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FIFTH
HOUSE NEPTUNE
The
House of Offspring - The field of personal self-expression.
Projection
of the self into the world. Children. Artistic creations.
Displays.
Speculation. Love affairs. Games, amusements, and recreations.
"Brain" children. Hobbies. Talents. Pleasures.
The
person with Neptune in the fifth house has a natural affinity for show
business. They respond to the lure of movies, theaters, nightspots, casinos,
and all beguilements which feature the casting of illusions.
They
may undergo peculiar experiences with regard to matters of the heart. Chaotic
love affairs and sexual misadventures can leave a bitter residue of regrets
for having surrendered to the impulse of the moment.
This
position of Neptune may also indicate an unusual child or some obscure problem
with regard to offspring. In some cases it impels an individual to care for
children who are retarded, deformed, or in need of special attention.
Astrology, the
Divine Science
NEPTUNE
IN THE FIFTH HOUSE
Liz
Greene
The
fifth house is traditionally associated with children and creativity. But the
'children' of the 5th house are not necessarily biological, and our
biological children are represented here not in the context of our capacity
for parenting, but as those physical creations upon which we project our inner
images of immortality and specialness.
The
fifth house might more appropriately be called the house of the inner child,
for it is the archetypal image of the divine child that stands behind the
specialness associated with the Sun, the natural ruler of the 5th,
and the urge to play and express our childlike hearts. The 5th
house is thus as 'religious' as the 9th, and perhaps more so, since
the pursuit of meaning as reflected by the 9th is largely
intellectual in nature, while the experience of inner divinity, which we
encounter through the 5th, in both our children and our creative
efforts, is direct, unmediated, and irrefutable.
The
divine child whom we meet when Neptune is in the fifth is the Christ-child,
the Mithras child, the progeny of heaven and the source for our redemption.
Creative expression may thus become a means of salvation, for through it we
can leave the darkness of the material world and enter into union with the
source of life. But in order to pursue this kind of creative spirit we may
feel impelled to suffer; for creativity allied to a 5th house
Neptune carries with it the poignant vision of the Romantic poets. The artist
must suffer for his or her creation, and is redeemed by it; yet the artist is
also the mouthpiece for the divine, and carries the role of the redeemer of
society. Total immersion in the imaginal realm constitutes fusion with the
deity; re-emerging into ordinary life is an expulsion from Eden, and a kind of
death.
The
fifth house is also known as the house of love. Love as described by the 5th
is, however, a reflection of the Sun as life-giver, and not specifically
sexual; nor is it a relationship between equals. Solar love is an unbounded
radiance which pours out toward people and objects as the Sun itself shines
upon the Earth. Our 5th house 'love affairs' are not really
concerned with other people as individuals. We embark upon them in order to
experience our lovingness toward those who orbit around us as the Earth does
around the Sun.
Through
our recognition of our own capacity to love, we glimpse that which is godlike
in ourselves. Neptune in the 5th conjures the love of the
troubadours, for whom the beloved is a mirror, and the experience of passion
is a gateway to union with the ineffable; the lover himself or herself hardly
matters. Neptune is the 5th is described as 'a love of beauty and
art...wastefulness, self-glorification, misdirected passion, seduction.' It is
hardly surprising that Neptune's passion might be 'misdirected', as the other
person is merely a mirror in which the individual glimpses the immortality of
his or her own soul.
With
such a profound idealization of love, one is likely to display a certain lack
of discrimination in one's choices. Neptune in the 5th may be
utterly in love with being in love. Yet love and suffering may live side by
side, for it is through the experience of love that we, the suffering ones,
are redeemed, and offer redemption to others who suffer. Neptune in the 5th
is sometimes linked with deception in love, either as perpetrator or victim.
This is also not surprising; due to the extreme idealization and propensity
for disillusionment which Neptune brings to romantic encounters.
When
Neptune is in the 5th, creative outlets are essential, for real people such as
lovers and offspring cannot carry the mythic idealizations of Neptune without
eventually falling off their pedestals.
Neptune’s
compassion and sensitivity may reflect a gift for interacting with children,
and not only one’s own. But the planet’s most benign expression in the
natural house of the Sun is ultimately through those creative vehicles which
can offer an immediate experience of the mystery which lies embedded within
the sense of ‘I’. ‘Children’, ‘speculation’, and
‘love-affairs’ seem easier - at least initially - because they are
instinctive and do not require self-reflection.
Creative
work demands the discipline of Saturn and the self-definition of the Sun,
which Neptune resists. Yet, paradoxically, it is through creative effort that
Neptune’s redemptive longing can be fulfilled, at least in part, through
discovering the divine child within.
The Astrological Neptune
and the Quest for Redemption
Mindfire