If you look up into the sky at night, and if you know where to look, you can see the planet Uranus with the naked eye. At its brightest it shines at about +5 magnitude. You cannot see Neptune with the naked eye.
Neptune was formed around 4.5 billion years ago, along with the other planets in the solar system. Neptune is the fourth largest planet, after Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. Almost identical in size to Uranus, its sister planet, Neptune was formed, along with the other planets, from the primordial Solar Nebula. While the larger planets (Jupiter and Saturn) received the lion's share of the nebula's hydrogen and helium, Uranus and Neptune appear to have received only rock and ice
It was first recorded with a telescope by Galileo in 1613, while it was conjunct the planet Saturn. He logged it into his notebook as an 8th magnitude star.
Neptune was the first planet found by mathematical prediction rather than by empirical observation. Neptune was again sighted by a French astronomer, Joseph Lalande, during the French Revolution (May 8 & 10, 1795).
In 1854, a young mathematician named John Couch Adams (1819-1892), doing calculations on the perturbation of the orbit of Uranus, discovered the planet. Around the same time, a French scientist, Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier (1811-1877), also published findings that an eighth planet had been discovered.
Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar System. It is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third-largest by mass. Among the gaseous planets in the solar system, Neptune is the most dense. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more massive than its near-twin Uranus, which is 15 times the mass of Earth but not as dense.[c] On average, Neptune orbits the Sun at a distance of 30.1 AU, approximately 30 times the Earth–Sun distance. Named for the Roman god of the sea, its astronomical symbolis ♆, a stylised version of the god Neptune's trident.
Unexpected changes in the orbit of Uranus led Alexis Bouvard to deduce that its orbit was subject to gravitationalperturbation by an unknown planet. Neptune was subsequently observed on 23 September 1846[1] by Johann Galle within a degree of the position predicted by Urbain Le Verrier, and its largest moon, Triton, was discovered shortly thereafter, though none of the planet's remaining 13 moons were located telescopically until the 20th century. Neptune has been visited by only one spacecraft, Voyager 2, which flew by the planet on 25 August 1989.Today, drawing on data from the Voyager II scientific probe, we know much more about Neptune than we ever have before. Its appearance, from out a few million miles looks like a soft blue jewel hanging in the sky with a few white cirrus clouds flying across its surface. Its diameter is some 50,000 kilometers (where the Earth’s is 12,756 kilometers), and its mass is 17 times that of the Earth. Neptune is a big planet.
Neptune is similar in composition to Uranus, and both have compositions which differ from those of the largergas giants, Jupiter, and Saturn. Neptune's atmosphere, while similar to Jupiter's and Saturn's in that it is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, along with traces of hydrocarbons and possibly nitrogen, contains a higher proportion of "ices" such as water, ammonia, and methane. Astronomers sometimes categorise Uranus and Neptune as "ice giants" in order to emphasise these distinctions.[10] The interior of Neptune, like that of Uranus, is primarily composed of ices and rock.[11] It is possible that the core has a solid surface, but the temperature would be thousands of degrees and the atmospheric pressure crushing.[12] Traces of methane in the outermost regions in part account for the planet's blue appearance.[13]
In contrast to the hazy, relatively featureless atmosphere of Uranus, Neptune's atmosphere is notable for its active and visible weather patterns. For example, at the time of the 1989 Voyager 2 flyby, the planet's southern hemisphere possessed a Great Dark Spot comparable to the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. These weather patterns are driven by the strongest sustained winds of any planet in the Solar System, with recorded wind speeds as high as 2,100 kilometres per hour (1,300 mph).[14] Because of its great distance from the Sun, Neptune's outer atmosphere is one of the coldest places in the Solar System, with temperatures at its cloud tops approaching 55 K (−218 °C). Temperatures at the planet's centre are approximately 5,400 K(5,000 °C).[15][16] Neptune has a faint and fragmented ring system (labeled 'arcs'), which may have been detected during the 1960s but was only indisputably confirmed in 1989 by Voyager 2.[17]Has Neptune exerted an astrological influence all those thousands of years that it was unknown? Probably. Must a body be seeable with the naked eye to exert an influence? When the broken reactor at Chernobyl in the Ukraine spewed out deadly gamma rays, no one saw them. The unseen radioactivity was there, nevertheless, and people died from it, some very swiftly.
Like Pluto and Eris, and like possible planets beyond, Neptune exerts an influence, and always has. This influence can be traced deep into our historical past. We now know it is there and perhaps that knowledge is deepening our understanding of astrology. Its influence is quite powerful, especially when it is found in a synodic configuration.
The power of Neptune is subtle in its influence on world events. Normally, in order to effect change, straight direct force is required. This is what war is about: Armies march and conquer. Rome built an empire that lasted millennia, and built it with Martian and Scorpionic energy—straight direct force.
Ptolemy, who transported astrology to its highest level in antiquity, exalted Mars in the constellation of Capricorn. This exaltation exists today in the astrological sign of Capricorn and it is one of the specious areas of astrology, one that needs work, badly. In Ptolemy’s era, when Mars was found in the constellation of Capricorn, it was symbolic of the warrior who made his own law on the battlefield. This is what war is about.
The Neptune influence works quite differently.
Much astrology focuses on the negative side of Neptune—the drugs, the escapism, the lies and calumnies, the sleaziness, the ungroundedness. It has been called “malefic”, though I don’t know if Ptolemy would have termed it such.
Neptune exerts a feminine, quiet force; its psychological and spiritual power is to forgive, to dissolve all bitterness and grievance, to dissolve the barriers to love. Its affinity is with the power of love, its implement is forgiveness, and its result is oneness.
Its energies have often been misused. In the middle Ages, tens of thousands of children gathered together in a mass and made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. This was called the Children’s Crusade and was a Neptunian manifestation. When the remnants of the children appeared in the Saracen lands, they were promptly sold into slavery. The October Revolution in Russia began as a great idealistic movement to wipe out centuries of injustice and oppression; it ended in 1991 by the outlawing of the Communist Party. The McCarthy years in America were a Neptunian manifestation.
When the power of Neptune is raised to a very high level, miracles can occur. Neptune functions within the Law of Non-Resistance. This is a principle not discussed very often. The Law embodies the principle of water eroding rock, of the tree bending to the wind. “Resist not evil,” says scripture. Resist not, teaches the archetypal energy of Neptune, for whatever your resist, you become. Neptune has the power to transmute the world through application of the Law of Non-Resistance.
Neptune’s influence acts so as to dissolve, to transmute, to alchemically change one energy into another. Its influence works to align the energies of the earth and its inhabitants therein to stellar, galactic, and other cosmic influences, acting as a force for evolution and growth. It enables the soul to grow by the process of transubstantiation, wherein it evolves from the density of matter into ever increasing levels of light.
We live in a free will universe. If we so will, this call to a deeper understanding of all the realms can be resisted. This resistance comes through the agency called ego. Neptune works to dissolve the power of ego. Mass movements that lead to confusion and sadness and unbelief are often governed by the Neptune influence. Yet still they have a value, namely, to dissolve hardened points of egocentric consciousness.
Neptune, in its higher manifestations, always leads to a deepening of the spiritual states of peace, of love, of oneness with the light, of oneness with all life. Those with a concentrated Neptune energy in their charts, in their oneness, feel the joy and the suffering of others. They possess a special sensitivity to music and the arts. This sensitivity, which is often very loving, can transport them into a nirvana or oneness with God.
As a power, its function always works best when it is employed as non-resistance. It is the sapling whose roots are sunk deep into the earth; when it is blown to the ground by the furious wind, it springs up when the wind is spent. This energy works in a like manner: It urges one to the principle of non-resistance, to non-contention, to oneness.
Neptune can work positively to balance disparate forces in a people. At the onset of Eisenhower’s presidency, the Saturn/Neptune conjunction signaled a time when the world had the choice to return to a relative condition of peace. Perhaps this conjunction signaled the beginning of a period of a massive shift to a higher consciousness on the planet.
In the Soviet Union, it heralded the death of a collective ego that had lasted for almost a millennium. This was the time when Joseph Stalin died. The breakdown of collective ego would take another Saturn cycle (thirty years) to manifest clearly to everyone from its quiet beginnings.
When Neptune force is misused, as Senator McCarthy misused it, this quiet force has the tendency to reflect back on its abuser. Its effect can be devastating. Senator McCarthy destroyed himself with alcohol. That was a Neptune manifestation. President Eisenhower was able to direct Neptune energy to bring about the changes he felt were needed in a way that was effective, secret and non-resistant. Notice, however, that he did not receive much credit for his achievements while he was president or even while he was alive. That had to be “sacrificed” to the needs of the collective unconscious transformation occurring on the planet.
I will discuss Neptune in more depth when I examine how the planet functions in synod. That includes Pluto/Neptune, Uranus/Neptune and Saturn/Neptune and this about Abraham Lincoln.
Neptune was formed around 4.5 billion years ago, along with the other planets in the solar system. Neptune is the fourth largest planet, after Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. Almost identical in size to Uranus, its sister planet, Neptune was formed, along with the other planets, from the primordial Solar Nebula. While the larger planets (Jupiter and Saturn) received the lion's share of the nebula's hydrogen and helium, Uranus and Neptune appear to have received only rock and ice
It was first recorded with a telescope by Galileo in 1613, while it was conjunct the planet Saturn. He logged it into his notebook as an 8th magnitude star.
Neptune was the first planet found by mathematical prediction rather than by empirical observation. Neptune was again sighted by a French astronomer, Joseph Lalande, during the French Revolution (May 8 & 10, 1795).
In 1854, a young mathematician named John Couch Adams (1819-1892), doing calculations on the perturbation of the orbit of Uranus, discovered the planet. Around the same time, a French scientist, Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier (1811-1877), also published findings that an eighth planet had been discovered.
Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar System. It is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third-largest by mass. Among the gaseous planets in the solar system, Neptune is the most dense. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more massive than its near-twin Uranus, which is 15 times the mass of Earth but not as dense.[c] On average, Neptune orbits the Sun at a distance of 30.1 AU, approximately 30 times the Earth–Sun distance. Named for the Roman god of the sea, its astronomical symbolis ♆, a stylised version of the god Neptune's trident.
Unexpected changes in the orbit of Uranus led Alexis Bouvard to deduce that its orbit was subject to gravitationalperturbation by an unknown planet. Neptune was subsequently observed on 23 September 1846[1] by Johann Galle within a degree of the position predicted by Urbain Le Verrier, and its largest moon, Triton, was discovered shortly thereafter, though none of the planet's remaining 13 moons were located telescopically until the 20th century. Neptune has been visited by only one spacecraft, Voyager 2, which flew by the planet on 25 August 1989.Today, drawing on data from the Voyager II scientific probe, we know much more about Neptune than we ever have before. Its appearance, from out a few million miles looks like a soft blue jewel hanging in the sky with a few white cirrus clouds flying across its surface. Its diameter is some 50,000 kilometers (where the Earth’s is 12,756 kilometers), and its mass is 17 times that of the Earth. Neptune is a big planet.
Neptune is similar in composition to Uranus, and both have compositions which differ from those of the largergas giants, Jupiter, and Saturn. Neptune's atmosphere, while similar to Jupiter's and Saturn's in that it is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, along with traces of hydrocarbons and possibly nitrogen, contains a higher proportion of "ices" such as water, ammonia, and methane. Astronomers sometimes categorise Uranus and Neptune as "ice giants" in order to emphasise these distinctions.[10] The interior of Neptune, like that of Uranus, is primarily composed of ices and rock.[11] It is possible that the core has a solid surface, but the temperature would be thousands of degrees and the atmospheric pressure crushing.[12] Traces of methane in the outermost regions in part account for the planet's blue appearance.[13]
In contrast to the hazy, relatively featureless atmosphere of Uranus, Neptune's atmosphere is notable for its active and visible weather patterns. For example, at the time of the 1989 Voyager 2 flyby, the planet's southern hemisphere possessed a Great Dark Spot comparable to the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. These weather patterns are driven by the strongest sustained winds of any planet in the Solar System, with recorded wind speeds as high as 2,100 kilometres per hour (1,300 mph).[14] Because of its great distance from the Sun, Neptune's outer atmosphere is one of the coldest places in the Solar System, with temperatures at its cloud tops approaching 55 K (−218 °C). Temperatures at the planet's centre are approximately 5,400 K(5,000 °C).[15][16] Neptune has a faint and fragmented ring system (labeled 'arcs'), which may have been detected during the 1960s but was only indisputably confirmed in 1989 by Voyager 2.[17]Has Neptune exerted an astrological influence all those thousands of years that it was unknown? Probably. Must a body be seeable with the naked eye to exert an influence? When the broken reactor at Chernobyl in the Ukraine spewed out deadly gamma rays, no one saw them. The unseen radioactivity was there, nevertheless, and people died from it, some very swiftly.
Like Pluto and Eris, and like possible planets beyond, Neptune exerts an influence, and always has. This influence can be traced deep into our historical past. We now know it is there and perhaps that knowledge is deepening our understanding of astrology. Its influence is quite powerful, especially when it is found in a synodic configuration.
The power of Neptune is subtle in its influence on world events. Normally, in order to effect change, straight direct force is required. This is what war is about: Armies march and conquer. Rome built an empire that lasted millennia, and built it with Martian and Scorpionic energy—straight direct force.
Ptolemy, who transported astrology to its highest level in antiquity, exalted Mars in the constellation of Capricorn. This exaltation exists today in the astrological sign of Capricorn and it is one of the specious areas of astrology, one that needs work, badly. In Ptolemy’s era, when Mars was found in the constellation of Capricorn, it was symbolic of the warrior who made his own law on the battlefield. This is what war is about.
The Neptune influence works quite differently.
Much astrology focuses on the negative side of Neptune—the drugs, the escapism, the lies and calumnies, the sleaziness, the ungroundedness. It has been called “malefic”, though I don’t know if Ptolemy would have termed it such.
Neptune exerts a feminine, quiet force; its psychological and spiritual power is to forgive, to dissolve all bitterness and grievance, to dissolve the barriers to love. Its affinity is with the power of love, its implement is forgiveness, and its result is oneness.
Its energies have often been misused. In the middle Ages, tens of thousands of children gathered together in a mass and made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. This was called the Children’s Crusade and was a Neptunian manifestation. When the remnants of the children appeared in the Saracen lands, they were promptly sold into slavery. The October Revolution in Russia began as a great idealistic movement to wipe out centuries of injustice and oppression; it ended in 1991 by the outlawing of the Communist Party. The McCarthy years in America were a Neptunian manifestation.
When the power of Neptune is raised to a very high level, miracles can occur. Neptune functions within the Law of Non-Resistance. This is a principle not discussed very often. The Law embodies the principle of water eroding rock, of the tree bending to the wind. “Resist not evil,” says scripture. Resist not, teaches the archetypal energy of Neptune, for whatever your resist, you become. Neptune has the power to transmute the world through application of the Law of Non-Resistance.
Neptune’s influence acts so as to dissolve, to transmute, to alchemically change one energy into another. Its influence works to align the energies of the earth and its inhabitants therein to stellar, galactic, and other cosmic influences, acting as a force for evolution and growth. It enables the soul to grow by the process of transubstantiation, wherein it evolves from the density of matter into ever increasing levels of light.
We live in a free will universe. If we so will, this call to a deeper understanding of all the realms can be resisted. This resistance comes through the agency called ego. Neptune works to dissolve the power of ego. Mass movements that lead to confusion and sadness and unbelief are often governed by the Neptune influence. Yet still they have a value, namely, to dissolve hardened points of egocentric consciousness.
Neptune, in its higher manifestations, always leads to a deepening of the spiritual states of peace, of love, of oneness with the light, of oneness with all life. Those with a concentrated Neptune energy in their charts, in their oneness, feel the joy and the suffering of others. They possess a special sensitivity to music and the arts. This sensitivity, which is often very loving, can transport them into a nirvana or oneness with God.
As a power, its function always works best when it is employed as non-resistance. It is the sapling whose roots are sunk deep into the earth; when it is blown to the ground by the furious wind, it springs up when the wind is spent. This energy works in a like manner: It urges one to the principle of non-resistance, to non-contention, to oneness.
Neptune can work positively to balance disparate forces in a people. At the onset of Eisenhower’s presidency, the Saturn/Neptune conjunction signaled a time when the world had the choice to return to a relative condition of peace. Perhaps this conjunction signaled the beginning of a period of a massive shift to a higher consciousness on the planet.
In the Soviet Union, it heralded the death of a collective ego that had lasted for almost a millennium. This was the time when Joseph Stalin died. The breakdown of collective ego would take another Saturn cycle (thirty years) to manifest clearly to everyone from its quiet beginnings.
When Neptune force is misused, as Senator McCarthy misused it, this quiet force has the tendency to reflect back on its abuser. Its effect can be devastating. Senator McCarthy destroyed himself with alcohol. That was a Neptune manifestation. President Eisenhower was able to direct Neptune energy to bring about the changes he felt were needed in a way that was effective, secret and non-resistant. Notice, however, that he did not receive much credit for his achievements while he was president or even while he was alive. That had to be “sacrificed” to the needs of the collective unconscious transformation occurring on the planet.
I will discuss Neptune in more depth when I examine how the planet functions in synod. That includes Pluto/Neptune, Uranus/Neptune and Saturn/Neptune and this about Abraham Lincoln.
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