Neptune
Edited by Daniela Grazioli
And to shipwreck is sweet for me in this sea. .... is how Leopardi lost himself in the Infinite.
I have not found more beautiful and adequate words than these to describe the dimensions of experience represented by Neptune.
Neptune is the loss of my limits that becomes a part of the universe and merges peacefully with others. Feelings like this are something we have all experienced, rarely however, has anybody understood the consequences of the loss of I and of the union with something bigger and unknown.
Sooner or later everyone, for example, has found himself/herself lying down on the sand of a white and silent beach, with the continuous balanced rhythm of the waves, the dazzling light of the sun that forces us to close our eyes. You try to remember: little by little the heat of your skin melts with that of the sand, the repetitive noise of the waves slowly, but inexorably fill the mind and each thought empties us and it becomes the rhythm and the sound of the same breath; there is no one any longer outside or inside, a beginning or an end, the differences dissolve, it is a unity experience. What we have described might be a Neptune type event.
To evaporate and dissolve the edges, to break down each barrier, to eliminate what is finished, determined, completed, concluded, this is the action of Neptune that has the purpose of presenting with us the experience of a union and merger with others, or with the life of the universe. Neptune is the clasp to transcendence that lodges in the heart of each man.
It is the circle that closes, the end that re-joins from the beginning at a superior level. The birth, from a physical point of view, is the detachment and separation from the body of the mother, and from a psychological point of view it is the slow and difficult construction of one’s own identity and individuality, which passes through the discovery of what is different and what is the same in respect of others, therefore we prove ourselves men and not women, white and not black and little by little we define ourselves engulfing one thing and excluding another. It is a hard process and often painful, always directed by the implacable Saturn that forces us to take stock of our limits and to recognise and to accept our perfection.
Saturn in this sense is the beginning of reality, which succeeds the beginning of pleasure where desires coincide with fulfilment. With Saturn we learn to know each other through our clashes with the hard reality of our failures, of obstacles, refusals, delays on the time that inexorably each time leads to facing our limits and our smallness. Nothing is given to us, each conquest in this field is the result of effort, pain, patience, perseverance.
And here is where it joins at the end of this long and impassable way, Neptune proposes leaving us and overcoming our by now quite definite individuality, so painfully and hardly conquered, to return to the departure point, at the beginning, and again confusing us, merging us and disappearing, in fact different and bigger. But there is a difference: in fact the consciousness acquired through our clashes with the reality proposed by Saturn, is not the same thing that we will conquer through Neptune type experiences.
The proofs of the type of life Saturn presents means commitment, effort, the acceptance of responsibility, labour, suffering, but in the end, if we have been good enough to carry out the task, we will be able to enjoy the taste of the victory, because Saturn forces us to fight wars against a visible and known enemy, such as, for example, an exaggerated ambition or an unjustified belief in ourselves, it forces us to measure ourselves and to tear the veil off the illusions that more or less in good faith we have created in relation to ourselves.
Neptune like Saturn will make us encounter total impotence and absolute frustration during our life-time experiences, but he will not ask us to fight, because the enemy is not identified this time, it is invisible and unknown. Abandonment, the trust and faith are the lesson that we must learn from Neptune. To forget who we are and to consciously rediscover part of ourselves in everything, in bigger and unknown things, like before being born we were partly ignorant of the body and of the mind of our parents. And it is like that: in a birth chart a very stimulated Neptune will lead us to coming into contact with the world of art, which is certainly a world "above" reality, or it can be the door that opens to the voices of the collective unconscious and wakes up the archetypes buried in the soul of each one of us, and again, when the path of life has been blocked, it can make meeting the ghosts of madness or recommending drugs or of any another illusion that leads to us far from reality.
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