Point Fifteen

TRANSCENDENT RECEPTIVITY

Neptune reveals the conditions under which man achieves an ultimate or over-all orientation to his society and his culture. Hence it charts the necessities of his OBLIGATION both to his fellows in general and to the world in which all share their experience in the larger and general lineaments. In a sense this recent or century-old demand broadens and rounds out his simple responsibility to his own more immediate heritage and potentiality, such as has astrological DELINEATION through Saturn. The mirroring of his more or less animal nature through the organic actualities of existence, as revealed on the physical and personal side by the moon, is now shown in larger dimension through the wholly impersonal sustainment of his broadened self-consciousness within the cosmic organism of everything in general. This is a necessity laid upon him, in the maturity of his race, that he contribute to the ultimate orderliness through his own self-development. Thus the consummations of Venus are by modern man to be framed in the expectations and fulfillments of all conscious beings collectively. A NATIVE'S more petty gratifications and trivial accomplishments are shaped to the heightened manifestation of himself that constitutes his reason for being in these days.

Emphasizing again the horoscopic subordination of the SIGNIFICANCE that tends to be a predetermined endowment [410] to the special cradling of the unique potentials such as Prince Charles must mold and establish in their own final characteristics, and the consequent and extraordinary insulation of his conscious experience from the turmoil of a society in widespread global transition, Neptune shows his OBLIGATION centered in the FOURTH HOUSE or place of the psychological womb in close CONJUNCTION with the dominating Venus and of no importance in basic patterns with its lack of other major ASPECTS except the two sextiles of minor INDICATION. The absence of dynamic stress of the PLANETARY department has already been noted. Any contribution to history, as remarkable as it may turn out to be, is quite a secondary matter in his own realization and experience.

For a practical or everyday understanding of the transcendent receptivity of the prince's obligation, both to himself and to the genius of society at large, it may be noted that Neptune lies in the HOUSE of HOME, the SIGN of EQUIVALENCE and a degree symbolized by circular paths. In the reduction of this horoscopic formula to a statement that is both accurate insight and simple explanation, in the framework of the over-all perspective, the astrologer may observe that (1) in CIRCUMSTANCES the NATIVE'S acceptance of any broad responsibility as a competent member of the social scheme of things is with a quite conscious assumption that this ultimately is to preserve the prerequisites and opportunities of the royal line of which he is representative, (2) in FUNCTION his task is a continual mediation between the personal role that he strives to exalt and the kaleidoscopic confusion of worldwide changes from which he is insulated so effectively, and (3) in every [411] passing or recurring focus of the moment he must bring every eventuality into decent orbit no matter how he may proceed to accomplish his end. All this may be summarized by saying that he is able to juggle the immediacies of life with a consummate dexterity.

The TWELFTH HOUSE of any NATIVITY indicates the subjective sustainment of all direct personal effort, and this usually means the services of institutions or organized social facilities for an outer and visible support or limitation as the case may be. Also and by the same token this includes the dependence that may be placed with advantage on the conditioned or habit structure of self. Revealed incidentally are the swirling psychological undercurrents, together with the attention that must be given them as the self makes its inner and private readjustments in any effort to control its various situations through attitude rather than act. The HOUSE in the horoscope of Prince Charles contains no PLANETS, and in consequence his fundamental self-sustainment on subconscious levels is never an issue in his life. The location of the LORD of the TWELFTH in the TENTH shows the foundational aplomb contributing to the place in life, with the result that his establishment and maintenance of his general prestige is likely to be free of even the least inner qualm or uncertainty. The CUSP of the TWELFTH HOUSE lies in the SIGN of EXPANSION and in a degree symbolized by an automobile wrecked by a train, and hence the astrologer notes that the subconsciousness in this case is characterized by great prodigality and an utterly reckless lack of concern over consequences. The prince will ever hew to the line he feels is right, let the chips fly where they may.

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