Neptune in Gemini

Broughton in 1898 dates a Neptune stay in Gemini to 1720 through 1734 and ties it to events in the American colonies. Our calculation puts the same pass later, from 1724 or 1725 to 1737 or 1738, so his printed years run about four years earlier than the computed ones. The difference is worth reporting because he gives his dates as fact.

He adds that Neptune had crossed this sign only once since Jamestown, yet the calculation has it back in Gemini from between 1887 and 1889 until 1901 or 1902, a stay covering the year his book appeared. The passage may be older than the printing. The next return comes from 2051 or 2052 to 2065 or 2066, and everyone born in such a stretch shares the placement.

Heindel in 1918 called Neptune the higher octave of Mercury, the planet Ptolemy gives Gemini to, so by our reckoning this is one of two signs where that scheme lands directly. Modern writers often read an inventive or literary age group into the pair. That is their reading, and neither the arithmetic nor the older books bear it out.