Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto Conjunct Sun, Moon, Planet or Ascendant

Today we expand on the themes introduced yesterday. A while back a reader asked me a question after seeing someone state on a pop astrology site that when Neptune is on your Sun it can “make you delusional and full of false hopes and dreams.” Aside from the fact that the planets cannot “make” us do or be anything, this is the perfect jumping-off point to address some of the issues raised by outer planet transits. Today we’ll take a look at the very real spiritual growth potential when Neptune or any other outer planet visits one of ours.

In my original answer I told them Neptune on one’s Sun can make for illusions, but ‘what the fog bringeth the fog taketh away.’ Neptune may accompany delusions, but it can also bring glimpses of immortality, the ideal human state, visions of the future, and always a vaster sensitivity to and experience of collective consciousness. Also, and this seems obvious, if one is operating off of delusions, it’s not Neptune’s fault if these are made manifest and need to be corrected.

If the planet representing the oceanic collective consciousness, including the sum total of collective memories of the entire human race and planetary life, comes to visit our Sun, then it’s us who are being illuminated by the collective frequencies we perceive and respond to. Remember that planets do not make us be any certain way; we are the ones who determine how we will respond to any given impulse symbolized by the transiting planets.

Those who are prone to delusions are learning about the divine quality of discernment. Those who are “illusioned” must become “dis-illusioned” because of the spiritual principles governing the evolution of our awareness which we all are subject to. If we get lost in the fog of collective illusions and delusions, then we must learn to discern what to do or not do, and rely more on our subtle senses than our gross senses.

Nothing Truly Bad Comes From The Spiritual Field

Unlike the visible “7 Sacred Planets,” Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto have no duality of function. As I explain in Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend, with the personal and interpersonal planets, we learn to transmute negative planetary functions to positive expression, but the outer Triad, being transpersonal, operate differently. They are “nothing personal.” They represent an ever-changing spiritual field in which we live and do our Being.

Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto work as a three part harmony of spiritual movement bringing forth different qualities in the spiritual field over a long term period of time. If a Neptune transit brings a confrontation with illusions and delusions, it’s the perfect time to expand our understanding so we are no longer subject to these in the future.

A Neptune conjunction to our Sun is great for defining who we are in a vaster context of existence, and allowing the timeless human condition to illuminate us. It’s a great time for self-awareness regarding any tendency we have toward procrastination, drifting or self-pitying behavior, “seeing the Light” of the illusion of these in the collective consciousness. Neptune on our Sun could just as well make us a spokesperson for a collective ideal as well as getting clear about what roles we are playing and which ones are no longer “in fashion” within our consciousness.

There are also more subtle applications. For example, since Neptune is the spiritual ruler of Sagittarius and Pisces, it can bring to us the spiritual manifestation of the houses where we have those sign energies in tangible ways. Neptune can show us the spiritual energies behind planets we have in Sagittarius and Pisces, whether natal or progressed.

There are other ways Neptune expresses its spiritual energy. For example, Pisces is the second house from Aquarius. Therefore Neptune is the Spiritual ruler of Aquarius’ house of wealth, and can bring a sense of how Aquarians can capture money in a big way by giving the world something it wants or needs. Neptune as the Spiritual ruler of our 6^th and 9^th could bring forms of hypochondria, but also ideal forms of collective service through teaching or work helping us serve some worldly need, or do humanitarian work with animals, or in some job helping the public health.

We can apply these same principles to Uranus and Pluto contacts with important points in our charts. When we remember that Uranus challenges us to individualize spiritually, Neptune challenges us to merge spiritually with others in the larger feeling-field, and Pluto challenges us to see to the core, purify ourselves to the core, and be our unique seed of eternal transformational energies, then we understand the higher ways to respond to these vast “forces beyond individual control.”

Also, though it’s beyond the scope of this article, we can apply the same reasoning to Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto semisquares, squares, sesquisquares, and oppositions to any planet we have. Each of these angles represent points of dynamic challenge to adapt in the larger “Whole Cycle” which begins at every conjunction.

A square is a challenge to put the brakes on, turn a corner, or “square ourselves with reality.” Semisquares bring internal challenges at the beginning and end of cycles, sesquisquares bring external challenges in the creative-expressive realms and the areas we need to eliminate or regenerate, and oppositions bring us awareness of potential as well as opportunities or pushback.

An outer planet making these aspects to a natal planet marks points where those natal planets must grow into a healthier spiritual expression according to our nature. You can learn a lot about the growth of your personality through seeing when the outer planets made dynamic aspects to your natal planets, and connect the dots in understanding your long term evolution.

Spiritual Field Conjunctions Yield Transformational Spiritual Opportunities

When Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto conjunct one’s Sun, it’s like being on psychedelics without the psychedelics. When one of these is on our Sun (or Moon, Ascendant, or any planet), we’ll always experience an element of unreality, since these are vast transpersonal transformational energies in the larger field. This is where we get beyond Saturn’s boundaries of what we think is real.

Still, there’s no better time to experience our purely unique Light/Life than when Uranus conjuncts our Sun. There is no better time to experience our Light within the collective Light field than when Neptune conjuncts our Sun. There is no better time to purify how we experience and express our Light than when Pluto conjuncts our Sun. While things may seem weird in the extreme, it’s the perfect time to embrace our unique Light/Life as a spiritual force in our world.

It would be the same when one of these transpersonal energies conjuncted our Moon, Mercury, Saturn, or any other planet. Uranus conjunct our Moon would bring an electric edge to our personal feelings and daily life, showing us how to individualize our Lunar function. Neptune conjunct our Moon could be VERY dreamy, but also a time when we feel what others are feeling, whether they know it or not. Pluto conjunct our Moon could bring personal losses, but just as easily purify our “package of personality” to make us cleaner and clearer in our emotional expression.

As Mercury’s duality is “Life/Death” in that our ideas either lead us to living awareness or directions which are DOA, remember that at its best Mercury is “the Guide of Souls.” Uranus on our Mercury will lead us to our Soul through unique ideas, and an “awakened mind.” Neptune on our Mercury will lead us to our Soul through seeing collective issues, and a mind which “knows without thinking.” Pluto on our Mercury will lead us to our Soul by eliminating all which would block us from seeing to the core truth of anything we perceive. It is the same with any invisible planetary contact on any of our visible planets.

When these forces are in motion, either we respond productively or don’t, solely based in how trained our planetary responses are. We seldom have an ability to translate these transits into forms of control over the larger collective forces at work. However, if we grow into a larger role to address some need of the world, we can become the agent of transformation symbolized by that planet.

Life Is About Growing in Skills and Perfecting Our Awareness

We ALWAYS have an ability to respond productively to the forces showing us it’s time to embrace change. Sometimes the changes are difficult, or seemingly impossible to resolve productively. As I pointed out in Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend, we only create our responses to what shows up, some of which is generated by another’s free will, or the larger socio-economic forces of our world. While we can to some degree create favorable tendencies and manifestations of good things through our thought-forms and affirmations, we are limited by a) whether some thing is or is not true for us, b) our subconscious resistances and negative imagery below our radar screen, and c) what karmas we must resolve before we get to move into a new way to do our Being.

As we navigate the pressures of growth in awareness, we understand our natural spiritual function in circumstances. As we grow in our spiritual effectiveness, we naturally grow into a larger role as the anchor of those energies, which we express through our “7 Sacred Planets.” We all serve a spiritual role in the lives of others, and may be the vehicle to witness and/or explain the transformational process they’re going through.

This is especially true for those of us who have Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto prominent in our natal chart by house position, we are the living embodiment of those energies whether we’re conscious of it or not, and often act as that force in others’ lives. I’ve found that all of us who have an outer invisible planet in an angle become an agent for transformation in others, whether we or they see it or not.

Some people trigger invisible forces of transformation deep within us, or awaken us, or open doors of perception. That’s what happens when we interact with someone who has an invisible planet in an angle. However, because Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are invisible, when we represent a grounded form of a transpersonal planetary challenge to someone, sometimes we are perceived in a way where we are misjudged, especially if we don’t play the role as “perfectly” as they would like. Then one of their dysfunctional expressions come forth, showing the specific target of their evolutionary necessity.

That’s why these outer planetary contacts must be seen in the broader context of their spiritual function. If these come to visit our Sun, Moon, Ascendant or any other point in our chart, or the chart of a friend or loved one, detach, see the bigger picture in what’s going on, and remember that just because we or another is momentarily disoriented in a time of major change, it doesn’t mean anything’s wrong.

When we’re reorienting, it’s best to be in the NOW and wait to judge the process after it’s produced tangible changes in our behavior, feelings, or view. Better to avoid negative judgments, superficial takes, and superstitious opinions about these life-changing chapters of life, knowing that if Uranus is on your Sun and you can’t sleep, there’s nothing wrong. If Neptune is on your Sun and you have a strange feeling of being everywhere and nowhere, there’s nothing wrong. If Pluto is on your Sun and you feel tremendous pressure and/or the need to “shed your skin,” there’s nothing wrong.

We are fully divine and fully human Eternals having life experiences. It’s no wonder that as we become aware that this life is a dream-play, we understand the “unreal-ness” of the times when the long term visits of Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto on one of our planets makes everything weird. If you have a friend or loved one going through a transit like this, please explain that a certain amount of “unreality” is appropriate, while reminding them they will come out the other side of the process spiritually transformed for the better.

We all have outer planets transiting one or more of our planets in our charts from time to time, and though usually weird, are some of the most important spiritual leaps we make.

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