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Malaise symbol? |
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The most common graph for the planet Neptune is a staff
of Neptune with or without barbs and with a crossbar near
the lower end of the vertical line. Neptune was discovered
in 1846. By that time these signs had been in use for
many hundreds of years in alchemy, and in the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries chemistry as a symbol for quicklime.
In astrology, the sign is the mystical planet. According
to Robert Hand the sign symbolizes the final and conclusive
reality in which all polarities exist at the same time
but without any being distinctly discernible from another.
The sign is nirvana, the mystical perception of godliness
and truth, nonattachment. Along with Saturn, it stands
for maya, the illusory reality. In conjunction with Venus,
it denotes artistic creativity.
It also signifies self-denial or a defeated ego, and deceitful
or secretive activities such as poisoning.
When combined with other planets in a negative way Neptune
stands for a withdrawal from the world into drug abuse
or mental illness (i.e. Malaise).
Astronomers consider Neptune worthy of special attention
because it is the only planet whose orbit totally disagrees
with the law for planetary orbits discovered by Johann
Bode.
According to the graphic symbolism of astrology we find
that is a combination of the crescent of receptivity and
personality, open upward for spirituality, pierced by
the cross of material existence, showing susceptibility
to lower instincts.
Alan Oken has given the following key characteristics
associated with the planet Neptune:
1. the dreamer, artist, musician, film-maker;
2. the great fraud, cheat, swindler;
3. psychic powers;
4. the mystic, spiritualist, and prophet; and
5. all-embracing love.
The planet Neptune is considered to be the planetary ruler
of Pisces, which sign consists of two Neptune graphs joined
together. Neptune is also supposed to rule plants used
for the purpose of intoxication, such as Indian hemp,
i.e. marijuana, the coca bush, the opium poppy, the peyote
cactus, and the psilocybine mushroom.
Anatomically rules such bodily functions as the pineal
glands and those parts of the nervous system that are
sensitive to psychic impulses and related to the aura.
Everything with boundaries that are in one way or another
undefined or unclear is ruled by this planet, for instance,
gases, dreams, fantasy, vague hunches, etc. It is the
symbol for escapism, drug intoxication, and glamour, as
well as for high ideals and ideal love.
Src: Encyclopedia
of Symbols
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