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by Brian Habit

You have Neptune in Scorpio in the 7th house.

Neptune is related to our consciousness, that fourth dimension of our selves that moves on the stage that is the world. It is that part of us that stands apart from our identity, that observes us as we go through the day-to-day dramas of our lives like a fly on the wall. Neptune is a bird’s-eye view of our lives. This planet also represents the development of an awareness of what we might call God and the weakening of the barrier that separates our consciousness or ego from our unconsciousness or soul. When our consciousness penetrates the shell of our egos, we’re more sensitive. We experience ourselves as part of a much larger whole. We get the cosmic joke about our lives. This might happen through vivid dreams, false beliefs, or impressions that re receive by means other than our five basic senses.  Neptune symbolizes our idealism, intuition, imagination, and compassion. Neptune also represents where we may be visionary…and where we’re most vulnerable to confusing our hopes and fears with reality. Activities such as compassionate self-sacrifice, imaginative creative work, meditation, and religious practices can help us develop Neptune.

You have Neptune in passionate, probing Scorpio--the sign of the Detective, the Sorcerer, the Psychologist, and the Hypnotist. This position emphasizes the introspective, mystical, otherworldly qualities of Neptune. In order to develop your idealism and compassion, focus your attention on the positive potential that lies dormant within someone or something. Evoke that potential, and work your uncanny magic. Transform the situation. Engage the passion of the person. Neptune is very intuitive in Scorpio. Concentrate on expressing your intuition the way that a psychologist might do it. Be willing to experience emotional intensity. Seek out intense, yet gentle emotional encounters. Be willing to becoming conscious of that which has been kept unconscious. Have the courage to let yourself look at whatever you’re feeling, even if it’s painful, or shocking, or could potentially upset your life. Root it out. Shine a light on it. There’s power in knowledge, but to use your imaginative and intuitive power more fully, you’ll first have to know what’s going on inside you. Feel your way through life. Think the unthinkable. Look at taboos, and talk about them. Home in on other people’s hidden emotions and motivations, but do it compassionately. With Neptune in Scorpio, you need to express your idealism or spirituality in some very deep way, in a way that draws on all the personal strengths that you’ve got to offer the world, such as your compassion and interpersonal sensitivity.

Where do you most need to express these strengths? In the 7th house, the house of intimacy.This is the same house that contains both your Sun and Mercury. With Neptune in your 7th house, you’re impressionable and vulnerable to escapist fantasies, troubling fears, and feelings of worry and guilt regarding 7th-house matters. When issues arise between you and other people with whom you have close dealings, you could easily try to escape from them or unintentionally distort your perception of what’s going on through self-destructive behavior, whether you use drugs or sex or TV or some other means of numbing your consciousness.

You also have the potential to lift yourself and your experience of 7th-house matters above the mundane and the petty. To do it, you’ll need to act based on spiritual values and compassion. You’ll need to act on your intuition rather than limiting yourself to acting based on what you can “prove” logic. You’ll need to feel your way as you go. To do that, encourage yourself to “tune the dial” of your consciousness carefully so that you unscramble the signal of your intuition from any fears or wishful thinking. By considering what your hunches tell you, rather than relying solely on what you learn through your five senses, you’ll be more successful in this department.

Whatever happens in emotionally-charged matters or matters that involve deep bonding, it’s likely to include some sort of Scorpionic element. Passionate, investigative Scorpio is the sign of death and regeneration, the lowest of lows and the highest of highs. At the low end, Scorpio can mean the corrupt abuse of power or sadism.  It can mean humiliating, shaming, emotionally traumatic experiences. However, Scorpio can also mean rehabilitation or profound healing, after years of carrying around long-buried pain. This sign can mean acts of tremendous heroism or altruism.

The challenge with Neptune is to go beyond the perspective of our egos while still having a functional identity in the material world. Once we are aware of such a perspective outside the confines of our egos, we might explore our consciousness deeply. Maybe we develop insight and a sense that all is one and so we are a part of this all-encompassing unity. This might mean meditating, religious practices, contemplation, or acts of compassionate idealism. Maybe we develop the attitude expressed in a bumper sticker that I saw. It said, “If I see myself in you, then how could I do you harm?” For you, then, you might find meditative practices to be emotionally therapeutic in releasing psychological tension.

With this Neptune placement, you have a range of potential at your disposal. Toward the darker end, you could take a distorted approach to the issues that are associated with Scorpio, with the 7th house, or with both. You could get also get into trouble by acting like a deceitful seducer, a terrorized victim, or a person who’s afraid to get to close to others.

Distortion of Scorpio means either becoming hypnotized by your feelings or avoiding looking at them as much as possible. If you run from looking at your darker feelings, then you could end up lashing out at others abusively, compulsively, in your closest interactions, without understanding what’s driving you to act the way you do. When hot-button issues come up, you let yourself sink into problems like despair, drugs, or debt. You could feel a vague sense of apprehension that something awful might happen at any moment. That’s what could result if you try to keep yourself from becoming conscious of what you’re feeling. If you go to the other extreme, then you lose all perspective on your feelings. You dwell on them. You become brooding, dark, morbid. Whether your avoid what you’re feeling or you brood about what you’re feeling, you might hold things inside and become isolated from those who might very well provide you with vital support during difficult times. This could lead to problems such as an eating disorder or depression. 

With Neptune, there’s always some potential to play the victim, the rescuer, the persecutor, or even a combination of these, at different times. If you act like a deceitful seducer (a persecutor), then you might get involved in sordid cover-ups or conspiracies. Maybe you engage in sexual or criminal activity that involves subterfuge or fakery of one sort or another. Somehow you get into unbalanced relationships in which you routinely dominate another person. If you play the rescuer, then you step in to save a person from someone else or from himself. Maybe he’s an active alcoholic, for example, and you try to keep things calm at home and work for him, which if anything lessens his motivation to change his behavior. 

If you act like a terrorized victim, then you get involved with others who seduce or persecute you. Again your relationship is unbalanced, except this time you’re playing a submissive rather than dominant role. Maybe a friend reneges on paying back your generous loan, or your romantic partner hits you, or your life becomes a mess when you become sexually involved with a public figure who’s married to someone else and it all comes to light. You let your greatest fears or wishful thinking cloud your perception of someone close to you. You perceive that person in a horribly distorted, unrealistic way. Perhaps you also see yourself unrealistically, as being unworthy of love or respect, and you flagellate yourself with guilt. Another possibility is that you wait for someone--a knight on a white horse or a fair maiden with a golden heart--to save you, to make you a better person and to elevate your life above the mundane tedium or base tendencies of an imperfect world.

In a different sort of scenario, you avoid the potential for intimacy altogether. In that case, you worry that you’ll become too dependent on someone else, or that he or she will become too dependent on you, so you isolate yourself. Or maybe you have interactions that never get but so close. Either the relationship is nothing special compared to others in your life, or the two of you can only count on it lasting until some specific circumstance changes in your lives.

If you go down any of these paths, then you can expect to feel disillusioned about life—spiritually empty.

If you feed your Neptunian needs in healthy ways, then you act like a compassionate psychologist, an imaginative sorcerer, or a selfless shaman--a spiritual leader who serves as a go-between for the physical and spiritual realms by using special powers, such as prophecy and healing.

Like a compassionate psychologist, you could strike a balance in how you approach your most intense feelings. That means having the courage to become aware of whatever you’re feeling, however scary it might seem at first. You’re intense and willing to face life’s more unsettling realities and ideas. When it comes to what lies in your psyche, you’re not scared of the dark. This also means that you take action once you’re aware of what you’re feeling. Rather than brooding endlessly on your feelings or withdrawing in self-pity, you demonstrate caring toward yourself and others. You go beyond being “nice” to talk about some of life’s starker subjects. Maybe you teach people how to use yoga or meditation effectively. Somehow you draw on your tendency toward introspective or investigation, as well as your psychological courage, to make the world a more compassionate and more enchanting place. You live with honesty and intensity, as if every day were your last.

If you act like an imaginative sorcerer or a selfless shaman, then you share ideals, inspirations, and insights with others in a tender yet intense way. You experience the best of compassion through your closest interactions. Maybe you associate with people who volunteer with the Peace Corps, or who help victims of domestic violence or war refugees. Maybe you play such a role yourself. Scorpio can have a deep interest in whatever is unseen in some sense, so you might congregate with psychologically-minded people or those who explore the occult.

When you have close encounters with others, there’s a sense of balance—no victim, no persecutor, no rescuer. Neither of you looks to the other to structure your lives, say, the way an authoritarian parent might. Nor does either of you treat the other like a child who should be seen and not heard. Instead, you meet as two mature adults who appreciate that you can add value to your lives by collaborating with each other. Your connection is flexible enough that it can accommodate the future growth of two individuals without dissolving into thin air. There’s not a sense that anyone’s being manipulative or cruel. The two of you can count on each other being around even if your circumstances change down the road because you genuinely want to be there. You let yourself be seen for who you are, warts and all, you see the other person for who she or he truly is, and the reality is enough for both of you.

 

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