Greetings.
I'm going to analyze Neptune separately here as it is already post event and I want to get the 'word out'. I realize that Venus, Saturn and Pluto are also retrograde presently [today June 8th] Saturn and Venus and will go direct again in just a couple of weeks and then Pluto as well in Sept. Then Jupiter and Uranus will be going retro.
Meanwhile Neptune will be retrograde until November 11th and it will make it's final return back to 03* Pisces 09' 05" March 1, 2013. ...and it's got some HEAVY Sabian Symbology going on between itself and the North Node.
Neptune went retrograde at 03* Pisces 09' 05" just a few seconds before 2:05 pm here local time in Folsom, Calif on June 4th. The North Node was at 05* Sag. 05' 10"
The 4th degree of Pisces is the Impasse that Neptune has reached and the Sabian Symbol for the 4th degree of Pisces tells us what it is that the 'Beautiful Dreamer' that Neptune is wants to manifest from a dream into reality.
[From Dane Rudhyar's book on the Sabians] (PISCES 4°): "HEAVY CAR TRAFFIC ON A NARROW ISTHMUS LINKING TWO SEASHORE RESORTS.
KEYNOTE: The mobility and intensity of interchange which make possible and characterize complex social processes.
Here we see the Concept of commerce and social interaction in a new form. What is stressed is the need to establish unceasing dynamic relationships between all aspects and functions of the social life. The more complex the relationships, the more dynamic and restless the society. In this symbol the "isthmus" refers to a geographic situation found near San Diego, California, where these Sabian symbols were produced — also in Florida and elsewhere. A narrow strip of land separates the sea from a lagoon and on this strip, houses are built and roads are constantly filled with moving cars. The proximity of the sea stresses the collective nature of social experiences and of what may appear to be "individual" achievements.
This fourth stage symbol-evokes many aspects of what at several levels can be called TRAFFIC. The technique for achieving social results is always based on an interchange of ideas and interplay of activities. Often, however, confusion ensues and traffic jams are ever-present possibilities."
The North Node in the 6th of Sag. tells us why it is necessary for Neptune to hesitate before going forward with it's' dream of a 'New Form of Commerce and Social Interchange Among Humankind"
[ibid.]Sagittarius 6* "A GAME OF CRICKET.
KEYNOTE: The development of skill in group-situations testing collective goals.
Any society is built on the interplay between groups of people, each group united by an at least temporary aim. The individual person within the group is assigned a particular role in the play; and definite rules have to be obeyed. The game teaches not only personal skill, but fairness and cooperation. Where this symbol is found, the value of making individual-will or ego-will subservient to collective cultural patterns is emphasized. Several symbols belonging to Scene Seventeen (Sagittarius) relate to games or group rituals, because these are "ab-stracted" from everyday social behavior and used as educative means to develop group-consciousness and an individual sense- of responsibility to the group.
This is the first symbol of the fiftieth five-fold sequence. It refers to the importance of developing GROUP SOLIDARITY."
...well, that certainly does seem to be the issue...WE need solidarity ....the group consciousness has to be developed and and the essential concepts of exactly what we all agree on that needs to be changed about the way we do 'Commerce and Socially Interact' that has to take a "New Form"...
do you doubt this?... well, just look at where-to Neptune will begin its' final return at. It's 00* Pisces 22' on November 10, 2012 at a few seconds before 11:53 pm here locally in Folsom, Calif....the 'Cosmic Precept" it has to return to to attempt and hopefully achieve which is represented by the Sabian Symbol for the 1st degree of Pisces... [President Obama's Part of Catastrophe... btw]
{ibid.](PISCES 1°): "IN A CROWDED MARKETPLACE FARMERS AND MIDDLEMEN DISPLAY A GREAT VARIETY OF PRODUCTS.
KEYNOTE: The process of commingling and interchange which at all levels demonstrates the health of a community.
In any twelve-fold division of a complete cycle (for instance the 12 zodiacal signs and the 12 Houses of a birth chart) the twelfth section often has been given a negative significance. It can refer to oppressive conditions as it represents a "closing of accounts," a final evaluation of the harvest of the cycle. A very bad harvest may lead to bankruptcy; a premature revolt may bring the rebel to jail; the dissolute may end in a hospital. In this section of the cycle a man reaps what he has sown. But it may also be honors, social prestige, the interests of well-managed wealth. In this twenty-fourth scene what is stressed is the coming together, in a final experience of community, of all factors previously experienced; this means constructive interaction and an interchange of the products of social activity. In a practical sense, the symbol, whenever it is found, emphasizes that the time has come to take full advantage of the social opportunities to bargain and to trade.
This is the first stage of the process related to the sixty-seventh five-fold sequence of symbols. It refers to all that can be gained from social interplay and especially, in the broadest sense of the word, from COMMERCE."
...ain't it GROOVY, how the Cosmos is supporting the 'Movement'!
The North Node explains why this was necessary and that is Symbolized by the Sabian Symbol for the 27th of Scorpio.
[ibid.] "A MILITARY BAND MARCHES NOISILY ON THROUGH THE CITY STREETS.
KEYNOTE: The aggressive glorification of cultural values.
Every cultural-social collectivity sooner or later tries to impress the value of its achievements forcibly and noisily upon all those who belong to it, as well as upon foreign onlookers. At the individual-mental level the member of such a collectivity swells with pride and excitement when a display of the excellence of that in which his consciousness and personality are deeply rooted is publicly affirmed. Thus the feeling of social unity binds the individuals of a culture through collective pride.
This second stage symbol contrasts sharply with the first one. Our aggressive, tense, domineering Western civilization is indeed in opposition to the natural spontaneity and instinctive adjustment to nature of tribal societies. The Keyword here is POMP."
...it's bercause it will need to be achieved 'Aggressively folks.
BUT PLEASE REMEMBER THAT 'AGGRESSIVE ACTION DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN VIOLENT ACTION'... IN FACT VIOLENCE SHOULD BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS... BUT IT HAS TO BE DONE WITH SUCH IMPECCABLE SOLIDARITY ...THE NEW ORDER OF BUSINESS/COMMERCE AND SOCIAL INTERCHANGE MUST BE INSTITUTED AND THE "MOVEMENT" MUST BE LIKE, BOTH THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCE AND THE IMMOVABLE OBJECT. [REMEMBER THE WAYS OF GANDHI, MARTIN LUTHER KING AS TO EFFECTIVE SOCIAL PROTESTS AND ANY CAUSES FOR CHANGE.]
THE NEW DESIGN MUST BE OF SIMPLICITY SANS SPECIAL INTERESTS..AS TO NOT ALIENATE SEGMENTS OF OUR HUMAN SOCIETY AND IT HAS TO BE WELL CONCEIVED...AND WHEN THAT IS ACHIEVED, EVERYONE MUST AGREE TO REMAIN ALLEGIANT TO THE CONCEPT... IN UNITY AND LOYALTY THERE IS INDOMITABLE STRENGTH!
When Neptune makes its final return on March 1st 2013 [at apprx 1:45 pm here in my locale] the North Node will be at 19* Scorpio 07'
...this is telling us WHY Neptune and the 'True Blue and New Human Order of Commerce and Society' [ not 'the New World Order' of some devious Cabal that many have feared, but one conceived and born out of the 99% of the rest of Humankind]... is now ready to be installed and we may proceed,,,
...the Sabian for the 20th of Scorpio says it all!
[ibid.] (SCORPIO 20°): "A WOMAN DRAWS AWAY TWO DARK CURTAINS CLOSING THE ENTRANCE TO A SACRED PATHWAY.
KEYNOTE: The revelation to the human consciousness of what lies beyond dualistic knowledge.
The "Woman within" — the faith that is rooted in the deepest intuitions of the soul — is seen here as the hierophant unveiling the realities which the either-or, pro-and-con mind of man alone cannot perceive. The path to the mystic's "unitive life" is opened up once the darkness of fear, egocentricity and dualistic morality is removed.
This is the last symbol of the forty-sixth five-fold sequence. It reveals what a positive reliance upon faith and intuition can bring about. Courage is needed to go through the veiling darkness — the courage to venture beyond the familiar and the traditionally known, to PLUNGE AHEAD INTO THE UNKNOWN."
...ARE YOU READY?... then ...LET'S GIT 'ER DONE!
