Moon, Neptune and Sun Progessions

I was playing around with progressions the other day when I noticed a little configuration in the mutable signs and houses. Last November my progressed moon conjoined Neptune in Sag in the third, squaring (within one degree) my progressed sun in Pisces in the sixth. November was not pretty. I was miserable after a brief relapse with drugs and was forced to get honest about a lot of stuff for the first time. The pain was great enough to make me change, and since then my life has gotten consistently better, in a way I've never experienced before. Oh yeah Pluto is also transiting my natal Neptune at al Nadir. "Inward transformation" they call it.

So I'm at a twelve-step meeting the other day and somebody mentions how he's seen a lot of people relapse after seven or eight years. I got to thinking... Saturn transits? Progressed moon? Probably some of both. But I did look for the last hard moon/Neptune/sun aspect, and it was a significant time for me. January 1999, progressed moon in the twelfth in Virgo made a T-square with Neptune (Sag, third) and progressed sun (Pisces, sixth). In January 1999 I went on a school trip to the Netherlands and started drinking and smoking pot in earnest. My personality underwent a major transformation around that time. In 1993 my progressed moon and sun squared, but it wasn't in aspect to Neptune yet. Drinking and drugs were not in the picture... I was also eleven.

So I'm quite inexperienced with progressions, but they seem to factor into how I handle difficult transits. Hard transits + hard progressions = bad news.

This progressions business sheds some light on my extreme Piscean nature. "Oh, Pisces," sighs Scorpio. I'm actually a cusper (Aquarius-Pisces) and I only have one other planet in a water sign (Jupiter in Scorpio). Progressed sun square Neptune, however... that's probably significant. And in that pivotal 1999 progressed chart Neptune was at the bottom of the chart, in aspect to practically everything.

Now if I could only figure out what to say to my friend who hasn't had a boyfriend since her progressed Venus conjoined Saturn, she got divorced and went bankrupt...