Alchem­i­cal Tree of Life

Tran­script of Radio Show: 2022 Fore­cast – Part 2 — Nep­tune, Our Spir­i­tu­al Crisis

(If you wish to lis­ten to the show instead, here is the link on BlogTalk or Apple Pod­casts)

Today we will con­tin­ue our look at 2022 with a spe­cial empha­sis on the influ­ence of Nep­tune in the com­ing year, both gen­er­al­ly and with spe­cial atten­tion to its mes­sage for the USA. Nep­tune has been mov­ing through Pisces since 2011 and will not move into the first sign of Aries until 2026.

But before we look at Nep­tune on its own, I want to point out an inter­est­ing cor­re­spon­dence between Pluto’s tran­sit through Capri­corn and the tran­sit of Nep­tune through Pisces. What we will find is that in every oth­er pas­sage of Plu­to through Capri­corn, Nep­tune will be pass­ing through either Vir­go or the oppo­site sign of Pisces for much of that peri­od. And this cor­re­la­tion has been true for lit­er­al­ly thou­sands of years.

Pluto/Neptune Cycles
Astro­nom­i­cal­ly, this is due to the ratio of their respec­tive orbital dura­tions. The rela­tion­ship cycle of these two plan­ets, from Con­junc­tion to Con­junc­tion is about 491 years, and it is one of the “Mas­ter Cycle” indi­ca­tors for Mun­dane Astrol­o­gy. Inter­est­ing­ly, Plu­to com­pletes a cir­cuit in rough­ly 245 years, while Neptune’s orbit is rough­ly 164 years. This means that 3 rev­o­lu­tions of Nep­tune around the Sun equals about 491 years, and 2 rev­o­lu­tions of Plu­to equals about 491 years.

For our pur­pos­es, what this ratio of their rela­tion­ship or of their har­mon­ic res­o­nance means is that when Nep­tune goes one and one-half times around the Sun it will equal just one orbital rev­o­lu­tion for Plu­to. And that is why each time Plu­to is going through Capri­corn, Nep­tune spends part of that time either mov­ing through Vir­go or through Pisces. I find this cor­re­spon­dence in their rela­tion­ship very inter­est­ing and informative.

Plu­to in Capri­corn – Nep­tune in Vir­go or Pisces
As I have not­ed many times, the pas­sage of Plu­to in Capri­corn her­alds the end of an insti­tu­tion­al order and the birth of a new one. But giv­en its rela­tion­ship with Nep­tune, which is that Nep­tune is pass­ing through Vir­go or Pisces while Plu­to is in Capri­corn, we should expect that the nature of each Plu­to shift or tran­si­tion would be dif­fer­ent or alter­nate in some mean­ing­ful way each time. If we look at this influ­ence of Nep­tune blend­ed with Plu­to, it can help us to bet­ter under­stand what is sim­i­lar yet dif­fer­ent about our time in the 2000’s to the for­ma­tive one for the USA in the 1770’s.

Giv­en that the present-day pas­sage of Plu­to in Capri­corn has Nep­tune in Pisces, our cur­rent peri­od of insti­tu­tion­al break­down and re-order­ing cor­re­sponds with that of the 1500’s more than the Capricorn/Virgo pat­tern at the found­ing of the USA. The ques­tion for us is how we might under­stand and so dis­tin­guish and define these differences?

With Plu­to as the Avatar of the Pow­er of Alche­my or the shaper of Spir­it-Mat­ter, and the wield­er of the Will, and Nep­tune as the Avatar of our Fields of Dream and Imag­i­na­tion or the ves­sel of our Hopes or Fears, the type or kind of re-shap­ing and re-form­ing in these two dif­fer­ent pas­sages of Plu­to in Capri­corn can be dis­cerned by the very dif­fer­ent influ­ences ema­nat­ing through Nep­tune in Vir­go ver­sus Pisces.

Nep­tune in Vir­go or Pisces
What I believe we can see is that the pro­tean trans­for­ma­tions of the Nep­tune in Pisces peri­od, gives birth to a re-dream­ing of the dream; and this in a fash­ion sets up or leads to the next Plu­to in Capri­corn with Nep­tune in Vir­go, where that peri­od brings this dream into the reshap­ing and reorder­ing of life for that peri­od. So, we would see that the 1500’s “re-dream­ing of dreams” cre­at­ed the con­di­tions for the 1700’s, and the USA being a “New Order for the Centuries”.

I find it is crit­i­cal­ly and inter­est­ing to note, that at the mid-point in Neptune’s cycle from that align­ment, we see that 1770’s dream and real­i­ty-mak­ing fac­ing its great­est test when Nep­tune went through Pisces in the 1850’s and 1860’s dur­ing the USA Civ­il War.

What this means to me is that with Neptune’s return to Pisces while Plu­to is in Capri­corn now, we are being chal­lenged to reform or fash­ion anew the real­i­ty-form we made in the 1770’s, and we will do this by being inspired, as were those dream­ers of the 1500’s, by a new vision of who or what we can be.

Pluto/Neptune in the 1500’s
In the peri­od of the 1500’s, with Plu­to in Capri­corn and Nep­tune in Pisces, the entire Euro­pean order­ing of life was turned upside down. From the Divine Right of Kings and the Order­ing of Faith hier­ar­chi­cal­ly arranged from Pope to Priest to the peo­ple, in what became known as the Ref­or­ma­tion, turned that social order and way of mean­ing com­plete­ly around. Faith became per­son­al, it emanat­ed from the per­son­al expe­ri­ence of the “Word of God”, as the bible was now avail­able in the com­mon tongue. Faith became Indi­vid­ual, and no longer medi­at­ed by the priest­hood and Pope. And over time the grow­ing sense emerged that humans should order their lives around the sanc­ti­ty of the indi­vid­ual con­science, and this informed and shaped the need to orga­nize our insti­tu­tions towards self-rule and democracy.

Pluto/Neptune in the 1770’s
When Nep­tune was in Vir­go in the 1770’s, the dreams of that Plu­ton­ian end­ing of an age and reorder­ing were focused through the cri­tiquing, defin­ing, and refin­ing lens of Vir­go. That is because when Nep­tune is in Vir­go, we are asked to reimag­ine how we order our world, how we find our order of life with­in our­selves, in how we man­age our lives, and how we form our insti­tu­tions to meet our needs. And I would argue that with Nep­tune in Pisces, like in the 1500’s, and as it is now for us today, we expe­ri­ence the won­der and con­fu­sion of redream­ing our very dreams, we are forced to go beyond our old par­a­digms of faith and fear so that we can find a new faith to guide our lives and refash­ion our institutions.

Where are we today?
Where we find our­selves today is in anoth­er shift in what I call our “Bub­bles of Belief”, and we have come to a time when the very notion of what is true, or a fact is not so very clear. Rather than the medi­a­tion of Truth and Fact being deter­mined and fil­tered by hier­ar­chies of author­i­ty in the var­i­ous realms of Sci­ence, Eco­nom­ics, Cul­ture or Pol­i­tics, we find that our shap­ing by the indi­vid­u­al­is­tic par­a­digm that was found­ed in the 1500’s has led to our moment where by the mag­ic of inter­con­nec­tiv­i­ty to immense data­bas­es of infor­ma­tion, each per­son can fash­ion and for­mu­late their own ver­sion of real­i­ty from a ver­i­ta­ble cor­nu­copia of data that they have gath­ered from innu­mer­able sources, but which, of course, vary great­ly in their reli­a­bil­i­ty. With­out some means to sort fact from fic­tion, or truth from lies, we are at the mer­cy of the storms whipped up by those who prof­it from out­rage and fear. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, what we have cre­at­ed is a ver­i­ta­ble chaot­ic cacoph­o­ny of truths and half-truths, rev­e­la­tions and false­hoods, wis­dom, and non­sense. How did this hap­pen, and what does it mean for our future?

Bub­ble of Belief, Cir­cles of Reality
As I have pre­vi­ous­ly not­ed, we humans exist in what we have fash­ioned for our­selves, what I call our “Bub­bles of Belief” which form our “Cir­cles of Real­i­ty”. The role of Nep­tune is cen­tral to this expe­ri­ence because it holds the forms of real­i­ty, because it frames the lens­es that we see as our real­i­ty. The Greater Real­i­ty behind it all, which will be known as and will be some­day under­stood and expe­ri­enced to be, is sim­ply and pro­found­ly called “the One”.

Why? Because the Foun­da­tion Source of Spir­i­tu­al Truth is this: All of Cre­ation is the Body, Heart, Mind and Spir­it of the One. But to expe­ri­ence the One, for even a brief instant, would pro­duce for most ordi­nary per­sons 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 tru­ly sublime.

Nep­tune — Avatar of Mean­ing and Dreaming
Nep­tune forms our pat­terns of Con­scious­ness and our means of Per­cep­tion. It is the Avatar that will lead to our greater under­stand­ing. It is our Spir­i­tu­al Source for Imag­i­na­tion, and the pow­er of our Dream­ing into Real­i­ty of what­ev­er we imag­ine will become. Yet, here lies the great dan­ger too, because by Nep­tune we can expe­ri­ence the exhil­a­ra­tion, the intox­i­ca­tion, of being “touched by the Gods”, so that we can imag­ine and dream the most won­der­ful forms of being, but we may equal­ly stum­ble into illu­sions and night­mares too.

So, this would seem rather para­dox­i­cal; how could it be that the very instru­ment respon­si­ble for our jour­ney in awak­en­ing, this Divine gift of our pow­er of Imag­i­na­tion and Dream­ing, how can this also be the same instru­ment or source of our delu­sions and con­fu­sion too?

Nep­tune holds the gift of Clair­voy­ance or Clear-See­ing, and Astrologers will often call the way of Nep­tune is that it oper­ates as a “Uni­ver­sal Sol­vent”. It dis­solves the bound­aries and bor­ders between thoughts and things, between dimen­sions and realms, and so enables us to see truth of the ulti­mate con­nec­tion of every­thing and every­one, which is why it is also called the Avatar of Com­pas­sion and Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

The Chal­lenge of Awakening
But here we face the chal­lenge of jour­ney in awak­en­ing, the oppor­tu­ni­ty and dan­ger we face in mov­ing from one Cir­cle of Belief and into anoth­er. When we are under­go­ing any oppor­tu­ni­ty to let go of our for­mer assump­tions and lim­it­ed per­cep­tions with the assis­tance of Nep­tune, we may encounter the risk that we will become too unteth­ered from a rea­son­able real­i­ty, by a Cir­cle of Belief that served to keep us cen­tered upon some essen­tial truths with­in our­selves, and that equal­ly formed our com­mon under­stand­ings between one another.

Here we encounter the “razor’s edge” on our jour­ney of awak­en­ing, the bright shin­ing line between love and fear, between Illu­mi­na­tion and Mad­ness. When let­ting go of for­mer cer­tain­ties, and becom­ing unteth­ered from an old Bub­ble of Belief, one may lose the com­mon under­stand­ing shared with oth­ers as to the nature of real­i­ty. By this an indi­vid­ual or group or even an entire peo­ple or nation, may become enam­ored and entranced by ener­gy-forms that are unfa­mil­iar, yet seem­ing­ly offer the promise of a greater truth, of a spe­cial knowing.

Illu­mi­na­tion or Intoxication
This expe­ri­ence of a spe­cial vision can be quite won­der­ful, and per­haps it is does hold a greater mea­sure of the light of truth and even of wis­dom, and so it might be that a less­er or greater awak­en­ing is at hand. But it is equal­ly pos­si­ble, and this is sad­ly found in far too many peri­ods in human his­to­ry, that those cer­tain­ties of a greater truth impart­ed by those cap­ti­vat­ing visions, are real­ly refrac­tions and shad­ows formed by unhealthy desires and self-formed fears, forged in hearts that have turned from the light of love, cre­at­ing illu­sion­ary notions of what is good and true. This per­il of delu­sion and sep­a­ra­tion is most espe­cial­ly true when the siren song of Neptune’s rev­e­la­tion is not anchored in one’s heart by love, and so it may instead become shaped and twist­ed by fear. As always, the fault lies not in the stars, or in Nep­tune, but in our spir­i­tu­al devel­op­ment as to our for­tunes and fate.

Through­out many peri­ods in human his­to­ry, pan­ics and manias, con­spir­a­cies and divi­sions have erupt­ed. But the peri­ods when Nep­tune is mov­ing through Pisces, as it is now from 2011 to 2026 or like in 1848 to 1862, are par­tic­u­lar­ly strong in this pro­tean capac­i­ty to dis­solve the bound­aries between real­i­ty and illusion.

We have moved from a world in the 1500’s where the order­ing of Truth ver­sus Fic­tion was deter­mined by and medi­at­ed through a descend­ing hier­ar­chy of author­i­ty, from Pope to King to Com­mon­er, and instead we have cre­at­ed a world where every per­son is a pope or king, their own mak­er of fact, rea­son, and truth.

Unfor­tu­nate­ly, the nec­es­sary lev­el of spir­i­tu­al devel­op­ment that is required to wield such god­like pow­ers, where one would see a peo­ple or human­i­ty guid­ed by Wis­dom and act­ing with Humil­i­ty, well that is sure­ly lack­ing in most if not all the var­i­ous sec­tors and realms of our soci­ety now, from the upper­most and pow­er­ful down to the powerless.

Spir­i­tu­al Cri­sis of Today – Chaos of all Realities
We live in dis­con­nect­ed Bub­bles of Belief; we do not share the same assump­tions about our world, about how we can dis­cern what is right and what is wrong, or how we are to under­stand and treat one anoth­er. We are lost in the Ocean of Nep­tune, in the Chaos of all real­i­ties, and so for many souls there is no real­i­ty what­so­ev­er, there is only con­fu­sion and despair. We are hav­ing what is known as an Epis­te­mo­log­i­cal Cri­sis, a cri­sis of how we know what we know, of how we can deter­mine fact from fic­tion, or the truth from all the half-truths and lies; we find our­selves in a great Spir­i­tu­al Crisis.

What can you do?
What can we do; what can you do? As always (and for­ev­er), I will gen­tly advise one and all that the Truth has been known from the begin­ning of our jour­ney in awak­en­ing, because it forms the very fab­ric of the Uni­verse, as it is equal­ly the very spir­i­tu­al sub­stance of you and me too, of course.

What we need to do indi­vid­u­al­ly, and then when we gath­er as friends, neigh­bors, col­leagues and loved ones, is to return to the sources of truth found in all the great teach­ings, because we need to be guid­ed by the Wis­dom of the Wise Ones, our elder broth­ers and sis­ters, whose shin­ing exam­ples of Love and Com­pas­sion has shown us “the way” through­out the ages.

You can­not find your way by your­self, and so you must on the one hand look to the exam­ples of those who left these trea­sures of truth for you, both in how to know the truth as well as the Truths them­selves. And you most cer­tain­ly can­not cre­ate your own under­stand­ing of your world because you are shaped and formed by all with who you have direct and indi­rect con­tact. You must choose wise­ly where you look for answers and avoid those indi­vid­u­als and groups whose cer­tain­ties have cre­at­ed the very extremes between the dark and the light that make for our per­il now.

As I said many times, and most recent­ly in June of 2021:

The way of Truth has always been the Path of Love. 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 must begin and remain upon the Shin­ing Path of Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

This will often be exceed­ing­ly dif­fi­cult, seem­ing­ly impos­si­ble, when we encounter the cold mean­ness, and the dark hatred that seems to splash across our com­put­er screens or onto our streets every day. But we must remain cen­tered and true to the one path of the Mas­ters. 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. What­ev­er you do, and whomev­er you encounter, you must fol­low your High­er Self and:

“Love One Another”

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

So, what I would advise each and every one of us today is this, to remem­ber this:

The Light of Truth is with­in you, and you can obtain and secure it by an Open and Ques­tion­ing Mind, that is held from excess­es by Uncon­di­tion­al Love, and togeth­er with your Rea­son and Com­pas­sion, you remain cen­tered in your high­er spir­i­tu­al nature by your Cen­tered Will.

Democ­ra­cy
Self-gov­ern­ment, what we call Democ­ra­cy, requires that each mem­ber of that soci­ety to be guid­ed with rea­son, held by love, and unbent by the pas­sions and fears of those whose rea­son and love has been bro­ken or for­sak­en. When­ev­er you encounter those who are nar­row of mind and heart, you must under­stand that they are act­ing from a space of fear, and the only way to reach them is by your Rea­son, Love and Will.

Remem­ber the teach­ings, and fol­low the Mas­ters, so that you remain on the path where you are Wise and Gen­tle and Stead­fast. Remem­ber the oath you took long ago and stay true to your Des­tiny. Remem­ber the Great Invo­ca­tion and say:

From the point of light with­in the Mind of God

Let Light stream forth into our minds

Let LIGHT descend on Earth.

From the point of love with­in the Heart of God

Let Love stream forth into our hearts

May LOVE increase on Earth.

From the cen­ter where the Will of God is known

Let pur­pose guide our wills

The PURPOSE which the mas­ters know and serve.

From the cen­ter which we call Humanity

Let the Plan of Love and Light work out

And may it seal the door

where evil dwells.

Let Light and Love and Pow­er restore the Plan on Earth.