Cast & Chart

Planet

Neptune

modern

A chart describes tendencies in a symbolic tradition. It cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.

In an older source

It takes Neptune one hundred and sixty-five years to go once around the sun, or to make one revolution, and fourteen years to go through one sign.

Luke Dennis Broughton, The Elements of Astrology (1898)

About this entry

Found in September 1846 by the sources' dating, Neptune has no astrology older than that. Broughton 1898 is among the first writers here to give it meanings, and his fourteen years a sign means a whole generation carries the same placement. Whatever a chart says about it individually has to come from its house and its angles to other planets.

Few planets divide these authors so sharply. Sepharial 1920 lists it as malefic and links it to chaos and deception. Alan Leo, writing before 1917, says plainly that the notes he prints on it are opinion, and Heindel 1918 calls it the planet of divinity and reads it as spiritual in aim. Adams 1928 finds it subtle and hard to calculate, and Broughton's house-by-house list is flat and gloomy in a way no modern reader needs to adopt.

Its tie to Pisces is the other open question, with Adams giving it outright and Heindel 1919 sharing it with Jupiter. Dreams, ideals and fog are the keywords of modern popular astrology, and they stand closer to Heindel than to Sepharial.

Where this text comes from

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