Aspects
Bacchus Semi-Sextile Neptune
The Bacchus theme and your subtle sensitivity sit a step apart, so a quiet capacity for rapture reached through the body and senses can grow between them, a resource you grow into an ecstasy that touches the transcendent by way of the flesh, not only the dream. You taste the sublime through the senses. Let bodily rapture open the spirit without sliding into addiction or escape.
Lean in — Let bodily rapture open the spirit without escape.
Watch for — Let the longing for ecstasy become addiction or flight.
- release
- subtle
- growth
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Bacchus through the Dionysian theme, wine, ecstasy, release, and the loosening of the ordinary self, as a point of ecstatic abandon and the urge to let go.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Treats the meeting of bodily rapture and the imagination as an inner dynamic of ecstasy reached through the senses.
- Tierney, Dynamics of Aspect Analysis (1983)Reads the semi-sextile as a minor growth aspect, a subtle nudge toward integrating two neighboring principles.