ZYou are likely to be amenable to horizon-expanding experiences. You are likely to enjoy a sense of adventure, although the adventure is as likely to be emotional, mental or spiritual as it is physical.Jupiter also symbolizes those opportunities that you have to benefit from the instruction of one who is in a position of authoritya teacher or mentorFinding that opportunities are generally present for you to achieve good fortune, you come to rely on fate and/or on others overly much. This may produce a weakness of characterThe experience of achieving your goals, particularly as you exercise discipline and control, have further positive effects on your self-identity.In this case, you will find that life provides many opportunities to learn the Saturnian lesson, generally through situations involving pain and hardship. These experiences have hardened you. You may become bitter and use your difficult experience in life as an excuse to complain and/or criticize othersIf you impersonalise the conflict, you may develop an attitude of disdain for or feel separation from your culture and backgroundIf you suppress your emotional and nurturing side, you become cold, out-of-touch with your feelings and unwilling to share your feelings and emotions with othersYour decision-making is subject to second-guessing and self-doubt and to being unduly influenced by your mood swings.You tend to let your emotions enlarge, and you can express your benevolence through nurturing and care giving. You may often take on a mentor role (mother and teacher) and you are likely to have benefited through such a relationship.In particular, you are likely to have received much helpful support from your mother. Or, as a child you may have thought that your parents (and particularly your father) were overly strict. You may have thought that your parents/father limited your activities and range of expression too much.Your heart has been squeezed dry and has turned rock-hard. You have no emotion to show, except what you display for pitys sake.You may also be emotionally prone to react to power and authority in ways that produce conflict.You see everything and everyone as a potential threat, unless you can control that thing or person. Your predominant emotional state is that of being in protection modeYou are likely to have been abused and to have suffered to the extent that you trust no one. Your sole concern is to protect yourselfphysically, emotionally and psychologically. If that means doing unto others before they do unto you, then you will do whatever it takes to ensure your own security. You cannot stand to lose control. Your response to being helpless in a situation or to feeling as if control is slipping away is apt to be fear and/or rage.You are likely to speak before thinking, reacting to events on the basis of biases and strongly held likes and dislikesYou rely upon your wits and cleverness to see you through. You can also employ anger and aggressiveness when needed to obtain your aims.You associate discipline and control with the negative experiences that have plagued you.Often, you fail to perceive that there are natural limits associated with your mental and/or communicative capacity. You, therefore, will overstep your limits or overextend yourself. You may drive yourself to the point of mental exhaustion. Nervous disorders caused by your mental overwork and mental stress may ariseYou may say something inappropriate or something that displays the fact that you do not know what you are talking about.You may break all of the rules of civilized discourse and verbal decorum for the sake of its shock value and of demonstrating your independence of mindEverything that you do in the mental/communicative sphere, it seems, meets with reprimand or disapproval. It seems that you can to do nothing right in this area of life and, no matter how much you try or how well you perform, you can never seem to satisfy your authoritarian teachers (or other controllers and/or shapers of your mental and communicative framework).You can also be painfully shy and taciturn, feeling that any attempt by you at communication will be put down and rejected by others. Inwardly, you do not acknowledge that it is you that may need improvement. You are content to feel unliked and unappreciated and that to feel that your input is not wanted.Your capacity to mentally appreciate art and music may be increased. Your mental grasp of subtlety and fine distinction may be honed. Your ability to communicate with subtlety, fluidity, attunement and sensitivity may also be increasedThe sextile may also indicate your intellectual interest in certain subjects associated with Neptunethe mysterious, psychology (particularly neuroses and addictive behavior), romanticism, transcendentalism, mysticism and spirituality and anything having to do with the unknown or with extra-material dimensionsYou may, thus, cultivate subtlety and craftiness of mind and tongue.

You become a master of illusion and are ever aware of opportunities to deceive others for your own gain. Rarely will you be called to task for your deceitfulness by having to suffer its harsh consequences in this life, except for the damage that is done to your soul. You may also discover opportunities to profit through confusion, which you spread through false communication. Or, you may simply exploit the confusion you find in the world for your own purposes, without trying to amend it. You always have the ultimate escape open to you the escape into insanity.

Mental crises may indeed occur, and you may change your mental constructs or your outlook on life as a result of going through such a crisis. Some sort of nervous breakdown is a distinct possibility at some point in your lifeYour thoughts and communications are likely to be penetrating. There may be an intensity to your speech, as well as to your inner thoughts.You may be mentally obsessed with sexuality and/or obscenity. You may be verbally abusive, harshly critical or sarcastic. You may also be mentally obsessed with violence and war.You, thus, wallow in your depression, thrive on mentally destructive crisis and mentally enjoy playing the role of victim. Through your thought patterns and communication, you set up the circumstances that will continue your self-oppression. You may actually gain mental satisfaction and a sense of being mentally existent through crisis and sufferingSimilarly, if you are a man, you will tend to more strongly identify with your animus and be attracted to the projection of your well-developed anima. Thus, you may experience romantic attraction and relationships marked by strong bonds of attraction, intensity and/or passion to a much greater extent than do others.Likewise, if you are a man, you may have a deep appreciation for beauty, a need for harmony and sensitivity to the needs of others. However, you may feel that these characteristics are unmasculine. In extreme cases of confusion, you may exhibit cross-gender behavior (effeminate or overly masculine).To the extent that you value the material world, you are likely to be attracted to those objects that express subtlety, fluidity and refinement. You are likely to appreciate music and poetry.

Another manifestation of the Neptunian effect on the evaluative function is great difficulty in decision-making.

Indifference and a feeling that it doesnt matter which path is chosen is a common characteristic among those with Venus-conjunct-Neptune.

The positive manifestation of boundarilessness is unconditional love and compassion for others. You are likely to possess a high degree of sensitivity toward others and you are generally receptive to listening to other peoples problems. However, you may be overly sensitive yourself to the words and real or perceived actions and attitudes of others. You may get your feelings hurt easily and may be perceived as high-strung.

You may also be inclined to pursue sexuality to excess. Lust, for sex and/or power, may consume you