Whenever a planet turns from forward (direct) to backward (retrograde) motion, or vice versa, the energy of that planet intensifies. With long-cycled planets like Neptune (165 years), this intensification spreads from a few days prior to a few days after the exact turning time.

I’d say, just off the cuff, that today’s turn to go direct (forward) of this outer planet Neptune, which has been retrograde, as it always is, for about half a year, is momentous in 2021, mainly because the foggy Neptunian SPELL of “Covid” which has held so much of the world’s population in its poisonous maw is actually now beginning to roll itself up and lift off this earth. YES!

Neptune has been traveling through its home sign Pisces since 2012, and won’t leave that sign until 2025. Given that a planet in its own sign operates more powerfully than usual (the qualities of any planet match up, echo, qualities of the sign it rules), with my usual Sagittarian optimism (Sun/Asc and Mars in that sign), back in 2012 I visualized the deep unconscious of the entire human race uniting in compassion during Neptune’s passage through Pisces.

Why the unconscious? Because the outer planets (Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Eris), which take so long to move through one sign, both signify the deeper layers of the zeitgeist as well as permeate the unconscious signature of an entire generation. Those born during these years, 2012 through 2025, have the Neptune in Pisces signature in their birthcharts. In other words, they all have this placement, and its qualities, in common, and thus swim together on an unconscious level.

All that occurs during this approximately 13 year period of time, is what this generation, especially will take with them all their lives. Furthermore, they are going to be utterly familiar with the phenomenon of a “Neptunian spell,” — though they may never learn to call it that.

So. It turns out that I was correct. The entire human race is uniting, thanks to Covid. But rather than positive unification, it is — or has been — decidedly negative.

So far.

On this day when Neptune turns to go direct, it also happens to nearly exactly trine Mars (at 21°45 Scorpio) and nearly exactly sextile Venus (at 20°48) in Capricorn.

Moreover, within the next several days Venus is due to cross over Pluto, at 25°03 Capricorn. Remember that this Covid Con began in mid- January 2020, when we experienced the first Saturn/Pluto conjunction in 35 years. The consequences of Saturn (making real) Pluto’s deep underground purgation of corruption of the structures that govern society (Capricorn) commenced then.

Positive, more evolved meanings of Neptune: impersonal, compassionate LOVE, imagination, vision, dreams, inspiration, empathy, unifying atmospherics.

Negative, less evolved meanings of Neptune: deception, lies, glamor, pretense, trickery, scams, fraud, cheating, i.e., THE SPELL (unification into mass formation).

Dane Rudyhar’s Sabian symbol and commentary for Neptune at its turning point, today, 21° Pisces:

We are lifting off the Covid veil to begin again, innocent, like lambs, with the personal planets of attraction (Venus) and desire (Mars) enlivening the human journey on planet earth.

” . . .a vision of WHITE HOPE, a hope for a future that can only be felt, almost naively.”