Neptune in Taurus: a Time of Renewal and Resurrection
Past waves of Neptune in Taurus have been characterized by a revitalization of society following bloody wars. Things could be different this time; it all depends on one crucial factor...
Note for all those listening: The embedded audio strip, that follows this note, is an excerpt from The Sign of the Times by Stan Barker (1984). The book is currently out of print and very hard to find. It is a classic in the field of mundane astrology. It is an extraordinary ride through Neptune’s ingress into each of the zodiac signs that incorporates a vivid depiction of our American history from the beginning, through each chapter, to the end.
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Chapter 3
In my last post, I promised to tackle the subject of the coming age of Aquarius. My thoughts on this subject are evolving especially due to a timely and fascinating book of mundane astrology that I have been reading. The book has highlighted the potential astrological significance of this subject at this particular time of epochal change.
The problem of attaching a date to the dawning of the age of Aquarius quickly descends into a discussion of the precession of the equinoxes. A very Neptunian subject filled with uncertainty and convoluted details leading off into many directions. I intend to dive into those murky waters and emerge with a couple fish in a future post.
The book I have been reading is called The Sign of Times The Neptune Factor: America’s Future and Past as Seen Through Planetary Cycles (1984) written by Stan Barker. The book came to my attention after being recommended by the host of the World Astrology Report on YouTube. I was lucky enough to find a copy of the book through the Cleveland Public Library. While immersing myself in the book, it suddenly became unexpectedly due! Apparently someone had placed a hold and was also wanting to experience Neptune’s Piscean glow. I was not ready, or wanting, to part with it on such short notice. Myself born under an 8th house Pisces Sun, I was ready to go to war! I checked for a copy on Amazon and was mildly shocked to see the asking price of $88.94. Apparently the word was getting out that this book might be a forgotten timely classic, germane to our chaotic and uncertain time. Being out of print has made the book that much harder to find.
Mr. Barker’s thesis, in a nutshell, is that Neptune, being the (Modern) ruler of the sign of Pisces, is especially important to understanding the past 2000 years of Western history. Pisces the Sign of the Fishes is most closely related to Christian tradition and The Age of Pisces, the current millennium. Unless, we have at some point entered the Age of Aquarius, raising one of the most perplexing questions of our age, what age are we in? According to Stan’s thesis, if we have entered the Age of Aquarius, as many believe, then Neptune is no longer the major significator of our current epoch or millennium. That honor would, instead, now belong to Uranus, the (Modern) ruler of the sign of Aquarius the Water Bearer and New World Order.
There’s allot to unpack there and allot to unpack in the book, especially after you’ve started to dig into the book with all of it’s imminent implications for the near future. The book is itself, in a word, fantastic. An unrecognized classic of writing in the area of mundane astrology. It is the only published book available by the author. He has since passed away, and I am unable to find even basic biographical information. He doesn’t seem to have even earned a footnote in the annals of astrological lore, at least not in the few places I have looked.
While reading chapter 3, The Garden of Earthly Delights, it became clear to me just how exceptionally outstanding the book is. The work is extensively researched and provides an enthralling overview of the past 300 years of Western History. He weaves an expert story overflowing with mountains of facts combined with tales of the human condition in all its forms, dignity, and disarray. I believe this book could easily compel the most serious of unbelievers to reconsider the hollow shell of a world without astrology. Accessible and laser focused, the attentive novice will not be able to help but come away with thrilling examples of how the signs of the Zodiac repeat their themes throughout history. For example, the many parallels occurring in the two Gemini waves between Ben Franklin and Mark Twain are compelling. Both had been teenage apprentices to older brothers who were printers. Both were considered to be the preeminent American wits of their day, and both became greatly loved abroad. Both were known for writing little aphorisms such as “if voting made a difference they wouldn’t let us do it”. In 1982 Walt Disney brought the two characters together to tell the “American Story” in an attraction of the same name at the newly built Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida.
Neptune will make its first entry into the sign of Aries on March 30th, 2025, and then into the following sign of Taurus in 2038. The degree to which Neptune would seem to signifies world events and generational changes more than a bit significant when looked at under the scrutiny of millennial shifts marked off by a precessional equinox that absolutely no one is in agreement upon.
Tracking close the precepts introduced by Classical and Modern Western Astrology, Stan Barker began this discussion four decades ago and was, and has been, largely ignored. Were the implications of a major planetary ruler of the millennial age just too much for the superficial constructs of an era only too eager to enter the Aquarian age and leave behind the vexing concerns of the Christian era? The New Age would seem to have ushered in a new era of brotherly love, a coming unified religion, and new world order. Even today moves are being made, by a populist president Trump, towards a United States of North America that seems to follow the Club of Rome Doctrine laid down in the 1970s. This road map began with the formation of the European Union, formation of BRICS and now plans for an African Union, and East Asian Alliance. All of these would seem to be indicators that the Neptune factor has died long ago and is no longer relevant. It is also possible, though, that Neptune’s millennial forces have not yet expired. The fact that the Astrological community itself has not even seen to fit to have much of a discussion regarding Stan Barker’s thesis seems to indicate that Neptune is no longer a powerful influence, and maybe never even was.
Christian doctrine and Christ’s invocation to let Caesar rule Rome may hint at something more profound going on. Even if the Neptune factor has run its course a discussion, evaluation, and detailed philosophical undertaking of the Neptune Factor should still be indicated even if overdue. Instead the possibility of it being the main planetary signifier of the past 2000 years has been wiped from history in an efficient and thorough Orwellian fashion. This indicates to me the possibility of a massive blind spot in the Astrological community if not in the world itself. Could it be that some deeper truth is being purposely wiped from sight in order to maintain “right” think? The discussion of the Neptune factor is being stricken from history and public discussion not due to some mad conspiracy theory but rather because the implications of powers outside the control of scientific doctrine have the ability to divert control from the beneficiaries of the Club of Rome Doctrine. I propose that it is in short the final playing out of the battle of Rome where Christian gospels of Christ consciousness are once and for all being wiped away from human history so that their story can no longer be told as having once and forever been real.
Any casual observer of the current rise of the worship of Satanic ideals currently taking place throughout the world would have to agree that satanic, Luciferian, Pagan, Mithraic and “scientific” belief systems are ascendant while Abrahamic religions, especially Christianity, are increasingly reviled by young people today in particular the young people of the elite ruling classes. Their preoccupation with a self-flagellating cultural Marxism, influenced by Christian doctrine, denies any truth not handed to them through their indoctrinated networks of “higher learning”. This denial of things truly spiritual carries over into their obsession with “scientific” doctrine and their more than desperate need to not give any oxygen whatsoever to astrology and its wider implications of an archetypes and cyclical stellar influences. As long as Christ consciousness and astrological practice are allowed to exist, Caesar is subject to powers beyond his control. And so, just as man must learn to leave unto Caesar those things that belong to Caesar, Caesar must learn to leave unto God those things that belong to God.