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Originally written June 2000 | pp. 1 2 3
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A month ago, we looked
at the artist in relationship to the Neptune•Saturn combination. This month,
in contrast, we will look at the artist's Neptune when it contacts a very
different planetary archetype— Jupiter. Like the Saturn•Neptune combination,
the Jupiter•Neptune combination represents higher mental and imaginal yearnings
toward an ideal. However, whereas Saturn strips away Neptune's oceanic bliss
and paradisiacal inclinations, Jupiter expands and elevates Neptune's transcendant
reality.
The world of Jupiter•Neptune
is harmonious, heavenly, whimsical, and divinely "perfect." Although the harsher
realities, as represented by the archetypes of Saturn and Pluto, do exist
in the Jupiter•Neptune worldview, they are seen as bearers of necessary lessons
which have ultimately positive consequences and, thus, are subordinate to
what Liz Greene refers to as Jupiter•Neptune's "benign cosmos." It could be
said that the world of Jupiter•Neptune is on the one hand inspired, wise,
and perceptive of subtlety, and, on the other hand, naive, innocent, and overly
sentimental and optimistic.
Artist's born with a
Saturn•Neptune combination feel a pressing need to recapture the lost nirvana
that seems to be unduly taken from manifest reality. Jupiter-Neptune artist's,
by contrast, express the beatific realm that seems to naturally permeate their
day-to-day experience. As such, though there is an element of the fantastical
in both sets of combinations, there is none of the bleak, hellish, "paradise
lost" quality in the Jupiter•Neptune combination as can be found in Saturn•Neptune.
Born with Jupiter
trine Neptune, Renaissance artist Botticelli's love of depicting scenes from
Greco-Roman mythology and idealized figures and backgrounds typify the Jupiter•Neptune
aspect. Heroic young males interact in a way that would make Adam and Eve's
Garden of Eden look like Sodom and Gomorrah.
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