Planets in Medical Astrology: Neptune

Posted Thu, 2009-10-01 19:11 by Yubraj Sharma


Neptune is the planet that governs sleep. A poorly aspected Neptune especially to Sun, Moon, Mercury or Mars can indicate difficulty sleeping. If Saturn is negatively aspected Neptune there can even be a fear of entering the sleep state, as this may be a time where the person encounters their karma or their shadow. This fear may lead to a state of chronic insomnia. The opposite condition of feeling sleepy during the day and the extreme of narcolepsy are also connected with Neptune but this may show more in the soft aspects, in particular the trine, as there is little or no resistance to the subconscious urge to sleep.


Those individuals with a prominent Neptune e.g. on the Ascendant, are likely to be quite sensitive to treatments both allopathic and alternative. Dosages may need to be altered on homoeopathic medicine so as to prevent too strong a healing crisis. Their sensitivity also applies to pain, physical, emotional and psychic and they are often drawn to sedatives, alcohol or recreational drugs which have a numbing effect on their nervous system.

Neptune can be quite deceptive and mysterious. When operating on the third dimension it tends to blur the edges of so called objective, material reality. Those people with Neptune in the sixth house often have illnesses that the medical profession find hard to diagnose. It often, even eludes the homoeopath who is unable to see the case clearly. Trusting the intuition is very important at this time and allowing the heart to guide you to the right remedy.

Other associations with Neptune


  1. Anaesthetics

  2. Drowning

  3. Poisoning especially by gaseous agents

  4. Conjunctiva and optic nerve

  5. Phobias 

  6. Feet

The transpersonal generational planets beyond Saturn tend to have higher order functions in the physiology, not necessarily pertaining to defined anatomical systems. They deal with wide-ranging effects, often more understandable at a cellular, metabolic level, as well as within multiple systems. Neptune is often regarded as a malefic in that it dissolves integrity and self. Everything that requires dissolution, loss of boundaries, loss of memory, foundation and concentration. However, this is actually a positive function, for without this dissolving effect there would be too much hardening and rigidity to the self. Saturn would then tend to become overactive. Neptune thereby reduces over-function of Saturn. Neptune especially relates to the functioning of the following systems:

Immune system


There must often or periodically be a dissolving of immune memory within the white cells (macrophages, lymphocytes and the originating white blood stem cells within the bone marrow), spleen, thymus gland and lymph nodes. Without this there would be a tendency to over-react to microbes, allergens and antigens during future exposure. There would be no scope in future incarnations to dissolve karmic ties with pathogens and previous life insults. Specific cells that clear immune memory include the T suppressor lymphocytes, which dampen down immune responses.

Surveillance by the immune system at mucosal membrane linings is kept at a low maintenance level. This in effect leads to virtually no immune response at various organ and tissue linings. Thus the normal bacterial flora (probiotic flora) within the gut lumen do not elicit any IgA antibody production by the B lymphocytes within the lamina propria (inner gut lining) or at the peyers patches (lymph node-like tissues within the gut wall and regulated by the spleen). There is mutual disregard as it were between the host and the gut flora. The function of the flora therefore includes the provision of a bacterial barrier preventing other, possibly infective, bacteria and microbes (fungi, viruses, parasites) from lining the inside gut wall and invading this wall. If the host immune system actually were to start attacking its own gut flora, then this would disrupt the bacterial barrier and cause other, more pathogenic, bacteria to thereby populate the area. Hence Neptune must function to prevent undue immune responses.

Indeed many infections arise when the immune system starts attacking its own populations of microbes, due to the blockage by Neptune no longer operating. This includes oppoutunistic infections during AIDs and during other states of immunosuppression (e.g. during bone marrow or organ transplantation, high-dose chemotherapy, radiation sickness).

A dissolving of self must balance the strengthening of self within the cells and tissues. Otherwise the peripheral cells of the organism may take on a life (self-will) of their own. This then leads to autoimmune disease (as the rest of the organism or central Self must attack the separatist cells). Hence, it is not that Neptune is overacting so as to cause autoimmune disease, rather that it is not acting enough to dissolve separatism and the strengthening of self inappropriate regions.

Allergies are similarly triggered when Neptune does not function adequately enough to dissolve the memory of that antigen within the body during previous exposure. The immune system retains such memories of prior exposure and then become sensitised (hypersensitive) to subsequent exposure by that allergen, e.g. animal hair, pollens, dust mite etc.

 


Nervous system


Neptune especially regulates waterways, and thus the cerebrospinal fluid production, flow and reabsorption. Thinking is essentially an act of channelling the thoughts of the higher self and spiritual beings. It is truly a cosmic event, i.e. thoughts originate from the spiritual realm, especially relevant when accessing the 5th dimension. Most mundane thinking in humans is related to repeating the same thought previously channelled, or storing thoughts in memory such that they become habitual thoughts and rigid belief systems. This is not true thinking. Thus, Neptune must act to dissolve the thoughts held within the Moon sphere as within the nervous system. Mercury regulates the actual movement of the thoughts. Problems that could arise include:


  1. Rigidified and stuck thoughts. Consider the added influence of Moon and Saturn upon Neptune. The end stage of this pathology is dementia, paralysis of the nervous system, stroke damage, obsessive compulsive thinking.

  2. Confused thinking, also paranoia, schizophrenia, schizoid thinking, split personality. Consider Mercury and Neptune patterns.

  3. Meningitis, pus within CSF. Consider Moon and Neptune patterns. Also Mars in the 1st house with head inflammations.

Auric boundaries


Neptune regulates the margin and integrity of the aura. Problems can lead to holes, tears and leakage of energy. Nonetheless, without the influence of Neptune, there would be excessive separation from the external world, leading to, for example - selfishness, introversion, autism or obsessive-compulsive patterns. If however, Neptune does not maintain proper boundaries, then self bleeds into the environment. Problems include:


  1. Bleeding disorders, with easy haemorrhage, nosebleeds, bruising, menorrhagia. Bleeding episodes often occur in psychics who are not able to control their mediumship. Consider also Mars for injury and Jupiter for clotting factors.

  2. Psychic possession and attack states, the person feels vulnerable, paranoid, spaced. Consider also the added influence of Mercury.

  3. Aetiological causes of drug addiction of any substance (worse of course for injected drugs) including prescribed allopathic drug misuse and addictive behaviour. The person is possessed by entities, including incubi and succubi, which feed on the easily available energy. The addict must then continue to fuel their addiction in order to feed their entities, and is unable to muster enough will to stop. They usually become pale and anaemic from the loss of blood vitality. The solar plexus chakra especially has auric holes, and it is difficult to enter and leave the body properly at waking-sleep cycles. There is energy stuck at the lower astral plane, alongside the astral/emotional junk of the human race. Their ego is too weak to control the possessed and disinhibited astral body. 

Retrograde Neptune


There is often a hidden mass of psychic karma in past lives to do with abuse of power, oppression of priestess roles during Atlantis, negative experiences during sea journeys or psychic possession states.

 


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