TRANSITING NEPTUNE OPPOSITION VENUS

If transiting Neptune is in opposition (180 degrees) to your Venus, your natal Venus will be In Virgo around the time of sharing this post.  Venus in Virgo can be overly analytical and potentially critical when it comes to love and affection.  Rather than spending time recognizing the positive qualities linked to their lover, they may spend too much time thinking about what is missing or what is wrong with the relationship.  This can create problems and the partner in the relationship may feel as though they are never doing enough or never meeting your expectations.  Venus in Virgo is often looking for the perfect mate, an idealized individual.  These individuals may even place their lover on a pedestal of very high standards and expect characteristics that very few people are capable of having.

I acknowledge that I am spending some time referring to the more negative manifestations of Venus in Virgo because we are about to discuss the opposition to Neptune.  Neptune may put that partner on a pedestal and you may over idealize their true potential.  What is possible within the relationship may be coloured by what you imagine the relationship could/should be.  Seeing things as they are may be something that you are not willing to undertake.  Often the real characteristics of this person are revealed after the transit has run its course.

This is not to say that the perfect lover cannot be found during this opposition, but the possibilities are not overly promising.  It is rare to meet that perfect individual or it is rare that your current lover or husband is perfect.  We must remind ourselves that we, including our partners, are human.  Seeing this individual in their true light is what is required during this aspect and recognize that everyone has flaws and no one is perfect.  If you look at this relationship with clear vision, you are less likely to become saddened or disappointed when the visual or mental perceptions created by this aspect have cleared.

Your expectations may be unrealistic or the other person’s expectations may be too high.  These expectations do not have to come from you.  Although, because of you have Venus in Virgo, the potential is higher that it is you that feels these things and not your partner. 

You may be finding that the real world has become rather boring and has nothing to offer in an enlightening manner.  Now there is a possibility that someone may come into your life that offers some light and helps you through these feelings. 

With this aspect, sometimes communication is not overly clear with your lover.  Sometimes hidden motives are part of the equation.  It is best to be on your guard and not be lead astray because of your imagination and clouded visions during this period.  It is always best to take a realistic view of things and even ask others what their perception of the situation might be.  They will see things a little clearer than what you might during this aspect.

Another outlet for this opposition would be your creativity, and you may find that others seem to push you in directions that appeal to this creativity.  The creative experience can be linked to all kinds of inspired endeavours, and it is actually a good time to explore any new avenues of expression during this time.  Your imagination is expanded now, and you might be surprised at your innovative potential.

Make a marked choice to go into things without any expectations during this aspect if this is possible.  Be open and see where things take you.  Over time, all that we have referred to will become clearer, and you will know where you stand.  Imagination is a great thing when it works with you but can be misleading and you might be led astray by it.

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ENHANCING YOUR ENERGY FIELD

What is our energy field?  Does it range in frequency?  What can we do to enhance its strength? 

Our energy field is our life’s force.  It is the energy that surrounds and permeates through our bodies.  It has been called our aura which can be seen by certain individuals as varying colours.  Our energy field can also be a reflection of what we expend outward during our daily life.  It varies in frequency by how we relate to our environment and mirrors that which we feel as a vibration.  It varies day to day depending on what thoughts we allow to transmit in our minds and how we feel about what it is we are experiencing in the moment.  Our physical wellbeing can also affect our energy field or is our physical wellbeing affected by our energy field?

Attitude plays a huge part in the process and our response to life is reflected in our vibration.  This vibration is constantly resonating out into the world.  Once again, we will use the image of a wave on the ocean which can be affected by weather or climate, (life circumstances) and passing vessels (information coming through).  We can be influences by the climate we live in and this climate (life circumstances) tends to influence our lives whether we are aware of it or not.  Once we become aware, we can take shelter from the tide (control our emotions and how we react to stimuli in our lives).

By channeling our focus in directions that add to our overall well-being and our immediate surroundings, we surge our energy field in these directions and can omit focusing on what we prefer not to follow or experience.  By focusing on love and compassion, we do not experience hate and indifference.  By nurturing love, we readily help those in need around us which adds to the energy field of love and peace.  By giving off this type of energy it will radiate from our core and will then be shared by those that meet us and this energy is also reflected into our environment.

Our energy field or vibes are a reflection of how we live our lives, how we view our lives and how we care for and aid those around us.  It radiates from us as do our moods.  For example, walk into a room where someone has just had an argument.  The saying goes “You could cut the air with a knife”.  Another example would be that gut feeling we get when we first meet someone.  We do not know this person but we certainly know if we would like to nurture a relationship with them or if we should simply walk away.  We can read each other’s energy fields if we are open to the energy.

Meditation and practicing visualization will push us in our direction of choice.  It can take time but we can open the door to perception and understanding and truth. 

There are countless energy fields in our world.  They may be calling us to join in with the conscious evolution that is occurring.  We can open our hearts and add to the loving energy so many fail to feel.  If we are focused on fear, we cannot feel love.  But if we are focused on love, we cannot hate.  Which energy do you choose to be a part of?

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TRANSITING NEPTUNE TRINE NATAL MERCURY

Transiting Neptune is currently in Pisces, therefore, if it is trine Mercury in your chart, Mercury would have to be in a water element.  When allowing a seven to ten degree aspect ratio, your Mercury (if trine Neptune) is anywhere from 1 to 2 degrees to 18-21 degrees in either Cancer or Scorpio.  Those that are really sensitive to the influence of Neptune may even feel this energy beyond these specific degrees.  Neptune will transit as far as 14 degrees into Pisces later this year, so an influence at 23-24 degrees is not out of question.

Mercury has a tendency to take on the energies of any planet that it touches through transit or progression.  Therefore the planetary energies the sign the transiting planet is in and the houses that are being transited will play an important role in deciphering how these energies will influence your life.  You should also see if you have an aspect natally between these two planets as well as the aspects to Mercury in your birth chart as these will also play into the equation.

Neptune’s energies are often subtle and will reflect more through the sub-conscious channels than through conscious means, unless of course the individual is particularly sensitive to the influence of its energies.  Those with pronounced psychic abilities (and may I add that everyone has these abilities) will be particularly influenced by these Neptunian energies at this time.  Mercury is in charge of mental processing, including mental alignment, mental conception and interchange on a subconscious level.  Suffice to say that the mind will be heavily influenced during the meeting of these two energies.  Remember that Mercury aligns with any planet it touches and as a result the mystical inspirational impact of Neptune will play an important role in this encounter, particularly because transiting Neptune is in its natural sign of Pisces right now.

Inspiration can be realized and your spiritual connection will be intensified during this process.  You may experience more prophetic dreams and visualizations.  You may experience clairvoyant stimulus during this time.  The psychic channels are open or are opening and information and realization will come flowing into focus.  Psychic experiences are enhanced/increased, and you may find inspirational information being offered to you like never before, especially if you are of this mindset.  With the placements of your Mercury in either Cancer or Scorpio, we would say that your instinctual behaviour will resonate with what is going on from deeper channels.

You may want to uncover and explore these regions more than before, digging up forgotten information or new and reliable data, especially if you have your Mercury in Scorpio.  You may find that you are going through changes, and transformation to your life will be highlighted.  After this transit, you may not be the person you were before it began. This transit can last several years.  You may uncover hidden trauma that now needs to surface, be faced and dealt with.  This too can have a lasting effect on your emotional nature and clear headed understanding of what took place may be the result to what surfaces.  The mind wants to explore many regions and you are now much more adept to handling this.

If your Mercury is in Cancer much of the above will be part of the process and you may also find that your family and children become more open.  A closer tie can develop if you want this to happen.  The opportunities are endless and your timing is perfect for this to happen...It may take precedence in your life.  Mothering and caring for loved ones can become much more apparent and things flow easier and fluently. 

For those with psychological issues, healing can occur with profound effects.  In very rare instances psychotic breaks can occur.  Trines makes things flow and if there have been blockages in the past for good or for bad, trines can open the floodgates.  In most cases, trines speak of opportunities and bring easy flow to any obstruction, but those with mental illnesses can become overwhelmed with the flow of energies if they do not have healthy coping practices in place.  This is rare but these forces do allow energies to flow unobstructed.  Rest assured that for the majority of people life will open up in a positive manner.  Intuitive and inspirational messages will align themselves with understanding, and positive psychic feedback will be the outcome.

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SOLAR ECLIPSE, FEBRUARY 26, 2017

We are having a solar eclipse today, February 26^, 2017.  The eclipse occurs at 8 degrees of Pisces.  Those who have the Sun or Moon or any other planets or angles within 3 degrees of this degree will be strongly affected by this eclipse.  Check to see which house or angle is being affected in your own personal chart as this will be the area of life being affected.  Also look to the opposite house as this will also be areas of influence often stemming from others people’s influence.

The time frame of influence is said to last as long in years as the actual eclipse lasts in hours, with influences particularly strong in the first six months.  The effects can last for several years varying in strength depending on other planets touching these sensitive degrees. 

Pisces is a very sensitive sign and will be strongly affected by this eclipse.  Pisces is like a psychic sponge and pulls in energies from outside sources.  Pisces individuals have difficulties with borders and often take on energies of those around them and can be unable to separate themselves from these influences.  Pisces is a mystical sign and spiritual insight is often part of their evolutionary process.  Pisces seeks to align itself with oneness and gains understanding of these spiritual insights that are often revealing themselves.

Those with strong Pisces influences are kind-hearted individuals, who truly want to help those less fortunate than themselves.  Many are ego-less or in the very least are seeking ways to dissolve ego and to find it very difficult to deal with the harsh realities of life.  They are seekers of truth through mystical unfoldment and psychic awareness.

During this period, those within the influence will also experience a conjunction to transiting Neptune (the ruler of Pisces) from the transiting Moon and Sun.  They may experience breakthroughs in finding other worldly awareness and can establish their own boundaries between what is unseen and what is seen in this physical reality.  They may experience euphoric feelings of unity with their fellow brothers and sisters of humanity and also make connection with the spirit realm like never experienced before.

It will be very important during these times to also keep a firm grasp on physical reality and although life may appear to be mundane when working, sleeping and eating, it is imperative that you keep at least one foot on the ground.  After all, we live in a material world and it is necessary to pay attention to what takes place on this level of understanding as well.  Watch for allowing your imagination to take control.  Go by your intuition but make physical facts a part of this process.  If it sounds as thought it much be outlandish, it just might be.  There is a thin vail between spiritual insight and imaginative speculation, until you get a firm grip on both realities.

Many with tight contacts to Neptune in their charts have difficulty with challenging life conditions and even resort to hiding their head in the sand or pulling the proverbial rug over their heads.  Although reality can be harsh at times, we are not meant to run from the truth.  The truth often has magnificence within it and we can learn a lot from adverse life conditions.  Some with this influence may want to avoid the truth so much so they will resort to substance abuse with the simple aim to avoiding these harsh truths.  This is certainly not advisable.  Always adhere to what is real and even when life seems foggy it will always clear and you can reveal what needs uncovering when the timing is appropriate.

Some can develop hard to diagnose illnesses at these times.  This is largely due to the fact that they are not open to dealing with adversity, so over time they build protective shields.  The more we work at something, the more we build in strength and endurance.  Stamina comes from facing life as it is without running away.

This can be a miraculous time in your life if you are inclined to let down your guard and open the door to inspiration.  Let intuition be your guide.  Enjoy life and all its adventures, whether they be open avenues of love and inspirations or solid structures that need to be broken down so we can see what lies beyond these barriers.  It is yours to discover.  Open the door.

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TRANSITING NEPTUNE SQUARE NATAL MOON

If your natal Moon is in either Gemini or Sagittarius transiting Neptune will be squaring this lunar position between 4 and 18 degrees.  Squares usually signify challenging conditions and when it touches the Moon, these challenges will be emotional in nature.  The Moon can also speak in terms of family and the home environment.  Because the signs of Gemini and Sagittarius are mutable signs, the potential for being able to adapt and change to these conditions is stronger than if these signs were fixed or cardinal.  All mutable signs are able to bend with the current of life and make alterations to suit the changing conditions often brought on by the Moon.

Since the energies of Neptune are the influencing tide of conditions current during this period (which can last the whole year if you have your Moon in these degrees), you may have difficulty understanding your emotions during this aspect and Neptune will be what is influencing the way you feel during this time.  You will strongly be influenced by any emotional experiences over this period and you may even take on the emotions of those around you.  It will be important for you to step back and examine why you feel the way you do during this aspect so that you can find ways to alleviate or at least understand the emotions you are experiencing.

Your emotions are on high alert. Your sensitivity and intuition is enhanced and at times subject to unreliable feedback.  Neptune has a tendency to colour events and it makes things rather cloudy, allowing your fertile imagination to have influence over how you see what is taking place in your life.  Those that have active minds will find it hard to rationalize events because of the emotional impact of these energies.  There will come a time after the transit has lost its influence that you will be able to make sense of what all has taken place.  As long as these energies are tied together, it will be challenging.

If you can find ways to allow the pure energies of Neptune’s influence to expand your consciousness, (which is also quite possible although usually not until you have gone through some trying conditions), you may find that your intuition can be reliable.  Try to feel these conditions rather than rationalize them.  Go by gut instinct and hunches.  These may provide you with clearer insight than trying to mentally make sense of it all.

You will undoubtedly feel intense ups and downs during this period, but it is important to remember that the greatest lessons in life come from tumultuous conditions.  You will more than likely understand your “feeling nature” in much greater detail and not be led so easily astray after these lessons have been taught.  You may also find that you are avoiding anything that is emotionally trying to your otherwise calm conditions.  Under some conditions, this is not a bad choice, although at this time you should certainly get in touch with your emotions.  If you run into problems dealing with current emotional conditions, seeking professional help would be a good choice.  At the very least share your feelings with someone close.  Beware of resorting to alcohol and drugs to remove yourself emotionally from any chaotic situation.  This can be exceedingly dangerous at this time.  Make an extra effort to correct or contend with life’s conditions during this aspect and do not try to run from the issues through substances abuse.

You will get through these times and come out much stronger.  Hold on for the ride and do not become over-whelmed by these conditions.  As with all of life experiences, this will pass as time goes by and we come out the other side much stronger and much wiser from the experience if we meet it head on.

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BUILDING IN STRENGTH

Take a look to see what stage you currently are experiencing in life.  Do not judge.  Just note the facts. 

What have you learned over the past year and how has it affected you?  Do you feel stronger?  Are you more in touch? 

The inner self is always able to withstand any external stimuli.  This inner self has great resilience.  At times we may believe that we are regressing in the physical world, but in reality our outer personality may be dormant as we are strengthening our inner core. 

We are not referring to our higher self or soul.  That foundation of who we are is permanent and can be relied upon at anytime.  What we are referring to is the individual that you are building throughout the process of this life.  This inner self is the outer layers of the onion, if you will, that we are currently growing.  It is not the mind, as thoughts are generated through expectation or past experience, but the one that has been a spectator for all of these life experiences and is more adept at handling life’s struggles than our responsive self.

If you are currently feeling somewhat lost and life has you by the hand and is seemingly pulling you in all different directions, know that the fog will lift and the grip will release.  The warmth of the light will eventually burn off the fog and you will see clearly and you will gain resilience from your experience.  These trials and tribulations strengthen our resolve.... our belief in ourselves.  Through these harder lessons we gain momentum and we grow.  We are constantly learning through life’s experience and growth occurs through these experiences.  Without life lessons, we would stagnate.

Life is full of twists and turns and we should ride the wave.  Sometimes life moves along almost perfectly and other times life can be like a volcano either waiting to erupt or vigorously spewing lava.  Remember these times are beneficial.  Our thoughts about these experiences are what determine how we react to these events.  If we focus on the hard parts of the lesson, the lesson will be extremely hard.  If we focus on the benefits of the lesson, the lesson will be beneficial.  The choice is ours.  We can do a professional job using professional tools or we can do an amateur job and ignore the tools at hand.  The more we practice with the tools available, the more precise we become using them. 

Remember many of these life experiences have been put in place for our greater good and we are equipped to deal with these experiences either on our own or through asking for assistance.  We are never at the mercy of life, but we are at the mercy of our thoughts.  Be wary of negative thoughts.  They have no real benefit.  Live in the moment as much as possible.  The ego mind is silence when we are there and through that silence we can focus on what is important.

Can we take a moment to remind ourselves of the blessings that are coming our way, the blessings that are bestowed on us regularly in our day-to-day lives?  Pay heed to how life is good in so many different ways.  Stay focused on these things so that we can draw more of the same our way.

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