by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good
Through the years in multiple SO'W posts, I've fussed about the fact that the Republican Party of 1854 experienced a Neptune Return (a three-fer to mid-Pisces: "A Lady in Fox Fur") and has shifted its identity and public image into something unrecognizable to most people. This is why we began to hear, "not your father's Republican Party" ad nauseum.
Now, I'm finally getting around to fussing about America's one and only Neptune Return - also a three-fer due to slow-moving Neptune's 164-year orbit and the gas giant's tendency to (seemingly) station and move retrograde as viewed from Earth, in its role as one of the generational or outer planets, as we call them.
Significantly during America's Neptune Return period, Solar Eclipses manifested with themes that ran in the background of society and, depending on multiple factors, influenced or perhaps disrupted earthly events as Uranian "wild cards" of the Universe, aka, "Cosmic Blinks" able to uncover secrets which shady Neptune prefers to keep hidden. Therefore, sudden peep-eyes may occur!
12 North/South, 13 North/South, 14 North/South
Now for your consideration, below is a list of Solar Eclipses that occurred between December 1937 and the end of 1939. Added to the image is a hand-written listing of the three dates that transit Neptune returned to position in our nation's July 4, 1776 Horoscope set for 5:09 pm LMT Philadelphia, PA; this timing places Cardinal World Points of manifestation upon America's MC-IC axis, and 1776 Neptune clocked in @22Vir25:08; and as you see, eclipse themes from 12 North to 14 North are listed as well; solar eclipses from those series will repeat in our era during the years 2028 and 2029; (please pardon my messiness!):
When Neptune is in the Sign of Virgo
Having nebulous Neptune in fact-based Virgo, its sign of detriment, isn't the easiest placement for the Divine Source planet, as you may agree. Undiscovered until 1846, we might assume that the Founders were unaware of the planet's tendency to undermine, subvert, erode, defraud, deceive, and such - especially with Neptune's square to US Mars in Gemini ("fog of war," confused motivation, misguided action, etc). To me it seems that our Neptune has been a mixed bag - and all three times that Neptune returned to its 1776 degree, it re-squared US Mars by transit which must have complicated and confused matters.
Plus, a primary factor with Neptune in Virgo is instability in employment conditions which the American people are overly familiar with - especially now that transit Neptune in Pisces has recently opposed US Neptune in Virgo. This major transit has brought persecution and dissolution with it, aimed at our civil and other rights, plus, a shifting of ideals and ideologies. Then with Mercury-ruled Virgo involved we should add difficult health implications including the fact that the 1937--1939 period is when adulteration of our food began, and continues today much to our detriment. Meanwhile, the losses and hardships of the Great Depression years inspired a materialistic streak within the masses (Neptune). How could it not?
Then if we add Neptune's 9th house position in our 1776 horoscope to this fuss of a consideration, we have attractions to cultism, an unfortunate tendency that has helped to sink (oceanic Neptune) our country under the hoax-like, scam-prone conditions of recent years made worse by bad faith actors working on behalf of our nation's enemies - which involves Neptunian subversion, spying, the Big Lie, and the Internet, a weblike Neptunian creation.
Now to close, you'll see notated on the image that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president during this Neptunian time frame, while John Nance Garner IV, aka, "Cactus Jack," was Vice President. Cactus Jack! And if you're curious, I recommend a search for historical events of 1937, 1938, and 1939 to provide you with a wider 'real world' perspective than mere eclipse themes can do.
For more details re: Neptune, you might try the Horoscope of the Discovery of Neptune.
