NEPTUNE enters Pisces
and the egg of the soul opens further

If the energy of the last few months had not been enough for our opening to things beyond our mortal reality. Now here comes the BIG event of your lifetime. URANUS into Aries demands of us that we make these CHANGES NOW:

My favorite Neptune saying SOME OF US SEE things as they are and SAY WHY? And some of us dreams things that never were and SAY WHY NOT? Robert Kennedy…1964

Neptune's glyph, or symbol, resembles the trident that the God Poseidon/Neptune is often shown holding. The crescent, representing receptivity, is pointing upwards, indicating spiritual receptivity, and is placed above the cross of matter. This symbolizes the yearning of the soul to break free from the restrictions and limitations of matter/reality. Neptune is the God of the Sea and the ruler Of the astrological sign of Pisces. AND now here we go as Neptune enters its own sign for the first time in over 164 years.

4/25/1847 - Neptune enters the sign which is RULES which is Pisces. On 7/11/1847 Neptune backed again into Aquarius and on 2/17/1848 Neptune moved again into Pisces 10/15/1848 Neptune again backed into Aquarius and on 12/6/1848 Moved into Pisces until 4/13/1861 when it entered Aries.

HERE WE go again as on 4/4/2011 Neptune will again enter the sign which it rules Pisces; and on 8/4/2011 will back again into Aquarius until 2/3/2012 when it again enters Pisces where it remains until 3/30/2025 when it enters Aries, the 10/22/2025 it backs into Pisces again and on 1/26/2026 again enters Aries to stay until 5/21/2038 when it enters Taurus

What does this mean for the world and all of us within it is the big question with floods, earthquakes, tsunami's, droughts and so much questions about water pollution and all things relating to the water?

As in all astrology the element relating to a planet or sign is very important and looking at Neptune keep in mind the sea is Intuition, spiritual enlightenment, inspiration, dreams, psychic abilities, mercy, compassion which are Water elements. Neptune can also create an energy of deceit and trickery as well as rule addictions and rules confusion and illusion

Neptune is the planet of Illusion and dreams and visions and what can be when we are willing to explore the impossible or seemingly impossible. Neptune allows us to create and imagine and it is the planet of options in your own astrology chart. My personal belief is that Neptune is a Wonderful planet and it allows me in dreams and meditation to see and acknowledge the NOT me or the part of me which I oftentimes deny in waking hours.

Neptune also keeps me wishing, hoping, dreaming and believing that the world I have always seen possible is already here, we just need to reach out, hold hands and we will then see all the solutions to our troubles. And in my chart Neptune keeps me pushing folks to REACH out and grab that other hand. So, how can this be bad? Well, oftentimes the dream creates real sadness when I see another reality around me and disappointment and sorrow can come as we struggle with what we KNOW could be and what we see around us. What is real asks Neptune?

In the chart, the position of Neptune by sign will be shared with other people in the same generation due to Neptune's slow movement in the heavens. By house, Neptune's position in your own birth chart shows where intuition, dreams, and psychic sensitivity come into play for us personally. Any planets being touched in your astrology chart or by transit in the sky are magically transformed by the infinite possibilities of WHAT COULD BE, rather than what is in truth. Neptune also rules susceptibility to disillusionment and unrealistic outlooks. So, this is an especially important time for us all to SEE, and FEEL and KNOW good and positive things, and work much harder to eliminate fear and negativity from our minds, with which the Planet Neptune works within.

A strong Neptune in someone’s chart often is a person who has a very positive outlook and a bit of childlike energy. This is the energy of the artist, the poet, and the dreamer of the impossible dream, and without this? Well, what CAN BE POSSIBLE without the dream? With your author of this article, Neptune and Mercury the energy of LINEAR mind are mixed in Libra in my 11th house of groups and Legacy, thus the belief that we are all ONE and can get along and Can go past ego to create a better world. AND nobody better try and talk me out of this one because my NEPTUNE beliefs are firmly entrenched no matter what I see outside of my reality.

Have you ever loved someone who did not love you, have you ever believed that forgiveness and love is possible? Have you ever known that with enough time, patience and love that a divine energy would assist you in doing something you did not feel you were strong enough to do? THIS IS NEPTUNE.

And a strong Neptune in some charts leads to madness and a total loss of reality so as in all planets, the planet itself is neither good nor bad, but there for us to use.

Neptune often requires a sacrifice of our own personal needs and wants in order to experience something more. If there were a planet which represented Christ and his personal path on this planet. Neptune would be his planet. Jesus once said “He who loses himself the personality shall find himself the spirit”

Neptune says LET GO OF EGO, be willing to sacrifice pride and see what wonders you can perform when the power of the spirit of belief moves through you. For Neptune to work well in any of the signs or the houses sacrifice of how we see ourselves and others needs to be replaced with a universal love energy.

BEING MORE than you can be is the daily task of Neptune as we are asked again and again in life to sacrifice pride, ego and personal feelings to help another person or assist in helping someone else to do or be better. And what are the rewards for this? WELL, rather than think of ourselves as sacrificing look at what you can reap.

There is a new energy group out there now called the Global Band of Light and many other groups I am sure which are reaching out to connect and draw us into Neptune in Pisces and all the wonders we can realize in material reality, when lose ego and truly pull into this new powerful energy.

Neptune for me is The magic of weaving straw into Gold, the person who others admire for their courage and positive attitude, the person who keeps trying and does not believe that they are capable of NOT doing what they set out to do. The person who inspires others to create the impossible, the artist, the poet, the musician, the psychic knowing things will be better and encouraging others, the team leader at work encouraging others, the minister, priest, rabbi, the child believing in the Easter Bunny or Santa These are Neptune people.

The drug addict, the addictive personality, the sacrificial goat, the victim, the person never seeing reality, these are Neptune people. So how do we use the FORMER and not the latter with Neptune becoming much more strong as it enters its own watery and connected energetically sign of Pisces? This energy shows in your chart by HOUSE and sign and also aspects and your own Neptune can assist you with handling these new energies.

Meditation, prayer, more disciplined ways of dealing with negative people in your life. It is time for many of us to TUNE DOWN the sensitivity and for others of you to TUNE it up. Only you know which one you are. Been sick a lot the last few years? With Chiron and Neptune traveling in Aquarius together, we have become more MIND connected (Aquarius is an Air sign) and rules the Mental waves…and many of us have picked up a lot of (junk) from others. NOW with it in a water sign we shall hook even MORE deeply into the energy of the planet as well as our fellow humans.

As it is for all the outer planets we find that when they enter a new sign we are allowed to step into that new sign, then back into the old sign we are more used to and then go forward again in a while into the new sign. This seems kind of like us sticking our toes into the water and not just jumping in. Watch Neptune through the ages as it changed MUSIC and this year as it backs up again into Aquarius 8/4/2011 until 2/3/2012 when it FULLY EMERGES into PISCES for the next 15 years.

With Neptune in Pisces watch an increase in art and literature and our way of romancing life and with it encountering and merging with Chiron the wounded healer from Now through 2016, watch the increase in intuitive healing, new drugs, new ways of recognizing that we can change the body's healing path with positive or negative thoughts and some real surprises in what we consider Natural Healing.

Louise Hay was far beyond her time with her books on this, read some and recognize that part of this energy will be enabling us to become more responsible for our own bodies responses to illness, to others emotions, to connections to the world and the environment in many new ways. (OR old ways, if you believe as I do that we have moved far from what we could be and do regarding natural healing methods)

The energy of Neptune in an Water sign is at its best, but has to learn what to let in and what to block energetically and often it is the same with people around them. Water conducts energy and these people are double conductors. Hug more puppies and kittens, more time in nature, more time helping the planet clean up the messes we have made on it, more humane efforts, all these are Pisces energies.

Have you watched the movie Avatar? For me this movie was OMG, this is what I have always felt since I was a child walking on the farm in Kansas with nature and the animals. This is the way it truly is but we have cut down the tree and now need to encourage it to grow on planet earth again.

NEPTUNE IS YOUR GIFT as it allows you to dream the impossible dream, and with all dreams some do not come true. SO using Virgo in your chart to analyze if that wish or hope or dream is HEALTHY for all concerned often balances whatever sign Neptune is in ..so look at the house where you have VIRGO and look at your 6th house to help see how to manage your own VISION OF WHAT COULD BE and how to CREATE FROM THIS DREAM A DREAM FOR THE WORLD as well as yourself.

For me Virgo is in my 10th house of career, thus you are reading this article, and my 6th house has my moon in Taurus there. USE MEANING AND PURPOSE and service to all who I can help.

I hope this article brings you JOY and inner connection and a sense of AH HAA I have felt this and now I am going to move forward into this energy and at the same time in 15 years will understand myself more completely and be more healthy and happy.

Remember the NOT ME is the part of us we deny, and oftentimes we have to encounter our weaknesses to honor our strengths. Look at water as healing and also look at some new ways of energetically surrounding yourself with joy, goodness, health, and All of these things I call (LIGHT).

Light to you all and Namaste,
Carol Barbeau
2009 (I wrote this article) and now here we are, with a few additions