outer planet
Modern astrology uses Neptune for permeability: imagination, devotion, glamour, confusion and experiences in which ordinary boundaries soften.
Neptune was discovered in 1846 and has no place in the classical seven-planet scheme. Its slow sign placement belongs to a generation before it belongs to an individual.
5 sourced claims: 1 traditional , 4 modern
This Tree carries no settled sephirah assignment for Neptune. None is inferred from a modern substitution.
Neptune is the outermost major planet and takes roughly 165 Earth years to orbit the Sun.
Neptune was discovered in 1846 and has no place in the classical seven-planet scheme. Its slow sign placement belongs to a generation before it belongs to an individual.
Neptune is not part of Lilly’s seven-planet astrology; its interpretive use is modern.
The citation establishes the boundary of the older system, not a modern meaning for the planet.
Lilly’s system has no Neptune; later astrologers added it without a single inherited doctrine governing its use.
Historical language is paraphrased rather than silently modernised.
The Renaissance planetary-magic system documented by Agrippa is built around the seven visible planets and gives no inherited image, planetary hour or operation for Neptune.
Later practitioners may construct correspondences for outer planets, but those are modern extensions and are not supplied here as classical doctrine.
Neptune is the outermost major planet and takes roughly 165 Earth years to orbit the Sun.
Astronomical description, not an astrological meaning.
Opinions, not this study's and not findings. These were published around 1900 by astrologers writing for a Theosophical readership, and most English astrology since has been reading them. They are quoted rather than restated so the distance stays visible, and each one names its astrologer and its page.
Neptune in the second house afflicting the Moon, makes the native the victim of a bubble company, or some big fraud.
Sepharial, The Manual of Astrology, p. 100 — W. Foulsham & Co., London, 1898 · The Manual of Astrology, scanned
NEPTUNE in the fourth house denotes an unfavourable close to the life, living under some peculiar restraint or in some especial retirement in the latter portion, or placed in unpleasant positions at the end. It denotes very unusual and unique domestic conditions.
Alan Leo, How to Judge a Nativity, p. 166 — Modern Astrology Office, London, this printing 1928 · The 1928 printing, scanned
NEPTUNE in the fifth house denotes strange and abnormal conditions relating to sex matters. It is not a favourable position for any who have not definitely decided to choose platonic love in preference to the ordinary love attachments. All manner of evils arise from this position in connection with courtship and matters pertaining to the opposite sex.
Alan Leo, How to Judge a Nativity, p. 170 — Modern Astrology Office, London, this printing 1928 · The 1928 printing, scanned
Neptune in the fifth house favourably aspected shows children of musical, theatrical and diplomatic ability and, in certain instances stresses capacity of a religious and psychic nature.
Sepharial, The Manual of Astrology, p. 114 — W. Foulsham & Co., London, 1898 · The Manual of Astrology, scanned
NEPTUNE in the sixth house is very unfavourable for health, denoting atrophy, incurable diseases, and strange complaints that are inherited.
Alan Leo, How to Judge a Nativity, p. 177 — Modern Astrology Office, London, this printing 1928 · The 1928 printing, scanned
NEPTUNE in the eighth house gives liability to a very strange and peculiar death, possibly through trance, with some danger of being buried alive; or death after a long period of unconsciousness or from overdose of soporific drugs, etc. In some cases it denotes cremation after death, and when very well aspected the probability of carrying the consciousness through from the physical brain to the astral while in waking consciousness.
Alan Leo, How to Judge a Nativity, p. 197 — Modern Astrology Office, London, this printing 1928 · The 1928 printing, scanned
NEPTUNE in the tenth house denotes a very strange career, unless the native is very undeveloped, in which case it will have little or no effect upon the life.. It is possible to obtain benefit from this position, but this planet must be well aspected, and free from any affliction; afflicted it is likely to cause much trouble, especially affecting the honour, often bringing undeserved scandal.
Alan Leo, How to Judge a Nativity, p. 209 — Modern Astrology Office, London, this printing 1928 · The 1928 printing, scanned
Neptune in the tenth house shows ability for interests to do with oil, motoring, aviation, especially if in the watery signs Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces, but denotes that there will be fluctuations and periods of uncertainty with a need for guarding against fraud.
Sepharial, The Manual of Astrology, p. 105 — W. Foulsham & Co., London, 1898 · The Manual of Astrology, scanned
NEPTUNE in the eleventh house denotes unfavourable attachments, which rarely produce any lasting or satisfactory friendship. If much afflicted there is serious trouble and danger from friends and acquaintances. It signifies unique friendships, good or bad.
Alan Leo, How to Judge a Nativity, p. 218 — Modern Astrology Office, London, this printing 1928 · The 1928 printing, scanned
NEPTUNE in the twelfth house exerts an influence which is very difficult to foresee when good, or to guard against when evil. When afflicted, the native is in danger of all sorts of secret enmity, underhand conduct from others, and treachery. When well aspected he benefits through affairs that are kept secret, and through matters that even his friends do not suspect;
Alan Leo, How to Judge a Nativity, p. 227 — Modern Astrology Office, London, this printing 1928 · The 1928 printing, scanned
Leo's house book does not delineate every planet in every house, and this study refuses any passage whose scan has a word no dictionary holds. Where a house is not listed above, one of those two is why.
Two astrologers, both writing around 1900: Alan Leo, whose How to Judge a Nativity is the only one of these books arranged as a lookup table — a paragraph per planet per house — which is why everybody copied it; and Sepharial, who arranged the same material by the question a reader brings rather than by placement, so only a few of his judgements stand alone well enough to quote.
William Lilly is not here, and not because he was not asked. Christian Astrology (1647) is the most important book in English on the subject and this study holds it as a text already — but every scan of it is long-s blackletter, and the OCR renders the title of its own first book as “An Introduci ion to Aftrologje”. There is nothing in it a reader could trust a quotation from. Ripley's Compound of Alchymy and Anderson's Constitutions get the same answer elsewhere in this study, for the same reason.