Cast & Chart

Placement

Neptune in Capricorn

A chart describes tendencies in a symbolic tradition. It cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.

In an older source

Neptune means chaos, confusion, deception

Sepharial, Astrology: How to Make and Read Your Own Horoscope (1920)

About this entry

If Sepharial's 1920 gloss on Neptune holds, this is a strange house for it. The same book reads Saturn, owner of Capricorn in Ptolemy's table, as the planet of routine, method and steady results. A planet of confusion in a sign held by a planet of routine gives the reader a clear contrast to think about.

Jupiter has his fall in Capricorn in Ptolemy, which bears on Alan Leo's matching of Neptune to Jupiter, since it would set a planet in the sign where its counterpart has its fall. Leo does not take the argument there himself. Mars, exalted in this sign, is the third old name attached to it.

Neptune crossed Capricorn from 1820 to 1834 and again from 1984 to 1998. Anyone born in the later span shares the position with every age-mate. Popular writers of the present day have assigned them a distrust of institutions, which is a modern comment on a period and falls short of a description of any person.

Where this text comes from

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