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Spiritual Company Newsletter: Saturn vs. Neptune
by Steffan Vanel September 2006
Dear Friends & Clients,
My last newsletter spoke about the approaching Saturn/Neptune opposition, which was exact on August 31. Saturn, which rules authority, structure, concrete limitations, karma, lessons, made it’s first exact opposition (there will be two more) to Neptune, which rules the mystical, spiritual, the film industry, the oil industry, the oceans, and experiences such as surrender, victimhood, illusion, and martyrdom.
In the lead-up to the Saturn/Neptune opposition and immediately after, I had been watching for events in our collective experience, which would reflect this planetary tension. There was the Saturnian limiting structure of the Alaskan pipeline, dissolved and leaking Neptunian oil. There was the death of Steve Irwin, the man who could hold his Saturnian control and stability by remaining fluid with the forces of Nature, forces which most of us feel extremely vulnerable to. His death serves as both a martyr’s emphasis to his cause of appreciation and conservation of nature’s wildness, as well as a test of faith, when someone with such Saturnian control is himself vulnerable to death by the Saturnian cartilage piercing his heart in the depths of the Neptunian sea.
There were also all the flashbacks and relived painful memories and issues raised by the Neptunian flooding of the Saturnian structures (of all kinds) during Hurricane Katrina.
But clearly, the most intense and fearful collective experience was Israel’s war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, which manifested the intractable victim/victimizer program potentially within a hard aspect between Saturn and Neptune, and obviously operative within the tensions between Israel and the Arab states.
During the conflict I really wanted to write about it and send out a newsletter. I had looked up the Astrology Chart for the State of Israel and had even done a short Tarot Reading for Israel in the midst of the conflict. However, on August 24, after finishing a marathon roofing job on my house, which I had to finish before going on the road again, stressing the tendons and muscles in my forearm, I tried to lift the concrete cover on my well and the muscles and/or tendons in my forearm just burned and ‘ripped,’ such that it has taken until now for me to be able to even type on a keyboard without pain.
Now, in my last newsletter I had also encouraged everyone to be aware of where this axis of Saturnian/Neptunian tension might be activating areas of your own Astrological chart. Well, the Saturn end of this tension is transiting my Ninth House, the Sagittarian related house of philosophy, religion, belief systems, travel and publishing. Saturn was conjuncting my natal Pluto in that house, which is in turn conjunct my natal Mars. I often say this Ninth House conjunction is what gives me a bit of a ‘Messiah complex.’ Yes, if I could manage, I would like to save the world. However, I also have a Sun/Saturn conjunction and I think this is the part of me that says: “Yeah, but you know what they do to messiahs!.”
Neptune is transiting my natal Third House, the Gemini related house of rational thinking, writing and communication.
Clearly I have been experiencing my own Neptunian vulnerability and need to surrender to Saturnian concrete reality, limiting my ability to communicate my views to encourage an understanding which can help with these collective karmic lessons we are facing. It forced me to accept my limits of what I can do individually to help these collective realities, but the limitation itself also imbued me with a deeper level of commitment and acceptance of responsibility to do whatever I can to try to help. (It also made me think of purchasing ‘voice recognition software.’)
I don’t normally talk this much about myself in these newsletters, but I feel that my personal experience serves as an illustration of what we are all having to deal with at this time in relation to this Astrological tension, individually and collectively. We must accept a deeper level of commitment and responsibility to do whatever we can within our own personal sphere of influence, and we have to go to a deeper level of faith and surrender that there is a ‘higher plan’ being played out between the events and experiences which are out of our control.
The key event on August 31st was Iran’s deadline and refusal to comply with the UN resolution for them to suspend uranium enrichment in their nuclear program, and George W. Bush’s statement that this refusal must involve consequences. That day reminded me of the dance that was played out with Saddam Hussein, a dance between bullies on the junior high school playground, locked into an intractable victim/victimizer program, knowing that neither side is likely to ‘back down’ leading to virtually inevitable conflict.
The same victim/victimizer sentiments flavored the 5th year commemoration of the 9/11 attacks, and can be observed in the conflict in politics now around Bush’s push for secret torturous prisons and military tribunals, victimizing the victimizers.
Then there is the Saturnian ‘hard-liner’ Pope making the Muslim world feel like victims so that they can victimize the Pope and fellow Christians.
As I’ve said before, the only way out of the victim/victimizer program is the positive side of Neptune: unconditional love, for yourself and others, total forgiveness, for yourself and others, and spiritual faith, trust and surrender to where there are no victims of victimizers but just all of us frightened little girls and boys doing the best that we can.
And, if these previous accounts weren’t challenging and dreary enough, there was the program aired on ABC television on the evening of August 30th, which I happened to see by accident. (I don’t have a television myself, but I was visiting my mother that night who is fairly addicted to it.) The program elucidated seven different scenarios by which rational scientists now attest that we could very well experience the elimination of the human race. Here is a bit of commentary from the ABC website: How smart are we as a civilization? Smart enough to control our destiny and avoid the cataclysms that may end life as we know it?
For thousands of years, different religions have warned Earth about Armageddon and the final days. We are now living in an age where scientists are adding their voices and their evidence in support of end-of-the-world possibilities.
"Last Days on Earth" is a program that could change the way you see your world and yourself. The world's top scientists, including Stephen Hawking, considered the foremost living theoretical physicist, describe seven riveting scenarios detailing the deadliest threats to humanity. Some can destroy the planet, others have the ability to render us extinct, and all have the power to destroy civilization. How likely are they to occur, and what exactly would happen if they did, and could we survive? "Last Days on Earth" goes beyond science fiction to science fact.
Using state-of-the-art visual effects, it will take viewers on a journey that is both breathtaking and terrifying, from the outer reaches of the universe to the inner world of DNA, with an around-the-globe tour in between.
"Of all the generations of humans that have walked the surface of the Earth — for 100,000 years, going back when we first left Africa — the generation now alive is the most important," said Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at City University of New York."
"The generation now alive, the generation that you see, looking around you, for the first time in history, is the generation that controls the destiny of the planet itself."
Watching this program, knowing it was the eve of the exact Saturn/Neptune opposition, gave me the 'heebie-geebies.' Now we have even the Saturnian scientists trying to convince us of our Neptunian vulnerabilities.
I am personally glad for the information which the Ascended Master Hilarion has given us which reveals what is really happening on this planet and why, information which makes me feel trepidation for the intensity of what is taking place, as well as appreciation for the sense of faith and trust in the positive destiny for the Human Race which will be born out of these times. (A synopsis of this information can be found in my book: The Astrological Karma of the USA.)
I think the one liner I would leave you with as to the best way to deal with a Saturn/Neptune opposition, whatever it is activating in your own chart is: "Do your best and let God do the rest!"
PS: When I have time I will still write something about the Astrology chart of the State of Israel.
Blessings to you all,
Steffan Vanel
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