Neptune in Scorpio

Sepharial in 1920 lists Neptune and Mars together as malefics, the old word for planets read as difficult, and Ptolemy makes Mars the owner of Scorpio. A reader of that book could take this as two difficult names in one place. The word records a classification and says nothing about a life.

Heindel's 1919 list keeps the same label for Neptune while his 1918 book titles it the planet of divinity, and notes printed by Alan Leo before 1917 deny that it is simply evil. The writers closest to the planet's first decades of use never agreed on the point.

The placement ran from sometime between 1955 and 1957 until 1970, and births well inside that stretch have it. A shared sign across thirteen years says little about any one of the people born during them. Modern writers link this era's children to a fascination with hidden things, in the manner of popular astrology.