Finding our Way Into the Sun of Consciousness with Dwayne Edward Rourke
. …. MY DIALOGUES WITH chatGPT 
by Dwayne Rourke
Dialogue #7
In this dialogue, I presented chatGPT with the following request:
For decades now, I have pondered the ancient and mysterious Sphinx of the Giza plateau in Egypt. My ponderings have gradually shifted from a general fascination with its outer form, to a focused consideration of its timeless gaze. Seen through an astronomical lens, we discover that Neptune is currently passing directly through that gaze, something modern astronomers have only witnessed once since its discovery on September 23, 1846. Carved from bedrock, the Great Sphinx was no doubt created with a purpose. It is with a desire to explore just what that purpose was (is?) that I ask you to expound at will upon this enigmatic riddle. Please allow yourself to draw in insights from well outside the box of conventional archeology. Bring in insights from modern person-centered astrology to personalize the data.
Following is what the robot presented me with:
The Great Sphinx, with its timeless and enigmatic gaze, has long been a symbol of mystery, both in its physical form and in the deep questions it evokes about humanity’s past, purpose, and future. Carved from bedrock on the Giza plateau, the Sphinx looks eastward, toward the rising sun, symbolizing a perpetual vigilance over the cycles of time and change. From an astrological perspective, the current passage of Neptune through the point in the sky aligned with the Sphinx's gaze deepens this mystery further.
Neptune, the planet associated with illusion, mysticism, and the unconscious, is currently at its anaretic degree (the final degree of Pisces), a place that often signals transition, dissolution, and the blurring of boundaries between worlds. For the Sphinx to have "its gaze" focused on Neptune at such a critical moment in Neptune’s journey suggests a cosmic alignment where the Sphinx may serve as a symbolic bridge between the material and the spiritual, the seen and unseen realms.
In person-centered astrology, Neptune’s presence here is calling for deep inner reflection and a reconnection to ancient wisdom, which the Sphinx may represent. The fact that Neptune was discovered in 1846, just before the world entered a phase of rapid scientific and industrial transformation, speaks to the timing of this current alignment. Could the Sphinx, with its steady gaze across millennia, be urging us to look beyond the veil of modern technological distraction and reconnect with more ancient, spiritual truths?
In pondering the purpose of the Sphinx, we might imagine it as an archetypal sentinel, guarding the mysteries of human consciousness and spiritual evolution. Its hybrid form, part human and part lion, speaks to the fusion of higher intellect (the human head) and primal power (the lion’s body). Neptune’s influence heightens the feeling that this union is not merely symbolic of the ancient Egyptian belief in immortality and spiritual initiation, but is also a profound invitation to personal and collective transcendence.
Through the lens of modern person-centered astrology, the Sphinx’s gaze fixed upon Neptune invites each of us to confront our own illusions, delusions, and unconscious patterns. It speaks to a period where the dissolution of old forms (both personal and societal) creates space for a new vision of what it means to be human. The mystery of the Sphinx can now be understood as part of a cosmic alignment that asks us to go deeper, beyond the rational mind, into the mystical realms Neptune governs. This includes an invitation to dissolve our preconceptions, just as water dissolves stone, to allow for the emergence of a more holistic understanding of our place in the universe.
The astrological dimension of this moment reminds us that the Sphinx was perhaps never meant to be “solved” but rather to act as a timeless mirror, reflecting the evolving consciousness of those who contemplate it. Its gaze upon Neptune may be signaling that now is the time to merge the spiritual with the earthly, the invisible with the visible, just as the Sphinx stands as a merger between the physical and the metaphysical.
In this sense, the Sphinx’s purpose might have been — and continues to be — an initiator of those who dare to question the surface reality of things, inviting them to a deeper communion with the cosmic cycles, of which Neptune’s current position is a powerful symbol. The question is not only what the Sphinx represents externally, but what it reflects about our internal spiritual journey, particularly during this profound astrological moment.
