Neptune Returns Home….For The First Time Ever
Part II : Clarity Beneath The Deception of Discovery

By Brad Kronen

According to the Universe, there is no debate as to who discovered Neptune: Le Verrier The Piscean

What good is trying to grab big handfuls of Neptune’s watery essence without approaching the Slick Willy of our Solar System as a unified whole of planetary power and astrological influence? As with any behemoth that holds influence over the actions of Man, we must investigate its source beginnings before analyzing its possible potential to affect our future.

As mentioned in Part I, Neptune rules over all that is Un-real, confusing, and undefined. Based on these “cake walk” areas of human existence, it is practically a set in stone Universal guarantee that the discovery of the watery planet by we squabbling, jingoistic Earthlings in the mid 19th century is a point of confusing contention that still is heatedly argued over to this very day. However, the details of karmic clarity that lie just below the surface layer of hazy debate and miscomprehension are divine affirmations which confirm the potent significance this heavenly body holds for humanity and the influential role it will play forever more in the evolution of Mankind.

“Last Call (or is it the first?), All Aboard the SS Stupefied!”

The year Neptune was discovered? That’s an easy one! It’s the same year Disneyland opened, the Florida one, right?!

I’m sorry.

I totally have it dude! Neptune was discovered around the same time Atlantis sank and basically said to the Universe “Our work here is done.” and that was most righteously during the year 5000 B.C., bro.

Damn Buddy! That was amaz-ummm no.

The answer is it hasn’t happened yet because Lindsay Lohan only recently purchased Neptune and its official discovery year will be when construction is completed for the “Lindsay Lunatic, Or was it Looney Lohan Rehab Centre for Wayward Alien Starlets”.

Smiling very hard while walking away backwards o so slowly……..

When you’re an astrologer, it’s assumed: Any information regarding Neptune is confusing at best and almost never has a standard, “accepted by all” conclusion – ESPECIALLY regarding its discovery!

It was only a few weeks ago that I realized the year 2011 would mark the first time in Man’s recorded history that Neptune would be returning to its ruling sign as well as make its first complete orbital cycle since the date of its discovery in 1846. Since I wrongfully presumed Neptune must have butterfly stroked through the adult sized uber pool that is the sign of Pisces during a not so distant earlier point in time, my Gemini mind went into overdrive and revisited a subject matter I usually left as quickly as I approached, with the same closed eyed iccks as if I had to down a heaping ladle of cod liver oil – the raging controversy behind the discovery of The Watery Planet.

Which continues to this very day….

The unique and thrilling bits which I discovered on my own regarding this very debated-to-bits planetary discovery has left me positively stupefied.

Or, if I could get away with saying it, my piecing together of  the events which led to the discovery of The Watery Planet,  as well as putting an astrological personality behind each of the prominent cast of characters’ names of the men responsible for leading  humanity to that most auspicious day in late September of 1846,

… has left me positively Neptunified. Or should I say, allowing myself to Neptune turn in while also Neptune tune out, has permitted me to come up with my own unique theories as to who should be deemed the rightful discoverer of Neptune.

And I do believe these theories are all firsts of their kind….or I could have recently been given a tidalwave backhand by The Lord of Ocean’s Depths and could be THAT currently delusional and just am not fully cognizant of my Neptunian nuttiness, just quite yet…..

Wen You Say “Discovered”, Do You Actually Mean Discovered?

Remember that whole “ruling over UN-reality” quality Neptune has? You’ll be dazed and confused to know that Neptune was the first planet of its kind to be discovered solely by theoretical deduction, or said another way, Neptune is the first planet of our Solar System discovered through the use of astronomical non-reality, which is to say, the tool of hypothetical intangibility.

Already things sound unnerving, but I must conject, at the same time everything fits so perfectly in a most cosmicly glorious way, when providing description for the planet that calls intangible unreality its home turf!

Although comprehending Neptune’s overall essence has a murky quality that is anything but clear, over the span of a few centuries, various people have independently theorized or mistakenly and unknowingly stumbled upon the existence of the watery planet. Remarkably, although each person deduced every correct portion of the astronomical formula where the grand total at the end of the “=” was the discovery of the planet itself, for various reasons ranging from mistaken identity to outright distraction , none took that final step of follow through and either abandoned or ignored their composited work efforts, all of which led them right to Neptune’s watery door step!

A source of minor debate regarding one of those possible Neptune discoverers, who by far was the first person to technically perform every correct step leading to planetary discovery except actually saying the words, “I think I discovered a planet.”, astoundingly was the one who had the most concrete proof of his work of near planetary discovery AND all without a telescope!! One of many examples of mental genius being displayed despite its clarity spewing from the very bottom of Neptune’s muddiest depths!

Hey, Was That A Planet? Nah, Couldn’t Be!

A smaller portion of discovery debaters insist that Neptune was found over 2 centuries earlier than its official discovery date by a man born under the sign whose domain he is accredited with, the father of modern science, Aquarian Galileo Galilei. On December 28th, 1612, Galileo, for all intensive purposes, found the exact positioning of Neptune, but because of its close proximity to Jupiter during that time of year along with the watery planet newly beginning a cycle of retrograde motion that very same night, he mistook the mighty planet for a fixed star and regardless of making thorough drawings of that particular winter’s night sky, never gave his virtual discovery of a planet’s work a 2nd thought.

The Good, The Badly Distracted, & The Ugly Crybaby

Moving 231 years further down the cosmic pike, a convergence in the time and space continuum occurred between 2 men, each independently hypothesizing that something was off with the orbit of that recently discovered oddball of a planet, Uranus, beginning in the year 1843. From the seeds of these 2 genius minds, whose outer shells were comprised of nothing but intangible mathematical hypotheses, 2 other men of science were thrust onto the world’s stage based on their association and individual work with the intellectual leaps of faith of the original two, all of which stumbled, tripped, and burst together, leading to the night of the watery planet’s observational discovery on September 23rd, 1846. All 4 people were born under 3 of the 4 mutable signs, Gemini, Sagittarius, and one you may have heard me mention a few million times earlier, Pisces. (Thus begins the Mystically Significant portion of Brad’s program, boys and girls).

Gemini John Couch Adams began the chain reaction of planetary discovery in England in 1843, using data that had already been established regarding the erratic orbit of Uranus. At that time, if a person had a burning hunch about a heavenly body, one had to begin a tedious and time consuming process of making official “requests” versus taking a spin to the nearest Observatory to verify things with some of the latest and greatest models of high powered telescopes. When you were an official subject of the United Kingdom (aka a Brit) in 1843, one had to most honorably ask in the most drawn out of flowery language for the “Astronomer Royal” to verify your findings as well as provide whatever latest and greatest astronomical updates which had occurred during the 100 or so years which passed while waiting for a royal response by mail.

Since the Astronomer Royal was technically the astronomical authority in all of Great Britain, he was the final determinant as to who did what work and provided whom with whatever astronomical information was most pressing at the time. Since Adams was a “commoner” and was not familiar with the proper path of request for royal astronomical assistance, he asked his Sagittarian buddy, James Challis, who took over the job of director of the Royal Observatory in Cambridge when his boss, Leo Sir George Airy (unfortunately not an air sign) became Astronomer Royal in 1835, to mention Adams’ ideas to his former boss in order to begin correspondence.

With James Challis’ assistance, a proper path of discourse was established between John Couch Adams and the Astronomer Royal, Sir George Airy. Although a formal and official gateway of communication was built between Adams and Airy, the dynamic between these 2 major players cannot be categorized as anything BUT Neptunian! Both may have thought they had a working relationship of acquaintanceship with each other, but allow Brad to clarify:

There was no relationship between Adams and Airy, it simply didn’t exist.

The two men are always associated together by default whenever there is debate over the discovery of Neptune, and I actually think both men deceived themselves into thinking they had some sort of working relationship, but these 2 people never met and any attempts made for any kind of direct communication between them was mysteriously thwarted. Being a Gemini, Adams’ mind had revved into a hyperactive frenzy over his initial deductive work regarding Uranus’ orbit, however, when Airy first replied to Adams and asked in more than one letter for further information on Adams’ Uranian orbital theories, they were ignored, and in quintessential Neptunian “I’m just going to act like it doesn’t exist” fashion were not addressed as if Airy never asked Adams for anything to begin with!

Years after the Neptunian discovery wars had ebbed, John Couch Adams was asked why Airy’s multiple requests were blatantly ignored. His response is so thoroughly Neptunian since it is completely matter of fact with an implied assumption that his actions were above reproach. Adams responded that his black hole of non-accounted for, non actions was due to the young Gemini summing up the Astronomer Royal’s requests as “trivial” and not worth even acknowledging their existence.

By the way, if you ever want to perform mental torture that is most effective by being truly cruel – ignore what a Gemini says, it’s tantamount to negating their very existence, since Geminis apply the most worth to their words and communications.

Test my little theory – next time you’re on the phone with one of your Gemini friends or relatives, hang up on them while they’re in mid-sentence, you’ll see what I mean.

The volley of the Neptunian “communication? what communication?” game of negation between Sir George and John Couch Adams resembled a tennis match comprised solely of serving faults at Wimbledon, since Sir George served up his own version of information negation right back into Adams’ court!

The Astronomer Royal never acknowledged Adams’ findings. When push comes to scientific shove, John Couch Adams deserves the credit for starting the process of discovering a trans-Uranian planet by theorizing through mathematics that the irregular nature of Uranus’ orbit most likely was due to the gravitational pull of another heavenly body – close to 2 years before the French mental giant who will be introduced a little later theorized his similar, yet independent, genius hypotheses. Even when the very real and threatening Neptunian competition, Le Verrier, approached Sir George about inputting the mathematical coordinates at the Observatory at Cambridge in order to find the location of what the Frenchman adamently insisted was the discovery location of a new planet, The Astronomer Royal conveniently forgot to mention not only that Adams had more or less deduced similar mathematical findings prior to Le Verrier’s, but that there even was a John Couch Adams at all, in this tidalwave of passive aggressive, retributive non-communication! Here we see one of Neptune’s favorite and most obvious tools of confusion – deception.

Non-acknowledgement of Adams’ truly ground breaking and first of its kind work drove Adams’ Geminian impatience into such a frenzy, he set off to personally visit Sir Airy’s offices to hand deliver the calculations which he originally intimated in his letters of introduction to the Astronomer Royal. Things become incredibly Neptunian for Adams when he was curtly told that Sir George was “unavailable” and again when the scenario of De ja (Verrier) vouz is repeated when Adams attempts a 2nd visit to speak to a very uncurious Sir George a few weeks later. The Gemini genius who had no problem negating other people’s communications is crestfallen when his request to hold audience with the Astronomer Royal is negated a 2nd time as if he never made the effort to see Sir George to begin with. Adams concludes that leaving hard copies of his mathematical hypotheses with one of the Astronomer Royal’s secretaries is the very best he can do.

Meanwhile, over in France………..

While the passive aggressive mushroom cloud of missed mark communication expanded between Adams and Airy, a son of the planet that was soon to be called Neptune was mathematically deducing that all was not c’est magnifique with the orbital path of the planet whose name his people thankfully did not constantly feel the need to reduce to potty humor. Piscean Urbain Le Verrier independently deduced the same mathematical hypotheses Adams had done a few years earlier, but put a smidge more effort into mutable follow through by publishing his thoughts in June of 1846.

Simulataneously skimming across the English Channel…….

Who should be perusing Verrier’s findings whilst sitting on the royal astronomical throne but the Astronomer Royal himself, Sir George not an air sign Airy! Fully aware that the race was officially on with not a second to spare in the impending discovery of a new planet, Sir George summoned his former underling, a certain Sag you may be acquainted with, John Challis, to drop everything and scour the summer evening skies so that England could win the spoils and the credit for discovering the latest and greatest planet known to humanity! Adams is not even asked nor considered to drop everything and assist Challis with the fruitless frenzy that ensues for the next 2 months of blindly stabbing into the dark of outer space with no end result. Adams who?

Unfortunately for England, even if you ask a mutable signed person to drop everything for the purpose of focusing on a single task of the most all encompassing critical importance, they’re still going to manage doing said critical task while simultaneously riding a unicycle while at the same time juggling some wine bottles along with a few Ginsu knives for a little thrill factor.

The Brits insist to this very day that over the course of those 2 summer months in 1846, John Challis observed Neptune not once but four times, but failed to make the proper identification due to “lack of diligence”. Allow me to shed some light as to why there was such a non existent diligence factor, actually I’ll let Challis himself explain since he fire sign whined enough about it in his letters to Airy afterwards. Per Challis, the planetary prize of discovering Neptune was blundered in a major Sagittarian way, why John?:

“I have been greatly mortified to find that my observations would have shewn me the planet in the early part of August if I had only discussed them. … I delayed doing this … chiefly because I was making a grand effort to reduce the vast numbers of comet observations which I have accumulated and this occupied the whole of my time.”

Neptune knows! the multitudes of dinky comets that can get in the way when you’re hell bent on discovering a planet that is 17x larger than Earth!

Being ruled by the planet that revels in telling “the guppy who ends up being the great white shark who got away” tall tale, Jupiter, I must admit I find the regretful sob story of retrospect bad enough, but insisting that Challis came across the planet numerous times over, to me ends up looking like a big ole’ bowl of sour grapes peppered with some very generous portions of poor loser and doused on top with WAY too much Jupiterian exaggeration. (Brad just said the Sag dude pretty much lied.)

Logging In Lateness and Ligntning

Snobishness isn’t just for Brits, boys and girls, there have been rumored cases of it amongst the French as well, cross my heart with Poseidon’s Triton! If Adams’ was perceived to be a snob by his fellow Brits, when the race for Neptune’s discovery commenced, Le Verrier was seen as Lord King Snob amongst his fellow countrymen, and that’s saying a lot, given that 8 out of 10 commoners consider France to be the birthplace of the sterotypical snob! Once again, I must interject by playing Le Advocate de Devil, by stating many Pisceans are often mistakenly perceived to be the most obnoxious of snobs, when in reality, they are desperately trying to cover up their intense shyness and paralyzing fear of having to interact with those they don’t know well.

You say stuck up elitist, I say shy water sign with an inherent lack of social skills, the French intelligentsia called the whole Neptunian thing off no matter how anyone interpreted Le Verrier’s caustic behavior! Realizing that the British were coming and now were surpassing all of his efforts by frenzily searching for the missing planet he had independently deduced, along with garnering no interest or assistance whatsoever from his countrymen, Le Verrier sought help from that ethnic grouping of people that wielded efficiency like a deadly weapon against any kind of force of Neptunian confusion, the Germans.

This particular portion of the discovery connection displays Neptune’s chaotic influence over the motion of time, ranging from the most painfully slow of snail’s paces to a speed more brilliantly fast than lightning.

In the late spring of 1845, German Gemini astronomer, Johan Galle, finished his Ph.D. thesis on meridian transits of stars and planets of which he sent a copy to Le Verrier, who was known as an authority on celestial physics at the time.

Over a year passed.

Be it the extra number of holidays taken by the Parisian post, or most likely, Le Verrier temporarily emerging from his Piscean space case fog to actually notice the physical presence of Galle’s paper or to actually pay attention and absorb Galle’s words this time around, Le Verrier sent back an obscenely overdue reply to Galle who happened to work at the Berlin Observatory, asking if he would be at all interested in checking out this little idea he came up with about the presence of some planet or other.

A little side note, while in Deutschland, I have personally witnessed Germans become FURIOUS over a train being 3 minutes late, the efficiency of time is THAT big a cultural deal in Germany.

Good ‘ole time efficient Galle logged in the time of everything he did it seemed, which adds so much to how totally confusing Neptune can be with the passage of time. He logged in receiving Le Verrier’s bizarrely late, but tangibly received, none the less, response on the 18th of September, 1846.

For all you Pisceans who are habitually late and say you can’t help it, things change mighty quickly when you Fish Kids want something bad enough. Le Verrier must have practically sprinted to the Paris Post Office upon receiving Galle’s prompt response agreeing to investigate his mathematical hypotheses which now contained the actual coordinates regarding the location of a possible new planet, since Galle logs in receiving this momentous 2nd correspondence with the morning mail of September the 23rd, 1846.

Besides having his people’s cultural demand for efficiency within his genes, Galle had the mental and physical speed only someone born under the Mercury ruled sign of Gemini could possess. Galle worked at the Berlin Observatory, but was not in charge of it. Not only did he have to ask permission to be allowed to use the German observatory’s telescopes, approval needed to be given for the purpose of his request, which was denied at first due to an overall Neptunian-like haze that covered the scientific world that highly doubted anything of its kind like the planet Neptune even existed.

Galle boomeranged back, and within the span of a few daylight hours from receiving Le Verrier’s coordinates by mail theorizing that a planet should be at the 26th degree in the sign of Aquarius that morning, was given permission to use the Berlin Obervatory’s 9-inch Fraunhofer refractor telescope to verify Le Verrier’s hypotheses on that very evening of September 23rd, 1846.

Sprinkling Some Cancerian Crab Claw Mix Generously into the Coordinates Concoction…

And Vois-La!….Neptune!

Over the course of that momentous September day, a student of Galle’s was asked to assist with the relaying of the evening sky’s coordinates, Cancerian, Heinrich d’Arrest. D’Arrest made a suggestion that was simple, efficient, and karmicly profound. He suggested comparing their observations with the positions recorded against a very recently made drawing of the night sky called the Hora XXI star chart. When the sky finally darkened to an acceptable level of observation on the evening of September 23rd, 1846, Galle moved and observed the telescopic lens to the pinpoint area of the heavens which translated to Le Verrier’s coordinates. He then called out the coordinates to d’Arrest, who checked them against the star chart.

First attempt – Nothing.

Galle then adjusted the movement of the lens by one degree, to which he breathtakingly observed an 8th-magnitude star. When Galle called out its position, d’Arrest exclaimed, “That star is not on the map!”.

The discovery of the planet Neptune technically occurred in under a half of an hour’s time.

In my predictions for the year of 2011, I mentioned that the countries that had wreaked the most havoc and destruction by war throughout the history of Western Civilization, England, France, and Germany, were all ruled by the sign ruled by the God of War, Aries.

Use your imagination to conjure up the battles of debate that quickly ensued over which scientist, and vastly more importantly, which country that scientist hailed from, deserved the laurel prize of staking claim as the discoverer of this newly found planet after the evening of September 23rd, 1846 and still continue to this very day.

Germany said they found it, then they discovered it.

France said they told Germany where to look.

England told France they came up with the whole thing to begin with.

And so on, and so on, and so on. What must be emphasized is, none of the sparring ever occurred between any of the actual core players involved with the discovery of Neptune. Amongst them, all undisputed credit clearly went to Urbain Le Verrier as the discoverer of this new planet.

This Planet Shall Hereby Be Known as: “The Planet Exterior To Uranus”

The naming of this discovery that stupefied the entire scientific world to its core begins the divine decrees of karmic clarity. Le Verrier was the first approached to name the planet. Most say his first attempt was embarrassingly uncreative, I say it’s thoroughly Neptunian – “The Planet Exterior To Uranus“. For a person who came from a culture that frowned upon any kind of poo poo jokes associated with the planet that was discovered before this one, Uranus, the Pisces’ first naming attempt certainly wouldn’t have helped things in that vein. Brad shudders to think how beyond miserable his world would be if everyone agreed upon Le Verrier’s space case Piscean first choice of a name for his discovery, which would be the butt of every Uranus joke already out there.

When Le Verrier was told to go back to the drawing board, his 2nd naming attempt was certainly acceptable, but too controversial. Professor Haley had just discovered that new comet and named it after himself, why can’t this planet now be called “Le Verrier’s Planet“? Thank Neptune for the controversy amid the chaos!

3 times a winner, folks – and we have NO IDEA why, but out of frustration for his first 2 picks being rejected, Le Verrier impatiently said to just call it “Neptune” and be done with it.

Amidst the din of all the Neptunian confusion and haze, the karmic clarity emerged. For at the same time that Le Verrier pulled the name Neptune out of the air, our distracted Sagittarian friend across the mini-pond was being asked what HE would name this new planet being that he actually observed it first without realizing it, to which James Challis proposed the name, “Oceanus“, a lesser Roman water god.

This new planet was clearly of a watery nature.

The Astrological & Numerological Significance Behind The Discovery of Neptune

Astrologically, there is no doubt as to who deserves credit for the controversial discovery of Neptune for reasons that are both obvious and powerfully esoteric. A sufficient core of the scientific community assign credit to the man who mathematically deduced Neptune’s location and was off by 1 degree. Looking at an Ephemeris for the year 1846, along with Galle’s loggings, Le Verrier was exactly correct given that Neptune indeed was at 26 degrees of Aquarius on the day he hurriedly replied to Galle’s letter. The planet had moved one degree in the time it took for the mail to arrive to Galle in Germany 5 days later.

Of all the key players there is only one who was born under the sign that Neptune rules over – Piscean Urbain Le Verrier. When I verified the birth and death dates of each of the men involved behind the controversy of the discovery of Neptune, I was stupefied in a most Neptunian way when I came upon Le Verrier’s.

Born on March 11th, 1811. (This date will be most noteworthy exactly 200 years later when The Sendai Earthquake and Tsunami occurred off the Honshu coast of Japan, rocking the Earth off its axis and when Neptune and Uranus were positioned at the highly karmic 29th degree of each other’s ruling signs, otherwise known as  Planets being in “mutual reception”.

Died on September 23rd, 1877.

Neptune will both be re-entering the sign of its rulership for the first time in recorded history as well as making its first complete orbit since its discovery over the course of 2011, which marks the 200th anniversary of Urbain Le Verrier’s birth which occurred on the 11th day of March, when the Sun is astrologically placed in the sign ruled by the planet he discovered. The Universe clearly put an end to the debate of Neptune’s rightful human discoverer by marking a man who was born under that planet’s rulership and found it by the most Neptunian of intangible methods, but also by having the date of his exit from this plane of existence be the very same date his planet was discovered – September the 23rd.

Speaking of September 23rd

The discovery of Neptune’s existence fits right in under the domain which that planet rules over astrologically, confusion, but your undaunted astrologer discovered that just like that planet’s surface, diamond like gems of astrological clarity were a mere hair’s length’s distance if one was willing to investigate what lay just underneath the atmosphere of hazy fog.

Just as 2 centuries mark the time between our current Neptunian happenings and the birth of its discoverer, the journey of Neptunian discovery began 2 centuries prior to the actual discovery of our chaotic planet in question. If conditions were slightly different, Neptune would have been discovered in the early 17th century by the man whom we attribute modern science to – Galileo. One of the main reasons why Neptune was both overlooked as well as drew negative reactions from those in science prior to its discovery was the belief that nothing would be found amongst fixed stars.

If we take the thread of each key player’s astrological sign’s quality, and follow it through the Minotaur sized labrynth of confusion through the centuries, we come to a full circle completion at the time of Neptune’s shocking discovery in 1846.

Galileo begins the debated trek. He was born under the fixed sign of Aquarius and correctly finds Neptune, but confuses it as a “fixed” star.

The quality of fixed continues as the force of inhibition behind the discovery of Neptune when the Astronomer Royal, Sir George Airy, who was born under the polar opposite fixed sign of Galileo’s, Leo, ignores John Couch Adams’ initial mathematical hypotheses assuming they would not amount to much given the held consensus of most scientists in the mid 19th century that no other planets existed beyond the orbit of Uranus.

The quality of fixed holds on the longest to anything pre-established. The only quality that Neptune’s fluidity could be housed under is that of multi-dimensional change, Mutable.

With the exception of one, the key players behind the discovery of Neptune were all born under mutable signs – beginning with Gemini John Couch Adams, then Sagittarian James Challis and ending with Gemini Johann Galle to the final source, Piscean Urbain Le Verrier.

The last links of unobvious but finalizing cosmic clarity deal with the last of the mutable signs hitherto unmentioned as well as the person considered the bottom of the totem pole of importance regarding the discovery of Neptune.

I mistakenly assumed the date of Neptune’s discovery, September 23rd 1846, occurred when the Sun was positioned in first degree of Libra. On September 23rd of that particular year, the Sun was in the last and very karmic degree of the 4th and final of the mutable signs, Virgo. Anytime a planet is placed at the 29th or last degree of a sign, it is a karmic indication of high significance. The date of Neptune’s discovery occurred when the heavenly body that astrologically represents enlightenment and illumination, The Sun, was positioned at the 29th degree of the sign of tangibly based details, Virgo, which also is the polar opposite of the sign that Neptune, the planet associated with all things lacking details and intangible, rules over naturally, Pisces.

As we have seen, many confusing factors covered the atmosphere of discovery leading us to September 23rd, 1846. The hazy fog was finally pierced when a mere astronomy student, Heinrich d’Arrest suggested to his mentor they compare their findings to a drawing of the evening sky. d’Arrest is the only one of the key players behind the discovery of Neptune who was not born under a mutable sign. Galle’s star student was born under the cardinal sign of Cancer, the sign which is associated with the night sky due to it being ruled by that heavenly body which Mankind has always been able to see at night without any kind of mechanical assistance, The Moon.

How wondrous is it that the person least involved by association in the raging debate over the discovery of Neptune was born under a watery sign that is associated with the night sky at large, and fully completes the circle by suggesting they use a tool which is exactly what Galileo, who was born under the sign that Neptune was positioned in on that September night in 1846, used the night he came across the slick eel of the Solar System – a drawing of the starry evening sky.

Galileo’s date of birth is February 15th, 1564, which, by the Julian calendar, puts that date into the sign of Neptune’s rulership at 5 degrees Pisces, and by the Gregorian calendar, translates that date as the same place in the sky where Neptune was discovered in 1846, at 25 degrees Aquarius.

Heinrich d’Arrest was born on July 13th, 1822, one day off, but still intrinsically connected to that history altering night in which the boundaries of the Heavens expanded even further outwards when the young Cancerian shouted with joyous disbelief “That star is not on the map!”; since Neptune will be completing its first full orbit since its discovery on this upcoming July 12th, 2011.

Blessed Be.

In Part III of the Cosmic Water Ride, Brad discusses the effect Neptune had on society at the time of its discovery as well as proposes the possible influences the watery planet could have on all of us quite soon, as Neptune is about to enter the sign of its rulership, Pisces.