Neptune in Libra would evoke the ideal of the chosen bond, of peace and fairness, at the risk of expecting a partner to match the dreamed portrait.
Neptune in Libra would place the ideal between two people: the dream of a fair agreement, a shared beauty, a peace that is negotiated.
Believing that dialogue can reconcile, and taking the time to prove it.
Avoiding a necessary disagreement to preserve a façade of harmony.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
Having entered Libra in October 1942 and returned to Virgo in the spring and summer of 1943, Neptune traveled through the sign until the end of 1955, then oscillated with Scorpio until August 1957.
The births concerned thus cover part of the war and the start of the baby boom. These generations are today between sixty-nine and eighty-three years old. The previous passage dates from the late 18th century; the next will take place only in the early 22nd.
Astrologers would describe this ideal as an aspiration to chosen, balanced relationships. The couple would no longer be only an alliance of families, but a meeting between two people who like each other. A taste for shared beauty, for music listened to together, for an interior decorated by two, would be part of the dream. People would also believe in negotiation: a conflict would be settled by discussion, between neighbors as between countries. This climate of the era matches a period in which there was much talk of reconciliation and cooperation.
The downside would be idealizing the partner, then disillusion when the real person shows up. Another slope: avoiding quarrels at all costs, even if unspoken things pile up. In a chart, the house where Neptune stands would indicate the terrain of this dream of harmony, and its aspects with Venus or the Moon would refine its color.
This is the most telling area of this Neptune: the dream of a chosen, equal, aesthetic love, where people understand each other without friction.
Astrologers would read in it a generation that believed strongly in the couple of choice. The downside would be loving an image rather than a person, holding back a reproach so as not to break the spell, then being surprised by the distance that has set in. The house of Neptune, particularly the 5th or 7th, would refine this reading.
Professionally, the ideal would take the form of fair collaboration: partners who get along, equitable rules, a pleasant climate in the team.
This Neptune would be associated with the trades of mediation, advising, decorative arts, fashion, or law. The concrete flip side would be difficulty deciding, saying no to a client, or defending your share when the discussion gets tense. The aspects received by Neptune would nuance this tone.
In the ordinary, this Neptune would express itself through care for the setting: a nicely set table, a house where each color answers another, attentive politeness.
Dreaming would mean making shared life gentler. The ordinary downside would be sparing everyone to the point of forgetting your own preferences, or putting off a decision for lack of perfect agreement among everyone affected by the choice.
Ptolemy would make Libra the diurnal house of Venus and place Saturn in exaltation there.
Neptune would receive no title in it, since the tradition ignores it and the modern system gives it nothing here. Several contemporary authors nevertheless see in it a sensitivity attuned to Venus: aesthetics, the bond, the search for an agreement.
The presence of an exalted Saturn in this sign would invite, according to some astrologers, giving a structure to this ideal: fair rules rather than a dreamed harmony. For the generation concerned, this reading would highlight the shift from a relational ideal to a demand for concrete justice, written into customs and laws rather than into wishes.
Neptune has neither domicile, exaltation, detriment, nor fall here: the sign colors it without strengthening or hindering it.
Transpersonal planet. Modern planet, observed in 1846 (Johann Galle, from calculations by Urbain Le Verrier).
The profile of NeptuneA air sign, cardinal, ruled by Venus.
The Libra signNeptune has neither domicile, exaltation, detriment, nor fall here: the sign colors it without strengthening or hindering it.
Planetary dignitiesPeople born from about October 1942 to 1957. Neptune returned to Virgo in 1943, then oscillated from one sign to the other, toward Scorpio and back, from late 1955 to the summer of 1957: for these dates, a precise calculation is needed. These generations are today between sixty-nine and eighty-three years old. No one younger carries this placement.
It would describe an ideal shared by an entire generation: the chosen relationship, negotiated peace, beauty lived as a pair. It is not an individual portrait. To know what this dream becomes in a person, you look at which house Neptune sits in, its aspects with Venus, the Moon, or the Sun, and the whole birth chart.
No. Venus rules this sign, where Saturn would be exalted according to the Tetrabiblos. Absent from the ancient treatises, Neptune receives no rank there; the current reading gives it Pisces as its domicile and Virgo as its detriment. A few authors stress its closeness to Venusian subjects, art and the bond, without making it a dignity for all that.
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