Dreamy Inspirational Neptune

 Neptune is one of two ice giants in the outer solar system (the other is Uranus). Most (80 percent or more) of the planet's mass is made up of a hot dense foggy soup of "icy" materials—water, methane, and ammonia—above a small, rock core 

HOT? NEPTUNE? 

Thirty years ago, scientists first predicted the existence of a weird water phase that makes the substance both solid and liquid at the same time.  It is denser than ordinary water-ice because it forms only under extreme heat and pressure, such as those found inside giant planets. During the superionic phase, the hydrogen and oxygen within water molecules behave bizarrely; hydrogen ions move like a liquid, inside of a solid crystal lattice of oxygen.  

I recommend an interesting and helpful article called “The Surprisingly Strange Physics of Water” by Natalie Wolchover on https://www.livescience.com/ viewed Nov 2020.. “Their water ice is made of a different type of H20 (containing a heavier isotope of hydrogen) than Earth's”. This was created in 2018 on Earth so it is more than theory!

In contrast to the hazy, relatively featureless atmosphere of Uranus, Neptune's atmosphere has active and visible weather patterns.

It is made of a thick fog of water, ammonia, and methane over an Earth-sized solid center. Its atmosphere is made of hydrogen, helium, and methane. The methane gives Neptune the same blue color as Uranus. Neptune has six rings, but they're very hard to see.

Why so blue?

Neptune's Atmosphere and Color

A giant planet, Neptune's atmosphere is made of hydrogen, helium, and methane. These components, specifically methane, are what give the planet its blue color. This is because methane's gaseous composition absorbs red light and reflects blue light outward.

  Neptune is not visible to the unaided eye and is the only planet in the Solar System found by mathematical prediction rather than by empirical observation. Neptune was subsequently observed with a telescope in 1846 by Johann Galle within a degree of the position predicted by Le Verrier. 

The planet's distance from Earth gives it a very small apparent size, making it challenging to study with Earth-based telescopes. Neptune was visited by Voyager 2, when it flew by the planet in 1989; Voyager 2 remains the only spacecraft to visit Neptune. The advent of the Hubble Space Telescope and large ground-based telescopes with adaptive optics has recently allowed for additional detailed observations from afar.
 

An exciting discovery made by the Voyager 2 encounter was Neptune's unusual cloud features. Astronomers were expecting Neptune to be bland and featureless like its sister planet, Uranus. Instead, they found many detailed cloud features in the planet's atmosphere. The most striking of these was the giant dark blue spot, which looked very similar to the giant red spot on Jupiter.  It was so large Earth could have fit inside. Other smaller blue spots were visible along with swirls and bands in the clouds. The big blue spot later disappeared. 

In 2011 Neptune completed its first 165-year orbit since its discovery in 1846.

The average temperature on Neptune is a brutally cold -373 degrees Fahrenheit (F).  Triton, Neptune's largest satellite, has the coldest temperature measured in our solar system at -391 degrees F.  That is only 68 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than absolute zero, a temperature in which all molecular action stops.   

Neptune is smaller but more massive than the other gas giants. Thus, Neptune has a much higher density than Uranus. In fact, Neptune is the densest gas giant in the Solar System.  

  Its largest moon, Triton, was discovered 17 days after Neptune was observed. None of the planet's remaining 13 named moons were located telescopically until the 20th century. 

The known moons are named for minor water deities in Greek mythology. 

Triton is unusual because it is the only large moon in our solar system that orbits in the opposite direction of its planet's rotation―a retrograde orbit. 

That probably means it was captured after formation. Like our own moon, Triton is locked in synchronous rotation with Neptune―one side always faces the planet. But because of its unusual orbital inclination both polar regions take turns facing the Sun.
 

Inward of Triton are seven small regular satellites (moons). These moons have prograde orbits in planes that lie close to Neptune's equatorial plane. Some of these orbits among Neptune's rings. 

Neptune's outermost moon Neso has an orbital period of about 26 years, It orbits further from its planet than any other moon in the Solar System. Neptune has six more outer irregular satellites. other than Triton. They orbit much farther from Neptune and at high inclination. Three of these have prograde orbits, while the remainder have retrograde orbits. In particular,

Nereid has an unusually close and eccentric orbit for an irregular satellite. That suggests that it may have once been a regular satellite that was sent to its current position when Triton was captured. The two outermost Neptunian irregular satellites have the largest orbits of any natural satellites discovered in the Solar System to date.

Despite Triton’s deep freeze, Voyager 2 discovered geysers spewing icy material upward more than 5 miles (8 kilometers). Triton's thin atmosphere, also discovered by Voyager, has been detected from Earth several times since, and is growing warmer, but scientists do not yet know why.

Shortly after its discovery, Neptune was referred to simply as "the planet exterior to Uranus" or as "Le Verrier's planet". Claiming the right to name his discovery, LeVerrier quickly proposed the name Neptune. In December 1846 the name Neptune was proposed to the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Soon, Neptune became the internationally accepted name.

The discovery of Neptune in 1846 coincided with a time of great suffering and idealism. Eighteen forty-six was the year of the Irish potato famine, the Mormons’ arrival at the Great Salt Lake, and the first use of ether painless surgery. The California Gold Rush of 1849 fired imaginations, while the first commercial oil well brought us black gold in 1859, the same year an age of spiritualism grew in America and Europe.

Most languages today use some variant of the name "Neptune" for the planet; indeed in Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Korean, the planet's name was translated as "sea king star". In modern Greek the planet is called Poseidon, the Greek counterpart of Neptune. In Hebrew, "Rahab”, from a Biblical sea monster mentioned in the Book of Psalms.

The last conjunction of Saturn and Neptune formed in 1990. The next conjunction is in 2026.

  In astrology, Neptune is considered a planet of inspiration, dreams, psychic receptivity, illusion, and confusion. Neptune rules spirituality and all things subtle.  It is a planet of mercy and compassion. The more negative manifestations of Neptune include deception, trickery, deceit, guilt, and addiction.

Picture above and information below from https://astro-charts.com/blog/2017/the-neptunian-archetype/

You are not a drop in the ocean; you are the ocean in a drop. Jalaluddin Rumi 

Two basic human desires are:

1. the desire to unite with Source

2.  the desire to separate from Source

Source by your definition.

We rise to the challenge to express the higher vibration of the Neptunian archetype: humble, creative, compassionate, healing. We irrigate our environment with these Peaceful Waters. As living artists, our lives mean something.

The choice is up to us to unite with Spirit or to separate from Spirit. 

Which will you choose?

What do you chose to be aware of? 

  Unlike Poseidon, who was considered one of the most bad-tempered, moody, and greedy Olympian gods in many Greek myths and legends, Neptune played a relatively minor role in Roman mythology. 

It has been argued that inland people had less direct knowledge of the sea. They originated and reused the mythology of the god of the sea. Neptune He was a god of springs, lakes, and rivers before becoming a god of the sea, storms, and horses. The Neptunalia was the festival of Neptune on July 23, at the height of summer. It included works of conservation and draining of superficial waters. The July date and the construction of tree-branch shelters suggest an orginal role for Neptune as god of water sources in the summer's drought and heat.

The seas are also peaceful and dreamy. He might have been an ancient deity of the cloudy and rainy sky. When you are floating on a fluffy white cloud, when you have to pinch yourself hard to be sure what’s happening is real – the energy of Neptune is there.  The same is true with the opposite of when you are in despair. 

(Art above by GenzoMan)