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If navigated appropriately,
however, one of Saturn•Neptune's gifts is a rare artistic sensibility—a harnessing
of divine energies into material form. Artist's with the Saturn•Neptune aspect
often give the most profound and visionary glimpses into some transcendent,
religious, and numinous dimension that is most often inaccesible to the human
phenomenon. The artist with a Saturn•Neptune aspect often seems driven to
incarnate an idealized world that is forever out of reach yet constantly pushing
through in dreams, myths, visions, and felt sense.
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Michelangelo was a rare
artistic genius who seemed to master many media, create multiple formal techniques,
and to render exquistely the "agony and ecstasy" of humanity. As one looks
at his birthchart, it becomes apparent that
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the transpersonal planets have significant prominence and can be seen
in his art: the brilliance and wizardry of Uranus, the brute force and intensity
of Pluto, and the subtlety, refinement and imaginative quality of Neptune.
Michelangelo was born
with a Grand Trine between The Sun, Neptune, and Saturn."The Creation of Adam"
beautifully illustrates this configuration in Michelangelo's chart. Probably
no other image in Western art is so evocative of the relationship between
the human and the divine. Not only does the artwork capture the "form versus
formless" theme continually seen in the Saturn•Neptune configuration, but
it also illustrates the human quest toward redemption and sacrilizing the
mundane through the religious impulse.
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The demonic fantasy world
of Hieronymous Bosch has rarely been equaled in the world of art. Born under
the Saturn Neptune conjunction of 1450, Bosch's art depicts the darkest potentials
of the Saturn•Neptune configuration. Bosch's obsession with depicting depraved monsters and
ghouls running through purgatory and Hell suggest the extreme version of what
life on earth can be like for the person with this aspect. As Sue Tompkins
states of the Saturn•Neptune combination, "Neptune is a signifactor of the
imagination and when touched by Saturn can give rise to an imagination that
tends to think the worst." Bosch's "idealized" Hell certainly speaks to that
tendency.
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