Neptune in Virgo

Mercury both rules and is exalted in Virgo according to Ptolemy, and Heindel in 1918 makes Neptune Mercury's higher octave, so this is the strongest meeting point his scheme offers. Heindel treats intellect as Mercury's gift and spirituality as Neptune's, which puts the two on one ladder in his account. The sign itself goes unmentioned in the texts read.

Modern tables that give Pisces to Neptune also call Virgo its detriment, the term for a planet across from its own sign. Since the old sources argue over Neptune's rule of Pisces, the detriment is only as firm as the rule behind it. Venus has her fall here in Ptolemy, a separate matter.

Computed, the years are 1928 or 1929 through 1942 or 1943, a fourteen-year block that everyone born in it shares. Sharing it proves nothing about how two people from opposite ends of those years see the world. Popular books sometimes say this group idealizes duty and order, and that is modern commentary.