Rules: Pisces
Key words and qualities: Dreams, vision, imagination. Any art form that reminds us of the reality of our mystical kinship with all beings. Transcendental beauty. The ocean.
Color: Magenta, all diaphanous or iridescent shades of color.
Physical body affinity: Feet
Way of honoring: A daily dose of vastness, reverie, staring out the window, being at the ocean, ecstatic self-loss.
Shadow, when not honored: Dangers include addiction to substances, or to romantic melancholy, passivity, disappointment, glamour, or bad, loud music.
Neptune’s realm is an infinite, diaphanous sea of dream material. In this dream world, like assumes form in response to our imagination. He presides over the oceanic realm of dreams, imagination, vision, and myth, inspiring in us the poetry, art, and music that bring conscious kinship alive in our community.
We are made in God’s image, meaning not that we look like old men with beards, but that we were dreamed in the imagination of the divine. By analogy, our imagination is the divine part of us that links us in a collaborative endeavor with God to co-create the most ingenious ongoing symbiotic evolution possible. As we are dreamed by the gods, we in turn dream reality into being.
We are constantly summoning and invoking through our imaginings, but often in an inconsistent and confused manner. Our lives, therefore, assume a corresponding design of confusion. One law of the dream world is that our personal lives are expanded or constricted by what we imagine to be possible.
Neptune’s dream world is always available to us through the act of conscious reflection. Don’t berate yourself for sitting quietly and staring out a window for you are tapping into Neptune’s energy by doing it and thereby feeding your soul in ways that will manifest splendidly.
Neptune rules intuitive development, filmmaking, musical creativity, and oceanic professions. You must go beyond worldly boundaries to merge with the cosmos. Escapist activities like alcoholism, drug addiction, excessive fantasies (like winning the lottery to fix all your problems), and romanticizing all of those bad relationships are Neptune-ruled. You must go beyond yourself in order to understand Neptune. It helps you to step into a larger part of yourself, a part that is totally connected to your Divine Essence. Initially, Neptune may be confusing. Ultimately, you gain a cosmic perspective.