Hush, Little Baby

The Sun is in Aquarius – the sign of the Water Bearer.  In German, this sign is called Der Wassermann and that means literally The Water Man.  It is kind of like the milkman.  You need milk; the milkman can deliver it directly to your door.  You can have your water delivered to you too.  So what is exactly my point?  You pay for your water.  

The planet Neptune entered the sign of Pisces on February 3, 2012 and will stay there until 2025. Neptune takes about 164 years to make a complete cycle, spending about thirteen years in each sign. Neptune is considered the modern day ruler of the planet Pisces so it will have truly come home after its long journey around the Zodiac. Dreamy Pisces is watery, intangible at times, delusional.  You get lost in its world, you dream, you can experience feelings that are not yours, voices that come from nowhere. Neptune is the illusionist.  Personally, I always had a hard time with Neptune.  Deciphering lies, lying and deceiving was as far from my comprehension as you can get.  What you see is what you get.  That was me.  The older I got, the more I understood Neptune.  Still, at times I felt like I wanted to run away from this trickster but then I realized that it is exactly what the Neptune wanted me to do – the Lord of the Underworld wanted me to hide.  And so here I was, ready to face Neptune’s illusions, trying to decipher the Neptunian codes I thought to myself - we can decide to swim in the school of fish or we can go our own way and discover the truth.

Here we are, it is the year 2013 and the U.S. the economy is supposedly getting better.  Unemployment is down to 7.9 percent.  The Dow is up and new jobs are being created.  While we are happy smoking weed here in Washington and Colorado, wondering what the Kardashians are up to, wondering if Lance Armstrong is telling the truth or not, the Neptune is playing his favorite game.  In the midst of all these good news about the economy we can’t still stomach the fact (or we simply don’t know) close to half of Americans live below or at the poverty level.  American officials have deemed the current poverty line to be at around $22,000 for a family of four, but the new category just about doubles that figure to $45,000 and places those that fall between the numbers as low-income. The unemployment rates do not reflect the real unemployment as people not claiming unemployment and the underemployed are not accounted for.  The jobs that are being created are extremely low-wage, the cost of living is rising, and the expenses are exceeding the comfort level of most.  The new wave of foreclosures is to blame for the overly optimistic numbers in our real estate markets.  Yet, we are made to believe that “things are improving”.  This is our fantasy world.  The economy is great and here in the U.S. we live in an illusion of a peace.  There is no war, is there?  We will be marking the tenth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.  Neptune and its illusions is nothing more and nothing less.

Neptune rules the sea.  It rules the water.  During Neptune in Pisces we will witness increased flooding; perhaps more storms like the Hurricane Sandy.  Water will be everywhere but yet we will see the biggest water shortages ever.  Mainland China, for example, will be struggling with water shortages by the time we reach the end of the Piscean cycle of Neptune.  Other countries and places will follow.  We are facing a real water crisis.  Water is the liquid gold.  Every time I turn on my kitchen faucet I think twice.  I remember when my son was just only seven, a small Pisces boy; he would always try to shut the kitchen faucet because he was convinced I was wasting too much water.  Every time I wash my dishes now I think of those moments and smile.  I also wonder if his generation is the one that will face the fact that water will be more precious than gold.  Neptune rules the oil too.  We are in the middle of oil wars.  We have damaged our environment because of oil.  If there are other ways to generate energy, why is oil still dominating the world?  The answer is clear to many.

During the time that Neptune is in Pisces we can dissolve the old order, we can heal, cleanse, purify.  We can also sink into denial, illusion, despair, resentment, delusion.  Those with strong Neptune, dominant Twelfth House or those with heavy influence of Pisces can be acutely sensitive and experience life through their feelings during this time.  These people might feel overwhelmed, may feel the urge to escape, to shut down, to find their inner nirvana.  There is a catch to that.  While we all might feel more relaxed, more sensitive, more in tune with our feelings during the time that Neptune is in Pisces, there is something larger going on. 

We are told to take a chill pill, to nurture and pamper ourselves more, to meditate, to globally change the world, to believe in The Secret, to believe in the law of attraction and to believe that we really have a choice.  What is our ultimate choice?  So while we are quietly being put to sleep, the corporations are fully alert, acquiring access to every possible water source they can get.  Why?  Well, they are not asleep.  To overcome the coma of Neptune we must rise up.  We should try to protect our water sources; the idea that water is “communal” and belongs to everyone is no longer.  At times I feel that it is too late to put up a fight, too late to try to figure out who is the real boss.  Once the corporate world takes our water, they will be able to decide who is and is no longer in the game.  It is like the Hunger Games.  When we wake up one day and see that our own well has a barb wire around it and a sign “Private Property – Keep Out!” -  perhaps we will wake up from our Neptunian and Piscean dream.  

Whether you like it or not, now is the time we can all rise up and defend our rights as we are all equal inhabitants of this planet.  We all need water to survive.  Let’s not be lulled to sleep by Neptune’s sweet lullaby.  Der Wassermann makes me think of all of this.  This is the time we can all help the Water Bearer carry his water jug.  It is ours to use.  Let the Neptune sing you a song – “Hush little baby, don’t say a word.” Let this be a wake up call and not a lullaby.  Let me tell you, the rewards will be great.