer

An interesting motif in the globe of the world shows a pattern that appears to have cosmic and spiritual significance. The colours permeating the globe suggest both the terrestrial and heavenly planes.  with da Vinci's love of geometry the 3 dots may evoke the constellation Triangulum -well known in antiquity -and the holy Trinity

Deepak Chopra says Leonardo was "an accelerated expression of the natural evolution of consciousness".

- Spiritual Insights into the Genius of Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi in 2017 had a mind-blowing impact on the international art world. Is the artist's hand revealed in the painting's fate? 

Astro-analysis says Yes.

The multiple versions of the Salvator Mundi the debate over authenticity - is it real? the periods the work has spent lost or hidden or in retreat from the world all manifest aspects of the Neptunian qualities of da Vinci

Even if da Vinci's highly productive life was not conducive to long periods of contemplation -until his latter years in France - the aura of his most famous works speaks of the manner in which he used portraiture especially as a conduit for revealing the divine essence.

And not forgetting that as a spiritual icon the Salvator Mundi reverberates the iconography of Christ with renewed fervour in another millennium - an immense value for humanity.

An astrological perspective suggests connections are clearly reaching across time -that construct we conceive of as linear -but in the absolute reality in a layering in the present.

Further Reading

Provenance -via Christie's

Conservator Dianne Modestini - the restoration account

Steiner on da Vinci's spiritual greatness

Cultural Patterns in the Cycle of Mutable Neptune

 The Mutable Neptune Cycle

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At late stage Neptune in Pisces we ought to have some grasp of another slippery era in a mutable sign for this powerfully confusing planet

The most recent mutable periods for Neptune

Gemini         1889-1902 - 13 years

Virgo           1928-1943 - 15 years

Sagittarius   1970-1984 - 14 years

Pisces          2011-2025 - 14 years

A rule of thumb to keep in mind: 

that Fixed signs precede the Mutable and Cardinal signs follow Mutables - and on that basis expect to see the flow from a Fixed sign Neptune era flow into the expressions that arise in the Mutable - and that key themes arising in the Mutable period will merge with what emerges in the Cardinal transit

An example: Neptune in Taurus prior to the last Neptune in Gemini saw occult  [Scorpio-Taurus ] interests merge with the mysticism and magic era under Gemini.

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Neptune in Gemini 1889-1902

The 1890s serve as an excellent snapshot for mutable Neptune.

Aside from social issues like crime and drug use and creative signifiers like the mainstreaming of photography through wider public access and the development of the moving picture camera - very Neptune in Gemini - we can expect some weird ideas to have floated around -and yes they did - but not as weird as in the 2020s

Ideas under Gemini led to the influential Rider Waite Tarot being released in 1909 following the more occult-oriented Neptune in Taurus era which stimulated fixed sign expressions through Neptune

Outpourings of what arises under a particular sign

 extend in a flow beyond the exact dating of the transit

 -creating an overlap and seeding of ideas into the subsequent period

Blogger Tene Hreno loves to post about the 1890s - and along with period illustrations she has listed some of what fits the weird tag: these tend to reveal Neptune in Taurus activating the Aquarian obsession with electric things and the drug and chemistry focus under Mutable Neptune

Cocaine and Heroin sold as everyday medicines

Coca Cola "brain tonic"

Tapeworm weight loss plan

The chin-reducer gadget

The cure-all electric corset

The electric hair restorer

Wafers laced with arsenic

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Neptune in Virgo 1928-1943 following on from earlier Fixed Leo that held sway as dark forces seeking dominance -the zeitgeist became attached to eugenics and racial purity along with building a super-race through healthy physical exercise. Most of that Nazi ideology was weird and evil - even the exercise activities were very regimented.

Naomi Klein in Doppelganger [2023] has unintentionally provided such a case study of Neptune that I have been able to reference some examples here as well as writing a dedicated Neptune post.

Klein says there was also a push to promote healthy exercise in the US during the Depression era -the creation of National Parks for hiking and general health benefits and building of swimming pools reflect the Sagittarian and Pisces aspects of Neptune while in Virgo

Purity of thought demanded by wartime totalitarian ideology tends to put people under the scrutiny of everyday spies pressured to work for the regime

Modest and plain scrimping and saving re-use and recycling as well as home-made would have been encouraged in many parts of the world during the early 1930s Great Depression and extending into the late 1930s outbreak of World War 2 and enduring during the war period up to the mid 1940s.

Many sacrifices happened in the Virgo period -lives lifestyles livelihood -immense suffering -a very cruel period

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Neptune in Sagittarius 1970-1984

Many born under this transit will be featuring in protest and alternative networks that have come to the fore under Neptune in Pisces 2011-2025 

Escapist beliefs and philosophies as well as the freedom flag flew highest in this period -travel adventure expansion beyond known boundaries. Drugs alcohol and gurus - "turn on tune in drop out" was a famous slogan adopted in pursuit of a way of being that wasn't attached to the system -along with the pursuit of nirvana through higher consciousness in far off lands like India [no guarantees offered]

The Beatles in the late 1960s while Neptune transited Scorpio [metaphysical-mystical themes] led the way with stoner songs like Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds and their Yellow Submarine album -several of the album songs used a Neptunian keyword -sea or sub

The fitness craze of the 1980s also acquired a beauty factor says Klein in Doppelganger. This is when mutable Neptune flowed into Cardinal Neptune - under Capricorn the Libran body beautiful urge came to the fore as a very viable business compatible with Sagittarian body fitness.

Klein explains in a referenced* explanation that our idealistic dreams and philosophies for society were dashed by neoliberalism  - and so people - firstly women then men - responded by utilising their most personal of assets - their looks -to gain a survivalist edge. The vision then [under Neptune in Cardinal Capricorn] became about controlling what you can control - things involving your body and its appearance. 

*The referenced source was authored by Barbara Ehrenreich

It's important to note that Neptunian freedom differs from Jupiterian freedom: Neptune in Sagittarius is at risk of being delusional or illusory. 

The essence of freedom has far more of an actual basis when expressed through Jupiter

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Neptune in Pisces 2011-2025 occurs in a different millennium as well as a different century but still carries through the strands and themes of prior mutable periods infused with the fixed sign that preceded each.

As noted under Sagittarius -the arrival of Neptune in Pisces has taken many of that Neptunian generation to a new level of wacko -reminding us that the mutable cycle especially the squares will produce some significant resistance from people who reject the current program -whatever is mandated or mainstreamed or government policy that appears to threaten mutable values [freedom choice ] or is suspected of being malign/dictatorial becomes a target for minds with a big imagination and already carrying a loss of trust of  Big Brother [Daddy basically] All of this came to a head of course during the 2020+ Covid pandemic and has become itself firmly structured within online communities [thankyou Aquarius] and the structure does not look likely to dissolve quickly...the main focus though will shift to other hotbeds of conspiracy that some will insist upon until they arrive at their grave.

The early new millennium has absorbed Neptune in Aquarius 1998-2011 [addiction to technology] as a lead into how Pisces manifests in roughly one eighth of this century -flowing into Neptune's Cardinal period signified under Aries from 2025.

Has life on planet Earth ever been this bad? 

Morally ethically in terms of godlessness probably no. 

Such is our tech-focussed Earth-abusive global culture

War Economy Stalled Growth Poverty Tight Budgeting are a reality for many globally in contrast to the lives of the wealthy class.

Behaviour within the human collective is riddled with dysfunction despair and discord: we aren't doing well following outdated past century models. Clearly the demands of Pluto in Capricorn require significant accountability and refashioning of societal structures - as will arise as Pluto in Aquarius increasingly rolls out over 2 more decades - but Neptune's role - soon in Aries - 2025 - until the mid 2030s and while in tight sextile to Pluto -functions in necessary support of Pluto's transformative agenda

But first we need to learn well from Neptune in Pisces sextile Pluto in Capricorn which was tight for several months in 2023: the ultimate lesson being applying the maturity principle to all of Pisces' wayward behaviours - ideally many would have received the message of restraint  withdrawal detox limits to the point of professional help if needed.

Our devices are extremely addictive -Aquarius meets Pisces under the rays of Neptune. Apps social media gaming and pornography are in many ways a toxic recipe arguably designed to use control and data-mine us whatever the collateral damage -deterioration in mental health body issues like obesity eating disorders bodily self hatred and social dysfunctions like loss of direct connection with people and diminished communication skills are distress signals. 

We weren't designed for the digital life. Early adopters are guinea pigs in a plan unfolded that apparently wants to rush us into some degree of transhumanism - a modern species with digital implants. This plan also involves the eradication of gender as purely a status at birth. Chosen gender with surgical and pharmaceutical alterations is also an Aquarian notion devised under a Neptunian in Aquarius vision and the momentum has flowed into Neptune in Pisces.

Humanity is riddled with addiction and escapism of multiple kinds in the Pisces period. No ideal society - a Neptune in Aquarius concept - has come through - in fact more the reverse due to the formation of groups with very intense agendas doing battle with each other -socially and politically.

Humanity has not -2 years away from the end of Neptune's Pisces transit - found peace harmony compassion empathy to any globally impactful degree. Should there be further degeneration instead of awakening the Cardinal period ahead will merge with much accumulated distress and dysfunction.

Some light is evident in small communities where natural disasters have devastated lives and lifestyles. The old saying applies -such events can bring out the best in people and the worst in people.

Is is major devastation that will save humans from ourselves? Will we need to be shocked out of our ignorance and selfish competitive individualism?

The odds in respect of that seem high.

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In 2025

Neptune in Aries bringing Cardinal emphasis from 2025 while closely aspected to Pluto in Aquarius is capable of instilling much more collective responsibility graciousness shared support and a dissolving of the separate selfish ego - not suddenly and overwhelmingly but eventually - as a recognised necessity.

Expect a sustained period of events that demand collective cooperation at grassroots and small community levels -due to the collapse of various forms of infrastructure -both built and societal/managerial systems that have reached their terminal date under Pluto in Capricorn -demanding a mountain of restoration to be addressed but no fast fixes on offer.

 

Be good or be damned

may be a good insurance policy

as the world's insurer's fail us

Doppelgangers Mirror Worlds & Going Mad

 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

The early new millennium timing for the significant Pisces emphasis seems rather relevant: my recent post on the birth of Jesus looks at the first signifier being in 7BCE -a rare triple pairing of Jupiter and Saturn in Pisces in that year serving as a paradigm shift declaration which resonated with significant Pisces signs 2 years later in 5BCE - thereby giving a proposed year and month and day September 20-ish when the messenger/teacher was born.

Humanity clearly seems to need many reminders of our essence in the formless connected domain prior to and subsequent to our incarnation in form. The Messenger was shut down but not destroyed. Instead over the past 2000 years our legacy is to destroy ourselves and others.

Neptune -and the Role of Saturn

Neptune in Pisces beginning 2010 may have largely and typically gone under the radar until 2020 - not a globally announced alteration in consciousness but nonetheless beginning to exert the shift in frequency  upon people on a case by case as well as collective basis - the Neptunian patterns in behaviour not often referenced in news stories unless acting out in public caused alarm - but alterations that point to a flooding of the mind with the frequency of Neptune in Pisces. 

Pisces is an expression that each of us has to varying degrees 

as we all are imprinted with the full zodiac array of signs at birth

 as well as the full array of planets - 

each of us with some signs and planets 

given greater emphasis than others.

  

People strongly influenced by Neptune or through its related sign Pisces are prone to struggle with the expectations of everyday life in a largely godless amoral world and accordingly are known to seek various forms of either escape or transcendence. Escape typically being drugs alcohol or behavioural addictions. Transcendence typically is sought through faith religion philosophy mind training. Failure to manage Neptune/Pisces sees people lose touch with reality - reality being the antithesis energy frequency we call Saturn.

It is clear that this millennium is witness to a surge in Neptunian behaviours of many kinds not just the longstanding drug and alcohol kind. As noted Uranus unleashed enabled and encouraged phone app addictions related to social media porn narcissism to capture a large swathe of humanity.

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.

Saturn is the grounding counterforce to Neptune

A Neptunian life without Saturn

is a ship cut loose from its anchor

 What is the way through? Saturn is the anchor for Neptune tossed about in the great ocean. Earth energy is the counterbalance to the cosmic-collective energy field. Our evolutionary level is still dependent upon the natural world and Saturn is the structural framework of our planet in all its forms including our own. Through Saturn the Venusian fruits based in Taurus -are there for our sensory nourishment -not as a treat alone -but more for our balance - the Cardinal energies are all about balance and correcting imbalance.

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 

Neptune is very implicated in the evolutionary processes within the Universe -along with two other key players Pluto and Uranus -the pairing of any of of these three contributes to what we as a species know of evolutionary development as well as all the things we still don't know regarding the meaning and purpose of a conscious universe.

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

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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. 

But it hasn't stopped there -a generalised assault on the English language -dominant globally and therefore collectively of high significance in communication -means that we are veering significantly off course - compass needles magnetically pulled away from original coordinates that signify a stabilised world with shared comprehension.

How did Virgo get manipulated by Neptune's transit in Pisces - during the pandemic especially? Naomi Klein witnessed how adherents to purity fitness optimum health and "natural living" were repulsed by the hordes of sick elderly weak - linking them to 'slothfulness contamination (and yes) damnation' Shockingly the attitude that certain people should be sacrificed so the wheels of the economy could continue to turn became a survivalist theme. The system must be protected at all cost!

Easily then Klein is able to reference back to Nazi era eugenics superior breeding which linked fitness to fascism.

All making immense sense within the astrological framework: Neptune was in Virgo all through the 1930s and until nearly the end of WW2

Clearly the Mirror referenced by Klein has deep roots in our collective past - signposted by the standout connection to the numerous currently recognisable factors that transpired in Europe in the last century.

Author's note:

My personal Year of Neptune 2023 has left me somewhat of an expert!

Repeat transiting my 10th House Sun I can see it has a Capricorn-Saturn

resonance - dissolving not only the outer but also the inner - while activating the Cardinal Cross of Matter. This seems to be the link to effects primarily experienced in the body - trickster symptoms here there and everywhere coming and going in true mutable style. Is it Long Covid? Or something else? No one knows. All tests passed. The responsibility rests with me to find peace with what Neptune is trying to resolve

What gave me some hope when I wrote the article referenced earlier is that the mid-lifers and seniors born between 1950-1988 have a birth pattern imprinted psychologically that ought to enable a very strong connection with the newborns and youngsters who arrive on Earth in the period 2026-2033 - and that these children may offer to us examples of different ways of being in the world - transforming society and dissolving our need for egoic competitiveness