Crisis Express
at Mid-Life:
Personal & Global
by Sioux Rose
Mid-Life
Crisis for Mankind
Moving
out of the Piscean Age means overcoming the powerful
undertow of illusions which grips the collective.
Neptune is linked with the collective unconscious. In
Aquarius, it is energizing the "12th house" in
the Pisces "solar chart". In many respects
this millennial shift symbolizes mankind's collective
mid-life crisis. Both fish must be balanced if our
shared vehicle is to progress. Both portions of our
Divinely crafted brains must be honored and utilized! At
present only half our collective psyche is validated. It
operates with a preference for left brain empirical
data-basing. We need the feminine, intuitive,
all-inclusive mystical perspective as a
counter-balancing force; otherwise history endlessly
repeats! It takes two oars to progress any vehicle!
Mankind has been circling due to self-limiting belief
systems for too long! Herein lies one of the essential
binding illusions of Neptune and the persecution-based
Piscean age.
The fear
of astrology can be linked back to Saturn-Chronos, drawn
into synchrony with Neptune via the l994 mutual
reception between both planetary "leaders". In
essence, these planets set up a surreptitious means for
those already possessed of power to retain it. They do
not wish to empower others, so they maintain a jealous
grip on progress. Just as the mythological Chronos ate
his own children (a lot like Capricorn Richard Nixon
ordering the fateful bullets aimed at rebel children of
Kent State, or the Chinese rulers enacting the same
thing at Beijing) there is a fear of power unleashed
when individuals come to fully recognize and properly
regard their fundamental kinship with cosmos. This
sacred relationship also changes the way we treat
natural resources and our fellow mankind.
Uranus,
that power waiting to assume leadership under the
auspices of the new Aquarian Age, lies outside of Saturn's
orbit. If need be, it will crash the systems (of the
past) which allow power to aggregate -- like wealth --
into circles of smaller and smaller, denser and denser
"specific gravity"... until the whole pyramid
implodes! Unfortunately the Aquarian Age is being born
in a manger of corrupt corporate values which places
price-tags on the sacred, and honors nothing. I relate
this to that sinister collusion which took place in l994
as Saturn crossed Pisces to mark the closing of that
age, while seven influences gathered in Capricorn's
"own back rooms".
A
"Republican Revolution" ensued which levied a
mean-spirited political agenda ingeniously engineered to
hide behind "family values" and apparent high
moral precepts. To these one may safely intone,
"Bah humbug!" Newt Gingrich and those
"compassionate conservatives" who love guns
and capital punishment have effectively raped civil
liberties through the disguise of a "Drug
war". The presidency was nearly usurped, most
entitlement programs were perilously cut during a term
of unprecedented wealth, and ecological ruination has
come to many public lands and precious natural resources
as lobbyists glibly sacrifice long term public good for
"big business" quarterly profits!
The
Wake-Up Call
So what
of Neptune, you ask? Linked to Poseidon, it moves
through oceanic waves and bears mysterious undertows in
its wake. In Aquarius, Neptune demands that those who
are truly awake (not under the influence of alcohol or
"chemical mood managers") face the disembodied
illusions and deceptions which mankind has collectively
assumed over the course of twenty centuries. The
collective psyche/unconscious must now face squarely all
the lies it has been heir to in order to purify --
through that Aquarian medicine, Truth -- its potential
new millennial journey. Neptune resonates with the
highest spiritual states of at-onement, as well as the
illusions of bloody sacrifice in the name of some
fictitious source. It represents Pisces after all, the
sign of fish swimming in opposite directions! Neptune
rules the 12th house where the circle meets itself, and
all boundaries melt away in the manner each drop of rain
is inexorably drawn back to the vast ocean beds.
In
Aquarius, it invites us into the dream-time to
reconceive ourselves and fashion a humanity that
resonates to a higher understanding. As the stars once
led explorers to new worlds, now astrology must guide
individuals to a more enlightened understanding of our
innately divine potentials. We are souls in evolution.
We incarnate with birth-chart blueprints defining where
our souls developed previous aptitudes, and where karmic
"tutorials" now abound. We are not finite
bodies, but souls experiencing ongoing evolutionary
journeys.
Neptune
is the sum of our illusions, addictions, and escapisms.
It was not necessarily intended as such, but with the
modern world's focus only on the material and
"scientific" for centuries, the loftier domain
was denigrated, blocked with lethal persecutions, and
finally abandoned. Since Neptune's higher path (fish)
was not honored or welcomed into the collective
experience, the other fish took over!
Continued
on the next page:
Searching For The Divine;
Twelve Theaters of Neptune
Recommended
Book:
"Alive and Well with Neptune: Transits of
Heart and Soul"
by
Bil Tierney
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About The
Author
Sioux Rose is an astrologer
and writer who has written numerous articles and columns for magazine
and newspapers nationwide. She has just finished a book on Pluto which
the American Federation of Astrologers is going to publish in 2001. This
article was first published in the AFA bulletin. She writes a weekly
column online at PuertoRicoWow.com and she can be reached at
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