How much more so then do they mingle in the group mind?

     So, today with Neptune approaching its own sign, we see large institutions mixing and mingling genres, just as American culture has broken down the walls between jobs and genders, between what is acceptable in public and what is not, what is acceptable in religious attitudes, and what not. Without that shift, you wouldn’t be reading this magazine.

     Neptune dissolves. In its own sign it will cast glamour, shimmer the edges of things, and arouse idealism to where we just assume the ideal has already become reality. Neptune is the veil we must penetrate to solve the most vital mysteries of life. But the whole Earth has not experienced this effect in 165 years, one Neptune circuit of the Sun.

     Significantly, 2011 will mark one Neptunian year since we discovered Neptune. It always affected us; we just didn’t understand the cyclicality of the effect. Also remember on Star Trek: The Original Series, the engineer Scotty who always “beamed us up” was a quintessential Pisces. Applied science is, oddly, a Neptunian function.

     So Neptune is teaching us about the relationship between our individual work and service (sixth house) and our group mind’s work and service, twelfth house. Perhaps Neptune transiting Pisces will highlight all humanity striving at the great work.

     We might see those lessons surfacing already in some of the more mystical edges of fantasy publishing.

First let’s look at a self-published iUniverse novel, provided to me by the author. It’s an award finalist by Dana Davis, titled Desert Magick, and set in Arizona’s Superstition Mountains (which is very near where I live). Remember, all the books I review are “five-star” excellent, and they’re in this column because they’re