New Moon on Monday Astrology

9 November 2011

The planet NEPTUNE will station direct at 10:55 am (pacific standard time). 

“Stationing Direct” is Astrologese for the moment a planet makes the about face from reverse to forward motion.  We’re talking about Neptune here, so let’s keep it specific. That motion is “apparent” to us here on Earth.  The planets never actually travel backwards, but because of their speeds, and our speed, they appear to do so from time to time.  Think about being on a train, and seeing another train right next to you going so much slower it appears to be going backwards.  Same kind of thing.  When the planets do this, we say they’re Retrograde. 

Neptune went Retrograde from the very first degree of Pisces in early June, and was back in Aquarius by August.  After turning direct this morning, Neptune will be rushing back into its hometown sign of Pisces and arriving on February 3rd, 2012. 

The outer planets move so slowly, they tend to represent generations.  Whenever the outer planets (Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto) change signs, it brings a certain shift in the general weather, a new era, or generation.

With so many planets freshly in new signs right now, we’re going through some super interesting times. Pluto moved into Capricorn in 2008 and brought us our current era of crazy economy upheaval corporate wtf bullshit.  The planet Uranus moved into Aries just last year - you’ll remember the Japanese earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster stuff.  Neptune is the last of the three, taking its time to morph back into Pisces, the sign it rules, where it hasn’t been since 1848. 

Neptune is dreamy stuff.  Impressionism.  Neptune has everything to do with dreams and imagination, and deception and addiction.  It can feel so beautiful you want to drown in it, but the results can be devastating.  It’s as big as the ocean - but it can also be used in the very best ways.  Neptune is creative inspiration, sparkly stuff, other worlds that everybody wants to get lost in.  

Neptune rules fantasy and fashion and the movies and poetry.  Neptune in Pisces is about to bring all of these things into prominence in the softest, most beautiful ways. 

But still, let’s keep our wits. 

~AL