Neptune In Aries – Turning Towards The One | Capricorn Astrology Research

For Karen

I have a thousand articles mainly focused around the transits of Pluto. This is because above all else I wish astrology to be proved and these fit much more strongly with verifiable events. After all if an atomic bomb goes off in your life, it’s fairly straightforward to identify where and when.

Neptune doesn’t work that way, its province is the unprovable. Its impact on our lives is just as profound but just less clear cut.

I’ve had two careers, the first as a therapist, the second as a consulting astrologer. I didn’t actually choose to work in those fields, they both developed organically out of a desire to share what I had discovered.

Although I have been researching astrology for half a century, I had never been part of what might be termed the astrological community. As a 12th house Capricorn Sun and Moon, I was doing the research for my own interest and kept my findings largely to myself.

In 2010 when Pluto conjoined my Sun while I was working on a control group for a piece that I was doing on astrology and politicians, I discovered something that had to be tested on a much larger scale.

So I started work on the Capricorn Astrology Research Project. It took three years to complete the data processing. The findings are staggering and prove an astrological effect beyond any possible doubt.

This was too big to keep to myself so I published it in 2014 and am still finding new discoveries out of the work that I did then. Through sharing this research, many people asked if I was available for mentoring or private consultations, and that has become a full time occupation.

In the decade since then, Pluto has transited my Moon and Ascendant and my life has changed beyond recognition.

Neptune is a major player in my chart. It is the natural ruler of the house that contains my Sun. and Moon but more than that it is the apex planet of a very tight T Square in my 9th house.

I have always been strongly drawn to the spiritual dimension in life but from a practical Capricorn perspective.

In 1986 Neptune transited over my Sun. I had recently discovered the Alexander Technique, which had led me to Patrick Macdonald, the man who I still consider to be my teacher.

My synastry with him was very strong. His Moon was in Capricorn at the same degree as mine, his Sun in Pisces at the same degree as my Mars.

He was in his late 70s at the time and I wanted to work with him as much as possible while he was still practicing. The only way to do that was to enrol on his teacher training course.

I had no aspirations or desire to teach others, I simply wanted to work on myself. For me this was the equivalent of a 3 year Zen style retreat.

Within a few months of completing this course, my teacher retired. I realised that I had to share what I had learnt through the work on myself, so I started teaching the Alexander Technique, a career that lasted for almost 30 years.

The founder of this technique was Frederick Matthias Alexander.

Today we talk about the unity of mind and body as a cliche but Alexander was the first person to stress that they were indivisible. In fact he would never use those two words, he would always refer to “psychophysical processes”

Alexander was an actor, who lost his voice. The process of trying to regain it led him on a journey of self observation and discovery that lasted for 10 years during which he discovered his technique.

It has been used effectively for all kinds of conditions from breathing difficulties to back problems.

His 6th house Sun and 9th house Moon show the areas in which his life was focused, mental and physical health.

Alexander’s Sun is conjunct my Ascendant. His Venus is half a degree away from my Sun.

But from the perspective of this article, he has Neptune in Aries in the 9th house in exact square to Uranus.

I also have Neptune in the 9th (in Libra) in exact square to Uranus in Cancer.

When I did the training in the late 1980s, being an Alexander practitioner was not considered to be a career choice, but with Uranus and Neptune in Capricorn in the early 1990s, a fascination with complementary health meant that the technique was given much more attention.

Consequently, although I had never thought about teaching the method, by the time Neptune was conjunct my Moon in 1991-2, I was doing it full time.

I have been totally blessed by the Universe to have these two careers, to spend my life doing exactly what I would have wanted to.

I put much of this down to the fact that both Neptune and Pluto were forming conjunctions with my many Capricorn placements, so these all powerful gods were at least operating on my territory.

As Neptune moves into Aries it will square my Sun over the next few years, so I am intrigued as to what it will bring.

I am anticipating some other type of spiritual retreat, but something less formal and structured, perhaps more fiery and passionate.

The main thing that has happened to me these last few years is that my true soulmate found me and I have fallen in love for the first time (this lifetime) and have moved to the other side of the world to be with her.

This has changed my whole view of life. I now see that love is the fundamental essence of the Universe and the only problem is that so many humans are unable to see this fact.

As my soulmate is a Sun/Moon Aries, I’m sure that Neptune’s passage into that sign and its conjunctions with her lights and squares to my own, will provide a spiritual direction that is much more strongly influenced by her own essence.

One teacher that I have been strongly drawn to was the 13th century Persian Sufi poet and mystic, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī

As befitting his Sun/Moon conjunction in Libra, Rumi is famous for his love poetry, but the close opposition with Neptune in Aries lifts this to a love supreme with the whole Universe.

His most famous quote is “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop”

His Sun ruler, Venus is in Scorpio in square to Pluto in Leo.

Rumi was a teacher, the head of a religious school, but his knowledge was theoretical rather than real lived experience.

The event that changed his life was his encounter with his Sufi master Shams in November 1244 when transit Pluto was conjunct his Venus.

In the years that followed, transit Neptune formed the square with his Sun and Moon and Rumi immersed himself on the path of the mystic.

I also have Venus in Scorpio in square to Pluto.

I also dabbled with Sufism in my youth, even to the point of learning to do Whirling. It was the most powerful meditation technique that I had experienced. But still my understanding of Sufi principles was mostly intellectual.

I met my soulmate, the love of my life when transit Pluto was sextile my Venus.

Since then I know that love is the true force that guides us all.

As Rumi is about to experience his Neptune return opposite his Sun and Moon, I will be experiencing it in square to my Sun.

So I will endeavour to follow his advice –

“Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there”.

Posted on December 26th 2024

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