Floripa island, on a sunny day in February, 2014. The Sun was conjuncting Neptune in Pisces and, as it was my Neptune trine Uranus transit, both Sun and Neptune were in partile trine to my natal Uranus. What’s that? A comprehension (Sun-Neptune) which inspires and opens horizons (Uranus). Additionally, that same day, my Lunar Return occurred in the pioneering sign of Aries.
I was staying at Barra da Lagoa beach. A friend and colleague from the continent was coming to visit and proposed taking the trip to Campeche island, a much smaller island about 40 min away by boat.
And so we did, on a boat for 60 people. We were siting in the middle part of it, next to the water. Conversation and the bumpy waters started to make me seasick, so I went to the front where the captain was driving, where I could look ahead and get some fresh air.
I soon saw a teenage girl hold the helm for a brief moment, whilst her mother took pictures. I couldn’t help being surprised and thrilled by the possibility which flashed in my mind, but I soon discretely got back to facing the horizon ahead, enjoying the awakening wind. The captain, however, noticed the glow on my face in that split second I imagined that possibility.
A couple of minutes later, I suddenly felt a tap on my shoulder and looked back. The serious captain merely nodded, indicating I’d grab the helm and try it out. He then explained to me the fundamentals at sea, giving me the Neptunian key.
– When the pull starts to take us port (left), you turn the helm to starboard (right). When the boat starts to turn starboard, you throw the helm to port side. Observe how much intensity you put on a turn and how it responds. Remember, we are heading to that island over there.
– Ok.
He stuck around for a bit and complemented the instructions:
– You see… There’s also the size of waves you have to deal with, adding to the equation.
– Indeed.
The captain then went to the back of the boat, to tend to some tumultuous situation of some lady who was seasick and making a fuss, and I don’t even know what exactly was happening, but a bit of a mayhem was going on and he was the one to calm things down, with his commanding voice.
In the mean time… I was to drive the boat, with all those people in it.
I did. When he finally came back, I tried giving the helm back, but he said I was doing all right and could keep at it, until we reached the island. Imagine my excitement.
– You got it. People who try and drive a boat as if they were driving a car on land, they run in circles! But you understood how it’s done. You should get a professional license, girl. For now, keep driving. Take us to the island.
So I drove for 20 min there and the 40 min back.
When we approached the reef just before arriving back in Barra, he wanted me to cross it. But that, sir, considering the approximately 60 lives on board, was a bit much. So I insisted he took it over, absolutely grateful for Neptune’s marvelous lesson:
Do you know how to navigate the sea? Do you know how to navigate forward in the high seas? Turning the helm constantly from one side to another. Anyone who tries to drive a boat like driving a car on the ground ends up going around in circles. To move forward in the sea, you must aim at the island, know your direction, but never try to go straight to it. You must turn to port… When the boat actually starts to go port, it’s time to turn to starboard – not turning too much, just enough to stay in a straight line. Hence, when you start to feel that the boat responds and changes its direction, it’s time to again turn the other way… To actually keep at it. Sometimes smoother, sometimes stronger, because you also have to feel the tides, the waves, responding to them as you move along. It isn’t linear, but the art of the sailor is precise. One must be with the sea, dance with it, never in a straight line, to move unmistakably forward.
Pisces is the sea itself.
Neptune, is the real ruler of the waves – and symbol of the great synthesis. Beyond both reason and affection, Neptune is comprehension. He is the ruler of the last sign, Pisces, in which all dissolve. He is the immensity of the sea to which all rivers finally arrive. He is also what is neither heaven, realm of Jupiter-Zeus, nor hell, realm of Hades-Pluto. Poseidon-Neptune’s kingdom is the ocean, which evaporates into the heavens and then rains down from it, penetrating the earth and evaporating up to the heavens again. He is the great connector. He is the turbid, cloudy water that distorts, intoxicates and confuses. He is also the clear water that mirrors the sky and clears the eyes. Neptune indicates confusion and deception. Neptune can also be the fullest capacity for comprehension and true enchantment. He is the ambiguous and the paradoxical. He is also the ability to compose something other, out of differences. What dissolves. What integrates. More than this or that, Neptune is this and that on yet another level of conception.
To conceive is a Neptunian verb. Neptune impregnates the Imaginary, conceiving what is to come.
As it did on that day when Neptune took me for a ride, The Sun today conjuncts Neptune.
The Sun is the captain, bringing the light which illuminates and cuts through the fog of deception and illusion.
As the Jupiter-Neptune conjunction in Pisces approaches, to be exact on April 12, the Piscean realm expands. This is a major aspect, as it takes 165 years to occur, indicating both:
– the expansion of unprecedented lies and the possibility of false flags, in oceanic mass manipulation;
– the possibility for synthesis, the understanding coming full circle – dreaming, imagining and conceiving of new scenarios.
Multipolarity is also a Neptunian concept.
As we sail the high seas, turning to port and to starboard we navigate, piercing through the fog of lies with truth, crossing through the tides of deception with magic in our hearts, enchanted by visions of a new world in the making.
We will reach the multipolar land.
