Neptune in Pisces — Utopian Dream or Delusional Nightmare?
Standing at the Threshold
I’ve been thinking a lot about Neptune in Pisces lately. Well, maybe thinking is not the right word. One doesn’t exactly think about Neptune in Pisces. One muses, ponders, conjects, daydreams, fantasizes.
Ok, so I’ve been doing a lot of that lately.
Neptune takes about 14 years to transit through each sign of the zodiac. So as is often the case with the outer planets, the effects of their rather long transits can often be subtle and nearly imperceptible in the day-to day, week-to week or even month-to month unfolding of time in our ordinary lives.
Which is appropriate, because Neptune — as an archetype — invites us to step out of the ordinary time of our day-to-day lives, and step into the realm of the timeless, the sacred, the liminal. And this idea of the liminal is very au courant these days. It would seem that our entire society has entered into some sort of collective liminal phase. The question is: why is it happening now? And for what purpose?
Let’s start by unpacking the concept of liminality. The word enters our lexicon through anthropology, and is used as a term to describe “the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no…
