Neptune in Leo

Three separate entries, in 1914, 1915 and 1916, carried Neptune into Leo before it settled, and it left between 1928 and 1929. Those back-and-forth years are where a calculator earns its keep, since a birth in one month can fall under a different sign from a birth a few months later.

Adams wrote her 1927 book while Neptune sat in this sign, and she says Neptune and Uranus work as outposts whose people go against the crowd in thought and action. Ptolemy gives Leo to the Sun. Setting a distant, subtle planet in the sign of the chief light is our framing here, and she does not build on it.

Some modern tables, in competition with those favoring Cancer, put Neptune's exaltation here. Birth in those years gives the same line to all, and the popular notion of a glamorous, film-struck age group is a modern description of a period. It tells nobody what a given person liked.