ok, so now aspect patterns...

That's a great way of putting it... I've always felt that way: that the structures that we build our lives upon are *fantasies* and that our fantasies are just as real as *reality* (which is why we allow them to function as our cognitive structures). Actually, I have a Saturn-Neptune contact too, if you allow a 2 degree orb for a quintile. I've heard that's a bit too much though for a minor aspect... It is an applying aspect though.
Good luck w/the Saturn transit, Dave.... you too, azure!

never looked at that Saturn opp Neptune aspect that way, dads...thanks for the fresh pov! will keep that in mind, for sure...

now i've got more books to add to my wish list...hehe...

many blessings,

~azure