Neptune in Aries
What is the dream we're initiating?
For the first time since the 1870s, Neptune moved into Aries on March 30th.
Neptune is a slow-moving planet associated with divine love, spirituality, illusion, delusion, and addiction. There’s more — lots more. But I don’t want to expound relentlessly, this is not an encyclopedia entry. I would rather make a point as to why I believe this planetary ingress is worthy of your attention.
Our collective struggles are profoundly Neptunian in nature
Here are a few examples:
These are the ways we indulge in escape.
This is the shadow work we avoid in order to postpone being confronted with who we really are.
These are the Bright Green Lies we tell ourselves so that we can remain convinced we can continue living in exploitative and extractive ways, as long we slap a “Sustainable” label on it.
For each of us, the reflection will be faced, even if it takes us until we’re on our deathbed to face it.
With that being said, a polycrisis is a cosmic mirror, offering us the opportunity to peer into the collective shadow and to perceive and embody the medicine ourselves and others need, if we’re going to evolve.
Whether you believe we are here now to witness and weather the storm or you plan to fight for your version of what’s right (or some mixture of the two) we have mostly all been reckoning with all the big questions.
No matter the outcome, we’re still faced with decisions to make. And making no decision is still a decision, as you know.
Will we cling to identities of our past selves, tethered to industrial-grade plastic products, cheap thrills, and soulless consumption? Don’t get me wrong, I have been one to enjoy a cheap thrill. I am with you in this soup of unbecoming and becoming.
But this is the essence of why we’re here — collectively, we’ve forgotten that we are always in a process of becoming.
Modernity’s obsessive stalking of perfection, immortality, biohacking, anti-aging, transhumanism is a goofy illusion. These can be interesting concepts, sure. What’s going on here is that we’re trying to escape the fate we’ve woven by ignoring that we, too, are nature. As Octavia Butler wrote, “God is Change”.
Rebecca McFaul recently wrote this:
The story of modernity—with all its seductive promises—is a myth we’ve long subscribed to. It’s the story of progress. It says we can have infinite growth on a finite planet. It defines success as accumulation. It rewards dominance, speed, productivity, and certainty. It treats Earth not as kin, but as backdrop, resource, and waste repository.
And now, everything that challenges that story is under fire.
Aries: Who actually are we now?
Aries is the self, the will, the identity, how we show up and what we bring to the showing up.
So how are we showing up? And what are we bringing? And what are we leaving behind so that we can bring our selves forward?
Are we leaving the collective delusion behind? If so, which parts of it? Being very specific helps, because we are all delusional in one way or another.
Here, I’ll go first: I’m fantastic at overcommitting to things. I haven’t figured out that I don’t have the time in the day to get everything done. Projects lay half-finished for months around here. Another one is that if SHTF tomorrow, I would not be ready, though I would like to believe I would be chilling.
The thing about admitting where we’re being delusional is that we’re then gifted with the chance to do something about it.
Nonresistance to what world we’re in while devoting yourself to your dream of the future
Here’s my translation of Neptune in Aries.
Here, we’re shedding the dreams that were injected into our skulls by media and morons to bring forward more of the essence of who we are. Here, we’re coaxing the dream out of its cage of colonization and beginning to mold it into a shape we recognize as alive and loving.
It’s true that there was war last time Neptune was in Aries. In all likelihood, we won’t avoid that this time, either.
Regardless, we have the ability to make different choices within the ruins this time — to learn from our mistakes and move beyond domination and competition. These things are not human nature, though Plutocrats would love us to believe that (and it is a popular narrative.)
The cool part about that mess is that it’s still up to you whether it’s true. What is our nature? What is our dream? Our answers to these questions deliver our future to us. All we need to do is trust that other people around the world are taking their responsibility to be who they need to be right now, too.
I’ll leave this with another quote.
We are being called by the arriving thought beings and we are being called by the future we want to see after this moment is done.
Gordon White, Boundaries Are Fields Of Overlapping Consent
