an alignment between two or more planets consistently indicated a mutual activation of the corresponding archetypes, each one acting upon the other in its characteristic way.

Saturn is the conveyer of the hard truth: naked, un-adorned, instructive, sobering, often painful.

The nature of the Copernican revolution was so fundamental that what had to be rethought was not only all the conventional scientific theories but the entire established hierarchy of humanity’s place in the universal scheme of things:

subtly reciprocal interaction. World views create worlds.

what we believe to be our objective knowledge of the world is radically affected and even constituted by a complex multitude of subjective factors, most of which are altogether unconscious.

the vector of that character does not seem to be in any way prefigured in the natal chart. Many diverse factors appear to play determining roles

Galileo—as they first began to grasp the stupendous truth of the heliocentric theory. The sense of cosmic upheaval and wonder would have been nearly inexpressible. A view of the Earth and its place in the universe that had governed the human mind virtually without question for untold thousands of years was now suddenly recognized to be a vast

Neptune is associated with the transcendent, spiritual, ideal, symbolic, and imaginative dimensions of life; with the subtle, formless, intangible, and invisible; with the unitive, timeless, immaterial, and infinite;

It is considered to govern the transcendent dimensions of life, imaginative and spiritual vision, and the realm of the ideal. It rules the invisible and intangible ground of experience, shaping awareness beyond the usual causal mechanisms. Its characteristic influence is one of dissolving boundaries and structures, merging that which was separate.