This Thursday eve, Neptune goes retrograde. This language is admittedly confusing. First of all, regular readers know an Rx planet doesn't actually turn backwards - it just appears to from our perspective on Earth. This counts for a lot.

Better to think of it this way: the few days before Neptune exits from the cosmic stage (after the Rx), she gets a big soliloquy, all spotlights blaring, everyone's attention just on her. Even the usual King Sun and Queen Moon take second seat to to Neptune this week.

And what does this mean for you? The dream world beckons. We may go to sleep early, just to catch a few extra. Oceans may call - heed it. Art and music, theater and movies, fantasy and imagination all seem the very pulse of life; except we already know we cannot put our fingers quite on that pulse. Neptune is the intangible and untouchable world that penetrates our soul. But who can touch a dream or a song?

Neptune connects us to the whole greater than ourselves. In our rushaday world, these experiences can be few and far between. But a quick trip to cloudland is easy - whatever arts take your there; and wine for some, sugar for others, plants too.

As enticing as the song sounds, and as restoring a night or two of fantasy, artistic and other various indulgences can be, this time around the very Neptune station is twinged with the taste of bittersweet. For Neptune opposes Saturn, and truth be told this means the giddy sugar high or French wine buzz may not quite do it like it used to.

We might sense that our music needs to go deeper, be more soulful, honest; or our arts may not look as beautiful as we once thought. We could feel the push-pull between wanting the wine yet knowing we won't think quite as clearly the next day. A bit more sad, some of us may feel the heartache of a spiritual path that hasn't lived up to our first fresh hopes.

Whatever song Neptune sings for us, these next few days take the emphasis off the typical material and on to a soul-full feast of the imagination. Have your fill.

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I may be entranced with Neptune on occasion and talk in somewhat contradictory terms about planetary phenomena, but I can also predict the stock market! Check out my latest results here. The very first line of Monday's forecast: "Expecting more up on Monday with a strong move possible into 12:21+." When were indexes going vertically up? Right into 12:21! While most of my work focuses on intraday moves, check the section "Swing trading - big picture" for a general direction on the market.  

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Wandering Stars - the planets