TRANSCENDENCE

CELESTIAL SOULPRINTS

NEPTUNE

Neptune was discovered in 1846. It has been found to represent non-material influences like dreams and illusions. It brings dissolution of structures and represents idealistic drives - both on a social and a spiritual level. Neptune opens the door to the divine, leaving a residual discontentment about mundane existence.

Neptune-Aries

Individuals born in these periods will be inspired by the concept of selflessness, and see true meaning in actions initiated for the common good. This is the time of the archetypal heroic act. Many people from these generations will actually feel a sense of meaninglessness connected with personal achievement for selfish reasons alone, and strive to identify themselves with a universal cause.

1ST HOUSE INFLUENCE Although there are times when you are visionary and inspired, you tend to emanate an aura of dissatisfaction - as if something is lacking in you life. Other people may feel frustrated because of their lack of ability to give you satisfaction. You tend to downgrade yourself and allow others to superimpose themselves on you. You function best when you cultivate a caring attitude towards others. You may be marked by early spiritual experiences which open a window to your consciousness. This becomes a driving force in your life-path, and you are driven to strive for the seemingly unattainable. In partnership matters, you have to overcome a tendency to be a wet blanket. Romantic love can never quite give you the spiritual nourishment that you require, so it is important to cultivate transcendental interests.

Neptune-Taurus

If you channel this collective influence in a personal way, you will probably be disillusioned by material dreams at an early age, and espouse high ideals about universal ownership, or sharing of the world's resources. You may feel a particular affinity for Nature and its beauty, and you may also have some unusual sensory awareness or talent.

2ND HOUSE INFLUENCE You are well aware of the idea that money does not bring happiness, and experience tends to bear this out for you. Material loss will have profoundly affected your values at some point in your life, and as a result you hate to prostitute yourself for material gain. Nevertheless you often dream of attaining wealth, and success in this area would be no problem, as you remain unattached. There may be special circumstances in your life which drain your finances - keep an eye on your money! In partnership matters there can be a drain on your finances through some economic folly basic on false idealism, or some issue which you refuse to confront. You prefer to live in blissful ignorance about your finances, and you will pay for this.

Neptune-Gemini

If you channel this influence in your personal life, you will develop a subtle awareness of the nature of mind, and this may be reflected in some unusual communication talent. Extraordinary events concerned with siblings - perhaps connected with events which render you helpless in some way - may have a profound influence on your ideas. You can develop an appreciation of the power of the mind on reality. You are what you think you are.

3RD HOUSE INFLUENCE It is unlikely that you thrived in school unless you had a connection with a teacher who you could idealize. Dry facts and information seem meaningless to you, so you direct your interests towards subjects that capture your imagination - especially if they have a spiritual side. You tend to express yourself rather vaguely, perhaps because you don't like to be pinned down to any particular point of view, but the result is that you are often misunderstood, and this adds to your sense of isolation. When pressed you hide behind a smokescreen. In your relationships to brothers or sisters, there may be some peculiar unhappiness or loneliness which has a profound affect on your sense of what is meaningful in life.

Neptune-Cancer

If you channel this influence in a personal way, unusual and perhaps unhappy developments in your family will have evoked an untraditional set of ideals in you about upbringing and emotional bonds, and you will feel an inexplicable longing for security. There may be disappointment connected with raising your own family. You may discover a special talent for tuning in to your deepest feelings and intuitions.

4TH HOUSE INFLUENCE The atmosphere around you as a child was tinged with sorrow, for one reason or another. This may have something to do with a parent who suffered through illness, or who felt deserted and lonely, or who was unhappy for other reasons. There may have been sickness, or medical or alcohol abuse in the family. As a consequence of this, it may be difficult for you to shake off an indefinable sense of dissatisfaction or unhappiness. Perhaps it helps to know that this feeling only comes from your early conditioning. On a positive note, your sensitivity to the moods of others makes you concerned for the needs of your partner and children. You may however have to accept some element of sacrifice in connection with your own family later. It is important for you to accept that certain things are beyond your control. You achieve domestic happiness when you choose not to let your own mood dampen the atmosphere like a wet blanket. You may wish to live near water. Your house can be affected by problems with damp.

Neptune-Leo

If you channel this influence in your personal life, you may manifest your identity or personal life-style in an exotic or unusual manner, and something in your nature can stimulate the dreams of others on a collective level. An early tendency to hero-worship magnetic characters may be replaced by disillusion at a later stage of your life. A predisposition for unrealistic romantic connections can be a major theme in your life, and there may be some disappointment in connection with children. You spend your life searching to define who you are through creative self-expression.

5TH HOUSE INFLUENCE You long to be able to express yourself, and this is best done through pursuing creative or spiritual interests. You may have a number of romantic dreams, but love affairs will often bring disappointment and undermine your sense of reality. You can form strong spiritual bonds to your children, and there may be unusual circumstances connected with them. Whatever happens to them will evoke strong feelings of devotion in you and the need to sacrifice yourself for them. You have a tendency to give up your own identity for the sake of children, but this can be both a good and a bad thing. True satisfaction comes when you allow yourself to come into contact with the divine through personal creativity.

Neptune-Virgo

If you channel this influence in a personal way in your horoscope, you will be motivated by the idea of service on a personal, political or spiritual level. You will experience much dissatisfaction in your own working life because of your tendency to downgrade your own needs. On the other hand you may be able to perform some deeds which have a wide-ranging effect on your environment. You are motivated by concern for Nature, especially as regards purity and pollution, and there may be a special talent as regards health or healing.

6TH HOUSE INFLUENCE You are motivated by the spirit of service, but this may mean you do not know where to draw the line as regards work-sharing in partnerships. If you do not set a limit for what you do, you may end up being overloaded with work. You tend to have sloppy work methods, and you would benefit greatly from more efficient planning. Being inefficient is an unconscious tactic effectively preventing other people making demands on you. Being helpful is no help to anyone if you do not take your own needs into accounts. Health problems will often be mysterious or difficult to identify - your body obviously knows how to set limits when you fail to do so yourself. You may have certain talents for healing as a result of an intuitive ability to tune into the physical, mental and spiritual needs of other people.

Neptune-Libra

If you channel this collective influence in a personal way, you will have many unrealistic ideals about love combined with great hopes for happiness in relationships. You will however be profoundly influenced by the dissolution of relationships around you, and a need will arise to redefine the importance of partnerships in your own life. You may however have a very refined talent for dealing with other people, partly because you have a compassionate nature and genuine interest in others. You believe in being on an equal level with others.

7TH HOUSE INFLUENCE You have high ideals as far as partnership is concerned, and these will inevitably lead to disappointment unless you learn to be realistic. You seek a partner who can fulfill your spiritual values - perhaps someone with artistic, musical or spiritual interests. However your loved one will often sense that he or she is a disappointment to you. The problem is that you invest people with personal qualities they may not possess, and at some point they will stop pretending to be someone they are not. This idealization mechanism that you use is not as innocent as it may seem: your dissatisfaction robs your partner of power and undermines their position. This may explain the tendency you have to attract partners who let you down. Perhaps you should be willing to make some personal sacrifice for a partnership to function smoothly. Ideally partnerships function best when you and your loved one can share an ideal which transcends you both.

Neptune-Scorpio

If you channel this collective influence in a personal way, you will have a deep fascination with hidden and taboo matters, and with sexuality and the occult. At the same time there may be musical or magical talents which enable you to mobilize hidden powers to awaken others. Your search to satisfy your desires turns out to be a spiritual dead-end, and you learn quickly that the more you fan the flames of desire, the brighter burns the flame. Greater satisfaction is attained when you use your talents on a higher emotional or spiritual level.

8TH HOUSE INFLUENCE You have a deep longing for a perfect intimacy in which you can lose yourself and merge with your partner. On a sexual level you may long for release through the "perfect" orgasm, and early experiences may have aroused a longing in you for total transcendence through love or sexuality. You will learn that human relationships cannot and will not provide you with emotional succor of this nature over an extended period of time. Furthermore your partner will feel more and more helpless - even to the point of seeking personal confirmation elsewhere - because he or she senses that you are not fulfilled. By eliminating unrealistic expectations you free yourself from the prison of your dreams. You can only realize your longings if you embark on an inner spiritual journey. Meditation, dreams, tantric sexual practices or the discovery of mystical talents can satisfy your spiritual hunger.

Neptune-Sagittarius

If you can express this influence in your life in a personal way you will be possessed by idealistic fervor as regards your beliefs and convictions on social, intellectual and spiritual matters. You are inclined to idealize spiritual concepts or mentor figures, but at some point in your life you are likely to be disillusioned. You are motivated by a search for eternal truth, but you will most probably discover that all human concepts are projections of the human spirit, and therefore in the last analysis illusory. Foreign countries and travel may play an important role in your personal development.

9TH HOUSE INFLUENCE You spend a lot of time in an elusive search for truth. Early experiences will have taught you about the relativity of personal convictions or opinions and now you simply do not trust them. Each time you try to define your beliefs or adhere to a set of principles, something happens to disappoint you. Experience divests you of all your illusions. Take great care that these experiences do not give rise to a cynical attitude - it is important in your personal dealings with others to have a set of principles that work in society, and to stick to them. During the course of your life you embark on a spiritual journey, and your signposts are dreams, ephemeral intuitions and the occasional spark of divine intervention. Your destination is also your starting point - if you could define the truth, then it would not be the truth. You have the capacity to understand the nature of the mind as void.

Neptune-Capricorn

If you channel this influence in a personal way, you will discover the emptiness of personal ambition at an early stage in your life because the goals you attain fail to satisfy your deepest needs. You may be inspired by some form of social or political service in which you are able to act out your ideals. You have utopian sentiments which may run counter to the political system of your day. Generally speaking you will have little faith in authorities, and you will be personally motivated to give authority a more caring face.

10TH HOUSE INFLUENCE You are a person with unfulfilled dreams, and satisfaction in life probably will involve become more practical and realistic. Eliminate undefined longings about what you can do, or who you can be and try to define what really will give meaning in your life. You have a tendency to attach yourself to an impossible goal as a way of getting out of doing anything. This is related to the early experience of a parent who felt professionally thwarted in some way. Partners will grow tired of you blaming those in authority for preventing you achieving your goals. The first step towards achieving results is to abandon blame or a tendency to martyrdom. You achieve true satisfaction when you can work with something that gives nourishment to the souls of others.

Neptune-Aquarius

If you channel this influence in a personal way, you will be very socially oriented, and feel a strong motivation to make changes in society. Your life can be a symbol for the winds of change which sweep humanity during this period, but you will often feel ostracized and alone. You may also have considerable talent for spiritual or New Age matters, ranging from social organization to transcendental powers. There will be a strong experimental element in your life, reflected by an unusual social scene, unconventional friendships, or a cosmopolitan life.

11TH HOUSE INFLUENCE You are on a never-ending journey in search of Utopia. If you found it, you would be disappointed. You have such high ideals concerning friendships that disappointment is inevitable. It is important to be realistic in your social expectations - particularly because you prefer the company of artistic or musical types. These people - though they may be inspiring on a creative or spiritual level - are hardly the types to spend a lot of time cultivating the warmth and security of friendships. The people you value socially bring something quite unique into your life. This is a intangible quality of transcendence - a few magic moments in which you are taken out of yourself and experience a universal bond that weaves all people together as one. To cultivate this kind of enriching experience you may benefit from meditative, musical or creative work in groups.

Neptune-Pisces

If you are able to channel this influence in your personal life, it will be expressed through a deep need to transcend worldly issues and define your life through spiritual, social or creative values. There may be some special sacrifice in your life, or some special unhappiness which refines your spiritual nature. Practical achievement will be difficult to attain, perhaps because the meaning of your life has more to do with cosmic service in some form. This can inspire you to withdraw completely from society, or turn in on yourself

12TH HOUSE INFLUENCE You have a need to seek meaning on a deep spiritual level, and you will during the course of your life try to define your spiritual values and beliefs. At an early stage of your life you will be disillusioned by the traditional beliefs you inherit from family and the society around you. Formal spiritual service cannot satisfy your deep longing to be at one with the universe. You may be inspired by ideals of self-sacrifice and martyrdom, and as such find appeal in the Christian faith, yet you are destined to be disappointed if you invest your hopes in doctrines and spiritual figures. Through a lifelong process of inner refinement, and perhaps through some special form of personal sacrifice or withdrawal from society, you will ultimately find meaningful spiritual values. You can find refuge in nature, the sea and creative retirement.

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