posted January 31, 2008 06:49 PM              

it's been conjunct my progressed Ascendant for a while. i dont know if i'm noticing it. but quite a few of my friends have a conjunction between Neptune and their Sun or other major planets - but what is it doing? I can't tell on them at all. they talk as if everythings going perfectly fine in their lives. the only thing i can think of is that it may be creating a bit of "illusion" or fog around them and aid a feeling of living on a cloud.. but I'm not sure. also, might I mention Im a Virgo Sun so I'm all confused about Pisces the chameleon, the fog, the undetectable vague watery thing.

posted February 04, 2008 10:00 AM              

Traditionally about learning to "live by faith", in modern language it may be clearer to say that we are learning to trust--to trust our higher power, our own intuition, the rationality of the universe, etc.

Particularly when transiting the Sun, Moon, or Ascendant you are required to be "willing not to know," to "trust your guidance" to "follow your feet." Trying to figure things out at such times is just confusing and sometimes painful. This is about using the realms of consciousness that lie outside the everyday mind.

It is common, during such periods to have some (usually temporary) vision problems--from trying to peer through the "fog" and see the future.

During transits of the Ascendant and first house, you can try on different "looks" as the original self-image blurs out and gradually a new "spiritualized" vision of who you are replaces it.

posted February 04, 2008 11:09 PM              

It also makes you very attune to suffering and possibly a conduit for universal or divine compassion. During a neptune transit you will likely meet people who are not well in a variety of ways and you will deeply want to relieve their suffering. This is part of the darkness and the struggle for faith in the face of profound injustice and suffering. It forces you to accept and perhaps embrace suffering as necessary and part of life and ultimately beneficial. The first response is often despair followed quickly (if you are moving with the energy) by compassion which in and of itself can help relieve suffering.
It is said that at the beginning of a neptune transit there is some sort of catastrophic loss of faith or sense of the ground being pulled out from under you for probably a mix of personal and existential reasons. You may feel vaguely fearful and are not sure why. I have found this to be true. Over the course of the transit your beliefs and ideas about the world and people will be tested. While new ideas are formulating (and this takes time) you will need to develoip faith in the process and in a higher power/God. For a variety of reasons, it will often be hard to see very far ahead, as has been said. The point isnt to strategize better - it is to let go and work on faith and a sense of partnership with the universe.

Neptunes work is slow, often hard to see but at the end a pretty profound transformation takes place (if it is hitting the sun or moon, much less so for other points) and you are never entirely sure how you got there. It is much more major than saturn or uranus. It is another realm - closer to pluto in degree of transformation than uranus, chiron or saturn.
I am at the very end of a several year neptune conjunct sun transit. The last two of which have been the most intensely neptunian.

posted February 05, 2008 05:35 AM              

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