For some thirteen years Neptune moved through Scorpio, and the generation born then shares an appetite for the underside of things. Sex, death, the occult, the family secret, the drug that opens a door; these were not scandals to that cohort but research materials. It broke a great many silences that badly needed breaking. Therapy became ordinary, incest and addiction were named aloud, and a good deal of genuine buried material was brought up into daylight where it could be dealt with.
The deception is subtler than usual. This cohort assumes that the concealed thing is the real thing, which is often but not always so. Suspicion becomes a method; every surface is read as a cover story, and the person who is simply telling the truth plainly is suspected hardest. Intensity gets mistaken for depth. From inside it feels like refusing to be fooled; from outside it can look like someone who cannot accept a gift without first checking it for wires.
Where Neptune sits by house shows the arena in which the cohort's fascination and its self-deception both operate. Eighth house, and shared money or another person's secrets become the obsession; twelfth, and the search turns inward until it hardly returns. Aspects to Mars and Venus mark those whose private lives took the generational current directly, giving an erotic and imaginative charge that is real, costly, and rarely as secret as its owner supposes.
What It Gives
- ◆unflinching interest in taboo
- ◆instinct for concealed motive
- ◆capacity for total absorption
- ◆willingness to name damage
What It Costs
- ◆suspicion hardened into method
- ◆intensity mistaken for depth
- ◆escape sought through excess
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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