Neptune in Aries: Boiling Frogs, Angry Drunks and Global Institutional Derangement exposed

The Sea and the Skies ultimately work together to cleanse the planet. What that process looks like while it is happening is quite brutal at times. The roil and churn of the angry ocean is incomprehensible to those terrestrial beings who live in blissful ignorance of this particular violence.

There are many Martial sea creatures: think sharks, killer whales, electric eels, piranhas, stinging rays, poisonous jellyfish…

But the hurricane does not last forever, no tsunami continues without end. The predator’s hunger is not infinite.

Neptune’s ultimately most dangerous when he has the opportunity to lull us into a gentle dream state, when we begin to feel at home with the beauty and abundance that the ocean brings. Anyone familiar with “island life” knows that booze and malingering, laziness, organized crime and malfeasance are the norm, tourists only see the surface of relaxation, beauty and fun. Rot and corruption lurk beneath the surface.

Neptune in Pisces is all of that; Neptune in Aries is not that, not exactly. Neptune has a much harder time staying beneath the surface. Subtlety is gone, the spell is broken.

In traditional astrological parlance, Mars tules fiery Aries, where Neptune will soon emerge, but Mars himself is a member of the Night Sect. The planet Neptune was not discovered in ancient times, but the archetype was much better known then than it is now, and archetypal Neptune is definitely aligned with the Night Sect.

This grouping of planets is closer to the chthonic gods of the ancients, gods who push up the vegetation and represent the more animal sides of our nature. Dionysus was the prototypical chthonic deity, a god who is notably absent from the named planets….

Mars is the malefic among the Night Sect planets, meaning that his nature is essential to the Sect- emotional, compulsive, physical and emergent- yet he is disruptive to the overall paradigm. Mars’ heat moves things upward, Mars brings things to our attention when they do not sit right with our sense of individual sovereignty in a sect that wants to harmonize and collectivize. Mars patrols the unconscious and hones in on those things that need to become conscious for our protection. Mars manifests as inflammatory conditions that demand quick and decisive action.

Neptune does not disrupt the Night, he brings us deeper and deeper into a perceived sense of overwhelming natural cycles, ebbing and flowing, harmonizing with the Moon in so many ways, providing the sea foam that births Aphrodite herself.

Like all the Signs, there is some overlap between the territory of Aries and Neptune’s core significations- but it’s a very uncomfortable fit. The Lord of the Depths in Aries gets a sudden sense of individuality, a shot of testosterone, very much stimulated and acute, without the Jupiterian sense of inward expansion that is found in Pisces. There are dreams in Aries, but they are dreams from which most of us quickly awake, with a start.

We must remember that the American Civil War was started with Neptune in Pisces; by the time Neptune exited and entered Aries, things were moving toward resolution.

Neptune in Pisces may feel like heroin or narcotics; Neptune in Aries may become the angry drunk, destined for a night or two with the hospitality of the Sheriff.