Sun Semi-Sextile Neptune
(Transit Sun → Natal Neptune)
Avesalom Podvodny. Aspects
Neptune semi-sextile: From the Earth’s rotation I feel dizzy. This is the aspect of high mystics and great spiritual teachers who guide humanity’s evolution according to cosmic karma. Sometimes such teachers carry out these programs while residing in isolated monasteries and ashrams in relatively pure places on Earth, for example high in mountains, while at other times they incarnate in “civilized” countries and even in large cities; in the latter case, their rational consciousness and perception are artificially narrowed, and they fulfill high cosmic programs without being fully aware of it, simply through the course of their lives, which are predominantly shaped by major aspects in the horoscope. Sometimes rational consciousness shuts down, and the person receives visions of cosmic plans and currents which they barely understand, yet such elevated meditations play a significant, albeit unclear, role in their inner life. At a lower level, this aspect brings periodic distortions of earthly perception, which do not cause the person particular discomfort—until they begin insisting upon them, trying to analyze them rationally or exploit them for selfish purposes, for example to satisfy lower desires. For the profanation of high and harmonious cosmic currents associated with the semi-sextile, the individual is accountable before a corresponding extraterrestrial egregore whose ethics may greatly differ from earthly standards. The most common abuses here are drug addiction or hospitalization in a psychiatric clinic with a diagnosis of “schizophrenia,” which often precisely indicates this (not necessarily Neptune). Cosmic currents, even harmonious ones, are extremely intense for humans, but just as the Earth’s aura and atmosphere protect humanity from cosmic radiation in the physical sense, they also provide protection in the spiritual sense; however, within the orb of the semi-sextile, a breach occurs—usually minor, yet often with far-reaching consequences.
