The quincunx of Neptune and the South Node shows that old dreams, illusions, sacrifice, spiritual ideas, creative images, or the habit of dissolving no longer match current development. Neptune is connected with past experience, but this experience appears subtly: through longing, idealization, unclear guilt, the desire to rescue, fatigue from reality, or the wish to disappear into something beautiful.
This aspect may speak of an old habit of escaping pain through a dream. The person may continue to believe in an image that is no longer confirmed by actions; wait for someone who does not come; hold on to a family myth; preserve the role of victim or rescuer; confuse spirituality with refusal of earthly decisions. At one time this may have helped them survive difficulty. Now it requires purification.
