Tran­script of Radio Show: The Path of Light Part 2, Nep­tune and the Way of Uncon­di­tion­al Love

Today’s show is Part 2 of what I spoke (and then wrote) about in my last show (Sep­tem­ber 13th). We were look­ing at the Hier­ar­chy of Ener­gy-Forms that influ­ence and inform our jour­ney here on Earth. Work­ing through the Hier­ar­chi­cal nature of the Uni­verse, I looked at the var­i­ous Cycles of Rela­tion­ship that form our jour­ney, from the Milky Way Galaxy on down to our plan­e­tary sys­tem. I fin­ished with a brief obser­va­tion on Plu­to, and I thought it would be help­ful to look at the sec­ond of the two remain­ing Evo­lu­tion­ary Plan­ets, Nep­tune. If we have time, we will also con­sid­er Uranus, or I will exam­ine its role in the next show.

Though I have traced a great many of the fun­da­men­tal shifts we are expe­ri­enc­ing now to the influ­ence of Plu­to in Capri­corn, and to its cycle of rela­tion­ship with the USA chart, I have also been com­ment­ing for some time on the mean­ing­ful­ness of the plan­et Nep­tune dur­ing our cur­rent peri­od, (as well as the sig­nif­i­cance of the plan­et Uranus too).

Tru­ly, we should under­stand that these three out­er plan­ets of Plu­to, Nep­tune, and Uranus, form­ing what I call the “Tri­ad of Spir­it”, are the prime instru­ments or mes­sen­gers of our Spir­i­tu­al Jour­ney and Evo­lu­tion. We should always con­sid­er them as “work­ing togeth­er”, but we can cer­tain­ly look at their indi­vid­ual or sep­a­rate influ­ences and con­tri­bu­tions as well.

I like to describe their three Pri­mal Attrib­ut­es as this: That by Plu­to we strive towards Self-Mas­tery by a “Cen­tered Will”; by Nep­tune we are sup­port­ed to hold real­i­ty and one anoth­er in “Uncon­di­tion­al Love”; and by Uranus we are helped to become a unique Spark of the Divine by mov­ing into ever “Freer Minds”.

The Arc of Awakening
For Mun­dane Astrol­o­gy, the influ­ence of Nep­tune mov­ing through the Signs indi­cates the evolv­ing shifts in Con­scious­ness with regards to how Real­i­ty is con­ceived, expe­ri­enced, and lived. This jour­ney in Con­scious­ness has been pro­ceed­ing along an Arc of Awak­en­ing ever since Humans began to move into the first stages of self-awareness.

At low­er lev­els, a human is lim­it­ed to per­ceiv­ing and expe­ri­enc­ing the most basic fac­tors of phys­i­cal exis­tence, with a cir­cum­scribed field of atten­tion to the imme­di­ate sur­round­ings of their world. As the spir­it ris­es with­in any per­son, they will in any one life, and by a series of lives, move from lev­el to lev­el of inclu­sive­ness and com­pre­hen­sion that encom­pass­es ever more than the mere phys­i­cal world and its lim­i­ta­tions. Even­tu­al­ly, through a series of epipha­nies and awak­en­ings, the indi­vid­ual is able to encom­pass not only their famil­ial, cul­tur­al and ulti­mate­ly world­ly under­stand­ing of human­i­ty, but indeed they move beyond the Earth to encom­pass the entire­ty of the Solar Sys­tem (and beyond), and to hold all that exists as One in their under­stand­ing of our jour­ney through the Hier­ar­chies of Time and Space.

By these series of Awak­en­ings, an indi­vid­ual is said to have achieved what we know as an “Inclu­sive Con­scious­ness”, a nec­es­sary part of human self-mas­tery. Those who have reached these heights of aware­ness are the lead­ing lights of human­i­ty, and they are known in var­i­ous tra­di­tions as a “Jivan­mut­ka”, or a “Bud­dha” or a “Christ­ed one”. They are freed beings, hav­ing attained Spir­i­tu­al Enlight­en­ment and Lib­er­a­tion from the bound­aries of their body and of Earth and are part of the stel­lar or Star­ry Com­pa­ny of Illu­mined Souls.

At this ulti­mate lim­it of what we as humans can imag­ine, (and it is the goal to which we are all head­ing, to be “ful­ly human”), one is said to reach a lev­el of con­scious­ness that is described as all-encom­pass­ing, or as some would say, a tru­ly Cos­mic Con­scious­ness. No longer bound by Earth­ly lim­its and phys­i­cal forms, the individual’s low­er mind ascends into the high­er realms of under­stand­ing brought about with direct con­tact with the Ener­gy-Forms com­pris­ing the Cir­cle of Ascend­ed Ones, who serve as the Spir­i­tu­al Guardians for this Solar System.

We are all at some point on this path of awak­en­ing, mov­ing from unself-aware sparks of the Divine to ful­ly Self-Con­scious Co-Cre­ators of Cre­ation. The exam­ples set before us of those who lift­ed them­selves out of dark­ness inspire us to this day: Con­fu­cius, Bud­dha, Lao Tzu, Zoroast­er, Pythago­ras, Jesus and many oth­ers not only point the way but con­tin­ue to inspire our efforts. They will not leave us behind, but they may not, nor will they inter­vene. That is because we must all learn to know what is the good; we must strug­gle to lift our­selves up and choose to live by what is good and true. Just as they walked this path, we must come to this same self-mas­tery by learn­ing what not to do, and how to be bet­ter and fuller humans.

Cir­cles of Real­i­ty, Bub­bles of Belief
The role of Nep­tune in this process is crit­i­cal, (though tru­ly, as I men­tioned ear­li­er, all three out­er plan­ets work togeth­er to forge the quick­en­ing of spir­it), because Nep­tune holds the forms of real­i­ty that ulti­mate­ly will be under­stood and expe­ri­enced as “the One”.

Know this: All of Cre­ation is the Body, Heart, Mind and Spir­it of the One. To expe­ri­ence this, for even a brief instant, would pro­duce for most ordi­nary and for any non-ful­ly awak­ened con­scious­ness, a shock that would shat­ter their being; it would quite sim­ply be an encounter with what would appear to be pure Chaos! The One is beyond our com­pre­hen­sion, beyond our lim­it­ed frame­works of prin­ci­ples, ideas, laws, or con­cepts. But this One is the Ulti­mate Real­i­ty. To us, as we look out into immen­si­ty of all of Cre­ation it is tru­ly chaot­ic; for those who have reached a high­er con­scious­ness it is sublime.

Neptune’s role for us in this jour­ney of awak­en­ing is to move us steadi­ly from less com­pre­hen­sive to more encom­pass­ing expe­ri­ences of this One­ness of Spir­it. The One encom­pass­es the whole of Cre­ation, all life-forms, all feel­ing-forms, all thought-forms, and all spir­it-forms. With­in that One, whose “Cen­ter is Every­where, and whose Cir­cum­fer­ence is Nowhere”, innu­mer­able bub­bles of more lim­it­ed expe­ri­ences of Real­i­ty exist.

For humans, these “Cir­cles of Real­i­ty” are deter­mined by the lev­el of devel­op­ment of an individual’s degree of awak­en­ing, rang­ing from a very nar­row expe­ri­ence of space and time, to ever more com­pre­hen­sive and inclu­sive expe­ri­ences. This pro­ceeds through many stages and lives until they reach what is known as Apoth­e­o­sis, and a com­plet­ed human becomes tru­ly divine. At low­er lev­els, we could see the unfold­ing com­pre­hen­sion spi­ral­ing up from the lim­it­ed bub­ble of a young child, to a young adult, to a mature adult, and per­haps in old age tru­ly blos­som­ing into some form of wisdom.

With­in any group, region, cul­ture or civ­i­liza­tion, this same order­ing of aware­ness and expe­ri­ence of real­i­ty can be seen, and here we find the for­ma­tion of “Bub­bles of Belief” that are cre­at­ed and shared by few, or many and some­times all. More­over, any one indi­vid­ual may find that their own for­ma­tion of real­i­ty is inter­sect­ed, some­times more some­times less, by many dif­fer­ing bub­bles. You might pic­ture these many inter­sect­ing “Real­i­ty Bub­bles” as being formed like three-dimen­sion­al Venn Diagrams.

Depend­ing upon the com­mu­ni­ty, cul­ture, and civ­i­liza­tion you are exam­in­ing, there will be one or more over­ar­ch­ing or cir­cum­scrib­ing “bub­bles of real­i­ty-forms” that are shared by many. But the var­i­ous sub-group­s/­sub-cul­tures may hold oth­er sub­sets of “Bub­bles of Belief”, which may be more or less teth­ered by and held togeth­er by the over­ar­ch­ing Real­i­ty-Form. How­ev­er, some of these “Bub­bles of Beliefs” may become some­what less or com­plete­ly unteth­ered to the gen­er­al Par­a­digm of Belief of that group, cul­ture, or civilization.

Nep­tune in Pisces
As Nep­tune moves through its 164-year orbit, there are moments when the strength and integri­ty of these bub­bles of belief will shift. It seems that when Nep­tune is mov­ing through the last sign of Pisces, the sign that it rules, the bound­aries between “Belief/Re­al­i­ty-Forms” becomes thin­ner, and the com­bi­na­tions and trans­for­ma­tions of those bub­bles of belief become more pro­nounced. As you might have noticed, we are in such a peri­od now from 2011 until 2026, and it has been observed by many that the Belief-Forms and Real­i­ty-Forms of our world are bend­ing and mutat­ing into rather exot­ic and some­times seem­ing­ly very delu­sion­al manifestations.

As Pisces is the last Sign it often holds the whole of the pre­vi­ous cycle of expe­ri­ences with­in it, like the final act in a play or move­ment in an opera or sym­pho­ny. With Nep­tune in Pisces, we wit­ness in these “end times” the reap­ing of the har­vest of the pri­or peri­od of the Par­a­digm of Belief and the for­ma­tion of the seed for the next. The two pre­vi­ous Nep­tune pas­sages in Pisces were 1848–1862 (which con­clud­ed the peri­od that had start­ed with Nep­tune in Aries from 1698–1712), and 1685–1698, (which fin­ished the cycle that start­ed in 1535–1548).

The most recent pas­sage of Nep­tune in Pisces from 1848 to 1862, came dur­ing the build up to and begin­ning of the USA’s Civ­il War, where­in two com­plete­ly incom­pat­i­ble views of human­i­ty, (all humans are equal v. some humans are slaves), came to their final col­li­sion. The ear­li­er peri­od of 1685 to 1698, cul­mi­nat­ed in Eng­land with the last attempts at Catholic Rule and the restora­tion a Par­lia­men­tary form of Gov­ern­ment and the tri­umph of a Protestant/Liberal culture.

What we are expe­ri­enc­ing now is the end of our Nep­tun­ian Par­a­digm that began in Aries from 1862–1875. That is when the end of the Civ­il War led to the attempt­ed but unful­filled promise of Recon­struc­tion in the South; that trag­ic fail­ure, to address the griev­ous inequal­i­ties and injus­tices that remained in both the South, as well as in the North, are what we face in our Spir­i­tu­al Crises of today.

It is no sur­prise that the ris­ing tide of calls for Social Jus­tice and Equal Rights have surged once again in this cur­rent peri­od of Nep­tune in Pisces. Yet, because the bound­aries between the var­i­ous Bub­bles of Real­i­ty for­ma­tion are so porous and shift­ing, we find our­selves in a time when a com­mon­ly held Cir­cle of Real­i­ty by a sig­nif­i­cant major­i­ty has been bro­ken and shat­tered into ever more dis­con­nect­ed Bub­bles of Belief.

Tow­er of Babel
Mag­ni­fied by the mod­ern phe­nom­e­na of Social Media, and the pro­lif­er­a­tion and mul­ti­pli­ca­tion of sources of infor­ma­tion and mis­in­for­ma­tion that are fired by the algo­rithms that dri­ve out­rage for prof­it, we have cre­at­ed a frag­ment­ing and frac­tur­ing of our com­mon under­stand­ing. We are immersed in a ver­i­ta­ble cacoph­o­ny of “Bub­bles of Dishar­monies”, and many souls (often­times unwit­ting­ly) are shar­ing and spread­ing half-truths and falsehoods.

It appears we humans have stum­bled into what I would call anoth­er “Tow­er of Babel”; we speak words that car­ry very dif­fer­ent mean­ings for one bub­ble ver­sus anoth­er; we argue over what is a “fact” ver­sus an “opin­ion”. We are held by incom­pat­i­ble Real­i­ty-Bub­bles that divide us one from anoth­er. We are seg­ment­ed into var­i­ous parts or sub­sec­tions with­in our coun­try. Whether one looks at the divides between North and South, or Rur­al and Urban, or Coastal and Heart­land, between eth­nic­i­ties and sub-cul­tures, it has become exceed­ing­ly hard to find a com­mon under­stand­ing or sense of pur­pose for these Unit­ed States of America.

What can you do?
For me, and for all those who fol­low the path of the Ancient Wis­dom, and equal­ly the many who under­stand and fol­low the great teach­ers whose mes­sages are the “Heart Doc­trine” of all reli­gious tra­di­tions, we will begin and remain upon the Shin­ing Path of Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

It may seem para­dox­i­cal and often­times seem­ing­ly impos­si­ble, but that is the way of Truth. No mat­ter who is before you, no mat­ter how much what they do or say is dis­turb­ing or even repug­nant to you, you must remem­ber this and hold your­self to the path of Spir­it and the clear Light of Truth:

“Love One Another”

Yes, yes, I know it is hard some­times, and you and I will often stum­ble and fall short. And we will have to try again to lis­ten to our heart day after day. We will have to find our strength through love. We must choose to not react to fear with fear, or to anger with anger; the way of Shad­ow and Fear is the path towards Pain and Loss.

It is easy to react, it takes no effort for it is mind­less and often heart­less. It is wis­er though seem­ing­ly hard­er to choose to change the ener­gy that came at you; to turn a neg­a­tive Ener­gy-Form and return with one that is pos­i­tive. But that is the way of becom­ing ful­ly human, to be an agent of cre­ativ­i­ty, renew­al, and rebirth. That is why we are asked to show our strength, wis­dom, and love by “turn­ing the oth­er cheek”. By doing this you are not being weak or cow­ard­ly what­so­ev­er; this is true courage, because it comes from the heart which does not act from fear. This is the Strength of Love; this is build­ing your life on Truth and Light.

Love is the way; it is the only way. It is the Way of Peace and Under­stand­ing. This is the Truth of Nep­tune. Nep­tune is the Way of Uncon­di­tion­al Love. It is the Light at the Core of you and of all Creation.

The One is the source of all; Uncon­di­tion­al Love is the foun­da­tion of the Uni­verse. It is the Uni­ver­sal Pow­er that holds each and every par­ti­cle of Cre­ation by, for, and in Love. When you hold your­self by this Love and act from this cen­ter, you will dis­pel the shad­ows and fears in your­self and in others.

Tru­ly, this the Ulti­mate Encom­pass­ing Cir­cle of Belief, the hid­den Root of all the count­less Bub­bles of Belief. Uncon­di­tion­al Love is the One; this is the All-Encom­pass­ing Bub­ble of Real­i­ty, of which all less­er Bub­bles are held.

If you start with this, if you start with Love, you will stay on the Path of Light and per­haps be the means to help anoth­er; you may be able to con­nect to those whose anger is formed by mis­un­der­stand­ing and fear. When you respond with Love and Under­stand­ing, you cre­ate an alter­nate path­way for the next step in that inter­ac­tion. The reac­tive pass­ing on of a neg­a­tive ener­gy-form, one that may have per­sist­ed for an awful­ly long time, has been broken.

Whether they are ready to take this step is up to them. But at the very least you have con­tributed to the de-esca­la­tion of the trou­bled thought-feel­ing-forms that have held them. You have offered a path towards under­stand­ing, and a way to move into a greater and more inclu­sive Bub­ble of Belief.

The path towards Spir­i­tu­al Truth can­not be found by impos­ing or forc­ing truth upon anoth­er, for that is a greater untruth. Truth can only be found and lived by hav­ing been elicit­ed from with­in the heart. We are here to lead one anoth­er out into a Greater Understanding.

The Ancient Wis­dom holds that Cre­ation is the man­i­fes­ta­tion of Truth. As much as the Truth is “out there” form­ing the foun­da­tion for every­thing in the vast­ness of the Cos­mos, it is equal­ly to found and awak­ened as a shin­ning splen­dor in every human heart and mind.

Be mind­ful, be gen­tle, be lov­ing, and you will be on the path.

This is the Mes­sage of Neptune.

This is the Way of Uncon­di­tion­al Love.