Uranus in Virgo

Between 1961 or 1962 and 1968 or 1969 this was the sign Uranus occupied at every birth, and the next stay begins in 2045 or 2046. A chart from those years shows it no matter who the person is. Only the house it lands in and the aspects it makes can vary.

Virgo is unusual in Ptolemy's table, being both a house of Mercury and the place of Mercury's exaltation, which he ties to the dry weather of autumn. That makes it a fair test of Raphael's 1828 comparison of Herschel to Saturn and Mercury blended. Raphael still put earthy signs in the unfavorable group, so his two remarks pull in different directions here.

Sepharial in 1920 lists originality, inventiveness and sudden developments under Uranus. A modern writer will often add Virgo's reputation for method and detail and arrive at a generation of technical reformers. That last step is modern, no source here makes it, and it is a phrase about a period of history at most.