This is a great meme, and set off a long train of thought for me today. Neptune in synastry is one of my favourite things to think about.
As human beings, we struggle more or less with our own wholeness. Neptune as an archetype represents unity with the Divine- limitless, true, utter spiritual love. What sounds more awesome than that? Truly, nothing is more awesome than that. Running a synastry chart, we may see someone’s Neptune hitting our Venus and read the descriptions of absolute love and devotion and think wow, someone is actually going to love me like this…
The truth is far more amazing, empowering and complex than that. You see, when we run across Neptune, we are shown a mirror and a spiritual gateway. It is much like the 11:11 portal, the 4 of wands card- all of these things tie very much in together. We do touch God when we touch Neptune, and we touch divine union. We come into contact with our own magicians’ power that enables us to manifest our most transcendant and limitless desires. But can what is true and real live in perfect harmony with what is not?
Neptune will reflect like the surface of the sea, or the surface of the pond that drowned Narcissus. What does it reflect?
At first, it will show us what we want to see. Then, in time, it will show us that which we really need to see and get to know, in order to become whole. Those parts of ourselves we never loved, but which we must love in order to fully love ourselves.
If you hate and fear lies, Neptune in synastry may bring you someone who lies. At first they seemed to be everything you ever wanted, then they turned around and became everything you ever hated. But that allure of the ideal and the experiences of one’s blossoming spirituality will draw one into a dance with this mirror image- and in time you will notice there is no distinction. Everything that is driving you crazy with love and hate is here. It is what C G Jung called “the shadow”- the disowned parts of ourselves that we need to integrate into our being, in order to be empowered and whole.
The love and light gurus have it all completely wrong and I do believe that path will keep people stuck and victimised (which is a topic for another article). We are not beings of pure light, we are beings of equal light and darkness. It isn’t about turning away from our/ other people’s negative behaviours but about calmly accepting and embracing them. This makes more sense on a neurological level. If we can quit our extreme reactions to things, we can stop sending energy down neural pathways and programming ourselves into set patterns. Greater equanimity and unity allows us to deprogram ourselves and find the liberty within our hearts and minds to change our thinking. Only with a brain that is relatively free of stuck ideas and desires and obsessive thinking and unified with our own intrinsic strength and power can we look towards knowing ourselves as who we truly are, and then set after the goals that resonate with us on a soul level. With self-love, anything is possible- and we are all worthy of it!
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