by Robert Wilkinson
I've been asked to comment on this amazing phenomenon of these two spiritual planets being in each others' signs. This is blending the zodiacal signs of the harvest within the larger transformative field.
If you want to listen along, the audio of this article is found at the bottom of the post.
This long term influence has been going on for awhile, and pervades the entire atmosphere on subtle levels. It has brought two distinct energies to a mutual reception dance. Mutual reception is when two planets are in the sign each other rules. It blends their influence, and we cannot find one working without the other working simultaneously.
Uranus, the creative revolutionizer and individuator, has been in Pisces since 2003. Pisces is the sign of the vast ocean of collective consciousness ruled by Neptune on a spiritual level. On the other hand, Neptune, the great dissolver and preserver, has been in the sign of Aquarius since 1998. Aquarius is the sign of the future oriented synthesized ideal ruled by Uranus on a spiritual level.
So Uranus began to "rule" Neptune in 1998, while Neptune began to "rule" Uranus in 2003. As they occupy each others' natural field, while they still function as transpersonal spiritual forces, they are doing so in fields that show us the vast vistas where harvests turn to endings, ambitions turn to closure rituals, and past or present friends become part of our "life movie," or mythos.
We have been experiencing the need to individualize through Piscean ways and means, while being enveloped by a vast feeling of Aquarian ways and means. I touched on an element of how this is part of a vast evolutionary tide in previous articles which I'll post anew next week. Neptune is definitely helping the coming Age of Aquarius energy become set in the collective field.
Therefore, those who meditate, cultivate intuition, and do other "Neptunian" spiritual practices are tapping into the very energies that will pervade the next 2000 years. I don't believe we're in the Age yet, but as I've explained before, the transition between Great Ages is several hundred years, so we need a vaster perspective on how fast or slow these things are developing.
Uranus challenges us to awaken and individualize when it conjuncts, squares, or opposes a planet or important point in our chart. It has severely challenged people with planets in Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces over the past 7 years. It has also shown productive and/or harmonious awakenings to those with planets in Taurus, Cancer, Scorpio, and Capricorn over the same period. Early degrees of these signs were stimulated 2003-2005. Middle degrees were stimulated 2005-2008. Late degrees have been stimulated 2008-2010.
Neptune challenges us to bless, allow, get clear about what is/isn't, and remember our interconnected non-separateness when it makes the same aspects listed above to points in our chart. It has dissolved many things the past 12 years in the Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius areas of our charts while stabilizing our inner and outer connections and clarity in Aries, Gemini, Libra, and Sagittarius areas of our charts. Early degrees of these signs were stimulated 1998-2002. Middle degrees were stimulated 2003-2007. Later degrees have and will be stimulated 2008-2012.
An aside: due to the "precession of the Equinox," we are entering the Age of Aquarius through its last degree rather than its first, and the end of the Age of Pisces comes at 1 degree rather than 30. Thus Uranus transited the area of this transition between the Great Ages around May-June 2002 (29 Aquarius), February-March 2003, and August 2003-January 2004 (both 29 Aquarius to 1 Pisces). These periods showed us through Uranian activity some elements of what the world will experience as global evolution between now and the early 22nd century.
On the other hand, Neptune is just entering that transition zone between the Ages. It will first occupy 29 Aquarius from April through July 2010. It will then move back and forth from 29 Aquarius to 1 Pisces between February 2011-February 2012. It's final occupation of 1 Pisces occurs from September to December 2012. At that point I would think that given the entire world will be experiencing these cuspal energies, we can all agree that the acceleration into the New Age intensifies, if only through the world being on the exact same wavelength as the larger Age!
So two of the major spiritual-transpersonal planets now occupy the end of their signs, preparing to move into a new one. This shows that we are finalizing these long term lessons, and are moving from individual, mental, and spiritual interpretations of these energies we've gotten familiar with into more physical, personal, and actional modes of activity.
Though the following oversimplifies the situation, it may provide hints about why things are as they are if you happen to have a planet late in its sign in your chart.
Late Aries planets are achieving clarifying productive closures, as are late Capricorn planets. Late Taurus planets are productively dissolving. Late Gemini planets are stabilizing amidst revolutionary conditions. Late Cancer and late Libra planets are adjusting to achieve a vaster and deeper harmony.
Late Leo planets are adjusting and polarizing, while late Virgo planets are adjusting through revolutionizing. Late Scorpio planets are dissolving and stabilizing. Late Sagittarius planets are productively revolutionizing. Late Aquarius and Pisces planets are at the end and beginning, the place where past and future meet.
Expect things to stay strange as we move from the old to the new, from deceptions to clarity, from the ideal to the dream, and into a vast unknown where we will find we're not separate from All-That-Is.
© Copyright 2010 Robert Wilkinson
Hi Robert,
What a great post...thank you!
I am currently exploring the potential lessons of Neptune as I am just about to begin a two year long Neptune Square Mercury. I am still experiencing Neptune Square my Sun (which has been very confusing). What should I expect with this transit? Do you have any particular advice for Neptunian influences?
Posted by: DJ | March 12, 2010 at 04:05 PM
Thank You Robert for all Your Great Insights !!!
Best Wishes !!!
Posted by: Jorge Torres | March 12, 2010 at 05:59 PM
Great piece Robert. Thank you.
Posted by: JP | March 12, 2010 at 09:56 PM
All my career problem started year 2003 - and 2009 I was unemployed?
AC: Late Virgo planets are adjusting through revolutionizing.
DC: Late Pisces planets are at the end and beginning, the place where past and future meet.
MC: Late Gemini planets are stabilizing amidst revolutionary conditions.
IC: Late Sagittarius planets are productively revolutionizing.
So in past years I have gathered a lot of friends who are where past and future meets. I feel like past...
Finland, which I represent here, has 70 years anniversary today of the End of the Winter War (Finland and Russia). I am so young, that only my grand parents have lived then. But for Neptunus and Uranus, those years are just in yesterday...
I have looked the mundane of Finland (Amator alert!) - 6.12 1917 klo 15:30 Hki. After independence we had also a civil war, which is not so much talked about. That divided a nation (Red and White), I had relatives in both. I think this still lives in hearts, even though Winter War 1940 unify the nation (using guns?). I hate the way "History" think... It is still a pain in my chart.
Posted by: Heli | March 12, 2010 at 11:47 PM
Thanks Robert for your wonderful insights. Chiron, hooked up (pun intended) with Neptune is channeling such wonderful spiritual healing to us all and amped up by Uranus, it's awakening us to our higher consciousness and potential. These are truly amazing times in the evolution of the human spirit. As a side note my Sun is in the 26th degree of Aquarius in the 3rd.
Robert, keep doing your great work! We all love you.
Posted by: Bruce Kaiser | March 14, 2010 at 09:12 AM
Robert, thank you for all that you do. I always enjoy and share your articles. And your audio with this article is exceptionally valuable. Important information for all of us. Peace and blessings, sir. ~tanzanite
Posted by: tanzanite | March 16, 2010 at 08:09 AM
maybe re-post this article......? it's so pertinent....
Posted by: daz hastings | October 03, 2010 at 12:41 AM
thinking about "indivudation" withing a "collective" this morning; as well as recalling all details from may 2002- june; you seem to suggest that this pure uranian energy then was so significant because in the next run through, neptune was newly in the mix 2003. hmmm. anyway, i can feel it even if i can't express it in words....
Posted by: daz hastings | October 03, 2010 at 01:01 AM