Astronomy: Neptune was the first new planet to be discovered in over 2000 years! When astronomers saw that it "rolls around the Sun", i.e. that it's North Pole is horizontal rather than vertical, they were astonished. Astrologers immediately realized that this planet ruled the unusual. Neptune takes 84 years to circle the Sun, with 7 years (itch) in each sign of the zodiac.

Correspondences: Aerogels, fog, mist, liquids, clouds, smoke; milky minerals, fibrous minerals, plastics?, aluminum?, thin layers?; ivory and beryl; opiates, ether, tobacco, cocaine, mushrooms, mosses; cotton candy; colors of the ocean, iridescent colors, pastels, lavender, turquoise, lilac, indigo, mauve; horse, bull, ram, dolphin, wild boar; nebulous and chaotic forms; rhythmic curves and curved lines; sweet, subtle, seductive flavors; anaesthetist, social welfare worker, animal welfare worker, liquor trade, oil industry, the Arts, tobacco industry, diver, distiller, spirit medium, healer, magician, occultist; environmental illnesses, thalamus, spinal cord, addictions, fainting, phobias, fluid disorders, senility.

People w/ Neptune Rising: Lon Chaney, Alice Cooper, David Bowie, Pete Townsend, Cat Stevens, Stevie Wonder, Mary Angelou, Carl Sandburg, Auguste Renoir, Simone de Beauvoir, Angela Lansbury, Humphrey Bogart, Greta Garbo, Betty White, Joe Montana, Rasputin, Richard Speck.

Principles: Glamour, delusion, illusion, deception, communion, absorption, surrender, compassion, imagination, distraction, permeability, collusion, addiction, insanity, ego loss, hysteria, merging, sensitivity, idealism, inspiration, empathy, devotion, escapism.

Actions: Merging, relinquishing, surrendering, losing, misplacing, forgetting, forgiving, distracting, deceiving, deluding, believing, dissolving, absorbing, disappearing, avoiding, embracing, relating, healing, loving, creating, devoting, sacrificing, martyring, imaging.

The Gifts of the Neptune: Neptune embodies the path of surrender. It teaches us to relinquish our egocentric relationship to life, either by taking from us what we are too attached to (or getting us to lose or mess up what we grasp), or by encouraging us to voluntarily recognize the value of the One above all else. Once we truly align our lives to the transcendental instead of the material, Neptune brings us into total communion with It.

The lessons Neptune has to learn: We are all still on Earth, and must learn to "Tie up our camels" and not just "Trust in Allah". Neptune has to learn to pay attention, to speak the truth, even if it causes upsets, to set appropriate limits, to take care of the details of life, to
translate totally here, in other words, to appreciate the gifts that life on Earth offers and not
focus on either the negatives nor trying to escape.