{"id":7670,"date":"2012-03-12T08:30:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synchrosecrets.com\/synchrosecrets\/?p=7670"},"modified":"2012-04-01T20:16:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T00:16:52","slug":"paradigms-and-neptune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=7670","title":{"rendered":"Paradigms and Neptune"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A woman believes that people are stealing her clothes, her jewelry, her money. She holds conversations with her mother, dead now for 30 years, and sometimes thinks that her son is a distant cousin and that \u00a0her husband is her father. She hears voices and sees things and people that aren\u2019t there.<\/p>\n

Another woman holds conversations with the dead, hears voices, sees things that aren\u2019t there, and knows that her son was her husband in a previous life. People seek her out for precisely these reasons and pay her handsomely for the messages she brings from the dead.<\/p>\n

The first woman is an Alzheimer\u2019s patient; the second woman is a psychic medium. Both illustrate the elusive nature of Neptune, its ethereal veil, the way it dissolves barriers between realities. Think of Neptune as a tuning fork. Tap it. It hums. But no two people hear the hum in exactly the same way. Neptune transported Edgar Cayce into other realms and swept Einstein into the heart of scientific truth. It gave diarist Anais Nin penetrating insight into other people. But it can also lead into the basest escapism through alcohol, drugs, sex, addictions of all kinds, the darker side of the occult. It can lead to religious fervor, religious wars, extreme religious views and beliefs.<\/p>\n

Neptune also rules compassion, the higher self, inspired art, escapism, addiction,\u00a0 everything psychic, spirit communication, imagination, connection to something larger than ourselves. It dissolves the boundary between ego and others, so there\u2019s often an element of confusion involved in any Neptune transit, but particularly with this one.<\/p>\n

Neptune dipped into Pisces briefly in 2011, then retrograded back into Aquarius. On February 3, 2012, it entered Pisces again and will be there for the\u00a0 next 14 years. \u00a0We can already see its influence being played out on the global stage.<\/p>\n

In American politics, particularly in the Republican party, the religious fervor has reached frenzied proportions. For example, Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker \u00a0write of the e-mails she receives, including one “about why women have been saddled with the monthly inconvenience and painful childbirth – for tempting men to do evil and failing to recognize their roles as ‘helpmeets’ for men.”<\/p>\n

She quotes one e-mail: “Pagan women like yourself have no regard for the natural order of God’s plan and shamelessly promulgate the ‘we are goddesses’ bile that has infected the entire country and pretty much stopped it in its tracks from incurring God’s blessings.” And Parker is a moderate Republican, who is anti-abortion, not a leftist feminist.<\/p>\n

But beneath this frenzy is another current \u2013 a burgeoning interest in the nature of reality and of consciousness, in how we are all connected, and in how we can live more compassionately. In other words, we are witnessing the war between paradigms \u2013 the old and the new.<\/p>\n

This struggle between the old paradigm and the one that is evolving, emerging, is sometimes so glaringly evident that it\u2019s shocking. Here\u2019s the old paradigm:<\/p>\n