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Neptune's Symbol | Symbolism
The symbol of Neptune is shaped like a trident, resembling that which the God Neptune possesses. The trident itself is a depiction of a crescent Moon superimposed upon the cross of the Soul. Together they represent the anima mundi, "the soul of all things." Neptune is a higher octave of Venus and as such surpasses the egocentric conceptions of love and beauty. Its capacity for love and beauty is impossible to conceive. Neptune ends existence in the world through a blissful release into a heaven of peace, and carries the love of Venus and Jupiter's foresight onto a higher plane where it envisions the redemption of matter. Neptune? vibrations exist in a subtler dimension of being, beyond that which is physical. Concerned primarily with mass emotions and movements, Neptune rules all that is subtle, immaterial, and mysterious: fog, illusions, deception, psychic, sensitivity, compassion, suffering, the arts, and the mystical and unknown.
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Uranus' Symbol | Symbolism
The symbol for Uranus is two crescent moons placed back-to-back representing the eccentricity of the planet. These moons also resemble Mercury's sign of the Gemini, which indicates an understanding of the dualities of life. Uranus also represents all that is unconventional and original. The cross that stands atop the circle in the center represents the necessity for the spirit in nature and man to submit to pain and struggle, as well as the connection between the forces that circulate between the two crescents. The Marsian concept of the cross atop a circle is exerted by Uranus to shake and change the structures of the past. Uranus also stands for electricity and atomic radiation (Uranium, for example). As a higher octave of Mercury which stands for reasoning and logic to reach a rational conclusion, Uranus acts with lightning speed. Uranus symbolizes intuition, individuality, independence, freedom, insight, originality, scientific, unsentimentality, unpredictable change, and the linking of personal and collective consciousness. Neither good nor bad, Uranus reacts with lightning speed with a disregard for the destruction it may cause. Uranus is both masculine and feminine -- a property caused by its alternating electric currents. Uranus seeks to transform the world by drawing upon superior sources of energy than that which man deems traditional.
