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Child Of Neptune2020-09-13T12:23:42-06:00

If you’re a Child of Neptune, then you’re one of the few people who have two Ruling Planets. Not only are you a Child of Neptune, but you are also a Child of Jupiter. Click on the link and read about Jupiter first, then come back here to get the rest of the story.

Neptune, What you show the world is an infinitesimal part of who you really are. When people say you look like you’re off in some dream world, they don’t know the half of it. You’re not just walking around in a dream world. You’re walking around in a dream universe. Your inner life is so rich and alluring it’s no wonder you’d rather be there than here. And if others could see what you see- chances are they’d dive in and join you.

Three-quarters of Earth’s surface is submerged in water. This should give you some idea of how vast your psychic life is. When you think of all the sea creatures that scientists are still discovering- the giant squids that no one’s actually seen alive, and how a prehistoric fish, the coelacanth (long thought extinct), resurfaced alive and well- then you’ll begin to grasp how mysterious your unconscious truly is. People often think of the unconscious in terms of their feelings, dreams, and memories. But that would be like equating the ocean with what we see at the seashore. The unconscious, like the ocean, slides out past the shoals and rocks and down into a murky realm that has nothing to do with the world we live in. Your inner life is a barely tapped resource.

Neptune rules the imagination- which is why you Children of Neptune are all image makers. Indeed Neptune’s discovery coincided with the advent of photography. Your ability to paint a picture with words, music, color, film, and even theorems (Child of Neptune Albert Einstein’s E=MC2 is probably one of the most famous invocations known) holds others spellbound. What you say, do, or create resonates on such a psychic level that people respond as if it were a God-given truth. Unfortunately you may not always know what you’re setting loose. There are times when you may feel more like a vessel than a person. Having easy access to your imagination doesn’t necessarily mean you control it. It takes a lifetime to learn how to swim in these uncharted waters without getting pulled down.

Neptune is the planet of glamour and illusion. The word glamour didn’t always imply something high profile and fabulous. In medieval times glamour referred to an enchantment- like a magic spell. Music and film (both ruled by Neptune) are good examples of modern-day magic wherein people can get so swept up in the moment that they forget themselves. One can sit down at the movie theater in a dreadful mood and ninety minutes later depart feeling elated and inspired. Although it’s impossible to predict what makes a hit, everyone certainly recognizes it when it materializes. Suddenly that one song on the radio is being dedicated by millions of fans to millions of their sweethearts or a character from a film takes on a life of his or her own- reappearing in merchandise, impersonations, hairstyles, and commercials- sometimes long after the actor has passed away. Lines of dialogue like “make my day” snake their way into the popular vernacular.

The effect of glamour is analogous to sipping a love potion and falling so desperately in love with the image of something that you want to become it- or at leas t be a part of it. Advertising campaigns thrive on this. They deliberately blur the lines between fantasy and reality so that millions of consumers believe that if they send away for that exercise machine then they really will have fabulous abs! Movie stars bank on it. Countries go to war because of it. An image or a symbol is extremely powerful. Think of a cross, a flag, or even a gang’s colors and then consider how upset people become when they feel that something they identify with has been desecrated. A symbol isn’t just a metaphor. It provokes an immediate and overwhelming response.

Like a symbol, you have an innate ability to stir the unconscious waters in just about everyone you meet. Have you ever noticed how often people come up to you and ask if you’ve met before? You may remind them of someone, but they can’t quite recollect who. That’s your Ruling Planet’s glamour at work. As a Child of Neptune you are a natural screen for others’ projections. When they look at you, they see the embodiment of their hopes and wishes. Like the Syrens of myth, you become the ideal partner, friend, love interest, or employee. This is wonderful if you happen to be a fashion model or spokesperson, because what your Birthday Planet does is transform you into a psychic billboard. You’re the perfect whatchamacallit. It’s very seductive to play into someone else’s vision of who you could be. It’s also not such a bad idea. Sometimes it’s other people’s dreams and fantasies, rather than your own, that enable you to make something of yourself.

The downside is that what others project on to you may have very little (if anything) to do with who you are. Like Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, you can allow yourself to be transformed into the toast of upper-class society- only to be dumped in the gutter the next day. You can wind up feeling like an imposter in your own life if you’re not careful. Performers have to deal with this all the time, which is why they’ll create a third-person relationship to their own public persona. That public persona is something they can put on and take off- like makeup. However, if you’re not a performer, you’ll have to introduce some of your own self-awareness into the picture. A clear line of demarcation needs to be drawn between when you’re on and when you’re off or you will always be on call to other people’s wants, needs, and desires. You become a figment of their imaginations- which, if you think about it, isn’t much of a life. No may very well be the most valuable word you ever learn to use.

As a Child of Neptune, you believe that everyone comes from the same source- the sea. Just as the ocean gave birth to life billions of years ago, you believe that it’s the emotions- the waters of life- that give birth to the person. It doesn’t matter if you were born in New York City or Tehran. Everyone knows what it’s like to feel. Regardless of what language you speak or culture you spring from everyone falls in love, suffers a broken heart, experiences ecstasy, and dreads agony. People may not feel to the same degree or even express themselves in the same way, but feelings are still universal. They provide the sympathy that links one psyche to another.

You’re one of the few people capable of unconditional love. Unconditional love, by its very definition, must include every shade and glimmer. Darker currents like self-hate and despair run beneath lighter sentiments like mercy and self-sacrifice. You span the full gamut- sometimes within the space of a moment. It’s very hard for you to be judgmental because you’re always aware of “there but for the grace of God go I.” There are few things you cannot imagine yourself doing. However, just because you can imagine yourself doing something doesn’t mean you’ll do it. You’re well aware of the difference between a fancy and an action. Yet your empathy comes from an innate understanding that few people are driven to do harm for the fun of it. If someone inflicts pain on others it stems from having suffered it in their own lives. It’s how that person learned to cope. You see cruelty as an extreme that some people- often victims themselves- are driven to. Therefore the solution isn’t to punish but to rehabilitate.

To you everyone deserves a second chance. Water has always been associated with a fresh start. Out of the flood that carried Noah’s ark a new world rises. Baptism- a sacrament integrally connected to water- signifies a spiritual birth. Forgiveness is your way of wiping the slate clean. Under the healing waters of Neptune, grudges lose their shape and grievances their force so that all that emotional energy is recycled- like water evaporating into air. Forgiveness is a strength, not a weakness. And it’s your particular challenge, as a Child of Neptune, to practice something that others will often deride. Forgiveness has its roots in our imperfections, not our perfections. Your sympathies lie with the underdogs and outcasts. There- and with the grace of God- go you.

When you experience love as unconditionally as you do, it’s important to remember that that love is generic. Being a Child of Neptune, you don’t make distinctions. The waves that swell in Antarctica are the same ones that loll ashore in Tahiti. In other words, your emotions are so fluid and changeable that the love you feel for a lover is going to be the same love you feel for a sunny day or a favorite pet. You can switch from one to the next, like a kaleidoscope changing designs with every turn of the wheel. Love is what’s most important. Objects of affection- like shorelines- are interchangeable. It’s important to keep in mind that most people tend to measure love in the opposite way. That’s why they can find it off-putting when you suddenly interrupt an intensely personal discussion to rhapsodize about last night’s game or observe the play of light on the wall from the afternoon sun. Since you are an endless stream of consciousness, it’s perfectly natural to free-associate; but not everyone channel surfs emotions like you.

As a Child of Neptune, you’re out there holding people’s hands, providing a strong shoulder for them to lean on, and imparting words of wisdom and encouragement. Yet sometimes you can end up going through the motions- the emotional motions- practiced countless times in the past. This is when you might wonder: what’s in it for me? Relationship isn’t the same as love. Although the two often complement each other, they are totally separate domains- like land and sea.

When two people fall in love they yearn to be together, to merge as one. Physically we can’t do that, but emotionally we can. Emotions seek to dissolve differences, to mix and blend. A relationship, however, begins with the understanding that no two people experience the same thing at the same time. Each person has a personality, a history, likes and dislikes. Therefore a relationship is based on the understanding that there will always be some misunderstanding, because there is no possible way for one person to really know what another person thinks, much less feels. You can share mutual interests and even want the best for each other, but there will always be that separateness. Relationship emphasizes cooperation and teaches us to respect people’s differences.

This is something that you, as a Child of Neptune, have a hard time accepting. When someone says he or she doesn’t feel the same way you do, you must learn to respect that as a boundary. It’s hard to do, because on an emotional level it’s impossible to not know what someone else is feeling. After all, don’t we all spring from the same emotional source? However, in the interests of your own psychic survival you must learn to take people at their word. Even if you can sense the undertones of attraction or resentment, you need to respect the face that people choose to show. It’s not your job to do their emotional homework for them.

Yet being born empathetic doesn’t mean you have to feel lost at sea. Sympathizing with life’s victims doesn’t require you to become one. With sensitivity comes the confidence to accept someone for who he or she is. Your compassion is so strong that you needn’t feel hurt when people can’t reciprocate your feelings. But you have needs, too. Instead of searching emotional wrecks looking for something to salvage, why not relax in your element? That way you end up attracting someone who really appreciates you for who you are- and has no trouble matching you stroke for stroke.

Once every thirteen years, Neptune changes zodiac signs. It will change signs again in 2011.

Neptune glamorizes whatever astrological sign it passes through. Your Ruling Planet has to do with imaging, so you’ll see its effect in popular trends like beliefs, politics, and fashion. When Neptune was in conservative Capricorn (the astrological sign of big business) from 1984 to 1998, wealth and status were the popular fixation. Television shows like Dynasty gave viewers a peek into the lifestyles of the rich and famous, and suddenly everyone was dressing up for success. When Neptune entered independent-minded Aquarius (the astrological sign of brotherhood and equality) in 1998, the myth shifted from climbing the corporate ladder to the benefits of synergy. Visions of a global village linked by a World Wide Web appeared. Start-up companies replaced trickle-down economics, and the home office made the big hair, bold makeup, and armored shoulder pads look of the 1980s a thing of the past.

Although sensitive to the vicissitudes of your Ruling Planet, its effects won’t be immediately apparent. Like the tide, it will move in slowly. When Neptune is about halfway through a sign, you’ll find yourself completely immersed in what it has let loose. Then the tide goes back out again so that when it departs there’s very little value or meaning in what seemed so pervasive. But if you wait long enough, what was once fashionable comes back in a retro sort of way- which is only fitting, since your Ruling Planet rules nostalgia.

Child of Jupiter and Neptune

Neptune’s discovery was the result of what can only be called a “fishing expedition. ?It was theorized that something was pulling Uranus out of its predicted orbit, and the only reasonable explanation was the presence of another planet. Unfortunately, no one had been able to spot it. Using Newtonian principles, the Cambridge graduate John Adams was able to calculate the orbit of this spectral eighth planet. When Adams presented his findings to the royal astronomer, they were met with skepticism. How fitting that the first results of a study that would have led to Neptune’s discovery were treated like the figment of someone’s imagination!

At about the same time (and without Adams’ knowledge) the French scientist Le Verrier was also engaged in predicting the orbit of an undiscovered planet using Newtonian principles. Coincidence or synchronicity? In any case the illusory planet was finally observed and confirmed in 1846 based on Le Verrier’s formula. Seeing as Le Verrier was a Child of Neptune, it’s only appropriate that he be the discoverer- though ultimately both men would share the credit. However, in true Neptunian fashion, the calculated orbit didn’t even match the actual one. Its discovery was a lucky accident. If the search had taken place at any other time, the existence of Neptune might have remained a mystery.

When your Ruling Planet was discovered in 1846, astrologers had to accommodate this new find. Since Uranus (the first of the “new” planets) had already been partnered with Saturn, it seemed only natural to link Neptune with his brother Jupiter.

Things can get complicated when you’re a Child of two Planets. It’s not unlike having two sets of parents. Luckily for you, Jupiter and Neptune are similar in temperament (in fact, it’s impossible to tell the two gods apart in classical art without the telltale thunderbolt or trident). Neptune, like Jupiter, rules over his own domain. Neptune’s domain is the sea and Jupiter’s is the sky. Like Children of Jupiter, you are in love with the world. However, you may not always be too sure which world you’re talking about.

Children of Jupiter are in love with this world. For Children of Jupiter, there are always places to go and people to meet. They tend to see life as just getting up on its feet, and all anyone (or anything) needs is a healthy push in the right direction. Your Jupiter side is what gives you your love of other lands and cultures as well as an enthusiasm about helping people become everything they can be.

Your Neptune side is in love with the spiritual world standing right behind the material one we all live in. For that side of you, the real world is the one that’s yet to come. That’s why you’re willing to sacrifice and suffer as much as you do, because you know deep inside that everything will be made right in the end. The wicked will be punished and the meek shall inherit the earth. Your Neptune side allows you to commiserate and sympathize- but it can also manifest in Chicken Little-type hysteria where you run around crying out that the sky is falling. Despite your dread of things falling apart, there’s a secret part of you that actually looks forward to endings because they put you that much closer to the way things are supposed to be.

As you can imagine, this split focus can divide your loyalties. Do you choose Jupiter’s world- the one that lies beyond the blue horizon? Or do you choose Neptune’s world- the one that’s yet to come? Why not the best of all possible worlds- which is the one that exists in your imagination? Imagination is responsible for our creative genius. Without imagination, we wouldn’t be able to conceive of things as being any different from the way they appear. Imagination- as much as time and nature- has shaped the world we live in. It was Constantine the Great’s vision of the holy cross that inspired him to convert to Christianity and move the Roman Empire east- thus radically altering the face of the Ancient World. The imagination of Nicolaus Copernicus reconfigured our picture of the heavens by demonstrating that the planets revolved around the Sun, and it was the genius of Galileo that proved it. Ferdinand II had the foresight to send Columbus on his ocean voyage to the New World. George Washington fought for the American dream- literally. W. E. B. Du Bois’s refusal to accept second-class citizenship and his subsequent cofounding of the NAACP laid the foundation for the civil rights movement in this country. Mikhail Gorbachev was responsible for Glasnost, F. W. de Klerk helped deconstruct apartheid, and Itzhak Rabin gave his life to further the Mideast peace process. All these were Children of Jupiter and Neptune. Part mystic, part adventurer, they were either reforming pioneers or they pioneered reform. As you can see- the imagination is not a force to be taken lightly or hidden away. As the writer Iris Murdoch once said: “Man is a creature who makes pictures of himself, and then comes to resemble the picture.” The world, for you Children of Jupiter and Neptune, is truly what you make of it.

Neptune rules illusion and disillusionment. You need illusion. If you didn’t have a dream of how you envisioned things coming together one day, then why get out of bed? When you’re a child, you need to believe that you could grow up to become president. You need to feel as if your parents will always be there and that bad things will never happen. Not only does this give you hope, but it also puts your imagination to work on making your dreams a reality. But no one remains a child forever. And if it weren’t for disillusionment, you wouldn’t be able to adjust your vision. You’d still be trying to live life according to what you learned in nursery school. Although rarely a pleasant experience, disillusionment isn’t just about feeling disappointed when things don’t turn out the way you expected. Disillusionment can also be that sinking feeling that follows any accomplishment or success. It’s the sensation of waking from a really good dream. Yet it also permits you to roll over and dream anew.

Retrograde refers to a backward motion. Neptune doesn’t actually reverse direction. That’s just the way it looks to us. It’s an optical illusion that occurs periodically from Earth’s viewpoint, giving the impression of a planet moving backward against the setting of constellations in the sky. When a planet is retrograde, its energy becomes the opposite of what it is when it’s direct. Since Neptune is the Planet of glamour and illusion, that’s what gets turned inside out. This isn’t to say that if you’re a Child of Neptune Retrograde, you’re a wallflower or will develop a jaded outlook because you’ve been burned so many times. What it means is you tend to see through things right away and can often anticipate the current of events.

The difficulty with seeing something before anyone else does is that by the time they recognize it, it’s after the fact. Which does you no good. Hence your double bind. Do you follow your vision – which can make you sound deluded and hysterical – like some modern-day Cassandra? Or do you turn your back on what could have been and force yourself to ignore the phantom possibilities?

Many of us are taught to think of illusions as being negative. But since one can’t always tell the difference between illusion and truth, it’s sometimes better to adopt a more flexible attitude. Imagine someone lost in the desert. This person sees an oasis shimmering on the horizon. Believing himself saved, he crawls to that oasis only to realize he was fooled by a mirage. Frustrated, he curses his misfortune until he spots another oasis shimmering on the horizon. Now what should he do? Should he stay where he is, because this is probably just another trick of the mind? Or should he get up and go see for himself if this is truly a mirage or not? As a Child of Neptune Retrograde you know all too well how illusions work for and against. They can inspire you when you wouldn’t have tried otherwise, just as much as they can lead you down the garden path. In any case, the only way to tell if you’ll find what you’re looking for is to seek it out.

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