The Astrological Neptune and the Quest for Redemption by Greene Liz

Author:Greene, Liz [Greene, Liz]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781609253844
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser
Published: 2000-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

One might expect Neptune to dominate the horoscope of a spiritual guru. In Rajneesh's case it is extremely prominent; but it is evenly matched by other factors. Although Neptune closely conjuncts the IC and forms trines to Mars, Mercury, Venus, and the Moon, as well as a sesquiquadrate to Saturn and a semisquare to Pluto, the dispositor of the chart is Saturn and the dominant element is earth. Vision, imagination, subtlety, receptivity to others' unspoken feelings and emotional needs, and the manipulative gifts of a fine publicist are suggested by Neptune's benign aspects to Mars, Mercury, Venus, and the Moon. Also evident are a deep sense of homelessness and a yearning to create a worldly paradise in which to live, reflected by Neptune at the base of the chart. But the overall structure of Rajneesh's birth chart is based on a fire-earth polarity, with the grand trine of Sun, Uranus, and Jupiter balanced against the weight of seven planets, one of them the chart ruler, in the element of earth. It is easy to dismiss Rajneesh as an extremely clever “conman,” an inventive trickster who packaged Neptune attractively for the gullible Western psyche and laughed all the way to the bank. There is undoubtedly much truth in this assessment, but it is not the whole picture. The grand trine in fire combines the intuitive verbal gifts of Jupiter in Leo in the 3rd house with the energy, intellectual breadth and communicativeness of the Sun in Sagittarius on the cusp of the 7th, and the uncompromising iconoclasm of Uranus in Aries in the 11th. This is a charismatic configuration which guarantees that, despite a propensity for considerable arrogance and self-aggrandisement, he was an inspired teacher and thinker. Shrewd, worldly and autocratic, his stellium in Capricorn, dominated by Saturn and with the Moon-Saturn conjunction opposing Pluto, would ensure that he would keep his real motives to himself and tolerate no law other than his own. One might expect such configurations in the chart of a powerful political leader or business entrepreneur. On some levels Rajneesh was both.

Neither the man nor his continuing influence can be explained away by simply declaring him a charlatan. Nor is the enigma solved by claiming that he was an enlightened Master persecuted by the evil forces of a materialistic society. I have no personal allegiance to Rajneesh, and have never been involved with, nor attracted to, either his teachings or his ashrams. But my experience of many clients who adopted the way of the sannyasin and attempted to integrate this into their lives, with varying degrees of success or failure, has demonstrated that we can learn more about Neptune's gifts as well as its dangers if we attempt to understand the phenomenon of the Rajneesh movement from a cooler, more objective perspective. While the man himself may have balanced Neptune with worldlier attributes, his followers often did not; his message was Neptunian; and most importantly, so too was the deep collective hunger which spawned the proliferation of so many Neptunian communities formed in his name.

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