Neptune in Aquarius

The telescope found Neptune in September 1846, and our calculation for the 23rd of that month, the date Alan Leo gives, puts it at almost 26 degrees of Aquarius. This is the sign where astronomers first recognized it as a planet. The fact is astronomical and carries no meaning of its own.

Ptolemy assigns Aquarius to Saturn, and some later writers hand it to Uranus, a dispute the sources leave open. Leo treats Uranus and Neptune as paired with Saturn and Jupiter in turn, which would make Neptune a guest in the sign on his account. No source here takes up Neptune in this sign, and the old tables give it no special rank.

The passes run from 1834 to 1847 or 1848 and from 1998 to 2011 or 2012, and birth during one is all it takes to have the placement. Children of the second span are often labeled in the modern press, and astrologers have joined in with talk of a connected, idealistic cohort. Those are modern words, and the position is the same for a person of any disposition.