Neptune and Pluto meet roughly once in five centuries. They last did so in Gemini in 1891 and 1892, and the orb carries the contact across the births of the 1880s and 1890s. Nobody now living holds it, and for a chart of that era it functions as a date stamp rather than a description. What it fuses is the faculty that dissolves boundaries with the faculty that destroys and remakes, and at the scale of a generation the result was an era in which inherited certainties came apart faster than they could be replaced.
Read for an individual, the conjunction is worth exactly two things: its house, and whatever personal body sits on it. The house indicates the department of life the native could not keep intact and did not particularly wish to. In the ninth it produced religious and philosophical positions that no longer held; in the eighth, an unusual intimacy with death and other people's money; in the twelfth, a private life largely invisible even to the native. Absent a personal contact, none of this rose to the level of temperament.
With a personal planet on it, the effect was pronounced and often peculiar. The Sun there gave lives that could not be conducted along ordinary lines. Mercury gave minds that ran ahead of their vocabulary. Venus gave attachments with no obvious form. The general caution applies with unusual force here: an aspect held by every contemporary can explain the atmosphere of a life but never its distinguishing features, and any reading that treats it otherwise is flattering the chart rather than reading it.
What It Gives
- ◆inherited certainties easily set down
- ◆intimacy with what others avoid
- ◆imagination reaching past its vocabulary
- ◆capacity for total transformation
What It Costs
- ◆no personal information in it
- ◆boundaries dissolved without replacement
- ◆no ordinary line to follow
This is one line of a whole chart. The rest of it — every placement, house and aspect at once — is a birth date away.
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