![]() ![]() When we cut something out of our pyche, it doesn’t just disappear. That’s a crude example, but this is the truth about all of our relationships. But if you allow yourself at least a modicum of connection, you can “keep ypour enemies closer,” and have some say as to how she influences your life. ![]() The truth is the more you embrace the unconscious, mysticism, and the divine, the more say you have over how it impacts your life.įor example, you may hate your ex wife, but if you shut her out of your life completely, God only knows what sort of havoc she will wreak behind the scenes. This can happen through outright scams, or, just as often, through substance addiction, which gives a sort of mock experience of the divine where we let go of our ego temporarily and experience “mild” insanity, rather than the full blown insanity we fear we risk if we fully give in to the unconscious.īut as with most astrological teachings, the truth is paradoxical. People who are obsessively rational because they are terrified of the unconscious - and let’s face it, there are plenty of good reasons to be terrified of the unconscious - are paradoxically the most susceptible to being overtaken by the unconscious. Sometimes a pretty girl can do it just as easily.) The god of Ecstasy isn’t always required to undo a man. (For a more contemporary version of this, we recommend the wonderful film “Claire’s Knee” by Eric Rohmer. I won’t give away the ending, but eventually the tension between reason and madness ends with Pentheus’s own mother going insane (mid-orgy), mistaking him for a lions and tearing him limb from limb. As Pentheus encounters the mystical (and drunken!) god, Dionysos entering his city and demanding to be worshipped, Pentheus responds in the proper, rational way: Get off my lawn! The Ancient Greek play “The Bacchae” is a wonderful illustration of this phenomenon, as it descibes the gradual death and undoing of the good and rational king Pentheus. Unfortunately, because this longing for some sort of transcendence never goes away, but rather becomes unconscious when we try to suppress it, it winds up almost guaranteeing that we will fall prey to some of Neptune’s machinations. "Nobody believes in God like an atheist.” - Alan Watts This way, they assure themselves, they will never become victimized by charlatans and mystics. The way most people deal with this problem of understanding is to shut off the concept of mysticism completely and hew religiously to the rational, controllable functions. That sort of uncertainty is built into the Neptunian experience, and indeed with out that “blurring” of reality, you couldn’t have any such experiences in the first place - real or imagined. The difficulty with Neptune is that you can never be 100% sure if the mystical experience you just had was “real” or just your imagination - or worse, if it was some sort of elaborate hoax. Humans have an innate desire, indeed a need, to connect with the “mystical.” And in astrology, this longing is described by the planet Neptune. Partially for the hurt pride but largely for the potential real world consequences of loss, madness, and ruin.Īstrologically, we discuss this phenomenon in terms of the planet Neptune and the sign of Pisces which it rules. Or worse, just right enough to capture my irrational mind and make me lose control of my thinking - or of my finances.Īfter all, what if someone lures you in with just a bit of truth and then leads you along for years draining you of all of you money or ability to manage your own life? Let alone that psychiatrists and many medical doctors do this all the time, the fear of getting hoodwinked is real and valid. I was not so much afraid that astrology will be wrong but that it will be right. It made me extremely uncomfortable, as it was so difficult to refute: And after years of soul searching, one component came up repeatedly. As a skeptic myself, I love probing my own motivations for disbelieving astrology. ![]()
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