PROGRESSED SUN CONJUNCT THE MIDHEAVEN OR ASCENDANT

The progressed Sun moves one degree per year and it governs ambition, power and authority.  It also reflects our vitality and our ability to recuperate from illnesses.  It often identifies the husband or father in a woman’s chart as well as authority figures in life such as your superiors within the working environment.  It could, however, also be directly related to you, personally.

The influence of the progressed Sun on the Midheaven or Ascendant is generally in effect for three years.  The energies can be felt as much as one and one-half degrees before it becomes direct and for the same extended period of degrees after it moves away from being exact. 

When the progressed Sun is in conjunction with the natal Ascendant, it can indicate a time of advancement in life on many levels.  This could include favourable opportunities for change in life and opportunities for inner achievements and/or outer success.  It can also indicate the potential for meeting someone in life that will have a great influence on you and will teach you many life lessons.  It could also suggest that the father or in some cases your son has available to them opportunities that the aspect and placement is suggesting.   These influences would be of a positive note if there are other conditions within the chart that suggest similar opportunities.

The progressed Sun on the Ascendant often implies that health is robust and feelings linked to good health are often a by-product.  Much depends on the influence of other transits and progressions affecting the Ascendant during the three year period of influence.

When the progressed Sun is in conjunction to the Midheaven, depending on the age of the individual, we may find advancement opportunities in occupation or there may be a graduation from such as University.  Some of life’s objectives often materialize when the progressed Sun reaches this degree.  More opportunities for our hopes and wishes to manifest are often indicated when the Progressed Sun reaches the MC (Midheaven).  Changes of a positive nature to our status may occur or present themselves.  Much depends on the natal potential, but nonetheless, the time is ripe for opportunities to enhance the career or move ahead in life during this aspect.

If the Progressed Sun were conjunct the MC, it would also be in opposition to the IC often suggesting changes to the home environment and to family members.  Oppositions usually imply actions from someone else.  This could suggest that a son or possibly a daughter might move from home especially if Venus or Mars is somehow connected to this position.  There may be potential for some type of income or opportunities involving the home.  More potential is suggested when the Progressed Sun is in conjunction to the IC, as conjunctions offer more opportunities than an oppositions angle.  Oppositions often suggest reversals or challenging conditions that often stem from others.

When deciphering the Progressed Sun always take into consideration the potential in the natal chart and the transits and progressions to the chart as a whole.  Remember there has to be three or more similar aspects to stimulate an event, either through transit or progression.  The more aspects involved suggesting something similar, the greater the possibility for an event to occur.

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TRANSITING NEPTUNE SEXTILE NATAL SUN

If transiting Neptune is making a sextile to your natal Sun currently, your Sun will be either in Capricorn or Taurus. 

Both of these signs are earth signs and often related to achievement in physical terms or achievement of goals that are important to you when in connection to the Sun’s energies.  Both of these signs are trying to create some kind of stabilizing agent and neither like change.

Neptune is not tied to material gain but can open doors to gaining insight into the deeper regions of the psyche.  The Sun is also tied to who we are on a deep and personal level, unlike the Ascendant which is our outer expression.  The Sun is our inner self. 

Neptune also seeks alignment with our higher self and our true identity.  With this information we can see that the potential to seek out more of our inner core identity could be at hand if we have this aspect in our chart.

Neptune is also related to our spiritual connection more than any other planet transiting through our birth chart although Uranus and Pluto can most certainly have an impact in transforming self through inner reflection and through new experiences and change.  Due to the influence of Neptune which has to do with psychic revelations and intuitive insight, many individuals on the spiritual path will find this period enlightening.  Check the timing when the sextile will apply to the natal Sun’s position in your personal chart.

Because both signs related to the natal position of the Sun are earth signs and associated with concrete form and realistic interpretation, much of this energy will go through channels that will attempt to validate what is being transferred through unconscious means.  Neptune does tend to work best through the subconscious and will often foster growth through mystical paths and subtle energies. 

The influences and their results may not be evident until once the conscious mind has time to filter through life’s experience and find what could be considered rational insight, but which may also be hard to recognize.

Sextiles speak of opportunities and these apparent prospects will likely come through in a slow methodical manner and as mentioned, take some time to become obvious and clear.  Neptune can create a foggy vision and may also produce a vail of uncertainty due to the influx of attempted concentrated rational processing. 

Much will depend on the planet Mercury in the natal chart.  Mercury deals directly with the thinking process and anyone with Mercury in either a water sign or water house may find this process of psychic interpretation easier and more fluent in its expression.

Make the best of the potential energies offered through insight and revelation over this period and most importantly make sure that after careful and needed forethought, you believe what is in front of you.  The rational mind may interfere with the insight and flow coming through from Neptunian frequencies. 

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ARE YOU READY?

I have read, as I am sure many of you have as well, that we are currently experiencing a shift in consciousness. 

Do you feel it?  

What, if anything, can you do to prepare mentally for such a shift? 

Do you need to do anything? 

How will it affect you, if at all? 

These are questions we have heard being tossed around. 

Whether we choose to take action or not, the shift is in motion. 

How do we prepare?  The energies, as with any energy, will touch us if and when we are ready.  The personal experience of these energies only unfolds at the rate we are able to experience them.  One individual may have already undergone an immense shift.  The next individual may only have a few more things that need to surface to begin their new journey and yet another person may have years of prep work ahead of them. 

Preparation can be part of the process and many of us have been going through changes at an incredible rate in the recent past. 

What can we do to prepare?  We can, but it is not necessary, have a look at our life and make changes if we feel we must.  Most importantly, let go and recognize the eternal moment and its significance.  Be present and allow.

Are we ready?  Think about that question for a moment.  We would not be focused on this shift if we were not ready.  Let go of the outcome and experience the process. 

How will it affect us?  It is enlightening.  This journey brings us into the moment and within that moment resides everything. 

Release our expectations?  This experience may seem new, yet we also know the feeling, as though we are returning home.  It is somehow familiar. 

Each one of us is part of the shift.  Enjoy and be.

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TRANSITING NEPTUNE TRINE NATAL NEPTUNE

Currently Neptune is in the sign of Pisces and those that have it in trine to its natal position currently would have been born between approximately 1958 to roughly 1971.  Anyone born during this estimated period will have their natal positioning of Neptune in the sign of Scorpio.  The trine occurs approximately at the age of 55 although it can vary somewhat (check your ephemeris for the exact degree date). 

If you are younger than 55, you have yet to experience the energies of this trine and if you are older than 55, you have already experienced these energies.

Neptune is a very spiritual and an all-encompassing planet; that is to say that it helps you understand how we are all connected (brothers and sisters to one another).  Neptune is a selfless sign and its energies often put us in other people’s shoes.  With Neptune’s influence, we will feel what others feel and can become quite intuitive either consciously or from an unconscious level.  We will likely have great empathy for the struggles others are going through and may wish to help in some way.  Charity work or working behind the scenes could be areas of interest.

As mentioned, Neptune is the most selfless sign in the zodiac and seldom wishes for anything in return.  There is no ego involvement when it comes to what Neptune stands for, and its work is done out of the goodness and through compassion which often builds over this period.  Those experiencing this aspect will feel for those less fortunate and may even connect so strongly for those going through challenging times that they take on their energies and have a difficult time moving away from these intuitive insights.

Quite often, under this influence, the mystical door opens and those that have never walked this road may suddenly find themselves interested in such things as psychic revelations and the spiritual movement.  Some turn to religion, both traditional and otherwise, feeling the need to go deeper within and examine life from a purely spiritual perspective.

For those already on this journey (many will have strong ties to the element water in their chart, such as Grand Water Trines, the Sun, Moon or Ascendant in either Cancer, Scorpio or Pisces) this will likely be an inspiring period.  Others may have a conglomeration of planets in the water houses (4, 8, 12).  We cannot forget the Moon in the twelfth house as it carries a Piscean influences.  The Sun in the fourth house would carry influences of Cancer and so forth.

This can certainly be an enlightening period in life and many changes take place shortly after this revelation as we also go through our Saturn return at approximately 59. 

Take everything in stride as it takes some time for our subconscious to reveal what takes place within.  Be prepared for an awakening of sorts and allow these energies full reign in order to experience the most energies possible under this influence.  For those individuals that have already experienced this trine from Neptune to itself, have you reflected on what has taken place?

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ONE STEP FORWARD

How would you finish off this statement – “One step forward...........”.  Would it be “and two steps back”, or “in my journey of life” or would you simply leave the statement as it is? 

How you finish that statement is a good reflection of how you are currently viewing life.  Is your current view a negative one of moving backwards (two steps back)? 

Even when life appears to be moving backward, it is not.  Understanding “every event holds within it a valuable lesson” would alter this view or opinion immensely.

Life is always moving forward even when it appears as though it is not.  We learn our primary lessons from life when it is seemingly is in retreat.  These difficult lessons are actually stepping stones.  Most of our valued lessons stem from challenging conditions.  If we can maintain this perspective, we will not be affected in a negative way mentally when life’s direction seems challenged. 

Some individuals with complete faith in the process actually welcome hard lessons as they know they personally will grow in leaps and bounds when the lesson has been completed.  There are also some individuals that make negativity their identity and they believe unconsciously that by maintaining a victim status, this gives them an identity to the world. 

One step at a time is a great motto. 

We can live by accepting what has happened in our lives and then move on beyond those events.  How we react to anything in life is our choice.  Shall we allow an event to define us or shall we take from all events the lessons presented and grow from them? 

Challenges in life are ideal tools to help us grow and expand our understanding or they can assist us to change our direction in life.  There are times that we need to start over again, beginning anew and changing direction from the course we were on.  Sometimes life events will push us in that direction.  Other times we are meant to stay determined and committed to what life has presented us with. 

What a wonderful feeling of accomplishment when we have conquered a difficult situation.  What amount of faith does this build in us?

Our reactions are always a choice.  Even when life seems to dictate, our response is what we control.  Is our response to life’s conditions “one step forward”?  Recognize the potential in this statement. 

Why would we want to view life from the perspective that we may move one step forward but then likely we will move two steps back?  If this is our belief, this is how we will direct our life’s journey.

Our posts are written well in advance and this post was not written with COVID19 in mind.  We are not downplaying the seriousness of what is taking place in our world currently.  That being said, what is said here can certainly be read with our current events in mind.  This lesson at hand is certainly a big one.  Do not learn it through fear.  Do what you can to be safe but utilize this very “private” time we have been given reflect and grow. 

Be safe!

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TRANSITING NEPTUNE SEXTILE MARS

Transiting Neptune is in the sign of Pisces until April of 2025 after which it moves into Aries and no longer returns to the sign Pisces due to retrograde motion. 

In its own sign, Neptune’s energies are tied to our search for our spiritual connectedness, our psychic potential and our intuitive feedback.  Neptune is closely connected with our mystical journey; and when in Pisces, opportunity awaits those that are in search of this fulfilling energy.

As this post is written in March of 2020, a sextile from transiting Neptune to natal Mars would define Mars’ placement in an earth sign, either Capricorn or Taurus.  The closer this aspect is to being direct (exactly 60 degrees) the more powerful the energies that will be felt.  Check you chart to see if this aspect is affecting you personally.

Mars is our driving force and is known to be aggressive in its expression.  It pushes us ahead in our quest, whatever that may be and in some cases has to do with willful action.  Both placements (Taurus and Capricorn) suggest that the drive has to do with what could be called reality, perhaps in material terms, but the search is for tangible outcomes whatever it may be.  We seek out something that can be relied upon, something concrete and stable, and Neptune on the other hand is pretty much anything but that. 

Neptune is illusory and often vague in its expression.  Neptune has to do with insight and the intangible.  Put the two together and we come up with a search for or the pursuit of something that is out of the so called normal realm of existence, something that, if pursued, can become more solidified and reliable.

For those in search of mystical insight, opportunities await and the likelihood of concrete realizations is at hand.  Neptune is often an enlightening experience when it touches our natal planetary placements after the fog clears.  Neptune is illusive in nature and very difficult to analyse in terms of perceivable stabilizing realizations, but this may and can be observed on some level during its sextile to Mars in the earth signs.  Sometimes under this influence we can experience revelations of truth, tangible truth connected to the mystical side of life, not just through the unconscious mind but also through conscious realizations.

This would be a good time for those who consider the mystical realm suitable for their evolutionary growth and sextiles imply opportunities.  It will likely be up to us whether we actually pursue this or not.  Sometimes these opportunities just fall into our lap and other times we need to give ourselves a push to realize them.  Mars can now provide that push.

Check to see the position of transiting Neptune, natal Mars and also Natal Neptune by house and also by aspect from other natal and transiting positions to get a clear of what opportunities are in store.  Houses are areas of life and aspects from planets and angles will define how the energies are release and what other energies are in play. 

Enjoy this opportunity of realization and make the best of these energies if this aspect is in your chart.  It will likely unfold in unconscious terms initially and then become conscious.

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Transiting Neptune Square Mercury

Neptune often has a spiritual link while transiting through the chart.  It can also be quite illusive and can create illusionary thoughts and perceptions when in line with Mercury, particularly when making a square aspect.  Again, as mentioned, however, it often has some type of link to spirituality and this is particularly so if it is in the sign of Pisces.

If you are currently experiencing the transit we are focusing on today (Transiting Neptune square natal Mercury) in your personal Astrology chart be sure to have a look at the overall condition of the other transits and progressions before coming to a conclusion on this aspect.  Remember to check the house position of transiting Neptune, the house position of natal Mercury and also the house position of natal Neptune and the aspects to it.  This will provide you with a full interpretation of what might unfold while Neptune is activated.

The energies of a square between Neptune and Mercury often point towards a misunderstanding or an inability to communicate clearly.  Your verbal expression and communicative skills will not be clear and others may have a difficult time understanding what it is you are trying to convey.  If your conversation is about intuitive and psychic experiences, however, or if you are looking for information in these areas, you will be able to find quality information.  Your inner, intuitive self might understand the material better than your conscious self at this time.  Even if the conscious self does not understand what is being presented, the information will be retained and perhaps when needed, will resurface and provide you with some needed insight or guidance.

It is best to hold off on decisions of significant matters while experiencing the influence of this aspect, such as signing documents, purchasing property or being involved with anything legal, if at all possible.  Neptune is more concerned with spiritual matters and the mundane world around you may not hold your interest or this lack of interest can cause issues later.  Under this influence, your mind may shift or you may lose track or spend time worrying about making the right decisions. 

It is advisable to reach out for help from someone you trust before signing any documents if you are obligated to do so and even under these conditions, there is still the chance that there can be mistakes made.  Often times, we tend to worry too much about issues that in reality are not even significant. 

There is the potential of being deceived by others.  As a result, be careful with whom you express yourself to and whom you place your trust in.

The mind tends to be unclear and may wonder, worry and experience fear with issues that have simply been blown out of proportion.  You would do well to wait for the fog to clear.  Clear sight and understanding will afford you the ability to handle things with an insight into what is actually taking place.

Under harsh conditions especially if Uranus or Pluto are somehow part of the equation, you may need outside assistance as transformations and changes of an unusual sort might be part of the process and this will make things even more unclear. 

Professional help is suggested particularly if the twelfth house is involved or possibly the eighth house, although the eighth may be linked closer to the occult teaching and also joint finances or matters connected with legacies or inheritances. 

Be sure to have the full picture and do not allow yourself to be deceived by what appears to be truth.  Sometimes truth can be camouflaged or hidden in some way.

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