The Imaginative Child

As Bachelard affirms, “the imagination is former to the memory. The original act is just an imagination: the imagination is the first dimension of the psyche.” While you are young the planet Neptune, which deals with the imagination is difficult to cope with, but it is also an endless cornucopia from where beauty and dreams can be poured out through childhood.

Children express fascination in a most natural way, and this gift is given at the the very moment of their birth: imagination takes form through their open eyes, they start to see the world as an unclear and vague source of astonishment and surprise. The world either will confirm their dreams or delude them. This is the stage when the beginning of the expressive imagination takes place. The reality is the scene, the stage, where the child plays his role. The boundaries often are dissolving, and the child can be deluded, or confused by the mysteries of his dreams mixed with the reality.

Neptune, the planet, denotes, if strong and well placed in a chart with a good aspect with Mercury, great imagination and great visual creativity. It means also that the child is very sensitive and can empathize with others, being sensitive to their needs and wants. The child under the Neptunian influence is one of the most vibrant personalities; in the environment, his inner antennas pick up vibes around him. If Neptune got afflicted from the energy of Mercury (which expresses the rational mind) the child can be so nervously sensitive to catch all the psychological negative energies floating close to him to cause a strong reaction.

The only way to deal with a very nervous child is to move him to a peaceful, positive environment, far from bad energies around him. What is reality for him? What is the truth? Simply, he doesn't know. As the child will grow older he will learn to understand the working of the mind. His fantasy world will become an endless source of ideas, of creative writing or art.

Everyone has Neptune at heart, everyone has the child within. Let the creative act express itself, and we will learn from children how to make our dreams real, the world will be a better place if we all share together more creative imagination in dealing with all issues.

"...In a leaf
a child sees
fairies dancing
elves and gnomes
playing music
...How about us?"

Leni Sibilio 294 1768