Neptune in Pisces – What To Expect

by Robert Wilkinson

Neptune just entered Pisces, beginning its 15 year journey into the fogs of non-separate human experience. This is where we better know how to swim well, and navigate some pretty strange conditions.

I first wrote about this in the Spring of 2011 at Neptune’s first entrance into Pisces. We got a taste of what to expect, and so rather than reinvent the wheel, I’ll give you what I said then with a bit more added.

As I recently reminded you, we've begun a long, strange journey that will lead humanity along spiritual lines that happen only once every 164-180 years. It is also where we first turn the corner in a 500 year sub-Age that began 1888-1894.

Imagine you're in a dreamscape, where shapes and forms blur together in a vast feeling field, where nothing is clear and you are swimming in an all-enveloping fluid environment. This vast feeling field is oceanic, where countless life forms all come and go in an instant. In this dreamscape there are simultaneous feelings of oneness and distinctness, togetherness and separateness, and a tactile awareness larger than can be described.

This field is where past, present and future merge in an all-encompassing experience, and where any pollution or disturbance in the field is felt by all creatures in that field simultaneously. Here the dreams of past, present, and future all exist at the same time, with a sense of (but no way of describing) what goes on without is also that which goes on within.

Welcome to Neptune in Pisces, where we all come together in a common feeling-field, experiencing what all of humanity and the life forms on the planet have experienced since the dawn of time. This is where we collectively merge into the vast oneness of where life on Earth came from, out of the muck, ooze, haze, mists, and water of 3 million years ago. Here we get to learn and experience "the great waters" that are an essential part of life on Earth.

Pisces is where we become aware of a greater feeling experience that links us to all other humans who have walked the Earth. Pisces is the sign of the witness, the conscience, the collective imaging where we lose our separateness and come together in what is common to all beings. Pisces is the last sign, where karma works at the end of a long process. Pisces is the sign of bondage, but also rewards.

Neptune is the spiritual ruler of this sign, and in its home. Neptune rules the great waters. Now the Outer Invisible Transpersonal Collectivizer will dominate the world's feelings for years. Much will be washed clean, while other things will be washed away. All of us will reorient our consciousness to our subconsciousness, as well as collective consciousness.

Given the nature of the planet and sign, I believe we now enter a time when those who have trained will experience “etheric vision” coming forth, providing the ability to know that which the lower mind cannot grasp. This is where we can be part of the cause, effect, and field of emergence simultaneously, knowing things usually unperceived by the linear mind.

Pisces is associated with both dreams and nightmares, compassion and betrayal, forgiveness and hypocrisy. Now a force "beyond our control" begins to work these upon humanity, each responding according to what waters they swim in. For some, prophetic dreams and visions, while for others, ancient ghosts of terrifying shapes residing in the subconsciousness of humanity, leftovers from human misconduct and misunderstanding across millennia.

Pisces and Neptune rule the waves and tides. A good wave can give us a good ride; a violent wave can kill us. A good tide can bring riches and blessings; a bad tide can ground our boat. Knowing inner and outer tides, personal and impersonal tides, will be important during the 14 years ahead of us.

We will all need to learn navigation skills, or know a good navigator to help us steer our "ship of personality" through the tides, reefs, perils, and unknowns of an ocean we on Earth at this time have never experienced before now. By becoming unafraid of that which is beyond words, we can find a greater faith in "All-That-Is," and know that we are as leaves floating on the surface of the ocean held securely in the lap of Divine Mother.

This will be an era of feeling more than we've ever felt, of knowing beyond words, of experiencing what others are feeling to a greater degree than ever before. Those who have not seen or heard the call to human-ness will be made to feel. Not to feel will be a self-betrayal; expanding our ability to feel what others are feeling will redeem the greater promise of compassion toward all that is and help us know our interrelatedness with others in the feeling field.

I recently linked to an article by Dharmaruci about Neptune in Pisces. In it he made some interesting observations about changing mythologies and the collective cultural stories that come from these. Here are a few core concepts:

Jupiter is the planet of story-telling. But I think that Neptune, the planet of the Imagination, is the ocean out of which the stories are picked. Neptune is that place where consciousness and matter merge, where it becomes obvious that you cannot separate human consciousness and the universe that consciousness is always trying to understand and describe.

He makes the point that Neptune's sign indicates what's fashionable in the collective consciousness, where "Neptune in Capricorn, which began in the mid-1980s, was an era in which money (Capricorn) became fashionable (Neptune). Neptune in Aquarius, which began in the late 1990s, began the Internet Age: Aquarius is computers and Neptune is the interconnectedness of the web...."

This would imply that Neptune in Pisces will make intuition, dream interpretation, explorations of the subconscious (both individual and collective), and non-linear "knowing" fashionable. Of course, it could also result in mass delusions, hysteria, ungrounded belief systems, and superstitious faiths willing to betray their spiritual underpinnings.

The article goes on to state, due to Neptune's discovery in Aquarius a century and a half ago, that:

We have just had one full Neptune cycle of Science as our underlying collective mythology. So it is not surprising that the imbalances of that mythology are becoming clearer, that we are living in a time when we can no longer ignore the sense of dominance over nature that we have inherited from Christianity, and then had compounded by Science. We are collectively in the position of Prometheus with his liver being pecked out afresh every day....

The fact that Neptune was discovered under Aquarius suggests that the Myth we need to pay most attention to is the one behind the Big Bang and Evolution, which is the Myth of Science itself and its approach to knowledge, as well as its placement suggesting power and dominance. And it is first of all important to recognize that it is a Myth, in the sense of an underlying story that we have collectively created. This is hard to do, because it is so much presented to us as an undeniable reality. But any Myth worth its salt will have this quality of believability.

Many of the collective myths we've told ourselves are now being exposed for the dreams and illusions they are. The myth of nuclear power being in any way safe or containable in its Plutonic destructiveness; the myth that any "warning system" is adequate to dealing with massive tsunamis; the myth that we can build nuclear reactors on fault lines and that there is any science that can make it right when things go terribly, horribly wrong. Perhaps the myth of scientific supremacy is showing some cracks?

And just as surely, over the next 14 years many obsolete religious myths will give way to a more compassionate way for humans to coexist with each other and the other life forms on Earth. We do not need obsolete belief systems that insist they must convert you, exile you, or kill you if you don't agree with them. This sense of self-righteous separateness will be one of the collective assumptions that will die, along with other destructive ways of living life on this beautiful Earth.

It will be an era when faiths shall be exposed for their truth or hypocrisy, but also when sometimes it will be difficult to separate fact from fiction. Our dreams will take on an added importance, for good or ill. Add the constant pressure of "The Grand Irrationality," and it's probably safe to say that things will get weirder before they get productive a few years down the road.

Since much will not make sense during this time in the vast dreamscape, where ancient and modern myths collide in a fog of obscuring images and beliefs, learn to be a good surfer and ride the waves and tides as your Higher Self instinctively knows. I suspect that many boating, fishing, and other sea-oriented skills will become metaphors with new application in the coming years. Perhaps we shall collectively awaken to the damage we've done, and continue to do, to the oceans on Earth, and collectively change our ways. We can only dream....

I'll do more articles on this vast subject from time to time. There are many stories to tell, many myths to examine, many collective assumptions that need reviewing and renewing or removing. Neptune in Pisces will help us become more aware and connected through feelings, and hopefully, will assist humanity to become more compassionate, since ultimately we're all in this boat together.

I'll close today with a saying from my days in Austin back in the 60s and 70s, "Onward through the fog." And sometimes, when we don't rely too heavily on our 5 senses and our minds, we can know without thinking, and flow without effort. There are mysteries to be discovered, feelings to share, and new mythologies to be constructed for a new world now emerging.

© Copyright 2012 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[Cheryl Ramcharan]

Beautifully done, Robert. Thank you.

[Joseph]

Thank you Robert

[BeWholeNow]

Even for you, Robert, this is an extraordinary piece.

Is it reasonable to say that now, everyone on the planet has the opportunity to experience a taste of what we Pisceans live into and through every moment of every day?

And further, that the Piscean nature -- in all its wondrous and heinous depth and breadth -- will not only be seen as "fashionable," but will be embraced with a new level of respect and, (for lack of a better word), legitimacy?

If so, that would be refreshing, to say the least. Perhaps, in the spirit of James Bond, I will print up new cards that simply say: 031853.

Thank You!

[Debbie Eastick]

Thank you Robert, beautifully put. I would like to add, if you dont mind, an understanding I gained while working through 42 years of life, to understand what I knew at age 8, yep i was unusual even then, The suggestion is that our own spirit, is much like nuclear power extreme bright light and heat, the healing of angels being akin to the strength of laser beams. Thus your reference to nuclear power, no it wont be contained for ever as neither will the spirit of humanity, nuclear power can destroy or heal (as in its use to cure cancer) depending on the intent of energies present. Not saying im right, but it is an understanding that makes sense to me now at 50 and yes, I have chiron in pisces :)

I wont be offended if you choose to delete my post as this is your space and I respect that, Debbie

[Enlightendredneck]

"Of course, it could also result in mass delusions, hysteria, ungrounded belief systems, and superstitious faiths willing to betray their spiritual underpinnings."

The first thing that popped into my head when reading this: revelations, the antichrist and the rapture.

Onward through the fog, indeed!

[ull]

I´ve always been a surfer in the Neptunic Ocean, you need to be aware of the powers in that element of course. I am happy for this, there is no other way. It will be great for us dreamers, for the poetry and for the music. And for spirituality indeed.

Rilke

"Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies?

and even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart:
I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence.
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure,

and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.
Every angel is terrifying.
And so I hold myself back and swallow the call-note of my dark sobbing.
Ah, whom can we ever turn to in our need?
Not angels, not humans, and already the knowing animals are aware

that we are not really at home in our interpreted world".

[ull]

Must add this.
"held securely in the lap of Divine Mother".
In times of need you can always call on our mother.

[Nicolas]

Great post that I am sure is just the opening one of many to follow along the same lines.
Indeed a new collective mythology and theories are needed in many fields: Science, Religion, Economy, Ecology, Humanity, Health, Human relations, etc. are coming about. The losing of the old reference points, even if they have proven to be inadequate can feed into the feelings of being lost and sailing through foggy waters. But that is a good thing, for the old is passing giving way to new mythologies to guide humanity into a closer relationship to what humanity really is and to its relationship to the rest of the Whole. A truer understanding, action and life. We are in the making.

[Jo Garceau]

Robert, a beautiful post! Meditating night before last on a single incident of soul contact during the past week, abruptly it seemed the ramifications rippled forward and backward through both time and space, affecting not only the principals involved but also any one connected to them and those related to the second wave and the third and fourth, so on to infinity. Generations before and generations to follow all involved...and the ripples moved out across the globe, the solar system, the galaxy and beyond. All in an instant! And it happens every day, every moment, aware or unaware...

[Beth in SoCal]

Cancer-5 Here. First, thank you once again for another insightful article. My fog is rooted in the loss of family & friends. Detachment for any Cancer is a real challenge, so the fog for me is going on without many of the pillars of my life - the fog of an unknown future. "Pisces is the sign of bondage, but also rewards." Yes, we lose our loved ones and are faced/forced with detachment. Buddha stated attachment is the cause of all suffering - and so it is, but with that detachment comes a greater understanding of the essence of life.

[Shehzaad Maroof]

wow amazing post dear Robert!!! feelings.. without it i feel nothing :)
"here we all come together in a common feeling-field, experiencing what all of humanity and the life forms on the planet have experienced since the dawn of time." Cheers :)))
GOD bless you brother

[Joseph]

""It is also where we first turn the corner in a 500 year sub-Age that began 1888-1894."

Robert, would you elaborate more? Are you referring to Neptune's ingress into Gemini in 1888?

[Valerie]

looks like many people are looking forward to Neptune in Pisces... for me, a Cancer lady it's a return to romance and ethereal beauty. something like a cross between spiritual bliss and an ideal of perfect love. i haven't felt anything in a long time and i'd like to FEEL again. I don't know how it will unfold but now that Neptune has arrived i'm ready for it. thanks for a great article as usual. :)

[Elizabeth]

Maybe, we'll awaken to the devastation in our oceans...and clean them up!

Also looking forward to how life unfolds with my husband who is a pisces. He already has some pretty wild dreams...I can't imagine how prophetic (or confusing) they'll get now!

[Beth in SoCal]

Valerie: Cancer-5 here. I just was reviewing my transits and I am in a long term Neptune Trine Venus. Sympathy, compassion, beauty, art, creativity, romance, love, the oneness of all. Very, very powerful & positive. I had written yesterday of loss. Later in the day my father-in-law passed. He treated me like his own. It's a big loss for his family & all that knew him. Feel like my heart chakra is wide open. Very welcome change after a few years of tension, friction, and some real upheaval reflecting the world at large.

[Linda]

My husband is a Pisces; he quit his job in July of 2011 and hasn't looked for work yet...things getting financially stressful. I have stayed home raising kids and grandkids for 40 years. I am a Sag with Pisces rising.
Any suggestions on how to steer my raft on this portion of the journey; feeling rather like jumping ship of late...

[Linda]

My natal neptune is in Libra (8th house) as well as Saturn. So I am very aware of the second Saturn return party I have been attending.

[mary streets]

Robert, Please be taking care of yourself. Miss your words. Mary

[william kalbacher]

unbelievable friday jan. 3 with that trine...

then saturday moon hit cancer and aspected all outer planets

I felt it... like... i mean, one of those devastating things

I knew it was coming.. Jupiter accelerated on saturday (I am aries)

last thing I remember was watching the movie "Cabin Boy" and

falling asleep not to awaken till afternoon saturday just starving (ceres)
and I made mistake of leaving house ha

a rainy day in d.c. .... neighbors complaining of 'mud'

-But it's real.

I get references to light, sufism, other things... it's crazy
it's scary too.

mars retrograde they say aries needs to lose the ego for this...
how do you do that? be nothing... ? I am trying

peace
william

[Deb]

"Add the constant pressure of "The Grand Irrationality," and it's probably safe to say that things will get weirder before they get productive a few years down the road."

Er, speak for yourself ;). I'm gonna turn all the crazy into writing material! Heh heh.

Thanks as always, Robert, for your work.

[caliban]

Oh my achin left brain. As I "sleep", I am aware that my left brain is continually trying to figure out the patterns emerging from my right brain. Sometimes I am working so hard in my sleep that I wake up in a sweat. Weird.

If I take time when I rise, like get up with time for lounging before blasting off for the day, I have had some success clearing my mind and allowing the message to come into conciousness, even though I have no recollection of dreaming that, persay.

I awake nauseous when my studies enter into my dream time. I find myself trying to put calculations to right brain activity. That is insane. Ergo the nauseousity.

[Valerie]

Cancer-5- i have Moon Sun and Jupiter in Cancer, Moon trine Neptune. i have known bliss in the past and look forward to it again. sorry about your father-in-law. bless his memory. if you feel something in your heart that's a very good sign. thanks for your input!

Linda- i also have Neptune in the 8th house conjunct Saturn(in Scorpio 2º) and am also on the verge of my 2nd Saturn return. happy to join your party! hope your husband finds something... i've been looking for work for over two years. perhaps Neptune will bring something serendipitous... Namaste to all :)

[Micheline]

Robert this whole Neptune in Pisces has been flowing in and out of my mind! Hahaha
I love some of your wording and poetic mentionings on the subject here. Like how shapes and forms blur together and your mention of the last time Neptune was in Pisces. So, that got me wondering about art somehow. As it would. I wondered what was going in the area of art. Well, in 1888 it was Monet

[Micheline]

Sorry couldn't finish my iphone had a hiccup and my computer had a nervous breakdown and all i have is the tiny black box to cyber with! Sigh
And Van Gogh. And then in 1890 we got Nouveau art!!!!
I still need to look at music. But when you posted this. I started getting some very cool ideas for music vids.