Quincunx Jupiter – Neptune
(Transit. Jupiter → Natal Neptune)
Avesalom Podvodny. Aspects
Quincunx Jupiter: The existence of God awakens a sense of inferiority in me. This aspect promises unusual expansion of opportunities in the spheres of the planet, connected with connecting to a cosmic egregore, if a person can reach the appropriate level of vibrations and master its ethics, which may sometimes differ unexpectedly from the usual earthly one. For example, the quincunx Jupiter–Uranus can give a theoretical physicist the ability to read information from very high cosmic planes, but it will only remain uncorrupted if there is proper spiritual orientation; if it is absent, brilliant ideas will often come to him, promising a great discovery literally just around the corner, but each time deceiving: the distortion of an initially correct idea is connected with insufficient attention to cosmic ethics, for which the ordinary earthly desire for abstract knowledge is reduced entirely to a rather low mental plane. At a low level, a person in the spheres of the planet will repeatedly grab at cosmic aspects, but these interests and activities will turn out to be episodic and superficial, although he himself will likely hold the opposite point of view, and at least the deep earthly limitations in these matters of his immediate environment, and indeed humanity, will be evident.
Quincunx Neptune: It is not necessary to be good; it is enough to be honest and attentive. This aspect gives cosmic love’s influence in the spheres of the planet, which a person at a low level often perceives negatively. Modern civilization is such that even earthly forces pushing a person toward evolutionary development are perceived by him mainly as evil, and conscious spiritual development is often taken up by people who have hit a complete dead end in all other directions; therefore, the high vibrations of the Cosmos in the spheres of the planet mean for a person either incomprehensible changes of consciousness (transcendent meditations) or such life turns that “you can’t make sense of them without half a liter.” The latter, however, will lower the level of cosmic meditation to an earthly, comprehensible, and even almost ecstatic one. In the case of Neptune’s defeat in the spheres of the planet, irrational feelings of cosmic guilt may arise, usually repressed, as well as internal conflict due to the discrepancy between ideas about cosmic and earthly grace, mercy, and compassion, since the Cosmos is more interested in the evolution of the spirit, while people are mainly limited to the physical, etheric, and astral body, and the laws of karma are conveniently ignored altogether. To overcome the contradiction between earthly and cosmic Neptunian influences, a person must learn to see karma, take a cosmic point of view, and only then try to reconcile earthly karma with higher influences; for this, in the spheres of the planet, he must first of all rid himself of constant petty lies and self-deception, which mask themselves as harmless. Cosmic love does not so much alleviate suffering as shorten it, directing it along more constructive paths for the person.
