{"id":13633,"date":"2014-10-04T09:30:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T13:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/astrologicalmusings\/?p=13633"},"modified":"2014-10-04T09:30:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T13:30:42","slug":"heroin-overdoses-surge-under-neptune-in-pisces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/astrologicalmusings\/blog\/heroin-overdoses-surge-under-neptune-in-pisces\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroin overdoses surge under Neptune in Pisces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"Heroin<\/a>
Heroin by Benderito<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

I recently had the sad experience of attending a memorial service for the son of a friend who had died of a heroin overdose after using heroin laced with fentanyl. \u00a0I live in a rural area between\u00a0two relatively small towns, and was shocked to find out that the hospitals were flooded with overdose cases that weekend. \u00a0I had written about the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman<\/a> by heroin overdose, but had no idea that heroin use\u00a0had become so widespread near my home town.<\/p>\n

Neptune went into Pisces in 2011 but then retrograded back into Aquarius until February 2012 at which point it moved fully into Pisces. \u00a0Neptune is the modern ruler of Pisces and they both represent the human desire for a transcendent experience. \u00a0This transcendent experience can occur in a mystical moment at church, while watching an amazing sunset, in meditation, in creating art, or in less magnificent means such as through drugs and alcohol or mindless television watching. \u00a0You can read other articles about Neptune in Pisces here. \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

I have no first hand knowledge of this, but I understand that the experience of heroin brings a euphoric bliss, a sense of \u201cbeing wrapped in God\u2019s warmest blanket<\/a>.\u201d \u00a0This has Neptune in Pisces written all over it. \u00a0Neptune was last in Pisces between 1848 and 1862, a period which marked the spread of spiritualism throughout the western world, but also a huge increase in drug addiction:<\/p>\n

Harper\u2019s Weekly<\/em>\u00a0reported on the prevalent use of opium in the late 1850\u2019s. The journal\u2019s inaugural issue of January 3, 1857, carried the essay, \u201cA Recent Confession of an Opium-Eater,\u201d and in 1858 and 1859, the newspaper ran advertisements for Thomas de Quincey\u2019s\u00a0Confessions of an English Opium-Eater\u00a0<\/em>. News stories and illustrations took readers into opium dens, as well as reported the Second Opium War in which Britain fought to keep open its lucrative opium trade after the Chinese government prohibited the narcotic.<\/p>\n

Harper\u2019s Weekly\u00a0<\/em>alerted the public that the opium habit was spreading in New York City and across America. Custom houses reported 300,000 pounds imported in 1858, estimating 90 percent was intended for recreational use. It was a problem which affected all classes and ethnic groups, from Broadway to the Bowery. The effects of opium addiction could be noted in the \u201cglassy eyes in Fifth Avenue drawing-rooms and opera-stalls,\u201d and in the babies of beggar-women. The infants\u2019 sleepiness was induced by laudanum (an opium derivative), which kept the children \u201cfuddled continually, and permanently stupefied.\u201d It was, in fact, a common remedy used by American and British parents, especially poor ones, for infants who were experiencing teething or other pains.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

read more here\u2026<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Apparently the extensive use of heroin and the danger of overdose has significantly increased with the passage of Neptune through Pisces in our century as well:<\/p>\n

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In just two years, deaths from heroin overdoses doubled in the U.S., according to a new report (PDF<\/a>) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [This corresponds exactly to the time of Neptune\u2019s entry into Pisces.]<\/p>\n

In a survey of 28 states, the agency found the death rate increased from 1.0 to 2.1 per 100,000. At the same time, deaths from heroin\u2019s prescription counterparts, opioid pain relievers like hydrocodone and oxycodone, declined from 6.0 per 100,000 in 2010 to 5.6 per 100,000 in 2012.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

read more here\u2026<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Lest we despair, we must remember that the planets don\u2019t create these problems. \u00a0Neptune\u2019s role is to inspire us to achieve that mystical and magical experience \u2013 it is up to us to\u00a0choose the direction we will take in reaching for the\u00a0rainbow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The symbol for Pisces is two fish swimming in opposite directions. \u00a0Pisces is said to be the sign of the saint and the sinner, the priest and the addict. It is our choice, as it always is, whether we will take the easy road of sleep and unconsciousness, \u00a0or remain awake and utilize the powerful energy of change that is coming.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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