Showing posts with label mind. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mind. Show all posts

Sunday, 18 May 2025

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]

Sunday, 31 January 2021

Jupiter Neptune and Being Godlike

Listening to a radio interview today with Professor Jurgen Martschukat author of The Age of Fitness the issues raised had some standout astrological relevance concerning the interplay of Jupiter and Neptune regarding contemporary expressions of identity that are prominent in this millennium in the sport/fitness/exercise communities.



Martschukat points out the equivalent of a spiritual awakening in those who have achieved the transition from a lifestyle of junk eating deterioration to that of a body-sculpted calorie counter.


Amongst the communities driven by these dedications to physical exceptionalism the themes/goals include staying forever young  being immortal   becoming gods and that through sport/exercise the true inner self can be revealed.


Sport and fitness culture has become so pervasive as a business model that active wear and sports brands have globally become a uniform of acceptance - worn by both the truly committed and those who just want to fit in.


The ideology of fitness and optimum body function and appearance has led to the development of what may be subconscious as well as conscious disciminatory practices in diverse contexts  -  against those who are not following a lifestyle of fitness sport or self improvement - especially in respect of bodily appearance.


Sport, jogging, gym work have extended far beyond the simple goals of past decades - exercise fitness and achievement -  into at worst an addiction and associated with an idealogy that intends to transcend human limitations -to truly be equated with the Gods of the classic world.


Jupiter


Astrologically we know Jupiter is the planet of extending boundaries - exploring far beyond what is known and for this reason sport exercise and fitness are a clear fit as an outlet for this type of drive.


What stands out regarding the ttrajectory of sport/fitness culture is that the global spread has been achieved with significant assistance from branded fashion marketing - covering items from head to foot that declare you are part of the team.


Neptune


Jupiter’s original connection to Pisces and therefore to the later era discovery of Neptune creates an energy flow that is impossible to keep separate.

When Jupiter extends so far that it reaches into Neptune’s territory issues can arise. 


Excessive Jupiter becomes overtly Neptunian -clear signs of addiction to the body chemistry [and often substances consumed] that fuel the notions of being immortal and godlike. These are delusions of the ego enabled and reinforced by Neptune


Jupiter + Neptune


A healthy blend of Jupiter and Neptune is not impossible.

A healthy blend of these energies has nothing to do with the body the ego sculpted abs and immortality. It is a state of mind. But not the everyday mind of racing thoughts worries and problems.

The Jupiter-Neptune mind is the consciousness of our true origin state. 

The peace joy and stillness that glows within - embedded in the energy that gave us life.

The bright light of consciousness that worldly life covers and conceals until we   slow   down    pause   stop   look   and   listen - actions that are usually ignored until necessity comes calling. 

Something inner or outer raises a sign for you to read.

It says:  This is Not the Life…

And you can complete the words that fit.



Buddha



Global cultural mythologies surrounding the capacities and behaviours of gods show a human fascination with beings or people with extraordinary powers or abilities and the worshipping of gods shows a respect and authority attributed to such people or beings.

But despite the resurgence of highly physically competitive television series called Titans and Ninja Warrior and the sustained popularity of combat sports boxing martial arts MMA wrestling -this is evidence of the "last gasp" phenomenon: those endowed with superhuman physical strength belong to a bygone age.


Mohammad



The teacher gods of now and tomorrow had a far different emphasis: they role-model amazing wisdom and compassion and are inspired by spiritual gods who walked this earth long ago.

These gods left their documented legacies as a guidebook for transforming the mind.

This challenge remains our biggest hurdle but most profound salvation.



Jesus




The freshly emerging Aquarian Age represents the opportunity for a major collective shift in consciousness due to the subsidence of one world based on the thing the object the form and the rising up of the world based on the idea the experience the concept the intangible.


 [promoted by the 2 centuries long cyle of Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions in Air, beginning December 2020 with Aquarius - supported by Uranus in any fixed sign - and followed in a few years by Pluto in Aquarius]


 

When Jupiter and Neptune blend in the level of consciousness that transcends the physical the ideals of both are experienced as a type of reverence for life - living a simple benevolent existence in balance with the true nature of reality

 - without any need for exceptional ambition driven by delusion



Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Gemini Sagittarius Virgo Pisces : signs of the mind

The four mutable signs Gemini, Sagittarius, Virgo, Pisces are highlighted in June 2016 around the time of the 15 Gemini New Moon.

The mutable signs Gemini, Sagittarius, Virgo, Pisces are not only concerned with flow, movement, connection and communication in the physical environment:
the most important mutable territory resides in the processes of the mind.

The qualities of our thinking, our way of connecting by means of communication, the way our mind functions – all these things can be described by an appraisal of the mutable signs in a personal astrology.

These issues become more global, more encompassing of the breadth of humanity when a period of time is inhabited by multiple energies in mutable signs.
When the lunar nodal axis is involved in addition to other planets and the monthly solunar cycle it is clear a standout emphasis is being made for collective betterment and growth.

In June 2016 the range of energies are focussed around 15 degrees in mutable signs and anyone with planets at or close to 15 Gemini, Sagittarius,Virgo, Pisces are subject to considerable challenges with the energies accumulating in early June.

Mutable Energies of the Mind
Energy itself is inherently a mutable or highly changeable universal force.
The mutable mind energies Gemini, Sagittarius, Virgo, Pisces have each a particular form of mental expression:
  • Gemini energy enables the everyday processing of information and the involvement in communication –reading, writing, talking, education and learning during school years. 
  • Sagittarian energy enables the mind to find meaning through deeper questioning and enquiry. Information is converted into knowledge by means of advanced study or research. Philosophical ideas are converted into intellectual perspectives, faith, belief or religion.
  • Virgo energy enables the mind to analyse information and to categorise it into groupings of related and unrelated ideas, concepts or objects. These skills are inherent in the fundamentals of teaching and the craft of writing.
  • Pisces energy enables the mind to transcend all boundaries and to cease experiencing perceived reality as a jumble of separate components. This is the universal, spiritual mind-state that can experience total connectedness –that humans are the same as animals, the same as all natural phenomena, the same as stardust –that we are all just different morphologies of the one fundamental universal energy [a notion clearly expressed in Buddhist philosophy]
This mind state is the bedrock of empathy and compassion: the capacity to feel sameness, to transcend the notion of Other as foreign, different, threatening.

June 2016 Mutable Opportunity

When planets are transiting through a mutable phase, the energy is at its most flexible, changeable, morphable, transmutable –potentially an alchemist’s dream opportunity to change lead into gold.

Mutability means nothing is fixed and the range of multiple possible outcomes is greater than at any other time.
When energies inhabit all four signs in a connected group, they form a cross pattern and the closer they are to being at exact opposition or 90 degree angle the stronger the tension requiring resolution.
In early June the mutable energies cluster around 15 degrees but range from 12-17 degrees – so tension will still be experienced, demanding relief.

The challenge involves balancing the mind through addressing the ways of thinking that determine behaviour.

The mutable mind energies will bring to people’s conscious mind that certain behaviours are not working well –and that their conduct is causing problems in their various relationships.

Saturn in Sagittarius is an indicator that there is no freedom without accountability. “Freedom of Speech” is a fallacy because each of us is accountable for the impact our words has on others. This is a time to pull back from the illusion of unrestricted freedom in the expression of the Self. 
This is a time for self restraint and a mature response in particular in spoken or written communications – or risk damaging or destroying relationships. 

The lunar nodal axis combined with Jupiter and Neptune shows how to resolve the resistance and challenges aroused by self restraint. 
People who are accustomed to being inconsiderate of others or who rarely think before they speak or who detest self censorship are most likely to need to rise to the challenge and opportunity given in early June.

The ideal resolution for these people is to undergo a maturing experience – which could be encountered in conversation or any form of correspondence with an older, wiser, mentor, a parent, an experienced adult.
So this is a young energy [Jupiter] needing a wise mature, nurturing energy for guidance [Saturn] and a compassionate life lesson with spiritually significant relevance for personal growth [Jupiter-Neptune]

Any life lesson conversation or correspondence [Gemini] that happens in the first week of June 2016 involving the mentoring of a younger energy by an older wiser energy is evoking the significance of the prevailing mutable mind energies to an extent that can be a turning point, a critical event in the lifetime of the individuals affected.
A noticeable chronological age difference can be evident between two people in this dynamic but is not essential –it is an energy difference that can exist even if the 2 people are close in age.

Also read: Finding Liberation -Saturn Neptune 2015-2016
The effects for Sagittarius, Pisces, Virgo, Gemini

Summary of June 2016 New Moon experiences
The period June 3-7 surrounding the Gemini New Moon has a significant and very complex array of connected energies, together giving motivation for any of the following activities: thinking, reading, writing, conversing, communicating, studying, analysing, exercising -especially walking or cycling, short trips, longer travel.
Some of these activities will require serious application such as planning, preparation, discipline or commitment.[Saturn]
Compassionate,spiritual or imaginative/creative perspectives are activated regarding the focus the mind engages in.[Neptune]
Fear [Saturn] and confusion [Neptune] can inhibit the free flow [Jupiter] of communicating [Gemini what is being felt [Moon] during this period of time.
The involvement of Venus conjoining the Sun during this period means that any of the focal activities can be connected to a particular relationship.
Being a New Moon - the events during this period signify new seeds being sown, a new beginning, something starting or starting afresh,

relevant news updates at end of blog
On the larger collective level
The issue of verbal self expression impacting on relationships is likely to be publicly demonstrated by high profile individuals who will serve as examples of what not to do –and what ought to be done or said. 
One obvious potential candidate for this is US Presidential aspirant Donald Trump who typifies the unrestrained verbosity of an undisciplined mind, frequently recorded in offensive attacking outbursts against individuals or groups. A person in his position of extreme power is likely to respect little counsel or moderating guidance. For this reason Trump is at risk of going too far and being served a significant lesson in a hard way by the collective -but for him this is more likely to occur in 2017.
Interestingly, Trump is a Gemini, born just before full moon in Sagittarius with Uranus in Gemini and the lunar nodal axis also in conjunction in Gemini-Sagittarius. LOL. Has anyone noticed the verbosity and blowhard exaggerations typical of The Don?
With these signifiers clustering within an 18-23 degree range in the two signs, we can watch December 2016-November 2017 to see what is delivered when Saturn in Sagittarius triggers accountability factors for Mr Trump.
  
relevant news updates at end of blog
On a mundane level of everyday activity involving flow, movement, communications
the June 5 Gemini New Moon associated with Venus in Gemini, Saturn in Sagittarius, Neptune in Pisces, Jupiter in Virgo and the lunar nodal axis in Virgo-Pisces is likely to be activated as early as June 2  -although at this point energies can be subterranean – or in this case as if sub-marineout of sight, covert, as if under water because firstly Neptune will be activated by the Sun.
[note that lunar phases can be activated up to 3 days before exact New or Full and stay live as potentials for a lunar month, awaiting triggering by other planets in transit]

The role of Neptune in early June 2016 as a secret or disguised or hidden energy and when in connection to the amplifying force, Jupiter, the Pisces-Virgo combination can also morph into a mission driven by religious extremism – an ideology of faith [Neptune] taken to an excessive level [Jupiter]

So if there is a prevailing force in early June accentuating behaviour motivated by the dogma of fundamentalist faith [Neptune in Pisces opposed by Jupiter in Virgo] the remaining mutable signs Gemini and Sagittarius are implicated by being significantly tenanted at the same time by the building energies of the New Moon – Sun and Moon in Gemini, along with a conjunction to Venus in Gemini, and with Saturn in Sagittarius in opposition.
Gemini and Sagittarius in this context are capable of expression through all forms of transport.
  • Gemini expresses through movement within an everyday scale: individual movement through time and space generated by the body alone – walking, jogging, cycling, individual and collective movement by means of powered transport – car, bus, train.
  • Gemini movement tends to be limited to trips or short distance travel in the local area or within national borders.
  • Sagittarian movement involves collective forms of transport that cross national borders. In most cases this involves travel by air into foreign territories.
update June 2 2016
Euro 2016 Football event June 10-July 10 being a sporting event also comes under the potentials of expression for Sagittarius.
BBC reports on a recognised threat for France with multiple locations programmed as venues.

[Cruise ship travel involves collective transport by water into foreign territories and is activated in addition by Neptune or Pisces energies]

Given that transport energies in diverse domains are triggered by mutable sign energies and that the hallmark of globally significant events [the lunar nodal axis] is in Virgo-Pisces, it is noted that a high potential risk is in effect particularly in the period June 3-5 2016 for a collectively significant destructive  [Saturn] event driven by fundamentalist ideology to impact on a group of people during the course of their travel.
A recent trend to target airplanes is highly consistent with Saturn in Sagittarius and is further emphasised by the prevailing energies in early June.
Problematical events involving maritime transport cannot be ruled out due to the involvement of Neptune and Pisces.

addendum:
When Neptune and Jupiter are in opposition (like May-June 2016) there is always likely to be events involving big volumes of water -excess rainfall, flooding, capsize and sinking of boats. Difficulties and tragedies are even more likely to arise with the May-June 2016 position of Saturn stressfully positioned at 90 degrees to both those opposed planets. 
BBC May 29 2016 report 
This coincides with various rain-related deluges reported May 29 2016 eg - US Plains states
update June 2 2016
The river Seine is at the highest level in 15 years. Heavy rainfall events in France and other European states

In Paris a 34 year high was reached on Friday June 3 for the Seine

update June 6: huge tides and flooding hit Australia's east coast and Tasmania

update June 7 -Istanbul fatal bomb attack on Police bus



update June 13 Mass killing in Orlando Florida reflects potential noted in the June forecast for actions based on extreme ideology read special report

update June 14

Blood flows at the Euro 2016 Football tournament as Russian fans are identified as carrying out orchestratd violent attacks against mainly British fans in Marseille France. This reflects the potentials for conflict noted in the forecast in respect of sporting events - an extreme ideology of nationalism and racism has been identified as the basis for the violence

June 13 Extreme ideology fuels another violent outcome A French jihadist killed a French policeman and his partner in their home - acting on the urging of ISIS to "kill infidels"



Further Reading on sign energies and introductory astrology
Sinead O'Connor -Sagittarius profile

Thursday, 13 June 2013

Do You Get the Dalai Lama?


In New Zealand this week, I happened to hear Andrew Fagan
 & Karyn Hay discussing the Dalai Lama on their radio slot,
 as on Wednesday June 12 the Dalai Lama had given
 a full house talk at Auckland's Civic Theatre.
 Andrew & Karyn [long-term partners I believe]
 had polar opposite views on the Dalai Lama.
 Andrew sees a fake, a rock-star sham who ought to sleep
 in bus shelters if he wants to be taken seriously.
 Karyn calmly presented another view: a man spreading a positive message
Outside the Civic, there were protestors apparently Chinese nationals, with placards and leaflets. Their document could be taken as a collection of mis-information though described as "Facts and Figures".
These three examples describe the state of our world: the imbalance of distrust and cold-heartedness outweighs the shining light of goodness to such an extent, that even pure compassion can be misinterpreted.
Happiness is in the mind said the Dalai Lama and where money can ease your physical discomfort, it will never alleviate suffering in the mind.

Radio NZ audio by Noelle McCarthy on the visit of the Dalai Lama to Auckland in 2013

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