Neptune in Leo: a generation that believed in heroes, stars and great love

This generation was young when cinema, radio and mass sport made the famous face part of everyday life. They queued for films, cut photographs of actors out of magazines and learned how romance should look from the screen. Glamour was a real value for them: a good coat, a well-set photograph and dancing on Saturday counted as self-respect.

They also came of age when crowds followed charismatic leaders, and many of them were the young people who then went through the Second World War. The same wish to believe in a great figure produced both the courage and the disappointments of that generation.

Neptune in Leo gives a generation the belief that a life should be generous and a little theatrical. In a relative’s chart it shows up as a grandfather who told the same heroic story at every dinner, or a grandmother who dressed up to go to the shop. They were proud, warm with children and hurt when nobody noticed their effort.

The same pride kept many of them going through poverty and war: a person who sees life as a story does not want to be the character who gave up.

If you are reading a grandparent’s chart, look at where Neptune falls by house and what it touches. Close to the Sun or Venus, the love of romance and applause coloured their whole character. Their stories may be embellished, and the embellishment shows what they wanted to be remembered for.

Neptune returns to Leo late this century, after Cancer. Children born then will share the same hunger for heroes and self-expression in whatever form fame takes in their day. Expect a period that celebrates performers and creators and puts the question of whom to admire back into public argument.